The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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LissaC said:
So I've found this really interesting, a map of the median age of the population in every continent
Mapped: The Median Age of the Population on Every Continent

So Europe is the oldest continent, our median age is 42. Japan is the oldest country in the world, with a median age of 47,3 years. Africa is the youngest continent - median age is 18 years!:ohmy:
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Child mortality rates account for a lot of this. In Europe, it's below 1% in all countries and below 0.5% in many of them. In Africa, the figures are much higher, over 10% in some cases. The worst area is west Africa, where Chad and the Central African Republic have figures above 12%, also true for Somalia. South Africa has the best figure, just under 4%, although it's not difficult to imagine that the total there is a good deal higher for black Africans.

Source: Child and Infant Mortality
 
Duck59 said:
Child mortality rates account for a lot of this. In Europe, it's below 1% in all countries and below 0.5% in many of them. In Africa, the figures are much higher, over 10% in some cases. The worst area is west Africa, where Chad and the Central African Republic have figures above 12%, also true for Somalia. South Africa has the best figure, just under 4%, although it's not difficult to imagine that the total there is a good deal higher for black Africans.

Source: Child and Infant Mortality
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I would point birth rates, which are much higher in Africa and Asia. I do feel like this paints a daunting picture for our future though, I'm pretty sure I won't have a retirement pension when my time comes, even though I'm paying my taxes for that.
 
Weird $#I* happening today. I came home from the store this afternoon, and there were three Frisco cop cars (SUVs) in front of my house, and a handful of cops walking around. I knew I hadn't done anything (lately), so I pulled into my driveway, opened the gate and parked in my garage.

I asked them if everyone was okay, and they responded politely, "yes sir, thank you."

Good enough for me.

So it is just shy of 1AM, I'm up, and I hear car doors outside, so I look. There are two unmarked cop SUVs, and a marked one, parked on the street, and they are loading things from the house two doors up the street into one of the unmarked SUVs, including what looked like a suitcase. Then they drove off. :scratchhead:

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caseydog said:
Weird $#I* happening today. I came home from the store this afternoon, and there were three Frisco cop cars (SUVs) in front of my house, and a handful of cops walking around. I knew I hadn't done anything (lately), so I pulled into my driveway, opened the gate and parked in my garage.

I asked them if everyone was okay, and they responded politely, "yes sir, thank you."

Good enough for me.

So it is just shy of 1AM, I'm up, and I hear car doors outside, so I look. There are two unmarked cop SUVs, and a marked one, parked on the street, and they are loading things from the house two doors up the street into one of the unmarked SUVs, including what looked like a suitcase. Then they drove off. :scratchhead:

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Are you sure the 1AM event was real cops?
 
caseydog said:
Weird $#I* happening today. I came home from the store this afternoon, and there were three Frisco cop cars (SUVs) in front of my house, and a handful of cops walking around. I knew I hadn't done anything (lately), so I pulled into my driveway, opened the gate and parked in my garage.

I asked them if everyone was okay, and they responded politely, "yes sir, thank you."

Good enough for me.

So it is just shy of 1AM, I'm up, and I hear car doors outside, so I look. There are two unmarked cop SUVs, and a marked one, parked on the street, and they are loading things from the house two doors up the street into one of the unmarked SUVs, including what looked like a suitcase. Then they drove off. :scratchhead:

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We had a very similar thing happen several years ago.

We live on a little dead-end side road, 22 houses, and we're used to seeing a deputy sheriff drive through the neighborhood about once every three months or so.

Once, though, in about a 10-day period, a patrol car went by once or twice a day, sometimes a couple in the evening, I'd come home and find a patrol car parked in my driveway, and they'd wave and leave as soon as I got there, or parked at the neighbor's house, either side of us.

Then, about 4AM one day, a swarm of them descended on the neighbor across the street. There were a good six or eight cars, a dozen or more cops, and big van, everything.

One neighbor said he thought the guy was caught selling drugs, but what seemed more likely was what another person said, that he was holding stolen property. In the short time he lived across from us, he got caught stealing from a nearby property (river rock, of all things), and he got fired from his job (HVAC guy) for stealing tools and reselling them, but I never found out for sure. We were just glad he was gone.
 
Morning Glory said:
Local or national? What was it about?
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BBC breakfast news in an article about the hospitality industry. Lu and I starred as two beer drinkers in a crowded pub garden. They were not speaking parts, in fact we had no idea we had been filmed.

Please form an orderly queue for autographs.
 
caseydog said:
Yes. They were in uniform, even though two of the SUVs were not marked. The third SUV had full Frisco Police markings and light bar.

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We've had a couple of those kind of things in our area lately. Unfortunately, in 1 of them, two FBI officers lost their lives when they knocked on the door of a suspected child pornographer, who later committed suicide before being arrested.
 
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