At what age do you expect to die?

[leonidas]

 

[Bob]

I'm guessing either early at 60 from some chronic illness like cancer kicking in ("We're sorry, but you've lost the good genes lottery."), average age  around 72, or possibly around 95 or so with a chance at topping a 100.  If I'm just sitting around at age 100 and can't do much with music or even getting around and worrying about things like bodily functions, then the quality of life would have gone down enough to make me wish I'd gone out earlier.  Wait until I'm that age though and then see what I say.

That's assuming no sudden death.  I could see having that off day when you have lots of do, not much brain power, and automatically pull out in front of oncoming traffic.  Smack! by a semi. 

And then there's the off chance that we will be able to live forever and replace body parts and all that.  Here's to 2029 and The Singularity!  (lifts glass to toast)  Just hope the computers don't decide to kill us. 

[thalberg]

Rape, large breasts, homosexuality, age of consent, and now death.  These are your last five threads, leonidas.  What's next?  I shudder.

[Bob]

(hides the dog, puts away the Risk game and Pinky & The Brain cartoons) 

[zheer]

  Oh god,who knows. My dad died when he was 40 (war) too young,grandfather died at 83 (old age)very bad health. 60 something or early 70 would be my wish.Though if i die tomorrow it's fine by me, but very bad for my family.It's always those left behind that suffer most.

[danny elfboy]

Rape, large breasts, homosexuality, age of consent, and now death.  These are your last five threads, leonidas.  What's next?  I shudder.

This forum have disgraced pianoforte's name, I do hope the webmaster is aware of this.
I think people here are so asocial, isolated and friendless that they have no idea of how disgustingly sick of all this looks, I had a person reading few posts of this forum and he was just freaked out and acknowledge why no one is interested in socializing with the people here. The problem is that the more outcast and alienated people here remain, the more they will feel the need to waste their life posting on this forum, keeping the only social contact they know "the internet", perpetrating this junk indefinitely.

[leonidas]

Danny, take a look in the mirror.

[valor]

I will never die. I am undie-able, I am Valor!

[danny elfboy]

Danny, take a look in the mirror.

I'm not the one starting sociopathic threads showing how misanthropic and superficial a piano players can be. I have listened to my empathy and just contributed with my replies either to correct plain wrong statements (the erroneousness of which can be checked in any public library) or to defend discriminated individuals from plain cruel loathsome people my beloved piano and this forum seem to attract like honey attracts insects.

[pies]

40s or 50s

[leonidas]

I'm not the one starting sociopathic threads showing how misanthropic and superficial a piano players can be. I have listened to my empathy and just contributed with my replies either to correct plain wrong statements (the erroneousness of which can be checked in any public library) or to defend discriminated individuals from plain cruel loathsome people my beloved piano and this forum seem to attract like honey attracts insects.

You made me hate humanity, you made me.

[danny elfboy]

You made me hate humanity, you made me.

Humanity-hating is in your genes.
That's why they should have neutralized you the day of your birth, maybe keeping for medical use the few useful parts they could find.

[valor]

Humanity-hating is in your genes.
That's why they should have neutralized you the day of your birth, maybe keeping for medical use the few useful parts they could find.

Thats going a bit too far.. The world needs haters

[thalberg]

This forum have disgraced pianoforte's name, I do hope the webmaster is aware of this.
I think people here are so asocial, isolated and friendless that they have no idea of how disgustingly sick of all this looks, I had a person reading few posts of this forum and he was just freaked out and acknowledge why no one is interested in socializing with the people here. The problem is that the more outcast and alienated people here remain, the more they will feel the need to waste their life posting on this forum, keeping the only social contact they know "the internet", perpetrating this junk indefinitely.

Danny, there's a lot of nice people here.  The forum is like life.  You get all kinds. 

[danny elfboy]

Danny, there's a lot of nice people here.  The forum is like life.  You get all kinds. 

Well but I wasn't kidding about my friend being shocked at reading this forum.
So it must mean that the nice people don't post enough or as much as the other ones.

[maul]

Hello danny elfchild, and welcome to the internets. Enjoy your stay in the various tubes and pipes of reality.

[danny elfboy]

Hello danny elfchild, and welcome to the internets. Enjoy your stay in the various tubes and pipes of reality.

I just don't understand the meaning of this post so I don't know what to reply.
Except that your pathetic ageist attempt to use child as an offence won't work since children have more insight and brain than any brainwashed alienated no one like you.
If you had enough brain to be able to go back in time with your mind to when you were a child you would remind how better you were at understanding things and at openmindedness.

[maul]

Why thank you sir. You seem to have a knack for personally insulting people. I suggest you join the Republican party... if you haven't already of course. I have. Vote for Ron Paul my friend. Ron Paul. It's revolution time baby.

[wotgoplunk]

80 or 90. I have good genes.

@ the arguing: 

[danny elfboy]

I suggest you join the Republican party... if you haven't already of course.

ROTFL
What should be clear from my posts is that I'm anything but a fundamentalist or a conservative. What about you? You don't sound like someone that anyone except a fascist party would want to have in their group.

[chopininov]

You know Danny, you don't have to read this sub-forum. Notice how Leonidas makes these strange threads under 'Anything but Piano'?

[chopininov]

ROTFL
What should be clear from my posts is that I'm anything but a fundamentalist or a conservative. What about you? You don't sound like someone that anyone except a fascist party would want to have in their group.

You only seem to be perpetuating this "problem" with your replies.

[danny elfboy]

You only seem to be perpetuating this "problem" with your replies.

I admit I just can't resist
Anyway people remember that when this was "pianoforum" and we got hundreds of posts on the student corner with lot of kind and insightful replies, I and many others (including Bernhard) spoke against the idea of turning this brilliant forum into another internet junk by allowing such a meaningless section or against the proliferation of retarded or plain insulting/discriminating posts in the "anything but" section at the expense of students and beginners and their problems. (it was 2004). All forums have a "anything but" section and all the forums are mostly about that section at the expense of the specific topic. This forum is getting mostly useless for any real piano student or pianist and if we removed all other sections and just keep the "anything but" nothing would change and no one would note the difference. That being said, I still have enough ethical integrity to answer to the nonsense regurgitated in this hell.

[maul]

Ah yes. The joys of a finite stream of carbon-coated creatures being pumped straight out of the factory of infinite creation. All with flaws. Some with opinions. Those who enjoy the pleasures of an expanded consciousness seem to have an uncanny reflex to reflect the rays of ignorance being shone upon the retina of truth. However, the blistered whole of this binded energy seem to be ever so indulged in the bickering of lesser realities.

Ah yes. The piece of the pie whom always seems to be snacked upon by the nagging pinchers of nonsensical pests. The chunk whom always thrusts back with the bacteria of "human nature". Will it ever end? Of course. We only have to wait for the scope of infinity to start knawing at the kidneys of our endlessly punctured body of thought. Then, and only then, will we find peace.

[danny elfboy]

maul, I was actually reading your old posts and you seem like a good person who can think with his own mind and seek balance, don't know why we're arguing.

/me plays "Why can't we be friends"

[thalberg]

I admit I just can't resist
Anyway people remember that when this was "pianoforum" and we got hundreds of posts on the student corner with lot of kind and insightful replies, I and many others (including Bernhard) spoke against the idea of turning this brilliant forum into another internet junk by allowing such a meaningless section or against the proliferation of retarded or plain insulting/discriminating posts in the "anything but" section at the expense of students and beginners and their problems. (it was 2004). All forums have a "anything but" section and all the forums are mostly about that section at the expense of the specific topic. This forum is getting mostly useless for any real piano student or pianist and if we removed all other sections and just keep the "anything but" nothing would change and no one would note the difference. That being said, I still have enough ethical integrity to answer to the nonsense regurgitated in this hell.

Danny, your English really is excellent.  I still can't believe you're self taught.  Very impressive.

[retrouvailles]

His English is the only thing I can admire about him. His posts are making me want pianistimo back.

And I expect to die around 50, knowing my luck.

[thalberg]

His English is the only thing I can admire about him. His posts are making me want pianistimo back.

He actually used to be extremely nice.  Lately he's just really down on pianoforum. 

[retrouvailles]

I had noticed him from day 1. His posts have always been like that. And when I used to go into the chat room, he was a rather hostile and verbose character, which isn't the greatest mix. And he talks like a 35 year old, which isn't exactly a compliment to a 16 year old.

[danny elfboy]

Danny, your English really is excellent

Awww thanks. That made my day.

He actually used to be extremely nice. 

One can't always be nice. There are limits.
I'm like a calm and playful sly cat who can scratch badly.

[danny elfboy]

And he talks like a 35 year old, which isn't exactly a compliment to a 16 year old.

Age has nothing to do with the way one talks.
I know/have known so many 40 years old who are plain immature and unable to speak seriously or use proper language to explain what they feel (if they "feel" ... )
You can find people of any kind in any age group. I don't think there's such a thing as
"a 16 years old" so I'm just myself and strive to be myself. And I prefer to be this strange boy who rejects stereotypes than the person who came up with such a trite and thoughtless observation.

[retrouvailles]

See, that is exactly what I am talking about. Enough said.

[thalberg]

 

[danny elfboy]

See, that is exactly what I am talking about. Enough said.

You're not talking about anything, as usually.
I had people messaging me in the chat to ask whether you were for real or was just kidding. You're not a saint either and among the members who are reading this are those who thought you were a painful idiot. I just think you're a boring and sad individual, with nothing original to express and say ... in words or music. It's pathetic of you to criticize someone for trying to be above average mediocrity and unsensitivity and to expect people to fit some kind of artificial category rather than praising individual self affirmation.

[thalberg]

You're not talking about anything as usually.
I had people messaging me in the chat to ask whether you were for real or was just kidding. You're not a saint either and among the members who are reading this are those who thought you were a painful idiot. I just think you're a boring and sad individual, with nothing original to express and say ... in words or music.

Danny, weren't you just complaining about all the hostility on this forum?  You need to get that famous new book, "The Secret."  Talks about the law of attraction.  Like attracts like.  We attract what we are, and what we think about, and even what we resist because we're thinking about it.

Think positive.  Be positive.  And you will get positive responses.  And work on being brief, too. 

[wotgoplunk]

Il y a trois facons pour faire face a la difference: la domination, le compromis, et l'integration. Par la domination, seulement un cote obtient qu'il veut; par le compromis ni le cote obtient qu'il veut; par l'integration nous trouvons une facon si les deux cotes peuvent obtenir qu'ils souhaitent.

Ugh, that took forever. But it sounds much better in French.

[retrouvailles]

I never said I was a saint. I do have problems, and there is no denying them. There is one thing I can do, however, and that is admitting my faults. And I don't personally attack other people *ahem*. What is with these sudden, personal attacks? I have always been a nice person, but I am firm when the time is at hand to be firm. Basically, I don't take sh*t from anyone. That may be a problem for some, but that's tough.

And, btw, there was a time when I was "just kidding". It was a little experiment I did when I created this new account to adopt a new "persona", if you will.

And again, stop editing your posts to embellish them with new insults. Just say something and be done with it. It really shows you're making too much of an effort to belittle me.

[thalberg]

Il y a trois facons pour faire face a la difference: la domination, le compromis, et l'integration. Par la domination, seulement un cote obtient qu'il veut; par le compromis ni le cote obtient qu'il veut; par l'integration nous trouvons une facon si les deux cotes peuvent obtenir qu'ils souhaitent.

Ugh, that took forever.

I only remember these sentences from French class.  Other than these things I can say nothing.

 Je desire renverser un objet d'art au Louvre.  J'aime danser sans vetements au matin. 

[danny elfboy]

I never said I was a saint. I do have problems, and there is no denying them. There is one thing I can do, however, and that is admitting my faults. And I don't personally attack other people *ahem*. What is with these sudden, personal attacks?

You have attacked members lot of times.
And should I remind you that our rivalry started when you got pissed at me for contributing to discussions you had initiated. I just can't think of anything wrong in claiming (for the sake of example) that "strawberries have protein" while 20 people in a room are claiming "fruits don't contain protein". I let people correct me when I'm wrong or when there's something I ignore and I'm both grateful and willing to admit I was wrong (and you can find examples in my posts history) But that's exactly the reason you started to attack me; because I dared to correct you. I just reacted to your attacks.

[wotgoplunk]

I only remember these sentences from French class.  Other than these things I can say nothing.

 Je desire renverser un objet d'art au Louvre.  J'aime danse sans vetements au matin. 

Le lol:

https://www.auntiemomo.com/cakeordeath/translation2.html

[danny elfboy]

Danny, weren't you just complaining about all the hostility on this forum?  You need to get that famous new book, "The Secret."  Talks about the law of attraction.  Like attracts like.  We attract what we are, and what we think about, and even what we resist because we're thinking about it.

Think positive.  Be positive.  And you will get positive responses.  And work on being brief, too. 

I'm not hostile. I become hostile when people tantalize me. The next level I become violent and it becomes a pity that this is just a forum and there's nothing material to hurt.

[retrouvailles]

I don't have a problem with people contributing to discussions that I am talking in. Perhaps you misunderstood these things you label as "attacks", when they really weren't. And other times I just won't deny it. But tell me, if I am indeed attacking you personally all the time, why would I pick on you in particular? There has to be some reason for me to attack you, if that is what I am indeed doing. And please do find a specific example when I have attacked you (or anyone) so I can explain it. And if you think that my calling you "verbose" or "acting like a 35 year old", you're wrong. That is merely a painless criticism. And again,

You're not talking about anything, as usually.
I had people messaging me in the chat to ask whether you were for real or was just kidding. You're not a saint either and among the members who are reading this are those who thought you were a painful idiot. I just think you're a boring and sad individual, with nothing original to express and say ... in words or music. It's pathetic of you to criticize someone for trying to be above average mediocrity and unsensitivity and to expect people to fit some kind of artificial category rather than praising individual self affirmation.

where the hell did that come from? I felt that was completely unnecessary. I am a bit hurt by your remarks and you should be ashamed of yourself.

I'm not hostile. I become hostile when people tantalize me. The next level I become violent and it becomes a pity that this is just a forum and there's nothing material to hurt.

Feelings are not material, meaning they can be hurt.

And don't spend all day typing that response. Just make it short and sweet.

[thalberg]

I become hostile when people tantalize me.

ROFLMAO!!  You must look up the word tantalize.

[retrouvailles]

That says it all. He has a dictionary/thesaurus by the computer when he types up his responses. It would explain the long periods of time it takes for him to respond.

[danny elfboy]

I don't have a problem with people contributing to discussions that I am talking in. Perhaps you misunderstood these things you label as "attacks", when they really weren't. And other times I just won't deny it. But tell me, if I am indeed attacking you personally all the time, why would I pick on you in particular? There has to be some reason for me to attack you, if that is what I am indeed doing. And please do find a specific example when I have attacked you (or anyone) so I can explain it

Those chat sessions are 8 months old.
I just remember you insulted me saying the same things you're saying now for just contributing to a discussion with an opinion or information different from yours.
And if reacted badly to that is because I was hurt.

where the hell did that come from? I felt that was completely unnecessary. I am a bit hurt by your remarks and you should be ashamed of yourself.

I always thought of you like a man smoking a pipe, wearing his slippers and bashing young people for whatever they do <If they were my children I would send them all at the military camp> or <irreverent bastard! how they dare contradicting me ... I was already fighting in the Gothic Line when they were still wetting their diapers!>

Feelings are not material, meaning they can be hurt.

See above. If I reacted it's because you hurted me.

[danny elfboy]

That says it all. He has a dictionary/thesaurus by the computer when he types up his responses. It would explain the long periods of time it takes for him to respond.

No, just a paper dictionary.
And I really had no idea how to translate what I wanted to say and found that term, I hope it is correct at least

The only other terms I had to look up are: erroneousness and thoughless
The rest I knew

[retrouvailles]

In these past few replies, show me the precise place where I attacked you. Then I can explain it. If there is further debate, we can start a poll to decide whether or not I was attacking you, or you are just overreacting. That would explain it. Now is a time when your hormones are going haywire. And for the record, I am not a man smoking a pipe, but an just a simple, young college student. I think you are closer to the old man smoking the pipe. You get rattled to easily, then try to turn it back on me.

And if you have a problem telling me something in English, tell me in Italian (I think that is what you speak). I can speak that language too.

[thalberg]

Hahaha you two really need to take this into the CHAT ROOM.  You're posting every thirty seconds. 

And "tantalize" means to tempt you with delicious things while keeping them out of your reach.

[danny elfboy]

And "tantalize" means to tempt you with delicious things while keeping them out of your reach.

ROFL
No way 

Verb 1. tantalize - harass with persistent criticism or carping

[retrouvailles]

Nah, I don't want it in the chat room. I want everything to be saved (for us to access freely. I know the chatroom is logged, but not for our use). And I post quickly because I don't bother embellishing my speech with useless pedantry.

And btw:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tantalize

EDIT: What happened to that long post you were typing? I'm dying to read it.