Your Most Disturbing Realizations

[LizzieMaine]

My mother was reasonably healthy until she hit her seventies, but then she started to experience a lot of internal problems -- she has no trouble walking, seeing, hearing, or mouthing off, but her internal systems seem to be breaking down like an old car breaks down. No catastrophic failures, just a steady deterioration, and it's wearing on her terribly. That, along with being forced to stop working as a result of these problems, has really diminished her, especially over the past year. She's 76 now, but I don't think she'll make it to 80, and I don't think she particularly wants to.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I personally think, looking on Germany, with it's huge problem of cancer, especially on middle-aged persons between 40 and 60 (mainly women!), the best you can do, is, to reduce your consumption of flesh to an minimum, and much more reducing consumption of this really sick cow-milk-products.
And women: What about these contraceptive pills? Why trusting this pharma-stuff, actually?? Why are this massive upcoming of brain-tumors between 40 and 60??

This massive consumtion of yoghurt all around, here, can't be healty. This stuff makes a mess with your digestion. And today it's no more a mystery, that the animal egg-whites are the baddest thing on nutrition, you can do to yourself. But it's not finally proven.

But ok, younger people, here, luckily don't believe this old myth of milk! And on kindergarten, they don't give milk to the kids ever more. (Cow)Milk is just for little calfs.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

I personally think, looking on Germany, with it's huge problem of cancer, especially on middle-aged persons between 40 and 60 (mainly women!), the best you can do, is, to reduce your consumption of flesh to an minimum, and much more reducing consumption of this really sick cow-milk-products.
And women: What about these contraceptive pills? Why trusting this pharma-stuff, actually?? Why are this massive upcoming of brain-tumors between 40 and 60??

This massive consumtion of yoghurt all around, here, can't be healty. This stuff makes a mess with your digestion. And today it's no more a mystery, that the animal egg-whites are the baddest thing on nutrition, you can do to yourself. But it's not finally proven.

But ok, younger people, here, luckily don't believe this old myth of milk! And on kindergarten, they don't give milk to the kids ever more. (Cow)Milk is just for little calfs.

Have to agree with you there Trenchy. Far too much red & processed meat eaten today in the 'devoloped' world. Interesting too what you say about dairy products. Lactose causes a lot of problems in adult mammals & although humans may have developed a certain tolerance, frequent consumption can cause micro inflammations in various parts of the body which may lead on in some people to certain autoimmune diseases.Dairy products have also been shown to be a contributory factor in prostate cancer.
Yep, cancer is on the increase & in ever younger members of the population, why? who knows, no one is brave enough to delve any deeper as there are too many industrial lobbies ready to put a stop to any serious research as to the real causes, which is why most research is concentrated on curing/treating the disese & not preventing it. But everything is agaisnt us...pesticides, pollution, cosmetics, industrial foods & farming, WiFi & mobile phones, over consumtion of everything & of course, lack of physical activity. Humans have inherited through their genes a biological need to move. We are generally doing everything we shouldn't be & somewhere along the line we're gonna pay. The current generation of 20 year olds, are going to be prehaps the least healthiest population the world has ever seen.

 

[Trenchfriend]

And another big problem on nutrition, I think of:

Since the 90's, I think, who still likes to peel potatoes, than some middle-aged and older (and me? ) ?? Eating worthless white-flour-noodles, noodles, noodles, with whatever, day by day, and off course evan better "to go".
And, when not eating noodles, eating sick industrial meat-products and sick milk-products out of plastic-cups.
white-flour, white-flour, white-flour, meat, meat, meat, fat, fat, fat and sugar, sugar, sugar.

Germans are real noodle-munchers, since decades. Meat-consumption, here, lighty goes down year by year. Vegetarians are no more alien. Vegans, too.

And the BIG problem of the whole thing:
In Germanys towns and bigger towns, in 2015, now you can munch really on every corner! That's really sick. Döner, fish-rolls, meat-rolls, junk-food, fast-food, bakery-food, soups, Curry-sausages, overall.
And off course, how Germans like it the most: HEFTY food (like from Bohemia)!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Any idiot can plant a seed, but it takes actual skill and effort to cultivate the resulting sprout.

Go figure, you need a license to:

Drive
Carry a Gun
Practice Medicine

But not to be a parent!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

KoQ on german Television, these were good times, I tell you. I saw it first in the end of 2002, at that time, the series was broadcasted the first time. Thinking: Oh man, this Carrie is a hottie and the series is really funny, too!! It was the first season broadcasted.

And who'da thought she was a Scilon. Now Leah Rimini has a book out about growing up in the Church of Scientology.

 

[Trenchfriend]

In Germany, this "parents-license" is required, year by year.

But there is german constitution "Artikel 2".

 

[LuvMyMan]

You have to wonder if the person chose it for himself of if his family chose it as a tongue-in-cheek coda.

My Dad died at 64, his dad at 49, I'm 51 (13 years to go or 2 years past my expiration date), but there are some longevity genes on my mom's side - so who the heck knows. But it was an insanely disturbing revelation when I turned 49 to think about my grandfather's passing.

Lets hope you can stick around longer than that! My Mom is 93, her Sister is 96, my Grandma died at 94. However it is not a person's death but how they loved and lived life that makes what we are, special. Just peek at all the fantastic people that are fellow Loungers! It does not get better than that!

 

[LuvMyMan]

I caught my self the other day looking in the mirror and thinking.... "I'm 41. By the time Kurt Cobain was my age, he'd been dead for fourteen years."

My God, Edward!!!! You are still a wonderful "puppy" compared to some of us "Jurassic" types...Hahahah!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Today, I realized, on which point I will be feeling old.

If someday I will be talking to any younger german people, maybe generation 1995, and then, they will no more know the old german names "Muckefuck" or "Blümchenkaffee" for grain-coffee/malt-coffee.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

no more know the old german names "Muckefuck"

I think 'Muckefuck' will be around for ever, just the other day a youngster called me a 'Muckefucker'

 

[GHT]

If I'm that alert at that age, I'll be happy to carry on!

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Today, I realized, on which point I will be feeling old.

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

My mother was reasonably healthy until she hit her seventies, but then she started to experience a lot of internal problems -- she has no trouble walking, seeing, hearing, or mouthing off, but her internal systems seem to be breaking down like an old car breaks down. No catastrophic failures, just a steady deterioration, and it's wearing on her terribly. That, along with being forced to stop working as a result of these problems, has really diminished her, especially over the past year. She's 76 now, but I don't think she'll make it to 80, and I don't think she particularly wants to.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward
.

I watched Blade Runner again this weekend. Released in 1982, it shows the future of 2019...no way we get there in just over 3 years!

I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

 

[MisterCairo]

Holy segue Batman!

 

[Trenchfriend]

And we Germans surely will sometimes be more healthy, but we like our "brown cocaine" very much.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=schololade&FORM=HDRSC2

 

[Edward]

My God, Edward!!!! You are still a wonderful "puppy" compared to some of us "Jurassic" types...Hahahah!

Ha, inside I've been a grumpy old man of 77 since I wa about 12.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I'm honestly convinced that the health-food-nazis really don't live twenty years longer - it just seems that way. Especially to the rest of us.

 

[LuvMyMan]

Ha, inside I've been a grumpy old man of 77 since I wa about 12.



I'm honestly convinced that the health-food-nazis really don't live twenty years longer - it just seems that way. Especially to the rest of us.

I never pay any attention to some of the health food gang. Kale? Are you kidding me? That stuff is like eating some old carpet! I'll take a juicy steak, tossed salad, pie (hot) with ice cream any day!

 

[LuvMyMan]

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward
.
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

That is the honest truth! The years seem to be just FLYING right past us before our very eyes! Seems like yesterday I was able to watch some Gary Moore Show! Now, we are stuck with garbage like "Friends"....

I do however love the re runs of Perry Mason!

 

[Trenchfriend]

The funny thing:

At the latest, in five years, my rental-flat will be a 90's museum in 2020, if my tube-tv will be still there and functioning.
Then, we will have got:
-51" tube-tv on a roll-fronted-cabinet
-a youth-wall unit, typical late 90s/early 2000, with a classic mini-HiFi-equipment, same looking like 90's
-a tiles-table from 1990 with a crank
-a desk, typical late 90s/early 2000
-a simple couch from 2010, looking like german 70's
-a brass coloured ceiling lamp and the corresponding reading-floor lamp from 1990
-roman shades from 2004, looking like modern trend of 90's
-white standard-bathtub from the 90s
-next to my 2012-notebook a Compaq Presario from 1999
-my childs-room-desk lamp from 1990

 

[HudsonHawk]

I never pay any attention to some of the health food gang. Kale? Are you kidding me? That stuff is like eating some old carpet! I'll take a juicy steak, tossed salad, pie (hot) with ice cream any day!

Kale, or as we call it in the south, collard greens, are wonderful. So long as they're cooked with bacon.

 

[LuvMyMan]

Kale, or as we call it in the south, collard greens, are wonderful. So long as they're cooked with bacon.

OH...O.K. so you then toss the Kale and eat the Bacon?