Yup! "The good go up to heaven and the bad go down to He!!That’s how I remember the way to climb or descend stairs. (as long as I still have a good leg)
dotage….Gosh darn, I don’t think I’ve seen or heard that term since Moses was a child..Still, it may not be the proper synonym for geezerhood, as dotage carries the implication of the loss of mental faculties.
Dotage is not a term in common usage these days, but I have never heard it used in a derogatory way. It was more like “cute old person, moving kind of slow, etc.” I suspect that was what was intended here. Note: If you replace dotage with senility , the joke does not work at all.
It ain’t just pluggers that have to do half steps. As in one foot up. Other foot on same step as first foot. Some disableds have to walk up the same way on the stairs. Those who can walk up stairs.
pelican47: I am afflicted by a hereditary neurological disorder called effective or familial tremor. The old name for it was senile palsy! Motor nerves, not brain..LuvThemPluggers: I have never, in all my eight decades of linguistic awareness, ever heard dotage refer to anything other than loss of mental function. Self-deprecation is as close to what you are saying that I have ever encountered – but still pejorative.
Might be plantar faciitis. A doctor can help, but before I tried that route, I asked friends that had it, and which brand of shoes helped the most. SAS was overwhelmingly the one. I went and got a pair! Pain relief! Now they are all I wear.
I’m afraid our lady here is wearing the wrong shoes. I do have cartilage loss in one knee, but was almost immobilized by knee pain until I was clued into 1. arch support and 2. foot cushioning. As muscle tone winds down, we need help keeping everything in line. Now I wear only arch support sandals with wedge soles around the house (all wood and tile floors) and while my knees still hurt at times, I can walk normally and wear normal shoes outside, as long as I’m not doing lots of walking. If I am, I make sure I have arch support.
LuvThemPluggers over 9 years ago
Yup! "The good go up to heaven and the bad go down to He!!That’s how I remember the way to climb or descend stairs. (as long as I still have a good leg)
pelican47 over 9 years ago
dotage….Gosh darn, I don’t think I’ve seen or heard that term since Moses was a child..Still, it may not be the proper synonym for geezerhood, as dotage carries the implication of the loss of mental faculties.
Linda1259 over 9 years ago
With knee replacements it is: “Up with the good, down with the bad (the leg/foot with the newly replaced knee)”
Satiricat over 9 years ago
I agree with Pelican.
From Merriam-Webster:
dotage— the period of old age : the time when a person is old and often less able to remember or do things_________________________________
Not all Pluggers are old, nor are all people with mobility impairments.
I think you missed on this one, Gary.
ladykat over 9 years ago
I hate stairs now.
LuvThemPluggers over 9 years ago
Dotage is not a term in common usage these days, but I have never heard it used in a derogatory way. It was more like “cute old person, moving kind of slow, etc.” I suspect that was what was intended here. Note: If you replace dotage with senility , the joke does not work at all.
Sangelia over 9 years ago
It ain’t just pluggers that have to do half steps. As in one foot up. Other foot on same step as first foot. Some disableds have to walk up the same way on the stairs. Those who can walk up stairs.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
pelican47: I am afflicted by a hereditary neurological disorder called effective or familial tremor. The old name for it was senile palsy! Motor nerves, not brain..LuvThemPluggers: I have never, in all my eight decades of linguistic awareness, ever heard dotage refer to anything other than loss of mental function. Self-deprecation is as close to what you are saying that I have ever encountered – but still pejorative.
ladylagomorph76 over 9 years ago
Might be plantar faciitis. A doctor can help, but before I tried that route, I asked friends that had it, and which brand of shoes helped the most. SAS was overwhelmingly the one. I went and got a pair! Pain relief! Now they are all I wear.
dogday Premium Member over 9 years ago
HEY NOW! Watch what yer sayin’ there….that word…you know….oh, never mind!
dogday Premium Member over 9 years ago
I’m afraid our lady here is wearing the wrong shoes. I do have cartilage loss in one knee, but was almost immobilized by knee pain until I was clued into 1. arch support and 2. foot cushioning. As muscle tone winds down, we need help keeping everything in line. Now I wear only arch support sandals with wedge soles around the house (all wood and tile floors) and while my knees still hurt at times, I can walk normally and wear normal shoes outside, as long as I’m not doing lots of walking. If I am, I make sure I have arch support.
neverenoughgold over 9 years ago
I am not sure about “dot age”, but I know a lot of pluggers who are in the “dot com age”…