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I remember my Uncle Tom and Auntie Gladys doing the Meals On Wheels run for "The old'uns". They were both in their 80s at this time - half the people they were delivering to were younger than them. Age really is a state of mind.
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Yep, she has only recently scaled back the organisations she has been active in such as the scouts, local operatic society and blood donors.
Keep mind and body busy.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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My Dad is 83 and Mum 78, they seem to have an endless list of commitments. Mum sings [she's cut back to three choirs and guesting for the other two], Dad is part of the management of the rugby club and is there almost every day [even when the bar is closed]. Coupled with the half dozen holidays they have each year, they need to be fit to do everything.
Half way through typing this, Mum called asking for a lift over to the station in the morning. She's orf to Norn Iron for an Old Girls Lunch and to visit the myriad friends and relations.
speramus in juniperus
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My Grandmother, some 40 years ago, was complaining to two other inmates at the Old People's Home she lived in about how old she was. They sympathised and offered to do what they could to help her. Ma was 76 and the other two where both in their 90's.
speramus in juniperus
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Age is mostly mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter
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I was checking my translated name in google (check signature) and I found that google translated same name in two different spelling 
SO محمد is Mohamed & Mohammed
And why there is 2 dots 
modified 11-Nov-13 6:08am.
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This is an English Speaking site.
Very few people would know what to call you as most do not speak Arabic.
(Quite a few struggle with English, but that is a whole other can of Americans worms).
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: Very few people
Not really quantifiable, is it?
Wamuti: Any man can be an island, but islands to need water around them!
Edmund Burke: No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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ER.. Yes.
How many people in the world speak English?
Answer: Most.
Whereas Arabic is spoken only in North Africa and the ME.
In terms of absolute numbers, English is the most spoken language in the world.
(Granted, not as a mother tongue, but in terms of number of individuals who can speak English to some extent).
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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And I'd guess probably 100% of Codeproject members (not including spammers) speak English. 
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I would certainly agree that it would be no more than 100% and probably not much less.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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More like 15-20%, atcherley -- the bulk of them in the earlier stages of ESL.
More people speak Mandarin (and a lot more people read Chinese than English).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How many Chinese speak some English?
I would suggest it runs to Millions.
And there are 1.1 Billion Indians for whom English is one of the Official Languages.
Virtually every European has some English.
Nigeria is the largest country in Africa (By population) and it speaks English.
As do Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana etc.
There are at least 1.5 Billion speakers of English, rather more than the 1.02 Billion speakers of Mandarin.
Of the about 200 countries in the world, one third speak English as an official language.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: There are at least nowhere near 1.5 Billion native speakers of English, rather more less than the 1.02 .955 Billion native speakers of Mandarin.
Just because you want it to be so don't make it so[^].
-- If you include people who speak "some" of a language, the figures are even worse.
-- If you include people who read Chinese, they're off the charts (there are several spoken Chinese languages, other than Mandarin, but only two written Chinese languages, which are readable by all).
-- The figures for English include the population of the USA, who have their own language, which is in some ways more different from English than Cantonese is from Mandarin.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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BTW:
Dalek Dave wrote: Of the about 200 countries in the world, one third speak English as an official language.
Only an accountant could typo a fifth as a third.
And let's not bother to mention that most of that fifth are countries so small that you can drive through them in a day (or could, if they had roads).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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According to me this is your name translated[/\]...
Well true, I have it that your name is محمد م محمد
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I've been calling you squiggle.
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Looks like "Jako P Jako" to me, so I vote for "Jackie".
Every character is totally alien to me. I kinda like that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm changing my vote from Jackie to Jojo!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My real name is the same as my password, and follows these rules[^]
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I'll never be able to find one, I don't know any gang member wanting to teach me their sign.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Just create your own gang then 
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Certainly: •••••
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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