| 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......
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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 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 8:51:59 PM | Dear Keyz:
I have never read any of your postings prior to the one above... I read with great interest all the work you have done....and, are probably still doing.....that decrease your life expectancy to nil. So, I can sympathize with all those women who did NOT get on your Favorite List.
However, I got to thinking...and, you're still pretty young....If, by any chance you
DO actually live to get to "OLD" (whatever that might be), would you get in touch with me?
If you continue to survive all you endeavor, you SURELY would be able to survive living with ME 
Of course, you just might have to wait for me to get old...because I wasn't planning to in the very near future....
And, when I do, I wanna slide in, thinking to myself....WOW, it sure was fun getting here.
And, with MY luck, that's when I'll realize I have arthritis, because it will hurt
Great post, great attitude....a couple of those jobs I didn't think were so great
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 6/10/2008 11:25:38 AM | First of all I think asking someone's age is Rude and no one's business unless you plan to enter into some type relationship with that person.
After 30 , When someone was Rude enough to ask My age , I answered "How Old Would You Like Me To Be?"
If someone would try to use age as a weapon to make me feel inferior . I would know right away that this is someone I don't need to have a conversation with.
If there is more than 10 years difference in two peoples age they are not going to be on the same page re: life. Most people have a hard enough time being on the same page who are the same age.
VintageBabe | |
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