I am 63 and the older I get the less patient I get. Don't piss me off as I will make you pay for your insolence. Since I am retired I have no time for your bullshit.
Has Your Personality Progressed or Digressed Over Time?
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My brother and I have pretty much the same conversation about our dad a couple times a year
I want to become like you. Is their a way I can more rapidly achieve that?
My idealism has changed over the years. In my younger days when trying to convey my point of view to others I had way more patience. Now being more realistic I have learned to never argue with an idiot. It only makes both look bad. I tend to keep my mouth shut more often, smile, change the subject or walk away.
People change. In my observation older people seem to be either really cool or extra shit headed. Maybe less of a change and more of crystallization of the way they've lived their lives.
I would think, learning life lessons from TV shows would indicate regressing not progressing. Of course it all depends on what the person considers to be progressive. I certainly have become more cynical as I age. I certainly haven't digressed from my intended path.
Some older folks buy into all the TV stuff and are soon broke donating to every outfit which puts a whiny kid in front of the camera begging for dollars. I tend to simply ignore others rather than rate them, much easier that was, not having the need to pigeonhole.
Some older folks buy into all the TV stuff and are soon broke donating to every outfit which puts a whiny kid in front of the camera begging for dollars. I tend to simply ignore others rather than rate them, much easier that was, not having the need to pigeonhole.
One of the pleasures of being older and heading toward the exits is that I no longer feel the need to put up with corporate bullshit.
Recently, while going through the "onboarding" process to return to Warner Bros as staff, I ran into a series of procedural problems with the various company onboarding apps which were beyond my control to mitigate and which needed IT to address.
When I got the usual placating BS that amounted to "You'll figure it out" - which would have required me to have SU authority and a deep knowledge of the layers and layers of firewalls - I just decided I wasn't going to play along.
So I let the production know that as I could not do the job for which I was hired without full connectivity as well as necessary access to sites, and that the interface issues as well as various application glitches were beyond my ability to mitigate, I thanked them for the opportunity and said that I'm moving on.
I was completely content to turn the job down. My time is more precious to me since there's much less of it. Being at a point in life where I could go on for another 30 years or another 30 nanoseconds does lead to a bit of introspection. It doesn't hurt that I'm financially able to retire.
BTW, that email got some definite attention. The head of IT got hold of me within 5 minutes to assure me that they were there to assist me in any way needed, and to set up an appointment to get my VPN and certs set up properly.
So here I am back at Warners, working on Harley Quinn 3.
Now this sounds more like me. I haven't been in a fist fight in a little over 10 years. I'm less compelled to tell someone who is spouting ignorance they're a moron. I haven't totally lost my edge but have rounded the corners and polished them substantially.
Fist fight? What type of pipe smokers do you hang with? Velvet Smokers? LOL
When I was younger, I saw this man wailing away on his wife. I grabbed my shot gun and walked outside to blow a hole in his head. As I raised the gun to pull the trigger, I thought... maybe I should just call the police.
In the end, I chose wisely.
In the end, I chose wisely.
That's part of aging more gracefully. I haven't used a pool cue or a baseball bat on anyone in many,many years.?
Who's the one who decides what attributes are deemed progress and which are deemed regress? Someone who was a mouse and let people walk all over them their whole life would consider being intolerant to such behavior now as progress, right? Others might see them as a grumpy S.O.B. 
In a bar, no pipe smokers. I was smoking a cigar though. Playing pool on a bar box, this prick pushed me and then swung and hit me. It did not end well for that ahole. My first thought was he's lucky three really big guys pulled me off of him but the reality is, I'm probably lucky they pulled me off of him as I was in white rage mode.
Hell, in my old age, I sometimes go... 4 or 5 days without beating someone senseless.
Sure, I was a big fan but, getting life lessons from a TV serio-comedy? Nah.
I new it was time to get a manager in 1996 when I threatened a customer that I was going to kill him for putting a cigarette on the side of one of my pool tables. I was so close to losing it and driving the edge of my hand into his throat as that was my usual first move. I hired a manager a few weeks later and it was the best thing I ever did as he made me more money that I had ever done on my own. I basically retired then and it was great. I played pool and cards all day and hung out at the cigar lounge every day. I did threaten one of my best customers with the half pool cue I kept under the counter one day but luckily he was faster than me. He was actually one of my best customers and a good friend but he fucked up so bad in a card game that I almost lost it. That card game ran for around 18 years.
Sooo, when you said...
You mean that you are more quick top go off the handle?
I love it man. Sucker punch them before they even get a chance to piss you off.
this thread is full of regressives.
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