What will you do when you're old? Forum users reveal grim plans
Users on Spain's Burbuja.info forum confess their old-age plans: from emigrating to Argentina to blowing themselves up in a mosque. A thread that captures generational pessimism.
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The forum users' depressing old-age plan: waiting for death
In a thread on Burbuja.info, a Spanish forum, that has gathered 51 replies in 22 days, most users don't plan on growing old: they want to die first. The thread, titled "Que vais a hacer cuando seais viejos?" ("What will you do when you're old?"), opens with an apocalyptic scenario of a decadent, family-less Spain, and the replies are a catalogue of nihilism, dark humour and the odd geographic escape.
Widespread nihilism: "I hope I don't live that long"
The most common stance is the wish not to reach old age. Anselmo Clavé, AH1N1 and J.Murdock answer without nuance: "I hope I don't live that long", "to be dead", "to die". Others, like pepitogruñon, give themselves some leeway: "at 50 I want to arrive completely wrecked" and then travel around Asia. But the general tone is that "the best thing is not to think about it".
Escape plans: Argentina, Brazil and a cabin
Against the death wish, some are already charting escape routes. 2B-san plans to save for 20 years, buy land in Argentina and live off self-sufficiency, although the OP replies that it's "the worst plan of all". ironpipo will head off to Brazil to "live it up like a motherf***er" with his savings. Others dream of a cabin to write a manifesto (Abrojo) or of an IMSERSO state-run retirement home (sr andrade).
Epic tone and self-parody
There's no shortage of those who skirt the grotesque: ZX8 sees himself "loaded in a banana republic" with a sugar baby 50 years younger, while MrDanger proposes "blowing myself up in a mosque" and Tappiporla trinc up with a modernist retirement home before the explosion. Dark humour is the courtesy of this thread, where even Autómata asks whether they're serious and nobody answers yes.
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In a thread on Burbuja.info, a Spanish forum, that has gathered 51 replies in 22 days, most users don't plan on growing old: they want to die first. The thread, titled "Que vais a hacer cuando seais viejos?" ("What will you do when you're old?"), opens with an apocalyptic scenario of a decadent, family-less Spain, and the replies are a catalogue of nihilism, dark humour and the odd geographic escape.
Widespread nihilism: "I hope I don't live that long"
The most common stance is the wish not to reach old age. Anselmo Clavé, AH1N1 and J.Murdock answer without nuance: "I hope I don't live that long", "to be dead", "to die". Others, like pepitogruñon, give themselves some leeway: "at 50 I want to arrive completely wrecked" and then travel around Asia. But the general tone is that "the best thing is not to think about it".
Escape plans: Argentina, Brazil and a cabin
Against the death wish, some are already charting escape routes. 2B-san plans to save for 20 years, buy land in Argentina and live off self-sufficiency, although the OP replies that it's "the worst plan of all". ironpipo will head off to Brazil to "live it up like a motherf***er" with his savings. Others dream of a cabin to write a manifesto (Abrojo) or of an IMSERSO state-run retirement home (sr andrade).
Epic tone and self-parody
There's no shortage of those who skirt the grotesque: ZX8 sees himself "loaded in a banana republic" with a sugar baby 50 years younger, while MrDanger proposes "blowing myself up in a mosque" and Tappiporla trinc up with a modernist retirement home before the explosion. Dark humour is the courtesy of this thread, where even Autómata asks whether they're serious and nobody answers yes.
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