| | when were oldPage 1 of 2 (1, 2) | will we look, feel and behave like elderly do people today?
Do we reach a certain age then decide we have to have short curly grey/white hair? Do we suddenly start listening to music way before we were born or maybe just lose the ability to have good taste in music?
I went on a holiday recently and stayed at a hotel where most of the people were rather old. The older ladies all seemed to have short hair, grey/white and most of them had it permed. Im talking older ladies from 60 up to about 90. They all seemed to listen to the same music and their partners would be sitting there tapping their feet while the old ladies clapped in time to anything from the birdie song to some really depressing country stuff id never heard of and old time dancing music. They all seemed to dress the same too, iv no idea where people buy those kind of clothes from these days, but old peoples fashion shops must exist cause all these old ladies were dressed in the same kind of way, and where do they get those big glasses from?
Even when it came down to food choice they seemed less adventerous. I heard one complaining about this new fangled forign muck - 3 bean soup, they were all laughing saying 'you cant have beans in soup, soup is chicken or oxtail, maybe tomato if your feeling a bit adventerous' and giving the waitress a really hard time over it. Of course when they saw me and my daughter having vegetarian options from the menu they were all looking at us like we were little green men from Mars.
What will we be like when were old. Will we still keep our individualism, imagine sitting in the old folks home tapping ya feet to the foo fighters, keeping long hair, having it coloured, wearing jeans and t shirts rather than trousers pulled up to the nipples for men and knee lenght floral print, elasticated, skirts for ladies with pink t shirts, ordering Indian, Chinese, Italian or Greek food rather than wanting traditional English food, playing pc games rather than bingo, asking the nurse to change your eyebrow piercing cause your rels are visiting. I do hope so, i dont want to be like those old people at that hotel, they scared me'. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 8:46:16 AM | We'll take the stuff we like now into our old age.
Remember when 40 was old and past it? Come to think of it, remember when 30 was well over the hill? Now 30 is barely out of nappies and 40 is not only young, but is young with freedom and money.
Today's elderly were pre 'teenagers,' they are of the generation who had little in the way of freedom. The first of the post-war baby-boomers are now getting to pension age, old-age will start getting cooler from here on in! | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 8:46:19 AM | I am going to shrink until I am under 5 ft,develop a hunch,wiskers on my chin and a nice curl on my top lip.
I shall endevour to make young peoples lives hell and I shall stink out the local happy shopper with my p1ssy knickers.
I am mostly looking forward to it to be honest. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 8:59:37 AM |
I am going to shrink until I am under 5 ft,develop a hunch,wiskers on my chin and a nice curl on my top lip.
I shall endevour to make young peoples lives hell and I shall stink out the local happy shopper with my p1ssy knickers.
So just the shrinking and hunch to go eh??
I will be very similar in my approach to life to the way I am now, I don't see the point in changing. I will probably forget most things and wander around aimlessly, just as I do now.
Ruffy
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:00:49 AM | I don't know what I'll be like when I'm old or what clothes I'll wear but I hope I'm like the lady in the papers yesterday who for her 100th birthday hired a stretch hummer for her and her pals .... thats doing it in style 
Edit: Actually just had a thought after posting, about people taking into old age what they like now ... does that mean we will have an army of pensioners all wearing trackies? god forbid although they do have elasticated waists! | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:07:28 AM | " WHEN I AM AN OLD WOMAN I SHALL WEAR PURPLE
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple."
Taken from the book
When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
Editd by Sandra Martz | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:09:09 AM |
I'm like the lady in the papers yesterday who for her 100th birthday hired a stretch hummer for her and her pals
If I am lucky enough to reach 100 I'll probably have to settle for a stretch zimmer, of I will continue to wear purple, and up the limit the of those who can contact me to under 80. Anyone up for starting a new website poor auld soles, (pun intended ). | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:11:35 AM | When I am old I want to be like my step grandfather who wanted to:
a) Learn something every day
b) Do a kindness every day
And who danced away most of the night of his 85th birthday party and got thoroughly p*ssed in the process.
On the hungover morning after his 90th he got me good and gullible with a great joke.
I miss him.
I think the old farts we see are the same as the young farts - who tend to stay in doors with their soaps and footie. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:14:51 AM | I want to be like my Grandad too.
Live to a ripe old age before dying peacefully in his sleep...
...Not screaming like his passengers. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:30:00 AM | | I just wonder whether I'll still be able to squirt liked I used to or whether the only squirting I do will be due to incontinence pants. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:30:33 AM |
Do we reach a certain age then decide we have to have short curly grey/white hair?
My mother has just reached 60, and said to me on the eve of her birthday, God this time tomorrow i'll be a OAP... should i cut my hair and have it shorter now?? LOL Bless her.. I told her not to change a thing!!
Do we suddenly start listening to music way before we were born or maybe just lose the ability to have good taste in music?
No no no no no..... The Good old 80's music will always be fantastic music to us.. It'll be our grandkids that will be listening to the goddamn awful music  | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:35:52 AM | My mum has also just turned 60 and after an initial OMG, she gets free bus travel, cheap meals, cheap haircuts, she still works and doesn't pay national insurance, gets a pension as well. I was out with her last week and I said to someone, that's my mum and someone said, you must have started young. She doesn't have grey hair, she looks great.
And she is. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:36:51 AM | | oi !!! dont tar everyone with the same brush 7rainbows,some of us older as you put it ones still have a life, me personally, ride my bike,enjoy a regular night out on the piss, go off camping,walking, scuba diving, tis grand being retired haha | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:50:02 AM | Hee hee to some of what others will do when they get 'old'. Someone else beat me to the Jenny Joseph poem about wearing purple 'when I'm old'.
OP I think you just struck unlucky with your hotel? Hopefully all those old people that 'scared' you and were viewing you and your daughter as 'aliens' were having a brilliant old time? Although I sort of know what you mean about the hairstyle thing. It's a bit of the 'birds of a feather' thing though isn't it?
Go to any great green gathering or music festival 'nowadays' and there are lots of folk of any age who are all dressed similarly and dancing to the same groove -inside/outside/out of their heads. I'd love to be working in the old folk's home when some of them are in their dotage and having a reminiscing music session. That would be a great craic. Especially if I can be in charge of the medication round.
Some of my most enjoyable memories are when I was a nurse on an alzheimer's unit at a nursing home in 2001 on the reminiscing music days. Seeing some of these lovely ladies and gents suddenly come 'alive' and remember all the words to 'Tipperary', 'A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square' etc. was a joy.
Especially considering that for the rest of the time they couldn't remember much else.. and I knew all the words to a lot of the songs before I started working there, even though it was music from before I was born..I also got to learn a few 'new' songs..although if I never have to sing Arthur Askey's 'Have A Bananna' again it would not be a chore.
I also remember one of the ladies, the lovely Mrs. Mc. who used to enjoy bopping to Pink's 'Get the Party Started' whenever her great grandkids used to visit!
When I get old I want to be able to remember those kind of memories..and wear purple.
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:53:33 AM | I shall soon be 50, and I'm looking forward to it.
I can then, I'm told, be officially eccentric (rather than that slightly odd old bird).
I shall wear my hair in a bun, put on a floral skirt with white ankle socks to ride around the village on an old fashioned bike with a basket on the front, I shall collect more cats (with whom I shall have full on conversations), I shall adorn my house and garden with bright spangly things, I shall still go to festivals and dance like a loon, I shall smile a lot and I shall call everyone 'dear'.
And that is how I shall stay...... way into my dotage. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:58:29 AM | I shall still go to festivals and dance like a loon
The best wrinkly festival, this weekend, Cropredy it has the best beards on the planet, if that's your thing, and Fairport Convention, well they even had Lulu a couple of years ago, if she can keep going then so can I. Bring on the clowns................
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Posted: 8/11/2009 10:59:09 AM | | I'm looking forward to gods waiting room, sitting in a comfy wing backed chair all day with a blanket over my lap letching at all the nurses.....but when i get to the wetting myself stage or licking the conservatory windows please somebody just shoot me. | |
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sjxx
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Posted: 8/11/2009 11:02:48 AM | I am not going to get old. Not in attitude. But I expect to become even shorter and develop a turkey neck. I also imagine my aversion to toyboys will disappear and those 55+ men will start to look irresistible. I will wear whatever clothes are in fashion at the time, dont wanna get stuck in a rut and look ridiculous now do I? My only concession to ageing will be the "Doreen" bra.  I cant wait now, it sounds great. Golden years  I can sleep all day with no one suggesting I am a lazy b1tch. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 11:11:17 AM | im still stuck in the 80"s era now, still wear fila,sergio tacchini and kappa  got all the ol 80"s tv shows on dvd box sets, miami vice being a favourite  my old bmx bike hanging on dining room wall  ive not celebrated my birthday since 1989  | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 11:32:38 AM | Well I guess as Im 59 this year Im almost there! Im not like the ladies you describe though. I work hard, like eating out at pubs, driving around in my car and lead a pretty active life. If it all changes when I reach 60 I'll let you know! | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 12:12:55 PM | The only difference I find about ageing is that the toyboys are older too, it's the fit 40yr old toyboys at the moment 
In 20 yrs time I may be with SJ and thinking the 55 year olds are 'hot' 
Growing old is compulsory, growing up is not
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GillYD
| | Joined: 12/7/2008
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Posted: 8/11/2009 12:55:34 PM | I want to shop on a Saturday morning and annoy the people who work all week, as all the old biddies do to me now
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Posted: 8/11/2009 1:12:36 PM | also imagine my aversion to toyboys will disappear and those 55+ men will start to look irresistible.
Coooeeee!! I'm over here!!! | |
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willow
| | Joined: 12/11/2005
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Posted: 8/11/2009 1:26:34 PM | I will be 50 in a few months time and thought the other day "Thats a fair chunk of life so it is ". I suppose after that I should think about buying cardigans, zip up slippers, looking for a decent glass to deposit my teeth in when they decide to go, along with booking in at the hairdressers for a wash and set instead of a trim.
Or maybe not.....   | |
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Posted: 8/11/2009 1:34:59 PM | Hmmmm ......Considering the pension age looks to rise again to 70, is 65 considered elderly these days ?
OT I can see myself as a Leslie Phillips type character in my old age , strolling the decks of many a cruise eyeing up the booty ............Ding Dong .....I saaaaaaaaaay !!
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