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

sss555s

michaels wrote: »

That's the song but what was the movie/show?

Robin Hood?

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

silvercar....thats really interesting....DH takes loadsa vitamins.....I shall tell him!

If he knows something we don't, can you pass it on to us!:beer:

There is a website livingto100.com that asks you a couple of dozen questions and gives you your life expectancy.;)

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

You went to bed early, naked ... then thought "she won't miss just ONE bottle" ... so rushed downstairs, light on, waved at the neighbour passing, grabbed the bottle, light out, upstairs and ... DOH .... naked.... neighbour.... oops!

One bottle of what? Hamish's champagne?

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

If he knows something we don't, can you pass it on to us!:beer:

There is a website livingto100.com that asks you a couple of dozen questions and gives you your life expectancy.;)

Gentically on one side I have an extremely high likely hood of making my 100th...and I'd just be another in the list...on the otherside, nineties.

Thing is, these things don't take into account that I was meant to die when ever it was in my twenties. Maybe that was deaths chance and he won't be able to catch up with my till 100s, or maybe it'll be under a bus tomorrow, or that my lucky streak will run out in a few more years. Its best really, to be sensible in balance of lifestyle...health balanced with indulgence, so you get some good chance of taking care of yourself, plus the ability to say : ''well, it wasn't a grim life.''

I die when I die as far as I am concerned, but I live as well as I am able...why waste time trying to control the uncontrollable.

Now, as part of my good fun life I'm off to pick up a tonne or so of poop.:rotfl::rotfl:

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

There is a website livingto100.com that asks you a couple of dozen questions and gives you your life expectancy.;)

I just did that, filling in my old's answers .... and the result was they should have died 2-3 years ago

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just did that, filling in my old's answers .... and the result was they should have died 2-3 years ago

I'm glad to hear it (IYKWIM)! We all know these predictions can only give us averages but it's good to know that somebody had beaten the odds and claimed more than the years allotted!

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Gentically on one side I have an extremely high likely hood of making my 100th...and I'd just be another in the list...on the otherside, nineties.

Thing is, these things don't take into account that I was meant to die when ever it was in my twenties. Maybe that was deaths chance and he won't be able to catch up with my till 100s, or maybe it'll be under a bus tomorrow, or that my lucky streak will run out in a few more years. Its best really, to be sensible in balance of lifestyle...health balanced with indulgence, so you get some good chance of taking care of yourself, plus the ability to say : ''well, it wasn't a grim life.''

I die when I die as far as I am concerned, but I live as well as I am able...why waste time trying to control the uncontrollable.

Now, as part of my good fun life I'm off to pick up a tonne or so of poop.:rotfl::rotfl:

You've got a good point there. I've no doubt that one way of improving the odds of long life expectancy would be to live a really ascetic life and never do anything enjoyable or risky.

Doesn't seem like a barrel of laughs to me. On the other hand if I'd lead a good life and was still enjoying it but was suddenly on my deathbed in my 60s with a serious problem I could have delayed by taking a pill a day, that would seem a harsh lesson to learn. :mad::mad:

LydiaJ

sss555s wrote: »

That was the bit i didn't realise.

I was joking about the BTL bit

You have took an expensive risk and i hope your rewarded for being bold :T

To me the feel good factor looks worth every bit as much as the money side of it.

There's not much risk. The feed-in tariff payments (FiTs) are index-linked for 25 years, so the only risks are of expensive repairs or of a future government reneging on the FiT agreement.

It's generally considered that the panels themselves are unlikely to need repairing, but the inverter might need replacing after 10 or 15 years. When my inverter's warranty runs out (I forget if it's 5 or 7 years) I'm intending to sign up to the scheme that covers inverters in the same way that homecare does for boilers.

Also, I think the precedent is fairly strong in this country that government changes to FiT rates won't be retrospective. It's already part of the plan that FiT rates for new purchasers will go down every year, which is supposed to be compensated for by the panels getting cheaper as more R&D is done with the money raised from all the people getting them now the FiTs are high. Whether panel prices will come down enough to make the lower FiTs still worth it is debatable, though.

The feel-good factor is not quite as good as you might think. There are people who think small scale solar like this is not actually very beneficial environmentally, and others who think it's terribly unfair financially. There are people who rant about it on the green and ethical board here on MSE, and a debate about it in the Guardian with quite distinguished environmentalists on both sides.

I tend to feel that diversifying the UK's energy sources is a good thing, especially since putting PV panels on the roofs of houses doesn't use up any land space that could be used for anything else, and doesn't make a noise or cause any nuisance. I also feel that micro-generation may not be economically viable now (without government interference, that is) but it will become more so as fossil fuel prices rise. And I like getting the money. I have borrowed to pay for the panels (which were £13k) but the money I will make from them is at least double the increase in my mortgage payments.

zagubov wrote: »

You've got a good point there. I've no doubt that one way of improving the odds of long life expectancy would be to live a really ascetic life and never do anything enjoyable or risky.

Doesn't seem like a barrel of laughs to me. On the other hand if I'd lead a good life and was still enjoying it but was suddenly on my deahbed just after the age of 60 with a serious problem I could have delayed by taking a pill a day, that would be a harsh lesson to learn. :mad::mad:

Actually one of the big predictors of longevity is having a full and active social life with plenty of close friends. Loneliness is more of a killer than poor diet or lack of exercise. As somebody has said, it's better to eat twinkies with friends than broccoli alone. The research is covered in a book called "Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam, and the twinkies quote either comes from that book too, or is quoted in it.

misskool

Draw a stickman

got sent this am, it's fun. thought some nice peeps would enjoy it.

StevieJ

Wheezy wrote: »

I always thought Poirot was a fictional character

So we already have Van Damme, Herge, Clijsters, Henin, Merckx and Poirot. Add Adolphe Sax and we come to 7 famous Belgians. Who ever said Belgium was boring??

You will need a footballer to add to the list what about Paul Van Himst?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Van_Himst