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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 12/23/2007 : 07:00:25
... the birth of the sun god? |
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 12/31/2007 : 11:04:23
If so, I'm staying away from your surveys, my friend! I'm one of the 50 year olds that feels better than she did at 40, and still thinks she's 25!
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| Koli |
Posted - 12/31/2007 : 09:55:20
It was dispiriting for me to discover that in some statistical surveys anyone over 50 is classed as 'elderly'. Now in my book elderly is worse than old. If you're old you've experienced many summers; 'elderly' implies a degree of frailty: there must be a growing list of things you're no longer capable of doing, you clearly need help in doing other things that will shortly be added to that first list, and you are vulnerable in a way you weren't before.
I'm happy to accept the principle that 50 is the new 40, because we are generally healthier than we used to be. I hope to retire at 60 (if I can afford it) so that I can do the things that I've convinced myself I haven't the time to do while I'm in employment. It always seems very sad and unfair when someone soldiers on until they're 65 and then falls off their perch within a couple of years of embarking on the retirement they've been paying for throughout their working lives.
I must add that my 77 year old mother was very chuffed the other day when a doctor (she's currently in hospital following an asthma attack) expressed disbelief on being told her age and said she didn't look older than 58. I can picture her telling her fellow patients that I'm not her son but her younger brother... |
| duh |
Posted - 12/28/2007 : 01:28:14
quote:
Originally posted by Se�n
quote:
Originally posted by Koli
So, as he's only just hit his half century, he's not really old...
50 is old.
Life begins at 50. 40 is old. |
| Sean |
Posted - 12/28/2007 : 00:25:21
quote:
Originally posted by Koli
So, as he's only just hit his half century, he's not really old...
50 is old.
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 12/27/2007 : 12:38:44
[snif, snif]You're mean, Koli. Really mean. Next you'll tell me there's no tooth fairy.[/snif, snif] |
| Koli |
Posted - 12/27/2007 : 11:33:36
quote:
Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Wait a minute... if 12/25/57 was her 50th birthday, then that means... Oh, My! Happy 100th Birthday!!!!
(Just joking... you don't look a day over 98!)
Unlikely as it may seem, I believe LOLFD is male. So, as he's only just hit his half century, he's not really old, not very female, possibly isn't little, and may not even be from where he claims. This man is a fraud!
Happy birthday LOLFD.  |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 12/27/2007 : 07:28:55
Wait a minute... if 12/25/57 was her 50th birthday, then that means... Oh, My! Happy 100th Birthday!!!!
(Just joking... you don't look a day over 98!) |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 12/27/2007 : 07:04:17
quote:
Originally posted by Little Old Lady from Dubuque
12/25/57 is my 50th birthday ... no celebrating!
Belated Happy Birthday, LOLFD!
Here's to the next 50!
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 12/27/2007 : 06:12:29
quote:
Originally posted by Little Old Lady from Dubuque
12/25/57 is my 50th birthday ... no celebrating!
Well, I'm 6 months older than you are and I'm not in mourning, so...
Have fun!
("You're not getting older, you're getting better!")
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| Little Old Lady from Dubuque |
Posted - 12/27/2007 : 01:38:55
12/25/57 is my 50th birthday ... no celebrating! |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 12/24/2007 : 12:48:36
quote:
Originally posted by Se�n
I think I'll celebrate with two of the deadly sins - gluttony and sloth. 
Lucky you.
I have to work! |
| Sean |
Posted - 12/24/2007 : 11:33:57
I think I'll celebrate with two of the deadly sins - gluttony and sloth. |
| Koli |
Posted - 12/24/2007 : 10:45:52
quote:
Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Maybe this will work better?
(I don't know why that link died, it was simply a news article.)
Ah that's much better. Well, it's a tempting thought. Any excuse for a piss-up, I'd say.  |
| Conan The Westy |
Posted - 12/24/2007 : 09:38:00
Nup I'll be going with the more traditional Merry Christmas. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 12/24/2007 : 06:41:52
Maybe this will work better?
(I don't know why that link died, it was simply a news article.) |
