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That's just it - I am rebelling against euphemisms and embracing the concept of being old. It is okay to be old! The youth oriented denial of age is ridiculous!
I'm with you on this. But you are aware, surely, that "old" - no matter how you slice the cake of "old" - is
going to frost the rump off a HUGE number of people. And they will then spin endless snarky/defensive/noble threads about "old".....as your original thread topic goes down the drain.
As bait for creating a hornet swarm about age it is absolutely irresistible, but otherwise "old people" probably kills the actual thread topic....assuming baiting wasn't the reason for the thread.
Meanwhile, maybe I will change my "geriatric turncoat" classification to "senior decrepit" as it is becoming more physically accurate.
To be more up-to-date, I'm thinking of switching to "Olpipo" - sort of a spinoff from "Wypipo." (check urbandictionary.com if you have not heard that term).
Olpipo always trying to get discounts and stuff.
Olpipo always talking about their knees and organz.
Olpipo in the olpipo home: "Too many olpipo around here!"
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Originally Posted by nobodysbusiness
I understand that some people do not like the term.
I am using it because I like it and it helps keep me in reality. Otherwise, I am prone to fits of vanity that are strictly delusional.
I have too much respect for the King's English to watch this guy brutalize it with a lazy choice of words. Our Mother Tongue is rich with synonyms and euphemisms. Expand your vocabulary was my suggestion.
A Poster named "nobodysbusiness" asking a bunch of personal questions....the irony is off the charts here.
I think 'old' people are solely and only people 85 years old or older.
Perhaps 80 or 82 years old or older.....maybe......but that's it.
I'm not joking.
To me it's just the numbers and not health or physical limitations, and I thought of myself, and routinely think of others, at age 75 as old.
In some measure that may be due to the fact that this was the age where relatives and neighbors died when I was a kid. I am eighty, and in my father's family that approaches eternal for males. I am one of four males in the family who has lived to that age since my grt grt grandfather was born in 1792 (or was it 94, I forget now.)
I suppose the predicted lifespan for many males born later than I is post mid-eighties, but in fact I know and know of few men in their late eighties. I have seen tables with the death age of white U.S. females in the mid-nineties. Bottom line - for me - 75 to death is O-L-D. I rarely make that statement in a group of real-live people as it provokes as much hysteria and hostility as if I had flung out racist or sexist epithets at random, whereas on the net readers can go "click" and the topic is dead meat.
I have too much respect for the King's English to watch this guy brutalize it with a lazy choice of words. Our Mother Tongue is rich with synonyms and euphemisms. Expand your vocabulary was my suggestion.
A Poster named "nobodysbusiness" asking a bunch of personal questions....the irony is off the charts here.
What time do you Old People go to bed ? What do you Old People drink ?? How many BM's per day ??
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