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09 Jul 2025, 5:57 am

Gumption


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09 Jul 2025, 6:01 am

I announced my intention to retire the day before I turn 100. That way, I will retire on a Friday and have a retirement party and then have a big birthday party on Saturday for my 100th birthday.

So what was the first question I was asked about those plans?

"Just how long are we going to have to keep paying you after you're dead?"



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09 Jul 2025, 1:41 pm

"Old age isn't for cissies you know."

Mind you it's right. I've heard that the mid-life crisis is about making a new deal with death. Before that, people tend to think it's so far in the future that it's not real. We're programmed with a survival instinct and one day we realise on an emotional level that we won't survive.



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09 Jul 2025, 2:24 pm

I'm only 35 and already I feel like an old person in a technical world. High street stores closing because of Amazon really upsets me. Banks closing really upsets me too, because there are a few things you can't do online or need help with by a professional who works in a bank. Post offices closing baffles me, as a lot of Amazon deliveries are done through the post office. Greed is what worries me the most, because greedy companies aren't happy with billions, they need billions and billions, so the same amount of shoppers that were spending in their stores as there was 20 years ago are no good so the company decides to shut its doors instead and expect everyone to do everything behind a screen. :roll:
Stores, banks and post offices bring a sense of community to the cities or towns. I can't stand a world where there are no stores to look around. I can't even buy the DVDs I want any more because greedy Disney wants everyone to stream on sh***y Disney Plus while they just raise the subscription fee every few months. I want DVDs. I dread the day when they stop selling DVD players. Then what?

I'm protesting against Disney Plus by not having it at all. Shame more people can't do that.


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09 Jul 2025, 4:02 pm

I'm not getting older. I'm getting better. Wish I felt like it.



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09 Jul 2025, 4:07 pm

Mostly I'm just like a young man with a few extra aches and pains. My mind doesn't seem any older at all, though I think it's got wiser.



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09 Jul 2025, 5:15 pm

When you go to the doctor and don't want to tell anyone why:

"Why did you go to the doctor?"
"I went for EOPP."
"What's EOPP?"
"Embarrassing Old People's Problem"



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04 Aug 2025, 10:41 pm

I'm really beginning to wonder if younger generations are much weaker and too delicate now. Because when I was a kid, I would bring sandwiches to school for lunch, and they usually had lunch meat and Miracle Whip in them, and then I'd have my lunch box sitting at room temperature for several hours before eating it at lunch. Also my mother would cook pots of spaghetti sauce or chili, and after it was done she'd leave in the pot on the stove all night and we'd eat it the next day as well. And when she made roast turkey with stuffing she'd leave the stuffing inside the turkey instead of removing it and putting it in a separate dish like she does now. And yet I'm pretty sure I never got food poisoning.

But young people these days have all kinds of health problems and allergies and they can't go out unsupervised or even breathe the outside air because it's too polluted, and they have so little resistance to germs that they're practically like The Bubble Boy. But Gen X people are tough, we used to spend hours without any adults watching our every move and be exposed to sunlight and play in the dirt and pick up frogs and bugs without washing our hands afterwards.

Too bad the human race will be extinct soon because kids can't even get a sniffle now without being hospitalized. :(



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04 Aug 2025, 10:46 pm

Tarnation...!


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05 Aug 2025, 1:16 am

heaven can't come soon enough. for me and the people I care about.



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19 Oct 2025, 7:00 pm

Hey Lily?

No...

What do you mean no?

Just no. Whatever it is.



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19 Oct 2025, 8:20 pm

Could you reink this tattoo please?



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22 Oct 2025, 5:46 am

We ain't gettin' any younger


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22 Oct 2025, 6:06 am

Not long now


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23 Oct 2025, 12:15 pm

At my age


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23 Oct 2025, 8:20 pm

I'm going to post a letter.


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