@chienfou@mehcuda67@mycya4me My then 10 year old grandson (he just turned 12) stated that anyone over 17 is old. My mom said anyone who is 104 is old (she was almost 91 at the time). And my grand daugher (she was 8 at the time (is 10 now) wanted to know if I was “dead yet” when she asked me how old I’d be at my next birthday.
So there you have it. You are either old, not yet old or should be dead. Take your pick.
@chienfou@Kidsandliz@mehcuda67 I always said that Old was somewhere WAY out past 90!
My Mom was less than 30 days of her 94th birthday when she “Went Home” that was nearly 2 years ago! Yep I miss her a lot. But I would NOT want her back in the Medical condition she was in (died from Dementia)
Since I don’t have kids… I don’t know how to be OLD. I am just a Geeky Nerd!
@chienfou@mehcuda67@mycya4me My mom died last year at 97, 3 months and 3 days old and it is weird to be an orphan, even at my age. Like @mycya4me I miss her a lot even though I know she was at the point in her life where all quality of life was gone and she had said she was ready to die
About 4 years prior she said God had come to her and asked her if she was ready to die yet and she had said no, she wanted to see her next great grandchild be born. She managed to also see the one after that too.
@mediocrebot@phendrick I lived down the street from Einstein until I was 18 mo old. My mom thought he was crazt (he’d walk home with his shirt partway untucked talking to himself) and so when out pushing me in the carriage would cross the street to avoid him.
This is one of the times I wish there had been easy ways to take photos back than as I sure would have loved to have a photo of me and Einstein (although I’d bet mom wouldn’t have done that. I used to tease her about that.).
@Kidsandliz@mediocrebot
My mother died at 89. Few years later, my father died at 88 1/2. I had no brothers or sisters and had those same “orphan” thoughts. A friend who was younger than I but parents died older than mine told me he felt the same. I think it’s common, regardless of ages involved, on the loss of the second parent.
@Kidsandliz@mediocrebot
Einstein couldn’t accept some parts of Quantum Theory, e.g., quantum entanglement. He didn’t believe in “spooky action at a distance”, as he called it. Maybe you could have straightened him out by throwing a rock at him.
@narfcake Well, if those and Windows and Office are still around (with an occasional injection of Fountain of Youth serum, but usually just more of a facelift), maybe we’ll last a little longer, also…
@Kyeh@mycya4me@phendrick@Star2236 yeah, I don’t want to be 100 unless I’m like Jack Lalane 100 (he died I think at the age of 94… Still being able to haul trucks with his teeth) – but that also means increasing my time spent jogging across the country and not watching TV on the toilet.
@earlyre@therealjrn
While you are correct about her birth name, her baptismal name was Baker, and she had her name legally changed in 1956.
I’M AFRAID I HAVE TO DISAGREE.
@earlyre@therealjrn
So you would never say “my car was made in 2020”?
It wasn’t “yours” when it was made…
Especially in this day and age I would think that referring to people by their preferred name would be obvious to everyone as the correct thing to do.
@earlyre@therealjrn
No, but you ARE establishing ownership. It’s not yours when it’s being made.
IT’S ALL NITPICKING as you can see. As I said I think it’s only polite to address/refer to people by their preferred names even after their death.
@chienfou@earlyre
I think I can establish that one never really “owns” the car because of government taxation. Or at least taxes effectively ground the car from public roads until they’re paid.
@chienfou
“Especially in this day and age I would think that referring to people by their preferred name would be obvious to everyone as the correct thing to do.”
so should i have used this name?
nope… just looked up her Death Certificate. it has her listed as Marilyn Monroe… which would suggest( to me at least) a legal name change sometime after the divorce from either DiMaggio or Miller…
@chienfou honestly, my initial post was meat to be a funny little quip. sorry if i ruffled your feathers…
I’m out of my depth here, ( I’m a Middle aged, White, Straight, Cis-gendered man. politically liberal, but living in a DEEP RED area) I don’t know the polite protocols here, should references to Bruce Jenner’s Olympic Performance back in '76, be changed to Caitlyn Jenner? Do I need to relabel my DVD’s of Movies Starring Ellen Page to read Elliot?
@chienfou@earlyre My turn to be pedantic:
Correct grammar usage would formally be “my being pedantic”. Or at least it was when when I first saw Marilyn with nothing but the radio on in Playboy.
@chienfou@earlyre Well, Marilyn’s day, most celebrities took stage names, including the men. And a lot of current ones still do too.
Like Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, Neta-Lee Hershlag, Reginald Dwight, Demetria Gene Guynes - just a few!
@chienfou@earlyre@phendrick Then I achieved my purpose. (I didn’t know those original names either, although I had read about a couple of them before.)
I wonder if kids nowadays even know who she is? I’m 43 and I guarantee everybody my age knows who she is bc she’s iconic. Also how do learn about JFK and not have her name come up?
@Star2236
That’s true.
It still tickles me when I hear the story about someone having a three and a half inch floppy sitting on their desktop and a younger person walks by and says “oh wow! You 3D printed the ‘save’ icon…”
@chienfou@Star2236 Those were the small ones. I had some of the original 8" ones, and possibly might have an old PC clone that took those, in storage somewhere with other relics . Not to be confused with a vinyl LP in its jacketed sleeve. (Especially not by the younger generation, who probably wouldn’t know WTH either one might be.)
“Where have you gone, Marilyn Monroe?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Woo woo woo”.
/youtube Mrs Robinson
Actually Joltin’ Joe went off to be an AH.
But he was The Real Deal as an athlete. Somehow or other, one of my dad’s cousins once managed to see him play.
Dad’s gone now and I’ve forgotten the details.
Wut.
Maybe we ARE old.
@mehcuda67
Hey man… watch it! I resemble that remark!
@chienfou @mehcuda67 I ani’t 100 Yet!
@mehcuda67 @mycya4me
That’s on me bucket list matey… (Makin to a hunnert)
@chienfou @mehcuda67 @mycya4me My then 10 year old grandson (he just turned 12) stated that anyone over 17 is old. My mom said anyone who is 104 is old (she was almost 91 at the time). And my grand daugher (she was 8 at the time (is 10 now) wanted to know if I was “dead yet” when she asked me how old I’d be at my next birthday.
So there you have it. You are either old, not yet old or should be dead. Take your pick.
@Kidsandliz @mehcuda67 @mycya4me
Perspective is everything…
@chienfou @Kidsandliz @mehcuda67 I always said that Old was somewhere WAY out past 90!
My Mom was less than 30 days of her 94th birthday when she “Went Home” that was nearly 2 years ago! Yep I miss her a lot. But I would NOT want her back in the Medical condition she was in (died from Dementia)
Since I don’t have kids… I don’t know how to be OLD. I am just a Geeky Nerd!
@chienfou @Kidsandliz @mehcuda67 @mycya4me
It’s all relative.
/showme albert einstein being pensive
@phendrick Here’s the image you requested for “albert einstein being pensive”
@chienfou @mehcuda67 @mycya4me My mom died last year at 97, 3 months and 3 days old and it is weird to be an orphan, even at my age. Like @mycya4me I miss her a lot even though I know she was at the point in her life where all quality of life was gone and she had said she was ready to die
About 4 years prior she said God had come to her and asked her if she was ready to die yet and she had said no, she wanted to see her next great grandchild be born. She managed to also see the one after that too.
@mediocrebot @phendrick I lived down the street from Einstein until I was 18 mo old. My mom thought he was crazt (he’d walk home with his shirt partway untucked talking to himself) and so when out pushing me in the carriage would cross the street to avoid him.
This is one of the times I wish there had been easy ways to take photos back than as I sure would have loved to have a photo of me and Einstein (although I’d bet mom wouldn’t have done that. I used to tease her about that.).
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @phendrick Wow! I must be seeing Einsteins all over town. Did Einstein live in a tent too?
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot
My mother died at 89. Few years later, my father died at 88 1/2. I had no brothers or sisters and had those same “orphan” thoughts. A friend who was younger than I but parents died older than mine told me he felt the same. I think it’s common, regardless of ages involved, on the loss of the second parent.
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot
Einstein couldn’t accept some parts of Quantum Theory, e.g., quantum entanglement. He didn’t believe in “spooky action at a distance”, as he called it. Maybe you could have straightened him out by throwing a rock at him.
Sadly, she died long before I was born so I’ve only known her as a historical figure.
For PCs, the ATX standard for cases, power supplies, and motherboards came out over 30 years ago.
The VGA and PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports that are still present on some modern motherboards came out nearly 40 years ago.
And I was DIY building before those.
@narfcake Well, if those and Windows and Office are still around (with an occasional injection of Fountain of Youth serum, but usually just more of a facelift), maybe we’ll last a little longer, also…
At least I am NOT 100 yet!
/showme Marilyn Monroe in a swimsuit at 100 years old!
@mycya4me Here’s the image you requested for “Marilyn Monroe in a swimsuit at 100 years old!”
@mycya4me Well, that would be pretty good for 100 if she actually did look like that.
@Kyeh @mycya4me
I hope I look that good at 100 lol
@mycya4me @Star2236 Yeah, that would be fantastic!
@Kyeh @mycya4me @Star2236 Looking not too bad for somebody that’s been dead almost 64 years.
@Kyeh @mycya4me @phendrick @Star2236 yeah, I don’t want to be 100 unless I’m like Jack Lalane 100 (he died I think at the age of 94… Still being able to haul trucks with his teeth) – but that also means increasing my time spent jogging across the country and not watching TV on the toilet.
@mycya4me @pakopako @phendrick @Star2236 Yeah. My mother’s favorite saying: “Old age is not for sissies.”
@mediocrebot @mycya4me You need to realize that AI probably doesn’t have a good grasp of the aging process. That picture supports that.
@Kyeh @mycya4me @pakopako @Star2236
I’m often heard saying, “Today, I feel even older than I look”.
@mediocrebot @mycya4me @tweezak
The bot likely believes all old people have had plastic surgery, or at least rich old people…
@mediocrebot @mycya4me @tweezak
/showme an old rich person who had plastic surgery and the same old rich person before they had the plastic surgery
@Kidsandliz Here’s the image you requested for “an old rich person who had plastic surgery and the same old rich person before they had the plast…”
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot
I like how their jewelry changes to hipper shit after the plastic surgery lol
to be that Pedant…
It’s the 100th anniv. of Norma Jeane Mortenson’s birth.
Marilyn is a Character she made up.
That is spectacular display of pedanticity @earlyre!
Bravo!
@earlyre @therealjrn
While you are correct about her birth name, her baptismal name was Baker, and she had her name legally changed in 1956.
I’M AFRAID I HAVE TO DISAGREE.
@chienfou @therealjrn
But we are talking about the anniversary of her birth… At which time her name was…
@earlyre @therealjrn
So you would never say “my car was made in 2020”?
It wasn’t “yours” when it was made…
Especially in this day and age I would think that referring to people by their preferred name would be obvious to everyone as the correct thing to do.
@chienfou @earlyre
Am I naming the car?
@earlyre @therealjrn
No, but you ARE establishing ownership. It’s not yours when it’s being made.
IT’S ALL NITPICKING as you can see. As I said I think it’s only polite to address/refer to people by their preferred names even after their death.
@chienfou you do understand what pedantry/ being pedantic means right? Cuz it doesn’t seem like it…
@chienfou @earlyre
I think I can establish that one never really “owns” the car because of government taxation. Or at least taxes effectively ground the car from public roads until they’re paid.
But perhaps this is pedantic.
@earlyre
Actually, I do.
The key issue being that ‘being pedantic’ implies being correct as well.
My issue was with the “correctness”.
And yes, that’s me being pedantic…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@chienfou
@chienfou
“Especially in this day and age I would think that referring to people by their preferred name would be obvious to everyone as the correct thing to do.”
so should i have used this name?
nope… just looked up her Death Certificate. it has her listed as Marilyn Monroe… which would suggest( to me at least) a legal name change sometime after the divorce from either DiMaggio or Miller…
@chienfou honestly, my initial post was meat to be a funny little quip. sorry if i ruffled your feathers…
I’m out of my depth here, ( I’m a Middle aged, White, Straight, Cis-gendered man. politically liberal, but living in a DEEP RED area) I don’t know the polite protocols here, should references to Bruce Jenner’s Olympic Performance back in '76, be changed to Caitlyn Jenner? Do I need to relabel my DVD’s of Movies Starring Ellen Page to read Elliot?
@chienfou @earlyre My turn to be pedantic:
Correct grammar usage would formally be “my being pedantic”. Or at least it was when when I first saw Marilyn with nothing but the radio on in Playboy.
And, …
how’d we lose focus on Norma Jeane?
@chienfou @earlyre My understanding was that both Joltin’ Joe and Marilyn were combatants.
@chienfou @earlyre Well, Marilyn’s day, most celebrities took stage names, including the men. And a lot of current ones still do too.
Like Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, Neta-Lee Hershlag, Reginald Dwight, Demetria Gene Guynes - just a few!
@chienfou @earlyre @Kyeh LOL, didn’t realize I knew those people – had to look them ALL up.
@chienfou @earlyre @phendrick
Then I achieved my purpose. (I didn’t know those original names either, although I had read about a couple of them before.)
@chienfou @earlyre @phendrick
I’ve always heard that excessive um, self-indulgence can affect your eye sight…
I wonder if kids nowadays even know who she is? I’m 43 and I guarantee everybody my age knows who she is bc she’s iconic. Also how do learn about JFK and not have her name come up?
@Star2236
That’s true.
It still tickles me when I hear the story about someone having a three and a half inch floppy sitting on their desktop and a younger person walks by and says “oh wow! You 3D printed the ‘save’ icon…”
@chienfou
That made me laugh.
@chienfou @Star2236 Those were the small ones. I had some of the original 8" ones, and possibly might have an old PC clone that took those, in storage somewhere with other relics . Not to be confused with a vinyl LP in its jacketed sleeve. (Especially not by the younger generation, who probably wouldn’t know WTH either one might be.)
@phendrick @Star2236
That’s nice.
It wasn’t the floppy that made me laugh, it was the thought that they had no idea what the save icon represented.
@Star2236 who’s teaching you about the New York airport?
Well I was really young when she was at her peak.
One of my favorite tunes from Sir Elton.
Interestingly enough it appears that at least one of the images has been reversed.
“Where have you gone, Marilyn Monroe?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Woo woo woo”.
/youtube Mrs Robinson
Actually Joltin’ Joe went off to be an AH.
But he was The Real Deal as an athlete. Somehow or other, one of my dad’s cousins once managed to see him play.
Dad’s gone now and I’ve forgotten the details.
I think one of my nephews still has the high school yearbook in which both his father and Doris Day appeared.