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Blimey, with 52 weeks to go for 'Thread of the Year 2026' we've already got a possible winner.14
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Is that graph all relating to the same bloke - he loses 3 inches between the ages of 24 and 75?MrOneLung said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.The Red Robin said:
Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.letthegoodtimesroll said:Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉
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Chatting out of your Harris, as per.letthegoodtimesroll said:
That’s the average for the UK. Your diet will likely be a lot better than a lot of other regions around the combined 4 nations because the south east and London in particular is a more wealthy and likely to be a healthier region than the rest of the UK. There are and will be exceptions to that but overall where the money is, ie London and the City, then that will be where diet and nutrition is more important and affordable. For my generation that nutrition included a bottle of milk every morning at school in their formative years. The average height for 60 year olds in that chart will basically be people that started to miss out on that, plus if they’ve failed to supplement their protein intake (which is likely to be the majority) then they will literally be shrinking.MrOneLung said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.The Red Robin said:
Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.letthegoodtimesroll said:Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉
On average over the past century humans have got 4 inches taller, across the entire world's population.
Some places like Japan this number is even higher as they have significantly changed diets and nutrition and health has significantly increased.
In the last couple of decades some countries have started to Plateau with the growth spurt (Germany, Netherlands, the Nordic countries)
No chance your generation were taller on average, literally all of the data suggests otherwise4 -
I have been in two cafes in the past week (and I mean cafes - old fashioned greasy spoon type cafes) one in Portsmouth run by an old bloke and his wife and the other the GMT opposite the River Ale House run by a middle aged Turkish chap, and ordered a black coffee and a white coffee. In both I have been told they can do me two Americanos and give me some milk for one of them.wolfgang said:
I would worry more about pretentious prats who order "americanos" at a football ground.letthegoodtimesroll said:I fancied a hot drink, didn’t want chocolate, so order a black americano
transaction typed in, i pay for it, young lad goes off and puts the hot water in a designated cup.
Black coffee gets handed over and young lad says …’the milk is over there…’
me…’thanks, but I don’t need milk with my black coffee’
every older generation over millennium has doubted the generations that will follow but, fck me, the planet is screwed when this lot takes over
Edit: I see Off_it beat me to it. Sorry!
Like Offy said - the game's gone...
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I just made a very rough and ready list of the ten people that scare me the most on this planet. Their ages were as follows: 73, 79, 72, 54, 61, 76, 41, 86, 46 and 41.letthegoodtimesroll said:I fancied a hot drink, didn’t want chocolate, so order a black americano
transaction typed in, i pay for it, young lad goes off and puts the hot water in a designated cup.
Black coffee gets handed over and young lad says …’the milk is over there…’
me…’thanks, but I don’t need milk with my black coffee’
every older generation over millennium has doubted the generations that will follow but, fck me, the planet is screwed when this lot takes over
You talk about 'low-bars' but the upcoming generation has the lowest bar of all to be better.4 -
Nah - I’m with @letthegoodtimesroll on this one. I’m always asking to have more hot water in my black coffee so I actually get a full cup.EugenesAxe said:Ive worked as a barista, lots of people order black coffee, and tea, because they want to add the milk themselves to add the right amount for them, maybe he thought you wanted to do this so was then telling you where the milk was?1 -
It’s Benjamin Button.Off_it said:
Is that graph all relating to the same bloke - he loses 3 inches between the ages of 24 and 75?MrOneLung said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.The Red Robin said:
Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.letthegoodtimesroll said:Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉
What if the poor sod hasn't got 3 inches to lose?!0 -
Main character syndrome3
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First world problem.1
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So the ‘old’ bloke or his wife, whom I assume was equally no spring chicken, and the ‘middle aged’ chap both understood the concept that white americano is the one that has milk and black americano is the one that doesn’t have milk.Algarveaddick said:
I have been in two cafes in the past week (and I mean cafes - old fashioned greasy spoon type cafes) one in Portsmouth run by an old bloke and his wife and the other the GMT opposite the River Ale House run by a middle aged Turkish chap, and ordered a black coffee and a white coffee. In both I have been told they can do me two Americanos and give me some milk for one of them.wolfgang said:
I would worry more about pretentious prats who order "americanos" at a football ground.letthegoodtimesroll said:I fancied a hot drink, didn’t want chocolate, so order a black americano
transaction typed in, i pay for it, young lad goes off and puts the hot water in a designated cup.
Black coffee gets handed over and young lad says …’the milk is over there…’
me…’thanks, but I don’t need milk with my black coffee’
every older generation over millennium has doubted the generations that will follow but, fck me, the planet is screwed when this lot takes over
Edit: I see Off_it beat me to it. Sorry!
Like Offy said - the game's gone...
now, on to the next important bit, how tall were they ?0 -
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Off_it said:
Is that graph all relating to the same bloke - he loses 3 inches between the ages of 24 and 75?MrOneLung said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.The Red Robin said:
Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.letthegoodtimesroll said:Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉
What if the poor sod hasn't got 3 inches to lose?!
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Sounds like a significant improvement to the current cun.. cropletthegoodtimesroll said:I fancied a hot drink, didn’t want chocolate, so order a black americano
transaction typed in, i pay for it, young lad goes off and puts the hot water in a designated cup.
Black coffee gets handed over and young lad says …’the milk is over there…’
me…’thanks, but I don’t need milk with my black coffee’
every older generation over millennium has doubted the generations that will follow but, fck me, the planet is screwed when this lot takes over1 -
If being offered milk for a black coffee is your issue at Charlton then fuck me you must be deluded.6
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I'm old enough to remember when you just ordered a "black coffee" or a "white coffee" none of this "americano" shit. 🙄10
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, the data looks at the average across the country but where dietary, nutrition and healthcare plays a major contributing factor living in London and the southeast or similar more affluent areas worldwide will potentially show some differences I would expect.sam3110 said:
Chatting out of your Harris, as per.letthegoodtimesroll said:
That’s the average for the UK. Your diet will likely be a lot better than a lot of other regions around the combined 4 nations because the south east and London in particular is a more wealthy and likely to be a healthier region than the rest of the UK. There are and will be exceptions to that but overall where the money is, ie London and the City, then that will be where diet and nutrition is more important and affordable. For my generation that nutrition included a bottle of milk every morning at school in their formative years. The average height for 60 year olds in that chart will basically be people that started to miss out on that, plus if they’ve failed to supplement their protein intake (which is likely to be the majority) then they will literally be shrinking.MrOneLung said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.The Red Robin said:
Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.letthegoodtimesroll said:Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉
On average over the past century humans have got 4 inches taller, across the entire world's population.
Some places like Japan this number is even higher as they have significantly changed diets and nutrition and health has significantly increased.
In the last couple of decades some countries have started to Plateau with the growth spurt (Germany, Netherlands, the Nordic countries)
No chance your generation were taller on average, literally all of the data suggests otherwise
my generation also may well have had other advantages over following generations and that was our parents and the NHS.
our parents had lived through the Second World War and rationing, the latter was designed to get and keep the nation fit and healthy and by all accounts did a comparatively good job at it so the building blocks for diet and nutrition were already in place when we came along. The other one I mentioned is the NHS. It was still in its infancy and able to deliver the care, attention and service we would all like but over time have seen it struggle to do so through the sheer numbers and demands placed upon it. Whether those factors made a difference that was later diminished or not I don’t actually know but it would start to explain why a lot of my generation growing up in London seemed to be similarly tall, and definitely taller than the generation that had been born before the War.The far east countries like Japan, South Korea and China as you mention have seen huge dietary change as their economies have evolved. The main one is access to meat, something that would not have been there for most of the population before. The upshot has been the impact of a western diet has brought about western sized heights.0 -
Actually no. An Americano is black. Lookletthegoodtimesroll said:
So the ‘old’ bloke or his wife, whom I assume was equally no spring chicken, and the ‘middle aged’ chap both understood the concept that white americano is the one that has milk and black americano is the one that doesn’t have milk.Algarveaddick said:
I have been in two cafes in the past week (and I mean cafes - old fashioned greasy spoon type cafes) one in Portsmouth run by an old bloke and his wife and the other the GMT opposite the River Ale House run by a middle aged Turkish chap, and ordered a black coffee and a white coffee. In both I have been told they can do me two Americanos and give me some milk for one of them.wolfgang said:
I would worry more about pretentious prats who order "americanos" at a football ground.letthegoodtimesroll said:I fancied a hot drink, didn’t want chocolate, so order a black americano
transaction typed in, i pay for it, young lad goes off and puts the hot water in a designated cup.
Black coffee gets handed over and young lad says …’the milk is over there…’
me…’thanks, but I don’t need milk with my black coffee’
every older generation over millennium has doubted the generations that will follow but, fck me, the planet is screwed when this lot takes over
Edit: I see Off_it beat me to it. Sorry!
Like Offy said - the game's gone...
now, on to the next important bit, how tall were they ?
it up. An Americano with milk is a white coffee. Not so many years ago it was always cheaper than any kind of coffee with milk, for obvious reasons. As a black coffee drinker all her life, my missus is always annoyed that she’s now got to pay the same as us milky coffee drinkers…0 -
This just seems a really odd hill to die on.8
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The following generations are always smarter than the proceeding generation. Look at how many young people are spending their Friday nights in a gym rather than a pub.1
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I do this with tea because you'll get someone behind the jump pours half a gallon into a cup of tea when I just want a splash.
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I always dislike the idea of having to specify ‘black’ but if you don’t some places are just prone to automatically start adding milk before you can stop them.Algarveaddick said:
Actually no. An Americano is black. Lookletthegoodtimesroll said:
So the ‘old’ bloke or his wife, whom I assume was equally no spring chicken, and the ‘middle aged’ chap both understood the concept that white americano is the one that has milk and black americano is the one that doesn’t have milk.Algarveaddick said:
I have been in two cafes in the past week (and I mean cafes - old fashioned greasy spoon type cafes) one in Portsmouth run by an old bloke and his wife and the other the GMT opposite the River Ale House run by a middle aged Turkish chap, and ordered a black coffee and a white coffee. In both I have been told they can do me two Americanos and give me some milk for one of them.wolfgang said:
I would worry more about pretentious prats who order "americanos" at a football ground.letthegoodtimesroll said:I fancied a hot drink, didn’t want chocolate, so order a black americano
transaction typed in, i pay for it, young lad goes off and puts the hot water in a designated cup.
Black coffee gets handed over and young lad says …’the milk is over there…’
me…’thanks, but I don’t need milk with my black coffee’
every older generation over millennium has doubted the generations that will follow but, fck me, the planet is screwed when this lot takes over
Edit: I see Off_it beat me to it. Sorry!
Like Offy said - the game's gone...
now, on to the next important bit, how tall were they ?
it up. An Americano with milk is a white coffee. Not so many years ago it was always cheaper than any kind of coffee with milk, for obvious reasons. As a black coffee drinker all her life, my missus is always annoyed that she’s now got to pay the same as us milky coffee drinkers…1 -
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That’s sad, not smart…Friend Or Defoe said:The following generations are always smarter than the proceeding generation. Look at how many young people are spending their Friday nights in a gym rather than a pub.1 -
Your requirement, or lack thereof, for milk didn’t alter the fact of its location. Not everything is about you.letthegoodtimesroll said:I fancied a hot drink, didn’t want chocolate, so order a black americano
transaction typed in, i pay for it, young lad goes off and puts the hot water in a designated cup.
Black coffee gets handed over and young lad says …’the milk is over there…’
me…’thanks, but I don’t need milk with my black coffee’
every older generation over millennium has doubted the generations that will follow but, fck me, the planet is screwed when this lot takes over2 -
Friend Or Defoe said:The following generations are always boringer than the proceeding generation. Look at how many young people are spending their Friday nights in a gym rather than a pub.
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Don’t confuse him (her?, but I’m guessing him) with facts.MrOneLung said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.The Red Robin said:
Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.letthegoodtimesroll said:Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉
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More boringer?Gribbo said:Friend Or Defoe said:The following generations are always boringer than the proceeding generation. Look at how many young people are spending their Friday nights in a gym rather than a pub.1 -
If I want the server to leave room for the milk, I ask for black with cold milk on the side.Arsenetatters said:
Nah - I’m with @letthegoodtimesroll on this one. I’m always asking to have more hot water in my black coffee so I actually get a full cup.EugenesAxe said:Ive worked as a barista, lots of people order black coffee, and tea, because they want to add the milk themselves to add the right amount for them, maybe he thought you wanted to do this so was then telling you where the milk was?1 -
Milk at school in the summer was vomit inducing, that fuckin creamy curdled warm filth fuck off .
Never drunk milk since , I have it on cereal and don’t do hot drinks, water only for me , evians my tipple and the odd beer or ten when I have to be near people for too long to take the edge off it .6 -
Tea is a significant drink.
If somebody else puts too much milk in your tea because that’s the way they like it you can’t take some of it out. If somebody puts too little milk in your tea you can add more.4 -
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Here you go, basically all coffee types start as an espresso, then it depends on what you add. All I'll say is there's a fine line between a cappuccino and a latte!
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