CARPE DIEM: How many on this Forum are too old to do so? (92.5%)? Absolutely Not!

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Folks,

 

How many times have I read on these hallowed pages, the complaining and backsliding, and pure negativism, mostly spoken from the more JADED amongst us?

 

When, in fact, most of us should GLORY in being alive!

 

Just think to yourselves how very fortunate you are to be in Thailand, and not in North Korea, for example.

 

There is just too much complaining around here, on this forum....don't you think?

 

 

Just as you, I do, once in a while, get down in the dumps, and I know not how to get out of my slumps.

 

But you can find a way, if only you have the will.

 

Are you just too old to seize the day?

Or, seize, at least,....SOMETHING of interest to you?

 

 My advice to you is to NOT seize a woman, but seize something more substantial.

 

In my case, I have chosen to seize upon my love of computers, and also posting Topics on Forums.

 

And, if you cannot seize upon something that makes your blood boil, then how, in the heck, can you even expect to eek out your remaining days in such a way that...

Might help you to become further self-actualized throughout your remaining years.

 

You are just too young to throw in the towel, just because you may have lost your teeth, or a leg, or an arm, along the way, during your younger years.

 

You know, I remember reading a novel by John Barth, who taught at Penn State, titled End Of The Road, who spoke about some dude losing everything, as he aged, figuratively speaking, on some journey from the East Coast of the USA to the West Coast.  John Barth.  You gotta love this author.

 

John Barth, he was the guy who also wrote Giles Goat Boy.

 

And, everyone here knows about the Goat Boy, right?

 

I am only cautioning those who think that they might be OVER THE HILL to NOT think this way.

 

You are younger than you think.

 

Buy a new SUPER COMPUTER, if this is what floats your boat.

 

Or, buy a single shell from Maine, and get out an row.

 

CARPE DIEM, I say.

 

Do whatever you must do to stay young enough to enjoy your remaining days.

 

Do NOT spend the rest of your lives just moping around, because...what...

What good is that to anyone?

 

So then...how might you be able to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, as they say?

 

The longer you wait, the more difficult it will be for you.

 

And, what does a single shell from Maine look like, and where to get out an row it?

 

This is what I am talking about, Folks!

 

Get out an row 10 klicks in the chop!

 

Take a good look, Folks....

 

Do you see?

 

This guy is the epitome of happiness and contentment.

He is combining exercise with the salt air.

 

I have many other good ideas which might help you Folks to seize the day.

 

This is just one.

 

Are you old guys willing to get up from your chairs and get out and row for happiness and healthiness?

 

Or, if not...then...

What is your plan....because...

Everyone needs a plan.

 

Regards,

Gamma

 

 

Note:  ROSEBUD  (What was the meaning, anyway?)

 

 

 

NOTE7:  Please, I beg of you...don't end up like Giles Goat-Boy...

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 10 by GammaGlobulin

[GammaGlobulin]

Final Note of this OP:  Steer Clear of the Thailand Bars, and then, you, too, can easily afford many computers, or an Alden Shell, or whatever floats your boats....

 

Surely, one computer is better than a one-night stand in Pattaya....

 

 

And, the Alden out of Maine, is a winner, too.

 

I love girls who know how to row!

Next to our boathouse, many years ago, there was a girls boathouse.

 

 

https://www.rowingrigs.com/

 

 

Buy one, is my best advice to you....

 

Carpe Diem!

 

Note:  Mind you, that I am NOT saying that you should try rowing in the Chiang Mai canal, by any means.....

 

 

Edited May 10 by GammaGlobulin

[AreYouGerman]

[Dioj]

FFS, get a life GG.

🤦🏻‍♂️  

Edited May 10 by Dioj

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, AreYouGerman said:

 

a. Rufus STILL rules!

 

b.  Etcher is a slouch, by comparison....

 

 

Please just use Rufus.

Far better.

 

https://etcherdownload.mystrikingly.com/

 

Edited May 10 by GammaGlobulin

[Dioj]

GG is overweight, has edema because he never stands up, never travels, never leaves his computer, lacks getting any exercise, or exiting his dark, dank cave, and then creates a false narrative where he assumes the rest of the foreigners in Thailand are exactly the same as him. How trite and fully out of the realm of reality. Such a sad case of making wrong assumptions and only projecting. 

[jerrymahoney]

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

My advice to you is to NOT seize a woman, but seize something more substantial.

2 years ago I married a much younger Thai woman who IS substantial

 

Edited May 10 by jerrymahoney

[GammaGlobulin]

5 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

I married a much younger Thai woman who IS substantial

 

 

You seem to be showing what I ONLY alluded to...

Good for you!

 

(When I say, "good for you", I really mean that this is GOOD for you.)

 

 

Edited May 10 by GammaGlobulin

[GammaGlobulin]

39 minutes ago, Dioj said:

GG is overweight, has edema because he never stands up, never travels, never leaves his computer,

 

Correct!

I never leave my computer.

 

Carpe Diem!

 

[theshu25]

1 hour ago, Dioj said:

FFS, get a life GG.

🤦🏻‍♂️  

Totally agree,when will this loser get the hint that no one gives a ff bout his pathetic exsistance.

[jerrymahoney]

44 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

You seem to be showing what I ONLY alluded to...

Good for you!

 

(When I say, "good for you", I really mean that this is GOOD for you.)

 

 

When I first met her sitting across the table from me at the Hachiban Ramen with mutual friends, I had to say to myself: Now Mahoney--  behave yourself.

[newbee2022]

9 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

How many times have I read on these hallowed pages, the complaining and backsliding, and pure negativism, mostly spoken from the more JADED amongst us?

 

When, in fact, most of us should GLORY in being alive!

 

Just think to yourselves how very fortunate you are to be in Thailand, and not in North Korea, for example.

 

There is just too much complaining around here, on this forum....don't you think?

 

 

Just as you, I do, once in a while, get down in the dumps, and I know not how to get out of my slumps.

 

But you can find a way, if only you have the will.

 

Are you just too old to seize the day?

Or, seize, at least,....SOMETHING of interest to you?

 

 My advice to you is to NOT seize a woman, but seize something more substantial.

 

In my case, I have chosen to seize upon my love of computers, and also posting Topics on Forums.

 

And, if you cannot seize upon something that makes your blood boil, then how, in the heck, can you even expect to eek out your remaining days in such a way that...

Might help you to become further self-actualized throughout your remaining years.

 

You are just too young to throw in the towel, just because you may have lost your teeth, or a leg, or an arm, along the way, during your younger years.

 

You know, I remember reading a novel by John Barth, who taught at Penn State, titled End Of The Road, who spoke about some dude losing everything, as he aged, figuratively speaking, on some journey from the East Coast of the USA to the West Coast.  John Barth.  You gotta love this author.

 

John Barth, he was the guy who also wrote Giles Goat Boy.

 

And, everyone here knows about the Goat Boy, right?

 

I am only cautioning those who think that they might be OVER THE HILL to NOT think this way.

 

You are younger than you think.

 

Buy a new SUPER COMPUTER, if this is what floats your boat.

 

Or, buy a single shell from Maine, and get out an row.

 

CARPE DIEM, I say.

 

Do whatever you must do to stay young enough to enjoy your remaining days.

 

Do NOT spend the rest of your lives just moping around, because...what...

What good is that to anyone?

 

So then...how might you be able to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, as they say?

 

The longer you wait, the more difficult it will be for you.

 

And, what does a single shell from Maine look like, and where to get out an row it?

 

This is what I am talking about, Folks!

 

Get out an row 10 klicks in the chop!

 

Take a good look, Folks....

 

Do you see?

 

This guy is the epitome of happiness and contentment.

He is combining exercise with the salt air.

 

I have many other good ideas which might help you Folks to seize the day.

 

This is just one.

 

Are you old guys willing to get up from your chairs and get out and row for happiness and healthiness?

 

Or, if not...then...

What is your plan....because...

Everyone needs a plan.

 

Regards,

Gamma

 

 

Note:  ROSEBUD  (What was the meaning, anyway?)

 

 

 

NOTE7:  Please, I beg of you...don't end up like Giles Goat-Boy...

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for you contemplating post. Just to hold on for some time.🙏

[AdrianUk]

Best post on the forum. Nice to see some positivity. All the negative comments are from toxic people that are beyond help.

[GammaGlobulin]

There are very few harder races than the Harvard-Yale Regatta.

 

No way can one even begin this race, with an ounce of pessimism.

 

There are no poosies in the boats, except, maybe, for the coxswain, if she should be a girl.

 

4 miles of hard rowing.

Every moment pure torture.

 

(Such a metaphor for Life, as we now know it.)

 

So, welcome to pain, if you were born here.

We were born in pain, and we live in pain, and we die in pain, unless....

If hit by a bus.

 

 Life is not for poosies.

Life is not for the meek.

It's pure pain...

All the way.

 

Hat's off to anybody that can row, flat out, for four miles....

UPSTREAM!

 

The Oxford race is even a bit longer.

 

These guys are simply gluttons for punishment.

Pure pain, every stroke of the way.

And....

They love it.

 

Take a look at their hand, Man!

These guys are hard.

 

Just a 2000 meter race is almost enough to kill you.....maybe....

 

Try it on for size....

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE:  I predict that we will NEVER see a rower in this race that does not posses at least one Y chromosome....

 

 

Edited May 11 by GammaGlobulin

[CanadaSam]

On another post (today I think) you mentioned being at the twilight of your life (or something alluding to that).

 

One can only hope the sun sets at a rapid pace tonight.

[GammaGlobulin]

3 minutes ago, CanadaSam said:

On another post (today I think) you mentioned being at the twilight of your life (or something alluding to that).

 

One can only hope the sun sets at a rapid pace tonight.

 

The sun never sets on my.....

You know what.

 

Note: I love the UK....

 

 

 

 

[scottiejohn]

29 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Note: I love the UK

Totally untrue!

The only things you love are your self and the ludicrous outpourings you inflict on AN!

[Baht Simpson]

I'm never down in the dumps. I had the dumps as a child.

[cmjl]

40 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Totally untrue!

The only things you love are your self and the ludicrous outpourings you inflict on AN!

You and others are reading his outpourings and commenting on them,whether you agree with him or not he's giving you something else to think about😊

[scottiejohn]

Just now, cmjl said:

You and others are reading his outpourings and commenting on them,whether you agree with him or not he's giving you something else to think about😊

He is only giving me way of thinking of getting rid of him from the forum!

PS; and also people like you who support the idiot!

[cmjl]

13 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

He is only giving me way of thinking of getting rid of him from the forum!

PS; and also people like you who support the idiot!

If you had rid of him from the forum you'd have to find someone else to castigate😁

 

Pan calling kettle black😈

[scottiejohn]

38 minutes ago, cmjl said:

If you had rid of him from the forum you'd have to find someone else to castigate😁

 

Pan calling kettle black😈

I might have to start on you then if I succeed, although I am not bored enough and also you nowhere come even close to his annoyance level!!

🙂

PS;  Re "Pan and kettle" I may blow off steam at Gattling Gob but I am neither a "Pan", nor more accurately, a "Pot" and cannot state what type of now useless kitchen utensil the GG is!

[scottiejohn]

1 hour ago, Baht Simpson said:

I'm never down in the dumps. I had the dumps as a child.

For the sake of your health I hope you are still taking your regular toilet dumps!

[digger70]

Gowd what a waste of time trying to read this  rubbish. 

Never heard of a goat boy.

[GammaGlobulin]

2 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

Totally untrue!

The only things you love are your self and the ludicrous outpourings you inflict on AN!

 

You know...Sir....

 

I am growing accustomed to your barbs.

They are not as sharp as you might think.

 

Most likely, the same can be said for your arrow, down below.

 

Still, I've already....

Grown accustomed to your face.....

 

 

Your face, Sir....

 

 

[oxo1947]

26 minutes ago, digger70 said:

Never heard of a goat boy.

Its the top seller in Iran..................

 

[Lacessit]

"es irrt der mensch, solang er strebt"

 

I just take each day as it comes. Today's highlight was my GF cutting my toenails, which I can no longer reach due to a bad back.

[scottiejohn]

1 minute ago, GammaGlobulin said:

They are not as sharp as you might think.

They are not sharp to you as you are so thick skinned that you do not realise just what a <deleted> you appear to be to the rest of the sane world!

[scottiejohn]

Just now, oxo1947 said:

Its the top seller in Iran..................

 

I thought they were anti gay sex!

[oxo1947]

4 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

I thought they were anti gay sex!

"Goat" Boy........

 

Edited May 11 by oxo1947