Life expectancy higher in tower hamlets than in Scotland

[egb_hibs]

...a nugget I picked out fro this article on national well being;

Living in the countryside makes people happier, ONS suggests - Telegraph

It's not just the weegies eating deep fried cigarettes for breakfast either, the TH age of 78.8 pretty much lines up with, and perhaps shades Edinburgh.

At least after independence Scotland will have less problems than the uk in funding pensions :coffee:

 

[Jack]

...a nugget I picked out fro this article on national well being;

Living in the countryside makes people happier, ONS suggests - Telegraph

It's not just the weegies eating deep fried cigarettes for breakfast either, the TH age of 78.8 pretty much lines up with, and perhaps shades Edinburgh.

At least after independence Scotland will have less problems than the uk in funding pensions :coffee:

There's parts of the weege where the average life expectancy is already lower than the pension age.

Doctor. If you continue to live your current lifestyle you will die before you are 60.

Patient. That's no bad. Ma Da died in his 50s.

Heard all to often in GP surgeries in Scotland, particularly the weege though.

There are a lot of things could be done. There are already a lot of things being done, the average life expectancy has increased a fair whack in the last 10/15 years.

Having said that the gap between the best and worst in Scotland has widened as those who don't give a fuck don't give a fuck and those 'who know better' do everything in their power to eeck out an extra day.

You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

How do you get these people with low expectations and lets face it nothing to live for, to want to live longer? They live in a crap house, next to crap neighbours, in a crap scheme, never had a decent job, no money and they spend what little they have on drink as escapism.

Should (Scottish) society even bother trying if they don't? Is it right that vast sums of money are targeted at the poor (money, health, social conditions etc.) in an effort to encourage them to healthier lifestyles and virtually nothing on those prepared to actually do something?


Two interesting and contradictory facts here;

Somewhere in the world today, probably not Scotland, lives the first person ever who will reach 150 years old.

This current generation are very likely, almost certain, to become the first generation in history to have an average life expectancy lower than their parents.

 

[PILTONSTANY]

I'm no sure i'd want to live beyond 75 anyhoo,ill health or ill wealth usually dictates these things.

 

[Westside Green]

I'm no sure i'd want to live beyond 75 anyhoo,ill health or ill wealth usually dictates these things.

Once I become a burden it's time to go. The government will send me a reminder of this the day before I retire.

 

[southfieldhibby]

I'm no sure i'd want to live beyond 75 anyhoo,ill health or ill wealth usually dictates these things.

Fuck that.I'm lookin forward to being the grumpy auld yin shoutin at people pretending to be deaf.

 

[Dub]

Fuck that.I'm lookin forward to being the grumpy auld yin shoutin at people pretending to be deaf.

Why would you shout at people who are pretending to be deaf

And what do you mean you are LOOKING FORWARD to being the grumpy old yin

When are we getting another game of golf in mate. I've got a faster car now so might be able to keep up with you on the run home :cya

 

[southfieldhibby]

Why would you shout at people who are pretending to be deaf

And what do you mean you are LOOKING FORWARD to being the grumpy old yin

When are we getting another game of golf in mate. I've got a faster car now so might be able to keep up with you on the run home :cya

Pedantic bassa

I think I've played 4 games of golf this year mate,once at whitekirk actually...that 1st hole still does me inI'd be up for a game some time soon,though

 

[vasco de gama]

Somewhere in the world today, probably not Scotland, lives the first person ever who will reach 150 years old.

What about Lamech - he was 777 apparently and Mahaladel 895. Enosh was 905 and Adam got to 930. None of them was from Scotland though.

 

[Jack]

What about Lamech - he was 777 apparently and Mahaladel 895. Enosh was 905 and Adam got to 930. None of them was from Scotland though.

Months and years were very much shorter then :-)

 

[egb_hibs]

There's parts of the weege where the average life expectancy is already lower than the pension age.

Doctor. If you continue to live your current lifestyle you will die before you are 60.

Patient. That's no bad. Ma Da died in his 50s.

Heard all to often in GP surgeries in Scotland, particularly the weege though.

There are a lot of things could be done. There are already a lot of things being done, the average life expectancy has increased a fair whack in the last 10/15 years.

Having said that the gap between the best and worst in Scotland has widened as those who don't give a $#@! don't give a $#@! and those 'who know better' do everything in their power to eeck out an extra day.

You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

How do you get these people with low expectations and lets face it nothing to live for, to want to live longer? They live in a crap house, next to crap neighbours, in a crap scheme, never had a decent job, no money and they spend what little they have on drink as escapism.

Should (Scottish) society even bother trying if they don't? Is it right that vast sums of money are targeted at the poor (money, health, social conditions etc.) in an effort to encourage them to healthier lifestyles and virtually nothing on those prepared to actually do something?


Two interesting and contradictory facts here;

Somewhere in the world today, probably not Scotland, lives the first person ever who will reach 150 years old.

This current generation are very likely, almost certain, to become the first generation in history to have an average life expectancy lower than their parents.

The Methodists very successfully improved such things in the past before secularisation and welfarism (in combination) reversed the gains made. You are spot on that these things remove the very life force from many of the less affluent (while making life easier for the well off). That's pretty much been the point of thousands of my posts over the years; you have nailed things a lot more succinctly.

That said, the Scottish remain especially badly disposed compared with the beneficiaries of progress elsewhere. There must be something specific at work, and I certainly don't believe we should be turning a blind eye to despair and curtailed lives just because these people are not sufficiently vibrant to be the subject of fashionable concern.

 

[Smurf]

...a nugget I picked out fro this article on national well being;

Living in the countryside makes people happier, ONS suggests - Telegraph

It's not just the weegies eating deep fried cigarettes for breakfast either, the TH age of 78.8 pretty much lines up with, and perhaps shades Edinburgh.

At least after independence Scotland will have less problems than the uk in funding pensions :coffee:

At least you are a Nat that acknowledges the pensions issue. Looking at the spending promises of the Nats after we vote for Independence I was assuming that they were just scrapping state pensions to pay for it all?

 

[Green Sleeves]

At least you are a Nat that acknowledges the pensions issue. Looking at the spending promises of the Nats after we vote for Independence I was assuming that they were just scrapping state pensions to pay for it all?

Come on Smurf. You cant take a miserly bean counter approach when dealing with the future economy of what would be the 6th richest country in the world post-Independence.

The money is here, now. This is a very rich country. The main problem is the way wealth is shared. The UK is 4th most unequal country in world. We dont have to allow wealthiest banks, corporations, individuals and landowners to syphon off all the wealth.

A Scandic fair taxation and spend principle would work here. Scotland could do things so much better if we did them differently from UK.

 

[Kurt]

There's parts of the weege where the average life expectancy is already lower than the pension age.

Doctor. If you continue to live your current lifestyle you will die before you are 60.

Patient. That's no bad. Ma Da died in his 50s.

Heard all to often in GP surgeries in Scotland, particularly the weege though.

There are a lot of things could be done. There are already a lot of things being done, the average life expectancy has increased a fair whack in the last 10/15 years.

Having said that the gap between the best and worst in Scotland has widened as those who don't give a $#@! don't give a $#@! and those 'who know better' do everything in their power to eeck out an extra day.

You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

How do you get these people with low expectations and lets face it nothing to live for, to want to live longer? They live in a crap house, next to crap neighbours, in a crap scheme, never had a decent job, no money and they spend what little they have on drink as escapism.

Should (Scottish) society even bother trying if they don't? Is it right that vast sums of money are targeted at the poor (money, health, social conditions etc.) in an effort to encourage them to healthier lifestyles and virtually nothing on those prepared to actually do something?


Two interesting and contradictory facts here;

Somewhere in the world today, probably not Scotland, lives the first person ever who will reach 150 years old.

This current generation are very likely, almost certain, to become the first generation in history to have an average life expectancy lower than their parents.

That stat on Glasgwegian life expectancy is a bit mis-leading. It refers to Calton ward where a lot of the hostels are based. Any concentration of drug users and alcoholics will skew the life expectancy data.

That said, I've never worked anywork quite so vegetable-phobic as the weeg. It's wonder they don't have a scurvy problem.

 

[hibs1986]

That stat on Glasgwegian life expectancy is a bit mis-leading. It refers to Calton ward where a lot of the hostels are based. Any concentration of drug users and alcoholics will skew the life expectancy data.

That said, I've never worked anywork quite so vegetable-phobic as the weeg. It's wonder they don't have a scurvy problem.

My Uncle Walter made his first return trip from Australia, after about 40 years away, and stayed with a number relatives in Lanarkshire and the Weeg. Said the vegetable choice in each of the homes he stayed in was: wid you like yer chips fresh or frozen? :rascal:

 

[Jack]

That stat on Glasgwegian life expectancy is a bit mis-leading. It refers to Calton ward where a lot of the hostels are based. Any concentration of drug users and alcoholics will skew the life expectancy data.

That said, I've never worked anywork quite so vegetable-phobic as the weeg. It's wonder they don't have a scurvy problem.

It was actually based on GP practice populations. There's roughly 1,000 practices in Scotland. 80/100 in the most deprived areas are in the weege.

While hostels will make a difference the bottom line is that these are shit areas to live in and the housing is a fecking disgrace in a wealthy western oil exporting country with otherwise high living standards.