What age do you consider old ?

[belamyi]

^........................

Don't laugh like that : I may end up needing a couple of them myself ... and not that far into the future


Oh, you were laughing at (with?) Vannie's post... sorry

 

[medic1]

^I cant help it Bells, i am one of the few that actually "get" you.

I am always amused by your "sarcastic" posts.

Now if it will make you feel better, then please do, let rip.................

 

[belamyi]

^I cant help it Bells, i am one of the few that actually "get" you.

I am always amused by your "sarcastic" posts.

Now if it will make you feel better, then please do, let rip.................

Well, I don't think I am the most sarcastic around here ... sarcasm fades with old age, and this place is filled up with mellow elder people.

 

[medic1]

^See what i mean?.......................

 

[Vannie]

Off-the-shelf titanium hip.

^........................

No off the shelf I have two top of the line bionic hips with a built in turbo thrusters.

 

[belamyi]

No off the shelf I have two top of the line bionic hips with a built in turbo thrusters.

Off-the-shelf, state-of-the-art. What I said

 

[belamyi]

I think the problem of that question is the relation between "be", as opposed to "do": young people simply "are", like happy, carefree beasts in the field and the wild which, once they cease to "be" they "are" NOTHING, because they are unable to DO or make anything: only "act" and exert themselves... unless they are tamed into a wheel, a circus, a farm, a basket... or a marriage, a 9-to-5 job, a family, a mortgage... so, for people who are nothing unless they are young or, in that most pathetic substitute, "feel" young by skidiving, racing, playing ball games, card games, whatever or the sort, in the weekends or, oh glory!, as a job, the problem is when does their life stop making full sense and be livable 24/7, because they are force to live beyond their excess of possibilities, stop abusing their forces, and start using them for something else, whatever it is: because everything, anything, ANYTHING can be considered both productive and useless. Poetry, or music, or geometry, are not more useless than racing or ball playing per se, by their own nature: it is only a society and an economy that make them so.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...happy, carefree beasts in the field and the wild ...

'Peasants who labour in the fields show us the nobility of life. They live in the temple of creation. They are in frequent contact with the life of animals, inexhaustible in its teachings, inflexible in its laws, which express without ceasing the the providence of God the Creator' (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli)

 

[belamyi]

'Peasants who labour in the fields show us the nobility of life. They live in the temple of creation. They are in frequent contact with the life of animals, inexhaustible in its teachings, inflexible in its laws, which express without ceasing the the providence of God the Creator' (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli)

'Those who labour in the fields of science and art show us the nobility of life. They inhabit the temple of creation. They are in constant contact with the whole theatre of life, inexhaustible in its teachings, inflexible in the result of the supple and varied expression of its laws, which manifest, without ceasing, the providence of their intelligence, exerted above the simple brutish, mechanical life of sheer animality.'(CQA)

 

[pat grimshaw]

'Those who labour in the fields of science and art show us the nobility of life...

I can't see those people. They may be indoors somewhere.

We're too busy going going to the beach or the skate-park with our cans of sunburn cream and Coca Cola.

 

[belamyi]

^ Like people would care to notice 'peasants who labour in the fields' lol, in 1960, in 2020, in 1020, or in 200 or 2000 BC.

 

[frankfrank]

WHATEVER the age for "old" is, it's now in my rear-view mirror, as I've entered and passed it.

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

I know people are living longer and 60 is the new 40 and all that bollocks, but at what age do you consider someone old ?

I'd say once you reach 30 it's all but over for you.

I see now I forgot to actually post what I thought when I noticed this piece of cormcrap thread: if 60 is the new 40, does that mean that 44 is the new 22? I was almost as bald back then, so...

 

[belamyi]

 

[sixthson]

At least you still have your teeth.

 

[belamyi]

^ Yeah, poor, poor Dolly Parton.

 

[nycguydowntown]

for a guy --old is when you can't get or keep an erection---

for a girl---when her vagina drys out---

hope I cleared things up---lol.

 

[Latimer]

'Peasants who labour in the fields show us the nobility of life. They live in the temple of creation. They are in frequent contact with the life of animals, inexhaustible in its teachings, inflexible in its laws, which express without ceasing the the providence of God the Creator' (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli)

Now a saint. I hadn't known he was canonized without a miracle. (See attached article.) I believe when the death of John Paul II was announced, a chant arose from the crowd gathered in Pza S. Pietro: Santo subito, so his eventual canonization was a foregone conclusion. Not the case with John XXIII. Francis has now added Paul VI, joining Pius IX and Pius XII. Seems that election to the Papacy puts you on the shortlist to sainthood. Who's next? John Paul I???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization_of_Pope_John_XXIII_and_Pope_John_Paul_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization

 

[pat grimshaw]

....(CQA)....

Who? ??