IbPervert (imported) wrote: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:49 pm
STOP LOOKING AT MY DICK!dong:
some people age faster then others. Those teenagers that can buy adult items are considered lucky, but they really are not. Why? Because they will always look older then they really are and that is a curse in old age! On the other hand...those that look younger when they are teenagers will always look younger and that is a good thing when they become seniors.
I always get carded at the bar, but then I think the bartender wants to know where I live. He always wants my telephone number too, for the charge slip....
IbPervert, I've never heard that before. I remember psychological research showing that smart or good looking people tended to keep their brains or their looks (measured by others' perceptions) longer than others. I like to think of the advice that Dr. Tyrell gave the replicant in Blade Runner who complained of his short life - that "the candle which burns twice as brightly burns half as long." Pity us slow burners.
Kristoff, that bartender must be quite a hunk if he can get you to lay down your chain saw, especially since it's a Gucci!
I've always enjoyed the risk of making myself vulnerable. Sometimes it takes that sort of emotional pain to feel fully alive. I've found that self-protection can be a heavy burden.
kristoff wrote: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:49 pm
I always get carded at the bar, but then I think the bartender wants to know where I live. He always wants my telephone number too, for the charge slip....
Then again I guess a lot depends on what sort of bar one is in!
I would expect that a flaming nun would always attract attention!
I was taking a course in college and we were to film two bands forming in the music department. One of the bands had this very young man playing the drums. He was very good. Even our teacher thought he was 16 years old. By that point I had already asked his girlfriend how old he was and she said 23.
People do not always look their age, sometimes people look younger other people look older.
Yup. I don't know that people who start out looking younger than their age stay that way. When I was young, people thought I looked "mature." Now that I'm 57, people tell me I look like I'm in my 40s. I suppose that's a blessing. My mother's 93, and has passed for 70. Of course, men have to "perform." It's no good looking 25, if your 75-year-old dick doesn't rise to the occasion. Better not create unfulfillable expectations.
A more practical issue is medical care. Many doctors tend to let themselves of the hook with elderly patients, feeling that they can't be expected to do much for patients whom they assume to be goners. This is no small matter. Many doctors choose not to invest their energy in helping the elderly. "What can you expect at your age?" "It's an age-related illness." That last is a real killer. If the doctor isn't sure what to do, he can resort to telling you your problem is "age related," which means he doesn't have to do anything. My mother suffered from vertigo a few years ago. She went to *eight* - yes, that's right, eight - separate specialists, all of whom muttered some glop about her age. Finally, she went to the emergency room at her local hospital, where a young doctor told her she had a virus of the inner ear and gave her a drug which cleared her symptoms in 24 hours. She'd suffered for a year before that. I guess the young doctor didn't notice how old she was, and that any health problem she had was "age related" and could be ignored.
kristoff wrote: Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:28 am
Jema, one of our artists in residence par exellance, created it from whole cloth, and calendar pages and string. She did a great job.
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