What Defines a Codger?
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I’ll be damned if any of you wanna-bees are codgers. 
If I changed my avatar to a White Spot pipe made in 2024 and called it a Dunhill y’all would be up in arms, but Lenin just strolls right in and not a frickin peep. Very non-codger like.
If I changed my avatar to a White Spot pipe made in 2024 and called it a Dunhill y’all would be up in arms, but Lenin just strolls right in and not a frickin peep. Very non-codger like.
I'm an aingisior and his personal politics are of no interest to me. If I was a curmudgeon, I still wouldn't discuss a person's political affiliation on this forum. Far as I know, it's legal to be a member of Communist Party United States.
I appreciate your perspective. I do think if you put Lenin as your avatar and someone like me says Lenin was a murderous, hateful, evil man, that is not discussing a person’s political affiliation.
Now you're just making up words... That one's not even in the dictonary.
I don't remember reading where anyone said being a communist was illeagal...
Why are you avoiding the question?
Are you a codger?
Look in the mirror. If you see an old man you are a codger! If you don't see it get your eyes tested!
It means blunt, opinionated, given to speak one's mind with no filter. It has Gaelic origins.
To be a true codger it helps to have that slight smell of stale piss about you caused by 'dribbles' after a bathroom visit. Facial hair, unusual choices in head gear, thick bifocal glasses and false teeth are certain give aways of a nascent codger also known by the technical term of 'Old Fart' or 'Old Git'. Codgerism is further reinforced by choices in tobacco, pipe styles and social attitudes. Easy to spot things are ownership of more than one Falcon Pipe, smoking certain blends associated with being a codger such as Prince Albert, Captain Black along with such phrases as 'When I was your age' or 'The young people to day...'. The true codger is often confused with the 'Eccentric' or its more distant relative 'Basement Man' who is some late middle aged man who still lives with his parents in the basement, usually unmarried, works for the family business and collects midget porn and has an extended wardrobe of nylon trousers for casual wear!
TMI about "Basement Man"
On December 25, I will be 52 years old. I have found that my clothes have become too baggy, too big, I am deafer than the lid of a nuclear submarine, I can't see three on a donkey. And old ladies throw erotic compliments at me in the street. 
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I as well my friend. I find myself running into things when I foolishly don't wear my glasses.
I forgot to add that 'Basement Man' is something of a pet lover since he usually owns a couple of cats he keeps In large jars of alcohol!TMI about "Basement Man"
A codger is a man of experience and without pretense or tolerance for it. His next bowl will not be his first. His expectations are of the essential. He can be seen by others in a variety of lights.
Opinionated, independent, irascible, smelly among the views.
Contemplative, patient, wise, and aromatic are also.
Opinionated, independent, irascible, smelly among the views.
Contemplative, patient, wise, and aromatic are also.
I commend to you Raymond Briggs' graphic novel 'Father Christmas'. His vision of ther old lad is certainly of a codger...
Ok, to define a codger, you have to look at the alternatives. A gentleman is one who roles with the times with honor and decorum. A codger rails against the times with anger and apathy.
Look it up in an Irish language dictionary. The main difference between codger and aingisior is one bitches and moans about behaviors and the other offers corrective advice.
So an angrysore or whatever it’s called offers corrective advice. Specifically when it is not asked for or wanted. I’ll try this out on my wife for sure.
Interesting fact, American Communist party members are specifically excluded from civil rights and liberties by law via the Communist Control Act of 1954.
How does that make you feel? It would bother me.