Nah o sung, can't be Alzheimer's, my careful study & consideration of the subject is that us old boys suffer from something entirely different.

What we experience is old timers disease. The symptoms are a refusal to be bothered with things we find boring, our instant recognition of BS when expounded by others, & an unfailing ability to see the truth in all matters.

This can frustrate said BS expounders, & for some strange reason, annoy them, when we bestow upon them the benefit of our wisdom.

You must not let this deter you from telling them that they are wrong, & we are right, in all things. Have you tried dancing with that walker thing, & can you still drive into the mountains & commune with nature, over the exhaust noise that is?

o sung wu,
what a coincidence, only today I spoke with some people about IQ. I definitely experience an increasingly diminishing intelligence in our educated people as I get older.

G'day HASBEEN...

I belief you're right. A friend of ours, her family member has early onset Alzheimer's, and I don't think I exhibit any of those symptoms, I hope not anyway. If anything, I reckon I've got just a touch of ol' fella's syndrome, a handy little ploy when one doesn't wish to do something. Alternatively, forgets a birthday or an anniversary or two ? A rather novel way of managing to extract oneself from doing something, you don't wish to do ? All quite important 'kit' or tools for us ol' fella's in order to manoeuvre ourselves to a preferred position that's far more strategic or tactically advantageous ?

That's what it's all about I think, 'think' being the operative word. A process many of our younger generation fail to appreciate. That's something that age does bring with it I think - that of wisdom ? I don't necessarily believe you have to be all that smart to possess wisdom ? Do you think HASBEEN ? I have, and I'm sure you have too, come across many quite intelligent people in our time. Some, though clever don't seem to have a great deal of common sense, and with it devoid of any real wisdom ?

I suppose you and I, we could wax lyrical all night, each of us trying to delineate between 'common sense' and 'wisdom', together with, what generation has it, conversely which generation hasn't ? Of course it's resoundingly 'ours' HASBEEN, we've earned our stripes, by dint, we're still alive, and still contributing in our own modest way !

Good night ol' friend - and keep your powder dry !

o sung wo yes indeed,I made a mate, out of a highway patrol bloke.
Can not name him but he was involvedin the Virgina Morse murder,he had trouble after that.
Not an easy task he had trouble with the radio in his car,used to drop by at my works so I could help.
We older folk often feel we may not be as sharp as we once had been .
Not worth worrying about.
If it comes just think.
We will meet new friends every day.

<< When it comes to computers I am like my wife or daughters with cars. I just want the damn thing to go. I am not the least bit interested in mucking with them… >>

Haaaahahahaaa.

Yes indeed Haz. Wow, do I ever get frustrated and enraged when the damn ‘puter chucks a wobbly… which is sooo damn often it is a wonder my head hasn’t exploded by now!!

O sung wu, I long ago came to realise that IQ is a highly dodgy concept. Most of us just have different aptitudes in different areas. We follow our interests and become ‘smart’ in those fields, while letting other things go in which other people are ‘smart’ and will look at you as though you’re a real dummy!

Old-timer’s disease? Doesn’t sound like a disease at all. Sounds like a sort of nirvana! Old blokes like Hazza have just refined their attention to interesting stuff and kept clear of the BS, as far as is possible. Sheesh I wish I could do that. I’m training hard. But I guess it’ll take another couple of decades to achieve Hasbeen’s masterful level!!

O Sung,
I find I have the same issue when people are explaining things to me, it goes in one ear and out the other and at Uni I was one of those guys who'd always fall asleep in lectures,but I've always been that way.I'm not a good student, I can only learn by doing so to understand what a computer tech is saying I'd have to have sat there with with a schematic or a manual and taken a computer apart myself.
I think a lot of men are that way, the other day I gave an otherwise competent mate of mine guidance over the phone on how to screed a bathroom floor..the result was not spectacular and he only got half of it done. However when we did the other half together yesterday morning he understood immediately and I'm sure next time he has to do one it'll be spot on.