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Death Clock

#49
I tried changing parameters to get different answers. Then I discovered you can get very different answers with the same parameters if you start over. The next several results after that were all "You should already be dead." Pessimist-Optimist made the biggest difference.
 
#51
Bard2dbone said:
Saturday, March 19, 2019

That would make me 54 and some change. But I have to argue some of the 'fat' based assumptions. I am, in fact fat. It's true. But I am in no way as far gone as that ridiculous BMI figure implies.

I always hate tables that judge simple weight vs height. Some people really do have heavier bones than others. Now that gets used as a joke a lot, the idea of an immensely obese guy saying " Uh, I'm just big boned. Really." But if you grow up overweight you DO grow heavier bones to support that weight. You should see my xrays. I have the natural barrel chest that goes with having been a preemie. I have the really thick long bones that go with having grown up heavy. If you put them together you get a guy who is really thin at 240 lbs. But that BMI thing still would say I was fat if I got down to 240 because it makes no allowance for whether that is 240 lbs on an enormous frame like mine of a dainty birdlike frame.

I have a cousin-in-law who is fatter than me...and 80 lbs lighter than I am. He never got heavy till he was 30 or so. He looks like a snake that swallowed a bowling ball. My drummer and I used to go the same gym, sometimes together. At 5'10" and 140 lbs he looked muscular when he was working out because every muscle he owned was right out there on display. It was one of our ongoing sources of amusement that he could look all 'buff?' while bench pressing 125 lbs, But I couldn't while bench pressing 300.

It's not fair. Grrrrrr.
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I hear you. It said I'm obese. I am overweight but my family and I are big boned and I also have a lot of leg muscle. Stupid tables of calculation.
 
#56
unharmed said:
Oops. I did, indeed, mean the Mayans.

I don't think it's an unreasonable stretch to conclude that they thought something was going to end at this date. :)
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Ever see the Sci-Fi flick 'Strange Days'?
There is a cool quote the character Max says pertaining to the end of the world.

"MAX: You know how I know it's the end of the world? Because everything's been done, every kind of music's been tried, every government's been tried, every f****n' hairstyle. How you gonna make it another thousand years, for C****sake?"

Kinda makes sense in a way...it almost seems as though everything has been done :) I expect several hundred years of boredom now while we slowly kill eachother off :D
 
#57
Wednesday November 5th 2042 - hope I get to see the fireworks first! I will be 72! (BMI 28)


If I lose 28 lbs and keep it off......Thursday November 5th 2043!!! (BMI 25)...a whole extra year

If we use optimistic mode and BMI 28.....Sunday December 28th 2064 (94) - well at least I'd get Xmas in...but no New Year! Hey just by being optimistic an extra 22 years!

Optimistic and BMI 25.....Monday December 25th 2062. Hmmm, as long as I get some good pressies....

Hey wait a minute - I'll live longest by being optimisitc and overweight - see fat happy people live longest!


BMI is complete tosh! (IMHO)
 

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