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Why would I ever want to mingle with a bunch of old farts, hardly able to keep their depends on while complaining about how the world is going to hell in a hand basket? Old fogeys are so over the hill and outdated they can't even keep up with the exponential development in technology. What are they going to teach me, how to milk a cow? How to drive a horse and buggy? Maybe if they're really high tech they can teach me how to operate a punch card or a teletype.
Getting old is going to suck. Anything past 60 and you might as well be put out to pasture.
Best wishes, gramps.
Sad to see how little respect you give the old fogeys. You can learn quite a bit from them.
Keep up with Technology? I was a student in the field of electronics and actually worked on a
military TTL controlled rocket launcher when I was two days older than dirt. Yes. you needed clearance.
I still remember a few ancient programming languages. Heck, I can upload some python code to a
raspberry pi and hardware SS relays to operate those outdated teletypes. I did my hard time.
I prefer to walk my dog. Don't underestimate the elderly. They still run this great country......................
Best wishes.
Tkinter anyone?
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Sounds like a lot of patting oneself on one’s back for living in times where the cost of opportunity was different than it is today. I suppose congratulations are in order?
The military definitely offers one of (and probably the most cost effective) the best paths to upward social/economic mobility.
Thankyou.
As long as an individual can meet a minimum IQ of 83
the military offers a lifelong and most wonderful career.
This is the place where boys are turned into real men.
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Try being an inner-city kid looking for work in the 1979 to 1983 recession. The only jobs that were hiring with any types of benefits was the U.S. Military. I enlisted in the Army and served overseas in Germany and Korea during the Cold War... Waiting to be nuked or being poisoned with nerve agent by the Soviets and later serving in both wars with Iraq.
Back then, there was no staying at home and living in the basement till "things" got better. For many of us Boomers, it was sink or swim, but you were out of the house on or around your 18th birthday.
To the best of my knowledge, the U.S. Army is still offering pretty good benefits and always looking for young men and women to enlist.
Yes.
It holds true for the hungry and ambitious.
Successful careers in military service have
and are providing a wonderful life for many a family.
Last edited by Mr.Retired; 02-15-2019 at 07:15 AM..
Sounds like a lot of patting oneself on one’s back for living in times where the cost of opportunity was different than it is today. I suppose congratulations are in order?
When the children end up doing better than the parents, congratulations are then, only in order.
No trophies just for participating. That would be fake news.
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Something about denture cream and depends or something
Sorry, although there are similarities, we are discussing the question of failures
that have consumed many millennials not nursing home residents.
Best wishes.
Love it .............Kind of looks like me.
Can you mail me a photocopy? (sarcasm)
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