Post A Picture of Your Last Purchase
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AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
That loop is really cool, S_I_N. I dig it.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Dell S2417DG 1440P 165Hz G-Sync arriving tomorrow, Odd thing with the PG348Q I just sold is I found myself sitting close to it and only really using the left portion hence anything over 24" is completely wasted on me ^_^
FredEx
New member
You are not the first person I heard say that. I'd like to have a large screen for Photoshop work, I have been fixing some old photo's for a group I belong to, people are digging up old photo's and many have cracks or flaws I like to try and fix for them. Have thousands of my own and slides I need to scan. Need a scanner, my AIO printer/scanner died. With a big screen I'd do a lot less zooming in and out and having to move the pic around. I'd have to rob an armored car to have the money.
I now owe about $1000.00 US left over after my insurance paid $50,000 US for my three surgeries, medications and much testing last year, so it is only a dream.Doomslayer
New member
Dell S2417DG 1440P 165Hz G-Sync arriving tomorrow, Odd thing with the PG348Q I just sold is I found myself sitting close to it and only really using the left portion hence anything over 24" is completely wasted on me ^_^
Faceplam again Dice your just as bad as Chrazey when i comes to computer products lol
You always seem to be changing almost everything.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
I'm bored that's why ^_^
realneil
New member
Very cool!
Driving is one of the many pleasures in life. (most of the time)
You just can't have too much freedom and mobility when you're young enough to enjoy it.
hahahaI'd wear em tbh dude. Couldn't really give a crap what I look like at my age.
It's funny how things like ~how you look~ matter less and less when you grow older.
I'm 63 now and what you see is what you get.
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AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Thanks! I wish I had started sooner in many ways.Ignoring the fact that my life would likely be very different, the cost of insurance would have gone down greatly if I had began driving sooner as I would have had years of experience under my belt. Vehicle insurance in Ireland is extortionate, and it's been going up steadily by 30% over the last few years. There is also more fine print to worry about and minute details that make a massive difference.
AlienALX
Well-known member
When I was 20 (so 23 years ago) it was £1700 a year to insure a Fiesta 900cc.
London sucks.
FredEx
New member
I started driving when I was 15, had to have a licensed driver over 21 with me until I was 16. That was in 1971 and I got a 1969 H.O. Firebird and way back then my insurance was $1000.00 US a year. My oldest bro got out of the Navy and I sold him that car and got a motorcycle, 125CC dirt bike I tweaked. Much cheaper insurance.
Greenback
Active member
What's even better is how much simpler life gets once you stop caring about how you look and what others think about you
FredEx
New member
I hear you. I'll be 62 in May. Health things that could have taken me out last year change your attitude too.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Physical fitness and aesthetics are a huge part of my life as I lead a fitness lifestyle so I'll still be wanting to keep a decent appearance when I'm over 60, Only 3 decades away ^_^
Friend of mine who trains with me sometimes is 67 and still looks in his 40's due to eating clean and staying fit i.e bodybuilding etc...If you start down a fitness lifestyle you can avoid a massive amount of problems later in life.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Thanks for your wisdom
Yeah, over the past decade (from my 30s into my 40s) I've had to accept that I am what I am. And there's no changing or fixing it, so I'm better to just roll with it and take the cards I've been dealt.
I think it goes deeper than just how you look also. I think you realise a lot of things when you get older.
Mostly good really
Then he is lucky. My mother has been dealt crushing arthritis and can hardly move. I'm starting to get it too (right foot and left hand). Give me ten years? I will be in the same boat as her. She can't have replacements either (like hips and stuff) because hers is osteo meaning her bones would crumble.
I took a lot of slams riding bikes. Some days (when it's the perfect mixture of wet and cold) I can hardly move.
So yeah, don't do anything stupid and hope that you win the health lottery and you may still care when you get older.
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AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Considering I'm English and most of my family and friends are English (we all moved over to Ireland periodically from different parts of the UK), many have been telling me how much cheaper the UK is for car insurance, but £1700 is not cheap at all. I've heard insurance in the UK is set to increase as well.
Thanks for your wisdom
Yeah, over the past decade (from my 30s into my 40s) I've had to accept that I am what I am. And there's no changing or fixing it, so I'm better to just roll with it and take the cards I've been dealt.
I think it goes deeper than just how you look also. I think you realise a lot of things when you get older.
Mostly good really
Sometimes the hand you're dealt is a lifelong battle of endurance and willpower. You just have to accept your limitations and do what you can. We can't use that as an excuse of course, which is an all too easy thing to do, but more often than not our physical or mental limitations can make or break us. Some things can't be changed. They can be improved, but some things cannot be changed by man.
My mother has arthritis. She's not very old but it has severely limited what exercise she cam do, which is demoralising for a single woman who loves fitness and struggles to keep weight off without a varied and active routine.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Yeah I tell you man watching my mother has been heart breaking. My dad died in 1981 and she used to work three or four jobs at once just to keep us going. Never put her hand out for help either.
She retires, looking forward to enjoying the last part of her life but can't move around very much. Yeah, very very sad. Still, I do what I can to make her life more cheerful
Once you hit 25 or 27 your car insurance gets much cheaper. My wife is 47 and she pays £180 a year fully comp on our Mini One. Having said that though we live in a very low crime area, nothing like London. I paid more than that when I was 16 to insure a moped TPF&T.
Out in the USA I had full comp (well, their equivalent) and I paid $45 pm so about $550 a year (ish) which wasn't bad.
She retires, looking forward to enjoying the last part of her life but can't move around very much. Yeah, very very sad. Still, I do what I can to make her life more cheerful
Once you hit 25 or 27 your car insurance gets much cheaper. My wife is 47 and she pays £180 a year fully comp on our Mini One. Having said that though we live in a very low crime area, nothing like London. I paid more than that when I was 16 to insure a moped TPF&T.
Out in the USA I had full comp (well, their equivalent) and I paid $45 pm so about $550 a year (ish) which wasn't bad.
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Yeah I tell you man watching my mother has been heart breaking. My dad died in 1981 and she used to work three or four jobs at once just to keep us going. Never put her hand out for help either.
She retires, looking forward to enjoying the last part of her life but can't move around very much. Yeah, very very sad. Still, I do what I can to make her life more cheerful
Once you hit 25 or 27 your car insurance gets much cheaper. My wife is 47 and she pays £180 a year fully comp on our Mini One. Having said that though we live in a very low crime area, nothing like London. I paid more than that when I was 16 to insure a moped TPF&T.
Out in the USA I had full comp (well, their equivalent) and I paid $45 pm so about $550 a year (ish) which wasn't bad.
Man, that sucks. There are so many people who go through similar things, far more than we ever recognise or give credence to. Looking after your parents is one of the most important ways to pay back what they did for you.
AlienALX
Well-known member
That's absolutely 100% exactly it dude. They look out for you for so long, then it's your turn.
Sadly I have known many old people whose children just binned them off and left them to die alone. My mother used to work in a sheltered living thing back in the 80s and 90s and we knew many old people who were basically living alone.
When I was a kid we used to go there out of hours all of the time to help them out (mum was a hair dresser so did their hair once a week).
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
I'm a Jehovah's Witness and I was out knocking on doors yesterday morning. I was with a mate and his 11-year-old lad. We were calling on an old man who lived in the back ass of nowhere on top of a boggy mountain. He was clearly malnourished. He had a large protrusion on his face that could have been a dormant tumor. He had no teeth. His house was dark, damp, and smelly. He has no car, no job, no pets, no telephone, no Internet. He gets the bus to the local village once or twice a week to buy his groceries. He then goes home. Church and religion to him is about all he has. Maybe that's why he was willing to hear what we had to say and welcome us into his home—normally people close the door on us. Folks like that are in every corner of Ireland. Some were married and had kids that don't bother with them any more or like this man some were never married.
It really does break your heart.
