Life expectancy for an American male born in 1896 was 48 years..🤷
Too much meat
Doubtful. That was a more of a luxury.
More like too much disease and accidents.
Medicine was pretty primitive.
But I thought you big ol men went out and shot your own
Maddog said
Aug 13 4:00 PM, 2025
Digger wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Digger wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Life expectancy for an American male born in 1896 was 48 years..🤷
Too much meat
Doubtful. That was a more of a luxury.
More like too much disease and accidents.
Medicine was pretty primitive.
But I thought you big ol men went out and shot your own
Not in his lifetime. Conservation efforts had just started. Even at his death game wasn't nearly as abundant as it is now..
And you probably can't consume too much wild game to be unhealthy anyway It's far better for you than the domestic stuff..
Maddog said
Aug 13 4:04 PM, 2025
"Venison tends to be a leaner and lower in fat compared to beef, making it a healthier choice for those watching their fat intake. It also contains higher levels of certain nutrients such as iron and B vitamins."
Digger said
Aug 13 7:28 PM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
"Venison tends to be a leaner and lower in fat compared to beef, making it a healthier choice for those watching their fat intake. It also contains higher levels of certain nutrients such as iron and B vitamins."
I've never eaten venison or any game animal. Something about it repels me.
Vam said
Aug 14 9:09 AM, 2025
Digger wrote:
Maddog wrote:
"Venison tends to be a leaner and lower in fat compared to beef, making it a healthier choice for those watching their fat intake. It also contains higher levels of certain nutrients such as iron and B vitamins."
I've never eaten venison or any game animal. Something about it repels me.
If that’s you in your avi, the Arabic word for it would be ‘Helwa!’
Maddog said
Aug 14 5:37 PM, 2025
Digger wrote:
Maddog wrote:
"Venison tends to be a leaner and lower in fat compared to beef, making it a healthier choice for those watching their fat intake. It also contains higher levels of certain nutrients such as iron and B vitamins."
I've never eaten venison or any game animal. Something about it repels me.
Never eaten a wild caught fish?
And some form of venison is likely available in stores there and it was likely raised behind fences and butchered like a cow at a very young age..
Digger said
Aug 14 10:19 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Digger wrote:
Maddog wrote:
"Venison tends to be a leaner and lower in fat compared to beef, making it a healthier choice for those watching their fat intake. It also contains higher levels of certain nutrients such as iron and B vitamins."
I've never eaten venison or any game animal. Something about it repels me.
If that’s you in your avi, the Arabic word for it would be ‘Helwa!’
Yeah, an old photo of course.
Vam said
Aug 15 12:34 AM, 2025
Digger wrote:
Vam wrote:
Digger wrote:
Maddog wrote:
"Venison tends to be a leaner and lower in fat compared to beef, making it a healthier choice for those watching their fat intake. It also contains higher levels of certain nutrients such as iron and B vitamins."
I've never eaten venison or any game animal. Something about it repels me.
If that’s you in your avi, the Arabic word for it would be ‘Helwa!’
Yeah, an old photo of course.
Mamma mia - that waistline!
No wonder you had to swat them away with your diamanté baton 😂
Syl said
Aug 15 12:38 AM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Digger wrote:
Vam wrote:
Digger wrote:
Maddog wrote:
"Venison tends to be a leaner and lower in fat compared to beef, making it a healthier choice for those watching their fat intake. It also contains higher levels of certain nutrients such as iron and B vitamins."
I've never eaten venison or any game animal. Something about it repels me.
If that’s you in your avi, the Arabic word for it would be ‘Helwa!’
Yeah, an old photo of course.
Mamma mia - that waistline!
No wonder you had to swat them away with your diamanté baton 😂
She posted some of the costumes she had made and decorated once, beautiful.
Digger said
Aug 15 10:44 PM, 2025
Syl wrote:
Vam wrote:
Digger wrote:
Vam wrote:
Digger wrote:
Maddog wrote:
"Venison tends to be a leaner and lower in fat compared to beef, making it a healthier choice for those watching their fat intake. It also contains higher levels of certain nutrients such as iron and B vitamins."
I've never eaten venison or any game animal. Something about it repels me.
If that’s you in your avi, the Arabic word for it would be ‘Helwa!’
Yeah, an old photo of course.
Mamma mia - that waistline!
No wonder you had to swat them away with your diamanté baton 😂
She posted some of the costumes she had made and decorated once, beautiful.
I had to make my own as the Egyptian bras were like concrete to wear, you couldn't expand your chest or breath properly in them. I made most of my own costume but I think the pearl one was the one most people loved. The photo doesn't pick it up but the pearls were scattered with clear AB sequins so the whole thing sparkled.
"Venison tends to be a leaner and lower in fat compared to beef, making it a healthier choice for those watching their fat intake. It also contains higher levels of certain nutrients such as iron and B vitamins."
I've never eaten venison or any game animal. Something about it repels me.
If that’s you in your avi, the Arabic word for it would be ‘Helwa!’
Yeah, an old photo of course.
Mamma mia - that waistline!
No wonder you had to swat them away with your diamanté baton 😂
22 inches. Somehow it got lost among the years
Syl said
Aug 15 11:13 PM, 2025
The pearl costume is gorgeous.
Digger said
Aug 15 11:22 PM, 2025
Syl wrote:
The pearl costume is gorgeous.
It was. I think it appeals to women on so many levels. It's elegant. Beautiful. Sparkly. I made two for a dancer friend and she wore both costumes out.
Vam said
Aug 16 12:12 PM, 2025
Digger wrote:
Syl wrote:
She posted some of the costumes she had made and decorated once, beautiful.
I had to make my own as the Egyptian bras were like concrete to wear, you couldn't expand your chest or breath properly in them. I made most of my own costume but I think the pearl one was the one most people loved. The photo doesn't pick it up but the pearls were scattered with clear AB sequins so the whole thing sparkled.
That’s absolutely stunning! 👏🏻👏🏻
Edit to add: I zoomed in, and can just make out the clear sequins - I bet it made it all mega shimmery! Again, 👏🏻👏🏻
-- Edited by Vam on Saturday 16th of August 2025 12:23:26 PM
Maddog said
Aug 16 9:26 PM, 2025
"In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort.
Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more.
Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself."
This is better placed here. It's a best seller by Michael Easter called "The Comfort Crisis" which addresses the issues we face from all of our creature comforts..
"Mrs Caterham was born three years before the Titanic disaster, eight years before the Russian Revolution and lived through two world wars.
Born in Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, the second youngest of eight children, she was raised in Tidworth in Wiltshire.
As a teenager she worked as an au pair in India, and later lived in Hong Kong and Gibraltar with her husband Norman, a lieutenant colonel in the army."
"Mrs Caterham was born three years before the Titanic disaster, eight years before the Russian Revolution and lived through two world wars.
Born in Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, the second youngest of eight children, she was raised in Tidworth in Wiltshire.
As a teenager she worked as an au pair in India, and later lived in Hong Kong and Gibraltar with her husband Norman, a lieutenant colonel in the army."
Where's the part that says she never saw the inside of a gym?
But I thought you big ol men went out and shot your own
Not in his lifetime. Conservation efforts had just started. Even at his death game wasn't nearly as abundant as it is now..
And you probably can't consume too much wild game to be unhealthy anyway It's far better for you than the domestic stuff..
I've never eaten venison or any game animal. Something about it repels me.
If that’s you in your avi, the Arabic word for it would be ‘Helwa!’
Never eaten a wild caught fish?
And some form of venison is likely available in stores there and it was likely raised behind fences and butchered like a cow at a very young age..
Yeah, an old photo of course.
Mamma mia - that waistline!
No wonder you had to swat them away with your diamanté baton 😂
She posted some of the costumes she had made and decorated once, beautiful.
I had to make my own as the Egyptian bras were like concrete to wear, you couldn't expand your chest or breath properly in them. I made most of my own costume but I think the pearl one was the one most people loved. The photo doesn't pick it up but the pearls were scattered with clear AB sequins so the whole thing sparkled.
22 inches. Somehow it got lost among the years
The pearl costume is gorgeous.
It was. I think it appeals to women on so many levels. It's elegant. Beautiful. Sparkly. I made two for a dancer friend and she wore both costumes out.
That’s absolutely stunning! 👏🏻👏🏻
Edit to add: I zoomed in, and can just make out the clear sequins - I bet it made it all mega shimmery! Again, 👏🏻👏🏻
-- Edited by Vam on Saturday 16th of August 2025 12:23:26 PM
Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more.
Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself."
This is better placed here. It's a best seller by Michael Easter called "The Comfort Crisis" which addresses the issues we face from all of our creature comforts..
Brit who is world's oldest living person turns 116
and has never seen the inside of a gym in her life.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5p7xv4zeyo
She has lived quite a life too.
"Mrs Caterham was born three years before the Titanic disaster, eight years before the Russian Revolution and lived through two world wars.
Born in Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, the second youngest of eight children, she was raised in Tidworth in Wiltshire.
As a teenager she worked as an au pair in India, and later lived in Hong Kong and Gibraltar with her husband Norman, a lieutenant colonel in the army."
Aww bless her, looking remarkable for her age.
Happy Birthday Ethel Caterham.
World's oldest man: 'No special secret to long life'
But here's a tip:
"He said that beyond eating a portion of fish and chips every Friday, he did not follow any particular regime."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8xvepqvn6o
Where's the part that says she never saw the inside of a gym?