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Jaws is on AMC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its release. It is in color. I thought the only movies that were 50 years old had to be black and white...

#GettingOld
#Jaws
#WereGoingToNeedABiggerBoat

A quotation from Golda Meir

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, you can’t stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.

Golda Meir (1898-1978) Russian-American-Israeli politician, teacher; Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974)
Interview (1972-11) by Oriana Fallaci, Ms. (1973-04)

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I’m ‘Where’s my phone?!’ While Holding My Phone years old.

#Age #OldAge #GettingOld #Aging

I heavily dislike being reminded that IDE is a legacy tech.

#retroComputing #gettingOld

A quotation from Bob Hope

It feels great to be 95. I mean, for those parts of me that still have feeling.

Bob Hope (1903-2003) American comedian, actor, humanitarian (b. Leslie Townes Hope)
“95 Years of Hope,” press kit, joke sheet (1998)

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1985 seems so long ago.

And the early millennials are making their first jump into their 40s now!

#40 #memes #gettingold

Vroeger keek ik naar MacGyver en The A-Team en werd uiteindelijk zelf ingenieur.
De huidige generatie die naar Baby Shark, Paw Patrol, Rubble and crew en consoorten kijkt, ik weet het toch niet hoor.
Voor mij is dat vooral overprikkeling ipv stimulatie.
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A quotation from C. C. Colton

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 363 (1820)

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I'm "You weren't there when X Y Z happened" years old.

#Old #Joke #GettingOld

Ya know how, sometimes, you need your reading glasses so that you can fix your reading glasses?

#GettingOld #GenX

Every time I wake up I feel like I’m hosting a show called Mucus in the Morning. #GettingOld

Part of me wishes I could be a kid again, because I made the mount everest of chicken nuggets and I couldn't even eat half of the plate. #GettingOld

A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Let mine not be the saddest fate of all,
   To live beyond my greater self; to see
   My faculties decaying, as the tree
Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall.
   Let me hear rather the imperious call,
   Which all men dread, in my glad morning time,
And follow death ere I have reached my prime,
Or drunk the strengthening cordial of life’s gall.
The lightning’s stroke or the fierce tempest blast
   Which fells the green tree to the earth to-day
Is kinder than the calm that lets it last,
   Unhappy witness of its own decay.
   May no man ever look on me and say,
“She lives, but all her usefulness is past.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1882), “Uselessness,” Maurine and Other Poems (1882 ed.)

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A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Little of all we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
Without both feeling and looking queer.
In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Poem (1858-09), “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 4

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Today I decided to rearrange my home office. I have two bookcases and a 2m long walnut desk…I am broken now #GettingOld

That's it, it's happened.. I'm officially "Bought fluffy slippers for the winter from Kmart for click-n-collect" old..

#Musings #ShowerThoughts #Age #Winter #Australia #GettingOld

Well there goes my 43rd Trip around the sun.

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Phase 2 of the wood store complete. It’s looking a bit like a temple at the moment. I was hoping to get the roof on today but last night I fucked my back up. And how did I do this? I bent down to push a button on my dehumidifier. I like getting old, I think I’m a much nicer person than I was 20 years ago, and I know myself much better - but the physical decline that comes with old age is shit. What I wouldn’t give for my 18 year old body with my 60 year old self. #allotment #making #GettingOld