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frebrd

(1,736 posts) Fri May 20, 2011, 04:49 PM May 2011

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Where is everyone?

Come out, come out wherever you are!

All the, all the outs in free!

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Where is everyone? (Original Post) frebrd May 2011 OP

Happy to be here. Sinistrous May 2011 #1

Here! JDPriestly May 2011 #2

I'm here. Can anyone tell me... Little Star May 2011 #3

This old timer is still hanging around. Paper Roses May 2011 #4

I asked that same question. It is coming. Thank god. Curmudgeoness May 2011 #6

I have no idea where I am supposed to be. Senior? Babyboomer? Loner? Yikes! Curmudgeoness May 2011 #5

I think the date that baby boomers call 'the beginning' was the end of WW11. Paper Roses May 2011 #7

I'm here DavidDvorkin Dec 2011 #8

What--admit you're OLD? Doesn't the commercial say "You're as young as you feel?" MADem Dec 2011 #9

I started getting offers from AARP when I turned 50. Now I'm getting offers from the Scooter Store. Arkansas Granny Dec 2011 #12

You too? Ha ha ha! MADem Dec 2011 #14

Me too. Also brochures for hearing aids. RebelOne Jan 2012 #32

Huh? What's that you say? MADem Jan 2012 #34

Present. GentryDixon Dec 2011 #10

I'm here. I guess there's an overlap with boomers and seniors. Arkansas Granny Dec 2011 #11

I think so Irishonly Dec 2011 #13

Hi to all frogmarch Dec 2011 #15

Are you having a laugh, or being mean? That's the key question. MADem Jan 2012 #35

Another Senior checks in. Graybeard Dec 2011 #16

Here! Lugnut Dec 2011 #17

HUbert Flottz reporting for duty... Hubert Flottz Dec 2011 #18

Here! JDPriestly Dec 2011 #19

I'm here dmr Dec 2011 #20

I figure if AARP wants to count you as a senior, you are a senior LOL Irishonly Dec 2011 #22

I found it as sub-topic of 'People" trof Dec 2011 #21

Here Bryn Dec 2011 #23

Here . . . and still kickin'! [n/t] Petrushka Dec 2011 #24

Hi. nt bemildred Dec 2011 #25

Here! Scottybeamer70 Dec 2011 #26

Me too. I will be 73 on the 18th of this month. RebelOne Jan 2012 #33

This 65 year old is checking in. Hi everyone! Little Star Dec 2011 #27

here glinda Dec 2011 #28

New to group mainstreetonce Dec 2011 #29

66 and I'm here..... onecent Dec 2011 #30

66 and I'm here..... onecent Dec 2011 #31

Sinistrous

(4,249 posts)

1. Happy to be here.

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2011, 07:39 PM

May 2011

(the alternative sucks.)

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)

2. Here!

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Sat May 21, 2011, 05:04 AM

May 2011

Little Star

(17,055 posts)

3. I'm here. Can anyone tell me...

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Sat May 21, 2011, 08:39 AM

May 2011

what the difference is between seniors and Babyboomers? I had no idea there was a babyboomer group back on DU2.

Paper Roses

(7,517 posts)

4. This old timer is still hanging around.

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Mon May 23, 2011, 05:43 PM

May 2011

Signed on for the continuation of this group.

Hey, where is spell check?

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

6. I asked that same question. It is coming. Thank god.

Reply to Paper Roses (Reply #4)

Mon May 23, 2011, 07:22 PM

May 2011

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

5. I have no idea where I am supposed to be. Senior? Babyboomer? Loner? Yikes!

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Mon May 23, 2011, 07:21 PM

May 2011

Do I have to be retired to join this group, or just feel old?

Paper Roses

(7,517 posts)

7. I think the date that baby boomers call 'the beginning' was the end of WW11.

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #5)

Tue May 24, 2011, 12:35 PM

May 2011

That makes me a pre-boomer, born in 1942. My sister, born in 1947 is a 'boomer'.

DavidDvorkin

(19,953 posts)

8. I'm here

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Tue Dec 6, 2011, 09:32 PM

Dec 2011

Members of this group are probably coming here bit by bit, moving slowly.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

9. What--admit you're OLD? Doesn't the commercial say "You're as young as you feel?"

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2011, 01:10 AM

Dec 2011

Hee hee...!

Maybe they should change the name of this group to "AARP Eligible" and there might be a few more takers!

Arkansas Granny

(31,869 posts)

12. I started getting offers from AARP when I turned 50. Now I'm getting offers from the Scooter Store.

Reply to MADem (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 7, 2011, 04:46 PM

Dec 2011

MADem

(135,425 posts)

14. You too? Ha ha ha!

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Reply #12)

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 04:22 AM

Dec 2011

How about the "Sell your house and move into these shitty apartments" flyers?

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

32. Me too. Also brochures for hearing aids.

Reply to MADem (Reply #14)

Thu Jan 5, 2012, 09:01 PM

Jan 2012

Everything else is going downhill, but I can still hear without a hearing aid.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

34. Huh? What's that you say?

Reply to RebelOne (Reply #32)

Thu Jan 5, 2012, 09:37 PM

Jan 2012

I haven't gotten to the hearing aid point quite yet, either. I probably will, eventually.

I also get advertisements for these crappy Geezer-centric apartment complexes. I'd sooner cut my own throat!

GentryDixon

(3,025 posts)

10. Present.

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2011, 10:14 AM

Dec 2011

Arkansas Granny

(31,869 posts)

11. I'm here. I guess there's an overlap with boomers and seniors.

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2011, 04:44 PM

Dec 2011

Irishonly

(3,344 posts)

13. I think so

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Reply #11)

Wed Dec 7, 2011, 09:29 PM

Dec 2011

I am both although I am still young at heart and in my mind like everyone else here.

frogmarch

(12,232 posts)

15. Hi to all

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2011, 05:43 PM

Dec 2011

I just finished reading the TOS, and I am wondering why it is apparently not against the rules to ridicule the elderly. Race and gender bashing isn't OK, but I guess it's OK to make Depends jokes and whatnot about people in my age group. I'm almost 68 and don't wear Depends, but I still find nothing funny about the ridiculing of elderly people.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

35. Are you having a laugh, or being mean? That's the key question.

Reply to frogmarch (Reply #15)

Thu Jan 5, 2012, 09:42 PM

Jan 2012

I think context is of utmost importance. I have an auntie in her nineties who sends all of us her MAXINE cartoons, which talk about sagging, pooping, farting, bad plumbing, pills and so forth, and we all get a good laugh from them. They joke about the unfortunate realities of aging. That doesn't make the jokes meanspirited. Laughing WITH is fine--at, not so much.

At least that's how I see it.

Graybeard

(6,996 posts)

16. Another Senior checks in.

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Sat Dec 10, 2011, 11:15 AM

Dec 2011

Seems like a lively group. I'm glad to be here.

(insert smilie here)

Lugnut

(9,791 posts)

17. Here!

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Sat Dec 10, 2011, 03:43 PM

Dec 2011

I finally have some time to cruise around over here. So far I'm liking it.

Hubert Flottz

(37,726 posts)

18. HUbert Flottz reporting for duty...

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 01:18 AM

Dec 2011

Where's the Geritol and Vodka?

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)

19. Here!

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 01:50 AM

Dec 2011

Count me in.

dmr

(28,663 posts)

20. I'm here

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 08:13 AM

Dec 2011

I'm more boomin' than a senior, but at 59, I'm pretty close, if not already there?

Irishonly

(3,344 posts)

22. I figure if AARP wants to count you as a senior, you are a senior LOL

Reply to dmr (Reply #20)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 10:15 AM

Dec 2011

I will be 59 in a few months. I have been on disability for quite a few years. I won the war I had with cancer but it left me with many battle scars. I relate to both groups.

trof

(54,273 posts)

21. I found it as sub-topic of 'People"

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 09:30 AM

Dec 2011

whew

Bryn

(3,621 posts)

23. Here

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 10:34 AM

Dec 2011

a baby boomer (1950), right?

Petrushka

(3,709 posts)

24. Here . . . and still kickin'! [n/t]

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 09:20 AM

Dec 2011

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

25. Hi. nt

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 11:37 AM

Dec 2011

Scottybeamer70

(873 posts)

26. Here!

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Thu Dec 15, 2011, 07:29 AM

Dec 2011

At 72, I'm glad to be anywhere!..........

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

33. Me too. I will be 73 on the 18th of this month.

Reply to Scottybeamer70 (Reply #26)

Thu Jan 5, 2012, 09:03 PM

Jan 2012

To repeat the old adage: If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

Little Star

(17,055 posts)

27. This 65 year old is checking in. Hi everyone!

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 09:18 AM

Dec 2011

glinda

(14,807 posts)

28. here

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 04:34 PM

Dec 2011

mainstreetonce

(4,178 posts)

29. New to group

Reply to glinda (Reply #28)

Sun Dec 25, 2011, 04:43 PM

Dec 2011

Call me a boomer. Grandma in PA.

onecent

(6,096 posts)

30. 66 and I'm here.....

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Tue Dec 27, 2011, 06:38 PM

Dec 2011

Still kickin' lol

onecent

(6,096 posts)

31. 66 and I'm here.....

Reply to frebrd (Original post)

Tue Dec 27, 2011, 06:39 PM

Dec 2011

Still kickin' lol

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