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...you post in forums on a Friday evening.

I’m hardly ancient (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it), but I’ve long found the best place to be on Friday night is in my own quiet home. Even back during my carousing days I preferred saloons with plenty of unoccupied seats, which was far likelier to be found on a Monday or Tuesday.
 
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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...
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. :rolleyes:

...you can finally afford the HiFI components you dreamed of as a kid but your tinnitus drowns it all.
Not only that, but they finally create high definition televisions just as my eyes are going bad.

. . . when you've been receiving "special offers" and "invitations to join" the AARP for more than 40 years . . . .
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.
 

Stanley Doble

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I really don't see the advantage though, 'cause nobody seems willing to give us the discounts they say we're supposed to get.
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".
 

1967Cougar390

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Wen you add a hearing aid to your iPhone emoji.

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Steven
 
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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?

A month doesn’t go by that I don’t get at least a couple of mail solicitations from undertakers. Those offering cremations only (there’s more of them than I ever realized) are big on direct mail. I half expect them to offer sale pricing. Get your decrepit self reduced to ashes now before the price goes up!
 
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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.
 

Turnip

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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.
 
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Didn’t those customers already pay with their bodies?

:rolleyes:
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. :D
 

Turnip

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That’s indeed a very Americano thought pattern...:D...the currency I meant to be paid with is knowledge, the body’s just the purse...;)...what might be a very European point of view...:D
 

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