who are they??

[wwjd_kilden]

IGen? They're probably the daughter company of InGen (Jurassic Park)

 

[psychomom]

When I was young, anyone with an age younger than I was -- even for a week -- was a kid. When I became a teenager, anyone two years younger than I was was a kid. From 30-50 -- anyone within a decade of my age was "my age." But Dad, in his infinite wisdom was in his 60's at one time and facing 70. He decided he could no longer consider himself middle-aged at 70, so he did what any reasonable person would do. Once he hit 70, he decided his birthdays would go in reverse. (When he was 71, he was 68. That kind of thing.) Strange thing happen. Dad is now younger than his four oldest kids. lol

So, with that brilliant strategy, once I hit 50, I decided to go back to anyone not in their 50's was a kid. (Not that I believe that anymore, but it's a good way to "kid" around with people.) I turned 60 one week before you celebrated your 36th anniversary, so I've decided anyone in their 50's is a kid now. At this rate, you'll always be a kid, until I become younger than you... which ought to happen when you reach 67 by my calculations.

I do still enjoy when someone calls me "young lady" and they really mean it, so why not spread that around?

ha! my dad did the same thing when he hit thirty.
b'days counted backward till 21, at which point they counted forward to 29.
then suddenly, his oldest child was older than he.
so he agreed to be forty, but that was it! he was forty when he died at 73. (creative math )

our oldest was born one week to the day shy of our first anniversary.
(Mark was 31 already, and he wanted a large family, so we got on that right away )
now, it seems i inadvertently consider anyone the same age or younger than 35 a 'kid'.
but what wonderful kids they are.

 

[psychomom]

Oh those days I remember I got furious every time someone said "young lady" for whatever reason to me. As for today, I would gladly be listening to people calling me that on a daily basis...never happens anymore

remember your first 'ma'am' ?

horrifying!

 

[psychomom]

Dont ask me I haven't a clue what it is talking about!

I do wonder what this era will be called in the future, like we had the Victorian age, the
dark ages, the edwardian, the Elizabethan - will this be the Elizabethan the second?

Or maybe it will be the digital age, or the millennium age, or the age of global
communication?

Hey I don't even mind if they call it Miriwiththepurplehair age.

yaaaasss to miriwiththepurplehair age!!

or, PC and respect the queen wise, the Liz II age.

 

[psychomom]

IGen? They're probably the daughter company of InGen (Jurassic Park)

lollll.... and more lol that you knew you'd have to define that reference for me.

 

[Depleted]

Hi I did have dark brown hair, then it went gray.

So I started dyeing it dark brown with a purplish burgundy strip to one side.
If you take a peak at my profile album pictures there is one of me aged 44 with
said purplish burgandy strip.

But then I realise I really liked that purplish burgundy strip and it would be cheaper
to have it dyed that colour all over.

I have been thinking recently that at some point I will dye my hair that silver
steel gray colour which is all the rage something like this maybe.
But then it would just be old age. Lol

Profile-album-picture hider! Yeah! I said it. I called you a name. Whicha gonna do 'bout it?

(Ah, man! Wanted to see that photo.)

As for dying my hair? I'm just too nosy to see what my hair does next to hide the process. I get a kick out of hubby's hair. He's white in the front and brown in the back. lol I still don't quite understand how that works, because around his ears is more brown than white, and yet it still looks completely white in front. (Not gray. Not old-people-yellow. Honest white, as if it must have been blued.)

Ah, nuts. It's cold out and I have a doctor's appointment in the center of our city. (I don't mind seeing this doctor. I just hate getting there. City traffic.)

 

[Susanna]

remember your first 'ma'am' ?

horrifying!

Yes...I do...I had just turned 16 when some kid, couldn't have been more than 8 said "ma'am" to me...horrifying indeed

 

[Miri]

Profile-album-picture hider! Yeah! I said it. I called you a name. Whicha gonna do 'bout it?

(Ah, man! Wanted to see that photo.)

As for dying my hair? I'm just too nosy to see what my hair does next to hide the process. I get a kick out of hubby's hair. He's white in the front and brown in the back. lol I still don't quite understand how that works, because around his ears is more brown than white, and yet it still looks completely white in front. (Not gray. Not old-people-yellow. Honest white, as if it must have been blued.)

Ah, nuts. It's cold out and I have a doctor's appointment in the center of our city. (I don't mind seeing this doctor. I just hate getting there. City traffic.)

As one of my bestest friends you can, just click the albums on my profile page.
There is even one of my playing the saxophone. Lol

 

[Miri]

remember your first 'ma'am' ?

horrifying!

Come to the UK and you will never get called ma'am again.
That's unless you are a female police officer and then you might get called
ma'am but I think even that is going out of fashion.

 

[Depleted]

As one of my bestest friends you can, just click the albums on my profile page.
There is even one of my playing the saxophone. Lol

That's the problem. I see no album on your profile page. I see "photos" but that's empty.

 

[Depleted]

Come to the UK and you will never get called ma'am again.
That's unless you are a female police officer and then you might get called
ma'am but I think even that is going out of fashion.

Wait. What did they call you when you visited your aunt in the hospital? I'm either ma'am or Mrs. THIS is when I feel old, because the two words don't make me surprised anymore. (I am no longer too younger to complain about either.)

 

[Miri]

Wait. What did they call you when you visited your aunt in the hospital? I'm either ma'am or Mrs. THIS is when I feel old, because the two words don't make me surprised anymore. (I am no longer too younger to complain about either.)

I was called either "the niece" or by my first name. It's all very informal the
hospital staff just call you whatever you prefer.

Same with the doctors, they either get called just doctor, doctor Lynn (ie first name)
lynn (if they are feeling very informal) or doctor smith (usually the old school ones or the
ones who are a bit snooty still prefer their surname).


I went to my own GP last year (doctors office) and at the time I was wearing
metalic purple doc marten boots, I've had them years long before I got my
hair dyed purple.

At the end of the appointment he said to me "do you know your hair colour matches
your boots! Then he started laughing! So now when I go he calls me his purple patient!

 

[wwjd_kilden]

hehe, cool

Poor Americans you will be shocked if you travel to Europe
There's no ma'am / Miss etc in Norway either
We used to have a polite form "De" , meaning You + Herr (Mr) and Fru (Mrs) , but I think it died out about the time when my grandmother started thinking of having kids. Nowdays, the only people who demand one use the formal forms are the rude old people who think the young ones should say "yes ma'am" when being called names by the elderly

 

[Miri]

That's the problem. I see no album on your profile page. I see "photos" but that's empty.

Aargh me thinks you are looking at the wrong place.

There is photo at the top, but also photo down the side, a bit of a throw back to
before they upgraded CC. I've never go the hang of the photo at the top section.

But the side section is here.

 

[Magenta]

... I went to my own GP last year (doctors office) and at the time I was wearing
metalic purple doc marten boots, I've had them years long before I got my
hair dyed purple.

At the end of the appointment he said to me "do you know your hair colour matches
your boots! Then he started laughing! So now when I go he calls me his purple patient!

View attachment 148780

Purple hair? Like this?

 

[Miri]

hehe, cool

Poor Americans you will be shocked if you travel to Europe
There's no ma'am / Miss etc in Norway either
We used to have a polite form "De" , meaning You + Herr (Mr) and Fru (Mrs) , but I think it died out about the time when my grandmother started thinking of having kids. Nowdays, the only people who demand one use the formal forms are the rude old people who think the young ones should say "yes ma'am" when being called names by the elderly

I always think the Americans are very polite compared to us, when I see real
life documentaries on TV. Children's and teens actually say yes sir, yes ma'am
in America.

I think the only place children are that polite in the UK are the very posh, very
expensive private elite boarding schools like Eton etc.

 

[Miri]

Purple hair? Like this?

View attachment 148782

Magenta is that you?

No unfortunately not that purple, mine is more of a burgandy deep purple.
but after a few weeks it fades to a lighter shade.

Nice colour in the picture though. Lol

 

[Magenta]

Magenta is that you?

No unfortunately not that purple, mine is more of a burgandy deep purple.
but after a few weeks it fades to a lighter shade.

Nice colour in the picture though. Lol

Haha no that is not me but some beautiful young woman who put a LOT of photos of herself online with different colored hair, lots of it purple, so of course I had to save some of the photos, and kudos to me in my old age for even remembering that her name started with "L" LOL so I could find her easily

Here is a pic of me from a while back, 2014, before entering my seventh decade on this planet earth:



And this goes even further back

^^ That one's a wig ^^

 

[Miri]

Haha no that is not me but some beautiful young woman who put a LOT of photos of herself online with different colored hair, lots of it purple, so of course I had to save some of the photos, and kudos to me in my old age for even remembering that her name started with "L" LOL so I could find her easily

Here is a pic of me from a while back, 2014, before entering my seventh decade on this planet earth:

View attachment 148783

And this goes even further back

^^ That one's a wig ^^

Wow it never occurred to me that you were entering your 7th decade, I never
noticed your age before. You are very young at heart I just assume you were in
your late 20s early 30s. Lol
Lovely pictures.



Since this is turning into a show and tell thread, here is a picture of
me with dark brown hair and that bit of burgandy purple to one side. Although looking
at it the light may make the purply bit hard to see.

At least Depleated will be happy now.

The other is me with George my alto saxophone, we were just about to
play in the Town Hall.






Me aged 44




I think I was 42 in this one.

 

[Magenta]

Nice pix, Miri The burgundy totally shows up