@RickiTarr I tell many of my patients "cavemen lived an average of 38 years, so your warranty is expired"
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@RickiTarr I tell many of my patients "cavemen lived an average of 38 years, so your warranty is expired" 10 comments
@autolycos @RickiTarr Isn't this partly because of high historical infant mortality tho? Pre-agricultural people who made it past 5 had a decent chance of living to their 60's or 80's. But a looot of people didn't make it past five, thus bringing the average age down to into the 30's. @sidereal @RickiTarr partly But they also didn't have antibiotics, sanitary sewers, or building codes @autolycos @sidereal @RickiTarr @pattykimura @sidereal @RickiTarr my great great aunt who lived to 102 swore by poker, 3 camel unfiltereds, and 2 shots of whiskey a day 🤷 @pattykimura @RickiTarr My grandmother was a washerwoman as well. She took her bike to work every day (30 miles one way), ate some cucumber and a tomato for lunch, and raised two children on her own (my dad and aunt), because my dads father died in jail after trying to murder the whole family. I am not kidding. She could retire early though with a good pension efter her husbands death, and started trading stocks. She became a millionaire before she died at 98, but never really bought anything. @MariaLiv @RickiTarr I think of her collecting firewood to boil clothes, scrub and wring by hand, and lift and hang pounds and pounds of other peoples' wet clothes on a line. She was a tiny woman. She ate slowly and ate every crumb. She had seen others die by starvation and never took any food for granted. She never romanticized the past. @pattykimura @RickiTarr Yeah, exactly. Poor woman. 💔 So many women and men had it like that, or worse. Working in coal mines, living in terrible conditions, and all the people who were forced to be slaves, etc etc. I can't imagine going back, even in my own life! I've had so many dog year's, and I am finally getting on my feet. And although the future might not look to bright in some areas, I wouldn't want to go back. (Except for changing the climate politics). |
@autolycos LOL