Jimbo1212 said:
Freechoice said:
Jimbo1212 said:
Actually everyone of my posts has addressed OP if you cared to have read the replies, you however are utterly off topic due to your inability to understand analogies.
You also like to read into trends as mortality increases for every age group after 10-14, so are 50 year olds partying like mad every night......or is it that life is simply a dangerous ? Either way, don't bother replying as I would not like to see you get a warning for derailing the thread.
Original post by: museofdoom
Who you have been replying to: tobyornottoby
And no, the increased probability of dying is not because 50 year olds are "partying." Rather, the probability of dying increases over time because of weakening immune systems, poor health habits (that take time to accrue) and exposure to dangerous work, things teens are largely unaffected by.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6572283.stm
A third of road fatalities in the UK are under 25. Road accidents are the number 1 killers of teens. Not AIDS, not tuberculosis, not cancer. Pick any older demographic and it's going to be a disease.
And if you look into that post I had with the link to the sexual expenditure, you'll notice that I biologically explained the PoV of males in the friend zone. It's scientific!
.....you can't follow analogies and now you don't understand sarcasm. I think the issue here is communication on your end.
Again, you don't address the actual topic and are going off on some bizarre and irrelevant tangent.
What on earth does an increase in fatalities have to do with " Friend zone and nice guys"?
Not fatalities. The paper on sexual expenditures. Did you not read that? I'm guessing no.
Biologically, warm-blooded males often go out of their way to make nice with a female in hopes for an opportunity. According to some theory (the name of which escapes me), male animals that engage in courtship (like the peacock) will often jeopardize itself by making itself a bigger target for predators or, more importantly, spending resources in something superfluous just to attract a female. It's supposed to be a demonstration of biological fitness, but the supposed benefits can be simultaneously considered massive wastes of time and energy.
Basically, a male is wasting his own time and resources trying to court a female. What does that sound like?
As well, you weren't demonstrating purposeful sarcasm. The point of sarcasm, by wiki definition is:
"Insincerely saying something which is the opposite of one's intended meaning, often to emphasize how unbelievable or unlikely it sounds if taken literally, thereby illustrating the obvious nature of one's intended meaning."
Sarcasm doesn't work where you wanted it to because there are clear explanations as to the continued decrease in survivability. Your statement is trying to mock the credibility of the source (Oxford no less) in order to favor your own point. Your ignorance in the matter is underscored by your need for "sarcasm". The data shows how human mortality skyrockets once a person is in adolescence. Yeah, the world is dangerous, but why is it that auto accidents are not the highest killer for people 50+ like it is for 15-24? Why is it that people at the peak of immune and physical health experience the sharpest drop in survivability?
And what is with you and "my experience"? You cite that for a LOT of things. If anything, my experience with American teens is far greater than yours because I see them daily. They're not arrogant. They're stupid and they're boring. That's why they smoke pot and get drunk. In my search for citations and sources (which you curiously have yet to bring into the argument) I found accounts of European kids acting quite stupid. Not as stupid as American kids, but still. I read one account of French kids flocking to a British/American shop that sold root beer... because they thought it was beer. Or there was this one where some Russian kids would buy this hemp based drink because they thought it would make them high. It didn't. Many lulz were had by the adults there.
And since those are "experiences" by other people, they kind of negate your own point about it "just being Americans", non?
I'd retract my statement if you found out the UK's number one killer of teens was foamy diarrhea caused by tap water and it was professionally studied... but you haven't. You haven't found anything to prove your points. Even the ones you had against Toby, you fail to provide a link to validate what you were saying.