Is It Better to be 17 or 70....in 2023?

[GammaGlobulin]

Not such a simple question.

 

I have been debating this question in my own mind....

During the past five years.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Or, if you dislike this question....

 

Please....

 

Just pass on by....

 

Regards,

Gamma G.

 

Note to Noam:  I know you have your own views, too.  I love you, Noam, my fellow-alumnus.

 

 

[still kicking]

Go to Japan and leave us in Peace.

[QuantumQuandry]

It's a simple answer for me, 17.  Time is the one thing I can't buy more of.

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 3:48 PM, QuantumQuandry said:

It's a simple answer for me, 17.  Time is the one thing I can't buy more of.

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Wait!

 

Are you telling us that you would be willing to be 17 in 2023?

 

Are you sure?

 

I'm trying to be as serious as I have ever been, here.

 

Do you mean that you would actually be WILLING to be 17 in 2023???

 

 

[QuantumQuandry]

  On 10/9/2023 at 3:56 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

Wait!

 

Are you telling us that you would be willing to be 17 in 2023?

 

Are you sure?

 

I'm trying to be as serious as I have ever been, here.

 

Do you mean that you would actually be WILLING to be 17 in 2023???

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Is this a trick question or something?  I thought I was pretty clear.

 

Only downside is my wife would get in trouble for being a pedo.

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 3:47 PM, still kicking said:

Go to Japan and leave us in Peace.

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I hope that your wish will very soon miraculously happen, even before we all know it.

 

I love Japan.

I love Kyoto.

I love Nara.

I love the tea ceremony in Nara, as well.

Not to mention the temples and shrines in Kyoto, which I also love....

 

Thank you for your encouragement....

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 3:58 PM, QuantumQuandry said:

Is this a trick question or something?  I thought I was pretty clear.

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NO.

This is NOT a trick question.

You add up all the plusses and minuses about being 17 in 2023.

Then, you compare to being 70 in 2023.

 

And then...

You voice your opinion.

And you give your reasons for your opinion.

 

This is NOT a trick question.

 

It's a serious question, for a change....

 

((Also, a rather more complex question than is often asked on this forum, I might add.  Why not think about it. Take your time before replying too flippantly...))

 

 

 

 

[Gottfrid]

17 had it´s charm. Over 50 has it´s charm, and i think it feels better as you are more secure in life. How I feel when I am 70, I do not know, but if healthy, I think life will be better.

 

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 4:01 PM, Gottfrid said:

17 had it´s charm. Over 50 has it´s charm, and i think it feels better as you are more secure in life. How I feel when I am 70, I do not know, but if healthy, I think life will be better.

 

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This question is NOT about age.

This question is about 2023.

And, about being young or old at this specific period in history.

 

 

[stoner]

  On 10/9/2023 at 3:47 PM, still kicking said:

Go to Japan and leave us in Peace.

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you can still go full sam from japan...

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

You know....

 

Just a few days ago....

 

Some guy posted a RANTING-COMMENT here, complaining that this TV PUB Forum has devolved into inanity.

 

The comment basically stated that the comments here are posted by the same <deleted> who post just for attention-seeking, and that these comments have caused the forum to deteriorate into, basically, a wasteland.

 

So....I am responding with this Topic, in rebuttal.

 

Because, I know that you guys are not the fools that he thinks you are.

 

For example:

 

There are many ways to thoughtfully reply to the Topic.

 

You might mention loss of personal freedoms.

Change in the educational system, now, versus then.

Extreme worry about the future of the planet, as we know 17-year-olds often think about.

And, maybe, just how happy you might be to NOT need to be a 17-year-old in 2023.

And so much more.

 

Maybe you are worried about children, these days, I do not know.

Or, maybe you are gung-ho about the prospects for young people, today, in 2023.

 

Anyway....

I only posted this open-ended question so that you might prove this guy wrong....

 

What a rant he wrote.

Yet, maybe he was partially on target....

 

He thinks you guys do not want to talk about serious things.

Is he correct?

 

 

 

 

[save the frogs]

  On 10/9/2023 at 4:32 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

and that these comments have caused the forum to deteriorate into, basically, a wasteland.

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he's right.

it is a wasteland. 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 5:15 PM, save the frogs said:

he's right.

it is a wasteland. 

 

 

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Wait...

Actually....

Sometimes, a wasteland can sound good....

 

Destroying my desk at the moment......

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

ALSO:

 

Why the F would anyone want to come to the TV Farang Pub to talk about, or discuss in a truly serious way, SERIOUS topics?

 

I would not.

 

I never do.

 

I hope it's the same with you.

 

 

[QuantumQuandry]

  On 10/9/2023 at 4:01 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

NO.

This is NOT a trick question.

You add up all the plusses and minuses about being 17 in 2023.

Then, you compare to being 70 in 2023.

 

And then...

You voice your opinion.

And you give your reasons for your opinion.

 

This is NOT a trick question.

 

It's a serious question, for a change....

 

((Also, a rather more complex question than is often asked on this forum, I might add.  Why not think about it. Take your time before replying too flippantly...))

 

 

 

 

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You asked me my opinion, I gave it.  I gave my reason for it.

You questioned it, without providing a reason to question it.

Now you are telling me to think about it, as if I hadn't, and not be flippant.  I added some humor but it still stands that I gave you a serious answer with my reason for it.  And you gave me nothing of value in return.

 

I was happy to entertain a serious topic but you don't seem to be.  You must be a friend of Bob's.  So...good luck with that.

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 5:40 PM, QuantumQuandry said:

You must be a friend of Bob's.  So...good luck with that.

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Bob?

 

Who is Bob?

 

Bob Dylan?

The NOBEL Laureate?

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

Another forum member, GECKO123, wrote this:

 

"Not a fan of prolific posters who use the forum as an antidote for boredom, a form of psycho therapy, or because they are attention whores generating mostly unreadable gibberish. Phrases like "those who have the least to say, talk the most" come to mind. What Neil Young said about Charles Manson is apropos: "He wasn't what you call a song writer, he was more a song spewer." Over-thinking at its worst. Headache inducing. Tiresome. Yes, I'm talking about the content spewers who have taken over this forum.

 

Posters who hit 1,000 post counts without achieving at least a 1.00 "like" ratio, especially in a short period of time, should be either be removed or be limited to no more than 5 posts per day. They violate the number one rule of writing: "respect your reader," not to mention the number two rule: "Have something to say." As surely as the Gilgo Beach killer snuffed out his victims, posters like this have snuffed out this forum until it's been reduced to a handful of posters engaged in unreadable, repetitious, and inane bickering and repartee which alienates everyone who doesn't enjoy this type of content."

 

AND, I thought about what he wrote, after he wrote it.

AND, I think that, although he might be correct in some ways, still....I think he doesn't understand the purpose of the TV Farang Pub.

 

I think the Pub is for writing and reading about almost anything, within reason.

 

I do NOT consider myself to be a spewer, although some might.

 

I also don't care about what Neil Young said about Charles Manson, nor whether it might be, in some way, apropos.

 

Also, any nitwit who uses this FRENCH word, apropos, I immediately take a disliking to....

 

So, I am just saying that I think this guy, GECKO123, might not appreciate my posts.

And so, maybe he should listen more to Neil Young....

 

 

I lost my virginity, the second time, to this song....

 

Down by the river.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Harsh Jones]

It was best to be a boomer. Grew up in the post war peak of western civilization. Entered adulthood at the bottom of the biggest financial ponzi expansion in human history. Ride said ponzi. And cash out at the top and exit this life. 

 

It is the beginning of history all over again now.  

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 7:27 PM, Harsh Jones said:

It was best to be a boomer. Grew up in the post war peak of western civilization. Entered adulthood at the bottom of the biggest financial ponzi expansion in human history. Ride said ponzi. And cash out at the top and exit this life. 

 

It is the beginning of history all over again now.  

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Nice one!

 

 

[Prubangboy]

  On 10/9/2023 at 6:16 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

 

 

I lost my virginity, the second time, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Was that then your butt virginity?

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 8:53 PM, Prubangboy said:

Was that then your butt virginity?

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Nope.

 

 

[georgegeorgia]

I would rather be older in this day in the world 

 

Who would want to be young again in this WOKE world?

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 9:26 PM, georgegeorgia said:

I would rather be older in this day in the world 

 

Who would want to be young again in this WOKE world?

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In my opinion, preference for being older in this world of ours....2023

Has almost nothing to do with wokeness....

 

But, I could be mistaken.

 

 

[georgegeorgia]

  On 10/9/2023 at 9:29 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

In my opinion, preference for being older in this world of ours....2023

Has almost nothing to do with wokeness....

 

But, I could be mistaken.

 

 

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Well it does because I couldn't put up with all the BS 

 

Imagine going to university now ...

Not being away to call someone "darling" for fear of sexual harassment or identify as non binary and someone is a man but you have to call them Miss 

 

No I couldn't be young again starting in this World 

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 9:33 PM, georgegeorgia said:

Well it does because I couldn't put up with all the BS 

 

Imagine going to university now ...

Not being away to call someone "darling" for fear of sexual harassment or identify as non binary and someone is a man but you have to call them Miss 

 

No I couldn't be young again starting in this World 

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Well....

 

You can call me Al.

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 9:33 PM, georgegeorgia said:

Imagine going to university now ...

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MIT?

 

Do you think this happens at MIT?

 

CalTech?

 

Do you think this happens at CalTech?

 

If not...

Then....

No problemo....

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 9:26 PM, georgegeorgia said:

WOKE world

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Please listen to Noam on Wokeness, not to mention the cancel culture....

 

 

[Gottfrid]

  On 10/9/2023 at 4:07 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

This question is NOT about age.

This question is about 2023.

And, about being young or old at this specific period in history.

 

 

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Yes, and my answer regarding my opinion about the the different age groups, was supposed to be seen related to 2023. Something that meant, I would rather be 70 than 17 at present time. On the other hand I am just a bit over 50, which serves me perfect.

[Mike Lister]

Given current times and events? I'm happy to be over 70, seriously happy.

[GammaGlobulin]

  On 10/9/2023 at 9:44 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

You can call me Al.

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Wokeness is rather a NON-issue..

 

I would think....