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Dicky Underpants

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Re: You know you are getting old when.........
« Reply #50 on: July 18, 2020, 03:47:52 PM »
You kneel down to tie your shoelaces, and look around to see if there's something else you could do whilst you're still down there.
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Steve H

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Re: You know you are getting old when.........
« Reply #51 on: July 21, 2020, 12:04:47 PM »
Your memory gets poorer.
You need reading glasses.
You're entitled to a bus pass.
Your memory gets poorer.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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