LizzieMaine
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Where's old Joe Howard now that we need him?
Interesting; vanity never entered into my thinking when it first became necessary for me to use a cane. My only thought was, "My back and leg hurt, and the cane helps to alleviate that." The thing I dislike about using a cane is that I lose the practical use of whichever hand I use to hold the cane.
Don't need a cane just yet. However, I'm aware that the time will come; and probably sooner than I'd like. With that in mind, I have been eyeing a cane with an Emperor Franz Joseph handle. It will be quite the oddity on O'ahu. Sort of a souvenir of my 18 years in Vienna.
Damn, you Europeans eat some weird sh...uhh, stuff.
You are definitely getting old when you can no longer boast that you will die young.
You know you're getting old when you tune in to a local "oldies" FM radio station that you haven't listened to for a couple of decades or so, and discover they're now playing the songs you and your wife danced to only 40 years ago.
You know you're getting old when you know quite a few people who don't even own a radio. It breaks my heart to hear this from someone -- I mean, what did I live my life for?
You know you're getting old when you know quite a few people who don't even own a radio. It breaks my heart to hear this from someone ...
I've never conducted a survey to determine who did or didn't own a radio, but over the years I've spoken with two or three people who told me they had no interest whatsoever in any style of music and couldn't understand why most people are so preoccupied with it.You know you're getting old when you know quite a few people who don't even own a radio. It breaks my heart to hear this from someone -- I mean, what did I live my life for?
In old Germany, the generation from 1990 on has no "connection" to classic radio listening...
But www-radio transmission was a good thing to keep radio alive.
There are thousands of jokes on the internet about this, like your back goes out more times than you do, but do you have any anecdotes that have made you walk away thinking: "I must be getting old?"
For most of my purchases, I pay cash. The bank note type of cash. Small traders, no problem, employees working in the large conglomerates, big problem. Twice this week I have been subjected to an inquisition that more or less implied that I was a money launderer. Huh! I should be so lucky.
I read a story in today's paper about trying to purchase a goldfish from a company called: Pets At Home. It regales the stupidity of today's society, so much so, that someone has created a forum see here.
We have come a long way in my life time, but sometimes I can't help but feel that with every pace forward, we take two back.
And none more so than the internet. How many times has your purchase failed, because you mis-read those distorted hieroglyphics that is supposed to prevent some sort of snooping. In exasperation, you pick up the phone, only to go on another merry-go-round?
Is it just me getting old, or am I turning into Jeff Dunham's caustic side-kick: "Walter?"
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Bullet bras were in fashion when I was a quite young lad. I was left with a stunningly distorted perspective on such matters.
... this was 40 years ago.
I remember being deeply jarred the first time I had an adult conversation with an adult who had no memory at all of the twentieth century. And when people talk about "Nineties Nostalgia," I'm even more deeply jarred. You mean the nineties finally ended?
Understood. With a brief case the cane will take southpaw. Thinking of a sword cane, which proves legally problematic,
and travel complicated considering airport x-ray requisites. Prolly go a South African stick w/o blade and either a
101st Airborne or Special Forces engraved handle.
You know you're getting old when you tune in to a local "oldies" FM radio station that you haven't listened to for a couple of decades or so, and discover they're now playing the songs you and your wife danced to only 40 years ago.
...when you’re the only one between younger colleagues who knows how to handle the place setting at a formal lunch or dinner.
I've never conducted a survey to determine who did or didn't own a radio, but over the years I've spoken with two or three people who told me they had no interest whatsoever in any style of music and couldn't understand why most people are so preoccupied with it.
Anymore, I think in my case it is how I interact with the internet. I am still stuck in the 2000's. It seems like most socializing now is through apps - tiktok, instagram, twitter (of which I have a rather crude nickname for), whatsapp, etc. I am used to forums (like this), Yahoo Groups, and email. So, when I was in my 20s - that is what I used, compared to how those in their 20s now mostly use apps (or so it seems). I cannot relate to really trying to interact with others via something that only allows a "blurb" of their communication (for example twitter or tiktok). It's actually jarring to me, because it lacks introspection and reflection. There is no depth to it. That way of "communicating" is so foreign to me that it may as well be on another planet (which it essentially is since I don't bother with that format/medium).
Conversely however, my internet connection form changed from being "anchored" at home via cable (or in ye olden days - phone line), to my cell phone/smart phone being my connection, since it has a wifi hotspot to which I can connect my kindle, laptop, and tablet.
You know you're getting old when you know quite a few people who don't even own a radio. It breaks my heart to hear this from someone -- I mean, what did I live my life for?
Either you might still be unclear on the definition of "subway", or I've missed the joke. Here in the U.S. it means a system of underground passenger trains, usually in (or under) the larger cities like New York and Los Angeles....(though I do recall a lot of talk about "a Beatle" being shot near something called a subway... which I later learned meant a walkway under a road in Belfast, permanently smelling of wee wee...)...
I've never conducted a survey to determine who did or didn't own a radio, but over the years I've spoken with two or three people who told me they had no interest whatsoever in any style of music and couldn't understand why most people are so preoccupied with it.
Either you might still be unclear on the definition of "subway", or I've missed the joke. Here in the U.S. it means a system of underground passenger trains, usually in (or under) the larger cities like New York and Los Angeles.