UlsterAreBrill wrote:BaggyTrousers wrote:
Brillo ould son, you'd need to catch yersel on pal, no hint of the yutes being violent whatsoever, just mouthy wee gets, still, as Merv says, a good maulin's too good for them.
You also show yourself remarkably unaware of the times you are discussing. Folk (not FOLK) would have had a life expectancy of no more than about 40 years, barring Methusila .... or an odd crucifixion, a plague or seven, being fed to the lions like so many Scott Baldwins or similar simple twists of fate.
Young girls were married off, or probably killed as useless ugly bitches & a drain on the family, by the time they were in their teens. You may take it from me, one both old and eminently wise, that that man's daughters were not of adult age as you and I know it. Stop pontificating on matters you are guessing about, it reduces your credibility to that of an omadon, or to be kindly, a big simple lad.
Anyway, who won between the Glens?
I'll admit it was wild speculation but not out of the question in regard to the young guys/boys/teens
However i'm not wrong on the life expectancy thing - take a re-read at Genesis 5 and you'll see Methuselah was 969 yes however no where was it recorded anyone lived only until 40
I'll paraphrase
Adam died when he was 930
Seth, 912
Enosh 905
Lamech 777
and so on. You've been helped
Brillo, I've just split my dickie laughing (I always dress formally for luncheon) and in mid convulsive bellowing my spats flew off and whacked a dog. You're a bad man Brillo
I'm now trying to decide if you are a comic genius or an utter fuchtard.
I'd say ould Adam's Apple would have been right and manky at that age. Did those chaps by any chance reveal the secret of fantastically/fantasy long life for I think we can agree that a world without my presence would be unrewardingly drab for the survivors?
Of course, you are simply being obtuse by pointing out such long-lived legends, you are referring to folk of some stature I assume. You may as well say that ancient Greeks lived to a ripe old age by quoting the example of Socrates, whose life was sadly cut short at 70 not by old age but by his conviction for impiety & death sentence which allowed him to "name his own poison", and of course he decided on a snifter of hemlock.
Socrates, of course, pre-dated the boy Jesus however, to suggest that the ancient Greeks lived to be septuagenarians would be a nonsense, one's station in life being crucially important in terms of survival and an average of 35 was common both in Greece & Ancient Rome. Amongst the major factors would have been high infant mortality dragging down the average.
I chose to believe received wisdom that those figures you state are merely fanciful biblical folklore.
