Ageing & Growing Old

[escargot]

To be fair, I know what she means. I've got a couple of customers, both men, who have that cadaverous, sunken cheeked look. Mind you, they've looked the same for the six years or so that I've known them, but both smoke about 100 fags a day, so I guess they might not go on fro much longer.

My old dear's on about a more Michael Bentine-type Death's Head look. Like, an actual bone-face appearance. We shall see.

 

[michael59]

Telomeres are repetitive sections of DNA at the ends of chromosomes. Basically like aglets at the end of laces they stop the end fraying. But every time the cell divides the telomeres shorten until eventually they become too short and the cell dies.

Thanks, Gordonrutter, it was bothering me throughout the day today, but for some reason, I kept getting sidetracked and never looked it up.

I knew Yithian was just phoning it in again. He gets that way once in awhile, mischievous. My grandmother was like that. I remember when I was around 10 years old I was sitting on the sofa eating popcorn and watching Engelbert Humperdinck, my mom and granny's favourite singer, on TV. Granny asked me if I thought he was handsome and I said. don't you think he has enormous lips? As she was leaving the room she said, that's what happens when you eat too much popcorn.

 

[Mythopoeika]

My old dear's on about a more Michael Bentine-type Death's Head look. Like, an actual bone-face appearance. We shall see.

Like Nikola Tesla when he got old?

 

[Floyd1]

To be fair, I know what she means. I've got a couple of customers, both men, who have that cadaverous, sunken cheeked look. Mind you, they've looked the same for the six years or so that I've known them, but both smoke about 100 fags a day, so I guess they might not go on fro much longer.

A sort of Alex Higgins/Paul Gascoigne/George Best look?

 

[catseye]

A sort of Alex Higgins/Paul Gascoigne/George Best look?

Oh, worse than that. It's a very 'mobile corpse' sort of look - they tend to be quite tall and thin and their skin has a yellowish hue. I find myself looking at them and thinking 'you've got cancer and I wonder if you know it'.

 

[charliebrown]

A side effect of growing old that lately bothers me.

It seems more constipation problems as I get older.

Younger posters may not think of this as a problem or worry.

It is rumored that Elvis Presley was found dead by his girlfriend on the bathroom toilet from blocked intestines from heavy dosing of pain medication.

 

[Mythopoeika]

A side effect of growing old that lately bothers me.

It seems more constipation problems as I get older.

Younger posters may not think of this as a problem or worry.

It is rumored that Elvis Presley was found dead by his girlfriend on the bathroom toilet from blocked intestines from heavy dosing of pain medication.

Keep eating fruit that has plenty of roughage in it.
I've had these problems myself too.
Recently, I've had the opposite problem.

 

[escargot]

A side effect of growing old that lately bothers me.

It seems more constipation problems as I get older.

Younger posters may not think of this as a problem or worry.

It is rumored that Elvis Presley was found dead by his girlfriend on the bathroom toilet from blocked intestines from heavy dosing of pain medication.

People's digestive systems do slow down as we get older. Even I, the Queen of Roughage, have noticed that.

 

[michael59]

A side effect of growing old that lately bothers me.

It seems more constipation problems as I get older.

Younger posters may not think of this as a problem or worry.

It is rumored that Elvis Presley was found dead by his girlfriend on the bathroom toilet from blocked intestines from heavy dosing of pain medication.

Make a strong cup of coffee and put some 33% real cream in it. You must also make sure you don't have to go anywhere for a few hours because you must stay close to a bathroom. Trust me.

 

[Ronnie Jersey]

A side effect of growing old that lately bothers me.

It seems more constipation problems as I get older.

Younger posters may not think of this as a problem or worry.

It is rumored that Elvis Presley was found dead by his girlfriend on the bathroom toilet from blocked intestines from heavy dosing of pain medication.

A Large Starbucks coffee, with cream, works every time!!

 

[brownmane]

A Large Starbucks coffee, with cream, works every time!!

Here, people usually recommend Timmies (Tim Hortons). Am I right @michael59?

 

[brownmane]

Oh, worse than that. It's a very 'mobile corpse' sort of look - they tend to be quite tall and thin and their skin has a yellowish hue. I find myself looking at them and thinking 'you've got cancer and I wonder if you know it'.

Or grey pallor.

 

[hunck]

A side effect of growing old that lately bothers me.

It seems more constipation problems as I get older.

Younger posters may not think of this as a problem or worry.

It is rumored that Elvis Presley was found dead by his girlfriend on the bathroom toilet from blocked intestines from heavy dosing of pain medication.

Have a bowl of porridge for breakfast every day - as whole grain & un-milled as you can find, chuck some fruit in as you heat it, dried or fresh. Keeps you regular as clockwork or your money back.

Elvis by all accounts had a terrible diet on top of his drug intake. You’ve only got to see his last Vegas performances - bloated, overweight, sweaty. And he was only 42.

 

[michael59]

@charliebrown Aren't you glad you mentioned it? lol

 

[Ronnie Jersey]

Oh, worse than that. It's a very 'mobile corpse' sort of look - they tend to be quite tall and thin and their skin has a yellowish hue. I find myself looking at them and thinking 'you've got cancer and I wonder if you know it'.

Oh no - that 'jaundice' look.

 

[charliebrown]

I think young but in old age parts of your body don’t work as well.

Very disappointing. !

 

[Iris]

 

[Floyd1]

Oh, worse than that. It's a very 'mobile corpse' sort of look - they tend to be quite tall and thin and their skin has a yellowish hue. I find myself looking at them and thinking 'you've got cancer and I wonder if you know it'.

Couldn't be any worse than the 'Hurricane' himself;

 

[ramonmercado]

Happy Birthday!

Two Second World War veterans celebrate their 100th birthdays together over Zoom​

WORLD

Blind veterans Ken Hobbs and Margaret Wilson celebrate their birthdays together over Zoom
13/02/2023 | 13:09 PM

Two Second World War veterans who discovered they were born on the same day have celebrated their 100th birthdays together.
Ken Hobbs, who served during D-Day, and Margaret Wilson, a codebreaker at Bletchley Park, first met at the Blind Veterans UK wellbeing centre in Brighton, East Sussex.

Mrs Wilson was on a trip to the wellbeing centre, where Mr Hobbs lives, and the pair have remained friends ever since, catching up and eating dinner together on all of Mrs Wilson’s subsequent visits.

The pair celebrated their joint 100th birthday on Sunday – Mr Hobbs in Brighton and Mrs Wilson at Inspire Youth Arts in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire – surrounded by their friends and family.

Ken Hobbs’ sons read his 100th birthday message from Britain's King Charles. (Family handout/PA)

During the celebrations the pair connected via a Zoom call to wish each other a happy birthday and show off their cards from Britain's King Charles.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/t...0th-birthdays-together-over-zoom-1432023.html

 

[ramonmercado]

He's 101 actually and still going strong.

MEET AMERICA’S HIGHEST SCORING LIVING FIGHTER ACE​

Storied triple ace Bud Anderson, 100, explains how the P-51 Mustang “saved the world.”
By JON GUTTMAN 2/17/2023

The 357th Fighter Group was the first in the U.S. Eighth Air Force to enter combat from the outset of World War II equipped with the North American P-51 Mustang. Credited with 595½ aerial victories—including a record 18½ Messerschmitt Me 262 jets—and 106½ aircraft destroyed on the ground, the group also produced a record 42 aces.

Of the 357th’s nine double and triple aces, one remains. With 16¼ victories to his credit, Clarence Emil “Bud” Anderson Jr., 100, is the highest-scoring living American fighter ace. His many activities in the postwar U.S. Air Force included flying Republic F-105D Thunderchief fighter bombers over Vietnam as commander of the 355th Tactical Fighter Wing from June to December 1970, before retiring on Feb. 29, 1972. On Dec. 2, 2022, the Air Force capped off his career by promoting him to the honorary rank of brigadier general.

AS A BOY GROWING UP IN OAKLAND, CALIF., HOW EARLY DID YOU SET YOUR SIGHTS ON AVIATION?​

My brother and I both grew up fascinated by aviation. There was a mail plane flying by daily and at least one airport within 30 miles of us. Douglas B-18s were based at Moffett Field. Our parents would take my best friend, Jack Stacker, and me to the airport, dump us there and pick us up.

DID YOU HAVE ANY FLIGHT BACKGROUND BEFORE ENLISTING IN THE U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS ON JAN. 19, 1942?​

I was already a private pilot—it helped in my early military training. I flew a 45 hp Piper Cub, a really early model. I flew tail wheel aircraft all the way up to graduation.

WHAT WAS THE SITUATION WHEN THE 357TH FIGHTER GROUP ARRIVED AT ENGLAND’S RAF LEISTON AIRFIELD ON JAN. 31, 1944?​

There was a “Pioneer Mustang Group,” the 354th of the Ninth Air Force, which lent its P-51s to the Eighth Air Force. We loaned some pilots to the 354th, and they were so wildly successful that the Eighth ordered P-51s and made us the first P-51 unit in the Eighth. They also fired all the generals in the Eighth and replaced Maj. Gen. Ira Eaker with Jimmy Doolittle. [Doolittle] took the calculated risk of changing the bomber escort procedure, with us not just escorting the bombers but eliminating the enemy fighters. It was pursue and destroy. ...

https://www.historynet.com/meet-americas-highest-scoring-living-fighter-ace/

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Anderson

 

[ramonmercado]

Not many of the old boys and girls left now.

As Britain ponders military future, war veterans such as Harry Winter reminisce about its past​

London Letter: The 100-year old Welshman is the star turn at the relaunch of the RAF museum at Biggin Hill​

Harry Winter, who spoke about his time as a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft VII, holding his POW identification papers. Photograph: Ash Knotek/RAF Biggin Hill Museum & Chapel

Wed Mar 15 2023 - 05:00

Harry Winter, aged 100, leans forward in his wheelchair and speaks with clarity and passion of his time as a crew member on bombers in the Royal Air Force during the second World War. Time hasn’t dimmed his grasp of detail.

He describes the day in October 1943 that he flew his 19th mission. He had a cold that day. He remembers the “flak” they got as they flew over the Netherlands en route to Germany. He describes how their aircraft was attacked after dropping its payload over Kassel. He remembers being shot and how he slapped the thigh of the tail gunner, who was already dead.

His eyes light up and his hands wave about as he describes parachuting off the burning plane, being found injured in a field, being brought to a hospital followed by a convalescence home run by kindly nuns. Winter can remember it all.

‘It shouldn’t be talked about,’ he says softly, of his time in the POW camp. ‘It was really bad.’
— Harry Winter

But some details are best forgotten. I ask him how he was later treated as a prisoner of war at the notorious Stalag Luft VII camp in Bankau, then in Germany but now part of Poland. He holds my gaze with a pained expression. He is looking directly at me but who knows what he sees in his mind’s eye. Silence descends, then he grumbles slightly. ...

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk...ns-like-harry-winter-reminiscint-of-its-past/

 

[Tunn11]

Here, people usually recommend Timmies (Tim Hortons). Am I right @michael59?

Round these parts the saying always was: "If you think the bottom's come out of your world, drink a pint of Theakston's Old Peculier and you'll think the world's come out of your bottom."

 

[escargot]

Round these parts the saying always was: "If you think the bottom's come out of your world, drink a pint of Theakston's Old Peculier and you'll think the world's come out of your bottom."

First time I tried that was at a beer festival in Manchester. Smelled and tasted like treacle. Put me off real ale for years!

I was about 8 months pregnant at the time, which can rather skew the old palate.

 

[Ghost In The Machine]

I think the scariest looking old person I have ever seen was Prince Philip in the last couple of years of his life...

 

[Mythopoeika]

I think the scariest looking old person I have ever seen was Prince Philip in the last couple of years of his life...

 

[Tunn11]

First time I tried that was at a beer festival in Manchester. Smelled and tasted like treacle. Put me off real ale for years!

I was about 8 months pregnant at the time, which can rather skew the old palate.

Never risk Fraoch heather beer in any quantity. It is actually quite nice and achieved popularity when the cast of Braveheart took to drinking it. To say that it produces intestinal gas is an understatement. It was like the beans scene in Blazing Saddles.

If their kilts were billowing in Braveheart it wasn't the Scottish weather.

 

[escargot]

the beans scene in Blazing Saddles.

The scene's TV subtitles, to which Mary Whitehouse objected, included 'The farting continues'.

 

[hunck]

Round these parts the saying always was: "If you think the bottom's come out of your world, drink a pint of Theakston's Old Peculier and you'll think the world's come out of your bottom."

First time I tried that was at a beer festival in Manchester. Smelled and tasted like treacle. Put me off real ale for years!

I was about 8 months pregnant at the time, which can rather skew the old palate.

Nowt wrong with Old Peculier. Being old & peculiar I got a few bottles the other day. All gone now, with no botty unpleasantness.

 

[escargot]

Nowt wrong with Old Peculier. Being old & peculiar I got a few bottles the other day. All gone now, with no botty unpleasantness.

Double Diamond was reputed to work wonders.

 

[Frideswide]

Double Diamond was reputed to work wonders.

So Have Some Today?