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Embracing the benefits of creaking and groaning (aka baby boomers)

by barbling
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I will confess.

I *hate* reality sometimes.

I'll be closer to 100 than to 0 come this August, and my bones are sure as heck making this gentle fact known with the pleasing sensuality of a brick thru a skylight.

Back in October 2012, I had my left ankle fused (I'm carrying around Home Depot in there) and in November of 2013 I had 6 bone tumors taken off my left knee and you know something?

I'm no longer 29 years old!

Last week, I rather idjutotically over did it walking wise and for the past few days have forced myself to be mainly on bedrest.

And I'm sorry to say, it's working great.

Sorry, because that means that yep - being wise with my walking/health/etc. is a NECESSITY - it's no longer a, Gee! Let's beat the odds!

I tried to beat the odds and I failed miserably.

Now things could be a lot worse and jeepers! I *made* them a lot worse last week. So I'm looking on the bright side of things (I didn't do even worse than that! ).

So! If you're a baby boomer, what benefits do you see about increased slowing down?

I see that I'm forced to take things slower (and not drive myself batty with overExpectations). Life is beautiful (especially when you HAVE to slow down to appreciate it)!

How 'bout you?
  • Profile picture of the author BigFrank
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    Originally Posted by barbling View Post

    How 'bout you?
    I now spend every day making up for lost time that was wasted during the idiocy of my younger years.

    I'll rest when I'm dead.

    Cheers. - Frank
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    • Profile picture of the author barbling
      Originally Posted by BigFrank View Post

      I now spend every day making up for lost time that was wasted during the idiocy of my younger years.

      I'll rest when I'm dead.

      Cheers. - Frank
      Oh gosh...yes yes yes. Those halcyon days of youth!


      in perhaps a clearer redition:


      Soon you'll be out, amid the cold world strife!
      Soon you'l be sliding down that razor blade of life!

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      • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
        I notice the effects of gravity more. It just means I'm not as strong as I once was. But daily exercise (not the type anyone is picturing) keeps my muscles quick...and sore.

        At 59, my endurance is a shadow of what it once was. I don't heal as fast as years ago. My balance is pretty shot. You wouldn't notice it, if you saw me walking, but I sure do. I'm getting worse at faking tolerance of stupid people. It's going to begin to affect my business.

        The benefits are that I'm far more educated than I was when I was younger. I make better decisions. And the hormones that used to cloud my thinking are gone.

        But my memories aren't as sharp as before. I get the dates wrong. Cells are dying faster than they are reproducing. And the new cells have mistakes in them. I'm slightly deaf, and eventually, my friend at the DMV won't be able to fudge the eye test results for me.

        I figure I have ten years of useful life left, and then it's just waiting.
        My wife deserves better.

        What a waste of a good mind.
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        • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
          Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

          I notice the effects of gravity more. It just means I'm not as strong as I once was. But daily exercise (not the type anyone is picturing) keeps my muscles quick...and sore.

          At 59, my endurance is a shadow of what it once was. I don't heal as fast as years ago. My balance is pretty shot. You wouldn't notice it, if you saw me walking, but I sure do. I'm getting worse at faking tolerance of stupid people. It's going to begin to affect my business.

          The benefits are that I'm far more educated than I was when I was younger. I make better decisions. And the hormones that used to cloud my thinking are gone.

          But my memories aren't as sharp as before. I get the dates wrong. Cells are dying faster than they are reproducing. And the new cells have mistakes in them. I'm slightly deaf, and eventually, my friend at the DMV won't be able to fudge the eye test results for me.

          I figure I have ten years of useful life left, and then it's just waiting.
          My wife deserves better.

          What a waste of a good mind.
          You mean just two years from now I will be experiencing the same thing? Wheres the nearest bridge. :-)

          A good rub down with an oily rag and WD40 will take care of the joints.

          For better balance, stop cutting your toenails.

          For eyesight problems and driving, use your stretch Limo with driver.

          For impatience with customers, employ Rffle in the store to make a sarcastic comment about you every time you let slip. This will diffuse the situation.

          For lack of brain power, buy a pair of Google Glass Glasses for quick access to Shane or myself (in his absence) for instant answers.

          For deafness, google glass again using speech to text translation.

          For lack of stamina. Phone Tom Cruise at Hover-Round. for a demo.

          If all else fails I will take the wife on consignment. I always liked Christine Brinkley.

          There, lucky i was here to give you all the RIGHT answers. :-)
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        • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
          Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

          I figure I have ten years of useful life left, and then it's just waiting.
          If there are to many days in a row of "just waiting", I think I'd take the silver bullet out.

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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I'll be 60 in a few months.

    I'm trying to decide where to go today and I got up late so it has to be close. I'll probably just go climb around ochoco cliffs for awhile.

    I take it slower - but never did hurry unless there was good reason. I actually need to sleep now rather than pulling the several times a week all nighters I used to. I find it hard to function on less than 6 hours sleep. Brain still seems to function until I get tired, then it goes south fast. I actually get stiff if I don't keep up with my stretching. My eyes aren't as sharp as they were but I still see what I'm looking for in the field just fine. I can't read the small print on pkgs without a pair of reading glasses. My hearing has been one ear since I was a toddler so I don't notice if it's bad now.

    That's really all so far. Mentally, I'm fairly intolerant of a few things, but I always was so that's not an age thing. I do find I enjoy being with my family more and that's got to be an age thing because there's absolutely no reasonable explanation for that one otherwise.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      I can't read the small print on pkgs without a pair of reading glasses. My hearing has been one ear since I was a toddler so I don't notice if it's bad now.
      Sal; Can't read the small print? Tell me about it. Sorry to hear about your hearing loss. Sorry, I meant..

      Sorry To Hear About Your Hearing Loss!

      Better?


      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Today is my birthday and I've decided to count backwards rather than forward. lol.
      Suzanne; Happy Birthday.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jack Gordon
    Well this thread is kind of a downer!

    I am 45 and in the best health of my adult life. I spent more than half my life being way too heavy, but I now have that under control (and it is good!)

    In exchange, though, I have gradually lost the benefits of keen eyesight and hearing that I once had. And I don't sleep that well. And my back has some issues.

    But, I am much happier, wiser and healthier than I have been in decades. I am usually in a zen place, though it may only be a matter of context since I am surrounded by type a's.

    I have a couple of online businesses that work, which means money isn't a big stress.

    I am ready to tackle the 45 that come next. I wish I had another chance at the last 30, but until Claude finishes the basement prototype Hoover WayBack TimeJumper, I am in limbo there.

    I guess this wasn't such a downer. It is nice to be able to take stock and not be disappointed in what it shows.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Today is my birthday and I've decided to count backwards rather than forward. lol.

    In my youth, I partied hearty. Every moment not spent working or going to school, was meant for having fun. I was also very adventurous, dangerously so.

    If someone had told me that I would be living in the country and living a much slower life, I would never have believed them. Age has brought about some unwelcome things like arthritis, but I'm also a lot smarter than I was when I was younger.
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Today is my birthday and I've decided to count backwards rather than forward. lol.

      In my youth, I partied hearty. Every moment not spent working or going to school, was meant for having fun. I was also very adventurous, dangerously so.

      If someone had told me that I would be living in the country and living a much slower life, I would never have believed them. Age has brought about some unwelcome things like arthritis, but I'm also a lot smarter than I was when I was younger.
      Happy Birthday youngin
      I just hit 61 and really can't say I've slowed down much. Of course I never went that fast to begin with
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    • Profile picture of the author barbling
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Today is my birthday and I've decided to count backwards rather than forward....
      Happy birdieDay!! May it be calm and restful.

      Or however else you choose to enjoy it!
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        Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

        Happy Birthday youngin
        I just hit 61 and really can't say I've slowed down much. Of course I never went that fast to begin with
        Originally Posted by barbling View Post

        Happy birdieDay!! May it be calm and restful.

        Or however else you choose to enjoy it!

        Thanks to both of you.
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      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Today is my birthday and I've decided to count backwards rather than forward. lol.

      In my youth, I partied hearty. Every moment not spent working or going to school, was meant for having fun. I was also very adventurous, dangerously so.

      If someone had told me that I would be living in the country and living a much slower life, I would never have believed them. Age has brought about some unwelcome things like arthritis, but I'm also a lot smarter than I was when I was younger.
      Happy Birthday, Suzanne!

      I just love May Babies!


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      • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
        Happy Birthday Suzanne! And many more happy ones to you.

        As for getting older? Yuck! My head still thinks young--like later twenties, early thirties, although wishing I were at least half as smart then as I am now. At least it's not too late in life living a whole lot better educated and smarter.

        Body aches-yep, that too, sure creeps up on you.

        Every day is a new beginning and I intend to embrace it.

        Hey, since when do members have to do a captcha before posting? I guess there will be a lot of changes, but unless they just started that when I decided to post right now, I saw we had more spam just recently.
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        Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post


        I just love May Babies!


        Terra
        Me too, as long as they are over 18. :rolleyes:

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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Today is my birthday and I've decided to count backwards rather than forward. lol.

      In my youth, I partied hearty. Every moment not spent working or going to school, was meant for having fun. I was also very adventurous, dangerously so.

      If someone had told me that I would be living in the country and living a much slower life, I would never have believed them. Age has brought about some unwelcome things like arthritis, but I'm also a lot smarter than I was when I was younger.
      Happy Birthday, Suzanne.

      Claude - when I was 15 months old I found a bobby pin on the floor and jammed it through my right ear. I'm told I screamed bloody murder. My mother felt guilty all her life over that, yet it doesn't bother me other than it messes with my balance sometimes because the hole is through to my inner ear. I just use it as an excuse for some of my more anal repressions.
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      • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
        I'll be 60 in October. I figure I've got 20, maybe 25 years left if I'm lucky. Longevity runs pretty strong on both sides of the family. But then, so does insanity.

        Three years ago I made a decision. I stopped drinking and smoking rope. Just gave them both up and never looked back. I only missed them for a couple of months and then my thoughts and actions became clearer and more purposeful. I get a lot more done with a lot less effort or strain.

        I walk five miles nearly every day regardless of the weather. Clears my head and I get great ideas for my writing. I'm healthy, not taking any meds and feel good. And as long as I keep on the way I'm going I think I'll be okay. I've got a few aches and pains but they're not nearly as bad as the side effects of self abuse that I consistently delivered to my body for years when my motto was, party on Wayne!

        Life is good.
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      • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
        Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

        For lack of brain power, buy a pair of Google Glass Glasses for quick access to Shane or myself (in his absence) for instant answers.

        For deafness, google glass again using speech to text translation.

        For lack of stamina. Phone Tom Cruise at Hover-Round. for a demo.

        If all else fails I will take the wife on consignment. I always liked Christine Brinkley.

        There, lucky i was here to give you all the RIGHT answers. :-)
        He, he, thats true! :rolleyes:


        Everyone on this forum thinks l am young, and if someone looked at me they wouldn't put my age past 35!

        But l am a bit older than that! :rolleyes:


        I have to admit that l, (like others here) can't push myself excessively or it will catch up with me).

        And apart from the occasional jaw getting sore, issue, that is about it. The jaw thing is stress related, so l only have myself to blame, more or less!


        I used to have a sore back at least once a year, which isn't fun, but since l do Palates a few times a week now, it is very rare, and mild if it happens again.

        My hearing is fine, probably because l use ear plugs a lot when mowing the lawns, etc.

        Eyesight could be better, but it could just be lack of sleep, or not seeing the future as clearly as l would like, (for a new age explanation). And this is long distance, not close up. But reading street signs is a bit of a pain, (although Google Street is a life saver).


        As others have said, l am reasonably happy with my progress, (wealth wise) but as always it takes far longer than l would like!

        Set a time goal, and multiply it my 10, but l am finding more and more shortcuts, so hopefully it will pick up the pace soon?


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    oh, happy birthday Suzanne!

    And Happy Mother's Day too. Whether there are little Suzannes running around, or just chickens.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    I'll be 59 next month. I think. I've my share of aches and pains and annoyances but overall I feel good. Forty years ago there probably would have been people bet I'd never live this long because of the crazy lifestyle I lived at the time.

    Anyway, for all you middle-aged and older folks, you might want to read Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Dr. Henry Lodge. It's about being functionally younger. Damn good book, you won't look at aging the same way again.

    Non-affiliate link:
    Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy -...Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy -...

    And stop trying to predict how long you're going to live, for crying out loud. Your body might believe you and you'll die before you need to. Haven't you people ever studied how the mind effects the body?

    PS - Happy Birthday, Suzanne.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      I'll be 59 next month. I think. I've my share of aches and pains and annoyances but overall I feel good. Forty years ago there probably would have been people bet I'd never live this long because of the crazy lifestyle I lived.

      Anyway, for all you middle-aged folks, you might want to read Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Dr. Henry Lodge. It's about being functionally younger. Damn good book, you won't look at aging the same way again.

      Non-affiliate link:
      Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond: Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge: 9780761147732: Amazon.com: Books


      And stop trying to predict how long you're going to live, for crying out loud. Your body might believe you and you'll die before you need to. Haven't you people ever studied how the mind effects the body?
      Thanks for the link. Youngster.
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    • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      I'll be 60 in a few months.
      Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

      I just hit 61 and really can't say I've slowed down much. Of course I never went that fast to begin with
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      At 59, my endurance is a shadow of what it once was.
      Originally Posted by travlinguy View Post

      I'll be 60 in October.
      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      I'll be 59 next month. I think.
      Wow all this makes me feel good about being a spritely 51 (52 in October).

      Also good to see that some of the above were "adventurous youths", as my late teens through to late twenties lifestyle would make Ozzy Osbourne and Keith Richards look like Trappist monks. So, there's hope I'll make it to senior citizen status too .

      BTW, Happy birthday Suzanne - hope you're having a great one.
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

        Wow all this makes me fool good about being a spritely 51 (52 in October).

        <snip>
        So.....come on out - bring a backpack and rock pick. I can fix that for ya.
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        • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
          Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

          So.....come on out - bring a backpack and rock pick. I can fix that for ya.
          You're on! As long as you come down here and experience some of our wild life.
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            Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

            You're on! As long as you come down here and experience some of our wild life.
            Um...........I don't know where wherever really is. I'm there very often, but not sure how to give directions to it as it seems to drift substantially. :confused::rolleyes:

            However, wherever wherever ends up being at the point of meet-up, I'm all good with that. If I haven't gotten bitten yet, I don't think I ever will. Of course, I prefer my wildlife with fur. I'm kinda a Dolittle like that.
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            • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
              Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

              Um...........I don't know where wherever really is.
              Here: The Animals That Make Australia The Deathtrap It Is

              And they didn't even mention the deadliest of all, the drop bears.
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              • Profile picture of the author HeySal
                Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

                Here: The Animals That Make Australia The Deathtrap It Is

                And they didn't even mention the deadliest of all, the drop bears.
                LMAO - thanks for this link. My website's annual meet up is in 2 weeks and some of the members are freaking about rattlers, scorpions, and coyotes. I can use this link the next time someone cries and tell them to be glad we're not hauling their butts down under for that black opal.
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by Jack Gordon View Post

        oh, happy birthday Suzanne!

        And Happy Mother's Day too. Whether there are little Suzannes running around, or just chickens.
        There's 4 kids and 6 grandchildren, so I've done my part for the continuation of humanity.

        Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

        Happy Birthday, Suzanne!

        I just love May Babies!

        Terra
        There does seem to be a few of them in OT.

        Originally Posted by travlinguy View Post

        Three years ago I made a decision. I stopped drinking and smoking rope. Just gave them both up and never looked back. I only missed them for a couple of months and then my thoughts and actions became clearer and more purposeful.
        Good move. I gave up drugs and alcohol about 25 years ago. There wasn't really any other option except go out like a burning flame like Janis Joplin or Hendrix.

        The one thing I held on to too long is cigarettes. Just gave them up a couple of months ago.

        Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

        Also good to see that some of the above were "adventurous youths", as my late teens through to late twenties lifestyle would make Ozzy Osbourne and Keith Richards look like Trappist monks. So, there's hope I'll make it to senior citizen status too
        lol ... my motto in life back then was "boogie til you puke." I think that was in a song somewhere. :p
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          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post


          lol ... my motto in life back then was "boogie til you puke." I think that was in a song somewhere. :p
          Closest I remember to that is:

          Lay down the boogie and play that funky music til you die.
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            Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

            Closest I remember to that is:

            Lay down the boogie and play that funky music til you die.
            No. Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band



            While at Yale, MacKenzie formed a band with classmate and fraternity brother Bob Greenlee, who was captain of Yale's football team. The band was named Prince La La and the Midnight Creepers. MacKenzie's growing dislike of authority and inner inclination to play pranks and his love of shock value expanded. Band members wore ermine capes, silver lamé hot pants and boasted that they were never invited for return engagements. The year after MacKenzie and Greenlee graduated, they returned to the DKE house during Yale's homecoming. Bush, who since their departure had become president of DKE, threw them out and banned them from the house.[1]

            After graduation, MacKenzie drove an ice cream truck in Washington, D.C. One day he suffered a psychotic break after a particularly high dose of LSD, and he climbed over the White House fence. The United States Secret Service apprehended him as he ran up the White House lawn. He told the officers he was "looking for the center of universe." They hauled him off to St. Elizabeths Hospital, the largest long-term mental hospital that serves Washington, D.C.) That incident led to a diagnosis of schizophrenia, for which MacKenzie was medicated for the rest of his life.
            Sex Change Band

            Mackenzie adopted the stage name of Root Boy Slim, and formed a blues rock band, which he dubbed "Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band." His backup singers were called the Rootettes. The band members were stridently different than most club fare. Root Boy was fat, had greasy hair, and almost always seemed to be in a drug- or alcohol-induced stupor. The band was a fixture in the mid-Atlantic Blues/Rock scene, and favored a mix of Memphis-style boogie rock/blues.[2]

            Root Boy and company traveled the club circuit, until a self-produced recording caught the ear of some A&R representatives at Warner Bros. Records. That song was called "Christmas At Kmart" and it landed the band a $250,000 contract with Warner Bros. That tune and the follow-up LP demonstrated Root and the band's penchant for writing tunes relating to pop-culture.

            Their most famous recording was "Boogie 'Til You Puke" from the debut album Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band with the Rootettes (Warner Bros. Records, 1978), which also featured "I Used To Be a Radical", "I'm Not Too Old For You", and "(You Broke My) Mood Ring". Most of the songs were written by MacKenzie, guitarist Ernie Lancaster, and bassist Bob Greenlee. The lyrics often satirized society and mixed in autobiographical elements from MacKenzie's storied life. Warner mismarketed the LP, and the band found themselves without a label--but not without a having had a European tour, in which Root Boy became enamored with his forefathers' homeland: Scotland.
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            Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

            Here: The Animals That Make Australia The Deathtrap It Is

            And they didn't even mention the deadliest of all, the drop bears.
            lol. Now why would anyone want to go to Australia after reading that (comical but deadly) article? I used to think I'd like to go there. I've changed my mind.
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            • Profile picture of the author Kay King
              I've always avoided Australia because of the number of things that can kill you. Well, that and the fact that it's so far away....

              Love that article..

              Thankfully if you do happen to get bitten by a snake in Australia , there are Anti-Venom for most of them. Most .
              This creature is responsable for 20 deaths in Recent Years , It would be more but It's a snail.
              No, it didn't include drop bears but only because they are fictional.
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              • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
                Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

                No, it didn't include drop bears but only because they are fictional.
                LOL. Yeah, but we still manage to catch a few tourists with that one.
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        Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

        Wow all this makes me feel good about being a spritely 51 (52 in October).
        I just turned 52 this past Saturday.

        One thing I can tell you for sure is that 52 doesn't feel any different than 51.


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          WAIT ten years...I tool early social security at 62...OMG, my health collapsed immediately
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          Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

          One thing I can tell you for sure is that 52 doesn't feel any different than 51. Terra
          Phew! That's a relief.

          Oh, and (belated) happy birthday.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I'd still go. I'd use some common sense about it - but that black opal is really NICE and if I had a chance to hunt it.........I'd be there. I'd just pick a season that was cold enough that the spiders and snakes weren't out but not snowing yet. I don't do water anyway so that kills half of the death watch list from the get. 45f degrees, puts most of the other ones out of the pic, too.
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    • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      45f degrees, puts most of the other ones out of the pic, too.
      The good, or bad if you like, is that even during winter, there are very few areas that get down that low.

      Also, despite having all those snakes, the only live snakes I've ever seen are in zoos. Even while I was working in the "outback", I never encountered one.

      I did on a number of occassions come across racehorse goannas (similar to, and only slightly smaller than komodo dragons). Thankfully they're more likely to run away from you though.
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

        The good, or bad if you like, is that even during winter, there are very few areas that get down that low.

        Also, despite having all those snakes, the only live snakes I've ever seen are in zoos. Even while I was working in the "outback", I never encountered one.

        I did on a number of occassions come across racehorse goannas (similar to, and only slightly smaller than komodo dragons). Thankfully they're more likely to run away from you though.
        Never gets cold? I thought your climate was more like what I'm used to - hot summer, cold winter. Cold winters are very important at our age. You just plain keep better if you refrigerate half the year. :rolleyes:

        Cute lizard. Not poisonous so it wouldn't bother me running into them. The only non-poisonous people that really make me struggle for composure are bears of the grizzly/kodiak/polar persuasion. Never been attacked by one, they're just so damned moody that ya never know. Cats can be spooky but they're easy to get rid of if you're not messing with their kids or if they aren't starving. Snakes and spiders get to me because they are so darned easy to miss when you're out there and your mind goes to something other than where you're stepping. I still would come out for some of that black opal if I could though. I really would.
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

        The good, or bad if you like, is that even during winter, there are very few areas that get down that low.

        Also, despite having all those snakes, the only live snakes I've ever seen are in zoos. Even while I was working in the "outback", I never encountered one.

        I did on a number of occassions come across racehorse goannas (similar to, and only slightly smaller than komodo dragons). Thankfully they're more likely to run away from you though.
        I don't know. Even though you've never seen a live snake, doesn't mean there aren't there and then there's Big Bird that kicks you and rips out your guts, and a snail that kills you and a spider that eats birds... not to mention the obvious ... sharks. I mean that would take all the fun right out of swimming there.
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        • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          I don't know. Even though you've never seen a live snake, doesn't mean there aren't there and then there's Big Bird that kicks you and rips out your guts, and a snail that kills you and a spider that eats birds... not to mention the obvious ... sharks. I mean that would take all the fun right out of swimming there.
          Wussy Americans. Where's your sense of adventure.

          BTW, a kangaroo can rip your guts out as well. They prop themselves up on their tail and use their legs to rip and slash.


          Considering the Red Kangaroo can grow up to six feet tall, picture yourself up against one of them.
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          • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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            Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

            Wussy Americans. Where's your sense of adventure.

            BTW, a kangaroo can rip your guts out as well. They prop themselves up on their tail and use their legs to rip and slash.

            Considering the Red Kangaroo can grow up to six feet tall, picture yourself up against one of them.
            Geeesh. Next you're going to tell us that Koala Bears eat your eyeballs out.
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          • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
            Kangaroos fight like girls.


            Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

            Wussy Americans. Where's your sense of adventure.

            BTW, a kangaroo can rip your guts out as well. They prop themselves up on their tail and use their legs to rip and slash.

            Kangaroos Fighting! Kangaroo Battles! - YouTube

            Considering the Red Kangaroo can grow up to six feet tall, picture yourself up against one of them.
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            • Profile picture of the author HeySal
              Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

              Kangaroos fight like girls.
              Um............................................

              Really?
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              Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

              Kangaroos fight like girls.
              Wait... that's fighting?

              I just assumed they were married...
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            • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
              Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

              Kangaroos fight like girls.
              I'll send one over and you can "discuss" it further with him.
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              • Profile picture of the author HeySal
                Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

                I'll send one over and you can "discuss" it further with him.
                What makes you think that just because it's a kangaroo, it will want to kick me? What do they eat? Aren't they grazers or browsers or something? I bet they get nice real fast if you feed em a sugar cookie or a banana once in awhile. Moose and marmots do.
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              • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
                Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

                What makes you think that just because it's a kangaroo, it will want to kick me? What do they eat? Aren't they grazers or browsers or something? I bet they get tame real fast if you feed em a sugar cookie once in awhile. Moose and marmots do.
                Actually, you're right. Many Aussies out in the farmlands have pet 'roos. All the fighting in that vid is males fighting over females (surprise, surprise, surprise).

                They'll only "fight" with people if they're cornered. No different to any other animal really.

                Even emus (bigger than cassowaries, but smaller than ostriches), can be tamed. Although, they too can "rip" you to pieces if they're cornered.

                All our land based terrors (snakes, spiders, etc.) will run from you on sight. They're only dangerous if you get them cornered, or they feel threatened by you. Same as "dangerous" animals everywhere else.

                As for the water based killers though, that's a different matter entirely.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I didn't know kangaroos slash. I thought they just kicked the snot out of you. With those strong legs, they don't need to slash to put you down hard. Bet that's one animal those cute little monster birds steer clear of.
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  • Profile picture of the author bizgrower
    I thought drop bears were the koala bears that
    drop from trees and slash your eyes out. lol

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    Do the female roos go for the males with the strongest tail?
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Yeah, water is a whole different planet from ground. I'm not as afraid of snakes as a lot of people. Don't get me wrong - I do everything humanly possible to keep out of striking range of any snake, but I've never found them to be aggressive. I'd be more afraid of a bull (non-poisonous) than a rattler. A poisonous snake will stay fairly calm because it knows it's defenseless for awhile if it blows all its venom. They don't want to bite, but they will if they are scared. Spiders....I'm not going to tempt that one. They're more on the level of different enough, just like water lifeforms. At least you know what to expect from a mammal, and a little respect goes a long way in the animal kingdom.
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