You know you are getting old when:

[2jakes]

You know you're getting old when you're engaged in some teamwork item moving, and you comment that the team is working like a "bucket brigade."

Yep!
Especially when two were pushing and the other two were pulling in opposite direction.
(moving a ’39 panel out of tight spot towards the tow truck.

 

[2jakes]

I hope they were "hauling it away" to a restorer's shop, and not to an ignoble end.

Going to a lover of things restored to original.
I can sleep in peace knowing this.

 

[Zombie_61]

You know you're getting old when you're engaged in some teamwork item moving, and you comment that the team is working like a "bucket brigade."

And then you have to spend 5 to 10 minutes explaining the term to the "kids".

 

[vitanola]

until you wanted to go out and shoot McKinley all over again.

Great. Now I have to wipe my Postum from the wallpaper.

 

[HadleyH1]

Every favorite movie star or television actor is dead.

Not knowing 99% of the movie stars at the
Oscar telecast!

Yes,when they are all dead of course my favorite actors are from the 20s ...but still

Even much newer ones....all gone.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Yes,when they are all dead of course my favorite actors are from the 20s ...but still

Even much newer ones....all gone.

They're all gone except for Todd Bridges. Now that makes me feel old because I actually saw a taping of one of the episodes and was in the studio audience! Doesn't seem like it was that long ago.

 

[GHT]

They're all gone except for Todd Bridges. Now that makes me feel old because I actually saw a taping of one of the episodes and was in the studio audience! Doesn't seem like it was that long ago.

Well don't forget Issur Danielovitch who has reached the grand old age of 102, nor that of another famous star of the 1930's whose name is legendry:

 

[Tiki Tom]

You know you are getting old when an article like this makes you sit up and take note:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/20/genetic-researchers-reverse-wrinkles-gray-hair-and/

 

[GHT]

You know you are getting old when an article like this makes you sit up and take note:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/20/genetic-researchers-reverse-wrinkles-gray-hair-and/

Science has made mice look good by reversing age-related wrinkles and hair loss at the genetic level. Humanity could get a similar make-over in the future.
“Wrinkled skin and hair loss are hallmarks of aging. What if they could be reversed?” asked researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham — who appear to have accomplished that feat, according to the research team.
I notice that we never got to test the effects of viagra:

 

[Zombie_61]

You know you are getting old when an article like this makes you sit up and take note:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/20/genetic-researchers-reverse-wrinkles-gray-hair-and/

If I'm reading the article correctly, they introduced a gene mutation that caused the mouse to develop wrinkles and hair loss, and it returned to it's normal state when they eliminated that gene mutation. They would have achieved the exact same results if they had just left it alone.

 

[Tiki Tom]

They’ve been working miracles on mice for decades. I vividly remember reading an article some 20+ years ago stating that dentistry was about to be turned on its head because “within 10 years” humans would be able to regrow teeth. I’m still waiting.

I’m not so much worried about new scientific techniques to reverse aging as I’m worried about learning how to grow old gracefully.

 

[GHT]

I’m not so much worried about new scientific techniques to reverse aging as I’m worried about learning how to grow old gracefully.

 

[Zombie_61]

...I’m not so much worried about new scientific techniques to reverse aging as I’m worried about learning how to grow old gracefully.

Growing old is inevitable; growing old gracefully is optional. I'm giving it my best shot, but most days I'm not convinced I'm succeeding.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Aging will never be solved as long as it's not in the economic best interests of society to solve it. The survival of The System depends on a steady human churn rate.

 

[scottyrocks]

Yes, the longer we live, the more there are of us outside that most lucrative 18-34 advertising bracket.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

And you start getting junk mail from the Neptune Society.

 

[scottyrocks]

And AARP.

 

[GHT]

Yes, the longer we live, the more there are of us outside that most lucrative 18-34 advertising bracket.

Why is the 18-34 bracket so lucrative? Or seen to be so? Sure if you have money in your pocket in your late teens, early twenties, it's almost sure to burn a hole. But beyond that it's an age when we take on most debt. Buying or renting a home, furnishing it, soft furnishings, essential chattels, transport, babies, the list is endless. Whereas the over 55's are over most of their debts, have money in their pocket and want to relax and enjoy their autumn years. And as we are living longer there must be a market for those in the leisure industries. I remember seeing a cruise ship leaving Southampton, all the passengers up on the top deck waving farewell. It looked like a huge box of Q Tips.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Hmm. I'm over 55 and deeper in debt than I've ever been in my life thanks to medical crises that just keep happening. The latest is a hole in my right retina that needs to be fixed. I find myself wondering if I can get by with one good eye, but the eye that's damaged *is* my one good eye, so I'm pretty much stuck spending more money I don't have, since my ridiculous so-called "insurance" doesn't consider vision an essential expense. My post-55 leisure activites increasingly consist of sitting in waiting rooms reading eight-week-old copies of the New Yorker while squinting like Popeye.

The reason 18-34s have money to spend is that their bodies are still under warranty. Wait'll they start rusting out like I have.

 

[HanauMan]

That is sad to hear.

That is one thing with me that changed as I've gotten older. I no longer am as anti socialist as I was as a younger man. I have lived in the UK for more than thirty years (and paying my British taxes, which are higher than in most European countries while at the same time paying out the least pension). In that time I have come to a greater understanding about the differences of a European social democracy and the more capitalist democracy in the US. I will now end my days in Europe (not necessarily in the UK) because I cannot afford the health insurance if I ever returned 'home'. I moved to Europe at the height of the Cold War and had a distrust of the socialist European way of life but I have grown to understand the high regard the Europeans / British have for their various health services.