This is a thread for ILXors in their 30's!!! yo yo yo breakdancing etc...

I live near the University. The students get younger every year, I swear I don't get any older.

What about policemen? It's always the first sign of real aging when policemen start to look ridiculously young.

(College students have always seemed like kids to me - even when I was one.)

I was at a dinner party recently, and the topic turned to litmus tests to see whether someone was the sort of person you'd want to date or not. And this one young woman said "I like to ask what his favourite album is, I find that tells me a lot about a person." And I had to bite my tongue from saying "Wow, you really are 21, aren't you?"

Roffle. So otm. My friend and I were walking on a saturday evening. I noticed the young kids walking around in their "hip threads." I told my friend I didn't understand it nor could I read the "cues". My friend said that theur clothes were horrific. I replied that if these teenagers would hear, they'd be glad she said that. Then she added:"But my son would agree." I jokingly said her son had the mental age of a 40 year old. ;-) I sincerely hope my kids do sort of rebel and act young. That's what they are supposed to do. I sadly did that way too late.

That said, I do really like the fashion of young people nowadays even though I can not "read" it that well.

guys, michael jackson turns 50 today.

Such a down thread. What about all the cool stuff? The ability to go out without being carded? The extra salary you (probably) command? The heightened sex drive in women?

The ability to go out without being carded?

Hahah, I get carded all the time, trust me. I did get the extra salary, though, just the other day.

By "carded" you mean being asked for proof of age in a bar, right? That's never happened to me, even when I was 17/18. The extra salary though? Yeah, I'm, er... working on it...

I was carded for the first time on my 18th birthday and kicked out of the pub because they thought I had fake ID.

xxp Is that what we all have to look forward to? WAU.

The heightened sex drive in women?

The what now?

You are bang on your sexual peak ffs.

Tell that to my implanon implant *mutter*.

The heightened sex drive in women?

Yeah, I was going to ask about that one. Always assumed it was a myth to help women of a certain age get boyfriends.

The ability to go out without being carded?

on saturday i was at 7-11 picking up a 6 pack before a bbq. there were three cops in line behind me, when i got to the register there was a sign that says 'WE CARD ANYONE WHO APPEARS TO BE UNDER 40 YEARS OF AGE'. i did not get carded.

"14 YEAR OLD PASSES MEDICAL BOARD - KID DOCTOR CAN'T BUY BEER - CAN PRESCRIBE DRUGS"

No, it's that a woman reaches her sexual PEAK at age 39.

Peak != heightened sex drive, it's that sex is physically more enjoyable for older women. Supposedly.

Me, I can't remember.

(I think it has something to do with, like, multiple orgasms and the like.)

I hope so!

Ditto!

(also if 40yo women think they're sexually incredible their boyfriends will get some)

on saturday i was at 7-11 picking up a 6 pack before a bbq. there were three cops in line behind me, when i got to the register there was a sign that says 'WE CARD ANYONE WHO APPEARS TO BE UNDER 40 YEARS OF AGE'. i did not get carded.

-- chicago kevin, Sunday, 31 August 2008 02:29 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

This is getting silly now. Soon it'll be 'ANYONE WITHOUT A ZIMMER FRAME OR A COLOSTOMY BAG WILL BE CARDED'

"(also if 40yo women think they're sexually incredible their boyfriends will get some)"

I love this statement because where shall I begin to dismantle it. It's not like women get duped into thinking they are sexually incredible.

It's also not a situation of "women think they are sexy therefore men get to have sex with them."

The whole premise - that a woman "thinks" she is sexually incredible leads to someone "getting some" is really gross.

Well, I guess. I know I put out more when I'm duped into thinking I am sexually incredible.

I only ever think I'm lucky.

Well, cheers!
That's not the point.

the point is, we are all sexually incredible

or incredulous.

I give up.

It's also not a situation of "women think they are sexy therefore men get to have sex with them."

Have you ever tried to have a fully functioning love life with a woman who doesn't think she's sexy? It's fucking heartbreaking.

no. but like i say, I'm lucky. and happy.

and more than a bit drunk.

That's not what I meant!

"if 40yo women think they're sexually incredible their boyfriends will get some."

It just seems like a statement that is WRONG - because who is giving the 40yo women the thought and how is the thought validated?
I am never going to win this argument -mostly because I'm probably over reacting to a statement that was meant to be complimentary to women.

the more I think about it the more I sort of agree. With you guys.

Shit. Well, I will defer to my equals.

(also if 40yo women think they're sexually incredible their boyfriends will get some)

-- Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 31 August 2008 07:43 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^ was 100% joke. hth

I don't know what hth means.

hope this helps

(hth)

thanks!

Also MarkC -that sounds awful. And kudos to you for recognizing that feeling sexy is pretty much reliant on having a good self image.

I get caught in that trap - I feel ugly and fat and awkward.And I hate relying on my brain to get me out of those situations. I should feel gorgeous -not because I am, but because I'm the one who determines it.

I have never posted a picture of myself. There's a few from a long time ago. Somewhere, and you don't really need to search.
I get sort of dismayed by the images. You are all so beautiful, and I'm not really all that.
But I also feel like being camera ready isn't a quality that I want or need.
I actually HATE having my picture taken. Maybe it's because everyone is taking pictures all the time. My young lol college friends have thousands of pictures on the facebook. But to me it's like a slide show that has no context.

Anyway, this thread has been kidnapped. All the thirty somethings are out partying?

Just put the baby to bed.

I also hate having my picture taken, and always have.

I regret bringing up the libido thing now sorry.

It is one of nature/fate/society's cruel ironies, that just when we are at the point where we are most physically able to enjoy ourselves sexually, we're locked in this shame spiral of "oh no, I'm old, I'm fat I must be ugly" and therefore become unable to enjoy that physicality.

I don't know if it's actually physiological, or if it's more that women at the age of 39 are supposed to have had enough practice to *know* what feels good to them, to know how to go about getting orgasms (even multiple ones) and fertility has decreased to the point where getting pregnant is not so great a risk, yet not so much that we're dried up hormoneless old biddies... oh yeah, and in traditional societies where women would have been married in their teens and bred aged 20, their babies are all grown up and out of the nest leaving space and time finally for whoopie-making...

Wow, I didn't finish that sentence. Never post before you've had your tea. Wow.

I stayed up all night drawing. My mind isn't working clearly.

haha drawing, you're old

I have friends who are 21. When I was 21 I had a couple of friends who were ~34, but the gap was obvious.

Today we saw footage of Patrick Moore in 1957, 34, all Brylcreemed and looking like that bloke out of Bewitched.

When I was 21 I had a couple of friends who were ~34, but the gap was obvious.

Actually, sometimes it wasn't obvious, and I was an immature 21 so pls disregard

I was thinking this morning as I was changing the battery in the smoke detector that the only things I can think of that use those rectangular 9-volts are detectors, guitar pedals, and those old blip football games.

I doubt anyone more than ten years older than me remembers those things and anyone born after 1983 surely has no idea what I'm talking about, unless they've been to a gizmo museum lately.

the football games. I'm sure everyone of all ages knows about smoke detectors and guitar pedals.

http://ledfootball.com/