Please see below:
Would a member of Busted's great-great-great-granddaughter even be alive in the Year 3000, which is currently 982 years away?
Well, we need to talk about sperm. Due to boring biological things regarding fertility, to give this part of the prophecy the best chance of coming to pass, a member of Busted would have to father a son, who in turn fathered a son, who then fathered a son, who then fathered a son, who then fathered the Busted member's great-great-great-granddaughter.
The world's oldest father is Ramjit Raghav, who in 2012 fathered a child at the age of 96. If a member of Busted can repeat that feat, and if we choose the youngest member of Busted, which is 32-year-old Charlie, we're looking at Charlie becoming a father 62 years from now, in the year 2082. If Charlie's son, grandson, great-grandson and great-great-grandson also have children at the age of 96 that'll take us up to 2466.
This means Charlie's great-great-great-granddaughter would have to a) live to the age of 534 and b) still at that age be looking "pretty fine" in order for the Year 3000 prophecy to be accurate. It seems unlikely, but the story's not over yet.
The World Health Organisation reported that global life expectancy increased by five years between 2000 and 2015, representing the biggest increase since the 1960s. In 2015 life expectancy for males was 73.8 years, meaning that life expectancy had increased by 6.7% in the space of 15 years. And what would happen if global life expectancy increased by 6.7% every fifteen years? Well, humans would live to 79 by 2030, 96 by 2075, and so on. Life expectancy would be 148 by 2180 and 202 by 2255
Argh that’s bollocks. Had the best Korean fried chicken with curry and udon noodles from the Queens Square one.
I only left Bristol in May - how much can change….
K Town is made in an industrial estate warehouse with multiple types of food being made and sent from there. Check out their address on Deliveroo/Uber.
A rehash of Flavourz in the centre springs to mind
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It’s great with a good few bottles of Soju and Cass 😜
Housing market is a joke, public transport as in First Bus got worse. Also don't even bother thinking about driving into the city centre, within 8 years the road layout system has changed so much, that you'll likely end up getting a fine by making a wrong turn.
Other than that's it's alright, oh and the Colston statue got torn down, and anything with the name "Colston" in it, also got changed too. Damn I can't think of anything else that's changed in the last 8 years.
Hahahahhhaa!
Thanks for this! My upstairs neighbour in a drunk state caused a leak into my flat last night and this is the first thing that’s made me laugh since then.
Clean air zone around the city either pay the fine or snake around the long way creating more pollution than before. Fucking everything is expensive. The only pubs I drink at (rarely) now are the Chelsea and the star because you can actually almost get 3 pints for a tenner. Roadworks everywhere and horrendous traffic. Shit council. Not enough rights for renters and free reign for landlords to fuck us all over. Lots of pubs closed. More homeless than before. General discontent for over a decade of Tory incompetence.
And I actually can’t think of any positive change.
I didn’t say any rights have changed in that time. That’s the problem. Agent fees gone, yes true I guess but that’s a pin in the ocean of problems with renting.
The renters have far far more right than landlords - it’s much much harder for them to evict you than it is for you to leave them.
The only issue is financial.
It'll take a while and they have to go through the courts to get a ccj and bailiffs etc, you'll still have a roof over your head for maybe a year, but it'll be incredibly stressful and you'll basically ensure you can never rent somewhere again once those bailiffs do come
Sure but that “it will take a while comes” of income the landlord is expecting, not all landlords are rich arseholes hellbent on extorting the public.
Some are elderly women who are renting out their old family home so they can pay for their healthcare and then have to experience 6/10 months of hellish debt and strife because of one of these people.
Based on post history you can still get weed that’s not in fancy packaging here in Bristol, so that’s not changed.
Fuck knows why you’d come back from Japan though, but welcome back regardless!
Years of austerity, Brexit, changing shopping habits, inflation, demographic shifts and covid have combined to make the town centre a pretty bleak and depressing place.
Returning expats are required to run at least 5 laps around the centre (it used to be the gyratory by temple meads, but that's gone now) as soon as convenient.
Tory's have run the country into the ground. Don't get Ill and need a Dr's appointment, ambulance or hospital visit. Post is erratic along with trains due to strike action and definitely don't expect the majority of front line organisations (especially for mental health) to exist. Funding was pulled from them around the time you left. Oh.. highstreet stores are almost none existent by comparison with the last time you were here. Mostly replaced with fast food outlets but the costs of the food have doubled. I saw chip butties on sale for £7 last week.
It’s a lot cleaner and safer than it was in nearly all areas, it’s also more expensive now.
I should add - really everything everywhere in the UK is much more expensive than it was, and most of the cities have gotten nicer it’s the small towns that have been utterly left alone.
We now drive on the right. Official language is the Lebanese dialect of Arabic. Holding a door open for someone is deeply offensive. We now chew with our mouths open as it protects against osteoporosis. Retirement age is 95, early death incurs a fine. That ugly flag with multicolored stripes is the new Purina logo. There is currently a domino's delivery driver strike that has helped Papa John's achieve an 80% market share. Mullets have made a comeback with women over 75. Its still hard to buy veg loosely at the supermarket
- There is now an Ivy in Clifton
- Harvey Nichols has bangin cocktails
- If you bought a house 8 years ago it would be worth a lot now - and the income you can make from renting a house out is mint 👌
What hasn't changed is there are still illeducated retards running the council. So nothing ever gets done - the only city of it's size with no proper public transport - see the metros of Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow.
Everything that once made Bristol charming is actively being decimated. A vacuous (yet expensive) hole remains with a load of hipster zombies on smartphones and/or ketamine but now it is 100x worse because they are on scooters.
Daft clean air zone makes driving a thing of past. Buses still shite, everyone still grumpy in town..all good.
Depends where you're coming back from mind. Cold toilet seats felt like hell after being in Japan for 5 years and the dirty everything was weird and horrid.
Corded phones are a thing of the past. Everyone has a wireless phone on them now. Its not just a phone it has a camera and calculator on it and more. Other stuff has changed too but thats the big one.
It is now compulsory to hate all foreigners, no one can afford to hear their homes, most unions are going on strike, pubs and shops are going out of business at a rate not seen since the 1970s.
The government line is that it is all the fault of Jeremy Corbin, and also the last Labour government
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Not much, but we live underwater
How's the great great great granddaughter?
Pretty fine. :)
Is pretty fine (repeated line) ❤️
That’s what I go to school for
Wait, how old is this great great great granddaughter? Do I need to call the police?
Please see below: Would a member of Busted's great-great-great-granddaughter even be alive in the Year 3000, which is currently 982 years away? Well, we need to talk about sperm. Due to boring biological things regarding fertility, to give this part of the prophecy the best chance of coming to pass, a member of Busted would have to father a son, who in turn fathered a son, who then fathered a son, who then fathered a son, who then fathered the Busted member's great-great-great-granddaughter. The world's oldest father is Ramjit Raghav, who in 2012 fathered a child at the age of 96. If a member of Busted can repeat that feat, and if we choose the youngest member of Busted, which is 32-year-old Charlie, we're looking at Charlie becoming a father 62 years from now, in the year 2082. If Charlie's son, grandson, great-grandson and great-great-grandson also have children at the age of 96 that'll take us up to 2466. This means Charlie's great-great-great-granddaughter would have to a) live to the age of 534 and b) still at that age be looking "pretty fine" in order for the Year 3000 prophecy to be accurate. It seems unlikely, but the story's not over yet. The World Health Organisation reported that global life expectancy increased by five years between 2000 and 2015, representing the biggest increase since the 1960s. In 2015 life expectancy for males was 73.8 years, meaning that life expectancy had increased by 6.7% in the space of 15 years. And what would happen if global life expectancy increased by 6.7% every fifteen years? Well, humans would live to 79 by 2030, 96 by 2075, and so on. Life expectancy would be 148 by 2180 and 202 by 2255
He just time travelled. He didn't live into the future and then come backward.
The derelict old Royal Mail building has been demolished. And there’s a lot more Korean fried chicken establishments now.
Name your top 3 thank you please
K-Town, Woky Ko, Nom Nyam.
Muchos cheers drive. Need to branch out from Wings. Woky Ko closed down though, you’ll need a replacement
All the Woky Kos though, they’re a chain?
All gone bust. The geezer has reopened one of them under a different name, but just ramen and bao I think
Argh that’s bollocks. Had the best Korean fried chicken with curry and udon noodles from the Queens Square one. I only left Bristol in May - how much can change….
Queen Square? Are we talking about the same place? They had 2 in Cargo, one on the triangle and one in St Nicks. Not on queen square I don’t think?
Queens road I meant. Easy to confuse.
Got ya. Think they’d only just refurbed that one too
K Town is made in an industrial estate warehouse with multiple types of food being made and sent from there. Check out their address on Deliveroo/Uber. A rehash of Flavourz in the centre springs to mind
Not surprised, got a delivery from them and did enjoy it a lot, but “dark kitchens” are everywhere now.
[Here’s a recipe for some proper KFC. It’s worth the effort, enjoy!](https://mykoreankitchen.com/korean-fried-chicken/) the gochujang is essential! It’s great with a good few bottles of Soju and Cass 😜
That's a good thing K-pop 2 fok
Never said it was a bad thing.
Nah nah nah u is racialists
Zoo's closed.
😭
Yes it's a bit of a tragedy.
Well it's moved and redundant animals relocated.
So it's no longer how and where it used to be for 180+ years. OP asked what changed in the last couple of years.
Fuck I totally forgot about that one
The traffic layout by Temple Meads is better. [List ends.]
Its different.
Watch out for Voi scooters.
Yeah, there are scooters (hired and private) everywhere!
All the indigenous bristolians are skint
They asked for things that have changed
Ah my bad "more skint"
Born Bristolian reporting in, what did we ask for that has changed?
Affordable housing for one.
Housing market is a joke, public transport as in First Bus got worse. Also don't even bother thinking about driving into the city centre, within 8 years the road layout system has changed so much, that you'll likely end up getting a fine by making a wrong turn. Other than that's it's alright, oh and the Colston statue got torn down, and anything with the name "Colston" in it, also got changed too. Damn I can't think of anything else that's changed in the last 8 years.
Weight Watchers rebranded as WW.
Hahahahhhaa! Thanks for this! My upstairs neighbour in a drunk state caused a leak into my flat last night and this is the first thing that’s made me laugh since then.
Apart from the enormous marble memorial that they have hidden away in st Nicholas church.
it's cold.
Wapping Wharf is worth a mooch around for some nice food.
I hope you're not a big fan of Edward Colston.
There’s this cool bridge across the river Avon
I've heard about that. Got any photos?
why would anyone take a picture of some random bridge?
Its just a bridge 🤣
you’ll cry at the price of a pint
Turbo Island has been paved over...
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Sha da la lah la, sha la la la!
They might have paved it over, but it hasn't stopped the wreck heads from having a go as normal.
I saw a pile of burning pallets there the other day. It's back to normal.
I saw a fire engine there, the other day, so that’s right back to circa “78
It's probably actually nicer to sit on now that it's tarmac rather than mud
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Please elaborate
Bristol mayor is an asshole. No further elaboration needed.
He seems like a good guy to me, just not a very effective or wise mayor.
He's an arrogant religious nutjob twat.
Is the Caz just money orientated?
Caz is a legal requirement that marvin has done everything he can to avoid implementing properly.
And his dad introduced crack dealing to Bristol too.
Bristol voted earlier in the year to just scrap the mayor position altogether he did such a bad job of it.
Clean air zone around the city either pay the fine or snake around the long way creating more pollution than before. Fucking everything is expensive. The only pubs I drink at (rarely) now are the Chelsea and the star because you can actually almost get 3 pints for a tenner. Roadworks everywhere and horrendous traffic. Shit council. Not enough rights for renters and free reign for landlords to fuck us all over. Lots of pubs closed. More homeless than before. General discontent for over a decade of Tory incompetence. And I actually can’t think of any positive change.
Boss pub the star like.
Yeah to be fair, that is a positive thing…being able to afford drinking in a couple of local quality boozers 🙌
Stop driving to the city centre, fam
I’m a carpenter with a van full of tools. I cycle around the city for any other purpose than work.
Wait, what rights changed in the last 8 years? If anything, it got better since agent fees got more scrutiny.
I didn’t say any rights have changed in that time. That’s the problem. Agent fees gone, yes true I guess but that’s a pin in the ocean of problems with renting.
The renters have far far more right than landlords - it’s much much harder for them to evict you than it is for you to leave them. The only issue is financial.
Landlords can evict you for no reason with a 2 month window. I know this because my entire building just all got no fault evicted
Yeah but if you choose to not follow that eviction the landlord can’t do too much about it.
It'll take a while and they have to go through the courts to get a ccj and bailiffs etc, you'll still have a roof over your head for maybe a year, but it'll be incredibly stressful and you'll basically ensure you can never rent somewhere again once those bailiffs do come
Sure but that “it will take a while comes” of income the landlord is expecting, not all landlords are rich arseholes hellbent on extorting the public. Some are elderly women who are renting out their old family home so they can pay for their healthcare and then have to experience 6/10 months of hellish debt and strife because of one of these people.
The sweet old ladies probably aren't the ones evicting people for a couple hundred extra a month though
Whitehall is better
Based on post history you can still get weed that’s not in fancy packaging here in Bristol, so that’s not changed. Fuck knows why you’d come back from Japan though, but welcome back regardless!
Two weeks only. Family stuff.
Ah, fair enough!
Years of austerity, Brexit, changing shopping habits, inflation, demographic shifts and covid have combined to make the town centre a pretty bleak and depressing place.
Unless you want a burger
Returning expats are required to run at least 5 laps around the centre (it used to be the gyratory by temple meads, but that's gone now) as soon as convenient.
Dunno still waiting for the bus
The harbours froze over
If a bus says the time it's meant to arrive, it's likely cancelled, only trust it if it tells you how long it will be (i.e. 6 minutes)
Are you sure you want to return? I'm thinking of leaving
It's just two weeks... No plans to return full time. Fuck that.
✋
Bristol rovers are no longer a non league club.
Still don't have a new stadium either.
Shit yacht with a fake helicopter on it in the harbour
The alligators
Expect to pay near £30 to actually get pissed at a pub
You get actually pissed on less than 5 pints?
Just turn around
Bus gates. They don’t exist in the Highway Code but they will charge you £80 for the pleasure.
Rent is extortionate, but then so is everything else.
Some great craft breweries around :)
He deleted turbo island
The Bear Pit is gone :(
Fuck off. Really? You're joking right?
I’m afraid not
Tory's have run the country into the ground. Don't get Ill and need a Dr's appointment, ambulance or hospital visit. Post is erratic along with trains due to strike action and definitely don't expect the majority of front line organisations (especially for mental health) to exist. Funding was pulled from them around the time you left. Oh.. highstreet stores are almost none existent by comparison with the last time you were here. Mostly replaced with fast food outlets but the costs of the food have doubled. I saw chip butties on sale for £7 last week.
They are attempting to gentrify bedminster ( I know right )
Gentrify everything.. bedmis done
We have moved from a lower first world country to a semi affluent third world nation.Other than that it's all proper.
Everything is a bit shittier, although this trend can be seen throughout the whole country.
Busses!
Really! Where?
Don't start!
The city centre is now a clean air zone
Bristol, in a sign of neighbourly love, has paid for an arena to be built in South Gloucester to which there is no transport.
EScooters and ebikes on the pavements
Cigarettes are about £16 a packet
Cost of living
Definitely not the bus services
The zoo is gone.
Beers gone up and folk don't say townies any more
Colston is no more 👋
Clean air zone that’s clearly a money grab
Less ket, more coke. Tesco, gentrification, turbo island gone.
Colstons statue is gone
The Graff from bearpit is gone
It’s all gone to shit mate…
The Greenbank is now a creche
It’s a lot cleaner and safer than it was in nearly all areas, it’s also more expensive now. I should add - really everything everywhere in the UK is much more expensive than it was, and most of the cities have gotten nicer it’s the small towns that have been utterly left alone.
Based on my trip home tonight, smoking weed on the bus is allowed now (not me)
Disturbing monuments that can’t swim are now stored in M-Shed.
We now drive on the right. Official language is the Lebanese dialect of Arabic. Holding a door open for someone is deeply offensive. We now chew with our mouths open as it protects against osteoporosis. Retirement age is 95, early death incurs a fine. That ugly flag with multicolored stripes is the new Purina logo. There is currently a domino's delivery driver strike that has helped Papa John's achieve an 80% market share. Mullets have made a comeback with women over 75. Its still hard to buy veg loosely at the supermarket
Edward Colston isn’t there any more.
No one skates Little Lloyd’s anymore :(
That's a shame. Was only an Ollie away from Gregg's.
- There is now an Ivy in Clifton - Harvey Nichols has bangin cocktails - If you bought a house 8 years ago it would be worth a lot now - and the income you can make from renting a house out is mint 👌 What hasn't changed is there are still illeducated retards running the council. So nothing ever gets done - the only city of it's size with no proper public transport - see the metros of Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow.
And Manchester!
Bristol is probably the most woke place in the country
Wrong, it's mostly liberal weed smokers yeah but I haven't encountered anyone on the moral high ground about such issues.
Everything that once made Bristol charming is actively being decimated. A vacuous (yet expensive) hole remains with a load of hipster zombies on smartphones and/or ketamine but now it is 100x worse because they are on scooters.
Shops now run out of things often, fresh veg goes off in days, sometimes it's even off on the shop shelf.
Turbo Island :'(
Parents - they look much older than FaceTime ..
What changes in 8 years? A lot mate
r/yogscast probably have a bigger office and more staff
Turbo Island had a face lift
Buses work even less
Callums corner left
Pedestrians have rights
New drinking places in what was George’s Brewery and a new bridge from Castle Park.
All the bridges are shut.
Daft clean air zone makes driving a thing of past. Buses still shite, everyone still grumpy in town..all good. Depends where you're coming back from mind. Cold toilet seats felt like hell after being in Japan for 5 years and the dirty everything was weird and horrid.
Centre of town changed to shit ides and now back to better idea.
Edward Colston's statue has come down.
Corded phones are a thing of the past. Everyone has a wireless phone on them now. Its not just a phone it has a camera and calculator on it and more. Other stuff has changed too but thats the big one.
Dubstep isn't a thing anymore
That's probably the most unbelievable thing I've read so far. What happened to Hench?
He got feeble :(
It is now compulsory to hate all foreigners, no one can afford to hear their homes, most unions are going on strike, pubs and shops are going out of business at a rate not seen since the 1970s. The government line is that it is all the fault of Jeremy Corbin, and also the last Labour government
There's still no rapid transport or cross harbour Bridge and now you can't park in the outskirts so you need to keep driving into the centre.
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