| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/29/2009 9:01:00 PM | Yes they are being childish and rude. I speak my mind here and voice my opinions freely and get a lot of rudeness directed at me too.
I chalk the rudeness up to there being a lot of deuche bags on this site. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/29/2009 9:37:34 PM | Along the same lines.....when I was very pregnant with my son, I had a guy say to me "wow, you are FAT!!!" I replied, "well, I'm going to be able to lose my weight, but you are stuck with your ugly......."  | |
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Nyda
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Joined: 2/3/2009
Msg: 380 | |
| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/30/2009 7:49:13 AM | Old is a state of mind. I can't be too old if men in their 20s are trying to pick me up, telling me how gorgeous I am. But then again, could it be because they think I have money? Nah, I wouldn't be here if I did!
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/30/2009 8:27:17 AM | Well I have never had someone call me old yet but I am sure my day is comming .
But I prefer to think of it as aged wine or a pearl.
The thing about a pearl is that it get abraised and sanded down overtime till it is the most beautiful Glowing form that it can possibly be.... This is age to me... | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/30/2009 4:16:41 PM | people put down other people to make themselves feel better about themselves.
when disagreeing someone in their 20's calling you an old man because she had a different point of view...was immature ... only with wisdom do we realize the older we are the more we do not know. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/31/2009 10:24:12 AM |
Every once in a while I will have a younger person, usually women in their mid-20s who I am NOT trying to pick-up, say to me "You're old". It happened here on POF.
I had that happen on pof too, except that it was from a 26 year old I was trying to ``pick up.''
How would you respond?
I told her I'd be 10 years younger in a week. We never went on a date, but we've become friends and we call each other a couple time a week and text. I'm still trying to get her to bake me some cookies. I see no reason to take offense. Face it, if you're talking to women half your age, some will think you're trying to pick them up and if you are, some will think you're too old for them. They're just calling it as they see it. | |
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*Don*
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Joined: 1/30/2009
Msg: 384 | |
| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/31/2009 10:43:25 AM | When someone points out that I'm old, it's always from someone who's younger than me. And to them, I am. It doesn't seem like a thing to get upset about. If I did, it would show that I have a problem with being older than someone else -- and that would be my problem to deal with, not theirs.
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/31/2009 11:19:16 AM | Funny, I'm around kids all the time (teenagers), and I don't remember or notice them ever saying this to me. But, I'm often oblivious. The other day, I was with a group of students, some I knew and some I didn't. I made a remark to one I knew, something about being over 50 (we had been mountain biking and she was complaining about the difficulty, so I was saying something like wait until you are over 50). A girl student I don't know sitting next to her said, "You're 50?!" I said yes. And then she laughed. I don't know why..... | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/31/2009 12:06:36 PM | | Its funny, when I was 20 or 25, people in their 40s seemed old to me too. Now that I'm in my late 40s, 50 doesn't seem like nearly such a big deal. I subscribe to the theory that "old" is about 15 years more that whatever age you currently are! The bottom line, if someone is ever rude enough to say I'm old, I counter with I'm OLD "ER", not OLD. | |
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Romny
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Joined: 4/7/2009
Msg: 387 | |
| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/31/2009 1:41:56 PM | RDtoo..... reality check: you are 53 NOT in a wheelchair... please don't ever parallel the two again----EVER!!!
It is not the same thing... living passed 21 is not a sin..and neither is it a source of embarrassment.... and it sure has heck isn't a handicap!
Someone in their 20s is speaking from a 20 year old perspective... who cares? Didn't you call men your age "old" during fights? Forget about it and move on.
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/24/2009 9:45:13 PM | ^^^^^My 7 yr old calls me old all the time also. If I have to think about something at all, it is because I am old according to her.
I will never be old. I will always be a kid at heart. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/24/2009 9:47:12 PM | I've come across the "well you're just too old" accusation, mostly in internet chat. I think we all know there is a trend or maybe it would be better to call it a contagion of younger men hitting on older women. I can't even tell you how un-thrilled I am when a young "whippersnapper" who is younger than my own sons, hits on me.
Of course, they say..."I like older women and after all age is only a number." Maybe but...it's not commutative. Just because they like older women does not automatically mean that I like younger men. Often they seem totally mystified by that.
But where the mud slinging comes in is...(and this IS in IM text chat)...they are hoping to score some hot cyber sex. Then when you don't go for it and you don't comply...then in totally immaturity, they start calling you old, grannie, old witch, etc.
To me, it's just a defense mechanism that they use because they know that they have been "bested" and thwarted in their efforts to get what they want and appear to be worldly and macho. In the case of males, of course. So the first arrow they can shoot is the age arrow..."Well you're old and senile and just can't possibly understand."
Obviously young women do the same thing. But in conclusion, I just think it's the first thing they can pull out of the hat to throw at an older person which they beleive will be hurtful and in some way justify their behaviours and frankly, assinity.
Kind regards to all the fishies...
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/25/2009 6:47:37 AM | I went to the movies the other day, and the girl working the ticket booth gave the senior discount without even asking. (I'm 56 and the age for discounts is 60.)
My girlfriend and I got a kick out of it. She laughed called me Mom.
I didn't get offended. She was, I would guess, just out of her teens. When i was that age I thought every adult was Anchient. No need to get in a snit. I just took the discount.
I will never be old. I will always be a kid at heart.
I have a conversation starter in my profile; "How old would you think you were if you didn't know how old you were? My answer is 22.
You don't get old until you think you are and then you start acting you age.  | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/25/2009 10:13:11 AM | | Being old isn't a problem, although it did startle me the day I opened my mailbox and had literature from AARP. No, I just have a hard time believing I was ever so young as to be so vapid and one dimensional. Granted, it seems like it was just a few weeks ago that I was bouncing across a stage somewhere and screaming my head off. But all things considered, I'd rather be 51 than 19 again any day. Way too much drama and angst to be a teenager again. Feh! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/25/2009 10:33:05 AM | "I have a conversation starter in my profile; "How old would you think you were if you didn't know how old you were? My answer is 22."
My answer has always been around 25 | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/27/2009 12:17:27 PM | | OP I have had the same experience. I do not hit on the 20 somethings, I believe you are only as old as you feel. I will admit that my mind and body disagree at times lol | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/27/2009 2:42:39 PM | the people that are calling us "old" will be there someday- i consider it a badge of honor to reach my age(55).i've been thru the mill and now enjoy life without worrying about much.i guess that pretty much sums it up. happily retired! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/27/2009 2:55:19 PM | I had a man tell me that I would look younger/better without my glasses. I told me "no, you would look younger/better without my glasses............. | |
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