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Title: Getting Old
Post by: T13A on 21 September 2017, 08:51:49 PM
Hi

I was just searching through some posts for some information and realized that a question that I asked last week was exactly the same question that I asked back in 2011.

Sorry chaps.

Cheers Paul

PS Both questions got answers!
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: d_Guy on 21 September 2017, 11:38:39 PM
Quote from: T13A on 21 September 2017, 08:51:49 PM

PS Both questions got answers!
Which must tell you something!
...and even more if the answers were completely different...and yet from the same people!  :D
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: sunjester on 22 September 2017, 06:50:04 AM
Quote from: d_Guy on 21 September 2017, 11:38:39 PM
Which must tell you something!
...and even more if the answers were completely different...and yet from the same people!  :D

That can happen after a gap of six weeks, never mind six years! ;D
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 22 September 2017, 07:36:48 AM
Quote from: sunjester on 22 September 2017, 06:50:04 AM
That can happen after a gap of six weeks, never mind six years! ;D

You mean your attention span is THAT long....
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: sunjester on 22 September 2017, 07:52:09 AM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 22 September 2017, 07:36:48 AM
You mean your attention span is THAT long....

Sorry, what was the question?
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 22 September 2017, 07:58:53 AM
Squirrel!
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: sunjester on 22 September 2017, 10:54:25 AM
Ten to Twelve!
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Leman on 22 September 2017, 11:30:17 AM
So am I, let's have a cup of tea.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 22 September 2017, 12:29:47 PM
Windyy, no its Friday
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Techno on 22 September 2017, 02:41:17 PM
The MIL can remember stuff from years ago.......But anything said to her from between 30 seconds and a minute previously simply won't stick....(I'm not joking).....And the last year might just not have happened, as far as she's concerned.

Sad...and not much fun when you deal with it constantly. X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X

Cheers - Phil

Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: paulr on 22 September 2017, 07:49:21 PM
Been there with my mother  >:<
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Subedai on 22 September 2017, 09:56:24 PM
Also seen it at first hand myself with my mother. Not good.

MickS
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: sunjester on 23 September 2017, 07:13:46 AM
Quote from: Techno on 22 September 2017, 02:41:17 PM
The MIL can remember stuff from years ago.......But anything said to her from between 30 seconds and a minute previously simply won't stick....(I'm not joking).....And the last year might just not have happened, as far as she's concerned.

Sad...and not much fun when you deal with it constantly. X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X

Cheers - Phil



Ditto with both in laws. ~X(
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 23 September 2017, 07:51:46 AM
Likewise, also same question about 5 times in ten mins. You have to be patient, and I'm not.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Techno on 23 September 2017, 08:00:07 AM
I find that I can fairly easily cope with 'the problem' most of the time....Sometimes she even makes me have to hide my laughter, with the statements she comes out with.

Other times......AAAAARGH !!!!

Like you say, Ian....The same question over and over again in a short period of time. Her record is 7 times in 5 minutes, a few weeks ago.

Cheers - Phil

Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: FierceKitty on 23 September 2017, 08:48:42 AM
Somebody shoot me first, please!
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Techno on 23 September 2017, 09:22:50 AM
Don't worry, Matey....You won't know that it's happening.  X_X

A very nice lady from the Alzheimer Society came to see us a few weeks ago.....And gave a very good 'explanation' of what happens with the condition.

Imagine a book case, filled with your own memories in diaries.....Book by book.

Top shelf, are the most recent 'diaries'.....The bottom shelf are your earliest memories, from childhood.

These books aren't stacked particularly well, and are prone to fall over.
Once they've fallen over.....That's it !....They've gone....You can't access them anymore.

Soooooooo....Once the top shelf has fallen over (with the most recent memories)...all that's going to happen is that the shelves below are going to start 'falling over' as well.....
The 'victim' is going to basically regress to childhood, as  'these books' fall over.

Not nice.

Cheers - Phil



Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Leman on 23 September 2017, 10:27:08 AM
FK - careful what you wish for.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: fsn on 23 September 2017, 10:50:22 AM
What a lovely metaphor Techno.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 23 September 2017, 11:00:47 AM
If you like a metaphor, doesn't it become like, a simile?
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: FierceKitty on 23 September 2017, 11:07:25 AM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 23 September 2017, 11:00:47 AM
If you like a metaphor, doesn't it become like, a simile?

;D
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: FierceKitty on 23 September 2017, 11:09:14 AM
Quote from: Leman on 23 September 2017, 10:27:08 AM
FK - careful what you wish for.

I ain't joking. Blind, deaf, mad, or impotent - I have no wish to continue on those terms. Not sure about a wheelchair either.

Mad - well, I'm a wargamer, so of course I'm a bit round the twist. That doesn't count; just normal healthy obsessive-compulsive.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Matt J on 23 September 2017, 11:42:34 AM
My dad has alzhiemers and he's only 69. This might sound weird but it's not that bad. He doesn't realise he has the condition, doesn't remember that he forgets. It doesn't cause him any pain or distress  (yet) hard work for me but reassured it's not too bad for him.
That's the thing with dementia it affects others more than the patient. If that makes sense.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Techno on 23 September 2017, 12:58:06 PM
Quote from: Matt J on 23 September 2017, 11:42:34 AM
That's the thing with dementia it affects others more than the patient. If that makes sense.

Certainly does, Matey.....The MIL hasn't got a clue as to how it affects me and Von.....Just lives in her own 'immediately current world'.

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Westmarcher on 02 October 2017, 12:18:12 PM
Shaved the moustache off today for the first time in 42 years and already I look 20 minutes younger.  8)
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 02 October 2017, 01:21:33 PM
On porpoise or accidentally?
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: jimduncanuk on 02 October 2017, 01:44:30 PM
After I retired from work I got my eyes laser adjusted so no more glasses, shaved off the mustache and now lots of people don't think I am an old age pensioner.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: d_Guy on 02 October 2017, 02:37:31 PM
I have had a beard for fifty years. It is now snow white. I am often mistaken for Santa Claus.
I once shaved it of in my forties. It did not make me look even twenty minutes younger.
I made me look like Quasimodo.
In the streets strong men quavered, women fainted, small children became hysterical.
I wore a ski mask for a month until it grew back.

Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: ErHo on 02 October 2017, 03:52:40 PM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 02 October 2017, 01:21:33 PM
On porpoise or accidentally?

(https://i.imgflip.com/ac52i.jpg)
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 03 October 2017, 08:04:38 AM
But dat be a Dolphin  :- :-X :d
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 03 October 2017, 08:07:11 AM
You fin-k?
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 03 October 2017, 08:08:45 AM
OW - get OUT NOW
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 03 October 2017, 08:52:13 AM
Just jumping through the hoops, don't get in a flap!
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Westmarcher on 03 October 2017, 09:10:13 AM
OK, to answer the question, I did it on dolphin.

[It's really weird. My upper lip is a lot thinner than I remember. Is it really mine? Wait a minute. OK, who's got my real upper lip .....?]
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 03 October 2017, 11:45:47 AM
Will - just say "So long and thanks for all the fish"
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: SV52 on 03 October 2017, 01:44:30 PM
This is what dolphins think about porpoises round 'ere.

(https://i.imgur.com/2ZyTLa8.jpg)
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: d_Guy on 03 October 2017, 09:11:23 PM
Westie,
I notice you appear to have renounced your OPE, did our Leveller ways rub off on you? :-\  :D
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Westmarcher on 03 October 2017, 10:08:48 PM
Dammit! I must have let the subscription to Techno lapse.   :P
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Techno on 04 October 2017, 06:22:16 AM
Eh ?

I'm lost !  8-} 8-} 8-}

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 04 October 2017, 06:47:10 AM
Quote from: Techno on 04 October 2017, 06:22:16 AM
Eh ?

I'm lost !  8-} 8-} 8-}

Cheers - Phil

Nufink unusual der is der
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Westmarcher on 04 October 2017, 11:09:22 AM
Uuuuh!   =)

OK, for new forum members and the old and doddery ones, an explanation ....

Well spotted, Bill. By "OPE" I presume you mean Oik of the Pendraken Empire. Alas, it is a knighthood, awarded by Phil in the Pendraken Honours list 2015 for pissing him off .... which I still cherish, by the way (I'll check out what's happened to the Direct Debit, Phil), and have not renounced, merely omitted from my moniker to reflect the modest and outstanding chappy that I am (and probably because I shaved too far when removing the hairy caterpillar from the top lip).

Signed - Sir Oik (of Westmarch) of that Ilk.  :)

P.S. As many of my fine fellow members will have noted, there was no Pendraken Honours list in 2016 but rumour is it may make a comeback in 2017 with Orcs, in recognition of his recent outstanding services to japery, receiving the honorific, "Count."
At least I think that's what Phil said ..  :-\
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Leman on 04 October 2017, 11:34:51 AM
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D - oooer! I remember marking a child's book once, after he made a spelling error with King Cnut.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: FierceKitty on 04 October 2017, 11:45:19 AM
Reminds me of an engagingly mis-labelled melon in a Bangkok supermarket.... One vowel can make a fair bit of difference.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Orcs on 05 October 2017, 08:22:52 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 04 October 2017, 11:45:19 AM
Reminds me of an engagingly mis-labelled melon in a Bangkok supermarket.... One vowel can make a fair bit of difference.

AS none of us speak Thai ( apart from Jig, jig and "I love you long time")  :D you will have to expand this a bit
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: FierceKitty on 05 October 2017, 08:36:40 AM
It was meant to be labelled in English. I'm sure you can work out what a cantaloupe could be turned into without getting me into trouble for using a word that many people find offensive.

p.s.  ME love you long time.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Orcs on 05 October 2017, 08:40:02 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 05 October 2017, 08:36:40 AM
It was meant to be labelled in English. I'm sure you can work out what a cantaloupe could be turned into without getting me into trouble for using a word that many people find offensive.

p.s.  ME love you long time.

HMMMM!  let me have a think????? ;D ;D
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Leman on 05 October 2017, 01:44:14 PM
Come off it FK! We've never met.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: FierceKitty on 05 October 2017, 02:08:48 PM
Yes, babee, but me so horny!
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 05 October 2017, 02:26:54 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 05 October 2017, 02:08:48 PM
Yes, babee, but me so horny!

BUT WE DONT WHISH TO KNOW THAT- VERY MUCH SO.
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: ErHo on 05 October 2017, 03:42:23 PM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 05 October 2017, 02:26:54 PM
BUT WE DONT WHISH TO KNOW THAT- VERY MUCH SO.

Speak for yourself!
(https://media.tenor.com/images/269a246ef2555100c6a8a3a77cfde08c/tenor.gif)
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Raider4 on 05 October 2017, 07:21:18 PM
Quote from: ErHo on 05 October 2017, 03:42:23 PM
Speak for yourself!
(https://media.tenor.com/images/269a246ef2555100c6a8a3a77cfde08c/tenor.gif)

Hmm, you're fitting in very well here, I can tell.

Cheers, M.
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Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: Ithoriel on 05 October 2017, 09:28:42 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/UGEvOYK.jpg)
Title: Re: Getting Old
Post by: sunjester on 06 October 2017, 10:49:43 AM
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4475/36819355324_887440b573_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Y6APz7)

;) (https://flic.kr/p/Y6APz7)