Seniors
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Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)(the alternative sucks.)
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)what the difference is between seniors and Babyboomers? I had no idea there was a babyboomer group back on DU2.
Paper Roses
(7,505 posts)Signed on for the continuation of this group.
Hey, where is spell check?
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Do I have to be retired to join this group, or just feel old?
Paper Roses
(7,505 posts)That makes me a pre-boomer, born in 1942. My sister, born in 1947 is a 'boomer'.
DavidDvorkin
(19,889 posts)Members of this group are probably coming here bit by bit, moving slowly.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Hee hee...!
Maybe they should change the name of this group to "AARP Eligible" and there might be a few more takers!
Arkansas Granny
(31,823 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)How about the "Sell your house and move into these shitty apartments" flyers?
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Everything else is going downhill, but I can still hear without a hearing aid.
MADem
(135,425 posts)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
(3,010 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,823 posts)Irishonly
(3,344 posts)I am both although I am still young at heart and in my mind like everyone else here.
frogmarch
(12,225 posts)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)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)Seems like a lively group. I'm glad to be here.
(insert smilie here)
I finally have some time to cruise around over here. So far I'm liking it.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)Where's the Geritol and Vodka?
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Count me in.
I'm more boomin' than a senior, but at 59, I'm pretty close, if not already there?
Irishonly
(3,344 posts)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)whew
a baby boomer (1950), right?
Petrushka
(3,709 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Scottybeamer70
(873 posts)At 72, I'm glad to be anywhere!..........
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)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)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Call me a boomer. Grandma in PA.
onecent
(6,096 posts)Still kickin' lol
onecent
(6,096 posts)Still kickin' lol