Wheeeeee - apparently I have the same birthday as Chris Onstad. My webcomics success is now assured by this divine omen.I know I've mentioned this to some folk already, but I thought I'd mention here that in the UK there are "Youth" discounts as well as the usual "Student" discounts. I think that's pretty okay, since it's unfair to assume that someone going straight from High School to the job market should be expected to pay the same rates for transit etc. as someone further down the road, who isn't working the kind of jobs one can get when only in possession of a high school diploma.
The cut off for this "Youth" discount is, you guessed it, twenty-five. My gorgeous Youth Rail Card picture is now but an archaic relic of times gone by! Here's hoping a pack of archeologists don't abduct me while I'm checking out the Acropolis in three days time.
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I thought I should leave a comment at least TODAY:-)
Looksls like everyone else is on holliday or something, no comments for a few days now. Where is SHAWN etc.
Happy Birthday MR Brackenbury.
Happy birthday, you dick-diddlin' bull shit!
Also, I'm still here Gremlins. I promise to continue offering my usual brand of inane observations in the not-too-distant future!
In some countries, you're technically a "youth" until age 35, which I find hilarious.
And I've just spent the last week learning about Adolescent and Youth Health... just think, your risk factors for all sorts of nasty diseases (particular the sexual ones) just dropped tremendously!
Happy birthday, Big O! If you lived in Swaziland, you'd only have six more years before you hit your life expectancy!
Haha, thanks guys.
Kate: So does this mean I'll more safe sex or less sex in general?!
Also I'd love to know one of those countries where I get to be a youth until I'm 35, those guys must live to be like 150 (THEY MUST, THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION).
I'm guessing Swaziland is not one of them!
Actually, if you lived in Swaziland right now, you'd have a good chance of living to a fine old age. Life expectancy is generally calculated from birth, and thus is very susceptible to infant mortality rates. If you manage to live to 25, it's a safe bet that you'll be around for a while, provided you keep your dick in your pants (sorry).
But back to the original question. Statistically, you're likely to be much healthier since you're less prone to risk-taking behaviour (in theory at least :D) You're in the prime of life and in good health as well, which makes you less susceptible to communicable diseases.
If you want more sex, the key is to use protection. Study after study after study shows that the people who use contraception also have the most sex, presumably because they aren't as worried abotu impending fatherhood.
I love the idea that you are STATISTICALLY BETTER NOW, myself.
Time for you to enjoy rampant, irresponsible unprotected sex! Don't listen to Kate! YOU GOT STATS ON YOUR SIDE MAN
Hey, enjoy your statistical superiority! For women, our chances of of survival plummet as soon as we get pregnant. Number one occupational hazard. Not that our periods are any really picnic... screw PMS- every time we have a period, our cells actually mutate. Because of better nutrition, we're actually having WAY mor eperiods than before, and they suspect that's why we are seeing a huge rise in reproductive cancers.
MMMMM MUTATION...
(On the note of rampant unprotected sex... your chances of contracting hIV from heterosexual sex are 1/1000 per sex act [1/100 from anal sex and 1/10 for each injection of intravenous drugs]. That said, there's a lot of nasty diseases OTHER than HIV. As you can see, it's the least of your problems)
Oh dear...
Wait, there are OTHER STD's?
So tell me, I'm not disputing your facts but I am curious as to how the pregnancy/period mutations fit into women generally living longer then men.
Well, nobody's quite sure why women generally live longer than men. There is certainly some statistical fun there: like I said before, life expectancy is generally calculated from birth, and boys are far more likely to die at birth and in the neonatal stages than girls. Boys also have that risk-taking behaviour tendency that girls don't (usually) Averages are also very sensitive to outliers [stats outside the norm], so when one woman lives to 130, it screws up the whole graph :)
Men are also far less likely to exhibit help-seeking behaviour, so any disease that does hit them is less likely to be treated, and/or treated promptly.
Our periodic [haha] cell mutation isn't enough to drop our life expectancy significantly, it just makes us far more susceptible than we used to be to reproductive cancers.
If we survive childbirth and stop there (rather than having 10 or 12), our health usually improves. Pregnancy is just astoundingly dangerous in most places of the world.
You may notice that in countries hit hard by HIV/AIDS, the stats are much closer together. Men tend to be infected later in life (late 20s and early 30s), but because of marriage rituals, etc. girls get it far earlier (like 15-24). Biologically, we're also more likely to catch reproductive diseases. Too much surface area :)
I'll leave you with that fun image :)
Oh Jesus, don't get me started on syphilis. The medical journals from 1900 that I'm working with at the National Library are all about teh syphilis and doctors attempts to 'cure' it with varying doses on mercury. And then there are the really depressing articles about syphilis in children and the "oriental threat" of jiu-jutsu (which was designed with "typical oriental disregard for human life" in terms of the damage it does to all non-oriental's joints (as, I guess, orientals have magical monkey joints).
I love and hate my job sometimes.
Hrm! I was three months premature as well so I really beat the odds, then. Take THAT, entity who I
think is a big farce!
Also, in my LEGION of mysoginistic rants the first point I have always made is that women have too much surface area. The government needs to start intervening (more) with that crazy gender and their insane, non-euclidean bodies.
On a related note, I do believe the oldest man in England right now is 111 - dude was born when Jack the Ripper was running around Whitechapel and he saw the entirety of the twentieth century. Hot damn, I just have to make it to 119 and then I too will be able to make the claim of having seen THREE CENTURIES.
Tell me Tom, did they then make the connection to Mercury because syphillis was never to be found in hatters?
I'm not entirely sure. Mercury was being used as a treatment for syphilis as far back as the 17th century in Latin America (It was also used as a cure for "sass" in prosititues there. Latin America: IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE SENSE). From what I know, mercury was a traditional medicine of the western and eastern medical traditions for quite some time. The famous Yellow Emperor of China ate mercury because he thought it would make him immortal. It just drove him mad, however. In the West, mercury has been used as a diuretic, a laxative, and a disinfectant. I recommend reading mercury and blue mass for more information.
Also, Kate is dead on for pregnancies. From what I've read of my medical journals of the 19th-early 20th century, pregnancy is a stupifyingly dangerous proposition, especially when doctors don't have clean hands ("doctors do not need to clean their hands. Doctors are gentlemen and gentlemen always have clean hands." SOB!) Then there's also the fact that pregnant women are more likely to be murdered.
Syphilis is a very pretty bacteria, however.
Doctors not having clean hands? HA! Most women in the developing world don't have access to trained medical personnel of any kind, let alone doctors. Think of the infections that result from dirty hands AND untrained personnel?
Actually, there's a public health researcher here at Hopkins that's working on distributing Purell to TBAs (Traditional Birth Attendants) in developing countries...
Oh, and being 3 months premature and still living makes you a very lucky baby, although you are now at substantially increased risk of heart disease.
Enjoy!
Well folks I should like to add info to The possibility of the big O living a longer life.
Firstly the fantastic care given to him during early childhood by CHEO and his parents in that order.
Secondly, its in his jeans, you know what I mean LOL.
Various members of his extended family have lived to a ripe old age, two of his Aunties are in there late 90's for example.
Then there is his father who as it turns out is a recycled teanager, see these pics from a friend or enema and figure out which one is the errant father.
http://www.flickr.com
/photos/68219935@N00/
Well have fun Uall.
TCG
I am certainly of the belief that Oliver, like lichen, or possibly some kind of lichen-cockroach hybrid, will outlast us all out of spite, flooding the world with Homo oliverensis after the inevitable global apocalypse.
Myself, I think I will probably be lucky to survive my return to Halifax where I will likely to follow Henry I's example and die from a 'a surfeit of lampreys'.
Perhaps a surfiet of Pho Bo Ga?
But yeah, I ain't worried Kate - luckily I actually have a pretty strong heart, another Brackenbury family trait along with verbosity and a propensity for hubris!
Sometimes genes trump statistics, I suppose. But man, that is some fine-assed luck.
Also, I just wanted to interject to note that this thread is awesome.
Here's a fun story: I was born right on time like a good little boy, and yet thanks to bad genes I have two diseases (GERD and ITP), technically speaking, as well as various other complications (such as mental problems in a long line of family members with mental problems).
HUZZAH
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