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You bend over to tie your shoes , and your face turns red .
There I started it , keep it comin ' fellas .

The president of the United States is younger than you!

When your hair clogs the drain every time you take a shower and younger women start calling you "sir"...

Mr S wrote:When your hair clogs the drain every time you take a shower and younger women start calling you "sir"...

Actually, I don't think 'sir' means much in a public context, just a generic way to address a male stranger. When I visit the States, I often see early 20s guys and even late teenagers get called 'sir' by strangers of all ages. I mean, its pretty rude to say, 'hey kid' or 'hey dude'. Perhaps in an informal environment, they might call you 'bro' or something like that as long as you don't look exceedingly 'senior' lol. Now 'ma'am' is a different story. I think it sends alarm bells to women. If you ever wanna bust a woman's balls (not that she has any), especially if she looks between late 20s to late 30s, address her as 'ma'am' and watch her immediate body language reflex. She might 'freak-out' inside (damn do I really look that old?). You'll make her day, lol.

The Playboy centerfolds are young enough to be your daughter, and you feel out of touch with that age group (i.e. feeling like a dirty old man for leering).

RedDog wrote:The Playboy centerfolds are young enough to be your daughter, and you feel out of touch with that age group (i.e. feeling like a dirty old man for leering).

Just remind yourself that they've all slept with Hugh Hefner and you'll feel young again. Don't buy-into that American ageist programming.

When you agree wholeheartedly with the following saying:

"There's nothing as overrated as a bad lay and nothing as underrated as a good shit"

dsc wrote:When you agree wholeheartedly with the following saying:

"There's nothing as overrated as a bad lay and nothing as underrated as a good shit"

Along the same lines, is this: "pizza is like sex...when it's good, it's GREAT. When it's bad, it's still pretty good."

I don 't like being called sir, I think it's personally demeaning and fake polite sounding. That's just my personal take on it. they use it way too much in the Philippines and it doesn't come off as sincere. Never has for me regardless. I never use sir or ma'am when talking to people, sounds corny.

Oh yeah, if you watch early seasons of the Simpsons and realize it started in the early nineties when you were in High School and Homer/Marge were in their thirties back then, and now you are in your thirties dealing with similar life predicaments.

Asian women don't go "GaGa" over you hardly as much as when you were in your twenties...

When you can't do it 4 or 5 times a day anymore....
and your lucky if you can manage 2 or 3...

Mr S wrote:I don 't like being called sir, I think it's personally demeaning and fake polite sounding. That's just my personal take on it. they use it way too much in the Philippines and it doesn't come off as sincere. Never has for me regardless. I never use sir or ma'am when talking to people, sounds corny.

Oh yeah, if you watch early seasons of the Simpsons and realize it started in the early nineties when you were in High School and Homer/Marge were in their thirties back then, and now you are in your thirties dealing with similar life predicaments.

Asian women don't go "GaGa" over you hardly as much as when you were in your twenties...

1. Yea, I don't like 'sir' much either. But what term do you use when you need to address a stranger for some reason? Do you just say 'excuse me' and not address them at all?

2. Asian women don't go "GaGa" over you as much, oh no! I thought Filipinas were into geriatrics, lol. Maybe they just like youngsters and oldsters. The 30-50 middle age crowd is neither here nor there. I used to get a laugh at Filipinos addressing me as sir all the time (here in Taiwan) and in the very beginning, I took at as a sign of respect or implied higher status, lol.

3. When young people in Chinese societies start addressing you as 'a bei' or 'bei bei' you know you're lookin pretty damn old. If they call you 'a gong', you're ancient. Behind you back, they may refer to you as that 'lao tou (zi)' if they consider you a relatively old man.

Your students seem like creatures from another planet -- utterly incomprehensible. No redeeming merit. About to be slaughtered by life.

Rock wrote:

Mr S wrote:I don 't like being called sir, I think it's personally demeaning and fake polite sounding. That's just my personal take on it. they use it way too much in the Philippines and it doesn't come off as sincere. Never has for me regardless. I never use sir or ma'am when talking to people, sounds corny.

Oh yeah, if you watch early seasons of the Simpsons and realize it started in the early nineties when you were in High School and Homer/Marge were in their thirties back then, and now you are in your thirties dealing with similar life predicaments.

Asian women don't go "GaGa" over you hardly as much as when you were in your twenties...

1. Yea, I don't like 'sir' much either. But what term do you use when you need to address a stranger for some reason? Do you just say 'excuse me' and not address them at all?

Yeah, I generally don't address people. I just say "hey" or "excuse me" or something like that. I personally hate formalities so I don't use them myself. That's why I'm often considered a social outcast by my peers cause I don't jump through the typical social nicety bullshit that most people do. It's part of my personality strain. I looked it up in some Psychology personality tests used on the people. I'm represent the less than 1% of the population that doesn't do that kind of shit. I understand it makes others feel good and all that. I can fake it when needed, but I generally don't bother if I can get away with it.

So that's one reason why people get the impression I'm standoffish. I'm not I just don't care about social formalities. Because the Philippines uses them do much I can stick out like a sore thumb a lot of times.

When going to the library is a good time.