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It's been an oddly busy month, and I just had the chance to listen to Zane Lowe of Beats 1 interviewing the musician Tyler Joseph. twenty one pilots: 'Trench,’ Overcoming Insecurities & What’s Next | Beats 1 | Apple Music I wasn't expecting to find something relevant to this thread, but I like what Tyler (age 29 as of this writing) says following a question at 29:32, about living "a different life" after maybe stopping music someday. "I think what helps me is to glorify getting old--not be afraid of it. I'm looking forward to it, and I think that if our culture were to see our elderly in that way, as, like, they've accompished something, they've ran a race, and they have a lot to tell us about how we could better run it, I think that that would help with a lot of things." In my first post, I'd written, "One resolution of mine is that I'll try to examine what messages fitness resources are sending about 'old talk' as much as I'm already doing with 'fat talk.'" My reactions are actually a bit stronger than that sentence may imply. Well, seeing "fat talk" quickly and cleanly strips away my interest in a fitness resource. I also find that reflexively and callowly associating "old!" with "bad!" (or "young!" with "good!") definitely reduces the appeal of a resource for me, regardless of whether I've written a resolution about the matter.
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09-27-18, 10:18 AM | |
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I'm with you on the political correctness thing. I'm so tired of everything being taken to the extreme and the constant examination for the "real meaning" behind everything. I told my sister the other day after watching Oprah tell someone, "You know that's not the REAL reason you overeat" that sometimes a candy bar really is just a candy bar.
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"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." The Velveteen Rabbit |
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In August, Vintage VFer started a thread called "You're as elderly as you feel...," which indirectly led me to a 2013 NPR piece called "An Age-Old Problem: Who Is 'Elderly'?" Quote:
Maybe I will live to see the day when a simple "old" is enough, though I'm more optimistic that I will live to be 118 than that our advanced society will stop inventing new terms to take the place of "old" and "elderly" and whatever else we may imagine. (A society with less euphemism succession for "old" may also be a society with less "old talk.")
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"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." The Velveteen Rabbit |
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09-27-18, 11:28 AM | ||
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Age challenged?
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09-27-18, 11:33 AM | |
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"Age challenged" - I like it.. I held up my special edition magazine with a very large photo of Audrey Hepburn on the cover and asked my 22-year old co-worker if he knew whose picture it was. He didn't, but then he said, "Oh wait - she's the chick that dated that old actor guy." I said, "No, I think you're talking about Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, although I hesitate to think of them as the 'chick' and the 'old actor guy'."
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09-27-18, 11:37 AM | |
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To me, "age challenged" would mean the opposite!
If you're challenged at something, you can't do it very well, right? Old people have this age thing down pat!
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