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  1. dennisboothstash

    dennisboothstash Well-Known Member

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    <laugh>
     
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  2. BrAdY

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    is it just me or does she look like michael jackson
     
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  3. dennisboothstash

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  4. BrAdY

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    i was whooshing
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    i can imagine she'd be a scary wake up call
     
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  5. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    I would Dennis not sure my hip replacement would stand it though, Metal Mickey I am now.
     
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    Granddaughter's prom a week or so ago, 15 and a stunning young lady, biased or not she looked great but what was an eye opener was the fact that some of the girls, or their parents, paid out £700/800 for a prom dress, then there were shoes, handbag and all the other paraphanalia associated with this jamboree. I didn't know, but I do now, there's the hair to get done, make up by a professional, a fake tan and goodness knows what else. Not sure what my own son and daughter had, can't remember now it was so long ago that that they left school, as for me there was sweet F.A.
     
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  8. dennisboothstash

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    It was better when school kids just wrote on each other's shirts and drank cider in the park...
     
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    Jesus. There's a kid riding a bike with no hands. That's dangerous, that is.
     
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  10. C'mon ref

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    Ok ok this is unusual and if the mods deem it so then please delete but here goes. Its original by me nothing nicked from anywhere else.

    GRUMPY, WHO ME?

    It is often a refrain from younger folk, well anyone younger than yourself, that you are a grumpy old so and so, or worse, but are we? After a lifetime of working, taking orders if not of the managerial section of society, paying our dues, well most of us, and taking the daily stresses and strains of life, married or not, along the way is it not fair that we are sometimes ill at ease with life around us? Some have things to deal with that others have never experienced, illness is something that happens to others, serious illness is shied away from, but some would like the world to carry on undisturbed to them. But let’s state the obvious, except for those few, very few, hardy souls who can run marathons in their 80’s, most of us find life altering experiences as we past a certain age, in my own experience 60. That was when it was like someone switching a light on as aches and pains became a norm instead of just an occasional irritability. There would be the occasional muffled cry of exertion when standing up from a period of sitting down, the odd tweak here and there in places such things hadn’t materialised before. The normal run of the mill functions, again for those of us who have been fortunate, and let’s not underestimate that word, of all of our senses, sight, hearing, smell, touch, all taken for granted, some are not so fortunate, are suddenly not as sharp as they used to be.

    Movement is the biggest giveaway as with age mobility deteriorates through injury or illness of just plain worn out. But what of those senses that other people won’t notice at first, eyesight is just there when you open your eyes, but over time you may not want to admit that you don’t see things as clearly as you once did. Hearing, turn the sound up on the tv lately? Ask people to repeat things lately? Struggle in a conversation of more than two people where many conversations criss cross each other and get lost in the process? The hearing problem I have had all of my life so it’s no stranger to me, I have worn hearing aids since a child when it was a square box clipped onto a jumper or a pocket in your shirt, these days they are a lot more discreet but just as powerful. Well no they are not just powerful, due to the marvel of modern electronics they can be ‘tuned’ to your deafness, or if you are sensitive to such labels, hard of hearing.

    They can be tucked behind your ear and if you want to spend your own money instead of relying on the NHS (UK only here) then the whole aid can be tucked inside of the ear. And here is a strange conundrum, glasses are an everyday occurrence but they are to aid failings in the eyesight, but people still find it funny to make a joke of someone wearing a hearing aid, eh? What? But not with glasses, funny that. As for plain wearing out I now have a hip replacement, done 2 years ago when it got to the stage where putting one leg in front of another was an act of bravery. I originally went to my GP about my aching knees, so he sent me to a specialist and here is what happened. I was told to lay on the bed/couch whatever, and the specialist took hold of the leg that gave me no trouble, lifted it up in the air, twisted it one way then another and asked if I had any pain, no. Then the other leg, as he lifted it up in the air then twisted it I nearly shot through the ceiling, he didn’t have to ask about any pain. So off for an x-ray, then back to him in his office, all in the same day I may hasten to add, I was impressed. On his computer screen was the image of my hip and what it showed was that the ‘ball’ joint section had actually detached itself from the pelvis, I had 2 options. I had the first option which was a long needle directly into the pelvis area and an injection of some substance, I assume cortisone, to see if that helped. It didn’t do anything so I continued to hobble along until another consultation and the operation option explained to me.

    It was a no brainer, I couldn’t go on, I was still at work at this point which entailed a lot of walking about, so an operation it was. Now I was warned of certain things one of my legs could become fractionally longer than the other, and indeed the longer one is the one operated on, this has been confirmed by a bone specialist I saw. But other things have to be taken into consideration but for the freedom from pain and the regaining of most of my mobility they are not worth bothering about. For folk in a similar situation where an operation cannot be performed or just cannot be done you will see them with walking sticks to aid them, or they just hobble about in constant pain to get through their day, grumble they may but their grumbles are just. But then life itself, marriage, or not, families have to be brought up and children are no easy ride for anyone, besides the financial aspect, and I’m not talking of the touchy subject of teenagers with council accommodation, I’m talking about men, and women, who work and still bring up children. If your children do not suffer any ailment of any kind then thank your lucky stars and by that I mean ailments not on the surface as well as those patiently visible

    You don’t exactly expect thanks for bringing up your own kids, but an appreciation or two would be, well yes appreciated, but what you get is indifference. And the older the kids get the more indifferent they seem to be, a thank you is that last couple of words in their vocabulary, unless they want something that is. Which brings me back to the origins of this ramble, or I will ramble on forever, are us old uns grumpy? Yes we are but I think we are well justified for being so at times, many of us have pulled through life after varying levels of hard times and good times and whereas as youngsters we were taught to respect our elders, a lot of today’s youth don’t even know what the word means. We appear to have it all and the youth nothing if you believe the press, we have bountiful pensions, bus passes, free this, free that, long leisure times coupled with round the world cruises and endless holidays. And it has all appeared without many of us having worked for 50 years or more to get to some of those stages, it has appeared like magic. This irks me, as the ‘poor’ youth of today struggle, some do I don’t deny that, but many of us in our youth struggled for years with life’s challenges, oh yes jobs were plentiful then, yes many of them dead end jobs. Grumble we may but grumble we must, just like the none elderly population, for them aggression sometimes pay dividends.
     
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    We all grumble at times, but then I think of the people that I've lost, especially those to the the evil plague that is cancer, and then I remember how extremely lucky I am that myself and those that are closest to me have avoided it so far.

    Love conquers all.
     
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    Maybe.
     
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    In the TV series Minder, Arthur often mentioned "er indoors", but we never saw her, but he was always with Terry.


    Hmmm.

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    Boz Scaggs. He's white. Who knew??
     
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    How will you be remembered for eternity?



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    The kid falling off two from the left is not going to shout '****'... when was the word first used... pre 1912...?[/QUOTE]
     
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