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#218040 - 09/06/2004 05:29 Link: So, how long will you live?
pgrzelak
carpal tunnel

Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
A fun little life expectancy calculator. I guess I need to cut back on coffee (and a lot of other things) if I want to see any of that retirement savings...
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#218041 - 09/06/2004 06:28 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
The most I can choose for tea is "Daily"? Where's "Hourly"?

Peter (82.5)

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#218042 - 09/06/2004 08:09 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
Cybjorg
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Registered: 23/12/2002
Posts: 652
Loc: Winston Salem, NC
Your calculated health span is 87.9 years.

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#218043 - 09/06/2004 08:53 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
robricc
carpal tunnel

Registered: 30/10/2000
Posts: 4931
Loc: New Jersey, USA
I have a funeral to start planning....
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#218044 - 09/06/2004 08:53 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
ninti
old hand

Registered: 28/12/2001
Posts: 868
Loc: Los Angeles
Hehe, I think it told me I should be dead already.
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#218045 - 09/06/2004 09:15 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: Cybjorg]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14493
Loc: Canada
Your calculated health span is 87.9 years.
Hey, we're twins! Or at least until I forget to double-check a climbing knot someday..

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#218046 - 09/06/2004 09:59 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
tms13
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Registered: 30/07/2001
Posts: 1115
Loc: Lochcarron and Edinburgh
I can expect to live until Error Occurred While Processing Request:
Error Diagnostic Information

An error occurred while evaluating the expression:

NewAge = #healthscore_e# + #healthscore_d# + #healthscore_c# + #healthscore_b# + #healthscore_a#

Error near line 1, column 7.

Cannot convert to number.
Idiots.
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#218047 - 09/06/2004 10:28 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
pca
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Registered: 20/07/1999
Posts: 1102
Loc: UK
89.4. I'm obviously living right.

pca
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#218048 - 09/06/2004 14:20 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pca]
mwest
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Registered: 01/05/2003
Posts: 768
Loc: Ada, Oklahoma
70.6
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#218049 - 09/06/2004 14:25 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: mwest]
wfaulk
carpal tunnel

Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Ouch. Even I was better than that. 76 or so.
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#218050 - 09/06/2004 14:52 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: wfaulk]
mwest
old hand

Registered: 01/05/2003
Posts: 768
Loc: Ada, Oklahoma
I think some of it may have to do with my no seat belt issues...
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#218051 - 09/06/2004 15:03 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: mwest]
andy
carpal tunnel

Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
66.4, I need to eat less and see a doctor apparently (haven't seen a doctor in 15 years as I'm never ill).
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#218052 - 09/06/2004 15:46 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
davec
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Registered: 18/08/2000
Posts: 992
Loc: Georgetown, TX USA
Holy crap! 56.1 years!!! I guess I can cut back on those 401K contributions!

Gotta quit smoking and eating junk food I guess... The fact my father died at 62 of emphysema should be a clue for me... DUH!
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#218053 - 09/06/2004 16:24 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: davec]
speedy67
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Registered: 18/12/2000
Posts: 342
Loc: South-West-Germany
70.6 for me too. hmmm, sports? OK, more geocaching...
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#218054 - 09/06/2004 17:09 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
Laura
pooh-bah

Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
71. I knew I wouldn't live long enough to pay off my house.
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#218055 - 09/06/2004 17:13 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
CommOri
journeyman

Registered: 30/12/2001
Posts: 83
89! Woot!

Now I need to barricade myself in my house for the next 53 years to avoid being hit by a bus.

Wait, I also need to trim the nearby trees to avoid limbs killing me in my sleep! But then I might fall from the tree and die!

Ok, so I'll hire a company to trim the trees for me and avoid the side of the house on which they are working. But wait, lightning may strike the phone lines when I call them, so I need to wait for the local thunderstorms to pass...

But then the storms themselves may be enough to bring down said limbs! Oh man, this is too stressful, now I need to take the survey again with my new (higher) stress level...

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#218056 - 09/06/2004 17:26 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: CommOri]
trs24
old hand

Registered: 20/03/2002
Posts: 729
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
Your calculated health span is 86.8 years.

Phew! My Dad died at 59, and his dad at 59, and my Mom's dad at 59... I'm a little skeptical of getting past that point, but this definitely sets a lofty goal!
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#218057 - 09/06/2004 17:46 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pca]
schofiel
carpal tunnel

Registered: 25/06/1999
Posts: 2993
Loc: Wareham, Dorset, UK
Well, it looks as if hanging round you guys seems to have helped (in spite of a nasty divorce) - 84.8. What am I doing right? I would have thought I was on target for a grisly death....
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#218058 - 09/06/2004 19:29 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
Heather
addict

Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 510
Loc: NY
53.7 years. You mean the pack and a half a day, 4 hours sleep, and steady diet of coffee and coke isn't good for me?
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#218059 - 09/06/2004 21:22 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: Heather]
lectric
pooh-bah

Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
87.9 here, despite the fact that I smoke. Wow.

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#218060 - 09/06/2004 22:11 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: CommOri]
jimhogan
carpal tunnel

Registered: 06/10/1999
Posts: 2591
Loc: Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
89! Woot!

Of course, you understand that those last 3 years are *really* going to suck, right?

Now I need to barricade myself in my house for the next 53 years to avoid being hit by a bus.

Oh, don't sweat the bus and go out and have a pizza. This is all a bell-curve exercise. You wouldn't want to be the *one* "89" guy who locked himself in, missed that wicked pissah pizza, then died of a heart attack, would you?

Wait, I also need to trim the nearby trees to avoid limbs killing me in my sleep! But then I might fall from the tree and die!

*Now* you're thinking!

Ok, so I'll hire a company to trim the trees for me and avoid the side of the house on which they are working. But wait, lightning may strike the phone lines when I call them, so I need to wait for the local thunderstorms to pass..

But then the storms themselves may be enough to bring down said limbs! Oh man, this is too stressful, now I need to take the survey again with my new (higher) stress level...


Down to 86, I think!

Me? Just 25 more years of this mortal coil bullshit. I wonder what the pizza is like in Heaven?
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#218061 - 10/06/2004 00:40 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
ithoughti
old hand

Registered: 17/07/2001
Posts: 721
Loc: Boston, MA USA
Your calculated health span is 89.2 years


Jeez. I don't think I want to live that long. Kill me as soon as someone else needs to wipe my ass.
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#218062 - 10/06/2004 05:52 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: pgrzelak]
JeffS
carpal tunnel

Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2858
Loc: Atlanta, GA
77.4
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#218063 - 10/06/2004 06:18 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: JeffS]
Ezekiel
pooh-bah

Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
79.6

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#218064 - 10/06/2004 06:44 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: ithoughti]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
Kill me as soon as someone else needs to wipe my ass.
Yeah, taking a human life is wrong but there's a point beyond which it ain't a human life. If my body outlives my mind yet people are still keeping me alive then they're just using me as a mausoleum to myself, and an expensive and unpicturesque one at that. Shoot me and plant a tree already.

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#218065 - 10/06/2004 06:53 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: Ezekiel]
Roger
carpal tunnel

Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
74.3

Looks like I'm a gonner, chaps! I think I got penalised for not visiting the doctor often enough. Have these guys heard of the NHS?
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#218066 - 10/06/2004 07:02 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: Roger]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
74.3 [...] I think I got penalised for not visiting the doctor often enough
I don't think that's it -- I treat my doctor on a strictly don't-call-me-I'll-call-you basis (in fact, I think as far as they know my address is still my university address from 1990) but still scored well into the 80s.

As an aside, it only occurred to me after a conversation with some Americans about the Queen Mother that the expression "to have had a good innings" only makes any sense at all in cricket-playing countries, where 80, 90 or 100 really is a good innings. It makes no sense at all to a follower of baseball...

Peter

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#218067 - 10/06/2004 07:55 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: peter]
frog51
pooh-bah

Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
93.2 - including my copious alcohol consumption. If there was a section in there for "what percentage of the time is your car sliding sideways" I might have come off a bit worse
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#218068 - 10/06/2004 08:42 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: frog51]
pgrzelak
carpal tunnel

Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Then again, maybe coffee isn't such a bad thing. I mean, if this can happen while making tea... I wonder how many years were deducted from that guy's life at that moment...
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#218069 - 10/06/2004 09:05 Re: Link: So, how long will you live? [Re: peter]
wfaulk
carpal tunnel

Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Well, in baseball, we don't use the word "innings" as a singular. One is just an inning. So that helps to at least indicate foreignness.
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