Age 70 being discussed

[rod farva]

Yip, are you really 68? I think I feel someone pulling my chain.

 

[flyboyike]

The disrespect shown for the elders on here is not only sad, it's mind-boggling. If you boys think you're funny or cool--think again. You're only proving the point many of us make which is you are a bunch of spoiled a$$holes with an astonishing sense of entitlement and self-worth. I truly hope your parents are treated the same way by their co-workers or people in their industry. I imagine those of you with kids (shudder) are raising their offspring with the same "values" you have.

Getting old doesn't entitle you to respect. It entitles you to a social security check and a Medicare card. That is all.

 

[pilotyip]

nor does youth

Getting old doesn't entitle you to respect. It entitles you to a social security check and a Medicare card. That is all.

nor does youth entitle you to respect. Respect is earned by a variety of ways. BTW Getting old is the best thing that can happen to you, the other alternative is, well you now the rest. All I can say is it has been one fantastic adventure almost everyone of my childhood dreams have been fulfilled. I look back and can not believe what I have had a chance to experience in my life. The lives I have touched, the people I have helped, the people I have mentored and it was great. I made a difference.

Yip, are you really 68? I think I feel someone pulling my chain.

The day I was born Italy surrendered, they knew it was all over with me on the scene

 

[Fubijaakr]

Getting old doesn't entitle you to respect in America. It entitles you to a social security check and a Medicare card. That is all.

Fixed it for you. In the rest of the civilized world, cultures respect and revere their elders.

Only in America where we're in love with youth does the "young entitlement" assumption rear its ugly head.

 

[flyboyike]

Fixed it for you. In the rest of the civilized world, cultures respect and revere their elders.

I guess nobody told the kids in Tahrir Square, who sent the octogenarian Mobarak and his decrepit ilk packing.

 

[flyboyike]

nor does youth entitle you to respect.

I agree, which is why I don't walk around demanding it, unlike some people.

 

[Fubijaakr]

I guess nobody told the kids in Tahrir Square, who sent the octogenarian Mobarak and his decrepit ilk packing.

Are you seriously this moronic? Comparing a political revolution against an historically corrupt government to basic cultural standards?

You really need to polish up your debating skills....or get some.

Ike, Ike, Ike. Having a battle of wits with you is like fighting an unarmed man.

 

[BoilerUP]

Hike in the mandatory retirement age being discussed?

Unpossible.

"All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again."

And boomers claim that "youngins" have a selfish entitlement complex...

 

[flyboyike]

Are you seriously this moronic? Comparing a political revolution against an historically corrupt government to basic cultural standards?

The difference isn't as dramatic as you might think. Much like Mobarak, not only do you expect me to stay under your and your kind's thumb for all eternity, but to like it as well. There is also the similarity that Mobarak is also a pilot, as was the elder (there's that word again) Assad, so....

 

[flyboyike]

Hike in the mandatory retirement age being discussed?

Unpossible.

"All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again."

And boomers claim that "youngins" have a selfish entitlement complex...

I agree, it's going to get rammed down our throats, just like age 65 was.

 

[Fubijaakr]

I think you're referring to Hosni Mubarek. But, with your spelling ability its hard to tell...

 

[pilotyip]

I agree, which is why I don't walk around demanding it, unlike some people.

which people?

 

[flyboyike]

I think you're referring to Hosni Mubarek. But, with your spelling ability its hard to tell...

Mobarak or Mubarak, depending on dialect, but definitely not Mubarek. The name roughly translates as "blessed" as in Ramadan Mobarak.

You're not going to beat me in linguistics, so don't even try.

 

[flyboyike]

which people?

People who are "appalled by the lack of reverence for elders around here".

 

[zonejumper]

People who are "appalled by the lack of reverence for elders around here".

Yay, finally some respect!!!!