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Old 01-25-2020, 01:43 PM   #121
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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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Old 01-25-2020, 01:57 PM   #122
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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

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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Old 01-25-2020, 01:58 PM   #123
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I am more depressed that, at age 63, I am invisible.
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Old 01-25-2020, 02:10 PM   #124
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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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Old 01-25-2020, 02:43 PM   #125
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Oh wait, I thought this thread was about becoming irreverent as we get older. Never mind.
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Oh wait, I thought this thread was about becoming irreverent as we get older.
What, like Pastors who retire?
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Old 01-25-2020, 05:24 PM   #128
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Old 01-25-2020, 05:30 PM   #129
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OK, it wasn't great...but Pastors who retire could possibly be classified as irreverend.
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Not before its time perhaps.
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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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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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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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What is meant when people say an old person "becomes irrelevant"?
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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.

Of course

The difference is that I’ve accepted my irrelevance, seniors haven’t. Some believe they still are
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Or O.J.'s?

And Inspector Clouseau's.....but which was 'The Elder'?
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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.

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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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.

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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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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