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Old Apr 22, 2011 | 01:47 PM
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Lifetime Spent on w203 Forum

Just for fun, I was wondering how much of my lifetime will be spent on the w203 forum. It's kind of crazy...

so let's say average life is 80 years, subtract 16, which is the day you start driving, so 64...

I'd say on average between work and home I'm on here 3 hours a day

3 hours times 365 days is 1095 hours a year.

1095 hours times 64 years is 70080 hours in my lifetime, divided by 24 hours a day is 2920 days, divided by 365 days a year, means i will spend 8 years of my total lifetime on this forum!

8 divided by 80 years is 10% of my lifetime.

and that's considering being awake for 24 hours a day, so let's say every 24 hour period you sleep 8 hours and are awake for 16, so that's two thirds of your 80 years spent awake, which is about 53 years, so 8 dividied by 53 is 15% of my entire life on these forums!

Just thought it was interesting to think about.

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Old Apr 22, 2011 | 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by C230 Mulac
Just for fun, I was wondering how much of my lifetime will be spent on the w203 forum. It's kind of crazy...

so let's say average life is 80 years, subtract 16, which is the day you start driving, so 64...

I'd say on average between work and home I'm on here 3 hours a day

3 hours times 365 days is 1095 hours a year.

1095 hours times 64 years is 70080 hours in my lifetime, divided by 24 hours a day is 2920 days, divided by 365 days a year, means i will spend 8 years of my total lifetime on this forum!

8 divided by 80 years is 10% of my lifetime.

and that's considering being awake for 24 hours a day, so let's say every 24 hour period you sleep 8 hours and are awake for 16, so that's two thirds of your 80 years spent awake, which is about 53 years, so 8 dividied by 53 is 15% of my entire life on these forums!

Just thought it was interesting to think about.

This is what I do at work when I'm bored
You must be really bored, doing all that calculation, because 3 hours out of a 24 hour day = 12.5%
16 hour day incl. sleep = 18.75%

12.5% of 64 years = 8 years
18.75% of 64 years = 12 years
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Old Apr 22, 2011 | 02:30 PM
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Have you considered ... eerrm ... doing some work at work?
LOL

I too, spend too much time here ...
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Old Apr 22, 2011 | 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by WhirlPool
Have you considered ... eerrm ... doing some work at work?
LOL

I too, spend too much time here ...
lol, yeah i try to fit some work in between the forum visits...i mean...errr...forum visits in between some work
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Old Apr 22, 2011 | 03:44 PM
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Um...for whatever it's worth...I't seems like I've spent a good portion of my life so far with my check engine light on.

The average time it takes it to go on after being checked out by MB service is about 90 minutes. It stays on for about 3 months before I bring it in again...and so on...and so on...
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Old Apr 22, 2011 | 04:45 PM
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I'd like to see you own a W203 for 64 years. And no matter how good it sounds or how certain you are that even after your W203 is gone you will still visit this forum, you won't.
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Old Apr 23, 2011 | 01:44 AM
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I love online communities and this one is a great one! I'm a member or www.watchuseek.com (a watch forum) and have got over 6000 posts lol. I'll also be interested to see my stats here a year or so from now.
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Old Apr 23, 2011 | 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by kickR
You must be really bored, doing all that calculation, because 3 hours out of a 24 hour day = 12.5%
16 hour day incl. sleep = 18.75%

12.5% of 64 years = 8 years
18.75% of 64 years = 12 years
well i would have done that but you didn't account for 16 years of of not being able to drive so i figured realistically you prob won't join the forum until you're 16

Um...for whatever it's worth...I't seems like I've spent a good portion of my life so far with my check engine light on.

The average time it takes it to go on after being checked out by MB service is about 90 minutes. It stays on for about 3 months before I bring it in again...and so on...and so on...
that's messed up man, what kind of codes have you been pulling? or maybe if you've done an ecu tune your ecu is all jacked up?

I'd like to see you own a W203 for 64 years. And no matter how good it sounds or how certain you are that even after your W203 is gone you will still visit this forum, you won't.
why do people have to be sarcastic a$$holes? loosen up a bit man, this is just for sh*ts and giggles!
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