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Post by Kimby on Mar 17, 2010 15:27:21 GMT
When I get impatient with an old person, I think of my grandparents (and now my parents) and try to be as patient with the old person as I HOPE others would be with MY (doddering) loved ones. It helps, but I am only one person, and these old folks have to navigate through life filled with impatient people.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2010 20:30:06 GMT
I think our generation,of which we know there are very many,are being more and more tolerant and sensitive to, Kimby, for all the reasons you and others have mentioned. Thank goodness.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 18, 2010 14:27:12 GMT
"our generation" being? The baby boomers?
Perhaps though once very self-centered and youth-oriented we now see the writing on the wall (or mirror) and have become more accepting of old people who once were invisible (at best) or an annoyance (at worst) to us.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 19:34:15 GMT
Since the number of old people has skyrocketed in recent years, obviously we have become much more understanding. But when the younger generations are outnumbered more and more and get tired of paying for us, I am not sure that they will be as understanding as we are.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 18, 2010 20:22:01 GMT
At least there won't be enough of them to vote for involuntary euthanization of us worthless old folks.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 14:21:35 GMT
The voice has been mostly silent for a couple of weeks, with the exception of the stairs to leave the La Chapelle metro station every afternoon, alternating between "Get your ass in gear, lady!" and "Get your ass in gear, you old codger!"
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Post by fumobici on Apr 7, 2010 14:40:18 GMT
You'd hate me then probably. On escalators, I generally just stand in place while people push past in a hurry. Climbing up an escalator to me just seems like a total waste of a free ride. As for stairs, I often used to jog up them skipping every other but now am more likely to trudge.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 7, 2010 16:51:54 GMT
It's all right to stand still in one place (on an escalator) so long as you stand on the RIGHT.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 16:54:30 GMT
Actually, that is absolutely the only time of the day that I am in a hurry. The rest of the time I move like a sloth and probably piss off quite a few inner voices.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2010 19:55:33 GMT
This skier's inner voice gets pretty loud when she gets off the chairlift at top of the mountain where there's only a little room to stand before dropping off the cornice into the run, and there's a whole mob of clueless skiers just standing there blocking my way. Mr. Kimby leads the way, cutting right through the mob, and I meekly follow. We don't worry about whether our ski poles "accidentally" make contact with the trail obstructors' equipment - or body parts - as we pass.
I imagine the clueless ones' inner voices get a bit fired up, but c'est la vie. Sh*t or get off the pot!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 20:26:36 GMT
We were talking about inner voices at the office the other day and thinking about how unsettling it must be for people like nuns to have to hear their inner voices.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 20:46:31 GMT
Judging by the degree of sadism that some of the nuns that taught me demonstrated in the classroom,I fancy that they (not all) enjoy not only listening to but acting it out as well!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 10:43:55 GMT
Probably a lot of their voices tell people to burn in hell or be sodomized by Satan.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 10:57:49 GMT
When Mother Noell tied my left hand to the seat of the desk with clothesline, in an attempt to prevent me from writing with it because it was "evil",and I wriggled it out and she caught me and then slammed my right hand knuckles with a yardstick, more than my nasty inner voice was activated. Had I known what the word sodomize meant at age 8, I probably would have incorporated it!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 10:58:59 GMT
Probably a lot of their voices tell people to burn in hell or be sodomized by Satan. That sounds painful. Casi, what kind of sadism did the nuns practice?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 11:17:31 GMT
Probably a lot of their voices tell people to burn in hell or be sodomized by Satan. That sounds painful. Casi, what kind of sadism did the nuns practice? Deyana,read the previous post,#73.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 11:34:28 GMT
Oh okay, I didn't quite get who 'mother' was meant to be. That's the nun right?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 11:50:26 GMT
Oh okay, I didn't quite get who 'mother' was meant to be. That's the nun right? Yes,that's the nun. Some orders of nuns went by the name of "mother" rather than "sister",particularly, some of the older orders,in this case the order of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM). I believe they changed to the use of 'sister' maybe in the 1970's.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 12:49:34 GMT
Oh right, I get you now. 'sister' is the one I'm familiar with.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 11, 2010 13:56:36 GMT
My primary school was run by Sacred Heart nuns who were kind to me :-) I had Dominicans in my secondary school and they are not to be trifled with I was then sent to join a Dominican convent in Aisne, france
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 16:24:07 GMT
Everybody knows that Satan's penis has rusty fish hooks and thorns on it.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 12, 2010 14:39:24 GMT
I'd heard that some prudes teach little boys that women's parts have barbs that can entrap their masculinity....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2010 14:49:21 GMT
There was a movie about that last year. Ouch.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2010 14:49:17 GMT
My 'voice' surprises me sometimes. Today, it said to the car in front of me 'Shouldn't you go home and feed your chickens, peasant?' -- and I was on a bicycle. The car had a licence plate from one of those rural parts of France that Parisians disdain.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2010 14:56:20 GMT
hahaha....I wonder how many city slickers say that to me with their inner nasty voice?
My inner nasty voice is saying: ''any more false/forced joviality and I think I might puke''
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Post by Kimby on May 23, 2010 1:27:46 GMT
My inner voice gets riled up when salespeople tell me to "have a nice day" and it's already suppertime. It also wants to lash out when strangers say "how are you?" because I know they don't really care, it's just a "nicety".
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Post by tillystar on May 25, 2010 15:44:17 GMT
My nasty inner voice shocked me today A lady pushed past me roughly on the train and then stood next to me and dialled a number on her phone "Hello darling..." she started..."it's your rude, fat, ugly bitch of a wife calling" I finished for her in my head I gave her a slap and put her back in her box. My innervoice, not the rude woman.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2010 8:33:29 GMT
I talked to my pocket last night. "Let my keys out right now!" -- because the key ring was snagged on a thread.
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Post by palesa on May 28, 2010 9:09:44 GMT
My inner voice mostly speaks about me, seldom about other people.
Normally starting with "you stooopid idiot ....."
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Post by spindrift on May 28, 2010 10:29:42 GMT
My nasty inner voice isn't operative at the moment.
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