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Offline badhorse

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Getting old
« on: May 18, 2011, 12:27:32 PM »
Comming up on the 31st anniversary of Mt St Helens blowing up.
I hate growing old. Instead of studying history I remember it!

The discounts are cool though.

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Re: Getting old
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2011, 12:51:46 PM »
Comming up on the 31st anniversary of Mt St Helens blowing up.
I hate growing old. Instead of studying history I remember it!

The discounts are cool though.

 :old:

 if 31 bothers ya, wait'll you hit 49.  :noid
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2011, 12:54:46 PM »
if 31 bothers ya, wait'll you hit 49.  :noid

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Re: Getting old
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2011, 01:00:28 PM »
if 31 bothers ya, wait'll you hit 49.  :noid
:lol uh cap...i don't think he was born the day mount st. helens blew, he's saying he remembers the event and it was 31 years ago today.
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2011, 01:07:49 PM »
Old is remembering your pass being canceled, as the base went into lock down, the day Kennedy was shot.
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2011, 01:15:44 PM »
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2011, 01:22:02 PM »
Mount St Helens, wut is that?  :D

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Re: Getting old
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2011, 02:11:34 PM »
     A mountain that used to be alot taller  :D
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2011, 02:34:19 PM »
:lol uh cap...i don't think he was born the day mount st. helens blew, he's saying he remembers the event and it was 31 years ago today.

whoops!!!

talk about a mis-read!! :bhead :bhead :rofl :rofl
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2011, 02:35:13 PM »
:lol uh cap...i don't think he was born the day mount st. helens blew, he's saying he remembers the event and it was 31 years ago today.

ah yep.
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2011, 03:21:43 PM »
ah yep.
it's ok...cap is just old  :rofl  he'll be doing the bentwood rocker boogie woogie disco soon...in a leisure suit  :D
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2011, 04:39:21 PM »
In Australia we have a saying amongst the teenagers.

All of us were alive to see 9/11. But almost all of us were young.

Imagine our consternation when we flick on the TV at 6am to watch Pokemon and CNN is blasting all channels as a special live feed.

hence the saying "We want to avenge 9/11 because our cartoons got cancelled"

Its kind of a sick joke considering how horrible it is. But its a sobering thought that I will tell my kids and grandkids when I have them about that day, and everything it meant. All of modern history is measured after that one infamous date. It will be ingrained in the history books as the cause of this modern tyrade of information warfare.

In 20 years time, I will look back to when I watched the live broadcast of Australian and American infantry columns rolling into Iraq live, watching the USAF pound Baghdad to pieces on a different channel with Tomahawks.

Im hoping that in 6 months time, I will have the vision of all our guys coming home. Thats , what I want to tell them about.

Sorry for a bit of a rant, but Im just going to give a teens perspective on the getting old bit. 
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2011, 04:56:18 PM »
Getting older is question of mind over matter.

If you don't mind,

it doesn't matter.  :old:
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2011, 05:41:18 PM »
whoops!!!

talk about a mis-read!! :bhead :bhead :rofl :rofl

Pretty sure this fine young gentleman is over the age of 65 CAP as he referenced enjoying the same universal age discounts as my own parents.
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Re: Getting old
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2011, 08:09:54 PM »
Cannot believe it has been that long.
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