You know you’re getting old when…
daddyjt
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What are some of the things you’ve noticed creeping up on you, as the years go by?
I’ll start:
You need to sit down to put your socks on.
I’ll start:
You need to sit down to put your socks on.
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Something new/different hurts each day.Political Correctness'.........defined
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I agree with Motorhead, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
each year since turning 55 I do a birthday video
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No heart attacks. Boy those first few steps in the morning are slow and creaky. The best thing to do are stretching exercises at least once a day. I spend 30 minutes twice a day doing stretches. It is very beneficial!
As my 90 yr old uncle says, " boy keep moving and stretching, sit down you die"
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Having to swap from one side to the other, otherwise your hip gets sore. Whoever invented that needs to be taken to the train station!
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Mrs. H and I stop every 1 to 2 hours (depending on the length of the trip and the route) when we travel by car.
Our first few steps after extricating ourselves from the car are not pretty.
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Well carrying these Monitor 7 speakers up from the basement, told me how old I’m getting.
Watching Pat Travers, wanting me to go back in time, snorting whiskey, and drinking cocaine.. -
Your teeth start dying on their own. Slowly...One by one... It sucked/s.
I'm at an age...what's the use in getting 25K of dental work or more for the remaining years I might have left in the tank? I might get a cheap 2k set one day next year.
If I'm cremated, my wife would've had a pretty $$$$ set for a paperweight, right?.
I hear they don't cremate dentures.Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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it's harder to tell the difference between a fxxt and the real thing...
I really can't believe I had to "xx" that word since the platform took it out. Oh well, older folks know what I'm talking about...Remember, when you're running from something, you're running to something...-me -
^^^^^would that be a shart?Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel…….Samuel Johnson
Since we don’t know where we are going we have to stick together in case someone gets there….Ken Kesey
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
– Kevin Alfred Strom -
Turning your head to the side when sneezing and throwing your back out.....Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
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EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
Your teeth start dying on their own. Slowly...One by one... It sucked/s.
I'm at an age...what's the use in getting 25K of dental work or more for the remaining years I might have left in the tank? I might get a cheap 2k set one day next year.
If I'm cremated, my wife would've had a pretty $$$$ set for a paperweight, right?.
I hear they don't cremate dentures.
Come to think about it, 2 racks would also be a waste as a paper weight. It might be better to roll with what you got.
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Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
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I opened my bank app on Saturday, and there was a whole page saying:
Thanks for being a loyal customer of bank***** for 53 years."Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
You retire in 8yrs with a full pension
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I find that I go to great lengths now to avoid working on something at ground level. A few weeks ago I spent half an hour building a ramp so that I could get my generator on the tailgate of my truck, in order to do its oil change and tune up.“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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BlueBirdMusic wrote: »I opened my bank app on Saturday, and there was a whole page saying:
Thanks for being a loyal customer of bank***** for 53 years.
I got an email a few weeks ago from the American Chemical Society saying that I'd reached member emeritus status (or something like that) and qualified for membership gratis. Cool.
Then about a week later, I got the annual membership renewal letter. With a bill.
I need to reconcile those two today or tomorrow (come to think of it), as I try to do ACS renewal before year's end, for a tax deduction.
I dropped AAAS (Science magazine, mostly) membership a few years back.
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Age has slowed me down big time. I get frustrated sometimes when I realize it's taking me 2X as long to do something with probably 2X as many breaks, but I remind myself I'm still doing most of the things I did 15+ yrs ago so it ain't all that bad.Yep, my name really is Bob.
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My Oregon fishing license is cheaper than it was a few years ago.
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Wait. Are we supposed to buy fishing licenses?Gustard X26 Pro DAC
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They really should be catching licenses.
I've done a fair amount of fishing in my time, both salt & fresh water.
I can say with some authority that fishing is not the same as catching.
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True!
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You know "you are old" when you think this is a fun tread."Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA
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Yeah, imagine the 20-something Soundbar crowd seeing the thread title and thinking, "umm, yeah... no."BlueBirdMusic wrote: »You know "you are old" when you think this is a fun tread.
Whippersnappers!
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When your kids hit their 40's you are old. I'm pretty sure it gets
worse when your grandkids hit 40."The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson -
I find that I go to great lengths now to avoid working on something at ground level.
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When you yell "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" and raise a toast at 10:00 p.m. and call it a night because it's already past your bedtime and anyway it's midnight somewhere in the world.The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.
