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Here's a test of yr moral fibre!

 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:31 / 23.04.04
'kay. Hypothetically, you're the second oldest man (or woman) in the world. You have six months to live. Do you kill the oldest man (or woman) in the world to get into the record books and on telly and stuff?

Or not.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:32 / 23.04.04
No, Vernon Kay would still be at the top of my list. June Sarpong number two with her silly voice.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
21:42 / 23.04.04
Doesn't it depend on how much older than you the oldest man (or woman) in the world is?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:47 / 23.04.04
Umm. Yeah. Less than six months, I guess.

No, hold on, once they're dead it doesn't matter how much older they were than you.

I've confused myself now.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:11 / 23.04.04
I don't think they'd let you into the record books for being the oldest man (or woman) alive at any particular time - you'd have to be the oldest man (or woman) ever.
 
 
netbanshee
22:22 / 23.04.04
You would be the oldest murderer though...
 
 
Cailín
23:10 / 23.04.04
Does anybody actually read the record books? I mean, sure, I can remember skimming it when I was seven years old, and looking for the record for piano-smashing during high school, but I was probably high at the time. Being the official world's oldest person seems like a pretty hollow victory, doesn't it? After all, you make it to the six o'clock news once, and then everyone forgets about you.
 
 
Char Aina
02:31 / 24.04.04
yesah.
its not like you get in training for next year or anything. well, i suppose you might have to try not to die, but everyone does that.
well, except suicide bombers.

oldest suicide bomber?
 
 
Morlock - groupie for hire
05:52 / 24.04.04
least successfull suicide bomber
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:33 / 24.04.04
Something occurred to me last night while reading the papers... what if you were a fundamentalist, but also a pacifist, and suicidal? Wouldn't you feel terribly conflicted about just necking a couple of bottles of pills instead?
 
  
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