How many languages do you speak fluently?

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It is an older meme, but it checks out!

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That was fascinating to me when I tried to learn Japanese. That “watashi no desu” is widely more common than actually saying something like “kore kappu wa watashi no desu”.

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I am very lean. My diet is almost all carbs and always has been. But I tend to avoid sugar in its sweet form because, other than chocolate, I don’t particularly care for sweets. We’re all different, I guess. But if I had a nickel for every overweight dinner partner who ridiculed my carb-heavy plate, I would be a very wealthy (and still skinny) man.

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And it’s even worse at home with a Japanese spouse. They love these cute little word duples like “goro goro”, “neru neru”, “mochi mochi”, “kira kira” etc. No subject, no verb, no real grammar, just sounds and grunts.

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My teenage daughter does that in English!
Me: ‘How was your day sweetheart?’
Her: ‘Mng.’
Me: ‘Did you do anything fun?’
Her: ‘Hmmph.’
:grin:

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I eat lots of carbs and in large quantities. Cereal, pasta, bread, bread rolls, potatoes, rice. About 3500-4000kcal per day, up to 6000kcal when Bikepacking and yet I have been technically underweight for all my life (currently 56kg at 1.7m).
My parents dragged me to a lot of doctors in my teens and all they could say was that, yes I was underweight, but otherwise perfectly healthy and that was that.

The best thing about being a cyclist and light as a feather is that my power to weight ratio is fantastic. My current FTP is around 250W so that puts me at ~4.46W/kg which is pretty high for an amateur with no ambitions to race. I love cycling up mountains.

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How did you like your food?

  • Meh.

Sounds familiar.

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But you ride 60k(?) a day, that energy has to come from somewhere.

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Yes of course but only for the last 12 years. I was active before as well but nowhere near this level and I weighed even less


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I mentioned Napoleon because French was not his native language. He didn’t even start to learn it until he was about 10 years old. His native language was Corsican which was a dialect of Italian at the time.

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Say it “ore no da” with a hard roll on the r and they’ll give the cap back faster. Then probably run away, especially if you have tattoos :rofl:

Those are the bane of my existence. They’re impossible to remember because they all sound the same, they have up to 6 different meanings depending on context, and while they’re classified as “onomatopoeia” the majority of them aren’t even related to sounds!

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Yeah I know. My favorite non-fiction book of all time is Vincint Cronin’s biography of Bonie. I just found it funny somehow but should have picked a better comparison.

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I think “idiot” is spoken globally unfortunately!

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Is life expectancy an average or a mean? That can have large repercussions.

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I think it is generally reported as median life expectancy but I’m happy to be corrected.

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More than that, it includes abnormal events like pandemics and wars that only affect a subset of the population, and only for the period of time in which that event is occurring. A more realistic statistic would eliminate those outliers.

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I thought that was why Median was preferred?

e.g. with a sequence of - 1, 61, 62, 63, 589

Median = 62
Average/mean = 155

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Yes but if 62, 63 or 589 gets sent to the front and becomes 25 instead, your median will still drop from 62 to 61.

Of course, if 61 or 1 gets unlucky, nothing happens to the median.

So in your example, if 1 in 5 is affected by the event, there’s a 60% probability that your median drops by 1, and 40% that it stays the same. It does not go up in any scenario. With a larger population than 5, this means you will basically 100% certainly see a small decline in median.

Median is not nearly as sensitive as mean to these scenarios, but it is not completely immune to events that impact a subset of the population. It is just more sensitive to the size of that subset than the size of the individual impact.

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Most of the statistics I find via google are “average life expectancy,” and since they don’t divulge the way it was calculated, I don’t know if it’s average as they claim, or the median and they’re calling it “average” because they assume the audience is dumb. Wikipedia claims it’s calculated by average.

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I’d rather have a histogram than any single moment of the distribution.

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