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Previously on "I don't want to get to 90"

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post
    As long as you have your health, your marbles and a loving family around you does it matter how old you get?
    Just make sure you get on with enough random younger members of your family.

    I've met a few old people by volunteering who are "looked in" at my grandchildren, nieces, nephews etc. There own children are too old and unwell, claim they don't have the time or live to far away to help them.

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  • Lockhouse
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    As long as you have your health, your marbles and a loving family around you does it matter how old you get?

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  • Bellona
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

    Moral: wait until you get there; it might be better for you than you expect
    WHS
    It depends on what your quality of life is like.
    Last edited by Bellona; 5 January 2014, 07:56.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    I am just amazed I made it this far to be honest.

    when I was a youngster, I thought hitting the millenium would be an acheivement
    At 16 I thought I would never make 35.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by Zippy View Post
    It's a long shot, but have you tried using your left hand?

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  • Zippy
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    they used to tell me that w@nking makes you blind. (bolks I know)

    but is there a known technique to 'un-w@nk'


    probbly not
    It's a long shot, but have you tried using your left hand?

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  • EternalOptimist
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    they used to tell me that w@nking makes you blind. (bolks I know)

    but is there a known technique to 'un-w@nk'


    probbly not

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  • Cliphead
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    there has to be a lot of luck though. there has to be

    I keep seeing these wrinkly ravaged old gits and they are YOUNGER than me


    maybe i am pickled
    And besides I'm going blind so I'm cramming in as much hedonism as I can while I can still work. I've had the best life so far, achieved ambitions many don't even dare to dream about. When I go I won't go disappointed and that's precious.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
    Fck that, I've got 10-15 left and living exactly how I want so I'll drink, smoke and shag myself to death. Cos I can afford it and it's fun. Hit 90 and just dream about those things sitting in a chair smelling of piss? No thanks.
    there has to be a lot of luck though. there has to be

    I keep seeing these wrinkly ravaged old gits and they are YOUNGER than me


    maybe i am pickled

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  • Cliphead
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    Genes, Luck, sensible Exercise & Healthy living in that order seem to guarantee a healthy long life as far as I can see.

    Some of the 80/90 year olds I know are very happy. some aren't.
    Fck that, I've got 10-15 left and living exactly how I want so I'll drink, smoke and shag myself to death. Cos I can afford it and it's fun. Hit 90 and just dream about those things sitting in a chair smelling of piss? No thanks.

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  • vetran
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    Genes, Luck, sensible Exercise & Healthy living in that order seem to guarantee a healthy long life as far as I can see.

    Some of the 80/90 year olds I know are very happy. some aren't.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    I am just amazed I made it this far to be honest.

    when I was a youngster, I thought hitting the millenium would be an acheivement

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  • Zippy
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    Originally posted by RetSet View Post
    Well, what I'm thinking would be cool is to have the final family meal in the Grand Hotel on the Lake Geneva shoreline...
    Make a record on your mobile ...

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    In an interview I read about him he denied that he had stored the packets.
    So he's smoked them all?

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
    Bet he wishes he'd paid into that pension plan...
    He's an artist.

    Artists peddle their art until they die.

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