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Ageing & Growing Old

Are you growing older?

  • Yes, I am

    Votes: 82 61.7%

  • No, I'm getting younger

    Votes: 28 21.1%

  • Sorry, I don't understand the question

    Votes: 16 12.0%

  • I'm a Mod; I think adding silly polls to chat threads is pointless

    Votes: 7 5.3%
  • Total voters
    133
David Plankton said:
This doesn't look like a professional boxer, maybe he was worried about hurting the old man so was going easy on him.
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Big mistake!
The boxer was put in a difficult situation there: as you say, he'd naturally hold back on the older bloke and would look a git if he really went for it. Granddad then deployed experience and ruthlessness to kick his ass. A valuable lesson in tactics!
:boxing:
 
escargot said:
Big mistake!
The boxer was put in a difficult situation there: as you say, he'd naturally hold back on the older bloke and would look a git if he really went for it. Granddad then deployed experience and ruthlessness to kick his ass. A valuable lesson in tactics!
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Youth and skill are no match for old age and treachery. :omr:
 
The old boy had probably done a bit of pub fighting back in his youth.
 
I wonder if Rynner has died yet? He was always on his last legs at this time of year. He'd post that he was and it sort of became a christmas tradition.

I don't believe he has as I'd felt a shift in the force or something.

I always thought he found Xmas difficult and lonely.

Rynner if you are out there, and I know you are, drop in and say hello, it's Xmas after all.


edit: I've used "Xmas" rather than Christmas as I'm sure it will annoy you. Sort of like baiting a badger trap.
 
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Naughty_Felid said:
I wonder if Rynner has died yet? He was always on his last legs at this time of year. He'd post that he was and it sort of became a christmas tradition.

I don't believe he has as I'd felt a shift in the force or something.

I always thought he found Xmas difficult and lonely.

Rynner if you are out there, and I know you are, drop in and say hello, it's Xmas after all.


edit: I've used "Xmas" rather than Christmas as I'm sure it will annoy you. Sort of like baiting a badger trap.
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Rynner, Come Back!
 
Back to DNR, with a seasonal touch! - here's a hospital xmas tree.
Note the DNR wristband decorations. Not sure I'd like to wearing those for Yuletide!

Tree
 
Sort of old couple you'd like to say hi to.

Two pensioners who went on a road trip across America to take $336,000 (£252,000) of weed as Christmas presents for friends and family have been busted by police. Patrick Jiron, 80, and his wife Barbara, 70, drove from California to Vermont with the 27kg stash of weed in their car but were arrested in Nebraska after being pulled over for traffic violations.

Officers quickly realised the elderly couple were carrying more weed than a mid-level drug dealer after the pungent smell from their car gave the game away. Dundee, the York County drugs dog, was called in and he found 60 bags of weed in the car as well as concentrated THC. Nebraska’s York News-Times reported Patrick Jiron was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and having no drug tax stamp.


Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/23/elder...desktop.article.share.top.twitter?ito=cbshare
 
Them bones might have been older than previously thought.

An archaeologist from The Australian National University (ANU) is set to redefine what we know about elderly people in cultures throughout history, and dispel the myth that most people didn't live much past 40 prior to modern medicine.

Christine Cave, a PhD Scholar with the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology, has developed a new method for determining the age-of-death for skeletal remains based on how worn the teeth are.

Using her method, which she developed by analysing the wear on teeth and comparing with living populations of comparable cultures, she examined the skeletal remains of three Anglo-Saxon English cemeteries for people buried between the years 475 and 625.

Her research determined that it was not uncommon for people to live to old age.

"People sometimes think that in those days if you lived to 40 that was about as good as it got. But that's not true.

"For people living traditional lives without modern medicine or markets the most common age of death is about 70, and that is remarkably similar across all different cultures."

Ms Cave said the myth has been built up due to deficiencies in the way older people are categorised in archaeological studies.

"Older people have been very much ignored in archaeological studies and part of the reason for that has been the inability to identify them," she said. ...

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-redefining-knowledge-elderly-people-history.html
 
ramonmercado said:
Them bones might have been older than previously thought.

An archaeologist from The Australian National University (ANU) is set to redefine what we know about elderly people in cultures throughout history, and dispel the myth that most people didn't live much past 40 prior to modern medicine.

Christine Cave, a PhD Scholar with the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology, has developed a new method for determining the age-of-death for skeletal remains based on how worn the teeth are.

Using her method, which she developed by analysing the wear on teeth and comparing with living populations of comparable cultures, she examined the skeletal remains of three Anglo-Saxon English cemeteries for people buried between the years 475 and 625.

Her research determined that it was not uncommon for people to live to old age.

"People sometimes think that in those days if you lived to 40 that was about as good as it got. But that's not true.

"For people living traditional lives without modern medicine or markets the most common age of death is about 70, and that is remarkably similar across all different cultures."

Ms Cave said the myth has been built up due to deficiencies in the way older people are categorised in archaeological studies.

"Older people have been very much ignored in archaeological studies and part of the reason for that has been the inability to identify them," she said. ...

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-redefining-knowledge-elderly-people-history.html
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Aye 'n'all, but tooth wear would be determined by lithic dendritus in their meal - if they're on chalk, the wear will be less than someone who lives and farms on fine crystal granite, so I hope that this variable is added to the equation.

That is what happens with sheep - they become 'broken mouthed' due to their grazing habit and the stone of the country they're grazing on.
 
MetroGnome said:
It is also because people confuse average life expectancy at birth with life expectancy in a more general sort of way.
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Quite. Life expectancy at birth would've been much lower, but if you got past all the infant mortality, childhood disease and injuries, and made it to that "ripe" old age of 40 or so, you'd probably stand a decent chance of making it to 70. No-one would have died of old age in their 40s!
 
ramonmercado said:
Sort of old couple you'd like to say hi to.

Two pensioners who went on a road trip across America to take $336,000 (£252,000) of weed as Christmas presents for friends and family have been busted by police. Patrick Jiron, 80, and his wife Barbara, 70, drove from California to Vermont with the 27kg stash of weed in their car but were arrested in Nebraska after being pulled over for traffic violations.

Officers quickly realised the elderly couple were carrying more weed than a mid-level drug dealer after the pungent smell from their car gave the game away. Dundee, the York County drugs dog, was called in and he found 60 bags of weed in the car as well as concentrated THC. Nebraska’s York News-Times reported Patrick Jiron was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and having no drug tax stamp.


Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/23/elder...desktop.article.share.top.twitter?ito=cbshare
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Those enterprising OAPs again!

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A California couple arrested in Nebraska last month for carrying 60 pounds of marijuana they described as family Christmas gifts have again been arrested in Nebraska, this time on suspicion of carrying drug money.

Patrick Jiron, 80, and his 70-year-old wife, Barbara, both of Clear Lake Oaks, California, were arrested Tuesday along Interstate 80 in southeastern Nebraska, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. They were arrested last month along the same roadway — in the same vehicle — just two counties west.

Lancaster County sheriff’s officials said the couple were passengers in a pickup truck that was stopped Tuesday on suspicion of following another vehicle too closely. A deputy said a search of the truck turned up a duffel bag carrying $18,000 in cash, an oversized garbage bag with raw marijuana residue inside it and notes consistent with marijuana sales.

https://apnews.com/24417fd0f23d4f17...low&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Oddities
 
Pensioner on mobility scooter given police escort after taking wrong turn and ending up on busy dual carriageway https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/must-reads/pensioner-mobility-scooter-given-police-escort-taking-wrong-turn-ending-busy-dual-carriageway/27/02/…

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Fair dinkum cobber!

A 99-year-old Australian swimmer appears to have smashed a world record for his age group in the 50m freestyle.

George Corones clocked 56.12 seconds at an official event in Queensland - a new benchmark for the 100-104 age category.

He eclipsed the previous mark, set in 2014, by 35 seconds. It will now be verified by the sport's governing body.

Mr Corones, who is eligible for the record because he turns 100 in April, said he was "quite delighted" and "over the world" by the result.

"It was an exemplary swim for me, well balanced... and I was ready to hit the [wall] at the end very hard with my hand," he told the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-43251125
 
I told one of the neighbours about some wood that had been cut so he came and collected it with his wheelbarrow.
I don't see him that often and thought how really old he is looking. Sad thing is he was a teenager when I moved here.
The guy cutting the wood was talking about his parents and how old they are and getting forgetful etc.
They are only a couple of years older than me.
I don't feel all that old but don't know how others see me.
 
So cute. Vid at link.

Robotic dog in Dorset care home helps elderly residents
A robotic dog has moved into a care home to help its residents.

'Biscuit' responds to touch and speech and has quickly become a favourite at Templeman House, Bournemouth.

Research suggests robotic animals can help to reduce stress and anxiety in people with dementia.

  • 21 Mar 2018
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-engla...-in-dorset-care-home-helps-elderly-residents#
 
It's very sweet in a way. I'm afraid I'd be waiting for the moment when the patient attacks the dog with a stick and declares, "You're not my Biscuit, effoff!"

Has anyone else noticed how dreams and dementia are closely related? In a dream, our mother is not the one we had, our friend is suddenly three times the age they should be? :omr:
 
Dementia is very sad.
On the Probus trip I've just been on one of the ladies, a beautiful looking woman still, seems
worse each time we see her.
She still talks ok but won't recognise you a few minutes later and her husband has to keep a close eye on her.
She becomes confused easily and was trying to get through an emergency door at the airport to get to the toilet, and forgets where she was sitting at meals a minute earlier if she gets up.
 
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