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    Being young ends when you become a miserable old git .
    It can be when you are 10 or 100 .

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    If you are over 25, you're already dead to me.

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    If you are under 25, your opinion is irrelevant.
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    It's long been my contention that when you have kids you keep them until they are 12 YO, then they are taken away and put in a camp somewhere, ones like you see on the telly in the old war films. Barbed/electric wire, guard towers and minefields and of course the 'cooler'.

    When they get to 25 you let them out, on licence of course.

    Repeat and rinse.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane View Post
    If you are under 25, your opinion is irrelevant.
    That's why I'm not offering mine.


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    Having reached, and passed many of the milestones cited here (25, 30, 35, 40, 50), I can say that is wasn't until I 'hit' 55 that I began to 'feel' old - defined (as drone rightfully did) as "the ability to recover or spring back".

    Even ten years ago at 47, I could do an exhausting day's manual labor, get the job properly done, and with a night's rest, be back at it with the same vigor the next day. Now (at 57) I feel a gradually cumulative fatigue every day, and so look forward eagerly to my next entire day-off, to recharge my batteries, as it were. I don't snap-back like I used to. And I've become much more careful of back and joint mishaps, which take longer to heal now than the 36 hours of 20 years ago.

    But, whenever I get to feeling old, I just visit my local American Legion Post. after a couple of beers with the old-timers there, I have more pep in my step, and pride in my stride.
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    Old is when your birthdays stop being milestones and start being millstones, around your neck.

    Old is waking up with mysterious and inexplicable aches and pains.

    Old is remembering seeing movies in the theatre that they're now doing remakes of (barring the Hulk of course).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane View Post
    If you are under 25, your opinion is irrelevant.
    How can you know what 'old' really means; if you are not the oldest person to ever have lived?

    We are all in this thread plenty of old enough to be the younger.


    Let's see....

    is someone who has spent 40 years since the age of 10 in coma and then awoken, older than someone at 20? Is someone at 80 with plenty of health troubles older than someone at 110 with a "perfect" health? Is someone at an age of 40 always as old as another person at 40?


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    Default Re: What age constitutes "old"?

    Old = My current age + 15 years or higher

    Youngling = My current age - 15 years or lower

    My current age is normal at all times.
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    Default Re: What age constitutes "old"?

    34.

    I don't know. That's when you get older.

    55 is old.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman View Post
    Being young ends when you become a miserable old git .
    It can be when you are 10 or 100 .
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