Thread: Twinkies

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

There is and has always been an accepted notion law enforcement people tended to die a few years after retirement. I think people heard about a few who did and that coupled with the irregular hours and high divorce rate and stress and substance abuse led people to this idea. It's kind of like an old wives tale but most still believe it.

Lots of professions have this. Pilots say it. Police in tough areas have a tough job, no way around it. Does it kill you a lot earlier after you retire? On average, it doesn't look like it. Why pilots say it, I don't know, but a lot of people like to claim their job is so taxing that it causes them to die early (talking about other professions now, not particularly police). Anyway, going to actual data, American pilots actually proved to live longer in retirement than the average male.

http://flightsafety.org/hf/hf_jan-feb96.pdf

The best one I've heard so far is broadcast engineers. A retired broadcast engineer told me the average broadcast engineer lives only one year past retirement because they get fried by microwaves. He was a decade into retirement, though. There may be some truth to shortened lifespan for someone fried by microwaves their whole life, or it might be the same life span with more illness due to microwaves, I don't know. I know for sure that there is no natural mortality pattern that allows people to live to retirement and somehow become deceased 1 year after retirement. If it was accurate, broadcast engineers of all ages would be dying on the job instead, and safety rules would've been changed.

Things that will shorten your lifespan:
* obesity
* diabetes and complications from
* smoking
* refusal to go to the doctor
* lack of money for health coverage

There are definitely some trade groups that have (at least in my data) higher mortality than the average population, but it is not a great difference. It's more along the lines of a year or two after age 65 on average (i.e., the average retiree at age 65 may live to age 82 instead of age 84).

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my job of eating the last hostess donuts I cold find and sniffing asbestos fibers.

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Originally Posted by earcutter

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You'd best be careful around here, David. You are in grad school studying to become that CEO.

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

You'd best be careful around here, David. You are in grad school studying to become that CEO.

LOL - it'll never happen buddy. Too old!

Originally Posted by DaveW

And yes, I'm pretty pissed about hostess, too. I guarantee I was eating hostess donuts 2 times per week, a whole little baggie of them (the 10 ounce bag, not the little tiny snack pack). All I see at the convenience store these days is an empty rack.

You sure you are not a cop?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Hostess going under may have added years to your life ........

Ever hear of Comfort food. I'd rather die comfortable than old and cranky.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

There is and has always been an accepted notion law enforcement people tended to die a few years after retirement. I think people heard about a few who did and that coupled with the irregular hours and high divorce rate and stress and substance abuse led people to this idea. It's kind of like an old wives tale but most still believe it.

Statistics can be manipulated many ways. One of them is to blend in inner city cop mortality rates with those of Barney Fife. There are a ton of old retired cops out there, my dad being one of them. He retired in 1972 and is till kicking. There are also many who died on the job and never collected a dime.

Before the states/politicians pissed away everyone's money and could not meet their obligations, no one gave a crap what police/fire/teachers got. Now they want to call "REDO."

One has have to compare apple and apples.

Folks have no clue how important Hostess is to policing. One package of Twinkies can be the difference between happy police and nasty police which relates to the difference between a " be more careful when driving" to "here are the five tickets you deserve, see you in court."

TWINKIES FOREVER!!!

Mvcrash --
I wish I had a "double-like" feature here, as I totally agree with your post. Would you settle for this?

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Mvcrash --
I wish I had a "double-like" feature here, as I totally agree with your post. Would you settle for this?

I certainly will!!!!!

Originally Posted by Mvcrash

Statistics can be manipulated many ways. One of them is to blend in inner city cop mortality rates with those of Barney Fife. There are a ton of old retired cops out there, my dad being one of them. He retired in 1972 and is till kicking. There are also many who died on the job and never collected a dime.

Stastics are manipulated all the time to satisfy someone agenda.

One common place is gun violence. They always talk about "acquaintance" murders being more likely that any other kind. Trying to make you think you should be afraid of your friends with guns.

What they don't tell you is acquaintances include gang members and taxi cab riders.

I'm sure we are in for a big push for more gun legislation right now.

Originally Posted by Crotalus

Stastics are manipulated all the time to satisfy someone agenda.

One common place is gun violence. They always talk about "acquaintance" murders being more likely that any other kind. Trying to make you think you should be afraid of your friends with guns.

What they don't tell you is acquaintances include gang members and taxi cab riders.

I'm sure we are in for a big push for more gun legislation right now.

Obviously, you have never seen MY friends. Be very afraid.