Humor Getting Older

Petach

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Peter Tachauer
(England). Porn' for young boys in my day consisted of Reveille, Titbits, Health & Efficiency magazine......or; the Mother Lode.....The Littlewoods Catalogue ladies under apparel pages. Now, at the age of 65 and some more....my porn consists of looking through the newspaper supps at invalid carriages, stair lifts, step in baths, electric bath mechanisms to dunk you in and whizz you out of the bath, long sticks with bristled and or foam ends to help clean between your toes. The icing on the cake the SAGA cruise where you can sing, hum or clack your false teeth to WW2 songs Thing is though, none of the people in the ads look as though they need any of these (usually) expensive life add ons. They all look slim, they all look to be in their 50's, wearing the sort of sports gear that Tarbuck wears when he is at the golf club. They all look healthy. Not one of them has scabby legs oozing puss and blood through bandages, none of them are dessicated, and with skin like fag ash. Not one of them is shaking a fist to the heavens above pleading "For Gods sake....take me...just take me....please I am in such pain". Nope, I don't look at these ads for base gratification. I look at them in the hope that I will become like them if I buy into these temptations (except for golf, as someone said "golf is a walk spoiled")
Yours Decrepitly
PT
 
(England). Porn' for young boys in my day consisted of Reveille, Titbits, Health & Efficiency magazine......or; the Mother Lode.....The Littlewoods Catalogue ladies under apparel pages. Now, at the age of 65 and some more....my porn consists of looking through the newspaper supps at invalid carriages, stair lifts, step in baths, electric bath mechanisms to dunk you in and whizz you out of the bath, long sticks with bristled and or foam ends to help clean between your toes. The icing on the cake the SAGA cruise where you can sing, hum or clack your false teeth to WW2 songs Thing is though, none of the people in the ads look as though they need any of these (usually) expensive life add ons. They all look slim, they all look to be in their 50's, wearing the sort of sports gear that Tarbuck wears when he is at the golf club. They all look healthy. Not one of them has scabby legs oozing puss and blood through bandages, none of them are dessicated, and with skin like fag ash. Not one of them is shaking a fist to the heavens above pleading "For Gods sake....take me...just take me....please I am in such pain". Nope, I don't look at these ads for base gratification. I look at them in the hope that I will become like them if I buy into these temptations (except for golf, as someone said "golf is a walk spoiled")
Yours Decrepitly
PT

You were looking in the wrong places. The Freemans and Marshall Ward catalogues were more hardcore then Littlewoods. Mind you, Littlewoods had a decent range of Zenit cameras.
 
(England). Porn' for young boys in my day consisted of Reveille, Titbits, Health & Efficiency magazine......or; the Mother Lode.....The Littlewoods Catalogue ladies under apparel pages. Now, at the age of 65 and some more....my porn consists of looking through the newspaper supps at invalid carriages, stair lifts, step in baths, electric bath mechanisms to dunk you in and whizz you out of the bath, long sticks with bristled and or foam ends to help clean between your toes. The icing on the cake the SAGA cruise where you can sing, hum or clack your false teeth to WW2 songs Thing is though, none of the people in the ads look as though they need any of these (usually) expensive life add ons. They all look slim, they all look to be in their 50's, wearing the sort of sports gear that Tarbuck wears when he is at the golf club. They all look healthy. Not one of them has scabby legs oozing puss and blood through bandages, none of them are dessicated, and with skin like fag ash. Not one of them is shaking a fist to the heavens above pleading "For Gods sake....take me...just take me....please I am in such pain". Nope, I don't look at these ads for base gratification. I look at them in the hope that I will become like them if I buy into these temptations (except for golf, as someone said "golf is a walk spoiled")
Yours Decrepitly
PT
And don't forget: growing old is not for cowards.
 
Oscar Wilde: "The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young." I'm 65 next January, but my brain tells me I'm 25 - its just when I try and do 25 year old stuff the body says "Think again, old man!"
Martin, they told me "Smile, things could be worse."

So I smiled; and things got worse ... ;) .
 
We're watching "House of Cards" ATM (USA version ... ).

Talk about life mimicking art, and/or art mimicking life! Maybe both.

Kevin Spacey turned out to be as evil in real life as he is as the monstrous Frank Underwood in the series, and I will not venture into the minefield of the immediate past history of USA federal politics ...

It's so evil that it's made an appearance in some of my dreams ... :( .
 
Not better than this surely - Jim Hacker on being told that a bitter political rival has just died.

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My dear old Mum often said that "age doesn't come alone".
I never really understand what she meant until the last 18 months or so, when my health and fitness started going down the pan.
Mind you, with an upcoming 70th birthday, I suppose I've been luckier than most.
And thankfully, can still remember drooling over those mags and catalogues mentioned by @Petach and @RichardC.
I also recall nervously plucking up courage with a mate of mine as we approached the little newsagent stall next to our railway station and buying a copy of Fiesta.
Naive that I was, I "hid" it under my mattress, where I'm sure my Mum would have discovered it when she next made my bed. :rolleyes:
 
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