"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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To be serious, I think the left had an infinitely better case 100 years
ago than they have now. If I'd lived in those days I would have been a
lefty.

Bill


Ha ha ha. If you had been born one hundred years before you time i.e. circa
1850, the average life expectancy of someone within your social class was
around 50 years, assuming you survived child birth and infancy.

A person of your grand old age would have been pushing up the daisies.

Sheila

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Sheila wrote:

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
To be serious, I think the left had an infinitely better case 100 years
ago than they have now. If I'd lived in those days I would have been a
lefty.

Bill


Ha ha ha. If you ha d been born one hundred years before you time i.e.
circa 1850, the average life expectancy of someone within your social
class was around 50 years, assuming you survived child birth and infancy.

A person of your grand old age would have been pushing up the daisies.

the average life expectancy took disease in infancy into account. So, some
did live well over the average, just as some lived well under. My Great
grandfather was well into his 80s when he died in 1904

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Sheila wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
To be serious, I think the left had an infinitely better case 100 years
ago than they have now. If I'd lived in those days I would have been a
lefty.

Bill


Ha ha ha. If you had been born one hundred years before you time i.e. circa
1850, the average life expectancy of someone within your social class
Do you mean the social class of my ancestors of the time (farm
labourers, fairground people, itinerants) or my present social class?

was
around 50 years, assuming you survived child birth and infancy.
No, it was around 45, including infant mortality. Once a person reached
adulthood they often attained the biblical target. My own ancestors of
that period mostly lived into their sixties or seventies.

A person of your grand old age would have been pushing up the daisies.
Doubtful, as according to you I should have a stake driven through my
heart and be buried in a lime pit.

Bill

charles wrote:

Ha ha ha. If you ha d been born one hundred years before you time i.e.
circa 1850, the average life expectancy of someone within your social
class was around 50 years, assuming you survived child birth and infancy.

A person of your grand old age would have been pushing up the daisies.

the average life expectancy took disease in infancy into account. So, some
did live well over the average, just as some lived well under. My Great
grandfather was well into his 80s when he died in 1904

Mr Sheila is inclined to generalise of course, and make assertions based
on ignorance.It goes with the territory.

Bill