Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

tomterm8

michaels wrote: »

Oh dear - the linked pensions calculator suggests never retiring is probably the only option. I think my pension is going to have to be my inheritance.

Back to the original article - seems to be another of those extrapolation things without taking in to account any of the knowns (like obesity) unknowns (like global warming, peak oil induced fuel poverty) and unknown unknowns (new viruses, nuclear accidents, cancer cures etc) that may all affect what actually happens.

Personally, I think the programmer just hooked it up to a random number generator, and pocketed his £1000.

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Oh dear - the linked pensions calculator suggests never retiring is probably the only option. I think my pension is going to have to be my inheritance.

Back to the original article - seems to be another of those extrapolation things without taking in to account any of the knowns (like obesity) unknowns (like global warming, peak oil induced fuel poverty) and unknown unknowns (new viruses, nuclear accidents, cancer cures etc) that may all affect what actually happens.

At the same time medical technology and pharmaceuticals are increasing both quality and quantity of life.

StevieJ

You know you have hit skid row when you are kicked out of the BB house before Kerry :eek:

The wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons became the first person to be booted off the reality TV show last night (26.08.11) and afterwards she admitted she found it difficult to cope with the big personalities she was living with.

http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/sally-bercow-says-cbb-housemates-another-planet-080000210.html

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I think the trial subscription only covers films that arrive in the post, not downloads.

spoken to the and the norm subscription doesn't seem to cover dowoads either (we were looking at the £9.99 one). So probably really bad vaue for us anyway....:(

zagubov

StevieJ wrote: »

What are your chances of making the ton?
Looks like the statisticians don't expect Armageddon any time soon I wonder why there is an anomaly at ages 82-83?

http://www.hl.co.uk/news/feature-articles/want-to-know-your-chances-of-living-to-100

You can check out your own life expectancy at http://livingto100.com/

Don't be nervous, unless you regularly chew plutonium and/or randomly run across busy roads wearing a blindfold (in which case why aren't you nervous !).
Three-score and ten's a bit out of date.

StevieJ

The two T20 20 over cricket semi-finals finished tied, what were the odds of that?

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

ISTR that there were loads of them. My radio was just a little transistor radio, nothing flashy.

Can you or anybody else explain why as a student my cheap soviet-made radio seemed to mainly tune in or receive eastern bloc radio stations. Its dial was marked with Praha, Moskva, and a few neutral stations like Wien, when most radios had Schenectady, Hilversum, etc.

But, weirdly, you could mainly pick up the World Service of Warsaw Pact countries. We even got Radio Havana from Cuba (I later heard they had Czech transmitters that were the most powerful in the world at the time to overcome US jamming efforts).

It was all as dull as dishwater but the most peculiar thing was Radio Tirana from the then-very-mysterious country of Albania. In those days their government regarded everybody in the world as being at least as right-wing as Hitler, including the Soviet Union and every other communist country in Europe. Judging by their broadcasts they utterly loathed everybody ( although they were very polite about it!). I later heard a story (which mught be an urban legend) that in Albania the TV sets were pre-tuned to Albanian TV to stop people tuning in to foreign stations. Did they have the ability to make radios tune in preferentially to Eastern bloc stations?

Generali

JonnyBravo wrote: »

All news to me. Fascinating though.
Bit like durians - never heard of them either.

The catchy jingle was a bonus too!

I used to listen to them for ages. They fascinated me. It meant to me that there was this great big world out there that I knew nothing about.

michaels

Do any nice people have a water softener and have any tips in choosing?

Davesnave

zagubov wrote: »

Three-score and ten's a bit out of date.

I really hope so.

michaels wrote: »

Do any nice people have a water softener and have any tips in choosing?

I live in an area with naturally soft water but that doesn't stop the supermarket stocking Viakal & Calgon.)

Hope the feet are a bit better now, lir. DW fell foul of plantar fasciitis this year and it's taking ages to clear up, so we don't get out for proper walks etc.