Over the last few years, my light hearted sarcasm was slowly replaced by bitterness. Somewhere along the line became unable to hide my feelings from my friends, family and finally even my co-workers.
Yeah, that's called "aging" and it's pretty common. Generally speaking, your chronological age bears a proportional relationship to the percentage of time you spend bitching about shit. By the time you're collecting Social Security, it's pretty much 95% bitching (the other 5% consisting mostly of bragging about your retarded grandkids, who you think are geniuses for some reason).
By the time you're collecting Social Security, it's pretty much 95% bitching (the other 5% consisting mostly of bragging about your retarded grandkids, who you think are geniuses for some reason).
The slashdot population will no doubt spend that 5% doing something else. Probably bitching to new programmers about how their language is crap because it was designed for retards, as opposed to the ones we used to have that really exercised the brain.
I think he was referring to crushing cobalt to make blue pigments with. But back in MY day we spelled "Cobol" COBOL because it's an acronym. I probably misremeber (the old brain cells get calcified, ya know) it stood for Crappy Old Bad Obsolete Language. Oh, wait... no, that's not right. COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
And yes, that "calcified" was a nod to the late great Asimov's Foundation. AND WE LIKED IT!
Yeah, that's called "aging" and it's pretty common.
Common, yes, but not universal. In six decades you've experienced a hell of a lot more pain (and joy) than someone a third of your age. Most people start falling apart when they hit 40 (I was lucky, I've been in pain since I was a teenager, I hurt a lot worse then). When you're old you have a lot more to bitch about and a lot less to be glad of. Plus you have these dumbass kids who you used to be who think they know everything like you used to think you did
But in Taco's case, he's not nearly old enough to be telling kids to get off his lawn or to be bitter and bitching. I'm actually a bit surprised. WTF does he have to be bitter about?
Because it isn't an age issue, it is a been-at-this-job-too-long issue.
No they don't. Judging by my parents' generation I'd say more like 70 - 75 as long as they were medically fairly average (but still smoked, drank too much, etc,) Their parents started declining at about 60 -65. I'm expecting to be relatively fit and mobile at 80.
It varies from person to person, of course. I'm still healthy at 60, but a whole lot of folks my age have artificial joints, are on medications for various alments, etc. I've known several people to die of heart attacks at 40; you can hardly fall apart more than dying.
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Yeah, welcome to the club, pal (Score:5, Insightful)
Over the last few years, my light hearted sarcasm was slowly replaced by bitterness. Somewhere along the line became unable to hide my feelings from my friends, family and finally even my co-workers.
Yeah, that's called "aging" and it's pretty common. Generally speaking, your chronological age bears a proportional relationship to the percentage of time you spend bitching about shit. By the time you're collecting Social Security, it's pretty much 95% bitching (the other 5% consisting mostly of bragging about your retarded grandkids, who you think are geniuses for some reason).
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By the time you're collecting Social Security, it's pretty much 95% bitching (the other 5% consisting mostly of bragging about your retarded grandkids, who you think are geniuses for some reason).
The slashdot population will no doubt spend that 5% doing something else. Probably bitching to new programmers about how their language is crap because it was designed for retards, as opposed to the ones we used to have that really exercised the brain.
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Re:Yeah, welcome to the club, pal (Score:4, Funny)
Back in my day we spelled it Cobol AND WE LIKED IT!
Re:Yeah, welcome to the club, pal (Score:5, Funny)
You kids today with your shift keys and CAPS LOCK. We had to spell it COBOL, because we were too poor to afford lower-case letters.
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In Soviet Russia, lower-case letters are too poor to afford YOU!
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This is forced and not funny. Yet someone modded it up.
Nostalgia for the old days.
There has only ever been one funny "Soviet reversal" joke, which was Smirnoff's original.
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I think he was referring to crushing cobalt to make blue pigments with. But back in MY day we spelled "Cobol" COBOL because it's an acronym. I probably misremeber (the old brain cells get calcified, ya know) it stood for Crappy Old Bad Obsolete Language. Oh, wait... no, that's not right. COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
And yes, that "calcified" was a nod to the late great Asimov's Foundation. AND WE LIKED IT!
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In my day it was spelled 0110001101101111011000100110111101101100.
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GET OFF MY LAWN!
Damn Kids.... mumble mumble.... TURNIPS!.... mumble mumble....
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Only then will he be Free.
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Yeah, that's called "aging" and it's pretty common.
Common, yes, but not universal. In six decades you've experienced a hell of a lot more pain (and joy) than someone a third of your age. Most people start falling apart when they hit 40 (I was lucky, I've been in pain since I was a teenager, I hurt a lot worse then). When you're old you have a lot more to bitch about and a lot less to be glad of. Plus you have these dumbass kids who you used to be who think they know everything like you used to think you did
Re:Yeah, welcome to the club, pal (Score:4, Insightful)
But in Taco's case, he's not nearly old enough to be telling kids to get off his lawn or to be bitter and bitching. I'm actually a bit surprised. WTF does he have to be bitter about?
Because it isn't an age issue, it is a been-at-this-job-too-long issue.
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Most people start falling apart when they hit 40
No they don't. Judging by my parents' generation I'd say more like 70 - 75 as long as they were medically fairly average (but still smoked, drank too much, etc,) Their parents started declining at about 60 -65. I'm expecting to be relatively fit and mobile at 80.
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It varies from person to person, of course. I'm still healthy at 60, but a whole lot of folks my age have artificial joints, are on medications for various alments, etc. I've known several people to die of heart attacks at 40; you can hardly fall apart more than dying.