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Post by Rob 2095 on Nov 4, 2014 1:51:16 GMT
I could redo 78. Did a tour of UK that year! Meet you at the stadium! We can wear Jeff's Hyde Park shirts! No one is going to understand much if we wear them. What are we going to say when they ask us about them? Be honest and say that you're time travelers from 36 years in the future. They most likely won't bother after that.
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Post by Helmut83 on Nov 4, 2014 3:01:23 GMT
No one is going to understand much if we wear them. What are we going to say when they ask us about them? Be honest and say that you're time travelers from 36 years in the future. They most likely won't bother after that. Hahaha... very wise decision, but there's a certain chance that we might end up in a nuthouse and what's worse, separated from our time capsule.
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Post by Buttler on Nov 4, 2014 13:21:48 GMT
I'm 18 years old so to my mind being 40 years old is the cut-off point of youth. The cut-off point of youth is 25 imo. I'm 38 years old and (From what I can remember) time started accellerating when I was your age. So, the latest 20 years flew by so fast Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth pal PS. " A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams" (John Barrymore)
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Post by Helmut83 on Nov 4, 2014 17:16:09 GMT
Exactly, Buttler. I couldn't agree more. That's the cut. Not only time accelerates from 25 on. It's more or less the point when your parents stop helping you so you've got to work all night and day to keep yourself alive. You are full of responsibilities, you get stressed, you don't sleep as much as you should, you are always tired, you can't make as much physical excercise as you want so you start to grow fatter, the weekend comes and you are so tired you don't even want to go out... all of those things take a toll on you. ...well, enough with the negativity or we are going to scare our young friend. As you say, there are different criterias to decide what's old. I regret having made some bad decisions in my life, but being in the way of fixing them, one could say I still have many dreams. Life doesn't end at 25 either. PS: whose Rickenbacker is that?
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Post by PowWow on Nov 4, 2014 17:27:26 GMT
thanks guys but I now feel sleepy... ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz
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Post by Buttler on Nov 4, 2014 18:00:33 GMT
PS: whose Rickenbacker is that? It's a 360 FG Fireglo. I wish I could buy one...
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Post by Helmut83 on Nov 4, 2014 18:19:50 GMT
I wish I could buy one... You still have dreams, sign that you are still young.
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Post by Rob 2095 on Nov 5, 2014 0:59:34 GMT
I wish I could buy one... You still have dreams, sign that you are still young. I've known senior citizens that still had dreams... it's just that their dreams were in black and white. And what's with this talk about 40 being old, and 25 being the cut off point of youth? When one has known people who were old enough to remember events surrounding World War I, the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, such thoughts rarely or never cross one's mind.
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Post by Helmut83 on Nov 5, 2014 1:07:00 GMT
Who were those people?
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Post by Rob 2095 on Nov 5, 2014 1:25:22 GMT
Friends of grandparents, church goers, etc. You've known or have come across people of comparable ages before, right? An age like 40 is "older" for a large fraction of the world's population and it has been throughout recorded history... but it generally hasn't been in the northern hemisphere for a while. A person of 40 would be technically middle aged. ... but anyway, Mr. Tandy may not have been featured on the Halloween themed banner, but he sure has aged gracefully in spite of not watching an execution take place. 'Which as we all know is one of the keys to happiness and a long life.
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Post by Helmut83 on Nov 5, 2014 1:31:28 GMT
Friends of grandparents, church goers, etc. You've known or have come across people of comparable ages before, right? Just once. The father of a friend of my father (processing....) was an Italian soldier in Stalingrad and one of the few survivors who successfully made all the way back to the western countries of Europe and escaped from the Russian army. Despite my big interest in the stories he could have told, I had been warned before hand not to ask him about it, as he had a serious trauma with the matter, like so many people who fought on any war. BTW, who would have said the church was one of the places were you met them? I mean, the surprising fact is not that they were there; it's that you were there!
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Post by Rob 2095 on Nov 5, 2014 2:07:49 GMT
Friends of grandparents, church goers, etc. You've known or have come across people of comparable ages before, right? Just once. The father of a friend of my father (processing....) was an Italian soldier in Stalingrad and one of the few survivors who successfully made all the way back to the western countries of Europe and escaped from the Russian army. Despite my big interest in the stories he could have told, I had been warned before hand not to ask him about it, as he had a serious trauma with the matter, like so many people who fought on any war. BTW, who would have said the church was one of the places were you met them? I mean, the surprising fact is not that they were there; it's that you were there! Ha! Remember, I grew up the son of a Methodist minister turned Navy chaplain, so I really didn't have much say in the matter for the most part. Do you remember if your father's friend's father was a soldier of the Waffen-SS or a regular infantryman in the Italian army on loan from Mussolini? Regardless, he was most likely one of only around 5,000 of those stranded in Stalingrad to make it back to Western Europe and (obviously) a participant in the most titanic and brutal clash in military history.
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Post by Helmut83 on Nov 5, 2014 6:01:15 GMT
Oh, yes, I had forgotten. You look so far away from church nowadays that it gets hard to remember.
He was a regular infantry man in the Italian army, and yes he was one of the 5,000 that were lucky enough to come back from Stalingrad. We don't know much more, as I don't think he has talked even to my father's friend (his son) about that, otherwise I suppose the tale would have reached me via my father.
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