dilettante
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The over-100 set has been lying about their ages for a long time.
Are The Very Old Frauds?
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The over-100 set has been lying about their ages for a long time.
hollydolly
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I'm sorry I couldn't get past 30 seconds, this woman has her teeth glued together, bad enough that her mother tongue is not English without listening to her talking through gritted teeth....
Can you give us a synopsis ?
dilettante
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Basically that people claiming extreme advanced ages are most often either from eras or corners of the world where objective official birth records were/are scarce. Also a heavy bias toward areas of high crime and petty fraud in general.
A lot of it seems to stem from trying to qualify for State old age pension income ahead of actual eligibility.
I can only imagine what we over here must sound like to you.
I get impatient with the marbles in the mouth and hoingy-toingy vowel-twisting you guys do too.
Someday I'd like to find a believable theory as to why Canadians sound as much like US speakers as they do. I have a couple of my own, but only one of them is based on known historical fact. The other is harder to prove since we lack recordings of how Brits spoke before they decided to mimic George IV's broken English, considering it "posh" after a few heads rolled for laughing out loud at it. At least until it was rechristened "RP."
A lot of it seems to stem from trying to qualify for State old age pension income ahead of actual eligibility.
I can only imagine what we over here must sound like to you.I get impatient with the marbles in the mouth and hoingy-toingy vowel-twisting you guys do too.
Someday I'd like to find a believable theory as to why Canadians sound as much like US speakers as they do. I have a couple of my own, but only one of them is based on known historical fact. The other is harder to prove since we lack recordings of how Brits spoke before they decided to mimic George IV's broken English, considering it "posh" after a few heads rolled for laughing out loud at it. At least until it was rechristened "RP."
hollydolly
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Very few people speak RP English.. very few...... as we gave birth to you as an English speaking country we do understand our children's own version of the English language as all parents do....Basically that people claiming extreme advanced ages are most often either from eras or corners of the world where objective official birth records were/are scarce. Also a heavy bias toward areas of high crime and petty fraud in general.
A lot of it seems to stem from trying to qualify for State old age pension income ahead of actual eligibility.
I get impatient with the marbles in the mouth and hoingy-toingy vowel-twisting you guys do too.
Someday I'd like to find a believable theory as to why Canadians sound as much like US speakers as they do. I have a couple of my own, but only one of them is based on known historical fact. The other is harder to prove since we lack recordings of how Brits spoke before they decided to mimic George IV's broken English, considering it "posh" after a few heads rolled for laughing out loud at it. At least until it was rechristened "RP."
First off l think that really old people should be getting extra help in living their lives.
And l was very interested by the part that mentioned how human evolution never intended
people to live so long that our bodies cannot hold us together and that's where Al will save us.
l knew it! They've been making robotic pets to practice! l feel sorry for mine because they make me feel like there are
some kind of souls in there.
And l was very interested by the part that mentioned how human evolution never intended
people to live so long that our bodies cannot hold us together and that's where Al will save us.
l knew it! They've been making robotic pets to practice! l feel sorry for mine because they make me feel like there are
some kind of souls in there.
dilettante
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From their children? Grandchildren? Close relatives? The clan or tribe? That was probably the way of things for millennia and beyond.
Monkey butlers? People socially "beneath us?"
I don't expect much from robots. Before they can self-replicate we're probably going to become too dumb to make them ourselves. So maybe we're back to apes. After all, that was the origin story in "The Planet of the Apes" franchise.
The there was "Logan's Run" that solved the geriatric problem another way.
dilettante
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I just think that for good or for ill many of us are just on our own to at least some extent.
The "age pyramid" is too inverted now for us to expect free or even affordable help from those younger.
The "age pyramid" is too inverted now for us to expect free or even affordable help from those younger.
fuzzybuddy
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About age 'fraud', when my grandmother died, there was a question of her age. She was born in the 1800s, when not all births were recorded. Also, my great grandmother seemed to be a little too old to be having kids about my grandmother's supposed age- g. grand mother lived to 100.+
Problem solved. They found my grandmother's birth certificate. Instead of a blushing 17 year old bride, she was 25. She went through life using the wrong age.
My grandfather called her, "my woman" or "the woman". I'll never forget him standing by her coffin with an accusing finger and yelling, "Woman, you lied to me. You lied to me, woman".
Problem solved. They found my grandmother's birth certificate. Instead of a blushing 17 year old bride, she was 25. She went through life using the wrong age.
My grandfather called her, "my woman" or "the woman". I'll never forget him standing by her coffin with an accusing finger and yelling, "Woman, you lied to me. You lied to me, woman".