The BBC calculates your life expectancy!

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How long are you going to live?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to pop my clogs at 79, apparently.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

According to this survey, I am going to die at 10.30pm on 17th March 2026. Lets all have a FAP to celebrate my demise!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going at 78. That's a good 40 years more than I expected.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

count me out, matt dc!! :(

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

88.4 so I'm just about halfway thesedays.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

86.2 years! So long, suckas!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

85.8 years. Ha -- I should be so lucky. And I smoke and everything.

― Charles Hatcher (musenheddo), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

87.6. i find that unlikely

― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

84.8! :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

87.2

isn't the average life expectancy around 78 or so?

maybe they are taking into account the miraculous all-healing medicine of the 21st century (soon available in stores)

― j c (j c), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

92! Fucking hell.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

90.

yeah right.

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

wow i'm gonna live to 83.9 years! I'm living til 2063!!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I gonna be the longest-lived ILXor?

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

~~not if we can help it~~Yes!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

83.8 tho I suspect it would be much less if I put my pre 2004 drinking levels down.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

87.4 - and that's without taking selenium. This will not happen; not even an anagram of these numbers. In reality I will be lucky to reach 50.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

82-point-something.
ha ha.

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

88.4, mind you they didn't ask "Are you a penguin who likes to jump off tall glaciers?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

87 years! I'm as surprised as you are.

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I gave up smoking a week ago -- do I have to tell the BBC's computer this salient fact?

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

88.8 years. I'm gonna be around for a while. Sorry, everyone!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

92.8.

and that's without the vitamins, which might be contained in my fancy multi-vitamin. if i change that, i get up to 93.8.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

you lot (Dom excepted) are obv far more healthy than me!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

32.6 - it mentioned something about a run-in with a bus¡

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

79.8 years seems plenty long to me.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

if i exercise more and let less fried food i can slap another 4 years on there, but, really, fuck that noise.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

87.4 - I'm overweight right now and I drink too much and get too stressed out.

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

it just says how long you'll be breathing for. It doesn't say how many years you'll spend peeing yourself and cursing the mailbox for stealing your fiancée.

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm only going to make it to 94.2, and that's if I stay away from temptation. Pass the bottles of Bolly, platters of barbecue ribs/chicken and an oversexed intellectual, then.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Rar!

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

90.6

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

83.2 years

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

82.2 years. Nice, if unrealistic. I shall live ever.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloody thing must be broken. I swear this is what it calculated:

Your life expectancy is -3.2 years

So I died just over 3 years ago! I must be a ghost! Wicked.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

no, you're reading it wrong, if your life expectancy is -3.2, that means you died 3.2 years before YOU WERE BORN!!!
You were born a ghost!

― Huck Hurts (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

With a BMI of 40 and answering all the questions 'wrong', you can get it down to 62.6. Otherwise, 81.8. May 26, 2050. That's one World Cup opening ceremony I'll just miss, then.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

OOPS! I fogot to click the male/female button. I guess that means trannies have negative life expectancies! 80.8.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, I thought I was doing well at 80.8 - you lot must be super-health freaks or something!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Gotta remember to stop eating red meat and shooting junk....

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

78.2. Depression and other mental illness is not noted, and i expect to die v. much before that, due to these two factors.

― anthony, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

83.6!
That mean's I'm going down, July 28th, 2061-style -- the 69th anniversary of the release of "What's the 411?", and the 116th anniversary of the birth of Jim Davis.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

90.8 years! Probably due to my BMI of 20.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

My BMI is like 27.11 though. I'm fat and I'm still gonna out live you fuckers.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, but you'll be on ILX all alone!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"How much alcohol to you drink a day?
More than a pint of beer, or 2 glasses of wine/mixed drinks, a day? A moderate amount of alcohol - less than a pint of beer or less than 2 glasses of wine - a day? "

i love that this subtly implies that everyone drinks.

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

81.1! yikes.

stop smoking, leave L.A., lay off fried foods, decrease stress. let's see how many years I can add...

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

89.6 including smoking and L.A.!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

80.6 years, but this test is a bit unfair--my parents are in their 40s, how the fuck am I to know if they live past the age of 75 without assistance??! Apparently if you are born to young parents you lose about 10 years of your life. I can't even answer if my grandparents live to be 90--neither of my living grandparents are even close!

― Allyzay, Monday, 26 January 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I've tried fiddling the test to answer all the questions the "healthy" way and the highest I've got it to 101!

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought I was hot stuff at 87.6. Clearly something must be done with Southall.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

88, yeah right. Apparently they're sanctioning my lack of exercise and consumption of meat and fried foods (and fried meat!).

Also, the family question is bunk...my stress level only increases when I live near enough to my family to 'drop in spontaneously'.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

88 years.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Mourn me on the 16th November, 2057. MOURN ME!!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i also like that there's no questioning regarding family history concerning heart disease, which is my highest concern.

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

One thing about this test - it's the first time I've been called fat for a while. I am officially overweight. It had to happen.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm obese. It makes me feel really good about myself to calculate my BMI. YES I'M GOING TO THE GYM TODAY, DAMMIT.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, it said I'm overweight too, BUT...

The next two categories are 'Should Lose Weight' and 'Lose Weight NOW'. So even though I'm overweight, I don't have to lose it if I don't want to!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

it's odd how I didn't come out as overweight yet still have a relatively low life expectancy. However, I can't overlook the hereditary component - threee out of four grandparents were already dead by the time I was born. The fourth lived to be 88.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! You will have to put up w/ me till I am 89!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the fucking deal with STONES for BMI?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

use a calculator. divide your weight by 14.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

1 stone = 14 lbs. At 175 lbs, I weigh 12st 7lbs. BMI = 24.25. Not bad. And the cigarettes shouldn't kill me until I'm 84.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

ah, but who knows how long the lung cancer will torture you before it finishes you off?

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

According to this site, I will pass away on February 11, 2069. Oh my God. I can't even imagine 2019, let alone a year fifty years past that. *mind starts boggling frantically*

― Mellow Dee (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

88.2

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

93.6 I DIE IN 2072 I WILL DANCE ON YOUR GRAVES FOOLS HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

― sucka (sucka), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

79.6

having seen my dad (r.i.p) senile in an old people's home, followed by my mum senile and in a home just four years later, i don't see longevity as necessarily so wonderful.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's ok to add at least 4 or 5 years to your results because gains in life expectancy will most likely continue during your lifetime; lifespan haven't peaked yet.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

According to this, I'll die on July 9, 2064. If I'm going to live to be 90, I hope my life gets more interesting..

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

We'll all be living on Mars by then!

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

87.8! Gawdamn! I don't wanna be that old!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

95.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

90. Don't believe it for one minute. Well, maybe one...

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

VOLUME 32 ISSUE 19 — 16 DECEMBER 1997
134-Year-Old Man Attributes Longevity To Typographical Error
NEW ORLEANS—Area dock worker Bert Greer celebrated his 134th birthday Friday with a quiet party at his home, surrounded by family. Asked the secret to his astounding longevity, the feisty Greer credited "healthy eating, a good walk every evening, and a Social Security worker's accidental striking of an extra digit while typing in my age." The remarkable Greer, who remembers meeting President Lyndon Johnson as a young boy, said he has "no plans to retire any time soon."

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

91.2 ... Yeah so I'll see yall at the old age home.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the feeling that it counted off my life because my BMI was low enough to be considered unhealthy. I don't really think that's fair.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I might be goin' tomorrow. If I do, I'll drop you all a line...

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm with you, bob. what this test doesn't know is that as soon as i retire, it's a strict regiment of heroin and coke for yours truly¡ care to join me¿

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

A more complete "Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator©" made by the same people. http://www.beeson.org/Livingto100/default.htm

It could be interested to see if results changed after answering more questions.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 29 February 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

76. Weird, when I did the life expectancy thing in 9th grade, it said I was dead at 53. And I drink WAY more now.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 29 February 2004 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)

According to the BBC test, 92.7. According to this other one, 94.8! And I smoke and I really like my whiskey.

― kirsten (kirsten), Sunday, 29 February 2004 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I got 92.6... i highly doubt that.. sorry.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 29 February 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I put in all the "right" answers to the BBC test, and I got it up to 99.2 years. Otherwise I was 84.

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 29 February 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I gave up smoking a week ago -- do I have to tell the BBC's computer this salient fact?

No because I smoke (albeit not much) and will live until I'm circa 92.

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 29 February 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

64.5

I'm so dying.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 29 February 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

88.5

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 29 February 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Did both your parents die before age 75 - and/or did they both require daily assistance from a carer by the time they reached 75?

Ask me in 20 odd years :/ another test in need of an "N/A" button

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 29 February 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

there's the 'aged under 80/healthy' button at the top

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 29 February 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Your calculated health span is 39.7 years.

!!! !!! !!! Does that mean I'll die at 39.7 or in 39.7 years? Either way I suppose I don't have to save up for retirement.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 29 February 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

62.5 on the second one as opposed to 77 on the bbc one...

...that'll be the drinking, smoking and not exercising then...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 29 February 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

a "productivity" tool I got from David Kekich is to make a table for your life expectancy, where a square= a month. ex: I made a conservative one (80 years=960 months).
I made the table 40 rows*24cols to make it manageable. Maybe De Grey will find a way to add more squares

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 22 January 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Your life expectancy is 81.4 years

what is inhaling snuff?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 22 January 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

more proncey brit bullshit. wtf is a "stone"

― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 22 January 2005 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm grossly underweight

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 22 January 2005 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

My life expectancy is 86.4, which isn't bad considering i'm an overweight smoker.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

90.6 woooo

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently I should have snuffed it six years ago!

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

93.6, not too bad seeing as how I was only going to make 88 last year...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the questions was, "Do you have more than one living relatives with Diabetes?" and now my auntie died, so the answer is now no, which has added 5 years to my life!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Freaky.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

(Daft, I call it. So, if she'd stayed alive until she was 140, I'd die at 88?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

(Oh, and my mother, too)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

85.4.

This wories me a little, because I gave mostly good answers.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

83.4

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

luckily once more women have their brains reconstructed so they can do science the de-ageing industry will really kick into gear so we can live well into triple figures and yet look like Alcazar

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Your life expectancy is 81.2 years

um, looks like my pension fund needs boosting because i hadn't planned on living that long...

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

89. Why?

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

80, and I'm a non-smoking vegetarian, WTF?

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Presumably by the time I'm 90.6, medical science will have advanced far enough to keep me alive for at least another 100 years. It better have, anyway.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

93!! Strictly hereditary + the diet and exercise.

― Yr3k (dymaxia), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

And then, after the next 100 years, medical science will have advanced exponentially, and so on and so forth...

I AM IMMORTAL

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It appears that I am going to smoke and drink myself into the grave at the ripe old age of 88. If I last that long, I'm going to end up looking like Keith Richards!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Christ, the thought of another 58 years of this lark is terrifying.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I am going to die six months earlier than it told me I was going to die this time last year :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

You are obviously having more fun than I am!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

92 according to the BBC. This is about when my great-grandmother died and my grandmother is still healthy at 79 so sounds about right. Aren't there some stats about men with wives living longer, too? I'm not sure if it applies to women as well though, quite possibly the opposite is true...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Archel OTM.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it make a difference if you're male or female. I'm devising a plan based on this highly scientific research to make me live longer... if an operation is needed then so be it

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Question mark AWOL, if you see it tell it it's needed in my post.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

86.4! Suits me.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

87. Improbable.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you might make it that far but be a hideous mess for the last 20 years??

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

86.2. Woo!

― alix (alix), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

27.6

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

79.4

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

92.6

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

94.7

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

91.4!

I've got 6 months more! I'll spend them in bed, smoking and eating lots of cakes.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

76 apparently. The body-mass index thing claims I'm overweight, which I don't go along with - I have almost no body fat. But my diet is lousy, which means I'm not really arguing with the results.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

88.2

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Your life expectancy is 97.4 years

!!!!

The parent thing is worded poorly 'cause my mom isn't 75 (but will most likely live that long) while my dad died a LONNNNNG time before that age.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I turned 30 today and am happy about it, but am happier (in a weird way) now knowing that I'll live for 61.8 more years! Holy crap. That is a lot of years.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, we should have also posting how many years we have left. I want to know who's going to be around to talk about music with me on ILM in 50 years :)

I've got 62 years left, so you'll all be hearing about Plastikman and Drugstore for a while!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

This is jacked: I was forced to answer nearly every question in the less-healthy way, and yet I'm still projected to live to 82! The only thing I have going for me is a reasonable body mass index, which no machine can understand is currently a result of malnutrition.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

My bmi is less than 20, I feel really unhealthy though.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I only have 31 years left to me - that must be by far the least here.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Post faster!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

89 on the bbc, 97 (!) on the other one, so i've got another 62 or 70 years, dying in 2067 or 2075. christ, either way i am not even a third of the way through yet. wtf is with the teeth-flossing questions, please?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:17 (twenty years ago)

80.8 on the BBC. I didn't answer the question about how I grill my chicken and fish as I'm a veggie... And I have no idea if my parents will die before they're 75, as they're both in their late fifties.

I don't floss my teeth, maybe that's what'll kill me early. Apart from the binge drinking and living in a city, I can't see why this is so low compared to everyone else.

Am going to give comedy answers now and see how low I can get it to go.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, 66.6 years for an obese chain-smoking urbanite with stress problems who drinks too much and loves bacon.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

87.6 - I should cut down on the coffee or switch to Green Tea. And learn to HANDLE MY STRESS!!!!

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

90.6? WTF?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Teeth flossing questions - gum disease is linked to heart disease. I saw it on Oprah.

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

this is unscientific

― $!@$!$, Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

84 that'll do. Much longer than that and I'll get bored. 62 years to go

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

85.4 years -- on the original

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Into my nineties? Ace. That deserves a bunch of wine

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

There were no questions about whether or not I will be hit by a big bus:-(

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

"Behold, the death clock! Simply jam your finger in the hole and this readout tells you exactly how long you have left to live."

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

Christ, we're all going to live in a nursing home. 85.8 years.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

hey zora, thanks for the teethflossing answer. as of last week i have started flossing my teeth!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:52 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was that the low level drain on the immune system from constant irritation of gums lead to general poor health.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Blimey! I could die any second n-

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

88.6 If I lose 1.17 pounds and exercise more I can up that. Most women in my family live into their 90s.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was that the low level drain on the immune system from constant irritation of gums lead to general poor health.

oh no! so i shouldn't floss my teeth? i brush them like a mofo though, go through a toothbrush every few weeks... i heard that's bad but they don't feel clean if i brush them too softly, it's like i've just shown them the brush then whipped it away.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

No, you should floss your teeth! It is the rotting food which irritates gums, not the flossing!

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Hey, James Ward, did I email you at the BBC yesterday?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Was it about an Eastenders extension? If so, then yes.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

oh, ok cool. i didn't find any horrific gunk anywhere in there so maybe i am safe *shivers*

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Holy crap! Isn't that a bit weird? I mean, there are probably more than a couple of James Wards around.

Oddly, it was your handwriting that made me think it might actually be you. I don't think I thanked you for sending over the contract - thank you very much!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

88.4 years
I think my diet and lack of exercise will probably cancel out the benefits of longevity in the family history. (Maternal grandmother will be 110 in July.)

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Hold on, how did my handwriting give me away? The internet isn't handwritten!

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

On the reply envelope sent with the agreement, you had written your name and room number, and I noticed that the handwriting was unusually small but well-formed. It was, naturally, just a small step between that and thinking that you had just the kind of handwriting that an ILXor might have!

(I know it's ridiculous, but I really did notice it)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Blimey. Well done Sherlock.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

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