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aad said:
When Canon SLRs switched to autofocus plastic blobs I stopped buying them. But I still have my manual focus Canon FD SLRs and lenses. And my rangefinders.
Geezer Syndrome
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When Canon SLRs switched to autofocus plastic blobs I stopped buying them. But I still have my manual focus Canon FD SLRs and lenses. And my rangefinders.
John Camp
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There is a distinction to be made between a geezer and a coot. I told my son that I was becoming a geezer, and he looked at me thoughtfully for a moment, then said, "Nooo, I think you're leaning more toward becoming a coot." The basic distinction, I think, is a geezer is the guy who sinks into the chair on the porch of the general store, and who rouses himself once a day to say, "Hmm, there goes one of them new Fords." A coot, on the other hand, will occasionally try to cop a feel.
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Rich Silfver
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Oldprof said:
Don't think I could live (work-live) without my blackberry.
Richard C
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I am only really happy with things that I can mend myself.
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ch1
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Yeah, yeah, yeah!
But, Five will get you ten that half of the "geezers" here will run out and get the digital M when it finally comes out! 😀
But, Five will get you ten that half of the "geezers" here will run out and get the digital M when it finally comes out! 😀
kmack
do your job, then let go
Geezers are allowed to be eccentric. Only a few decades to go.
I am so looking forward to the day that I can sit on my porch in a rocking chair, Mossberg 500 shotgun on my left, a 1983 Dows vintage port on my right, a snazzy fast wireless laptop on my lap and my IIIF loaded with film at hand. Mountain, The Kinks, Dead Kennedys blasting on the stereo.
I'll take pictures of folks passing by and grumble at them.
What fun it will be.
I am so looking forward to the day that I can sit on my porch in a rocking chair, Mossberg 500 shotgun on my left, a 1983 Dows vintage port on my right, a snazzy fast wireless laptop on my lap and my IIIF loaded with film at hand. Mountain, The Kinks, Dead Kennedys blasting on the stereo.
I'll take pictures of folks passing by and grumble at them.
What fun it will be.
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SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
Blackberries came and left and I only learned when they were mentioned in an article about the fast pace of technology.
To think I used to believe I was fairly current on things... That was a disappointment.
BTW, I have one, it's analog, needs no batteries and you can drop it without a worry. It's called "agenda" and it came in nice, black leather. 🙂
Of course, I only write notes on it using a fountain pen. 😉
To think I used to believe I was fairly current on things... That was a disappointment.
BTW, I have one, it's analog, needs no batteries and you can drop it without a worry. It's called "agenda" and it came in nice, black leather. 🙂
Of course, I only write notes on it using a fountain pen. 😉
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ch1
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SolaresLarrave said:
Oh, a modernist huh? What's wrong with quill? That's a real man's writing tool! 😉
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RML
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kmack said:
Sounds like the way to go! Must remember to become a geezer (or is coot better?) too! 🙂
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RML
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Blood and soot, copake, blood and soot!
Quils are for fairies. 😛
Quils are for fairies. 😛
FrankS
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I'm headed down the coot route, if the previous definitions are accurate. Would love to join you on your porch, kmack!
Toby
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In London the word 'geezer' doesn't really have any connotation with old age it's more like mockney ( fake middle class cockney) for homey -awright geeze?
What does it mean in the US that you're old and you're faithful?
What does it mean in the US that you're old and you're faithful?
John Camp
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Toby said:
Means sort of collapsed elderly; no longer playing tennis, or even bowls.
Nothing unfaithful about a coot, though -- in technical terms, he's still got the instruction set, but the motherboard's burned out. A geezer, on the other hand, has both software AND hardware problems. That's why you don't want to give a coot a shotgun: he's substituting hardware, but the software still has bugs.
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clarence
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copake_ham said:
Terribly off-topic, I know, but is it true that in New York people don't just say 'yeah', and they say 'yeah, yeah, yeah' instead?
Very curious.
Clarence
FrankS
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clarence said:
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Wasn't that the Beatles?
clarence
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FrankS said:
I was thinking of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs actually (a band from New York)
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JimG
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I tell people I'm viejito. Viejo is old and the suffix (ito) indicates anything little.
DougK
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Try a glass pen, much more satisfying than a quill, although having been developed in Renaissance Italy, it may still be a bit modern in comparison. 😀copake_ham said:
kmack
do your job, then let go
FrankS said:
It's a great porch, All Welcome!
Fedzilla_Bob
man with cat
I've discovered that I'm a stealth geezer.
At my office the "thirty-somethings" know I have "experience" but they don't seem to have a clue as to where that experience comes from - years.
They are freaked out when I understand most of their culture and more. Just can't do "fiddy cent." Grand Master Flash and The Clash are more my cup-a-tea.
Then they see the old cameras and they're perplexed. "You use film?"
Then, I come home and I have invitations for membership to AARP.
I'm a geezer. plain and simple. It's just hard to tell.
At my office the "thirty-somethings" know I have "experience" but they don't seem to have a clue as to where that experience comes from - years.
They are freaked out when I understand most of their culture and more. Just can't do "fiddy cent." Grand Master Flash and The Clash are more my cup-a-tea.
Then they see the old cameras and they're perplexed. "You use film?"
Then, I come home and I have invitations for membership to AARP.
I'm a geezer. plain and simple. It's just hard to tell.
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