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Simburian
8 years agoSeasoned Ace
"Cynna;c-16701710" wrote:"Simburian;c-16701649" wrote:
I think you are a bit out of date on your elder options, being one myself.
Nowadays we want recliner chairs or sofas, smartphones, tablets or laptops with Skype for getting in touch with grandchildren or relatives, expensive coach tour holidays or cruises, gardening tools, dog walking and historic homes coach trips, I meet lots of elderly people from the USA going on them here. We 70 year olds are of the Elvis, 60's generation at the end of the Sinatra generation and into Rock and Roll, Skiffle etc. EA's ideas are so old fashioned.
When I think of elders I think of the 80 and 90 year olds but even those are still healthy nowadays if they've avoided the health hazards of drink, drugs and smoking! Canes and sticks are useful on country walks to help yourself get up if you fall but a lot of elderly people around me (I live near a National Park) use two of them to do power walking!
Zimmer frames would come useful in a Hospital Pack!
We could do with some more stylish clothing for elderly Sims also EA/Maxis
PS: I bought a rocking chair once but it kept getting the way and I kept hitting my feet on the rockers so I got rid of it. They are actually not very comfortable to sit on. :smile:
Your post made me laugh and I have to agree. The Sims series has a more...traditional...view of what elders should look and act like. It would be nice if it were updated a bit.
I still would still like a Sim version of Bingo, though. ;)
I go past a Bingo hall a couple of times a week and at certain times of the day there are lots of grey hair-permed ladies smoking cigarettes outside, not many men. I haven't dared go inside. It's like a social club where they all have a table and beware if you sit at it
. EA might note that only elderly ladies over 80 tend to have "perms" (permanent waves, another UK term) all the rest of us like what everybody else likes in spite of being told to keep hair short!
Elders could do with some comfy slippers as well EA. B) o:)
I'm thinking that I might go to see the Northern Lights as all this talk about elders is giving me ideas about having to do a bucket list! >:)
PS: EA "plumb'd" my term for cigarettes so I gave up and changed it. :/