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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| zooey wrote: |
IS THIS A RECORD?  |
Not unless you discount John's admission of producing "10,000 teats"!!!
Sorry, John, that's a classic!
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johnslat
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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John, I can only count 13 'dere...nothing NEAR approaching yer number!
Congrats!
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johnslat
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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Yep...,but you professed 10x as much!... 
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Mia Xanthi
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| Sorry to return to the original and now un-inspiring topic of age. I wanted to make it clear that I knew quite a few 60+ teachers who were hired after turning 60+ Many of these were highly experienced teachers with excellent credentials. |
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JoeRomano
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Some 11 years ago I was on a plane to Jeddah and I could not help noticing that the plane was full of people of such an advanced age that it all looked like I'd stepped into an old folks' home. The kind in which my grandmother died at 86. The hair varied from light silver to none, the waist size from that of a hippo to that of a sperm whale, and the number of wrinkles would be greater than on the biggest dune in Rub Al Khali.
The same held true when I attended parties at some compounds in the Kingdom. Those venerable elders also seemed to have beautiful Asian looking ladies fluttering about them, and they did not display a care in the world on their faces or appear nervous to any noticeable degree that soon they would be sent back home because of being too old.
Sometimes I think that the theory of the holographic universe is true and that the way the world appears to me ( along with its rules) is not how it appears to others. For sure, in their world, there are no ads with any age limit stipulated. |
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veiledsentiments
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A club that all of us get to join before we know it.
Quite the example of ageism there... sounded rather like a child who thinks his 45 year old uncle is absolutely ancient.
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sauditeacher
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:53 pm Post subject: Re: Age Limits |
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It was this very topic that introduced me to the venerable John on this forum, some 15 years ago. He told me quite rightly that I was already over the limit for most jobs in KSA. So I never dreamed I'd be here after being retired from another gulf country.
The difference may be in the employer; the age limit rules seem only to apply to government institutions. In my case, a private employer offered me a position, and if there were to be any visa difficulties, would stress my "rare speciality" and "vital skills". But the need did not arise; here I am, still going strong, and nobody more surprised than me.  |
Zooey, Slat_the_Venerable told you that you were too old then?!
So, being generous and using age 58 at that time, the lower end of the quoted too-old age range (58 to infinity), you'd be 73 now? And still teaching in KSA?
If so, congrats! |
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scot47
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| I know some who are older than 74 ! Not me of course - I am still in the first flush of Youth. |
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sauditeacher
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| I know some who are older than 74 ! Not me of course - I am still in the first flush of Youth. |
Older than 74 and still teaching in KSA? Inspiring!
(I'm getting visions of the Eveready Energizer Bunny...helpful as I contemplate my future  ).
And is it possible, s47, that setting up (re-setting up?) shop on the Outer Hebrides may come to be seen as having been initiated too early?
PS: my 5th post! And away I go to PM-ing!
Edit: I'm reliably informed that whereas the Outer Hebrides certainly have their merit, the Clyde Estuary is more like it |
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Dominic-Pax
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| Anything is possible with wasta. |
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scot47
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| The Lord be praised. Exalted be His Name ! |
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Mr Brown
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:12 am Post subject: Whatever happened to the illuminating Mr. Brown??? |
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Whatever happened to the illuminating Mr. Brown??? He exploded on stage like a racist-exposing, TMI-posting supernova, but seems to have collapsed into a pulsar!
Now, my heart does bleed for him!
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