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Channel98
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From Encyclopedia Britannica: "Definitions of old age are not consistent from the standpoints of biology, demography (conditions of mortality and morbidity), employment and retirement, and sociology. For statistical and public administrative purposes, however, old age is frequently defined as 60 or 65 years of age or older."
Sergei Scherbov, co-author (with Warren Sanderson) of the 2019 book Prospective Longevity: A New Vision Of Population Aging, says a person can be considered old when his life expectancy is down to 15 years or less. In Japan, where the life expectancy for women is 88 years, a woman would not be considered old until she turns 73. In Sierra Leone, where the life expectancy for women is 72, a woman would be considered old at 57.
My own definition is much simpler: If you feel old, you are old.
Sergei Scherbov, co-author (with Warren Sanderson) of the 2019 book Prospective Longevity: A New Vision Of Population Aging, says a person can be considered old when his life expectancy is down to 15 years or less. In Japan, where the life expectancy for women is 88 years, a woman would not be considered old until she turns 73. In Sierra Leone, where the life expectancy for women is 72, a woman would be considered old at 57.
My own definition is much simpler: If you feel old, you are old.
JHDK
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Any of you old enough to remember colleting encyclopedias? The would go by letter right? Like A-E or F-I? That's a thing that was before me. I think they were kinda expensive back in the day and it was like a status symbol to have a complete alphabet set.
Encarta was my thing. Popping in those CD-ROMS was super cool.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
We were always visited by Encyclopedia salesmen. And Hoover vacuum cleaner salesmen too.
Channel98
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When I was in school, our family had the World Book Encyclopedia. Every year we would buy the annual supplement. Eventually we donated all the books to a local thrift shop.
Here is a hilarious joke for you: A man bought a book called "HOW to HUG" – and was disappointed to discover it was the tenth volume of an encyclopedia.
HecticArt
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Channel98
Don't yell or hit.
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HecticArt
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Well, not quite El Segundo, but the office was enough of a drive.
I stopped to get gas on the way home tonight and realized that I didn't have my wallet.
I wasn't positive if I even had it with me today, so I went home to see if it was still on my dresser. It wasn't.
So there was a bit of panic while I searched the house, the car seat, the jacket I was wearing Friday night which was the last time I know I had it.
Nothing.
So I drove back to work to see if it was there. I was watching the rear-view for cops, trying to figure out what all cards I needed to cancel, etc. and so forth.
Turns out it was at the office the whole time.
It fell out of my pocket and got stuck between my seat cushion and the back support.
Pissed me off, but at least I found it.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
That's a scary feeling.
Mrs. Scotch has had things like that happen a lot. One time, she flew to L.A., and around midnight I get a call from a phone number I don't recognize, "yeah, we're cleaning the plane here, and I found your wife's wallet."
Most recently, she thought her purse was stolen while she was in a changing room at a clothing store. But they found that it had fallen into a space behind a rack. Always exciting.
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Aaron
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On a related note, at what age do you lose your filter?
A person can spend most of their life kind of shy and reticent, but later and life they're barking their open thoughts at everyone.
I feel like since I hit 45 a couple years ago, the process is starting, haha. Speaking more freely at work and such.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
HecticArt
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My filter is about half off. I still catch myself before I say the stuff that’ll really get me in trouble, but I think I do a good job of blurting out some of those “cut to the chase / I wish someone would have said” kind of things. It’s partly confidence, and partly being too old to care what people think.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
That's the thing about cruise ships. It's full of old people with no filter. When the ship stops at these little islands, it has to anchor in deep water, and they have boats called jitneys that shuttle everyone. Of course, it takes many trips, and it's on a first come basis. They will push and curse and knock people over to get on an already overloaded boat. Same with the elevator in the hull of the ship. They don't care.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
The funny thing is that you see them all when boarding the ship. But as soon as it starts moving out, while we head for the sun deck, the old people burrow to the lounges and casinos, never to be seen again, until you disembark.