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Why is "old" an insult?
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Our society thinks it's best to be less knowledgeable in exchange for being more attractive and we are taught this from a young age with "don't ask how old a woman is" and "Haha you're old!" etc etc

it should not be

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Agreed.

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I ask people how old they are all the time, I work at a nursing home and it is hard to tell how old some of the people who live there are, so I ask.

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It is because "old" is associated with being decrepit, not in touch with the times, unable to adapt, forgetful, and unable to take care of oneself.

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Quote: from misssmadejavuu at 2:10 am on Jan. 11, 2009

I ask people how old they are all the time, I work at a nursing home and it is hard to tell how old some of the people who live there are, so I ask.
but you can't deny "you're old" is generally meant to be insulting

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Most people just don't like realising that their lives are more over than they think. I know someone, however, who can't wait to grow old.

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Yet some how it always makes you "cool: to be older then your friends or people you know.

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people don't want to get older, because everything is downhill. everything sags, and you cant get away with much, plus everyone expects you to be mature.

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Quote: from arwen rashka at 2:10 am on Jan. 11, 2009

It is because "old" is associated with being decrepit, not in touch with the times, unable to adapt, forgetful, and unable to take care of oneself.
Most people in their fifties are called old but they're still capable and intelligent then

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One day, when we are able to disable and even reverse the physical signs of aging, we will all long to be older than each other.

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Quote: from howaboutsno at 2:12 am on Jan. 11, 2009

people don't want to get older, because everything is downhill. everything sags, and you cant get away with much, plus everyone expects you to be mature.
Not true, old people pull the "senile" shit all the time to get away with whatever they want.

People laugh when old people pull shit like this all the time and everyone goes "Awwww, she just didn't know what she was doing!" but they know exactly what they're doing. They've finally gotten to the level of being able to say fuck all to self-consciousness and exploit our underestimation of them.

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Quote: from Its Bearsy Bitch at 2:11 am on Jan. 11, 2009

Quote: from misssmadejavuu at 2:10 am on Jan. 11, 2009

I ask people how old they are all the time, I work at a nursing home and it is hard to tell how old some of the people who live there are, so I ask.
but you can't deny "you're old" is generally meant to be insulting


True but I don't think people are old until they are over the age of 80, but that's because in my line of work I have met people that were over 95 yrs old, I used to care for a woman that was 104, I think aging is beautiful, Once I start going gray I'm gonna stop dying my hair, I think wrinkles are beautiful. How someone looks when they are old can tell you a lot about their life.

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Quote: from Bacon at 2:13 am on Jan. 11, 2009

One day, when we are able to disable and even reverse the physical signs of aging, we will all long to be older than each other.


See people can have their right sound mind until the die, but their body can't go on any longer, and then you get the people who's mind gives up years before their body does (Alzheimer's Disease.)



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Quote: from misssmadejavuu at 2:16 am on Jan. 11, 2009

Quote: from Its Bearsy Bitch at 2:11 am on Jan. 11, 2009

Quote: from misssmadejavuu at 2:10 am on Jan. 11, 2009

I ask people how old they are all the time, I work at a nursing home and it is hard to tell how old some of the people who live there are, so I ask.
but you can't deny "you're old" is generally meant to be insulting

 
True but I don't think people are old until they are over the age of 80, but that's because in my line of work I have met people that were over 95 yrs old, I used to care for a woman that was 104, I think aging is beautiful, Once I start going gray I'm gonna stop dying my hair, I think wrinkles are beautiful. How someone looks when they are old can tell you a lot about their life.


Eh I doubt you'll be saying that when you're old but meh

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Quote: from Its Bearsy Bitch at 2:18 am on Jan. 11, 2009

Quote: from misssmadejavuu at 2:16 am on Jan. 11, 2009

Quote: from Its Bearsy Bitch at 2:11 am on Jan. 11, 2009

Quote: from misssmadejavuu at 2:10 am on Jan. 11, 2009

I ask people how old they are all the time, I work at a nursing home and it is hard to tell how old some of the people who live there are, so I ask.
but you can't deny "you're old" is generally meant to be insulting

 

 
 True but I don't think people are old until they are over the age of 80, but that's because in my line of work I have met people that were over 95 yrs old, I used to care for a woman that was 104, I think aging is beautiful, Once I start going gray I'm gonna stop dying my hair, I think wrinkles are beautiful. How someone looks when they are old can tell you a lot about their life.


Eh I doubt you'll be saying that when you're old but meh

I hope I will be saying it, it's funny how at 20 I am already imagining how I will be when I am old.

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