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21 Sep 2022, 10:15 am

Congratulations!!
Be sure to use the discounts available.


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21 Sep 2022, 10:58 am

Joe90 wrote:
Happy birthday! Don't worry, 65 isn't old these days. :)

Well, these days "old" is pejorative.



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21 Sep 2022, 11:02 am

Why do you call yourself a senior citizen?
Do you mean pensioneer?

You did not explain anything about this term.
Officially? What's that supposed to mean? Is that something that Americans are supposed to know about.
Well, I am not from the USA.

I just had to listen to this song: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BOxm6zNdHXY
It is a song about being a happy pensioneer.



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21 Sep 2022, 11:18 am

Gammeldans wrote:
Why do you call yourself a senior citizen?
Do you mean pensioneer?

You did not explain anything about this term.
Officially? What's that supposed to mean? Is that something that Americans are supposed to know about.
Well, I am not from the USA.

I just had to listen to this song: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BOxm6zNdHXY
It is a song about being a happy pensioneer.

In the United States, you become eligible for certain government benefit programs at age 65, and the census bureau also uses that age to demark the older population. That is why I said officially in the title. Some private companies give senior discounts at younger ages.


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21 Sep 2022, 11:24 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:
Gammeldans wrote:
Why do you call yourself a senior citizen?
Do you mean pensioneer?

You did not explain anything about this term.
Officially? What's that supposed to mean? Is that something that Americans are supposed to know about.
Well, I am not from the USA.

I just had to listen to this song: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BOxm6zNdHXY
It is a song about being a happy pensioneer.

In the United States, you become eligible for certain government benefit programs at age 65, and the census bureau also uses that age to demark the older population. That is why I said officially in the title. Some private companies give senior discounts at younger ages.

Ok I see. We have a similar thing here.



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21 Sep 2022, 11:48 am

Gammeldans wrote:
Joe90 wrote:
Happy birthday! Don't worry, 65 isn't old these days. :)

Well, these days "old" is pejorative.

So is "ok boomer" and 1957 the year I was born was the height of the baby boom. Like with autism you can try but you can't
get away from who you are.


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21 Sep 2022, 12:29 pm

I would never say Ok Boomer to anyone. I like the same things that Baby Boomers like even though I'm an average of 25 years younger.


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