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Elderly?

  • 25-12-2015 5:48pm
    #1
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,777 ✭✭✭✭


    Headline: 'Elderly couple armed with guns stop burglar..."

    Turns out they are 66 and 70. That is not elderly. Elderly is...well...10 years older than I am, at least.

    Hmph.


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'm older than than that and I don't consider myself elderly. Yet!


  • #3
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    I wonder how the general consensus of "elderly" has changed over the generations with increasing lifespan?

    I mean, if 65 was rare in 1840, then that'd be "elderly", but if you have lots of people aged 65 in 1940, they're all going to have something to say (loudly and vociferously :P) about 65 being considered "elderly".

    Maybe if it becomes common for lifespan to stretch to 110, 90 won't be considered "elderly" anymore, due to a lot of sprightly great-grandmothers informing cheeky 70-year old sproglets that they can still beat them up if they persist with all this ageist business!


  • #4
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,515 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    I race (bicycle) regularly against a dozen or more guys in their 70s, one of whom still beats me and pretty much everyone else every week. A couple of them are in their 80s. Don't think any of those guys would consider themselves "elderly"

    (and I'm not accepting I'm "middle-aged" despite being nearer 60 than 50:pac:)


  • #5
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I will NEVAH be 'elderly'!! :D:p


  • #6
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    You are elderly when your age is greater than or equal to the age of 77% of the people that you know. FACT

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #7
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    You are elderly when your age is greater than or equal to the age of 77% of the people that you know. FACT

    Mix with the right crowd and you'll never be elderly.


  • #8
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Raven Nutritious Mountain wrote: »
    Mix with the right crowd and you'll never be elderly.
    Thats been my plan and by jove I think it's working!

    /Flees from O&O for the Clearisil & Hormones forum

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #9
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    OldGoat wrote: »
    You are elderly when your age is greater than or equal to the age of 77% of the people that you know. FACT

    .... add eye of newt and wing of bat, do two turns anticlockwise without putting a hip out and check that you remember why you started.... if all's well you still have IT...


    90 is the new 40, btw....;):p


  • #10
    franer1970
    Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭franer1970


    Will you guys shut up please, or they'll be hiking the retirement age to 105 by the time I'm 65!


  • #11
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I must be elderly as there is only one person I am in work with older than me. Hmmmm.


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  • #12
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I must be elderly as there is only one person I am in work with older than me. Hmmmm.

    That's just means it's a young staff. You can't be elderly if you're young enough to be working.


  • #13
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Sadly poverty comes into account too Srameen


  • #14
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I had one of my public representatives on the doorstep today looking for my vote. Young, passionate, full of beans. As soon as she saw me she started talking about older people, elder care, nursing homes, home care, free travel, etc., etc. Somewhere between my post on the 29th December 2015…………….
    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I will NEVAH be 'elderly'!! biggrin.pngtongue.png

    …….I became elderly! :mad:


  • #15
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I had one of my public representatives on the doorstep today looking for my vote. Young, passionate, full of beans. As soon as she saw me she started talking about older people, elder care, nursing homes, home care, free travel, etc., etc. Somewhere between my post on the 29th December 2015…………….



    …….I became elderly! :mad:

    No you are not hon, the young whippersnapper had left his specs in his briefcase. You are as young and voluptuous as Mr Jellybaby says you are. Go ask him. xx


  • #16
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    No you are not hon, the young whippersnapper had left his specs in his briefcase. You are as young and voluptuous as Mr Jellybaby says you are. Go ask him. xx

    That would be a step too far! :rolleyes:


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