...you post in forums on a Friday evening.
The summer temperatures appear to have forced the hipsters here to abandon their usual plaid flannel uniforms in favor of tie-dyed and ironic tee shirts. The neck beards, top knots, and faux tortoise/horn-rimmed eyeglasses seem to still be popular though.Here's the best of it - over here, the hipsters have largely moved on from vintage, and adopted Gap-bland as "Normcore". Nathan Barley is in the building...
Not only that, but they finally create high definition televisions just as my eyes are going bad....you can finally afford the HiFI components you dreamed of as a kid but your tinnitus drowns it all.
My wife and I started getting those when we were in our mid-40s. We figured if they were stupid enough to send them to us that we'd fill them out to see if they still wanted us younguns. I guess they did, 'cause we've been members for about 15 years now. I really don't see the advantage though, 'cause nobody seems willing to give us the discounts they say we're supposed to get.. . . when you've been receiving "special offers" and "invitations to join" the AARP for more than 40 years . . . .
Ha ha ha I have been getting senior discounts since I was 50. It started when I saw a poster at the library offering "how to use a computer" classes to seniors over 45. I thought , if that is the definition of a senior now I qualify. I found that teenagers at fast food places and stores would give me the discount without question. Older clerks might say "you don't look 65" and I would say "I take vitamins".I really don't see the advantage though, 'cause nobody seems willing to give us the discounts they say we're supposed to get.
... when you're flipping through channels and land on PBS's airing of Fleetwood Mac's Reunion Concert (10 years after they last played live) and realize it was over 23 years ago (May of 1997).
When all your junk mail consists of oversized paperboard postcards selling hearing aids & from crematoriums. What happened to all the hunting & fishing catalogs, & speed & performance catalogs I used to get?
Every once in a while we'll get some sort of advertising from Joe Schmoe's Crematorium and Donuts, but Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary (allegedly the largest cemetery in North America) is within walking distance from our house and they're kind enough to send us sales propaganda two or three times a year. I haven't yet decided what should be done with my dead carcass 'cause I won't really care then.When all your junk mail consists of oversized paperboard postcards selling hearing aids & from crematoriums. What happened to all the hunting & fishing catalogs, & speed & performance catalogs I used to get?
That would probably be preferable to donating it for medical or military experimentation. The father of a good friend did that and, it turns out, if there's anything left when they're done they return the remains to the family for disposal.Possibly donate it to Bodyworlds ?
I can't imagine it would cost much to do that here in the U.S. as well, but everything in this country boils down to who's paying for it.Hard customs!
At this end the respective medical facilities run their own, small funeral grounds where the cremated remains of donated bodies get periodically buried, the families get invited to attend the ceremony.
everything in this country boils down to who's paying for it.
Once you strip everything away except for the basic construction materials we humans ain't worth nearly as much as we think we are. I can't imagine the resale value on a damaged rotting corpse is enough to cover the cost of cooking that corpse in a retort at 1800-2000°F for three hours.Didn’t those customers already pay with their bodies?