lochsong
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This is an Owl thread about how things can change in 10 minsRegarding healthcare, finance and housing etc etc?
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Owl of Minerva
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Yes. Everyone agrees with me so no need for anymore posts. Thread over!
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lochsong
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Fair enough.
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theGoingStick
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We must be well ahead of the victorians. Isn't life expectancy going back down now because of poor diet, so maybe the question should have been are we better off than 25 years ago ?
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lochsong
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| Owl of Minerva wrote: | | Yes. Everyone agrees with me so no need for anymore posts. Thread over! |
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geordie_racer
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in simple material terms of course it is
so is every other developed (first and new world) nation
relatively, no, other nations have massively improved in terms of average standard of living compared to UK, eg much of western mainland europe, scandanavia, australasia....
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lochsong
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| theGoingStick wrote: | | We must be well ahead of the victorians. Isn't life expectancy going back down now because of poor diet, so maybe the question should have been are we better off than 25 years ago ? |
I think so. Some don't. 
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geordie_racer
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good idea to get some answers then change the title of the thread
shouldnt the question be are we better off now than we were 10 minutes ago
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Owl of Minerva
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| geordie_racer wrote: | good idea to get some answers then change the title of the thread
shouldnt the question be are we better off now than we were 10 minutes ago |
Well if you take an average salary to be say £20k per year, and an average increase in GDP to be 3% a year, our earnings go up about £600 a year. After inflation, in real terms, lets say an individual is on average £200 a year better off (based on a 2% inflation, 3% growth model). That's about 50p a day. About 2p an hour. About 0.33p every 10 minutes. So yes I can confirm that we are probably better off than 10 mins ago. 0.33p better off on average . . . to be precise.
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geordie_racer
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| Owl of Minerva wrote: | | geordie_racer wrote: | good idea to get some answers then change the title of the thread
shouldnt the question be are we better off now than we were 10 minutes ago |
Well if you take an average salary to be say £20k per year, and an average increase in GDP to be 3% a year, our earnings go up about £600 a year. After inflation, in real terms, lets say an individual is on average £200 a year better off (based on a 2% inflation, 3% growth model). That's about 50p a day. About 2p an hour. About 0.33p every 10 minutes. So yes I can confirm that we are probably better off than 10 mins ago. 0.33p better off on average . . . to be precise.
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that ,makes sense to me.
well played
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lochsong
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| Owl of Minerva wrote: | | geordie_racer wrote: | good idea to get some answers then change the title of the thread
shouldnt the question be are we better off now than we were 10 minutes ago |
Well if you take an average salary to be say £20k per year, and an average increase in GDP to be 3% a year, our earnings go up about £600 a year. After inflation, in real terms, lets say an individual is on average £200 a year better off (based on a 2% inflation, 3% growth model). That's about 50p a day. About 2p an hour. About 0.33p every 10 minutes. So yes I can confirm that we are probably better off than 10 mins ago. 0.33p better off on average . . . to be precise.
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Yes you are right GR.
I didn't expect you to be online this time of night so when I got the smarmy first reply I changed the title in order to turn the trick around.
It didn't work.
I'll change things back to what they were.
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Owl of Minerva
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Amazing scenes
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lochsong
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Blinding
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Owl of Minerva
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Woop woop, my own thread. Yeaaaahhhhh baby
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johnnio
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Life expectancy in Japan is the highest in the world, over 40,000 are over the age of 100. Maybe we should all go seal-clubbing and eat whale.
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suejoe
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| johnnio wrote: | | Life expectancy in Japan is the highest in the world, over 40,000 are over the age of 100. Maybe we should all go seal-clubbing and eat whale. |
Maybe we should all try to adopt a Japanese diet
| Quote: | The Japanese diet is about as different from a Western diet as it is possible to get.
It is relatively low in fat, high in fibre, high in omega-3's from eating lots of fish.
Protein from meat is modest as meat is eaten in small quantities, while vegetable intake is high.
Some foods are significantly different, for instance seaweed, which is very high in minerals, is an intrinsic part of the diet,
fermented soya (tofu) is a staple, and other mineral-rich foods like sesame are included regularly.
Also of great importance is that their cooking methods are extremely healthy: steaming or flash-frying in a minimum of oil or on a hibachi (grill).
The Japanese use a lot of strong flavours, like ginger and radish, which reduces the need for using fats. In general it is a very 'clean tasting' cuisine.
Dairy foods do not feature in the Japanese diet. |
Sue 
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