Gee whiz! You did that too?
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Gee whiz! You did that too?
darkelf9
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Nope, was born in '62 but I do remember when we still had glass coke bottles and the old Tarax bottles. Also remember when we went from black and white TV to colour and from those rotary dial TV's to the bush button ones.
The younger ones can't imagine having to actually go to the TV and manually turn a dial or push a button.
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All of us kids were the remote.
"Change that channel. Turn up the sound I can't hear it over your mom's whining."
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Yep and your mum telling you not to sit so close to the TV, which you had to do when channel surfing. Going from a dial to buttons was ok until you broke the buttons, then dad would tell you off for pressing the buttons too often. "Why can't you just stay on one channel".
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He had a point. Only three came in and there was nothing good on the other two. But we’d still check just in case. I remember going through the TV Guide to find something to watch. I wonder when they stopped publishing that? (Pulls up Google)
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My mum still will only use the TV Guide which she gets with the paper on a Thursday. We call it the green guide here in Aussie land mainly cause it's green. Have shown her numerous times how to use the menu button on the remote, but she uses the paper guide instead. She's 92 so it's hard to change old habits.
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Hey, if she’s made it to 92, maybe we should all be doing things old school! Good for her.
I have since checked Google and indeed the Guide is still in print. I guess the Boomers are keeping it alive.
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Yep that generation is made of tough stuff. She also served in the Army during WWII.
As for the TV guide still going well that's probably cause the older Boomers still can't work out the internet even after their grand kids have shown them. I found out the other year that I'm technically a Boomer which annoyed me cause I haven't got any of the benefits of being a Boomer.
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We must be around the same age because I’ve seen that I’m on the cusp of it. I think the definition depends on where you’re looking. I just saw the boomers ended in 1964 but recall seeing something that went up to 1966.
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Being home when the street lights came on
Being home when the street lights came on
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Yep I saw that the Boomers ended in '65. It's post WWII plus 20 yrs. But I think the technical definition is 1946 - 1964. I know for things like calculating Super here in Aussie land it ends in 1965. I was born in '62 and had my 58th back in early Jan. Even though I'm retired these days, I'm still paying tax. We have an interesting tax system. And unlike most Boomers who have retired that don't pay tax, I don't play the stock market.
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If you have taxable income in the states, you pay tax on it regardless of age or work status. I hope those retirees that are playing the stock market are doing it with fun money and not their savings. If the latter they must be in a full on panic.
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Nope no funny money for them, it's their retirement savings. It's a way for them to not pay tax. However they have to keep a constant vidual on the stock market. Not my thing.
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I guess avoiding tax works two ways, the preferable way of deferring income by not realizing gains and the more common method of suffering painful losses. Good luck to them!
Paying your fair share of taxes is not a bad thing. Many social systems depend on tax revenue to function properly for everyone to benefit.
Attempting to zero out your tax payable is admirable, if possible. But it should not be an obsessive compulsion. Life is meant to be lived! Get out and enjoy yourself and pay that sales tax!
Attempting to zero out your tax payable is admirable, if possible. But it should not be an obsessive compulsion. Life is meant to be lived! Get out and enjoy yourself and pay that sales tax!
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Yep that's what should happen but a lot of rich people will disagree about paying their share of tax, they prefer to pay accountants to hide their wealth and use the tax rules to get around the honesty side of tax. Take the current Pres of the USA as an example of a rich person claiming they haven't earned any income. The reason he doesn't take a salary as the Pres has nothing to do with his generosity, it's about having to declare all his income. Rich people don't stay rich by paying tax. The more they have the more they want. Giving to charity for them is more about a tax write off and being seen as a good person and not greedy.
We don't have a sales tax here in Aussie land, it's a Goods and Services Tax (GST) meaning certain foods, purchased items and services get taxed, not everything get taxed, like fresh food. Also if you buy packaged or prepared food it costs more than if you buy the basics. For example if you buy a raw chicken it costs less than if you buy a cooked chicken because someone has to prepare that cooked chicken hence providing you with a service. Canada has a similar system in fact they implemented GST before we did. Might sound complicated but we don't have a flat tax system on what we buy. We also include the tax in the overall cost of the item, so the price you see is the price you pay. You don't have to calculate how much is the tax on that item to get an actual cost.
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Hello to all,
Well the COVID-19 thing is rolling thru various parts of the world. We here in Aussie land are at this stage not as bad as a lot of countries. People infected is rather low and like most countries all OS travel is now banned for a short period.
Hope everyone is doing well at this time.
Well the COVID-19 thing is rolling thru various parts of the world. We here in Aussie land are at this stage not as bad as a lot of countries. People infected is rather low and like most countries all OS travel is now banned for a short period.
Hope everyone is doing well at this time.
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basically everyone here in NY is working from home. I had to get special approval to go into work today to meet with IT since my company laptop has security issues they could not fix remotely. It is crazy quiet in NY, almost eerie. However, needs to be done, and will be temporary to get us through this. The panic is just unwarranted though and hope everyone stays calm.
us 50 somethings are on the edge of those most vulnerable area , and are in that if we have any medical concerns impacting our immune system, our friends over 60 are all in that group already so just hope that everyone takes the proper precautions and stays safe.
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I'm retired these days so I don't need to be anywhere except doctors appointments. The larger supermarket chains have now introduced a dedicated shopping hour first thing in the morning for the elderly and you need proof of your age. I'm not old enough to qualify. Seems I'm still too young for some things
Crazy panic buying by a lot mums here in Aussie land. Now even basic things like onions and potatoes are getting hard to find and as for fresh meat well all those families with the large freezers are filling them up for no good reason. Meanwhile the elderly and disabled people are missing out on basic food items. Never seen this before and frankly society has returned to it's basic survival instinct which is not what we called civilized.
Hope you guys in the US get a handle on the COVID-19 issues soon.
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I'm retired these days so I don't need to be anywhere except doctors appointments. The larger supermarket chains have now introduced a dedicated shopping hour first thing in the morning for the elderly and you need proof of your age. I'm not old enough to qualify. Seems I'm still too young for some things
Crazy panic buying by a lot mums here in Aussie land. Now even basic things like onions and potatoes are getting hard to find and as for fresh meat well all those families with the large freezers are filling them up for no good reason. Meanwhile the elderly and disabled people are missing out on basic food items. Never seen this before and frankly society has returned to it's basic survival instinct which is not what we called civilized.
Hope you guys in the US get a handle on the COVID-19 issues soon.
should be another week or two before it peaks...then will gradually get back to normal over a few months after. California went to statewide quarantine now.. on the bright side my commute is 90 minutes less and I get to dress casual.
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I was just drinking, watching on TV.
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Good to hear you're in good spirits with all that it is going on. It seems we here in Aussie land still haven't got the message for a small part of the population. One of our more famous beaches in Sydney had hundreds of people on it the other day. This is after our govt said that people should be practicing social distancing. There is also this crazy rule about how many people can be inside vs outside a given space, which makes no sense since you only need one infected person to spread the virus. Our virologists reckon this is just stupid and they are telling people to stay away from public spaces. We are behind the rest of the world in progression of the virus by about 2 weeks so not sure when our peak will happen. Vast majority of cases are people coming back from their OS holidays. So once that stops we will get a real sense of where things are at. Since we are an island continent it is easier for us to control our borders unless we get people who are strong swimmers trying to enter the country
Thankfully there isn't panic buying of scotch mainly because it's not the blokes doing the panic buying. If it was, beer would be in short supply. I'm guessing a lot of man caves are being invaded by the wives filling up on toilet paper, can goods and cleaning products.
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Hope all the over 50's are doing well in these times.
Given all these people staying home, we might end up with another baby boomer generation.
The state of play for us in Aussie land is that we are still in the low numbers although that will change as are more of our fellow Aussies come back home. Still lots of them are stranded OS either on cruise ships or in various countries and can't get a flight out.
Stay safe.
Given all these people staying home, we might end up with another baby boomer generation.
The state of play for us in Aussie land is that we are still in the low numbers although that will change as are more of our fellow Aussies come back home. Still lots of them are stranded OS either on cruise ships or in various countries and can't get a flight out.
Stay safe.
