The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Goofyernmost said:
The only place that I have seen the water snakes have been at WDW in the faux mote around the castle. I was just standing there near the entrance to Tomorrowland looking around and they caught my eye swimming happily toward the front of the castle. The others I have never seen and have no desire to do so.

I was born and spent my first 15 years in upper, upper New York State and just a few miles from my home was a place, called Salmon river, that had the reputation of having rattlesnakes in large numbers. It might have been just an old legend because I never knew anyone that saw one of them, but everyone believed they were there. It seems like the 8 or 9 months of rather chilly temperatures would have kept them pretty inactive most of the year if they did exist.
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When we were kiddos/teens we used to swim in one of the 2 stock tanks on my grandparents farm on Pop’s side, very similar to the one pictured below.
That’s where we mostly saw the water moccasins. Relatively from afar meaning on the other side-ish of the tank...!!!!! :hilarious:
That tank was also stocked with perch and bass, and was full of turtles and bull frogs.
Also, those moccasins always seemed more afraid of us than we were of them...!!!!! :D😂

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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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wdwfan4ver said:
My dentist discovered my crown needed to be replaced and it is not all done till June.

I didn't have this as my dentist:
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Sooo.....
He was more like this...?!!!!! :cyclops: :D:hilarious:;)

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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Goofyernmost said:
Here's a thought I have on some technology and statistics! You mentioned that childbirth is massively less dangerous then it was say even 75 years ago. What causes some other thoughts to be looked at differently is the wonderful life expectancy. We look at ages of death in the past and it seems like we individually live longer and that is true, but what brought the average numbers down year ago was the fact that there were a lot of childbirth related deaths. The Mother may have been counted as dyeing during childbirth and the baby was also along with the fact because of the pre-vaccination days many children died before their 5th birthday. That brought the average life expectancy down to very low number. Now with science we live longer generally, but those that survived into adulthood lived as long as those of us now.

Just in my family My great grandparents on my mothers side... 1 lived to one day short of 100. another died in the Civil War. My mothers father was adopted and no one ever knew or talked about his parents. On my Fathers side my great grandparents made to 97, 98, 100 and 101.

My Grandparents on my Mothers side were 89 and 81. On my Fathers side 88 and 67. My Father and all his siblings died before reaching the age of 74. My mother lived to 87 while her siblings all died younger then her.

Me I hope to make it to 73 in a few weeks. Many of my younger cousins have passed already.

My point is that those that did survive their youth lived what seems to be longer then we currently do. Why? I don't have a clue. Perhaps the hardships and heavy duty work requirement to survive made the ancestors far more hardy then we are today.

In my, admittedly amateur evaluation science has allowed more of us to survive but not as long. Our ancestors ate whatever they wanted. Carbs, calories, glutens, food allergies were never a factor at the time and were very fortunately spared from Kale. Booze, from what my grandfather used to tell me based on his stories of when he and my grandmother had a business making bathtub beer and blacked out windows so gambling could take place, drank stuff the would take the paint off walls. She died of an aneurism at 67 and he died just a couple years short of 90. Moral of the story is the we all live in our own times and what we do will affect how long we live to an extent but a lot of it has to do with activity, strong immune system and hard work. Add them all up and it's all in the genes.
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I think hygiene has a lot to do with it also. Remember that people used to just dump their waste out on the streets, bathe in rivers that had waste in it. I had 3 great grandparents that were alive when I was born. They all lived into their 90's. Grandparents lived long lives as well. Now my parents who had the benefits of modern medicine and medications did not. Mom passed at 50 of an autoimmune disease, and dad at 72 of a Parkinson's type disease. I think hygiene, diet, exercise, and a good immune system has a lot to do with longer life expectancy. So I agree with you. I do think our food is more processed and treated with more chemicals than during our great grandparents time as well. Of course car accidents and other freak things can happen as well.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Goofyernmost said:
Here's a thought I have on some technology and statistics! You mentioned that childbirth is massively less dangerous then it was say even 75 years ago. What causes some other thoughts to be looked at differently is the wonderful life expectancy. We look at ages of death in the past and it seems like we individually live longer and that is true, but what brought the average numbers down year ago was the fact that there were a lot of childbirth related deaths. The Mother may have been counted as dyeing during childbirth and the baby was also along with the fact because of the pre-vaccination days many children died before their 5th birthday. That brought the average life expectancy down to very low number. Now with science we live longer generally, but those that survived into adulthood lived as long as those of us now.

Just in my family My great grandparents on my mothers side... 1 lived to one day short of 100. another died in the Civil War. My mothers father was adopted and no one ever knew or talked about his parents. On my Fathers side my great grandparents made to 97, 98, 100 and 101.

My Grandparents on my Mothers side were 89 and 81. On my Fathers side 88 and 67. My Father and all his siblings died before reaching the age of 74. My mother lived to 87 while her siblings all died younger then her.

Me I hope to make it to 73 in a few weeks. Many of my younger cousins have passed already.

My point is that those that did survive their youth lived what seems to be longer then we currently do. Why? I don't have a clue. Perhaps the hardships and heavy duty work requirement to survive made the ancestors far more hardy then we are today.

In my, admittedly amateur evaluation science has allowed more of us to survive but not as long. Our ancestors ate whatever they wanted. Carbs, calories, glutens, food allergies were never a factor at the time and were very fortunately spared from Kale. Booze, from what my grandfather used to tell me based on his stories of when he and my grandmother had a business making bathtub beer and blacked out windows so gambling could take place, drank stuff the would take the paint off walls. She died of an aneurism at 67 and he died just a couple years short of 90. Moral of the story is the we all live in our own times and what we do will affect how long we live to an extent but a lot of it has to do with activity, strong immune system and hard work. Add them all up and it's all in the genes.
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All of my great grandparents (farmers) lived into their 80’s and 90’s.
My Pop’s pop died at 78 in 1978 from colon cancer (he was stubborn and didn’t go to a doc ‘til my grandmother tricked him into it - boy was he pi$$ed from what I was told - and by then it was too advanced).
My Pop’s mom died two weeks shy of 96.
Mom’s Pop died at 89, and Mom’s Mom died at 93. All farmers.
My folks were both raised on farms, and are 82 and 88, respectively...I wasn’t raised on a farm, but, hopefully, I still have the farm longevity gene...!!!!! :hilarious:;)
 
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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Yeah, I just wanted one where when you click on the "like" it would pop up like the laughing, surprised, love, and sad emoji are.
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Yea, the whole emoji thing has changed here several times over the years.
I’m no tech person, but, I’m pretty sure now that other sources for them are linked, so all they need to do here is provide the minimum “quickies”...!!!!! :D:hilarious:
 

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