French skipper dead

[GHA]

Average make life expectancy France: 82 years; U.K. is 81 years. As I said, lots of running up the ladder of assumptions and totally out of date.

Some people will start an argument about absolutely anything, even some poor bloke dying on a boat

Ignore works well.

 

[macd]

Average make life expectancy France: 82 years; U.K. is 81 years. As I said, lots of running up the ladder of assumptions and totally out of date.

If I may add a little more meaning to that, Philip, the life expectancy of a 50 year old UK male (which, at a totally wild guess, may be the mean of people on this forum) is 91. (That's according to Aviva's calculator, and they ought to know: https://www.direct.aviva.co.uk/myfuture/LifeExpectancy/AboutYou

Evidence has already been presented that some UK males much younger than that have lost many of their faculties.

P.S. Having messed around on a few other sites, I suspect 91 is a bit generous. It maybe reflects probabilities in the healthier parts of the UK for people with fewer negative lifestyle factors. Aviva's annuities obviously appear more generous if the average retirement period is longer.

This is getting rather far from the poor soul who came to grief. I hope he's remembered in softer ways by those who knew him.

 

[alant]

If I may add a little more meaning to that, Philip, the life expectancy of a 50 year old UK male (which, at a totally wild guess, may be the mean of people on this forum) is 91. (That's according to Aviva's calculator, and they ought to know: https://www.direct.aviva.co.uk/myfuture/LifeExpectancy/AboutYou

Evidence has already been presented that some UK males much younger than that have lost many of their faculties.

Using their calculator, 91 seems to be the only answer.

I still have some of my faculties, in spite of forumite thoughts to the contrary.

 

[Poignard]

I still have some of my faculties, in spite of forumite thoughts to the contrary.

I'm sure you have all your faculties. The mystery is why you waste them trolling .......

 

[alant]

I'm sure you have all your faculties. The mystery is why you waste them trolling .......

If you believe that, why do you keep raising to the bait?

 

[Davy_S]

If you believe that, why do you keep raising to the bait?

Self-raising Flour

 

[alant]

Self-raising Flour

Some flower.

 

[elton]

I'm reminded how very close I came to a similar fate, but saved by an RAF helicopter crew. It makes me shudder

 

[Poignard]

If you believe that, why do you keep raising to the bait?

To keep in practice until some such time as some genuine leavers come along who are capable of making a credible case for Brexit.

 

[Heckler]

If you believe that, why do you keep raising to the bait?

:encouragement:

 

[Heckler]

To keep in practice until some such time as some genuine leavers come along who are capable of making a credible case for Brexit.

Still enjoying the opera?

 

[alant]

To keep in practice until some such time as some genuine leavers come along who are capable of making a credible case for Brexit.

If you believe I'm a figment of your imagination, you really need treatment, or perhaps you have already been attending that bogus foreign psycho.

 

[Poignard]

Still enjoying the opera?

I prefer a good farce. Such as one finds so often among these threads.