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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Are you saying that you actually believe that you're NOT a senior until you reach mandatory retirement age?
Or are you afraid that you're getting dangerously close to the lobbying group's definition and you're trying to hold off the "title."
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Your logical processes are impressive. And you weally huwt my feewings with that age crack. Sniff.
What I'm saying is that I don't think AARP's "definition" is or should be the determination. It's just a fucking euphemism, anyway. But it used to be that people thought of 65 as "senior" until AARP pushed it earlier and earlier to increase its membership, which benefits it not least because it is a lobbying group, dimwit.
And yes, people have traditionally thought of the retirement years, and not what are probably the highest-earning years of their careers, as their senior years. To say one is senior at 50 when one can expect to live to 80 or beyond in reasonably good health seems a little ridiculous (as does getting depressed about receiving a card from AARP, which, by the way, stands for stands for American Association of Retired Persons).
And, by the by, 65 does not necessarily represent mandatory retirement age, it was also the age at which one could collect full social security benefits, such as they are, but that has been pushed to 67.
You are really fucking stupid. And you will still be so when you are old like me.
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