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You’re old. Get over it.
EDN ^ | October 25, 2012 | Suzanne Deffree

Posted on 10/26/2012 8:50:06 PM PDT by null and void

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1 posted on 10/26/2012 8:50:09 PM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void

If that former manager can’t see that you don’t get to be “Just like you” without gaining in years then you wouldn’t want to work for them.


2 posted on 10/26/2012 8:58:35 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong....)
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To: null and void

Every few years I raise my definition old.


3 posted on 10/26/2012 8:58:52 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Ignorance is bliss- I'm stoked)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Of old.


4 posted on 10/26/2012 8:59:48 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Ignorance is bliss- I'm stoked)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

60 is the new 40. Really.


5 posted on 10/26/2012 9:06:51 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: null and void

I’m old, and I don’t try to deny it with the “you’re only as old as your mind tells you” crap. One of the most annoying commercials on tv is the one where this woman says she doesn’t need one of those phone alert things to call for help because “thats for old people.” She’s gotta be in her 80’s. Every time the commercial comes on I want to yell “you’re old,,,accept it!”


6 posted on 10/26/2012 9:08:46 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: RitchieAprile

I’m glad to hear that since I turned 60 last month .... :)


7 posted on 10/26/2012 9:10:59 PM PDT by Neil E. Wright (An OATH is FOREVER OathKeeper III We are EVERYWHERE)
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To: null and void
My resume kills fleas at a thousand yards.

Personnel droids batten down the hatches when they hear it is nearby.

I know what a squat switch (WOW switch) is, and can do 802.11(whichever) math, rf and/or binary, depending. I also cook.

Forget drawing a regular paycheck doing any of that kind of technical stuff. Thanks, we'll give you a call.

Build it yourself or give up, after a certain age. I'm not likely to turn me down for a job for being 'too old'.

/johnny

8 posted on 10/26/2012 9:13:06 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Thanks! Nice to receive on my birthday ;-)


9 posted on 10/26/2012 9:16:13 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: RitchieAprile

Ain’t that the truth.


10 posted on 10/26/2012 9:17:16 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Ignorance is bliss- I'm stoked)
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Every few years I raise my definition old.

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Of old.

Worst sign of growing old is forgetting prepositions.

11 posted on 10/26/2012 9:19:15 PM PDT by eddie willers
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LOL, I know. It’s going fast.


12 posted on 10/26/2012 9:21:40 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Ignorance is bliss- I'm stoked)
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To: null and void

In one of his debates Ronaldus Maximus (who was 73 when he was reelected in ‘84) defended himself against charges he was too old to be president by saying:

“I want you to know also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”


13 posted on 10/26/2012 9:22:57 PM PDT by zipper
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I hada friend the other day, she is 65, ask me whether there was a medical reason for her wrinkles.

She thought she might be dehydrated...lol


14 posted on 10/26/2012 9:24:10 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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Embrace it! Not everyone GETS it! I turned 60 this year: It occurred to me that now I’ll never have to die young! :)
15 posted on 10/26/2012 9:24:27 PM PDT by bannie ("The gov't that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.")
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

I’ve gotten to the point where if I can’t find something, the first place I look is in the refrigerator.


16 posted on 10/26/2012 9:26:58 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: bannie
It occurred to me that now I’ll never have to die young!

Or pretty, in my case. ;)

The up side is you can say pretty much whatever you want.

/johnny

17 posted on 10/26/2012 9:31:21 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Neil E. Wright

August was 60 for me. :) I love it! People now MUST listen to us. We have gravitas!


18 posted on 10/26/2012 9:32:01 PM PDT by bannie ("The gov't that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.")
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To: null and void

One should respect their elders but as time goes on they get fewer and fewer in numbers. Rather than accept growing old gracefully, I fight back. Try parachuting out of a perfectly good airplane sometime. Or para sailing. The older I get the less fear I should show. I’m going to die anyways. Don’t fear the reaper the song says. I came into this world naked, kicking and screaming and with somebody elses blood all over my body and I can go out the same way.


19 posted on 10/26/2012 9:33:46 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Willie Stark for president.)
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What an arrogant idiot. She has got to be in Silicon Valley and probably a big Obama supporter.


20 posted on 10/26/2012 9:34:20 PM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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