The OLDER Photographers' thread...

New Wine for Seniors

I kid you not.... this is a new wine for seniors

Canadian vintners in the Niagara Valley area, which primarily produce Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new hybrid grape that acts as an anti-diuretic.

It is expected to reduce the number of trips older people will have to make to the bathroom during the night.

The new wine will be marketed as

PINO MORE

QueenChatty wrote in post #11318208
Ok I found out just how much I belong on this thread. Went shopping to buy hubby some track pants because they don't make PJ bottoms long enough to fit his long legs. So I went to Footlocker and after we decided a pair of Nike's and a pair of Adidas would be good, the young sales guy says to me "Tell him the young guy at the store says he owns the same track pants so he will be cool!" My first response was going to be just how old do you think my husband is. thought better and said hummm is 56 old these days and he goes no no sorry I meant because I'm only 22...I just laughed and left before I made him stick his foot in his mouth any further. LOL!

Well, you're clearly more than welcome here if you're still buying sports clothing for your husband, as I expect (like most of us in this thread) his idea of exercise is lifting something heavy, for example, a full glass of beer to his lips

LOL Skygod you got that right. In one of the stores a clerk told me that the pants would be great for a run on a brisk morning and I laughed and told him that the only work out these pants may see is a trip to the roadside when he takes the garbage out. Other than that he is a PS3 game junkie. I have my camera gear and he has his game gear LOL!!

QueenChatty wrote in post #11320310
LOL Skygod you got that right. In one of the stores a clerk told me that the pants would be great for a run on a brisk morning and I laughed and told him that the only work out these pants may see is a trip to the roadside when he takes the garbage out. Other than that he is a PS3 game junkie. I have my camera gear and he has his game gear LOL!!

Yippee!
In which case, you're doubly welcome in here.
All those fit, attractive, young people in "the YOUNG photographer's thread" can stay there!!!

ajp_mirc wrote in post #11319969
New Wine for Seniors

I kid you not.... this is a new wine for seniors

Canadian vintners in the Niagara Valley area, which primarily produce Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new hybrid grape that acts as an anti-diuretic.

It is expected to reduce the number of trips older people will have to make to the bathroom during the night.

The new wine will be marketed as

PINO MORE

that made me chuckle...thanks.

Ricardo222 wrote in post #11317881
Our country now is afflicted with bored youths, many unemployed or unemployable, cheap powerful cars that they have had modified but don't know how to handle, and a booze culture that is terribly destructive. And our generation and it's successor, by over-protecting and over-indulging them, have largely been the cause it seems.

Sounds so similar to Australia

ajp_mirc wrote in post #11319969
PINO MORE

Beer breweries should take note..

20droger wrote in post #11317644
PINO MORE

yogestee wrote in post #11320632
Sounds so similar to Australia

No different here!

Ricardo, you have described a world wide phenomena. However, I think all generations past have said the same thing about the following generations. Problem is, the next generation has to fund our retirement and I don't think it's going to happen. The Baby Boomers are going to eat up all of our government pension plan as well as tie up health care. I have a funny feeling we'll see a drop in real estate prices as they die off leaving a smaller population here.

Belmondo wrote in post #11162711
I don't know where this thread is headed, but it sure sounds tailor-made for me.

Can we have a discussion on Poligrip and adult diapers?

jdizzle wrote in post #11163541
That Depends...

| Byte size: ZERO | Content warning: NOT AN IMAGE

JAZZ D.P.G. wrote in post #11163741
As long as you don't use them together.

This was great for a 5 a.m. laugh this morning. Just goes to show that our sense of humor improves with age while all of our other senses deteriorate
Okay... time for me to jump in here as well. I have been swamped with PPing weddings and Senior Shoots that I haven't had much indulgence time here. So it was fun to get into this thread and enjoy all your "Senior Moments".
I am 55, feel like 25 (okay, 35) and am busier than I have ever been in my life. I work weekends at a hospital and spend the week taking care of the grandkiddies, doing photography shoots and scrapbooking, gardening and whatever else I can squeeze in to my schedule. When I think about getting "old", I cannot fathom it so I imagine I will be in denial for quite some time.
Now, back to finish up my shift here at work, then home for a long nap

Ricardo222 wrote in post #11317881
Our country now is afflicted with bored youths, many unemployed or unemployable, cheap powerful cars that they have had modified but don't know how to handle, and a booze culture that is terribly destructive. And our generation and it's successor, by over-protecting and over-indulging them, have largely been the cause it seems.

yogestee wrote in post #11320632
Sounds so similar to Australia

My Dad has said for a long time there is no such thing as poor people anymore and I agree to a certain extent. Decades ago most economically depressed folks didn't have shoes to wear and most went without TV. Today, they wear $100 designer tennis shoes, own satellite dishes and have cell phones. It still may not be an easy life for them but times have changed.

seaside wrote in post #11320759
My Dad has said for a long time there is no such thing as poor people anymore and I agree to a certain extent. Decades ago most economically depressed folks didn't have shoes to wear and most went without TV. Today, they wear $100 designer tennis shoes, own satellite dishes and have cell phones. It still may not be an easy life for them but times have changed.

With respect, your father must live a very insular existence!

Roy Mathers wrote in post #11320801
With respect, your father must live a very insular existence!

People see what they want to see. It's easy to pretend that things just around the corner don't exist.

On the other hand, although many high-tech items have become pervasive, there are places where people get by with a lot less. It may be my imagination, but it seemed that life in the more isolated border areas of England and Scotland seemed a lot less wired and more basic, like still back in the simpler parts of the last century.

I had the same vibes from rural communities in Northern Japan with the exception of electronics. Life was simpler there, but everyone had electronics.

I was thinking about this thread because I had a bone jarring moment with my knee yesterday. In my mid 40s the knees went from springy to sprung.

These days I find I'm far more aware of failing body parts. Things that were once rock solid are now mushy; things that were limber now crack and pop in complaint.

Success is not in doing great things, but doing little things carefully so as to avoid pain.

Ah, yes, the golden years. The alternative, of course, is worse.

seaside wrote in post #11320759
My Dad has said for a long time there is no such thing as poor people anymore and I agree to a certain extent. Decades ago most economically depressed folks didn't have shoes to wear and most went without TV. Today, they wear $100 designer tennis shoes, own satellite dishes and have cell phones. It still may not be an easy life for them but times have changed.

I'm not getting into a political arguement here, but you need to get out more and see the developing world..

seaside wrote in post #11320759
My Dad has said for a long time there is no such thing as poor people anymore and I agree to a certain extent. Decades ago most economically depressed folks didn't have shoes to wear and most went without TV. Today, they wear $100 designer tennis shoes, own satellite dishes and have cell phones. It still may not be an easy life for them but times have changed.

As others have commented, that is a view restricted to certain of our own societies...welfare states, so called, where superficially people don't have to go hungry.

But in the wider world, where many of our posters live, that just isn't the case.

While we are in this slightly philosophical frame of mind, I would like to pose a question to anyone who reads this thread and would care to comment.

As a pre-amble I put the following...over the span of our recorded history, societies where excessive poverty has had to lived next to extreme wealth, where the dividing line has become almost insurmountable in the eyes of the poor, those societies have nearly always failed through social decay or revolution.

The symptoms of this decay have been written about in the past as they happened...and there are many commentators pointing out the similarities between those time and our present societies.

The question is this: Where do you see our societies heading in the not too distant future?

Are you thinking along the lines of the recession, can be compared to the situation during the 1930's ?
Which we all know paved the way to an evil man in Germany, who took the opportunity to make life a living hell here on earth.