You Know You Are Old When

[LouNY]

Who cares if there would be no peace. They could no longer wage war off of their main islands. They were done. As has been learned many times since then, once you have an enemy isolated on an island with little natural resources, there's no point in invading the island. Japan had no steel to build new war machines. They had no oil to fuel them or the industries to make them. They were done. They were surrounded. They could sit there on their islands and shake their fists, but could no longer wage war off the Japanese islands. It was over.

Even if one accepts the fallacy of your arguments, if dropping the bombs saved or had the potential to save even just one American Service Mans life it was the proper method to use.
Screw any pacifists ideals and drivel.

 

[MossRoad]

Even if one accepts the fallacy of your arguments, if dropping the bombs saved or had the potential to save even just one American Service Mans life it was the proper method to use.
Screw any pacifists ideals and drivel.

There's no fallacy in the discussion. The tactic worked several times in the South Pacific. They called it Island Hopping....

With Guadalcanal in American hands, Allied forces continued to close in on Rabaul in New Britain. As forces under the command of Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey moved north through the Solomons, General Douglas MacArthur’s troops pushed west along the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, grinding out a hard-fought victory by March 1943. But rather than follow this success with a risky invasion of the heavily defended Rabaul, American military planners hatched an ingenious plan: Allied planes and ships would isolate and neutralize Rabaul from the air and sea while the bulk of MacArthur’s forces pushed westward to invade less-well-defended islands. This practice—skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance—became known as island hopping. As Japanese strongholds were isolated, defenders were left to weaken from starvation and disease. This new strategy turned the vast Pacific distances into an American ally, and the United States used it to leapfrog across the Pacific.

From here: A nice read if you have the time.

The Pacific Strategy, 1941-1944 | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

On December 7, 1941, Japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, severely damaging the US Pacific Fleet. When Germany and Italy declared war on the United States days later, America found itself in a global war.

www.nationalww2museum.org

 

[JasperFrank]

When you have to spreed sheet your doctor appointments.

 

[CalG]

So,,,

The other day I was hitching up the 3pth chipper/shredder to the Hurlimann.
I needed to move the pin about 1/2 inch to get the lift arm to slide on.

Put my legs and back to it and got nothing but pain!
I must be getting old.

Today I was refurbishing the snow blade.
I needed to pick it up a bit so I could swing some wrenches.

Put my legs and back to it and got nothing.
I must be getting old.

I had to get the tractor jacks out just to muscle up a 6 foot snow blade.

I MUST BE GETTING OLD!

;-)

 

[masseyrider]

So,,,

The other day I was hitching up the 3pth chipper/shredder to the Hurlimann.
I needed to move the pin about 1/2 inch to get the lift arm to slide on.

Put my legs and back to it and got nothing but pain!
I must be getting old.

Today I was refurbishing the snow blade.
I needed to pick it up a bit so I could swing some wrenches.

Put my legs and back to it and got nothing.
I must be getting old.

I had to get the tractor jacks out just to muscle up a 6 foot snow blade.

I MUST BE GETTING OLD!

;-)

Get out of the way old man, I'll get it...
Grunt!
Groan!
SOB!
OUCH!





CALL 911, Call 911, Call911......

 

[CalG]

I justify my tractor and other lifting equipment purchases as being WAY less costly than a 911 call and a hospital stay.

My wife agrees, but it is wearing thin.....

 

[WinterDeere]

How many times, when you were younger, did an old-timer stand there and watch you man-handle heavy equipment, while saying "You're going to pay for that someday."?

Well, "someday" has come!

 

[masseyrider]

How many times, when you were younger, did an old-timer stand there and watch you man-handle heavy equipment, while saying "You're going to pay for that someday."?

Well, "someday" has come!

I tell my neighbor that all the time.
He don't listen.
It takes too much time to get the tractor, hand cart, whatever.
He'll learn.
Youth is wasted on the stupid and indestructible.

 

[Oaktree]

How many times, when you were younger, did an old-timer stand there and watch you man-handle heavy equipment, while saying "You're going to pay for that someday."?

Well, "someday" has come!

About the only thing I'm "paying for" now is my knees...I used to run in my 20s/30s/early 40s, then hiked a lot into my 60s. Then again, knee problems run in the family...both my father and one of my sisters had knee replacements at a younger age than I am now. Probably in my future too, but not in any hurry to go down that path.

 

[newbury]

When you have to spreed sheet your doctor appointments.

When your calendar is full, with doctor appointments, blood tests, and laboratory visits.

 

[CalG]

When your calendar is full, with doctor appointments, blood tests, and laboratory visits.

I told my primary care doctor I was not all in with allopathic medicine.

He nodded, said "no reason to chase numbers" and went on with the exam.
I've not had too many additional tests done since/

 

[WinterDeere]

I tell my neighbor that all the time.
He don't listen.
It takes too much time to get the tractor, hand cart, whatever.
He'll learn.
Youth is wasted on the stupid and indestructible.

For me, it was BMX cycling. Countless wipe outs, falls off ramps, broken bones, etc. Always heard, "you're gonna feel that when you're older", but those honestly aren't the injuries that bother me today.

 

[CalG]

 

[CalG]

I was trying to knock the rusted in trip pivot pins out of the snow blade today.

Using an 18 inch length of 1 inch rebar for a drift, it was all I could do the strike with a 3 pound hammer.

The pins wouldn't budge!

I must be getting old.

Just when I was going to call it in, The neighbor came by wanting assistance to bleed the non-functional brakes on his 1988 Polaris four wheeler.

With him holding the drift, and me switching to a 12 pound sledge, those pivot pins came out straight away!

Two old guys can get it done!

OH! The wheeler brakes have never been better!

 

[masseyrider]

For me, it was BMX cycling. Countless wipe outs, falls off ramps, broken bones, etc. Always heard, "you're gonna feel that when you're older", but those honestly aren't the injuries that bother me today.

Playing hockey I got a severe frontal sprain of my ankle.
Dr. said that when I got older I would wish I had broken it instead as the sprain would come back to haunt me.
He was right.
There are many morning I walk in circles when I get up until the ankle loosens up.
My house has 4 steps from the bedroom level to the main level.
I have to lean against the wall as I come down in the mornings.

 

[MossRoad]

You Know You Are Old When...

You buy your first 7-day pill organizer.

 

[Alan46]

You Know You Are Old When...

You buy your first 7-day pill organizer.

Does it still count if wal-mart gave them out for free?

 

[drssg]

I had a gate at the end our driveway that I installed about 20 years ago, and I finally had a more professional quality gate installed. I assumed that they would bring in some equipment to pull out the old posts, but they removed them by hand! Some of them were set in concrete.

Young muscles can do things that I can't.

 

[Mendonsy]

You Know You Are Old When...

You buy your first 7-day pill organizer.

Or buy the second one because the pills won't all fit in the first one.

 

[masseyrider]

Or buy the second one because the pills won't all fit in the first one.

Or the guys you hang with at the coffee shop have more pills on them than the pusher out on the corner.