May I ask a sensitive question?

[Cat Driver]

I can not figure out why some people hold so much animosity towards those of us who are guilty of being old?

Will they still have such strong feelings of resentment and disdain for old people when or if they get to be old?

[Moose47]

You're too sensitvie Cat! LOL

Cheers...Chris

[Cat Driver]

Yeh, for sure I'm real sensitive.....

However the question could be.

[Beefitarian]

No one cares that you're old unless they're a total prick cat. In those cases you'll be better off if you can learn to ignore them.

Some people probably don't like that you're moody and crotchety. Typically if a normal person makes a mistake and especially if they want to hide that mistake, they feel threatened when some bully comes barking at them.

You know how I made what seemed to me like an obvious reference to Charlie Sheen but instead you wanted it to be about you in a thread where Howard Huges came up? That happens because when we read things we process the text through our filters. These filters are affected by mood, experience who we speak with in real life and our sense of humour or lack there of.

That's what happens sometimes here with everybody. People feel threatened because you're telling them they made a mistake even though they knew that. Then you go on to tell them how you never made that mistake. Sometimes people just need a hug but if no one is available to hug them they need to work through that.

One way is to get angry and bite back.

You might not have noticed but I myself have never been hit by a prop. I even was awarded a certificate for it.


Now I have cause to be quite proud of such an achievement, you might even be impressed by it, but if you came here to post that you or a close friend had the missfortune to be hit by a prop and I showed you my certificate you might get upset.

Does any of this help?

[David Hasselhoff]

I can not figure out why some people hold so much animosity towards those of us who are guilty of being old?

after reading the Jazz runway thread.... I'm inclined to change a word in that statement.

replace "old" with "Hedley."


I've never met any of you, nor do I dabble much here... While I defer with respect to your years crafting your skills and experience, I must say i find it unsettling when individuals (especially aviators) feel they are unfallible.

Perhaps its something lost in translation between the generations, but some of the posts in that freshed locked thread (and I suspect this is a reaction to it) came across as general derision when nothing constructive is added to the discussion.


*dons flame retardant suit and find a school desk to do the duck and cover drill*

[bandaid]

Move over .. I was called both Persnickity (What ever the hell that means) and old and set in my ways. As a paramedic being set in my ways has served me well. As for persnickity, I told him to FO.

[Old fella]

I am old and I can still get "it" up without the aid of those blue pills...........

[Cougar]

"Old" rocks, Cat!!

ha haa haaa!!

Beers all around -- life is short -- let's enjoy it!!

[Bones]

I am old and I can still get "it" up without the aid of those blue pills...........

Gross.

[Cat Driver]

Gross.

As I said some things can be sensitive to some people, when I read Old Fella's post I took it as jest, especially with all the smileys attached.

However the same blue pills comments are often posted as a put down of the older generation...so it is all in how one thinks.

[Beefitarian]

...so it is all in how one thinks.

That's the filter.

[teacher]

"Cat" it has nothing to do with age. The only people who brought up age are the ones you feel got punked. You guys brought it up to say how, or what seemed like, superior you all were. Nobody cares about age, atleast I don't.

[Cat Driver]

You guys brought it up to say how, or what seemed like, superior you all were.

I can only speak for myself and I feel far from superior, in fact I have often stated that there were times I can only credit luck or some other factor for having survived a few close calls.

Having said that I also knew when to say no or lets get out of here now because I sensed or knew things were going sideways.

For sure as time passed I was better able to make decisions based on experience that kept me alive......I use the word " me " because I knew if I finished the trip safely all those in the airplane with me would also have arrived alive. .

[Beefitarian]

Cat, you ever ground loop?

[Ecco]

I've been up raised in life by old people...has a matter of fact, they teach me everything i know up to this point.

No better place for me than being at work with an old "Dude"...Your alway's in for a surprise that you wouldn't never expect.
The gift of information is priceless...and the story's?? No match!!

Cant help but thinking of Arnie in"buffalo nwt" ....who wouldn't kill for a mentor like him???

And o.....No better pay than seeing satisfaction in an old man's eye while watching you perform what he teached you!!

[KK7]

Since you're asking, I'll be brutally honest. For me it has nothing to do with age. But Cat, I enjoy reading approximately half of your posts, those are the ones you offer real advice without sarcasm or real stories that we can learn from. The other half are a mix of repetitive sarcastic remarks, off topic loaded questions, or complaints about how these posts are received (such as this topic). Frankly, this latter half of your posts are somewhat tiresome mainly due to the repetition.

Don't get me wrong Cat, I like the former half of the posts mentioned above, but it is threads like this that just make me roll my eyes.

[TopperHarley]

I dont think, and I certainly hope not, that anybody here has any issues with old people. But age isn't always an indication of wisdom or intelligence.

I dont have anything against your posts at all and I think it would be a loss to this community if you weren't here. I may not always agree with you, but age has nothing to do with it.

Same goes with Hedley. The stuff from the Jazz thread has NOTHING to do with age. He was dishing out a lot of sarcasm and didn't seem to respond well when I dished it back. I felt he was trashing and disrespecting Jazz employees as a whole. In the very same post though, both you and Doc took a similar stance on the issue as he did, but neither of you did so in a disrespectful or immature way.

[TopperHarley]

Id also like to go on record and say that Im not a Justin Bieber fan, although I am a little jealous of his cool hair.

[Cat Driver]

Cat, you ever ground loop?

Not yet.

And I haven't landed with the gear up on land or down on the water yet.

[Cat Driver]

This is something to think about when negative

people are doing their best to rain on your parade.

So remember this story the next time someone

who knows nothing and cares less tries to make

your life miserable.




A woman was at her hairdresser's getting her

hair styled for a trip to Rome with her husband..

She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who

responded:

" Rome ? Why would anyone want to go there?

It's crowded and dirty.. You're crazy to go to

Rome . So, how are you getting there?"

"We're taking Continental," was the reply. "We got

a great rate!"

"Continental?" exclaimed the hairdresser..

" That's a terrible airline. Their planes are old,

their flight attendants are ugly, and they're always

late. So, where are you staying in Rome ?"

"We'll be at this exclusive little place over on

Rome'sTiber River called Teste."

"Don't go any further.. I know that place.

Everybody thinks its gonna be something special

and exclusive, but it's really a dump."

"We're going to go to see the Vatican and maybe

get to see the Pope."

"That's rich," laughed the hairdresser. You and a

million other people trying to see him. He'll look

the size of an ant.

Boy, good luck on this lousy trip of yours. You're

going to need it.."

A month later, the woman again came in for a

hairdo. The hairdresser asked her about her trip

to Rome.

"It was wonderful," explained the woman, "not

only were we on time in one of Continental's brand

new planes, but it was overbooked, and they

bumped us up to first class.. The food and wine

were wonderful, and I had a handsome 28-year-old

steward who waited on me hand and foot.

And the hotel was great! They'd just finished a

$5 million remodeling job, and now it's a jewel,

the finest hotel in the city. They, too, were

overbooked, so they apologized and gave us their

owner's suite at no extra charge!"

"Well," muttered the hairdresser, "that's all well

and good, but I know you didn't get to see the

Pope."

"Actually, we were quite lucky, because as we

toured the Vatican, a Swiss Guard tapped me on

the shoulder, and explained that the Pope likes to

meet some of the visitors, and if I'd be so kind as

to step into his private room and wait, the Pope

would personally greet me.

Sure enough, five minutes later, the Pope walked

through the door and shook my hand! I knelt down

and he spoke a few words to me."

"Oh, really! What'd he say ?"


He said: "Who the F_ _k did your hair?"

[.......]

In all honesty Cat, I think you're a Saint... I'm more than half way to your "situation" and I've already given up on trying to get an honest answer on ANY subject on these forums... So there's not a chance I'll ever ask a sensitive question like yours here...I really admire you for keeping on tryin'!

[Old fella]

Gross.

As I said some things can be sensitive to some people, when I read Old Fella's post I took it as jest, especially with all the smileys attached.

However the same blue pills comments are often posted as a put down of the older generation...so it is all in how one thinks.

Gotta have a sense of humor in life or all is to boring and serious. Speaking of old folks that is one thing i do admire about them(like the Cat Driver), their certain humor and not putting themselves above others.......

Outside of blue pills I do sometimes suffer from Brewers-Droop

[dashx]

Old fella:

Getting it "up" is the easy part keeping it "up" ah now that's the hard part.

And those pills? Nothing wrong with a back up plan......

[flap10]

I'm too old to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

[V1 Rotate]

I kid, I kid. But like a previous poster said, you do sometimes come of curmudgeonly.
Old Men, yelling at clouds or not, are a great wealth of information.