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#254765 - 12/19/12 11:53 PM Re: how do guys cope with getting older ? [Re: bws48]
greenghost Journeyman Registered: 09/05/12 Posts: 72 Loc: NH coastline area	Glad you asked! When I get edgy about being old I simply listen to the grateful dead. Its not my favorite band mind you but it represents my generation and how powerful it is (was)Last of the baby boomers here! I dont like the fact that the body breaks down so eaisily but I love the fact that Ive so many "experience points" on younger folk. Sure they are higher tech but I know enough to get by on my own. Ask a teen how long they could last living by 1972 standards and you'll get a good laugh because they wont have a clue. Makes me wish I listened to my folks more about living in the 40s. I asked my older brother the other day if we were now old men..52 and 55. He said, "your younger than the mountain but older than a head of lettuce Kinda made sense somehow that its all about attitude. Faith & Friendship Pooly _________________________ Ret USAF Law Enforcement Specialist 81-01 Remember when America use to make sense?
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#254766 - 12/19/12 11:56 PM Re: how do guys cope with getting older ? [Re: picard120]
Phaedrus Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/28/10 Posts: 3186 Loc: Big Sky Country	Denial has been workin' pretty well for me! _________________________ “I'd rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” —Richard Feynman
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#254768 - 12/19/12 11:58 PM Re: how do guys cope with getting older ? [Re: ]
Russ Geezer Registered: 06/02/06 Posts: 5359 Loc: SOCAL	"The Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt is a webpage. _________________________ Better is the Enemy of Good Enough. Okay, what’s your point??
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#254770 - 12/20/12 12:17 AM Re: how do guys cope with getting older ? [Re: picard120]
mootz Stranger Registered: 03/03/07 Posts: 20 Loc: Idaho	Hey, where are those "faster women" at?
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#254771 - 12/20/12 01:16 AM Re: how do guys cope with getting older ? [Re: Bingley]
RayW Addict Registered: 12/06/01 Posts: 601 Loc: Orlando, FL	Originally Posted By: Bingley Originally Posted By: RayW Fast cars and younger women. Think that those combined is usually a catastrophe waiting to happen, so it's easy to plan for Most survival car kits can probably handle this. You can even jump start your own heart if she's too much for you. Your water collection pouch originally had another use, you know. Let's not exclude the mature ladies, though the thread is about "guys getting older." Would fast cars and younger men work for the aging gals? I suppose young men are invariably "fast," but are they too fast for cougars to catch up with? Does seem to work for the mature ladies too. Old friend of mine uses her fast, small, difficult to get in and out of sports car to help weed out prospective suitors. As she says, small enough to fit, limber enough to get in and you are good to go.
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#254774 - 12/20/12 01:58 AM Re: how do guys cope with getting older ? [Re: picard120]
acropolis5 Enthusiast Registered: 06/18/06 Posts: 358	Les,I like your mini library. I've read all but Hawking's book. I'd add "The Prince" to your list and re-read it every ten years.
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#254777 - 12/20/12 04:00 AM Re: how do guys cope with getting older ? [Re: picard120]
LesSnyder Pooh-Bah Registered: 07/11/10 Posts: 1680 Loc: New Port Richey, Fla	acropolis5....it was purposely missing as somewhat of an inside joke... in 1972 I had the honor of being a lackey for one of the best Chinese Mandarin linguists in USAFSS, and he mentored me while working the air war over North VietNam...he always commented that the Command and General Staff College taught from the wrong textbook, and was always a war behind...and that they used Machiavelli and von Clausewicz and not Sun Tzu...I added T E Lawrence after 9/11
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#254801 - 12/20/12 11:37 PM Re: how do guys cope with getting older ? [Re: picard120]
picard120 Old Hand Registered: 07/10/05 Posts: 763	how do guys know when one is over the hill? what physical signs indicate over the hill ?
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#254806 - 12/21/12 01:37 AM Re: how do guys cope with getting older ? [Re: picard120]
ironraven Cranky Geek Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/08/05 Posts: 4642 Loc: Vermont	Originally Posted By: picard120 how do guys know when one is over the hill? what physical signs indicate over the hill ? When you trip over your own feet. And roll. And keep rolling. And you think you're rolling faster. That is when you know you've gone over the hill and are falling down the backside of it. _________________________ -IronRaven When a man dare not speak without malice for fear of giving insult, that is when truth starts to die. Truth is the truest freedom.
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#254809 - 12/21/12 02:28 AM Re: how do guys cope with getting older ? [Re: picard120]
Bingley Veteran Registered: 02/27/08 Posts: 1585	Originally Posted By: picard120 how do guys know when one is over the hill? Ask a lady friend. Usually after 18 you're over the hill. It's just a comfortable downward trip from there on.
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