I'm currently about 7 years older than the average life expectancy of Cro-Magnon Man, so not really looking to them for tips about how to live longer and healthier.
It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.
Buffy ,'Empty Places'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 11, 2012 1:30:56 pm PDT #9274 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Consuela - Jun 11, 2012 1:32:17 pm PDT #9275 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Heee, Jilli!
I broke out of the office into the warm sun and bought a "homemade Oreo" at a new chocolate shop downtown: it's two big soft chocolate cookies with some killer white cream inside. NOM.
Somehow I suspect my Celtic ancestors did not eat these things.
§ ita § - Jun 11, 2012 1:32:18 pm PDT #9276 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apparently the average prehistoric man that made it into adulthood lived longer than you have so far, Matt.
Ginger - Jun 11, 2012 1:34:56 pm PDT #9277 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Depraved penguin sex antics shocked expert [link]
Jesse - Jun 11, 2012 1:38:18 pm PDT #9278 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Reasons to love the internet: Just watching the great NPH parts of the Tonys without seeing awards for shows I won't see.
Apparently the average prehistoric man that made it into adulthood lived longer than you have so far, Matt.
It was really interesting to me to realize that if "average lifespan" was 50 (a made-up number), that didn't mean that 50-year-olds were elderly, just that a lot of people died at 20 or whatever.
brenda m - Jun 11, 2012 1:50:46 pm PDT #9279 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Or in infancy. Life expectancy at age 5 is a figure you'll often see that gives you a much clearer picture of reality. Especially for anything pre-20th century.
flea - Jun 11, 2012 2:01:35 pm PDT #9280 of 30001
information libertarian
Brenda's right - making it to 5 is huge. Aside from the obvious issues with disease and accidents in a world without antibiotics, the other big killer of otherwise healthy people in pre-modern societies was childbirth. A woman who made it to 45 had a pretty good chance of 80.
-t - Jun 11, 2012 2:02:48 pm PDT #9281 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tangentially, I decided to try eating 100g of dark chocolate a day as recommended by some study or other (as seen by me on the Good Stuff tumbler, I don't know the source beyond that) and I'm finding that that is kind of a lot of chocolate. A pound and half a week!
billytea - Jun 11, 2012 2:11:09 pm PDT #9282 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Paging billytea: I could have sword I read that sea cucumbers ate by vomiting their stomachs onto the food, digesting it externally, and putting their bits back in. But wikipedia does not back me up on this. Is there another sea creature that eats this way?
There is, for instance starfish. And as a wise man once said, "Starfish have no brain, and they don't even know it."
Jesse - Jun 11, 2012 2:16:44 pm PDT #9283 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Or in infancy. Life expectancy at age 5 is a figure you'll often see that gives you a much clearer picture of reality. Especially for anything pre-20th century.
Oh, absolutely.