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Ageing & Growing Old

Are you growing older?

  • Yes, I am

    Votes: 84 61.3%

  • No, I'm getting younger

    Votes: 28 20.4%

  • Sorry, I don't understand the question

    Votes: 17 12.4%

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

    Votes: 8 5.8%
  • Total voters
    137
Tunn11 said:
Reminds me of the old story of the chap at the beach who complained that he was having no luck with the ladies who seemed not to notice him.

His friends advised him to stick a courgette down his trunks. After two days he told them that it had just made matters worse the ladies were actively avoiding him.

His friends told him to try again but this time put the courgette down the front of his trunks.
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In addition to that, he should have worn a Rolex watch and gold rings and have a pocket conspicuously full of £20 notes.
 
maximus otter said:
What with noshing off corpses and depilating your foofoo on garden furniture, your posts are becoming a trifle less refined than was once the case, young lady!

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maximus otter
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Foofoo:rofl:

Do we also have foofoo fighters?
 
As I get older, I‘m starting to wonder about career options beyond pension age.
I reckon there’s loads of money to be made as OAP strippergrams. Hen nights will pay to hire you to embarrass the hen and the rest of the party will pay you to stop. Obviously, the more disgusting you are, the more effective the business model.
Ka-ching!
 
Analogue Boy said:
As I get older, I‘m starting to wonder about career options beyond pension age.
I reckon there’s loads of money to be made as OAP strippergrams. Hen nights will pay to hire you to embarrass the hen and the rest of the party will pay you to stop. Obviously, the more disgusting you are, the more effective the business model.
Ka-ching!
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I'm going to be rich. Thank you.
 
Sometime in our town fast food places gave retirees free small coke-a-cola drinks.

Does your town gave retirees any considerations ?
 
I'm feeling quite pleased today.
I had my annual diabetes review this afternoon. My HbA1c level is 48mmol/mol (down from 50) and all the other results from the blood test were good. I'd not had a PSA check and when the nurse mentioned it while she was draining my arm of blood she added it to the list. It was 0.7.
With any luck I'll not be visiting the surgery for another year now.
 
An bizarre event happened to me that makes me question modern medicine.

Having had polyps in the intestines in the past, I agreed to have another colonoscopy.

About 2 weeks later I was in the emergency because they said I had post Polypectomy bleeding.

The amount of blood I was losing was really freaky, but fortunately it slowed and finally stopped.

I will never, never, never have another colonoscopy.

If you go for a colonoscopy just remember bleeding is a possibility.
 
charliebrown said:
An bizarre event happened to me that makes me question modern medicine.

Having had polyps in the intestines in the past, I agreed to have another colonoscopy.

About 2 weeks later I was in the emergency because they said I had post Polypectomy bleeding.

The amount of blood I was losing was really freaky, but fortunately it slowed and finally stopped.

I will never, never, never have another colonoscopy.

If you go for a colonoscopy just remember bleeding is a possibility.
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Isn't there a warning about this in the leaflets they give you? Like most procedures the outcome depends on the skill of the person doing it. Neighbour went in for a standard hernia op earlier this year. He felt ill afterwards and deteriorated rapidly at home. Turned out that the surgeon had sliced straight through his colon. He's still having to wear one of those horrible bags.
 
TangletwigsDeux said:
Quick update - cardioversion was a success, normal sinus rhythm attained.
Staff on the unit were amazing, and I dont need to take one of my tablets anymore.
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That's good news. I should think it a relief for you as well. I've never suffered arrhythmia??? but I've heard other talking about it. Very unpleasant.
 
ramonmercado said:
Send a card to Dick.

Appeal for 100th birthday cards for WW2 RAF veteran​

Kineton Manor Nursing Home Richard Skepper
Kineton Manor Nursing Home
The RAF said: "We would like to get as many people as possible to send him a birthday card to mark this very special occasion."

The RAF is appealing for well-wishers to send birthday cards to a former World War Two veteran to make his 100th birthday extra special.

Richard "Dick" Skepper, who lives at Kineton Manor Nursing Home in Warwickshire, will turn 100 on 30 June.
When the war began, Mr Skepper initially wanted to be a tank driver, but his mother persuaded him to join the RAF, which he did at 18.

The RAF has asked for cards to be sent to the nursing home in Manor Lane, Kineton.

Family An old photo of Richard Skepper in the RAF
Family
Richard "Dick" Skepper was born on 30 June 1924 in Dunton Green in Seven Oaks, Kent, and joined the RAF at 18

Mr Skepper completed his recruit training in October 1942 and was posted to 99 Maintenance Unit, based at RAF High Ercall in Shropshire.

Mr Skepper flew first on Sterlings, and later Lancasters, which remain his favourite aircraft to this day. He served alongside his brothers Alec and Geoffrey, who were also in Bomber Command. All three brothers survived the war and returned home to their family and were reunited with their two sisters.

Unfortunately, all of Mr Skepper's siblings have now passed away.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxww4gl8jrvo
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Over 1000 Birthday Cards!

A former World War Two RAF veteran has received more than 1,000 cards from all over the world to mark his 100th birthday.

Richard "Dick" Skepper, who joined the air force when he was 18 when the war began, received the cards following an appeal by the RAF Association.

The centenarian expressed his gratitude to well-wishers, having received cards from three continents.
"My dad received cards from children as young as six months old to people in their nineties," Mr Skepper's son David said.

"He has received cards from all around the world. We’ve seen postage stamps from Australia, North and Central America, as well as a host of European countries. Dad has been overwhelmed by the sheer number of cards he received and was touched by the number of people who have taken the time to send a card and thank him for his service during his time in the RAF.”

Kineton Manor Nursing Home An old man in a white shirt and black trousers holds a card and smiles at the camera, in a room that is filled with birthday cards - on the floor, on tables, and covering every inch of the walls
Kineton Manor Nursing Home
Mr Skepper received cards from children as young as six months old to people in their nineties, his son said

Mr Skepper celebrated his birthday at the end of June with a garden party at his home at Kineton Manor Nursing Home in Warwickshire, surrounded by family and friends.

David Skepper continued: "Well-wishers have invested so much of their time and my dad has been truly humbled by the care and love shown to him in every single card he has received. He has read every message, enjoyed the variety of cards and been amazed by their origins. It would be impossible for Dick to thank everyone individually but you have all helped make his 100th birthday truly wonderful and given him new memories to take forward into his 101st year!"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75ndnxz7d3o
 
She flies through the air with the greatest of ease! Vid at link.

A 102-year-old Second World War veteran has become Britain’s oldest parachutist, after leaping out of a plane over East Anglia.

Manette Baillie, from Benhall in Suffolk, completed her first parachute jump on Sunday from Beccles Airfield in celebration of her 102nd birthday on Wednesday.

Ms Baillie, who, ahead of the jump, said “you must always look for something new” afterwards told BBC Radio 4 that the jump was “a bit scary”.

“I must admit I shut my eyes very firmly,” she said. “I just want other people who are getting towards 80 and 90 not to give up anything. Just keep going.”

Callum Kennedy from UK Parachuting, who was Ms Baillie’s tandem partner for the skydive, said: “Manette was as cool as a cucumber, throughout the jump. In fact, she was so cool, I began to get nervous.”

Manette Baillie prepares to leap out of the plane

Manette Baillie prepares to leap out of the plane (UK Parachuting and Goldster/PA)

Mark King, operations manager at UK Parachuting, presented Ms Baillie with flowers and a certificate of achievement, while a party at Benhall and Sternfield Ex-Servicemen’s Village Social Club was arranged to celebrate.

The centenarian, who had been married to a paratrooper, served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) in the Second World War.

She was raising money for Benhall’s village hall, the Motor Neurone Disease Association and the East Anglian Air Ambulance. She has so far raised more than £10,000 of her £30,000 target.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/w...omes-britains-oldest-parachutist-1665174.html
 
Today I found out a workmate had passed away. I’m sure it was yesterday maybe but definitely the day before we were chatting in the smoking shelter discussing our plans for the weekend.

The mail came through on our work slack channel telling us the news this good, warm, hard-working guy had died. First response underneath was a crying emoji followed by about 60 others echoing the same. I replied to the guy with a message along the lines of condolence for the family and a suggestion of a collection for flowers when the time is right.
He responded with an emoji flag signifying ‘Thank You’. The Fucker.

I don’t want to go like this. Nobody needs their death acknowledged like this.
 
Analogue Boy said:
Today I found out a workmate had passed away. I’m sure it was yesterday maybe but definitely the day before we were chatting in the smoking shelter discussing our plans for the weekend.

The mail came through on our work slack channel telling us the news this good, warm, hard-working guy had died. First response underneath was a crying emoji followed by about 60 others echoing the same. I replied to the guy with a message along the lines of condolence for the family and a suggestion of a collection for flowers when the time is right.
He responded with an emoji flag signifying ‘Thank You’. The Fucker.

I don’t want to go like this. Nobody needs their death acknowledged like this.
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Words are inadequate (but more adequate than emojis). You have my condolences.

His loved ones must be in shock.
 
Oh @Analogue Boy that is so sad both the event and the way it was received by his collegues. You clearly thought highly of him and enjoyed his company what a horrible shock. No doubt you will be able to organise a suitable tribute for him so his family will know that his collegues really did care even though they haven't expressed it very well so far. xxxx
 
Analogue Boy said:
Today I found out a workmate had passed away. I’m sure it was yesterday maybe but definitely the day before we were chatting in the smoking shelter discussing our plans for the weekend.

The mail came through on our work slack channel telling us the news this good, warm, hard-working guy had died. First response underneath was a crying emoji followed by about 60 others echoing the same. I replied to the guy with a message along the lines of condolence for the family and a suggestion of a collection for flowers when the time is right.
He responded with an emoji flag signifying ‘Thank You’. The Fucker.

I don’t want to go like this. Nobody needs their death acknowledged like this.
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I gave a 'like' to your posting. I didn't mean it as a 'like' in that sense. People with their emoji's rather than saying a few words of condolences makes me sad. A friend died recently, and so many of her friends replied on the what's app thing with emoji's. What the f*ck is wrong with them. Has life and death been reduced to emoji's?

RIP your work mate. More so RIP as you were chatting and having a smoke in the shelter discussing your weekend plans. I'm sorry for your loss and his families shock and loss also. It is bad enough for you but it must be worse for them.
 
I went to a funeral for my cousin's husband yesterday. He had fallen onto a coffee table and broken his ribs which punctured his lung which gave him pneumonia.
I went with her brother and his wife, driven by their daughter as it was at Yarram a drive over 3 hours there.
As it was her second husband I didn't know him well but had always found him a nice chap and was surprised to find all the things he had done in his life.
His children and families flew in from interstate with just a daughter still in Yarram.
My cousin uses a wheelchair now and her youngest son wants her to move closer so he can look after her but she seems a bit undecided
Two of her boys came, one was interstate and the last time I went there was for a memorial for her eldest.
I thought how sad for her, 4 boys and none of them married.
 
Iris said:
I went to a funeral for my cousin's husband yesterday. He had fallen onto a coffee table and broken his ribs which punctured his lung which gave him pneumonia.
I went with her brother and his wife, driven by their daughter as it was at Yarram a drive over 3 hours there.
As it was her second husband I didn't know him well but had always found him a nice chap and was surprised to find all the things he had done in his life.
His children and families flew in from interstate with just a daughter still in Yarram.
My cousin uses a wheelchair now and her youngest son wants her to move closer so he can look after her but she seems a bit undecided
Two of her boys came, one was interstate and the last time I went there was for a memorial for her eldest.
I thought how sad for her, 4 boys and none of them married.
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Your cousin should take up her son's kind offer and move. I'd do that, having seen so many older people cling to their independence and come to grief.
 
Analogue Boy said:
Today I found out a workmate had passed away. I’m sure it was yesterday maybe but definitely the day before we were chatting in the smoking shelter discussing our plans for the weekend.

The mail came through on our work slack channel telling us the news this good, warm, hard-working guy had died. First response underneath was a crying emoji followed by about 60 others echoing the same. I replied to the guy with a message along the lines of condolence for the family and a suggestion of a collection for flowers when the time is right.
He responded with an emoji flag signifying ‘Thank You’. The Fucker.

I don’t want to go like this. Nobody needs their death acknowledged like this.
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Your deceased colleague's family are the ones to express the condolences to. An cry emoji is a way of saying 'That's sad' to each other.
 
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