Admit it. You're getting older

[::: :::]

nwskier, get yourself together, man!
you're not old yet...fight that shit!

[capulin overdrive]

Meh, as long as I get to enjoy a little retirement before kicking the bucket, I'm ok with getting old.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

hahahaha shit 47! the plain jane username shouldve tipped me off... aaron def one of them cranky old fucks

I'm pretty young compared to a lot of the geezers here.

[ill-advised strategy]

I saw a guy mowing grass the other day with a hardhat. What the fuck.

Some fuckface safety guy had a fit at work, a big fit, because there was a half-full jug of windshield washer fluid that wasn't labeled. "it's a chemical"....911. haz mat team. blah blah blah. It's fucking windex.

all this modern-era terrorism paranoia, safety nazi bullshit is accelerating beyond my tolerance for change. It gives me some real distinct existential angst...like I'm not keeping up and I don't really belong in this modern world. I have to wonder if everyone goes through that as they age.

I want so desperately to call the idiots retards and call the pussies faggots. Hey idiot, don't be such a retard...windex isn't a hazardous material. Hey pussy, don't be such a faggot, isis isn't trying to bomb our office in the bumblefuck midwest.. But, you know, that would probably set off some sort of verbal-abuse nuclear meltdown alarm in the overhead camera monitoring system and we wouldn't want that.

[ticketchecker]

The older I get the better I was

[GeezerSteve]

47. Ah, yes, those were the days.

My tipping point was when I started deeming my age of death as "that wild card factor" in my retirement $$ calculation. And I'm up to 2.0 reading glasses.

[TBS]

nwskier, get yourself together, man!
you're not old yet...ignore that shit!

FIFY. Quit being a whiny pussy. Wait until it sounds like somebody's making popcorn in your knees when you stand up. You can't fight time ya gotta just roll with it and maintain your emotional age at a reasonable level - I shoot for 17 myself. And remember to do everything in moderation...including moderation

Happy bday

[yeahman]

I'm in the somewhat interesting position of being younger than I used to be. I've talked about it before but I have this thing called hemochromotosis, which is basically iron overload syndrome.

Kind of curious at what age you started to notice this. My dad has it, told me to get tested but I haven't yet, haven't noticed that I'm feeling bad or anything, still feel pretty darn good actually. Did it happen all of a sudden or slowly or what?

[MagnificentUnicorn]

47. Ah, yes, those were the days.

No shit, I feel great and nearly as strong as I ever have. It does take longer to recover from injuries now though.

The biggest difference is the world we grew up in pre internet and ubiquitous computers/cell phone etc is so far removed to a lot of people now. My childhood was more like my grandparents that my children. They have no concept of a world without internet and cell phones.

[NW_SKIER]

FIFY. Quit being a whiny pussy. Wait until it sounds like somebody's making popcorn in your knees when you stand up. You can't fight time ya gotta just roll with it and maintain your emotional age at a reasonable level - I shoot for 17 myself. And remember to do everything in moderation...including moderation

Happy bday

Go clean your Velcro shoes and get back to me later Bob.

[hutash]

I felt like shit. Really really bad and it was constantly getting worse and worse but I didn't know I had it, I just thought that's how you feel when you get old. Sick, shaky, arthritic, weak. Just bad. .

Naw, that's just getting old, the iron just made it worse. I feel like that every day.

47 isn't even old, but there is a definite downhill slide evident after 45.

[hutash]

No shit, I feel great and nearly as strong as I ever have. It does take longer to recover from injuries now though.

The biggest difference is the world we grew up in pre internet and ubiquitous computers/cell phone etc is so far removed to a lot of people now. My childhood was more like my grandparents that my children. They have no concept of a world without internet and cell phones.

So true. My dad was born when aviation and the automobile barely existed and died after jet aircraft, lunar lands and unmanned missions to mars. No TV, barely radio, literally horse and buggy days. I was born with Sputnik and the space race. Four function calculators were the hot thing, and we still used tables in trig class. My phone has many times more computing power then computer that fill a quarter of the first floor of the new science build in undergrad.

[buttahflake]

AARP card, came in the mail today.
went to the barber shop for the first time in two years, got a 'regular'.
feels good!
still wearing the same size as senior year in '83, 32/32.
keeping on

[snoqpass]

AARP card, came in the mail today.
went to the barber shop for the first time in two years, got a 'regular'.
feels good!
still wearing the same size as senior year in '83, 32/32.
keeping on

Ha ha, I got a birthday card from them the other day too my 30 year old wife thought that was funny until I told her I was signing her up as a spouse

[Tri-Ungulate]

[2FUNKY]

Naw, that's just getting old, the iron just made it worse. I feel like that every day.

47 isn't even old, but there is a definite downhill slide evident after 45.

You hush your mouth.


I turn 45 in nov.

[iceman]

Iceman,
My mom has the same condition....Tests my GP ran aren't shockingly high and didn't make him concerned so I'm not either. Hey, you got to die from something, amIright?

But then you go on to say how shitty and beat up you feel. I thought I was normal all along, I just thought normal was shitty. Normal is not awesome but it's a fuckload better than being poisoned, trust me on that. And they used to think you could only get it if both parents carried the gene but there's a lot of evidence now that even one copy can fuck you up, just more subtly. It's up to you but knowing what I know now I strongly advise you to get it checked out more thoroughly.

Kind of curious at what age you started to notice this. My dad has it, told me to get tested but I haven't yet, haven't noticed that I'm feeling bad or anything, still feel pretty darn good actually. Did it happen all of a sudden or slowly or what?

Super-duper slow-mo. Tiny fucking infinitessimal increments every day of my life. I had no idea I was sick, because it seemed like i had always felt that way. But if I look back I would say I still felt pretty much fine at 35 and pretty much totally shitty 10 years later.

Naw, that's just getting old, the iron just made it worse. I feel like that every day.

With all due respect, you know not of what you speak. Getting old is one thing, getting old while you're slowly being poisoned to death is a whole 'nother thing my man. Old is easy.

[ill-advised strategy]

[iceman]

I. AM. IRONMAN.

The first time I ever heard that song I was living in a tent at a camp in Maine. The tent was on a wood platform and it had electricity. I had fallen asleep with the radio on and I guess the drumbeat at the start woke me up. Pitch fucking dark in a tent in the woods. Then those chords and that voice. Holy shit I freaked the fuck out, every nerve cell in my body freaked out.

And then I became ironman. weird.

[neck beard]

You become invisible to young women.

...but you think that you're not. It's torture.

One change as I aged was noticing that 'young adults' actually think that they are world-making people. Are Hollywood movies that cast 21 year olds as CEO's to blame? As an older guy, mid-20's = empty big-children who just finished school.

At 42 I still have a 25 year old's body. Lucky. But the hairy ears thing is true. And uneven balding looks shit.

Is 50 as old as I am anticipating? It sounds so old.

[iceman]

How long ago was 34?

[ill-advised strategy]

How long ago was 34?

rough year....hobos everywhere. hoover taxing the shit out of everybody. sox had a shitty team.

[BmillsSkier]

Wow, good to find out I'm well below the median age here, you old bags.

Also good to know that so many are still skiing and gettin' after it in their 'old age'. Hope for the future I guess.

[hutash]

I. AM. IRONMAN.

The first time I ever heard that song I was living in a tent at a camp in Maine. The tent was on a wood platform and it had electricity. I had fallen asleep with the radio on and I guess the drumbeat at the start woke me up. Pitch fucking dark in a tent in the woods. Then those chords and that voice. Holy shit I freaked the fuck out, every nerve cell in my body freaked out.

And then I became ironman. weird.

See, it's not genetic is all pop cultures fault.

Getting old sucks, getting old and being sick sucks more. Glad they figured it out and you are doing well.

You should have entered the Tour, you would have kicked that doper's ass.

[iceman]

rough year....hobos everywhere. hoover taxing the shit out of everybody. sox had a shitty team.

Man. I like the concept but FDR became President in '33. Sox were exactly .500.

I remember it fondly.