| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/21/2008 8:10:29 AM | I would not respond at all....because I would feel sorry for her...they don´t know what they are saying in that age....they don´t know better...they are too young.... | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/21/2008 9:11:27 AM | I'm too "OLD" to go back over all those pages to see if someone posted what I would reply:
I'd say, "Thanks, and I hope that some day you live long enough to have the same privilege."
"Old" bothered me much more on my 50th birthday than it does these days....
However, I sure wish the world would stop calling McCain "OLD"...he's the same age as I am....
Fondly,
KK
Oh, and by the way, with "OLD" oft times comes WISDOM.....and, WOW, that's kinda FUN!  | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/21/2008 9:24:13 AM | I have no problems being called "old"....that only means that I am wise...
and as a European I must say McCain is too old for the job he would like to have...the world is hoping for a modern America that has modern ideas to solve the problems the world is facing now and tomorrow... | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/21/2008 9:37:26 AM | Funny.....And many times "old" can mean dementia more than wisdom......all a matter of perception.... 
OT.........I remember when I was first teaching and in my 20's, how most of the students thought how "old" most of us were......go figure, and would point that out many times.
Usually those that point out age, weight, condition, or any other specific about another to their face, are the ones that lack the maturity and understanding of tact and what it means.
Being "older" is a relative term based on who and where you are in that order of age. A child of four could call a child of 10 "old", just as a person 18 could call another that is 30.
There are no rights or wrongs when it comes to relative terms, but there is something called tact and being sophisticated enough to know, when, where, and how to use such statements......
Just my opinion......   | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/21/2008 12:50:38 PM | I would respond with "I guess that is how you want to be talked to when you are my age" We all get old honey and when you do, remember what you said to those who are older now and realise how hurtful that must of been when some young thing calls you "OLD"
They just don't realize that they are going to be old someday too and it comes quicker than they will expect. At least it seemed that way for me! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 5/22/2008 12:21:52 PM | You Are Old, Father William
by Lewis Carroll
'You are old, Father William', the young man said,
'And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head --
Do you think, at your age, it is right?'
'In my youth', Father William replied to his son,
'I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.'
'You are old', said the youth, 'as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door --
Pray, what is the reason of that?'
'In my youth', said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
'I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment - one shilling the box -
Allow me to sell you a couple?'
'You are old', said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak -
Pray, how did you manage to do it?'
'In my youth', said his father, 'I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life.'
'You are old', said the youth, 'one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose -
What made you so awfully clever?'
'I have answered three questions, and that is enough,'
Said his father, 'don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!'
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/5/2008 5:42:14 AM | I'm finally reading this. Better late than never, Charles....I just got around to reading some of these replies. It looks to me like you're a shining example of "young, sophisticated, tactful, wisdom".
Maybe this bump will bring this upfront again so others can see that it's all a matter of perception.....I've had a lot of years in which to do that, but you've learned it early!
Fondly,
KK | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/5/2008 6:37:49 PM | Being a smartazz, I would probably responed ,"With age comes wisdom so cheer up, you won't be an idiot forever."
Beershark, I'm going to have to remember that one!! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/6/2008 2:52:37 PM | | Tell them, "yes, I'm old, probably something you will never be 'cause somebody will probably shoot you for being rude long before then." | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/7/2008 2:34:37 AM | | Age is the great equalizer...the young and beautiful...the young and ugly...they all wind up old and ugly...the "hot" and the "not" age is no guarantee of wisdom or even common sense...just incontinence | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/7/2008 11:48:54 AM | I would say,
“ Thank you for reminding me that I’m from an era, where children were taught manners, I’m sorry your parents weren’t”
Then I would move on! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/7/2008 12:10:37 PM | | I consider the source. Some people are inexperienced because they are young and will not 'get it' until they've lived a bit more, while some are old and tire and pissed off about it and will not see a younger person's point of view, but I think that is much more about personality than age. If someone has nothing better to come back at me with than the fact that I'm old or fat or ugly...pppffffttttttt!!!...how boring can they get. No it doesn't bother me, it makes me laugh and put them in the catagory of people whose opinions mean nothing to me. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/8/2008 9:45:52 AM | | SMILE, and say, "yes, I am, and if you don't learn to be more tactful in what you say to people, one of these days you may say the wrong thing to the wrong person, and not LIVE to get old...." | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/8/2008 7:22:05 PM | Wow, there have been posted some GOOD retorts on being called OLD.
O.K. I'm ready...who wants to call me "OLD"?
I'm still the Red Hot.....errrr....HAT Mama....(even if my spelling IS a bit off?)
Fondly,
KK | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/8/2008 9:42:21 PM | KK you aren't OLD, you are HOT! Love that red hat!
I had emailed a man when I first started on POF and he was 2 or 3 years younger than I am. He wrote back that I probably was a nice lady, but I was too old for him. 
Not bragging, but his pix looked a lot older than me | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/9/2008 12:15:05 AM | I will have a younger person, usually women in their mid-20s
say to me "You're old".
" yes and you are young and stupid.."
NEXT QUESTION........ | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/9/2008 2:50:57 PM |
usually a younger person (will) say to me "You're old". Am I expected to crawl away in embarrassment because of my age? ...how to respond...?
Just say that you're old enough to be her father and she better show you some respect. Also, you could point out that you've probably learned and forgotten more than she will ever know.
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/9/2008 4:14:39 PM | No one has ever pointed out that I'm old. I'm feeling a bit left out.
But, if they did, I'd just throw my bikinis in a suitcase and go somewhere tropical. That would probably pizz them off. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/9/2008 4:22:19 PM | If you just threw yours on phoebe's, I bet that might accomplish the same thing.....just as long as they were not "Depends".......
OT......Somehow I think that there are many more of us than them, and who would know better who is old and who is not.......
Just my opinion..... | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/9/2008 4:39:52 PM | If you just threw yours on phoebe's, I bet that might accomplish the same thing
Have you been peeking again? Of course when I read some of the young posters thinking they know it all, I've been known to laugh my azz off. Is that why my Depends keep slipping? | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/9/2008 5:40:58 PM | Most of you had read some of my sarcastic comments that I have made in different areas on this forum thingy, but here is my take on this particular subject and it is a serious side of me, that most of you will never see or understand so I will share it with you...
I have a life expectancy of about 15 seconds after I make my first mistake of the day!
In my 30s I used to climb bridges and walked steel,,, and had two really unique jobs,
The first being, I was a monk, which means a person that sits on top of those waffle pieces of steel, and places the****within the ball, as it is called in the trade, and otherwise known as the ball and socket, with no safety equipment because the man, or any safety equipment... {{{this particular job was for the men and men only, as they were exactly{{{ 0 }}women in the dock builders Union and the 1980s }}} can get caught within the headache ball, and or cable's and pull you from the steel itself....... the sheets range from about 30 feet long and high to approximately 90 feet high......
Life expectancy, Zero!
And when you are walking on a Gerder a 75 to 200 feet high on a bridge that has no roadway yet and you fall into 38° water.. with six layers of clothes and a pair of boots... life expectancy..... Zero!
Of course you could fall off a tugboat out in the open water, on the North Atlantic and no one would hear you scream.... life expectancy... Zero!
Today have a much more peaceful existence here in the Florida Keys.......
I climb up 50 trees in climbing gear and a chainsaw... in this scenario I might live, but wish I hadn't...
Sometimes I work on the heavy equipment at night repairing my backhoe with drop lights and hundred and 50 to 500 pound objects hanging on my head on ropes or chains and lowering those things into place so that I can work the next day... in this scenario it is extremely easy for things to get clipped off and fall on the ground... or just crush the skull perhaps maybe one or 2 inches... that would certainly solve the problem of getting old......
Sometimes I am throwing large chunks of wood into a 24 inch Tree chipper, and it really doesn't have the ability to differentiate between people and logs..........
Life expectancy goes way down here...... depending on whether or not you go in headfirst, or feet first you have between one and three seconds...... getting older might
not, be an option!
Of course there are the fun things that I do by myself, like doing 100 foot scuba dives, alone so I don't have to babysit, some inexperienced diver that is not paying attention and ruine my entire day by having to surface, looking for that person, thus ending the dive....
Mistakes at 100 feet in the open ocean will certainly decrease your life expectancy in a most expedient fashion,,, on the bright side you will get to feed the fish...lol
And then there is of course playing out on the ocean at 60 miles an hour in five to 7 foot seas,,, with everyone screaming take me back to dry land... and swearing they will never ride in my boat with me again... and once again...
There isn't much time to prepare for your old age....
Then of course there was that time I took the COBRA, to the track and ran it at about 165 miles an hour, until I realized I really didn't know what I was doing having just purchased a vehicle itself... yes, you don't have to worry about getting old and 165 miles an hour... after you make your first mistake...............
And one of the posters said that, only people on the Internet sites have called them old, which has been the exact same case scenario with myself, no one has yet to dare say it to my face, be it a man or woman, but this too shall aparentLY would come into play one day in the near future I am certain...
SOOOOO.........
And my reply will be....... Yes I Am Old, but I Had a Great Deal of Fun Getting Here,,,,,
And walk away giggling...... getting old is not so bad, at that!
THE Keyzguy 369 | |
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