Are you afraid of getting old?

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Feet?! You were lucky to have feet! When I were a lad, my old man chopped our feet off, had them for breakfast, then made us walk through broken glass on our already bleeding stumps, allowing people to throw pennies at our heads for entertainment. Then he whipped our hands with a cat-o-nine-tails, made us pick all the pennies up, punched us in the face after doing so and kicked us up the backside all the way home, which was derelict public toilet infested with rats. And when we got home, he put our heads down the rodent infested bowls and made us lick the sides for dinner. And that was just for my third birthday! But tell that to yer young uns today, and they won't believe you...

Oh, you home was a public toilet was it? Well at least you had that! Why, when I was a young-un, growing up in the slums of Leningrad, we all lived in a bottle of old milk left out behind Sergei's Burgers and Fries for the kitties to drink from. Of course, in Soviet Russia, they don't have kitties, but Siberian Tigers, so we had to fight the tigers off every day just to get at the scraps of food as they flew out of the meat grinder! Of course, those kids today, they got it easy, don't know what it used to be like...

 

[Rambuchan]

You have to be really old or really rich for that to happen!

Dear sir, you should never underestimate the levels of kindness that humans instinctively show when faced with a dithering old fool, racked with senility (feigned or otherwise).

EDIT: For the first part though, you only have to be very drunk.

Ok, I'll give you that as a short cut to what I mentioned.

You had birthdays? Sissy.

Aye, but only the one. It was the one exception in our life when we was spared some luxury.

Oh, you home was a public toilet was it? Well at least you had that! Why, when I was a young-un, growing up in the slums of Leningrad, we all lived in a bottle of old milk left out behind Sergei's Burgers and Fries for the kitties to drink from. Of course, in Soviet Russia, they don't have kitties, but Siberian Tigers, so we had to fight the tigers off every day just to get at the scraps of food as they flew out of the meat grinder! Of course, those kids today, they got it easy, don't know what it used to be like...

Oh please. Spare us your boastful bourgeois drivelling.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

I am. I would dread being old and ugly especially if i never got married because once your old its too late to date anyone young again.

By then, you would propably sick of chasing skirts around and would end up paying for sex.

Or you would just chase old women of same age group. Either way, it doesn't matter.

For me, I'll take the first option, so by that time.... remember to introduce me your teenage granddaughter, in case she need some allowance

 

[Whomp]

I've been told the 40's are the new 30's so I'm all good for a few years. BTW how old is old?

 

[Masquerouge]

I've been told the 40's are the new 30's so I'm all good for a few years. BTW how old is old?

If that makes the 30's the new 20's then I'm good.

 

[Rambuchan]

BTW how old is old?

You've always been one to set the bench mark high mate. Why stop now?

 

[Whomp]

You've always been one to set the bench mark high mate. Why stop now?

Pfft. According to Holly I'm 12...which I resent. I'd say I'm closer to 12 1/2.

that makes the 30's the new 20's then I'm good.

Dude you guys are now older than me according to this article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,904512,00.html

 

[Masquerouge]

Dude you guys are now older than me according to this article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,904512,00.html

So for my 30's crisis I shaved my head. What did you do for your 40's?

 

[Eli]

Exactly. We tend to think of our lives as being very short, but look at all the changes youve been through already, how much youve grown. Thats not going to stop. Lets check back in 30 or 40 years and see what the future Eli thinks of all this

If the 60 years old Eli will believe that he doesn't have much left to experience and learn then my life would be a failure. A person who lost his intellectual curiosity and ambition is, in my eyes, wasting his life.

 

[Whomp]

So for my 30's crisis I shaved my head. What did you do for your 40's?

I had to do the same. The combover wasn't working for me....oh and I got some glasses to look older and wiser.

 

[Mulholland]

I'm not afraid of getting old. I'm afraid of dying painfully and lonely.

 

[Swedishguy]

I'm not afraid of getting old. I'm afraid of dying painfully and lonely.

I can't understand that so many are afraid of dying alone! What is so bad with that?

 

[Dann]

Yeah. I'd actually prefer to be alone as I die. And for death to be quick. Wouldn't want to be a burden on anyone.

 

[Bartonar]

Im scared of being too old o survive in a society wih forced retirements

 

[Rhymes]

So should we be glad that you used an existing thread instead of starting a new one, or pissed off by the huge bump?

I like getting old, because I'm not a woman.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I'm scared of getting old.

 

[BCLG100]

So should we be glad that you used an existing thread instead of starting a new one, or pissed off by the huge bump?

I like getting old, because I'm not a woman.

Depends how old you are.

 

[Hygro]

And when im old il probably have alzheimers. It runs in my family. But my family has amazing longevity also.

lol that's a winning combo

 

[ZeletDude]

I'd rather stay my same age forever.

 

[Mango Elephant]

I can't wait til I'm old! Yippee!