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Damn I Feel Old

Rexedgar

Rexedgar

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I just saw a commercial for a Medicare supplemental insurance company and the pitchman was Joe Namath!:shock:
 
 
Rexedgar said:
I just saw a commercial for a Medicare supplemental insurance company and the pitchman was Joe Namath!:shock:
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I saw that commercial. Yep Broadway Joe. And I still remember watching the 1969 World Series and the 1969 Super Bowl so I hear you
 
Time flies when you're having fun!
 
Yesterday I had lunch out with my mom. I guess however I was reading the menu spurred her to say, “maybe you need reading glasses”.

“I don’t need reading glasses”, I replied.

She handed me her reading glasses and asked me to try reading the menu with them on. After I tried I responded, “Well, I guess I need reading glasses”.

I already wear contacts and now I have to use reading glasses on top of that? That ain’t fair!
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Yesterday I had lunch out with my mom. I guess however I was reading the menu spurred her to say, “maybe you need reading glasses”.

“I don’t need reading glasses”, I replied.

She handed me her reading glasses and asked me to try reading the menu with them on. After I tried I responded, “Well, I guess I need reading glasses”.

I already wear contacts and now I have to use reading glasses on top of that? That ain’t fair!
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Mom knows best! I hate low light restaurants!
On the inside of the earpieces you can read the magnification factor; you can keep track of your fading eyesight.
Similar to modern TV onscreen volume controls; “Hey last week I could hear this at 12, now I have to turn it to 15!”


I am way past 15, BTW.
 
Rexedgar said:
I just saw a commercial for a Medicare supplemental insurance company and the pitchman was Joe Namath!:shock:
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Getting old is a learning curve. Here is some advice:

The good news is you can do or say anything and people ignore it. Personally I like talking to my imaginary friend on crowded elevators. Always a seat on the bus, and often a conversation opener with the "babes", ranging from middle 70's to 90's. Oh yeah, downside is you become invisible to young women.

Be good to all medical staff, especially the receptionist as they are the gate keepers. Buy them gifts..trust me, you will need a favor one day....and likely soon.


Be in good spirits if you get cataracts, as your eye lenses will be replaced and your vision will never change again. Cool.

Read the instructions on all medications and follow them.
Oh, trips in an ambulance are not fun. I thought they would be. But once at the hospital, it's party time"! Baby you are the star...but the food sucks

Pay NO attention to people with diet or medical advice. They are insane. All of them. PS Gluten is not a crime.

Get a cane. I need one because of a thing called Ménière's disease, a microscopic organism in you inner ear that makes you dizzy, causes head aches, can make you temporarily blind...
The cane changed my life. I am respected, people offer me seats, and you can do neat **** with it.

Get used to saying you are "old", people know it anyway - I mean there's only so much preparation H can hide.

And enjoy it, celebrate it, don't sit around gassing on it. Have fun with it, know that the answer to "how are you?" is always either "so far so good.." or "get lost sonny, this babe is mine."

More later, I have to get a flu shot...where I get to flirt with a babe
 
Yep. Or Tom Selleck trying to sell me a ****ing reverse mortgage.

All the big pharma commercials during the news, using music from the 70s...really bad stuff...was killing me. I'd rather watch current cool stuff for 19-24s, than watch all these commercials about disease and heart attacks with old music playing...which one is better for my health, jury is out.

I'm only middle aged though, and even that's not fun. At 42 I needed reading glasses...i've had 20/20 my entire life, and was using apparently an e-reader that had larger than tiny font, so I never noticed. Then one day I picked up one of my old paperbacks to re-read it...and I was like "holy **** I cant' read a word of it!"

Now I have to get my daughter to read package directions to me...and she's a scatter brain so she'll tell me 1 cup when it's 1/3 cup. Sucks :)
 
Mach said:
Yep. Or Tom Selleck trying to sell me a ****ing reverse mortgage.

All the big pharma commercials during the news, using music from the 70s...really bad stuff...was killing me. I'd rather watch current cool stuff for 19-24s, than watch all these commercials about disease and heart attacks with old music playing...which one is better for my health, jury is out.

I'm only middle aged though, and even that's not fun. At 42 I needed reading glasses...i've had 20/20 my entire life, and was using apparently an e-reader that had larger than tiny font, so I never noticed. Then one day I picked up one of my old paperbacks to re-read it...and I was like "holy **** I cant' read a word of it!"

Now I have to get my daughter to read package directions to me...and she's a scatter brain so she'll tell me 1 cup when it's 1/3 cup. Sucks :)
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Tom Selleck is trying to steal old people’s houses and there is that Admiral that wants you to pay your bills by borrowing against your house, “thank-you, Admiral.” 42 damn! Just a pup in the big picture.......
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Yesterday I had lunch out with my mom. I guess however I was reading the menu spurred her to say, “maybe you need reading glasses”.

“I don’t need reading glasses”, I replied.

She handed me her reading glasses and asked me to try reading the menu with them on. After I tried I responded, “Well, I guess I need reading glasses”.

I already wear contacts and now I have to use reading glasses on top of that? That ain’t fair!
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When my mom gives me advice I just tell her to shut the hell up... You are way too lenient.
 
Bodhisattva said:
When my mom gives me advice I just tell her to shut the hell up... You are way too lenient.
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She didn’t beat you enough! It is apparent..........
 
Mach said:
Yep. Or Tom Selleck trying to sell me a ****ing reverse mortgage.

All the big pharma commercials during the news, using music from the 70s...really bad stuff...was killing me. I'd rather watch current cool stuff for 19-24s, than watch all these commercials about disease and heart attacks with old music playing...which one is better for my health, jury is out.

I'm only middle aged though, and even that's not fun. At 42 I needed reading glasses...i've had 20/20 my entire life, and was using apparently an e-reader that had larger than tiny font, so I never noticed. Then one day I picked up one of my old paperbacks to re-read it...and I was like "holy **** I cant' read a word of it!"

Now I have to get my daughter to read package directions to me...and she's a scatter brain so she'll tell me 1 cup when it's 1/3 cup. Sucks :)
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Go further and burn your TV. I threw mine off the third floor balcony in 1993 and haven't missed a damn thing, except stupid commercials of aging "once were's" try to sell me **** they know nothing about other than the script.

I worked television for many years. We used to write to a grade 9 reading comprehension level, considered the lowest denominator. Today they write to a reading comprehension level of about five, as the audience has become more illiterate.

The time gets filled reading, films, art - painting and drawing and meeting people. I spend a minimum of one hour outdoors every day regardless of weather. I lecture a class at community college and manage to wrangle Canucks tickets once in awhile. There is something a little electrifying about taking your seat at the Symphony over watching some **** can TY episode with a laugh track.

In short, get a life. One of the first books I read after sweeping up the guts of the idiot box was Mark Twain's "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer"; in adulthood the book takes on an entirely different meaning, it changed MY life and my perception of the world's power structure.

The worst TV in the entire universe happens between American Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the advertising world knows we have savagely destroyed what few brain cells are left and are being driven like cattle to an all out orgy of hedonistic buying. The real ****ty part of that is that Christ was likely born in May; who are we kidding? We do NOT celebrate Christ that day, we celebrate greed, avarice and gluttony.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Go further and burn your TV. I threw mine off the third floor balcony in 1993 and haven't missed a damn thing, except stupid commercials of aging "once were's" try to sell me **** they know nothing about other than the script.

I worked television for many years. We used to write to a grade 9 reading comprehension level, considered the lowest denominator. Today they write to a reading comprehension level of about five, as the audience has become more illiterate.

The time gets filled reading, films, art - painting and drawing and meeting people. I spend a minimum of one hour outdoors every day regardless of weather. I lecture a class at community college and manage to wrangle Canucks tickets once in awhile. There is something a little electrifying about taking your seat at the Symphony over watching some **** can TY episode with a laugh track.

In short, get a life. One of the first books I read after sweeping up the guts of the idiot box was Mark Twain's "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer"; in adulthood the book takes on an entirely different meaning, it changed MY life and my perception of the world's power structure.

The worst TV in the entire universe happens between American Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the advertising world knows we have savagely destroyed what few brain cells are left and are being driven like cattle to an all out orgy of hedonistic buying. The real ****ty part of that is that Christ was likely born in May; who are we kidding? We do NOT celebrate Christ that day, we celebrate greed, avarice and gluttony.
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Says the guy deriding others while being on an internet debate site... :lol:
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Yesterday I had lunch out with my mom. I guess however I was reading the menu spurred her to say, “maybe you need reading glasses”.

“I don’t need reading glasses”, I replied.

She handed me her reading glasses and asked me to try reading the menu with them on. After I tried I responded, “Well, I guess I need reading glasses”.

I already wear contacts and now I have to use reading glasses on top of that? That ain’t fair!
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Time for Lasik. Best 3g I ever spent. Still need reading glasses, but only for very close. Lasik does not correct the need for reading glasses.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Go further and burn your TV. I threw mine off the third floor balcony in 1993 and haven't missed a damn thing, except stupid commercials of aging "once were's" try to sell me **** they know nothing about other than the script.

I worked television for many years. We used to write to a grade 9 reading comprehension level, considered the lowest denominator. Today they write to a reading comprehension level of about five, as the audience has become more illiterate.
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I appreciate the perspective.

As to my life specifically, no, I watch the news from 5-6 while preparing dinner because I took over the cooking (and groceries), it's just the audio of those commercials that kills me, ala Rex's topic. I use to get NPR on the work drive, but I work from home now (for myself), and the news is periodically on when I go downstairs. And you have to understand this past year+ has been dramatic for yankees. I've probably seen 3x the news these past few years given the ahem...circumstances of our presidency. I'd love for there to be less drama in our political system so that there would be no need to keep such a close eye on current political events...we'll get back to that I'm sure. I hope.

As to reading, I probably read too much. But generally I enjoy the e-readers now because I can increase the font and not have to bust out the reading glasses...or a light for night reading. That black screen with white font...won't even keep my wife up. I read hard, run out of good books, then let it queue up, and read again.
Ran out of a book at 1:00am when I can't sleep? No problem, click click, reading a new one without a pause. I find I run out of good new titles in a matter of months then have to wait and let it queue up again.

Having had to recently move all my paperbacks and hardbound books again...all those bankers boxes...I don't know, I did like the charm of the physical book but this digital stuff sure is easy (too easy maybe!).
 
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Rexedgar said:
I just saw a commercial for a Medicare supplemental insurance company and the pitchman was Joe Namath!:shock:
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I actually remember seeing this movie at the theater.

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Rexedgar said:
I just saw a commercial for a Medicare supplemental insurance company and the pitchman was Joe Namath!:shock:
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mention of namath's name evokes a different array of memories for me
my 13 year old self was transported from the football field to a military hospital in tokyo for an emergency appendectomy
while still not lucid from the anesthesia, who did i meet but broadway joe, Paul Warfield, and three or four other pros whose names i cannot now recall, doing a 'meet and greet' in the pacific theatre. this was immediately prior to joe's second season with the jets
being the only minor in a ward filled with vietnam war patients, i got special attention; especially so when they learned my emergency visited me during football practice
but other memories of that time are much more vivid. the oddly smiling male nurse who insisted on showing me the sharpened razor he would use to shave my very recent signs of puberty, prior to the surgery. the female nurse who very compassionately took care of the young, damaged GIs in need of a woman's attention. the 40 plus new big "brothers" who taught me every possible nuance of poker while preaching to me that i must stay safe and never join the military (a lesson forgotten in just a few short years). and especially the intensely painful screams of the men in bill carpenter's company, who were ghastly burned when he called for a napalm airstrike on his own position as it was being overrun. i did see one of those patients, he appeared as a lifesize mummy, who emerged from intensive care to take first steps. those burn victims also had a football connection as captain carpenter had been a big deal "lonesome" end for west point
this was one of my early intersections with celebrity and it came at a formative time. because i left that hospital bay realizing that the persons i most admired during this unexpected experience wore a uniform. just not a football uniform
 
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