Older People Can be Pretty Cool

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So many societies in other countries consider older people to be superior because of their knowledge. I have volunteered to visit elderly patients at a nursing home because I think they have such interesting stories to tell. My mother is in assisted living and when I used to have lunch with her in the dining room there was one elderly man who talked about his life history. It was interesting. We so undervalue our senior citizens in the US.
 
An octogenarian has revealed she doesn't intend to spend her twilight years sitting at home in her slippers watching television. Instead 82-year-old Lynn Miller indulges in a more racy hobby, stripping off on stage as a burlesque dancer. The California-born pensioner, who has lived in Brighton for the last two years, decided to become a striptease performer at the grand age of 71.

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When I am an old woman, I shall wear...a burlesque costume! Spirited pensioner, Lynn Miller, says the thought of conventional hobbies such as knitting bores her to tears.
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Instead, Lynn, 82, prefers to entertain a crowd with her racy burlesque routine, which has seen her grace stages in London, Edinburgh and Brighton. Lynn appeared on TV, on the Channel 5 documentary, Party Pensioners, where she was seen cavorting in her lingerie and shopping for sex toys, as she admits it would be boring to grow old gracefully. She added: 'I am not sensible, I have never been sensible. I don't know what acting like old people is.

'What am I supposed to do?' She asks. 'Sit around and watch television, or take up knitting?' She added that she sees nothing wrong with doing what she loves regardless of her age as she is still young at heart.
 
Paco Dennis said:
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The cool fashion outfits reminded me of a documentary of Iris Apfel. ( I thought many here might recognize her ).

From legendary documentarian Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter), Iris pairs the late 88-year-old filmmaker with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More than a fashion film, the documentary is a story about creativity and how a soaring free spirit continues to inspire.


Here she is on her 100th birthday

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There are lots of pics of her here

https://www.google.com/search?q=iri...G_7PYDw&bih=897&biw=1680&client=firefox-b-1-d
 
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Johanna Quaas from Germany is recognised as the world’s oldest gymnast at age the age of 86. Quaas, who is a retired P.E. teacher, only got her start in the sport at the age of 56. Quaas says that she doesn’t have any health worries at all and hopes to still be competing at 90. Although she only practices gymnastics twice per week, she makes sure to do some sort of exercise for an hour each day.
 
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