Any question answered...

Does anyone else wonder what the fucking point is?
I mean really?
When I look out of the window and when I go to bed at night, I just think it's fucking bleak.

disclaimer: i have not been doing ten pound pingers all weekend.

Get out of London brah.

I think it's just as fucked elsewhere.

doing ten pound pingers all weekend.

One answer.

Of course, but there's trees and stuff and fewer people in your face, so you can pay less attention to the grimness.

And less culture, more xenophobia, often worse weather, fewer jobs, etc..

I'll accept the 3rd and 4th points but [citation needed] for the first two.

Hmm. Not sure about all that. Mine is a much more:
Life is a bit shit.
From
TB in people, decreased services, bedroom taxes, pollution, war, famine, poverty, etc. and so on.

tl;dr
I need £10 pingers.

Ah, politics. Have you considered Scotland or Wales? The political distribution is a bit less right-biassed than England's.

1: compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arts_centres_in_London with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arts_centres_in_England

2: Using Ukip as an analogue for xenophobia: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/map-ukip-voters-vs-green-5300244

Global.
It's a general: OMFG we broke the world.

...[citation needed] for the first two.

I'm an uncouth bigot, if that helps?

Where are you from and where do you live?

I just figure the human race isn't meant to populate this planet for any significant length of time; we'll wipe ourselves out soon enough, so you might as well consider yourself lucky to have a roof and food. Take advantage of the time you have and love somebody.
#letusbowourheadsandpromisetoneverpray

It's alright. I've twigged. It's post exercise depression.

You're doing way better than I then; my depression around exercise extends to the anticipation and activity in addition to the post work out.

1: culture exists outside arts centres.

2: poor analogue, ukip have been reaching a lot of people beyond the traditional posh-racist vote.

You're being silly.

1: Of course it does, but it's a pretty good way of measuring access to culture.

2: I actually don't understand what "traditional post-racist vote" means, but I said "xenophobic" and I think the United Kingdom Independence Party with its platform aiming to stop immigration and leave the European Union is, in fact, a pretty good analogue of xenophobia.

That being said, I'm happy to read what you think is a better way of measuring both claims. But I stand by my earlier statement that you're being silly to argue that there's equal or less culture and xenophobia in London when compared to the rest of England.

Let's remember where my post came from: your response to Damo suggesting that despair/depression came from living London, or at least a solution to it was to leave. I've not posted simply to attack the rest of England. I have nothing against the rest of England. My point is that it's hardly paradise in comparison to London.

Typical fucking academic and typical developer. MISSING THE BIGGER PICTURE. ("why does damo feel bleak? does anyone else feel bleak when looking at the world we live in?")

Now getting locked into a discussion about what it means to be cultured and xenophobic.

I'd go the pub but I'm not real.

Academic you say? Well then. The answer is surely yes. What to do about it? Nietzsche on why not to address the bigger picture:

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

On the other hand (and my favourite Nietzsche quote):

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

But in either case there's no escape.

More importantly though: beer soon?

Culture and xenophobia can both often be experienced in pubs.

+1

Yes.

How does one, in Excel 2010, set it up so that hidden or filtered out cells are excluded from sum formulas?

And like that meaning is returned to @Chalfie 's life!