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How to determine when the last 18 start, though?
At 19. You vote at 18 or not at all. Let's see just how chaotic we can make this world.
Well insurance companies have all the models necessary for that. It's actually called actuary and it's a field of mathematics.
Or, average national lifespan
I hear that in Germany comedy is no laughing matter...
That is true. We like the Monty Pythons more than anyone else does, we adore them! But we would never diminish this feeling by laughing about their jokes. Instead we do argue for hours about the philosophical implications of a silly walk.
Yeah, with a philosopher like Beckenbauer that's exactly what I'd suspect.
However the efficiency of the killing joke does make one wonder how the primordial laughter gets unlocked. Alas, we'll never know.