People deleting threads. Don't do it if you want to be taken remotely seriously. @SiR I'm talking to you.

[Blumlein 88]

Psychotherapy 101, don't focus on what others do, focus on the fact that you control and are responsible for your response. If you're becoming a reactive, grouchy old man, take time to consider your response.

Well when you get old not much you can do about it. Also very, very hard not to become reactive and super duper hard not to become grouchy. If nothing else because you have various ailments and issues which would make a young person grouchy if they had them. I say as an aging getting old man.

I guess I could be more of a jerk about it. When you waste an old person's time, you have wasted a larger percentage of his remaining life than when you waste a young person's time for the same length of time as told by the clock. Not to mention the old person's depleted supply of gumption which gets harder to replenish with age.

 

[Jim Taylor]

Not to mention the old person's depleted supply of gumption which gets harder to replenish with age.

If "gumption" is an abstract noun, is "gump" the verb upon which it is based? How does one gump? (Asking for a friend.)

Jim

 

[Axo1989]

If "gumption" is an abstract noun, is "gump" the verb upon which it is based? How does one gump? (Asking for a friend.)

Jim

It's something you do in the Forrest, I'm guessing.

 

[Blumlein 88]

If "gumption" is an abstract noun, is "gump" the verb upon which it is based? How does one gump? (Asking for a friend.)

Jim

I'm unaware of a necessary connection between abstract nouns and them being based upon verbs. But I can learn something new if it is so.

 

[Axo1989]

Well when you get old not much you can do about it. Also very, very hard not to become reactive and super duper hard not to become grouchy. If nothing else because you have various ailments and issues which would make a young person grouchy if they had them. I say as an aging getting old man.

I guess I could be more of a jerk about it. When you waste an old person's time, you have wasted a larger percentage of his remaining life than when you waste a young person's time for the same length of time as told by the clock. Not to mention the old person's depleted supply of gumption which gets harder to replenish with age.

I'm told time is subjectively experienced as a fraction of your elapsed duration alive. So, it accelerates. And becomes more precious with scarcity.

 

[raif71]

 

[Blumlein 88]

I'm told time is subjectively experienced as a fraction of your elapsed duration alive. So, it accelerates. And becomes more precious with scarcity.

Yes, seems right to my experience. I remember the 3 months of summer between 1st and 2nd grade seeming like a long time. Now 3 months isn't much.

 

[Selkirks]

If you're becoming a reactive, grouchy old man, take time to consider your response.

We'd lose 80% of audio related posts on the internet without grouchy old men reacting.

 

[A Surfer]

Well when you get old not much you can do about it. Also very, very hard not to become reactive and super duper hard not to become grouchy. If nothing else because you have various ailments and issues which would make a young person grouchy if they had them. I say as an aging getting old man.

I guess I could be more of a jerk about it. When you waste an old person's time, you have wasted a larger percentage of his remaining life than when you waste a young person's time for the same length of time as told by the clock. Not to mention the old person's depleted supply of gumption which gets harder to replenish with age.

I feel you, as a man getting older myself. Still, I am actually a practicing psychotherapist and I have the privilege of having introspective conversations with people for a living and I can say with absolute certainty, aging be damned, we still have the ability to decide how we process and respond to the world.

I know that the brain and it's filters atrophy and die with age, but even so, we retain quite a bit of control outside of diseases of the brain. Thankfully. I dread being a grumpy old man and fully intend to fight that fate tooth and nail.

 

[A Surfer]

We'd lose 80% of audio related posts on the internet without grouchy old men reacting.

Signal versus noise?

 

[JustJones]

I feel you, as a man getting older myself. Still, I am actually a practicing psychotherapist and I have the privilege of having introspective conversations with people for a living and I can say with absolute certainty, aging be damned, we still have the ability to decide how we process and respond to the world.

I know that the brain and it's filters atrophy and die with age, but even so, we retain quite a bit of control outside of diseases of the brain. Thankfully. I dread being a grumpy old man and fully intend to fight that fate tooth and nail.

Drugs help.

 

[BlackTalon]

It's something you do in the Forrest, I'm guessing.

Running laps on a shrimp boat in the forest, while eating chocolates

 

[Blumlein 88]

I feel you, as a man getting older myself. Still, I am actually a practicing psychotherapist and I have the privilege of having introspective conversations with people for a living and I can say with absolute certainty, aging be damned, we still have the ability to decide how we process and respond to the world.

I know that the brain and it's filters atrophy and die with age, but even so, we retain quite a bit of control outside of diseases of the brain. Thankfully. I dread being a grumpy old man and fully intend to fight that fate tooth and nail.

I don't disagree, and I too intend not to just give up. Yet I see bits of it happening anyway. I know various people some of whom became "old" early vs some who did not. It seems any who lived near 80 years old or longer always succumbed in my limited experience. I do know one exception even in his 90s. So there is hope it is possible.

 

[MattHooper]

I don't disagree, and I too intend not to just give up. Yet I see bits of it happening anyway. I know various people some of whom became "old" early vs some who did not. It seems any who lived near 80 years old or longer always succumbed in my limited experience. I do know one exception even in his 90s. So there is hope it is possible.

As someone who’s been made old before his time by illness, I can’t figure out whether I want time to go slower or faster…

 

[raif71]

We'd lose 80% of audio related posts on the internet without grouchy old men reacting.

 

[Jim Taylor]

I'm unaware of a necessary connection between abstract nouns and them being based upon verbs. But I can learn something new if it is so.

I didn't mean to imply that the connection was necessary.

Jim

 

[MattHooper]

We'd lose 80% of audio related posts on the internet without grouchy old men reacting.

Says you, ya young punk!

 

[G|force]

I figured the OP deleted his own thread and that was the source of my frustration. Not directed at @BDWoody or any other moderators.

Not in this particular case, but I've typed a long, considered replies, full of device-specific technical information, sectional marked-up scans of schematics and particular details to help someone, only to hit reply and see it all disappear into a deleted thread. It's like all that time is just wasted.

Along the same lines as members who sign up on the day, send a PM asking for help fixing some piece of gear, get their personalised help and disappear, often with no thanks, adding nothing to the ASR community except getting free repair advice, often for their "technician" who they are paying to fix something he's given up on because it's too hard.

Those PMs now get told by me to start a thread and I'll join in, so it can help everyone down the track.

Bla bla bla. Back pedal it away RJ.
You rule and your contributions of knowledge are appreciated by all. I figured by now you might also contribute monetarily to the forum.

"When ifs ands or buts are candy and nuts we'll all have a merry christmas"

(You will have to unignore me to read this)

 

[JSmith]

Easy guys... fella made a mistake, that's all. No need to berate him too much... a little flack though for sure.

Usually I get a notification when a post is moved to another thread... unsure if @restorer-john has notifications turned off?


JSmith

 

[EJ3]

@restorer-john your posts are much appreciated for advice and humor. Don't let a few clowns deter your responses. Perhaps an adult beverage is in order. Just a thought.

Yes, I think that I will join in solidarity with restorer-john by raising an adult libation to honor him for his contributions.
A nice Samuel Adams October Fest Hearty & Smooth brew (from Boston, MA: USA) seems about right.
I got the cap to spin on the bottle with my grip but I had to get a tool to get the cap off. Inside the cap it says: CHEERS
So here is cheers to you, John!