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andym
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PostPosted: 05:14 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: if you had to choose.. Reply with quote
an age to live to... what would it be?

we are forcefed government BS about 5 a day/protect the environment, don't do this, don't do that, don't do anything as it's unhealthy for you and the environment blah blah blah....

in your current lifestyle (accidents excluded), do you have a life expectancy in mind?

Me, I'm 39, one of my cousins passed away at 25, an uncle passed away at 39, an aunt passed away at 43, an aunt passed away at 44, all my grand parents passed away in their early to mid 60's... but I'm told by the government to keep working till my mid (and by then) late 60's to provide for the future...

Sorry, but I smoke.... I drink... I've accepted I passed my mid life crisis in my late 20's.... anything over 45 is a bonus to me and my family history (and to be honest I don't want to make it to my mid forties)... but it just got me thinking....

Does anyone else have a life expectancy age or an age they would like to get to (accidents excluded)....

and if this thread is in bad taste then I will request it removed
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PostPosted: 05:52 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
my family are quite well aged, late 80's early 90s seems to be the rule,
i'd want to live to atleast 78, then die suddenly, none of this being sick for 10 years shit,
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PostPosted: 06:11 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I didn't add an age for myself... unfortunately my dad is 62 and never been to the doctors in the last 25 years I know of... my mum is 59, and both are chain smokers and they are still going strong..

me... personally... if I had to choose an age... it would be 50.... and not a day older.

Why... that's a whole new thread entirely
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PostPosted: 06:27 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think the worst part of getting old would be slowly losing loved ones. I wouldn't mind it so long as I'm able to wander around and not too frail. But I couldn't imagine the confusion of losing your partner, someone you'd lived with most of your life. Or losing your mind, that would be even worse.
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PostPosted: 07:08 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Statistically speaking I should be able to make it till 80.
I don't drink, don't smoke but am overweight (even for my height)
If I started to exercise, I could get myself extra year or two Thinking

But I digress, 80 sounds good as I think I should be able to do all the cool shit I want before going out in a fiery glory or two tons of tnt, petrol and fireworks on an expensive yacht (using loaned money just to say fuck you to banks Cool ) on a coast of Sydney (or other highly populated coastal town).
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PostPosted: 07:53 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm surprised I've made it this far with my teenage years shenanegins.

I'd want to go before I lose whats left of my marbles and before I have to ask someone to wipe my arse for me.
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PostPosted: 08:16 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I died a long time ago. Before I started work it would seem.
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PostPosted: 08:17 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
pinkyfloyd wrote:
I'm surprised I've made it this far with my teenage years shenanegins.

I'd want to go before I lose whats left of my marbles and before I have to ask someone to wipe my arse for me.


Snap girlfriend.

I wouldnt mind sitting around for a few years though, chatting shit like "I started the war between cats and dogs" and "the letter H was rotated 90 degrees until i fixed it"
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PostPosted: 08:31 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
##Paddy## wrote:
I died a long time ago. Before I started work it would seem.


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PostPosted: 08:37 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
the letter H was rotated 90 degrees until i fixed it


I always wondered who sorted that out.

Many thanks.

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PostPosted: 08:43 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
At the moment I don't see the appeal of dragging it out.


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don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime"

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I would rather not know, but I know I get closer every day
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PostPosted: 09:12 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:

I wouldnt mind sitting around for a few years though, chatting shit like "I started the war between cats and dogs" and "the letter H was rotated 90 degrees until i fixed it"


Reading this has made me realize one thing. We're going to suck as old people. I mean seriously, we've all had and known our grand parents and we've heard their stories about when they were younger. What stories are we going to have for our grand kids?

My grandparents, Grandad was a metalworker in the sirocco works in Belfast which was a huge manufacturing plant. They pioneered the development of Air Conditioning. He done a lot of work with iron and steel. Some of the stories grandad told me are just fascinating. He was one of the few people throughout the troubles of NI and Belfast that had a free run of the city without fear of "wrong religion, wrong place" attitudes.

A very respected man on both sides of the community because he was one of the best mechanics in the city. In a time when cars were not everywhere like they are now he could tell what was wrong with a car just by the sound it made, if it wouldnt start he'd be able to start it and then tell you what was wrong. Theres the odd photo of him with an A Frame rigged up and him hauling an engine out of a motor with pulleys and chains. When he died the Lord Mayor of Belfast attended his funeral, along with the top men from the paramilatary organizations even though he spoke out many times about his dislike for the troubles. Purely because of his mechanical knowhow he was well respected enough for people to pay respects.

My Grandmother died when I was too young to remember but during the war years she was a motorcycle courrier until she was drafted into the catering corps. The story goes that one day the cook went AWOL and she offered to help out in the mess. After cooking an Ulster fry with all the trimmings (soda bread, potato bread etc) from scratch she was transferred to the catering corps full time on a - whether you like it or not order.

What stories are we going to be leaving our grandkids? long gone are the days when a community was a close knit thing and everyone clubbed together in times of hardship. We're spoon fed the basic living requirements to the point where some people are better off sitting on their arses with their dole money.

I can just see it now:

Grandad what was it like when you were young? Oh well, we sat around in our trakkies smoking our pot and never wqrked while the government paid for our rent and gave us money for food.

To be honest, its kind of sad.
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PostPosted: 10:04 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I hope I don't go until a Zombie apocalypse happens, i'd love to see that in my time
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PostPosted: 10:27 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
pinkyfloyd wrote:
thoughtful stuff


Agree 100%.

The thing to do then is to spend the time you have alive, living.

Don't miss out on an experience, taste or sensation. Throw yourself out of your comfort zone, be alive.

I just turned forty this year, I've done all sorts of stuff. I've lived for six months in a tent on the side of a river in Victoria, surviving off what I could catch, I've trekked up and down the east coast of Australia, I've crossed the planet twice in order to get married.

I'm now riding a motorbike, which I had previously dismissed as being dangerous and foolhardy - wish I had started riding 20 years ago.

More importantly though, I'm seeing potential in the bike - epic tours of Europe are on the cards and when it comes to moving back to Australia, what an awesome trip it would be to do most of it on a bike?

Stories and experiences come when your comfort zone is far behind you. Talk to the older folk and they will tell you their favourite times were the war years. Not because war is good, but because they were terrified and thats when you feel most alive.

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PostPosted: 10:33 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
i'd love to go for a ride accross europe or something, trying to get a mate onto a bike who'd be up for it too heh
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PostPosted: 11:25 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I choose a billion years.

That'd be enough I think.
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo wrote:

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily.

Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one's master.

And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead.


Cheery stuff, but in the words of Chuck Palahniuk "This is your life, and it's ending one moment at a time."

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PostPosted: 11:30 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Immortality would be fun.

Not sure how'd that work with the whole you still age thing, but meh.

Immortality, not invincibility.
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PostPosted: 13:04 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
D O G wrote:
I choose a billion years.

That'd be enough I think.

I reckon humanity would end itself by then Wink

awrowe wrote:
moving back to Australia

where in Aus are you moving to? Very Happy
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PostPosted: 13:13 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
andresoccer10 wrote:
D O G wrote:
I choose a billion years.

That'd be enough I think.

I reckon humanity would end itself by then Wink

awrowe wrote:
moving back to Australia

where in Aus are you moving to? Very Happy


Probably Melbourne initially, thats where my parents are.

Ultimately, Canberra. It's where I grew up. It's home.
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PostPosted: 17:13 - 01 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nothing like a brush with you're own mortality to make you appreciate life. Was given all clear from the big C a few months ago. Am fifty. Don't feel it. It's just a number. I like the fact that band members of The Who who smashed up guitars and amps singing 'I hope I die before I get old' now wear woolly jumpers, run trout farms and seem very happy.

I don't want to live forever. I don't want to die alone. Am busy making memories. Smile
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Redoko wrote:
Immortality would be fun.

Not sure how'd that work with the whole you still age thing, but meh.

Immortality, not invincibility.


Imortallity would be cool for about a couple of thousand years but then life would be a bit same ole same ole.

That's why The Gods start wars (I think).

Spice of life war is.
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I dont agree about immortality. Imagine having to watch your friends grow old and die around you time and time again. I think it would be rather depressing.
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I'm 55 and I'm already seeing people I grew up with passing on with illnesses associated with age rather than accidents.

My missus winges about my life style, bikes, beer, unsavoury foreign countries and even more unsavoury people. She still thinks I ought to grow up!

So what, when I go and I'm up there (or down below) I don't want to have said 'I didn't try that'.
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