Age...Can you admit it?

I honestly enjoy AARP - I'm semi-retired and the dental insurance they offer is great...plus discounts on glasses and some of the articles are interesting. They had one recently on Glenn Close speaking out about erasing the shame of mental illness and being a mental health counselor, that type of info is interesting to me.

Oh, back on topic...kinda...now the mail that *I* find scary are the funeral home/cremation services pamphlets I get.

Very true and reminds me of an exercise we did in one of my grad. school classes.

The exercise was to say "This is what (my age) looks like" and then say a bit how we felt about it.

The fascinating thing from that exercise was that the younger students (mid-20's-early 30's) expressed that they felt stressed that they had not accomplished what they wanted by this time and felt most anxious about their age...by the time it got to students in their 50's - and we had one student who was 67, iirc, the responses were - "This is what (age) looks like and I love my life. I wouldn't want to be any younger because of all the experience I've gained, etc."

I don't consider my age "old" at all. But even then, I don't even feel like my biological age.

At any rate, when asked how she felt about being 89, my grandmother said "It's better than the alternative."

Well, Baby Boomers *are* the coolest generation *grins* We broke a lot of traditional molds and, not sure about this, but I *think* we may be the largest population segment.

Being directly asked one's age is rude. (Especially to a lady. I've given that lecture to many a person on IRC who began a/s/l chats.) That usually took care of them IMing me again.

/me points you back to post 24

We "old farts" were here when the personal computer first made its appearance, thus had a running head start on learning to use it. Know any DOS?

I really miss some of the first video computer games. Burger Time was one of my favorites as well as, of course, Pac-Man.

The first time I ever saw a video game, my husband and I were at some friend's house and they said, "HEY, check this out!!"

On the kitchen table they had a small TV and some console thing hooked up to it. We're like - what the heck is this?

Our friends said...watch..this is so much fun!

That was the first time I played Pong!

Oooo, a hunt!! What are the prizes?

Ack! I think I win the prize here for most totem posts. Sorry about that...I tend to read and respond as I go.

/me slinks out...for now

Wings? A whole generation doesn't even know who they were.

Noob.

But it is all about quality and I've heard that dance ability is a good indicator.

B) never enough
C) it runs
H) still mortgaged

Why?

My son is 22 and loves that I am in SL and having fun. I brought my mom into SL, 66 yrs old, and I love that she is having a blast.

It's getting to be that it should be put on the SL home page under all the stuff you can do.........


"Shop, Own Land , Create, Flirt, Act like a Juvenile Jackass and Annoy Others."

I always wondered WHY it was rude? I think it goes back to people thinking that older is bad and not wanting to admit their age, so then if asked they either have to lie or not respond.

Many of the "young uns" couldn't figure out how to do anything on the computer if a GUI wasn't there to help them along.

The word "act" would imply they are not like that usually and with that person, I somehow just don't think that applies.

In world, I can always spot the young ones...they are generally the demanding, condescending, loudmouth, insulting idiots. smile Oh wait, that works here on the forums too! hehe

What is it that would bother you most? Mom dancing on a pole? Creating things? Hopping on a poseball?

When I was 22, I was outside raising hell.

I seem to remember a time when elders didn't have many advocates.



In the early 70's I owned/managed a little beer bar. The pong game I had in there was the first video game I ever saw. It was horizontal, set into a table top.



You're a good daughter. My son got me into SL, then found a developer and talked her into hiring me to make an orientation area. If he had started on parenthood as young as I did I could have a grandchild now old enough to be on the adult grid - just saying.

He's probably afraid that one of the women he's boinking is his mother's age

Say it's not so!!!!

I'd have to research it a little...but I don't think that it was "bad" or people not wanting to admit their age...but bad manners in a traditional sense of what was considered manners at a certain point in time.

Ok, since logins are down, decided to do some research on this. From this Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_Canada_and_the_United_States

Excerpts:



Then later in this article:



So the current rules of Western etiquette now include being rude to ask women *and* men their age, etc. I glanced at other search results while reading this and saw that in Latin American countries it is considered rude to ask a woman's age. So, like other customs this is at least partially cultural.

I had a friend who, when asked anything she did not wish to answer, responded with, "Why do you wish to know?" That really put the onus back on the original questioner. (I have to remember that...I tend to just blurt out the answer.)

I just turned 52. Most of my friends are around there.

QFT! For a long time after Windows was introduced, I still used DOS to troubleshoot as I was most familiar with it and sometimes it really was the only way to solve the issue.