Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 More Toms chat over here I see. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 WTF are Toms? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonksy+HisChristianParade Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 16 minutes ago, Dee Man said: WTF are Toms? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Are they what gents of a certain age might have called slippers? Asking for an old bloke. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 9 minutes ago, Bonksy+HisChristianParade said: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Are they what gents of a certain age might have called slippers? Asking for an old bloke.Aye, but for ootside when the weather is gid. Exactly! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 21 minutes ago, NJ2 said: Aye, but for ootside when the weather is gid. Exactly! Do you wear them with 3/4 length jobby catchers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 They are fucking ridiculous. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 32 minutes ago, NJ2 said: Aye, but for ootside when the weather is gid. Exactly! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Slippers for wearing outside. Live long enough and you truly will see everything. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I'd like to add to this: - given the ever greater natural resources required to sustain the demands of humanity, curing cancer and increasing the population even further would not necessarily be a good thing big picture. - too much emphasis is placed on length of time living and not enough on quality of lifeI wasn’t that cold hearted! I don’t mind what age i am when i snuff it but once i need round the clock care and i start pishing myself just shoot me . Dementia is truly horrible. I wouldn’t wish it on anyonw and is quite demanding in terms of resources .Maybe only 7% of over 65s have it , but 65 isn’t really that old in today’s terms. I think above 85 rates start approaching 50% 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I've never really understood the desire/need to live to an advanced age. If...and it's a huge 'if', you still have all your mental and physical faculties then good for you but for the vast majority of people, bodies and brains start to break down after 6 or 7 decades. Years back, you would almost certainly have been dead by then anyway but with modern medical advances, that's no longer the case. Our culture seems to have this obsession with preserving life at all costs; placing quantity before quality whereas I really can't see the appeal of spending my last decade or two, vegetating in a rest home waiting to die. My fervent hope is that when the appropriate time comes, I'm in a position to firstly recognise that, and then be able to control my own off-the-coil-shuffling without well meaning doctors, family members or religious nutters forcing me to stay alive. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 3 minutes ago, Shotgun said: I've never really understood the desire/need to live to an advanced age. If...and it's a huge 'if', you still have all your mental and physical faculties then good for you but for the vast majority of people, bodies and brains start to break down after 6 or 7 decades. Years back, you would almost certainly have been dead by then anyway but with modern medical advances, that's no longer the case. Our culture seems to have this obsession with preserving life at all costs; placing quantity before quality whereas I really can't see the appeal of spending my last decade or two, vegetating in a rest home waiting to die. My fervent hope is that when the appropriate time comes, I'm in a position to firstly recognise that, and then be able to control my own off-the-coil-shuffling without well meaning doctors, family members or religious nutters forcing me to stay alive. I've always meant to get around to bunging a supply of top quality heroin, cocaine and LSD in the the freezer so when it all gets a bit much I can go out with a bang. Wouldn't have a clue where to get hold of it mind. There's a few in my extended family who live well into their nineties, I've an aunt who's 104, and when I visit they say they've had enough and just want to go, the ones who have kept their marbles that is. There are also happy, alert and fit people I've met in their 90s, so it's not a rule. It would be nice not to give someone else the responsibility of ending your life when it's just a painful wait till the end. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Do you wear them with 3/4 length jobby catchers?Absolutely not. A nice pair of fitted shorts teams nicely. Stick with us welshy, we’ll make a fashionable guy of you yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I've never really understood the desire/need to live to an advanced age. If...and it's a huge 'if', you still have all your mental and physical faculties then good for you but for the vast majority of people, bodies and brains start to break down after 6 or 7 decades. Years back, you would almost certainly have been dead by then anyway but with modern medical advances, that's no longer the case. Our culture seems to have this obsession with preserving life at all costs; placing quantity before quality whereas I really can't see the appeal of spending my last decade or two, vegetating in a rest home waiting to die. My fervent hope is that when the appropriate time comes, I'm in a position to firstly recognise that, and then be able to control my own off-the-coil-shuffling without well meaning doctors, family members or religious nutters forcing me to stay alive. I haven’t read the full post and apologise for double posting but give me, say, until 60 or enjoying myself and lights out over 90 and the last 30 years I’ve been to old and frail to enjoy. Perhaps as I get older I’ll reassess 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 If the BEAST patter was still allowed, I'd definitely be saying that wearing Toms is a definite sign of a BEAST. It's not though, so wearing Toms makes you OFTW. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecto Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I have a pair of fleece lined crocs for padding about the house, they are currently my most favourite thing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I have no interest in living beyond the age of 70 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 4 hours ago, effeffsee_the2nd said: I wasn’t that cold hearted! I don’t mind what age i am when i snuff it but once i need round the clock care and i start pishing myself just shoot me . Dementia is truly horrible. I wouldn’t wish it on anyonw and is quite demanding in terms of resources . Maybe only 7% of over 65s have it , but 65 isn’t really that old in today’s terms. I think above 85 rates start approaching 50% Nonsense. It's approximately 1 in 5 for those over 85 but under 90. According to Dementia UK it's only in the 95 or over range who come close to a 50% prevalence. https://www.dementiastatistics.org/statistics/prevalence-by-age-in-the-uk/ I'd agree that it would be awful to have. I'd wanted to be on the plane to Switzerland post haste if I developed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Alcohol is boring. Even in social situations it turns everyone into loud arseholes. People who boast about how much they can handle, what’s that about? You can buy a legal drink in a pub and drink lots of it. Some achievement. Im oan it. Shots shots shots. Waaay waaay. Boring. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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