Spudrick68
Justified & Ancient
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It's like girls leaving school dressing up as St Trinians type girls.
In just a week I shall be 40. Gah!
I tell the GP 'I've a few issues so I brought a list, would you like to see it?' and he takes it and it unwinds like a toilet roll, right down to the floor.
I've been wearing it the wrong way around for months.
The ear-loops are on the blue side, how was I supposed to know.
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Some care-home colleagues of mine went on a pub crawl dressed as awld ladies. Each had a spirits-filled catheter bag strapped to a thigh. When bar service was slow they'd hitch up the frock and pour their own!My wife got one of them when she retired.
She dressed as an old lady on her leaving do. In one pub a lesbian lady took a shine to her and asked if she could put my wife on her shoulders. As you do when you take a shine to someone.
There isn't really a right side for non medical masks. Believe me, when I have to don one at 7 in the morning at work, I'm lucky if I can see straight to get the blue side out.Was in town yesterday and naturally wearing a facemask, which is the typical supermarket blue & white variety.
I suddenly realised my own was different from everyone else.
Theirs was blue and mine was white.
I've been wearing it the wrong way around for months.
The ear-loops are on the blue side, how was I supposed to know.
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A realisation now is how many people during all that time thought, 'Would you look at this...'.
Maryland woman goes skydiving for the first time at 102
A Maryland woman fulfilled a longtime dream by going skydiving for the first time in her life at the age of 102.
Vivian "Millie" Bailey, 102, a World War II veteran being featured on the American Heroes Channel's Honor Flight Heroes, was asked by producers if there was a bucket list item she had never crossed off. ...
Bailey's answer was that she had been thinking for a long time about skydiving. She said she was inspired by President George H.W. Bush going skydiving when he was 90 years old.
"I was inspired by the fact that he did it," Bailey told WJLA-TV. "The fact that a person at that age could do the jump." ...
Bailey said after her jump that it was exhilarating.
"It was wonderful, a real thrill," she said. "I was scared for one minute, it felt like I was tumbling and then I thought, somebody is holding onto me."
Get up and go: is 54 really the age we lose our passion for life?
You need a combination of passion and grit to maintain a positive mindset. But a Norwegian study has found that by the time we reach our mid-50s we don’t seem to possess both ...
Who says? A Norwegian study published in New Ideas in Psychology, that has examined the relation between passion, “grit” and a positive mindset across a lifespan.
And what did it find? That the correlation between grit and passion were strong between the ages of 17 and 53, but in the 54 to 69 group the correlation was “trivial”.
... What does it mean for the over-50s? “What this means is that it is more difficult to mobilise our grit and willpower, even if we have the passion,” said the study’s lead author Prof Hermundur Sigmundsson, of the Department of Psychology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. “Or we may have the grit and willpower, but aren’t quite as fired up about it.” ...
I'm pretty sure my get up and go got up and went decades ago.Maybe "getting old" occurs earlier than most people think ...
Newly published research from Norway indicates a person's "get up and go" - motivated drive toward achievement - dissipates at around age 54.
FULL STORY:
https://www.theguardian.com/science...4-really-the-age-we-lose-our-passion-for-life
PUBLISHED ARTICLE:
Passion, grit and mindset in the ages 14 to 77: Exploring relationship and gender differences
HermundurSigmundsson
New Ideas in Psychology
Volume 60, January 2021, 100815
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2020.100815
Full Article Accessible At:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X20301240?via=ihub
Same here. I think I was about 40 when I really gave up on life.I'm pretty sure my get up and go got up and went decades ago.
‘Booze N’ Tattoos’ just one way Marengo nursing home keeps spirits high during pandemic
It took moving to Rose Haven Nursing Home in Marengo for Wayne Schwarting to get his first tattoo — and then his second.
Schwarting showed them off during a Zoom call Wednesday, flexing both of his biceps to reveal a small gun tattooed inside each arm.
“Gotta have fun once in a while!” he said.
Schwarting inked up last week during Rose Haven’s “Booze N' Tattoos” event, in which masked staff applied temporary tattoos and handed out drinks, of both the alcoholic and non-alcoholic varieties, to socially-distanced residents. ...
Recently... was really looking forward to watching highlights of this game and found them online.
Guess how long it took before I realised...
I spent so much of my youth playing Match Day 2 on the ZX Spectrum.You need your grand daughter to keep you up to speed with online gaming...
Maybe "getting old" occurs earlier than most people think ...
Newly published research from Norway indicates a person's "get up and go" - motivated drive toward achievement - dissipates at around age 54.
FULL STORY:
https://www.theguardian.com/science...4-really-the-age-we-lose-our-passion-for-life
PUBLISHED ARTICLE:
Passion, grit and mindset in the ages 14 to 77: Exploring relationship and gender differences
HermundurSigmundsson
New Ideas in Psychology
Volume 60, January 2021, 100815
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2020.100815
Full Article Accessible At:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X20301240?via=ihub
I don’t think that the comments included in the article section 5.1.2 ... are necessarily saying that getting old occurs earlier than people think. To me, it is showing that continuing to find things that interest you, even as you age, is beneficial to your overall well-being.
I am ignorant of how to interpret statistics, so much of the statistical numbers mean nothing to me; however I do question that, of 917 participants, ranging in ages from 14-77, the average age was 26.15-26.54 years depending on how the data was broken down. That, to me, indicates that the majority of the participants were younger, thus skewing the data when trying to interpret it in comparison to older (54-77 yrs) adults.
When I upgraded to the Amiga 500, there was only one sports game in town.The hours I wasted on this bloody game on the Amiga 500...
Something therein which also resonates with myself and thank you for so eloquently expressing, in fine detail, my own conclusions.Being a person who's historically been described as exhibiting both these factors, I can resonate with his contextualization up to a point. I say 'up to a point' because I'm not sure I completely agree with the way he frames and defines the factors and their interrelationship
When I said, 'kept back a few games for myself'...Will take a look.... see what else is there.
... Please say it's relatively unknown!
See.. there you go and clearly an argument for contending Charles Fort did 'spiritually respond' to my plea for a, 'sign'...It's seldom seen or presented, but not very 'unknown'. This photo surfaces now and then in relation to either Dreiser or Fort.
When I upgraded to the Amiga 500, there was only one sports game in town.
Mates would stay at my house all weekend playing this and once you got into a tournament, sleep had no place!
Still, I believe, the most innovative computer sports game invented.
The following link features actual game play and... damn, do I wish for a match right now!
That was... what year? I'm guessing 1980s.
Looked it up and... 1990!
So... we would all have been playing this in our late 20s/early 30s...
Bloody 'ell! Never realised that!
Right enough, beginning of 1990, I opened a small computer shop, specialising in the Amiga.
I kept for myself, copies of best games released during that time.
I have boxes of same, most of which have never seen daylight since.
I still have an Amiga 500, Amiga monitor and a variety of unopened joysticks.
And I just wonder...
Will take a look.... see what else is there.
Incidentally, was sure I been here before, just checked and...
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-trolls-head.60983/post-1858148