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01-25-2020, 01:43 PM
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#121
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2005
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I did a Google search of my full name and date of birth. Guess what came up as the top result ? This thread.
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01-25-2020, 01:57 PM
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#122
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 144
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nancyfrank232
Seniors think that their opinions are supposed to be important. They like to give their opinion despite not being asked
Seniors are stereotypically grumpy, anti-social, and dismissive of any generation but their own. They prove this over and over
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I recall feeling this exact same way about my elders. At a certain point in my life I was sure that I had all the answers, was awesome if just misunderstood, and dismissed anyone a generation or more older than my dazzling self. Once I entered my later twenties I began to acquire some maturity and wisdom and slowly grew out of my childish phase. This growth rate apparently varies considerably person to person, and occasionally fails to launch.
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01-25-2020, 01:58 PM
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#123
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Upstate Ruralia
Posts: 356
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I don't worry about being irrelevant.
I am more depressed that, at age 63, I am invisible.
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01-25-2020, 02:10 PM
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#124
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 2,911
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
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01-25-2020, 02:43 PM
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#125
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lcountz
I am more depressed that, at age 63, I am invisible.
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"Who said that?"..."Hullo, hullo..is anyone there?"
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The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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01-25-2020, 02:55 PM
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#126
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 17,773
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Oh wait, I thought this thread was about becoming irreverent as we get older. Never mind.
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01-25-2020, 04:36 PM
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#127
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bestwifeever
Oh wait, I thought this thread was about becoming irreverent as we get older.
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What, like Pastors who retire?
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The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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01-25-2020, 05:24 PM
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#128
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Beaverton
Posts: 1,382
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
What, like Pastors who retire?
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Huh? Confused about that reply
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01-25-2020, 05:30 PM
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#129
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bir48die
Huh? Confused about that reply
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OK, it wasn't great...but Pastors who retire could possibly be classified as irreveren d.
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01-25-2020, 06:02 PM
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#130
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 22,923
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Now the frog is dead. Bummer.
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01-25-2020, 06:49 PM
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#131
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
Now the frog is dead. Bummer.
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Not before its time perhaps.
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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01-25-2020, 07:09 PM
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#132
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Valley of the Sun
Posts: 634
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Quote:
Words once in common use now sound archaic. And the
names of the famous dead as well: Camillus, Caeso, Volesus,
Dentatus . . . Scipio and Cato . . . Augustus . . . Hadrian and
Antoninus, and . . .
Everything fades so quickly, turns into legend, and soon oblivion covers it.
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And before long you’ll be no one, nowhere—like Hadrian,
like Augustus.
--Marcus Aurelius
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All of those people were very relevant at one time. Now, not much. Marcus Aurelius, Hadrian, and Augustus were Roman emperors. I don't even really know who the rest were.
Don't worry nancyfrank232, you too will be irrelevant soon than you think. Perhaps you already are.
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01-25-2020, 08:37 PM
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#133
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
Posts: 14,183
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Turbo29
All of those people were very relevant at one time. Now, not much. Marcus Aurelius, Hadrian, and Augustus were Roman emperors. I don't even really know who the rest were.
Don't worry nancyfrank232, you too will be irrelevant soon than you think. Perhaps you already are.
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Wasn’t Cato the Green Hornet’s side kick? [emoji51]
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What is meant when people say an old person "becomes irrelevant"?
01-25-2020, 08:37 PM
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#134
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2019
Posts: 249
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What is meant when people say an old person "becomes irrelevant"?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Turbo29
All of those people were very relevant at one time. Now, not much. Marcus Aurelius, Hadrian, and Augustus were Roman emperors. I don't even really know who the rest were.
Don't worry nancyfrank232, you too will be irrelevant soon than you think. Perhaps you already are.
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Of course
The difference is that I’ve accepted my irrelevance, seniors haven’t. Some believe they still are
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01-25-2020, 09:02 PM
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#135
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Milwaukee
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HFWR
Wasn’t Cato the Green Hornet’s side kick? [emoji51]
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Or O.J.'s?
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01-26-2020, 01:24 AM
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#136
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HFWR
Wasn’t Cato the Green Hornet’s side kick? [emoji51]
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And Inspector Clouseau's.....but which was 'The Elder'?
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01-26-2020, 01:51 AM
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#137
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gone traveling
Join Date: Nov 2019
Posts: 68
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Amethyst
Suspect the poster was using "boomer" as a catch-all for "old people."
In the mid-90's, our agency got rid of a lot of "secretarial" positions because personal computers had been on nearly every desk since the late 80's. This caused a number of high-ranking men, born in the 1930's, to retire because, never having learned to "type," they were now irrelevant.
I'm sure there are people, born after 1946 and thus in the "boom" generation, who couldn't deal with the PCs either; but I haven't met any.
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This happened to a local big corporation back in the 80s. Desk PCs were introduced and lots of older workers quit/retired. So the corporation had to hire lots of replacements. That is how I was blessed to get my position there which become my life's work. Fortunately, I already had on-the-job PC experience. But now that I am older and retired, I don't keep up with the latest changes in technology. Now I can relate to the culture shock felt by those older employees back in the 80s.
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What is meant when people say an old person "becomes irrelevant"?
01-26-2020, 06:21 AM
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#138
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2019
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What is meant when people say an old person "becomes irrelevant"?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexi
This happened to a local big corporation back in the 80s. Desk PCs were introduced and lots of older workers quit/retired. So the corporation had to hire lots of replacements. That is how I was blessed to get my position there which become my life's work. Fortunately, I already had on-the-job PC experience. But now that I am older and retired, I don't keep up with the latest changes in technology. Now I can relate to the culture shock felt by those older employees back in the 80s.
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The best way make a senior confront their own irrelevance is to introduce new technology or cultural trend
At this point seniors will talk about the culture and technology of the past and how things were better back then
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01-26-2020, 06:31 AM
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#139
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
Posts: 25,155
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nancyfrank232
I’ve accepted my irrelevance, seniors haven’t. Some believe they still are
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nancyfrank232
The best way make a senior confront their own irrelevance is to introduce new technology or cultural trend
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Sounds like you had a bad experience. Sorry for that, but I hope you realize you're speaking only for yourself. Unwise to use such a broad brush for all "seniors".
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01-26-2020, 06:51 AM
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#140
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2019
Posts: 249
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Quote:
Originally Posted by braumeister
Sounds like you had a bad experience. Sorry for that, but I hope you realize you're speaking only for yourself. Unwise to use such a broad brush for all "seniors".
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The broad brush of truth [emoji23]
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