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Post by Crunchy Col on Nov 13, 2019 22:49:06 GMT
How'd you define it in terms of age range? mentality? You're probably there now. How is it? Have you embraced it? Would you prefer to be younger? Would you like to be thought of as 'youthful'? When does 'old' start?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 22:51:16 GMT
I don't like it much. I'm sort of looking forward to being old.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Nov 13, 2019 22:51:19 GMT
I don’t know, man, I just bought a cowbell yesterday.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 22:54:32 GMT
I wouldn't mind buying a cow. I'm surprised more people don't do it. I'm always running out of milk, it'd be quite handy to have a ready source out in the back garden.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Nov 13, 2019 22:56:19 GMT
I think middle age happens when you start to talk like ol’ Toby or Goat Boy. Or maybe that’s old age. Either way, I’m not there.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 23:27:55 GMT
Can you make the font bigger? I can't read the smallish print.
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Post by countmachuki on Nov 13, 2019 23:31:44 GMT
I'm still on that line between "sir" and "man" when people address me. Both piss me off in their own way.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 23:35:26 GMT
I can't play hoops anymore, in fact I can't do any running without compression sleeves around my lower legs or I pop a calf muscle.
I used to be really good at remembering bands, names, trivia, but last week the word "cucumber" escaped me.
As I mentioned in the 2010s thread, I have recently walked into face-to-face interviews after initial phone interviews that have gone perfectly well to see the look on people's faces when I walk in the door. I have my hair and I'm not a fat pig so I'm not totally obscene, but my hair is mostly gray now. As I mentioned, an older co-worker mentioned this phenomenon happening to him about 10-12 years ago and now it's happening to me. No one wants an elder statesman, and especially not in Silicon Valley.
Yesterday, a co-worker said my shirt looked nice and I told her that my son sometimes will tell me that I look good. I respond to him that I haven't looked good in 15 years.
I have pretty much adjusted to it, but I have to remember that it just looks creepy trying to flirt with women of a certain age and younger.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 23:58:22 GMT
It's lit af.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2019 0:10:47 GMT
A couple more things. . .
Because I have gout now, I really have to watch what I eat and drink.
And I've got arthritis in my toes and ankles, partly from all the pounding they took running up and down the court. I quit playing competitive basketball about 10 years ago because I've had to kick older guys off rec league teams when they couldn't hack it and I didn't want to be that guy. Playing pick-up hoops, I use to listen to the older guys complain about all their aches and pains as we sat out games waiting for the next one and now I've gone way beyond that.
Last year, I tried to get into basketball shape again and one of the things I used to do is jump from the ground to the top of a picnic table from a standing start 10 times to improve my jumping. I tried it last year and I could only jump as high as the table bench. And could only do it four or five times.
I'm a fucking wreck.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2019 0:15:40 GMT
I'm still on that line between "sir" and "man" when people address me. Both piss me off in their own way. OK Dude..
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2019 0:21:22 GMT
A couple more things. . . Because I have gout now, I really have to watch what I eat and drink. And I've got arthritis in my toes and ankles, partly from all the pounding they took running up and down the court. I quit playing competitive basketball about 10 years ago because I've had to kick older guys off rec league teams when they couldn't hack it and I didn't want to be that guy. Playing pick-up hoops, I use to listen to the older guys complain about all their aches and pains as we sat out games waiting for the next one and now I've gone way beyond that. Last year, I tried to get into basketball shape again and one of the things I used to do is jump from the ground to the top of a picnic table from a standing start 10 times to improve my jumping. I tried it last year and I could only jump as high as the table bench. And could only do it four or five times. I'm a fucking wreck. I miss dunking a basketball. Something emotionally satisfying about it..Sadly, an old Achilles injury popping back up around ten years ago ended hoops for me..
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2019 0:34:43 GMT
A couple more things. . . Because I have gout now, I really have to watch what I eat and drink. And I've got arthritis in my toes and ankles, partly from all the pounding they took running up and down the court. I quit playing competitive basketball about 10 years ago because I've had to kick older guys off rec league teams when they couldn't hack it and I didn't want to be that guy. Playing pick-up hoops, I use to listen to the older guys complain about all their aches and pains as we sat out games waiting for the next one and now I've gone way beyond that. Last year, I tried to get into basketball shape again and one of the things I used to do is jump from the ground to the top of a picnic table from a standing start 10 times to improve my jumping. I tried it last year and I could only jump as high as the table bench. And could only do it four or five times. I'm a fucking wreck. I miss dunking a basketball. Something emotionally satisfying about it..Sadly, an old Achilles injury popping back up around ten years ago ended hoops for me.. That will do it. I don't even know how NBA guys come back from something like that and they have all the training and therapy in the world to lean back on.
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Post by fange on Nov 14, 2019 5:32:32 GMT
Middle age sucks, apart from the fact that i know more than i did; i'll probably start forgetting it anyway.
Your body doesn't work as well, you know you have less years to live, and people want or expect you to start acting certain ways just because of that number, and sometimes you fall for it too.
But at least you're alive. By MA, we usually know some friends or family who weren't that lucky.
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Post by tory on Nov 14, 2019 7:00:35 GMT
I think middle age happens when you start to talk like ol’ Toby or Goat Boy. Or maybe that’s old age. Either way, I’m not there. What, like, reasonably and with wisdom?
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