What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[LizzieMaine]

No matter what I eat, I can imagine nothing more horrifying than the thought of living to be 100.

 

[jamespowers]

No matter what I eat, I can imagine nothing more horrifying than the thought of living to be 100.

You know the unfortunate thing is that people who think that way usually end up outliving all the people that want to live that long.

 

[Virginia Creeper]

No matter what I eat, I can imagine nothing more horrifying than the thought of living to be 100.

I said something, some years back, about how my grandmother might reasonably be able to live another decade (she was only in her early 80s, after all) to see some milestone or another. Her response was a very definite "I damn well better not!"

At the time, I didn't understand why she wouldn't want to live as long as possible. Having seen all my grandparents die now, I think I've started to acquire an understanding.

 

[scottyrocks]

Absolutely right. How many times have we read stories about someone who ate six eggs and half a pound of bacon for breakfast every morning, drank whiskey and smoked three packs of cigarettes daily, worked on a farm rooting around in manure and other agricultural chemicals, and lived to be 98 years old? And these stories are usually followed by one about someone who exercised daily, ate nothing but healthy foods, then got an insect bite that went septic and killed them at the age of 27. [huh]

It's all in the genes, man, all in the genes.

 

[Stanley Doble]

I come from the era when your doctor would tell you that you don't need vitamins, too much exercise will make you muscle bound, and there is no proof that cigarettes are bad for you (while puffing on a Marlboro).

At the same time seemingly sincere people (health nuts) were recommending special diets, exercise, vitamins, organic produce and so on.

Who to believe? I devised a test. I decided to look up some old time health nuts and see how they wound up.

I found out some interesting things. The health nuts didn't necessarily live longer than anyone else, although they seemed to live to a ripe old age. 70s, 80s, even into their 90s.

What I did notice was that they all kept their physical and mental faculties right up to the end, to within weeks and sometimes within minutes of death.

They never went gaga, ended up in a wheel chair or dragging an oxygen bottle around.

J I Rodale kicked the bucket on the Dick Cavett show. One minute he was talking about how he meant to live to be one hundred, after the commercial break he slumped over and fell off his chair. He was 72

Charles Atlas went for his usual jog on the beach one morning at his beach house in New Jersey. Came home and laid down for a nap and never woke up. He was 84.

2 time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, famous for recommending Vitamin C and other vitamins, lectured on very intricate scientific subjects into his 90s. He died at 94.

Jack LaLanne was driving around in his Corvette, drinking good wine and winking at the pretty girls well into his 90s. He died at 96 after a short illness. He did his usual workout the day before he died, as he had done every day since 1928.

He learned all about health from Paul Bragg who died in a surfing accident in Hawaii at 95. Not quite as good as being shot by a jealous husband at 99 but not bad.

Jay "the juice man" Kordich, 90, is still around, still talking about juicing for health. There is a video on Youtube of him playing touch football on the beach with his children when he was 84. The children are in their early 20s.

Another thing I noticed was that all these guys had some very severe health problem when they were young. That is why they got to be health nuts in the first place.

So, there is something in it and you don't need to be afraid of living to 80, 90 or more if you keep your health up to the end.

 

[Stearmen]

I've posted this before, but I still agree with it!

 

[Foxer55]

Zombie61,

And that's the main thing that bugs me about all of the "health nuts" here in California--they all seem to be of the opinion that they'll live forever if they can somehow manage to stay away from all of the things they've deemed "harmful". I'd much rather eat cheeseburgers and pizza and die at the age of 70 than live to be 99 years old by eating wicker and seaweed.

I am rather of the opinion that kind of thinking arises from people who have eschewed religion in favor of believing they are their own gods who can manipulate God or fate or circumstance. Whatever you want to call it. I think they have a great fear of death and the unknown and I feel this comes from a modern culture with little belief in anything other than their own egos . Not that I am a religious person myself but at my age, and particularly with some life experiences, I have become a bit more philosophical than I was when I was young. I now kind of view it all as things are as they were meant to be - by the gods or fate or circumstance. Whatever you want to call it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I think the essential element of it is that people resist the idea of their own individual insignificance in the great scheme of things. There were two billion people walking the earth a hundred years ago and only a bare handful of them are still alive today. Most of those two billion are long gone, to be remembered only by those people now living who knew them personally -- otherwise they, and all they did, are completely lost to the greater memory. Go back two hundred years, and only a bare handful of the people who lived then are remembered for any reason by anyone at all.

The same thing will happen to every one of us -- everything we are and everything we do, no matter how much we think of ourselves, will eventually be completely forgotten. Those who can understand and accept that will have a much easier time coping with the reality of their own mortality. Dust we are, and to dust we shall return.

 

[Zombie_61]

Zombie61,

I am rather of the opinion that kind of thinking arises from people who have eschewed religion in favor of believing they are their own gods who can manipulate God or fate or circumstance. Whatever you want to call it. I think they have a great fear of death and the unknown and I feel this comes from a modern culture with little belief in anything other than their own egos . Not that I am a religious person myself but at my age, and particularly with some life experiences, I have become a bit more philosophical than I was when I was young. I now kind of view it all as things are as they were meant to be - by the gods or fate or circumstance. Whatever you want to call it.

I don't know any of the "health nuts" that I was referring to personally, so I have no idea what their true thoughts and motives are other than to try to live a healthier life; my observation was simply "painting with a broad brush" based on what I've seen of many of the celebrity "health gurus" and a handful of acquaintances I've spoken to over the years. As for death and beliefs, I consider myself to be spiritual rather than religious--I believe there is a greater intelligence at work in the universe, and I believe in an "afterlife", but I don't think any of the Earthly religions as we know and understand them have gotten it 100% right so I tend to "cherry pick" those beliefs and philosophies that sound reasonable to me regardless of the source.

I think the essential element of it is that people resist the idea of their own individual insignificance in the great scheme of things. There were two billion people walking the earth a hundred years ago and only a bare handful of them are still alive today. Most of those two billion are long gone, to be remembered only by those people now living who knew them personally -- otherwise they, and all they did, are completely lost to the greater memory. Go back two hundred years, and only a bare handful of the people who lived then are remembered for any reason by anyone at all.

The same thing will happen to every one of us -- everything we are and everything we do, no matter how much we think of ourselves, will eventually be completely forgotten. Those who can understand and accept that will have a much easier time coping with the reality of their own mortality. Dust we are, and to dust we shall return.

I couldn't agree more. Except for those people who will be remembered through the passing of recorded history from generation to generation, we're all just taking up space on this rock for a brief period of time and will go completely unknown to the vast majority of the population. I hope the people in my life who will live on after I'm dead and gone will have positive memories of me but, aside from that, I have no delusions of grandeur.

With that thought in mind, what's something modern that people won't miss when it becomes obsolete? Me.

 

[Matt Crunk]

I've eaten exactly one Baconator in my life. I found the second patty to be too much beef for me. I've suggested they make a double bacon/double cheese/single patty version called the Baconatrix, but it would seem Wendy's doesn't care for the idea.

Whenever I order a Baconator, they always ask me if I want a single, double, or triple. So if a single patty Baconator is what you want, you can certainly get it. Just ask.

 

[CharleneC]

The concept of "first world problems"

 

[vintageTink]

Talking fast food burgers? Whichever is closer...McDonalds, Burger King, Whataburger, Sonic etc. I wouldn't walk across the street to get to one over the other. When I want a good burger, there are several non fast food type places that are far superior...Five Guys, Smashburger, Beck's Prime...not to mention the mom and pop places.

I like Red Robin too.
Sonic is yummy. I get the ched r peppers and cherry vanilla Dr Pepper.

 

[jamespowers]

I've posted this before, but I still agree with it!

 

[jamespowers]

Whenever I order a Baconator, they always ask me if I want a single, double, or triple. So if a single patty Baconator is what you want, you can certainly get it. Just ask.

A triple Baconator?! I am there!

 

[Gregg Axley]

A triple Baconator?! I am there!

THAT will require you to have Crestor after dinner mints.

 

[Foxer55]

In the vein of longevity...

This is an interesting read.

Google executive plans to cheat death by taking 150 vitamins a day to hold out long enough for the invention of robots that will keep humans alive.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467514/Ray-Kurzweil-shares-plans-immortality.html

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

As always, there's nothing new under the sun.
Billy Murray -- Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You (1916)

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In these days of indigestion it is oftentimes a question
As to what to eat and what to leave alone.
Every microbe and bacillus has a different way to kill us
And in time they all will claim us for their own.
There are germs of every kind in every food that you can find
In the market or upon the bill of fare.
Drinking water's just as risky as the so-called "deadly" whiskey
And it's often a mistake to breathe the air.

Some little bug is going to find you someday.
Some little bug will creep behind you someday.
Then he'll send for his bug friends
And all your troubles they will end,
For some little bug is gonna find you someday.

The inviting green cucumber, it's most everybody's number
While sweetcorn has a system of its own.
Now, that radish seems nutritious, but its behavior is quite vicious
And a doctor will be coming to your home.
Eating lobster, cooked or plain, is only flirting with ptomaine,
While an oyster often has a lot to say.
And those clams we eat in chowder make the angels sing the louder
For they know that they 'II be with us right away.

Some little bug is going to find you someday.
Some little bug will creep behind you someday.
Eat that juicy sliced pineapple,
And the sexton dusts the chapel
Oh, yes, some little bug is gonna find you someday.

When cold storage vaults I visit, I can only say, "What is it
Makes poor mortals fill their systems with such stuff?"
Now, at breakfast prunes are dandy if a stomach pump is handy
And a doctor can be called quite soon enough.
Eat a plate of fine pig's knuckles and the headstone cutter chuckles
While the gravedigger makes a mark upon his cuff.
And eat that lovely red bologna and you 'II wear a wood kimona
As your relatives start packing up your stuff.

Some little bug is going to find you someday.
Some little bug will creep behind you someday.
Then he'll send for his bug friends
And all your troubles they will end,
For some little bug is gonna find you someday.

Those crazy foods they fix, they'll float us 'cross the River Styx
Or start us climbing up the Milky Way.
And those meals they serve in courses mean a hearse and two black horses
So before meals, some people always pray.
Luscious grapes breed appendicitis, while their juice leads to gastritis
So there's only death to greet us either way.
Fried liver's nice, but mind you, friends will follow close behind you
And the papers, they will have nice things to say.........

Some little bug is going to find you someday.
Some little bug will creep behind you someday.
Then he'll send for his bug friends
And all your troubles they will end,
For some little bug is gonna find you someday.

 

[dh66]

I think the essential element of it is that people resist the idea of their own individual insignificance in the great scheme of things.

Eloquently put. You hit the nail on the head.

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[dh66]

I once had a militant vegan try to explain to me that the by-product of a vegetarian diet did not carry the same offensive aroma as that of someone who regularly consumed meat.
I can assure you, as someone who works in the plumbing trade, that this is a complete load of crap. Talk about delusions of grandeur and an inflated sense of self purpose....

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[V.C. Brunswick]

Here's something to try on the vegans. You could point out that back in the days of hunter societies there were very few wars but when mankind learned to cultivate crops (i.e. veggies) that's when land became valuable enough to fight over.