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- Blackthorne, on 10/12/2007, -3/+81What a horrible website design. It just decides for you when you're done reading.
- tower31, on 10/12/2007, -12/+52The last thing I want to do is live until 129!!!
- pype, on 10/12/2007, -1/+381 down - 14 to go!
Looks like I picked the right day to quit sniffing glue! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Yeah, the slideshow concept is ridiculous...and too fast by default.
- vikingcoder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34The only purpose for that style of website design is to inflate ad views. It's set to a fast refresh rate so that you have to back up and view more ads.
- foshizol, on 10/12/2007, -6/+38Come on, don't you want some hot young nurse to change your diapers when your 129? I pay good money to get that service now.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Yep. All those tips are wholly irrelevant if you get hit by a bus.
- buckyboy314, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/28/cx_vg_0501featslide2_print.html
You're welcome - fredrated, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28It's crap like this that is going to send me to an early grave.
- rodball, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20We'll ask you again when you're 79...
- milesd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Someone should learn to count...128+21=129???
- brjndr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19That's the link that should have been posted from the beginning. Digg should add a feature where people can suggest alternate links, and we can mod them up, and they'd be right under the synopsis. I'm tired of getting directed to some blog whore's page and then have to click through to the actual article the synopsis talks about. This would be a great feature. .
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Forbes really needs to let go of this stupid ***** slideshow idea. I left the site immediately after the page autostupidly switched to another.
- fogbog293, on 02/10/2009, -3/+19NO! If you want eternal life, you need to drink from the veins of a vampire.
- Sippi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I think someone fell asleep in math class.
- 1ivewire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Trying to read this as a slide show will definitely shorten your lifespan.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17[insert secular flame here]
- Mallus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15You guys are missing the point: if you maintain your health such that you would live well beyond the 80 or so years you could expect under normal circumstances now, you would also maintain your quality of life, including your ability to take care of yourself, well beyond what you would normally be able to expect.
- pinetree, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I couldn't agree more. There is about zero chance of them getting the timing exactly right -- they'll always be a little faster or slower than you want (and it will vary from slide to slide depending on the length of the text). So, what is the purpose of even trying? Annoy the hell out of the user so that he/she doesn't have to click a "next" link? Stupid.
- Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Well according to this website, I'm about to die, because I don't think I do/have anything on that list.
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Summary: Have such a great life that you'd never want to die. Examples from article: good health, happiness, money, hot wife. How to accomplish all that is left up to the reader.
As Blackthorne said, terrible, horrible, stupid web design. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13They just assume you are looking at the pictures and not really reading/digesting the material, just like any other media source.
- crackityjonesjr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Sorry, dude/dudette, there ain't nothing waiting for us after death. So, why spend your living years preparing for some fantastical vision of an amusement park-life afterlife? My anti-Forbes advice? Do what you love no matter how much it pays and try not to get hit by a bus on your way home.
- EABird1013, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That's because you aren't 80.
- Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I don't know about you guys, but I would rath not spend the last 20 or 30 years of my life blind, deaf, to weak to stand up, and probably senile. I would rather live to 80 and be mobile and intelligent than live to 129 and spend decades in a painful stupor. Thats just my opinion.
- daofma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Or, if one were in close proximity to him or her, the site designer's lifespan.
- rolypolyman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1016. Stop reading FORBES. Stressing out about money and getting rich is a menace to your health.
- _skin_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I will do a lot of # 3 and just hope to make it to 50.
- d03boy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7129 is the new 20.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"Wouldn't the death of a parent cause stress as well?"
If your mother was Paris Hilton, probably not. - JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Preoccupation with the afterlife pretty clearly signals an inability to deal with this life.
- northerncomfort, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Well, I'll stop smoking.
But the list said nothing about huffing paint. Sweet. - schmeebis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Maybe he's really 1, and "21" was just a typo?
Failed biology class'ly yours,
schmeebis - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The horrible layout of that page just took one year off my life expectancy.
- maxium, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Okay.. let me get this straight.. they want me to: not under sleep but be rich , marry well but have more sex and not smoke?
I mean heck why don't they just say millionaire Mormons live longer?
(satire)
~M - halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I know what you mean. A few months back I actually tried to get in touch with someone at Forbes about the web site design, but never got any replies. I suspect the opinion of a professional web designer isn't worth a hill of beans compared to the 10,000 an hour consultant that cooked up their "Web Presence Identity."
Is there a way to configure digg to NOT show me links to forbes.com? Their web site is so annoying that I've actually routed them to 127.0.0.1 in my HOSTS file. - samdu, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Exactly! I'd rather not live past when I'm able to take care of myself.
- IceDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7It is just impossible to do everything from the slideshow. How can you become rich, without having stress and by chilling? And winning the lottery probably also brings stress, so that's not the solution.
- ConceptJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Forbes has had this design for years. I cannot understand what leads them to think this is a good idea.
- PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9These recommendations are based on selective science.
Typical Japanese lifestyle:
1. Get up at 6.00am. Eat whatever you had last night for dinner, for breakfast (often).
2. Drink some green tea.
3. Get on packed commuter train, stand up for 1.5hr commute.
4. Get to work get shouted at by boss for not hitting sales target.
5. Smoke, drink some green tea.
6. Get shouted at more by boss for not hitting more sales targets.
7. Do paperwork.
8. Do paperwork (they like paperwork).
9. Getting late, keep working, drink some green tea.
10. Getting later go and drink 8 gallons of beer with colleagues.
11. Get on train home.
12. Get to bed at 2.00am
13 Sleep for a couple of hours.
...
...
216. Sleep all day at the weekend.
That really is a typical Japanese lifestyle (okay they eat sometimes too). And the average Japanese life expentancy is 81.15 years.
Which is the highest in the world. Go figure! - ever, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9.. And since you can't even say "Ten Viagras please" out loud by then, it all seems kind of pointless.
- JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Maybe he wants to donate his body to necrophiliacs, and he thinks science will be able to preserve his sexy corpse for at least 20 years.
- aquax, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7If the afterlife is so great, why not join it now?
I don't understand that sort of logic. - turgiddahlia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Great! So I can *not* enjoy myself for 120 years, or I can *thoroughly* enjoy myself for 60 or 70. Methinks I'll go with the drinking, smoking, eating pizza and sitting on my ass for days at a time watching to complete runs of 'Deadwood' and 'Battlestar Galactica' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', rather than eating lentil sandwiches, waking up at five and doing a hundred pushups before breakfast.
- nphp20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow, thanks for stretching the page and posting the entire article... if you don't want to view the page using the slideshow just go to http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/28/cx_vg_0501featslide2_print.html as suggested above.
- Steelfox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Easily. Take a look at our friend Paris Hilton. Or in fact anyone who inherits money.
- cypherz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This "article" is one of Forbe's unbelievably annoying "slide shows" where it automagically advances to the next frame, usually about the time you've just started reading the text. These forbes.com slideshows are an abomination! The web drones at forbes.com should be publicly excoriated!
- mulicheng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4How far are you from 60 now? Will you say the same thing at 57? I've a friend who rides motorcycles and he's about 80. Wouldn't you rather have a healthy exciting life and live to 95, than a healthy exciting life that ends at 60? I guess I didn't pick from the article which things caused you to live a boring life. I don't see exciting and healthy as mutually exclusive.
- thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What's with that "faster" button?
- Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Be rich." That's a hoot. If you're not there, getting there will take 50 years off your life .... and probably a whole lot of other peoples' lives.
"Rich" is what you're born with. "Be joyous" instead. ( They left off: PARTY! ) -
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