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by last.caress » Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:55 am
Can't think of anything worse.
Ant and Dec (and their pet homunculus Stephen Mulhern), on the telly for the rest of forever, until the sun finally expands, engulfs us and puts us all out of our collective misery.
Not for me.
Come sweet death, one last caress.
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by EvilC » Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:16 am
This will surely resolve all the labour shortages we have.
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by Hummer_I_mean_Hammer » Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:43 am
great.
My wife was telling me about this.
Really looking forward to working as a 200 years old doing the same sh*t every day.
Sod stopping drinking, ramp it up and end this mortal coil before my retirement age is ramped up to 300...
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by alf git » Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:50 am
We still won't have won anything.
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by YorksHammer » Fri Mar 31, 2023 10:05 am
Up the Junction wrote: ↑ Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:27 pm
Humans to be able to reverse the aging process by 2030, predicts futurist.
Can they speed it up for those of us that just want off this fated mortal coil?
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by sendô » Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:00 pm
Just in time for the end of the next 6 yearly review on the retirement age...
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by smuts » Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:49 pm
The likes of Bezos and Branson are probably shelving their rocket plans to try and be the first ones to reach 150 years old...
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by The Old Man of Storr » Fri Mar 31, 2023 3:16 pm
bonzosbeard wrote: ↑ Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:55 pm
That won't help the population will it lol.
Ok , I haven't looked too deeply into it but if you shot an Immortal in the head blowing his poor brains out I'm going to guess he ceases to be immortal ?
I could be wrong of course .
Just because you become immune to disease surely a bullet or an axe to the head will still kill you - Bit like a Vampire ?
Ok , getting too morbid for me now .
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by OFT » Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:33 pm
As I get younger will I be able to keep my bus pass?
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by -DL- » Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:18 pm
OFT wrote: ↑ Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:33 pm
As I get younger will I be able to keep my bus pass?
I still wouldn't let you on, even if you did get to keep it.
Walk you old ****er....
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by simon hammer » Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:22 pm
This throws up a great philosophical question about Buddhism and Buddhist monks.
On the one hand, a never ending life span gives plenty of time to pursue Nibbana.
On the other hand, a never ending life span means they'll never attain it.
Does it then render the whole thing pointless? Or, will they be able to achieve Nibbana while in earthly form?
I'd imagine a couple of hundred years of devout meditation would have quite a profound effect on the mind.
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by OFT » Fri Mar 31, 2023 6:07 pm
-DL- wrote: ↑ Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:18 pm
I still wouldn't let you on, even if you did get to keep it.
Walk you old ****er....
Charmed, I'm sure
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by delbert » Fri Mar 31, 2023 6:33 pm
We become immortal, Macron raises the French retirement age to 70, the French will still riot.....