The saying goes that when you think about the past more than you think about the future, you have become old. If that is the case, I am not 54. I am 75. There are not many TV shows I like anymore. I still watch "Friends" reruns and a few ...
06-14-2008, 10:22 AM
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| At what point do you become "Old"? The saying goes that when you think about the past more than you think about the future, you have become old. If that is the case, I am not 54. I am 75. There are not many TV shows I like anymore. I still watch "Friends" reruns and a few cop drama shows, but most of the stuff I like was on during the '70s. Shows like "Mash" and "Taxi" and such. I don't even try to keep up with music anymore. I haven't really liked anything since the early 80's. And I simply can't stand Hip Hop. When I play my guitar, I still play Neil Young, Doobie Bros, Eagles, and Woody Guthrie. I am turning into an old man right before my eyes. Is this what they call a Midlife Crisis? I console myself by telling myself that at least i'm not out buying Lawrence Welk dvds.  Another thing I've noticed. I'm beginning to look like my Avatar more and more every day.
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06-14-2008, 01:47 PM
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| Administrator  libertarian Oklahoma
| 27 is old however next year that number will go up to 28 | ||||
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06-14-2008, 03:49 PM
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| Never, never, never give up  Conservative Party High Point, NC
| I think I'm a pretty "young" 43. As much as I love my old Floyd, Zep, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath etc I really am enjoying the new alternative music. I can't get enough of the Foo Fighters, Radiohead, RHCP, Queens of the Stone Age and others. I have Sirius radio and it's always on Channel 21 which is all the new Alternative. I think my boys, 6 and 9, keep me young as well. Being a Cub Scout leader and helping coach baseball, soccer, swimming and whatever else they do is fun as well. I love it, though I do feel old at the end of the day because of how tired they make me. Matter of fact me, my wife and my boys just finished playing about 2 hours of Rock Band. My ass is sore from 2 hours on the drums. For the most part though, I feel like I'm in my lower 30's still. | ||||
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06-16-2008, 01:17 AM
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| laissez-faire  Capitalist
| the very instant you become boring | ||||
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06-16-2008, 02:20 AM
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| ..... your a worthless poster  Realist
| the day the cashier said "that'll be $5.74" and I gave her a $5 bill and said "hold on, I've got that change"............... and I did. | ||||
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06-16-2008, 04:10 AM
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| ipsa Scientia Potestas est  Pragmatist Greensboro, NC
| Originally Posted by 7960 
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06-16-2008, 04:11 AM
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| ipsa Scientia Potestas est Pragmatist Greensboro, NC
| I think you become old when you start acting like it. Or when you tell those kids to get off your lawn. | ||||
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06-16-2008, 10:54 AM
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| Give me liberty or give me death!  libertarian Lake Stevens, WA
| Originally Posted by motivez potential liability forced me to do this at 24
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06-16-2008, 12:02 PM
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| laissez-faire Capitalist
| "hey prof, when did you become interested in politics?" "the very instant i became old" futurama | ||||
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06-17-2008, 01:15 AM
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| One American Family at a Time.  Idealist The OC, California
| When I asked my student if she remembered when Madonna went through her Kabbalah phase, and then she asked me who Madonna was. That little c*nt. :O My mouth dropped to the floor. I was like, that was only in like, 1999! She was 5 then. | ||||
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06-17-2008, 07:57 AM
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| ..... your a worthless poster Realist
| Originally Posted by IminWonderland I was teaching and had a cold and my voice cracked, so I started singing
When it's time to change, you've got to re-arrange, sha na na na na na na, sha na na na na na. One kid got it.
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06-17-2008, 10:18 AM
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| Originally Posted by 7960 well come on now, thats the brady bunch. of course they didnt know it.
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06-17-2008, 12:16 PM
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| ..... your a worthless poster Realist
| Originally Posted by jimeigh one kid did
 and it's still on re-runs every day. | ||||
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06-17-2008, 05:24 PM
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| laissez-faire Capitalist
| Originally Posted by 7960 what i meant was that you shouldnt have expected them to know it. the only reason i was exposed to the brady bunch was because it was on nick at nite a while back. i dont watch much tv but im not sure that theyre on nick at nite anymore
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06-17-2008, 08:43 PM
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| ipsa Scientia Potestas est Pragmatist Greensboro, NC
| Originally Posted by jimeigh I grew up watching Nick at Nite instead of the stuff that was popular on the "networks".. Get Smart, Dick Van Dyke, all those old shows that were on every night I remember watching
Things like Rosanne (I guess), and I don't really know what else is something I rarely watched. | ||||
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06-17-2008, 08:48 PM
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| I wonder Independent San Antonio, Texas
| Boy was I wrong I thought they only had young whipper snappers here on the LL. Hell I am not alone although I have got most of you beat age wise. I feel old physically a lot of the time, but sometimes I don't. | ||||
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06-17-2008, 10:14 PM
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| laissez-faire Capitalist
| Originally Posted by motivez Cheers was good also, and the honeymooners and i love lucy. and all in the family and laverne and shirley
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06-17-2008, 11:12 PM
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| Lurker  Conservative West Texas
| Originally Posted by Dispatcher Hey Dispatcher, how are you?
I've read a few of your posts. Depression ran/runs in my family - I dared to force it to stop with me after the death of my brother. He committed suicide in the same way as our father. I had the urge to "end it" myself for over over 30 years..well, I let it control me for that long, now it does not, but the demon will always have to be fought. But I am off-subject. I've been "old" since the 6th grade, maybe earlier, but I identified its beginning in that era. You are old when the past becomes bittersweet, when mourning what has been lost or what could have been..is the sweetest feeling. You are old when the present is not real until it becomes the past. I always looked forward to being old, because that was freedom to me. "old people" have nothing to prove, nothing to gain, nothing to lose, the past is done. It's not about TV shows or prices, it is more than that. Old age is more than wrinkles, it is a state of mind. ANd what of it? Old age brings wisdom, and nothing beats that. BTW, I'd bet you look nothing like your Avatar, but if you do, well, its still pretty cute! | ||||
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06-17-2008, 11:17 PM
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| ipsa Scientia Potestas est Pragmatist Greensboro, NC
| Originally Posted by jimeigh I never really watched Cheers or the Honeymooners or Laverne and Shirley
Definitely I Love Lucy though.. Mary Tyler Moore, Dragnet, Mork & Mindy, trying to think of more | ||||
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06-17-2008, 11:19 PM
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| Lurker Conservative West Texas
| Originally Posted by motivez Well, then, you are not old.
I watched Gilligans Island, The Addams Family, Dark Shadows...Leave It to Beaver..That is old! | ||||
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