Do you feel comfortable sharing your age? When people ask you do you tell them or lie?

@iamonfire696 Makes me happy to hear that, thank you. 🙂

@OlderSometimesWiser I am glad, I just wanted you to know that. Have a nice Friday 🩷

@OlderSometimesWiser What is it?

@Longpatrol But it illustrates the point though doesn't it ?

@Picklebobble2 yeah

@Picklebobble2 I just hate that it exists. As long as people can still contribute why prevent them from doing so? It can't be all cold dollars and cents calculation, they should look at the human being behind the CV.

@DragonFruit And you look awesome, my friend ! 🤗

@bijouxbroussard Thank you.

@DragonFruit noice

@beermeplease I don’t do that now that I’ve let my hair turn white; it’s asking to get my feelings hurt. 🤭

@bijouxbroussard i've got quite a few grey hairs...but i have a "youngish" face...but ya know what?... i don't know what you look like but i know you have a heart of gold....and that surpasses any physical attribute as we get older 🤗

@MarkPaul "coming in for interrogation." 😂

Yes, I see what you mean. To help clarify; I'm proud of the station at which I've arrived resulting from my experiences over time. It has more to do with the growth of my being-ness within a time continuum. To say, "I'm proud of my age," is really a misnomer. But I need to put it in terms other people are familiar with. So, I say, I'm proud of my age.

So many concepts are expressed poetically and through figures of speech. For example; when someone says, "turn off the kettle," you learn from observation the connotation of what that means: Turn off the heat source heating the contents of the kettle. There's no mechanism in the kettle to turn off. And yet, when someone says, turn off the kettle, there's no debate. You just know what that means.

I'm using, "I'm proud of my age," in the same way. Although, I understand the connotation to which I'm referring is much less familiar than those commonly used, such as, "turn off the kettle."

There are [i]universally[/i] common connotations and figures of speech on which [i]everyone[/i] agrees.

All people agree the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. That's very poetic. The [b]de[/b]notative understanding (from a physics and astronomical point of view) is; people are positioned at points on the Earth. The Earth is constantly rotating on its axis. As the Earth rotates, it brings you around to face the Sun, and, as it continues its rotation, takes you away from it. So, it's not really the [i]Sun[/i] that's rising and setting, it's YOU. But, unless people understand it in those terms, for me to tell people the Sun doesn't [i]really[/i] rise in the East and set in the West, would naturally lead them to thinking I'm a mental case.

So. In [i]connotative[/i] terms, yes, I'm proud of my age, which has to do with where I am with myself which has developed over time - not how many times the Earth has orbited the Sun since I started my Earthly journey.

@PhoenixPhail 🧐... 🧐... 🧐 Okay... okay. You're free to go. Your permanent record won't indicate this "session" took place, but just remember there won't be any monkey business allowed... not on my watch, Mister. Not on my watch. 🚪

@MarkPaul Well. Thank you for releasing me from your bondage. I feel like I just got paroled. 😂

@Longpatrol Are you suggest that @ArtieKat is your dear papa?

@OliRos @ArtieKat Dada? 🫃

@Longpatrol Certainly, insofar as @ArtieKat is satirical and nonsensical - and almost old enough to have his roots in the horrors of the First World War.

(Thank you, Jimmy Wales.)

@Fluffybull So I am guessing now that you are an illegal entering our counrty

@Fluffybull right, the Brits don't share their age