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… that this Christmas many will hate refugees while they set
up their Nativity Scene showing refugees desperately looking for shelter? … that these days, if any group has the word
"Liberty" or "Patriots" in its name, you can bet that they have little if anything to do with either. … that Coca-Cola keeps trying to introduce these new flavors
to their soft drinks but refuse to bring
the cocaine back? … that some say aging gracefully is an art but I think aging
disgracefully is a riot? … that the only way to find out if your old is to fall down?
If people laugh, you’re still young, but if people panic, you’re old. … that a 72 hold in a
psych ward sounds intriguing as a potential vacation opportunity? … that I am officially too old to know the slang of the
youth? I mean, what the hell is ‘rizz’? … that I’m not admitting to
getting older, but I am saying that dinner time and bedtime are getting much
closer? … that as I put more thought
into it, I just don’t think being an adult is going to work for me? |
Saturday, December 16, 2023
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Yes! My dinner time and bed time are much closer than they used to be alright.
ReplyDeleteIt's like I put the dishes in the dishwasher on my way to bed some nights!
DeleteI see a lot of people aging disgracefully and they truly are a riot. Rizz, is slang for charisma. My latest mystery deals with social media and influencers, and some of the wannabes are terribly concerned about maintaining their rizz. But is one of them desperate enough to commit murder?
ReplyDeleteI try to do everything disgracefully.
DeleteI didn't know what rizz was either. I don't think I have ever had rizz.
ReplyDeleteI may have had rizz for about five minutes in the early 2000s.
DeleteWell you know me Bob I can't stand slang terms the old one throws a new ones and I hate these little antonyms for everything. Just spell a damn word out. That didn't sound too old and proper now get it?
ReplyDeleteAnd your Nativity comment and the Patriot Liberty one couldn't be more spot on.
Why not just SAY charisma!!!
DeleteTruth about the Nativity; faux christians!
And same with the Patriot Liberty asshats!
I know rizz! (I just read about the word yesterday in a story written by someone else who had no clue what it meant.)
ReplyDeleteThose first two Why is its are well said/asked.
I was seriously pissed off a few weeks ago. I tripped on a step, caught myself, but was immediately surrounded by others touching me reassuringly and asking if I was OK. Very kind but I got the message. Fragile old fart could break a hip!
Or if you stumble and people are all saying, 'Oh be careful! You could really hurt yourself.'
DeleteI wanna hurt them!
the dog's mother
ReplyDeleteI'll have to look up rizz!
xoxo :-)
I don't have the Newfound Slang to English dictionary yet!
Deletexoxo
I've never had any rizz to speak of, and I've never been hep to the jive. I survived.
ReplyDeleteMy dinnertime and bedtime have merged. Once you've face planted into a plate a time or two, you know you're on the old age highway.
I think I dropped my rizz when I fell and then no one bothered to look for it after they helped me stand up.
DeleteI had the same reaction to "rizz" when I heard it had been named word of the year. I hadn't heard it before that at all!
ReplyDeleteWord of the Year? Dear goddess.
DeleteAging disgracefully, yah, you betcha!! I'm only 68.9, so I've got a long way to go if historical maternal age means anything. I wanna age like my Grammy...at 85, she was mannerly, but did not follow anyone's rules! When the bureaucrats, in hospitals especially, handed her stacks of paperwork to complete, she would wave them off with "that's OK dearie, you take care of it!" And off they would go 'cause what else could they do?! They couldn't force her and couldn't kick her out 'cause other bureaucrats would give THEM lots of paperwork to fill out!! Grammy had them swirling in their own Catch-22s and she didn't even know that term!! I wanna grow up to be her!! 🥰
ReplyDeleteTHAT'S how it's done!
DeleteConsider adding - you find yourself doing things that you recommended that your parents stop doing when they were younger than you are now.
ReplyDeleteThis has happened to me.
Will Jay
I have long said that if I start acting like my parents have me committed!
DeleteJust ensure that there are no witnesses who can make the comparison between the "safety advice" that you told them and what you are doing now. I remember telling my mother, when she was retired, to plan refilling her tank during business hours and quit going to the service station at the freeway on ramp late at night by herself. I remember telling my dad to stay off the ladder and let one of us help him. I am older than they were when I offered this unsolicited advice and I catch myself doing these things. I have two brothers and a sister, so there may be witnesses.
DeleteWill Jay
So true that first one. Something I read in my newspaper today: "Christianity-the oldest cult in the world"
ReplyDeleteIf I start stumbling and falling I'd be happy to have people help me up again and ask if I am okay. So far I'm still steady on my feet.
Luckily, I tumble in the house!
DeleteOur generation can redefine what getting older means.
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly a different thing that our parents and grandparents.
DeleteI must be a cool dude because even though I am seventy I know what "rizz" means and I have got plenty of it baby! Essentially, "rizz" = charisma.
ReplyDeleteBut why can't we just say "charisma"? Are we getting so lazy that we can no longer say the full word????
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