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'Peter Pan' boomers warned
Herald Sun ^
| 4 March 2006
Posted on 03/04/2006 3:02:34 AM PST by Aussie Dasher
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To: Zon
41
posted on
03/04/2006 4:31:35 AM PST
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: RadioAstronomer
- I have a few of my coworkers there now as well. Hey, it's my way of dealing with my midlife crisis. It's my "fast car." Heeheeheee...
42
posted on
03/04/2006 4:39:19 AM PST
by
Allegra
(Please pray for peace in Iraq.)
To: Allegra
I can stop the car. You just can't stop where you are. BE SAFE!
I served my time overseas during the cold war under Reagan. Was with an F-4 unit waiting for the Soviets to "run" the Fulda Gap.
43
posted on
03/04/2006 4:42:10 AM PST
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: Aussie Dasher
OK, always good advice to prepare. Be that as it may some precautions are simply "safety first" scenarios. When I upgraded our bathroom, I put in a jacuzzi tub for my wife for therapy (ok, I use it as much as she does, it's the gift that keeps on giving. :D ) Still, for her safety, I built in two "beautiful" brass grab bars that matched the other fixtures. Heck, it looks like shower jewelry and really makes the bathroom look simply luxurious. At any rate, there's ways to incorporate safety with asthetics.
44
posted on
03/04/2006 4:47:16 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Kozak
To: Aussie Dasher
Wait until they all get old with their houses in hock and their 401 K's destined to pay off debt, and they have to go to the kids and explain to them that the definition of "compassion" is to save grandmas ass.
This bay boomer retirement deal might get ugly, and I for one am not looking forward to this.
The DNC however, is looking forward to it. As is the AARP.
46
posted on
03/04/2006 4:51:05 AM PST
by
lawnguy
(Give me some of your tots!!!)
To: RadioAstronomer
I can stop the car. You just can't stop where you are. BE SAFE! Sure I can. I can get on a plane and head home whenever the notion takes me. Or whenever the chile con queso and margarita cravings become overwhelming. ;-)
Thank you for your kind words and thank you for your service.
47
posted on
03/04/2006 5:00:52 AM PST
by
Allegra
(Please pray for peace in Iraq.)
To: BunnySlippers
If the Gen X-Ys get here to start the bashing first then it's all over. You mean the slackers and the whiners?
{ducking and running...}
48
posted on
03/04/2006 5:02:57 AM PST
by
Allegra
(Please pray for peace in Iraq.)
To: jocon307
Makes me glad I'm not a boomer, having been born in a pre boom year.
49
posted on
03/04/2006 5:11:14 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Allegra
50
posted on
03/04/2006 5:35:39 AM PST
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: RadioAstronomer
There are many causes for reduced mobility, and they can affect even young adults.
Strokes, traffic accidents, and job injuries can and do happen to young folks daily
Wife and I each broke a leg in seperate accidents. Even 3 steps into the house was a chore. As a result, we designed and built a very attractive, comfortable house that is 100% wheelchare accessable. The total aded cost was insignificant over standard construction.
"Peter Pans" also need to look at the bell curve of income. Your income peaks about the same time your physical condition just starts to go south. If you wait too long, moving or upgrading to an access friendly home may be unafordable.
My belief is an injury or old age should not run me out of my home.
51
posted on
03/04/2006 5:40:21 AM PST
by
wrench
To: Allegra
My service was a pleasure - most of the time.
52
posted on
03/04/2006 5:52:36 AM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: R. Scott
I understand the "most of the time" part, just from being a "lower than an REMF." (Civilian scum.) LOL
53
posted on
03/04/2006 6:13:39 AM PST
by
Allegra
(Please pray for peace in Iraq.)
To: RadioAstronomer
"Wanted to trade: Harley with wrecked front end for motorized wheel chair"
54
posted on
03/04/2006 6:16:10 AM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
To: RadioAstronomer
bioengineering for locomotion aids. Come on baby, do the locomotion...
55
posted on
03/04/2006 6:16:56 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: ovrtaxt
Just joined folding@home's Free Republic team :-)
Thanks for the tagline.
Cheers!
56
posted on
03/04/2006 6:42:02 AM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: BunnySlippers
FR has lots of boomer bashers. 48 here....I love the kids but my only complaint is that in the under 35 age group it is incredibly difficult amongst urban educated middle to upper middle class males to discern straight men from homosexuals. They dress similarly and have common spoeech patterns and appear so feminized. When my wife and I go out we are constantly amazed. Younger men look and act so vain and gay and papoose carrying mommy acting.
Now, they can bash my long haired dope smoking Led Zepplin-Stones-Lynyrd Skynyrd youth all they want but nobody ever confused queers back then.....at least not in the South.
Seems many young men today are such metero dandies. It's like they were all raised by Erica Jong and Susan Sontag.
And don't let them try to tell you they vote better then we do...they don't. The boomers even in the heady 60s and early 70s were never the solid leftist block the media has tried to portray and most did not protest the war.
57
posted on
03/04/2006 6:54:53 AM PST
by
wardaddy
("hillbilly car wash owner outta control")
To: Aussie Dasher
I agree, I want a "Ranch" with no basement. But it's a hard sell.
58
posted on
03/04/2006 7:27:40 AM PST
by
StACase
To: Allegra
Most of the time I was fortunate enough to be in a line platoon, but I had to serve my time in a desk job a couple times. I hated desk jobs.
59
posted on
03/04/2006 7:34:49 AM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Allegra
You're a Toys-R-Us kid :)
60
posted on
03/04/2006 8:55:12 AM PST
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism Is Not Conservative!)
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