kids now will be barely middle age in 2050

[Charles]

A couple at work just had a kid and it made me think about how kids being born nowadays are going to be just middle aged in the year 2050 and many will live to see 2100.

Funny too when you think that kids born in 1990 are about to be legal drinking age soon. Soon the bars will be full of people that weren't even alive in the 80's.

[Mandy]

2100 can't be as big a deal as 2000 was... Not just a new century but a new millenia... I remember thinking when I was like 14 that I was going to be 20 in '99 and I would be able to go out to all the cool places when it was new years eve 1999...

[Salty Dog]

Welcome to the concept of getting old. On the upside, 60 years old is now 40 years young.

[Mandy]

Are you saying people live too long? Cause I know a couple bitchy old ladies that don't need to reach 70.

[supersize me]

quote:Originally posted by Mandy

Are you saying people live too long? Cause I know a couple bitchy old ladies that don't need to reach 70.

LOL ... are you ever mean or what .... [:0]

[Mandy]

quote:Originally posted by supersize me

quote:Originally posted by Mandy

Are you saying people live too long? Cause I know a couple bitchy old ladies that don't need to reach 70.

LOL ... are you ever mean or what .... [:0]

Seriously when the woman yells at me because her son is a f***ing retard I don't think she needs to see 70... And the other one is already 90 something.. like the higher 90s and can't survive... Long story but the woman is the biggest alcoholic I've ever seen and smokes like 3 packs a day... I'm pretty sure she's a stoner too.... she can't even remember to take her ass to the bathroom... she's gone back to the infant stage of life but is legal to drink... I think she's way past expired.

[Monique]

quote:Originally posted by Mandy

Are you saying people live too long? Cause I know a couple bitchy old ladies that don't need to reach 70.

You talken to me! []

[Salty Dog]

No, I'm saying people who are now 28, sound like they are preteen and shouldn't venture from their designated thread.

[Charles]

I remember that Jennifer Lopez video on Much Music when it was 2000, they were all looking up at the 2000 tower with anticipation like the world was going to end or something, but then they all just start dancing again to the laser light show.

[supersize me]

quote:Originally posted by Mandy

quote:Originally posted by supersize me

quote:Originally posted by Mandy

Are you saying people live too long? Cause I know a couple bitchy old ladies that don't need to reach 70.

LOL ... are you ever mean or what .... [:0]

Seriously when the woman yells at me because her son is a f***ing retard I don't think she needs to see 70... And the other one is already 90 something.. like the higher 90s and can't survive... Long story but the woman is the biggest alcoholic I've ever seen and smokes like 3 packs a day... I'm pretty sure she's a stoner too.... she can't even remember to take her ass to the bathroom... she's gone back to the infant stage of life but is legal to drink... I think she's way past expired.

[] that was funny

[Salty Dog]

Mandy- in the blink of an eye, you will be there too. Then some young thing will curse you and your three "retarded" sons for not getting with the program. Your depth of compassion and shallowness for older people is, well, breathtaking.

[Mandy]

quote:Originally posted by Salty Dog

Mandy- in the blink of an eye, you will be there too. Then some young thing will curse you and your three "retarded" sons for not getting with the program. Your depth of compassion and shallowness for older people is, well, breathtaking.

Hey I have no problem with old people.. and for the most part bitchy old people... but then there's some people no matter how old they are they just don't deserve to be around...

[supersize me]

on the other side of the extreme, i have the nicest grandma ever. She's 74 but nobody likes her and we all get a kick out of her misery now []

She was a total bitch until about 10 years ago when my grandpa passed away and she realized she suddenly wanted kids and their kids back in her life ... haha. Too bad everyone hated her from the get go so it was pretty much too late.

[Salty Dog]

Mandy said:

"but then there's some people no matter how old they are they just don't deserve to be around..."

Agreed. But your missive appears to focus on old people as disposable (past expired date). I guess when you are 28 that is funny.

My only point is, save a little compassion for maturity- you are, hopefully, rushing their at ever increasing speed.

[Salty Dog]

Supersize- you could use a little compassion too. You seem to forget that maturity is a continuum. Your seventy year old grandma realizes the importance of family late- but she does finally get it. Show some compassion and give her some slack. It isnt too late- she has another thirty years or so before her best before date comes up.

[Mandy]

Oh I have no doubt that I'll be 60 something and my kids are going to ask at the old folks home "Is this the kind of establishment where the orderlys steal the pudding?" and when they say no my kids will say "that's too bad we'll have to look somewhere a little less expensive"

Look I have no problems with anyone of any age... Just a certain woman that told her daughter look what having kids did to me.. The woman looks at her daughter's daughter and says too bad your mom wasn't smart enough to have a white baby instead of a monkey... The woman yells at me because her son can't get FMEP off his back and he doesn't have enough money to pay rent.

[Salty Dog]

Fair enough Mandy- I agree- they sound like winners you can do without.

[Mandy]

I have done without... Now I just have to move a lot farther away so they don't have such a big impact on my kids lives.. I think they are too easily accessable right now and I'd like them to have to work a little harder to see them so that maybe they can appreciate their time with my kids.

[supersize me]

quote:Originally posted by Salty Dog

Supersize- you could use a little compassion too. You seem to forget that maturity is a continuum. Your seventy year old grandma realizes the importance of family late- but she does finally get it. Show some compassion and give her some slack. It isnt too late- she has another thirty years or so before her best before date comes up.

Bahahah .... F that sh-. This is a woman who would invite us over for christmas then tell my dad how rude his kids are, and my mom how my dad should've married someone else ... LOL .... and she didn't even have a drinking problem!!! lol

the biggest kicker was when she wacked me with a fly swatter sometime in the late 80s, when i tried to take her remote control ... lol. Needless to say my mother didn't like that very much [B)][B)]

[Salty Dog]

But my comment was only to point out that 60 is not old folks home material anymore. We live longer and healthier.

I am retired but considering going back to work. I am also planning a trip on my schooner to the South Pacific before returning to BC at some point.

And, life is short, you only get one- some people don't realize that until they are seventy. Some never.

[Monique]

Salty Dog why would you consider going back to work from retirement? Have you gone mad! []

Yes life is too short, but to go back to work I just don't understand. Travel my friend, travel... []

[Salty Dog]

Supersize- but she still is your Grandma and she won't be always around. Maybe you need to talk your hostility through with her. You may be surprised- maybe she won't swat you with the swatter this time around.

[Mandy]

quote:Originally posted by Salty Dog

But my comment was only to point out that 60 is not old folks home material anymore. We live longer and healthier.

I am retired but considering going back to work. I am also planning a trip on my schooner to the South Pacific before returning to BC at some point.

And, life is short, you only get one- some people don't realize that until they are seventy. Some never.

Well you don't look a day past 45 to me [:X]

[Salty Dog]

Monique- with age, also comes, hopefully, some semblence of wisdom and a capacity to put things in perspective.

If you work for the dollar alone, you may not find it that much fun. I like fun work and to get paid as well is a recognition that you are valued. I like the options that age provides.

[Salty Dog]

Well, Mandy, I don't feel a day older than 40. Today I am going to hoist myself in a bos'ns chair up my main mast 60 feet and do some restoration work. Then I am going to the local Mall to find some Lincoln Park music.[]