Dai Posted October 17, 2023 Posted October 17, 2023 Life expectancy in China just 200 years ago was 32. Quote
Loki Posted October 17, 2023 Posted October 17, 2023 15 minutes ago, Dai said: Life expectancy in China just 200 years ago was 32. I bet that includes infant mortality. If you survived to your teenage years your life expectancy was probably a lot older. It’s why you read about plenty of Romans who lived into their 80s despite the headline life expectancy being like 40. Quote
Keith Houchen Posted October 17, 2023 Posted October 17, 2023 16 minutes ago, Loki said: I bet that includes infant mortality. If you survived to your teenage years your life expectancy was probably a lot older. It’s why you read about plenty of Romans who lived into their 80s despite the headline life expectancy being like 40. Yep that’s exactly what it is, less babies dying raises the average. Quote
westlondonmist Posted October 17, 2023 Posted October 17, 2023 (edited) During the Elizabethan period infant mortality rate was 14% and 30% died before turning 16. Most mothers would give birth between 5 and ten times in their life. I'd assume that was pretty similar around the world. Edited October 17, 2023 by westlondonmist Quote
Paid Members Tommy! Posted October 17, 2023 Paid Members Posted October 17, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, westlondonmist said: During the Elizabethan period infant mortality rate was 14% and 30% died before turning 16. Most mothers would give birth between 5 and ten times in their life. I'd assume that was pretty similar around the world. Quote Life expectancy in the United Kingdom was below 39 years in the year 1765, and over the course of the next two and a half centuries, it is expected to have increased by more than double, to 81.1 by the year 2020. Although life expectancy has generally increased throughout the UK's history, there were several times where the rate deviated from its previous trajectory. These changes were the result of smallpox epidemics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new sanitary and medical advancements throughout time (such as compulsory vaccination), and the First world War and Spanish Flu epidemic in the 1910s. Edited October 17, 2023 by Tommy! Quote
Paid Members Tommy! Posted October 17, 2023 Paid Members Posted October 17, 2023 Slightly related but the graph for Cambodia is grim, average life expectancy just shy of 15 in 1978. Quote
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted October 18, 2023 Paid Members Posted October 18, 2023 On 10/17/2023 at 8:22 AM, Devon Malcolm said: The TV version of Halloween ran 12 minutes longer than the version everyone has seen. And somebody uploaded it on YouTube a couple of days ago. This might be some Mandela Effect situation but I'm absolutely certain I've seen this before. Even reading that, I could picture the scene with Loomis talking to young Michael somewhere in the depths of my memory. But I have no idea how I'd have seen it! Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted October 18, 2023 Paid Members Posted October 18, 2023 1 minute ago, Lorne Malvo said: This might be some Mandela Effect situation but I'm absolutely certain I've seen this before. Even reading that, I could picture the scene with Loomis talking to young Michael somewhere in the depths of my memory. But I have no idea how I'd have seen it! Apparently it has been fairly widely available for years and has been included in some physical releases. Just can't recall ever having heard about it before! I watched it yesterday and the extra stuff adds something without being essential. They certainly don't detract from the rest of the film, at least. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted October 18, 2023 Members Posted October 18, 2023 I think I've seen that version as well, and I've probably only seen 20 or so horror films in my life, so that's quite something. I do love Halloween. Quote
Loki Posted October 19, 2023 Posted October 19, 2023 Isn't there a similar scene between Loomis and young Michael in the start of Halloween 2? Is that why we all remember it? Quote
Paid Members Chris B Posted October 19, 2023 Paid Members Posted October 19, 2023 The TV version was released in the early 2000s as an extended cut. Pretty sure the extra scenes were also in the 25th anniversary set, although not with the rest of the film. Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted October 21, 2023 Paid Members Posted October 21, 2023 That my daughter is an anti-semite because she has a reversible octopus plushie. Quote
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted October 21, 2023 Paid Members Posted October 21, 2023 24 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said: That my daughter is an anti-semite because she has a reversible octopus plushie. My son has a reversible Pacman ghost, that changes from red to blue. What does that make him? Quote
Keith Houchen Posted October 21, 2023 Posted October 21, 2023 13 minutes ago, Nostalgia Nonce said: changes from red to blue The Labour Party? Quote
Paid Members gmoney Posted October 23, 2023 Paid Members Posted October 23, 2023 (edited) The current Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg is the son of E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg. Edited October 23, 2023 by gmoney Quote
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