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re: How do old people get so disconnected with the world around them?
Posted on 5/21/18 at 11:50 pm to RobDione
Posted on 5/21/18 at 11:50 pm to RobDione
quote:u into older women baw?
Well now Im 72 and my wife is 78
quote:pic?
My neighbor s daughter is home from Auburn for the summer.
quote:Nevada and Washington always screw me up
I can name all 50 states (unlike our former president who thought there were 57) and their capitols as well as identify them on a map
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Posted on 5/21/18 at 11:57 pm to Kafka
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Well now Im 72 and my wife is 78
u into older women baw?
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She owned World Cars Mazda on Florida Blvd, 35 years ago and I needed a car.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 12:01 am to RobDione
quote:so you revved up her engine and gave her wheels a spin
She owned World Cars Mazda on Florida Blvd, 35 years ago and I needed a car
Posted on 5/22/18 at 12:03 am to TigersSEC2010
Although I'm well under 75+, I understand the appeal of the slower lifestyle. I retired at 40, and it's been well over a decade since I left the rat race. It's all about perspective. Sure, I keep up with technology and try to stay connected, but as you age you realize that it's the simple things in life that matter...family, friends, a good meal, reflection, live music. None of these are driven by technology. I don't think I'll ever completely disconnect, but I like being in control of how dependent I am on tech and the world around me.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 1:39 am to BoomBoomBoom
I'm 70. I'll add my $.02 to this. BBB is right. I was one of the first to use computers and was always on the leading edge as a user in my working days. I find that I am ahead of most my age with regard to that element of our lives but am falling behind the rest of the world now. Being retired and not around the same crowd is causing me to be left behind in the advancements in technology.
Even my frickin car is a challenge.
We, as a group don't run with the same crowd. I don't have access to younger people. As such I am becoming more "disconnected" by the day.
The only field I'm becoming more connected to is medical.
Even my frickin car is a challenge.
We, as a group don't run with the same crowd. I don't have access to younger people. As such I am becoming more "disconnected" by the day.
The only field I'm becoming more connected to is medical.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 3:40 am to TigersSEC2010
I know what they are but I drive my self, rarely watch tv (except for sports) & do my shopping the old fashion way, at the store.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 3:48 am to Jenar Boy
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do my shopping the old fashion way, at the store.
The WalMart app is awesome. It lets you shop the store at home, drive there, and they toss all your groceries in the trunk. Then you go home and eat’em. Nobody has to watch a 400lb woman hog an entire aisle so she can read the label on a box of Triscuits.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 4:41 am to TigersSEC2010
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For reference, I'm mainly talking about 75+.
At 75 + I’m going to give even less of a rats arse what you think than I already do. I can in all seriously definitely see that coming. I also believe that things start to take on more or less significance in your life, depending on what’s really important and what’s not so important. Technology and stuff not really critical to your happiness or well being is going to get the pass over and that which does add value to your life and that which has real substance will become much more important.
I think the biggest benefit to ageing though is that you seriously in all honestly just don’t care about little shite, or what people think about it, and tend to focus more of your energies on much more important shite.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 5:12 am to TigersSEC2010
I am only 57 so I am tuned into things, would enjoy living long enough to see you smug young assholes get old.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 5:15 am to TigersSEC2010
Keep living and you'll see
Posted on 5/22/18 at 6:22 am to TigersSEC2010
You grew up spoiled and everything given to you. Some of these people grew up with nothing. Not even the basic necessities.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 6:27 am to TigersSEC2010
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For reference, I'm mainly talking about 75+.
Maybe they don't give a shite what you or I do. Maybe they just want to relax and enjoy retirement.
Old schoolers gonna old school
Posted on 5/22/18 at 6:35 am to TigersSEC2010
Times have changed and a lot of the older generation would just prefer to live the way they have lived their entire lives.
Can't really blame them...
Can't really blame them...
Posted on 5/22/18 at 6:48 am to BlindTiger7
I'd submit that it's the younger generation that's disconnected with reality.
A buddy of mine got a lambo a couple of years ago. I started a thread about it and most of the people in the thread wanted to know if I had a video from the ride in it. My response was why would I take a video? I'd rather be enjoying the experience and taking it all in.
A buddy of mine got a lambo a couple of years ago. I started a thread about it and most of the people in the thread wanted to know if I had a video from the ride in it. My response was why would I take a video? I'd rather be enjoying the experience and taking it all in.
This post was edited on 5/22/18 at 6:49 am
Posted on 5/22/18 at 6:56 am to fallguy_1978
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My dad is 68 and still has a flip phone and doesn't own a TV
I didn't own a TV when I lived in New Orleans. Had a flip phone until 2015.
Neither one is a necessity. My smartphone was one I got to keep from an old job.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:02 am to TigersSEC2010
I saw an old dude listening to a cassette tape with his Walkman on the subway yesterday 
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:03 am to TigersSEC2010
I figure that for some of them, daily life is a painful struggle. That consumes their time and desire to learn.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:09 am to Tempratt
At 61, I could GAD on what's new.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:13 am to TigersSEC2010
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TigersSEC2010
You are dumber than a box of hammered shite.
Damn.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:17 am to TigersSEC2010
70+ is in that DGAF
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