what else would you do with it?
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Star Wars 7 shit talk
― internet explorer (am0n), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Happy belated, Aimless
I am still free of fortysomethinghood, though not for that long
― Banned on the Run (benbbag), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
ty
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
1.) Walked all the way up to the water company and all the way back without paying because I couldn't remember my PIN.
2.) Was thinking last night how sitcom characters never have names like Matt, Mark or Susan - always names like "Chandler". Led to me trying to remember the characters from Friends. Here they are in order of my memory:
12 AM Chandler, Joey6 AM Rachel8:30 AM Phoebe, RossJUST NOW AS I WAS TYPING THIS ALL OUT Monica
― pplains, Monday, 9 March 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
every white american baseball player between the ages of 18-25 is named tyler
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
who'd have guessed the 10th President of the USA would be so widely honored 170 years later
― Aimless, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suddenly_susan1_4028.jpg
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, 9 March 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Maybe they're all his grandkids.
― pplains, Monday, 9 March 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
I am afraid my 40's are going to involve more full-time work than the last decade did.
― sleeve, Sunday, August 24, 2008 2:25 PM (6 years ago)
I would like to report that I was OTM six years ago
― sleeve, Monday, 9 March 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Less than one year into my 40s and I feel that's going to be a major theme.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
No comment
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
My 40s rule so far
Maybe 42 is the age I was always meant to be, I dunno
― DJP, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
I love being in my 40s, but man, do I hate people under 30 these days. They all seem like their understanding of the world is on a level with a duckling's.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:39 (nine years ago) link
That's weird. My experiences with people under 30 lead me to believe they're all way smarter and engaged with the world than I ever was at that age.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:47 (nine years ago) link
Being "engaged with the world" and being a naïve idiot are not mutually exclusive.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
Turning 44 next week. Ay yi yi.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 03:17 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwQN4UeF8E
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link
I keep telling myself it is just a number, and you know what? that is the fucking truth and it is just a number!
― xelab, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 03:26 (nine years ago) link
I am here to testify that although I'm a pretty damned healthy 60 years old, all those ticks of the clock, cell divisions and heartbeats add up to more than just 'a number'.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 03:34 (nine years ago) link
They're all part of a very limited number, one that rarely crosses over into three digits.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 04:15 (nine years ago) link
I work with a 25-year-old who's going through a bucket list of sorts on Facebook, doing all of these things she's always wanted to do before her first quarter-century is over.
One of them apparently was a big slumber party where everyone watched the Harry Potter movies in order.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
I'm somewhat comforted by the fact that it will be that generation nursing me in hospice care.
some people under 30 are smart and engaged with the world, some are not.
i'm in the 'nothing good about getting older' camp.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 05:38 (nine years ago) link
all those ticks of the clock, cell divisions and heartbeats add up to more than just 'a number'.
feeling this at 57. then again i saw my friends dad recently, wished him a belated HB and he blurted "90 is terrible. 89 was fine, but 90..." as he rattled his walker in emphasis. but he went on to display a fine-tuned cylinders-still-firing mind, at one point noting (he's a retired physician) "the human body wasn't DESIGNED to last this long"
― in-house pickle program (m coleman), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 10:29 (nine years ago) link
So I'm clearly old enough to be somebody's grandfather.
http://i.imgur.com/knmcJJp.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 25 June 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Looked her up and one of the first Google results is a photograph of her from 2004 when she was 10.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 June 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Granted, if I had had a daughter in 1994, I might've named her Malkmus Moore.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 June 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
ffs today I pulled a muscle in my shoulder putting on a jacket
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Tuesday, December 2, 2014 8:41 PM (9 months ago)
This morning I pulled one of the muscles in my back between my shoulder blade and spine, apparently by picking up a coffee cup off the table.
― "Tell them I'm in a meeting purlease" (snoball), Saturday, 19 September 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Timely. I was just thinking today how this year is the first time I've really felt things start to go. Started with a minor fracture in my left forearm in January, which then either led to or exacerbated rotator cuff issues, which I now have in both shoulders (can be painful to reach behind me at certain angles, can't quite reach my left arm all the way over my head). And in the last few months, suddenly getting pain in my right hip when I sit for too long (or stand for too long). I have a feeling the answer to all of this is to get back to yoga, which I've neglected this year. But no amount of yoga will change that I'll be 46 next week.
On the other hand -- I'm still fit enough to hike and camp with the kids, and most days I feel great. So I shouldn't complain. I'm just aware of the slow accretion of physical difficulties.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 19 September 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
And looking back I see my first post in this thread was when I was 39. Ah those were the days.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 19 September 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
Along with my PIN and the cast of Friends, I haven't been able to remember the name of the book that Harper Lee wrote.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? NO, of course not.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings? That's Maya Angelou, but I feel like I'm getting closer.
I could look it up, but this is ridiculous. Atticus Finch, Scout Finch, Dill, Boo Radley... dammit.
― pplains, Thursday, 3 March 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Jesus Christ.
― pplains, Thursday, 3 March 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
lol
Similar thing happened to me the other day. Even though I could picture all the characters from the show and sing most of the theme song in my head, I could NOT remember the title being "Beverly Hillbillies."
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 3 March 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
Ha. To your credit though, the title is never said in the song. Just kind of at the end by the announcer.
― pplains, Thursday, 3 March 2016 14:40 (eight years ago) link
rip men
The biggest threat facing middle-age men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Can't go out on Wednesday nights, that's Church Night.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 March 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link
I don't hang with my pals as much anymore because, yeah work and family, but also social media. Saw an old poker buddy recently in the parking lot, first time we'd seen each other in years, but it wasn't like one minute had passed because we tweet and Like and all that shit.
I worry about my son being lonely like that. The one standing event we have on the calendar each week is Cub Scouts. The format is so weird, and I likely wouldn't have prodded him in to checking it out had I known that it was just a roomful of boys, each with their mommy or daddy sitting behind them, working on projects independently. We've been in there since September, and I don't know if the boy even knows any of their names.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 March 2017 01:09 (seven years ago) link
suggest inserting liquid mercury for the boy's pinewood derby entry
it won't win -- the mercury sloshes backward once you hit the level -- but it'll still be cool as hell
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 March 2017 01:28 (seven years ago) link
Don't even mention the pinewood derby.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 March 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
i was going to attempt to address the issues raised in the article but . . . my life is different from the author's in a great many ways
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 March 2017 01:53 (seven years ago) link
People even moving to a different neighborhood in the same city can make it hard to hang out. We try to hang out with another couple every month, usually we make it work out, but I don't have any non-work-related buddies to hang out with at this point. I'm lucky I get along with people at my job!
I figure if I can maintain a couple of hobbies that aren't exclusively drinking or exclusively solitary into my dotage, I should be okay.
― SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Thursday, 16 March 2017 02:08 (seven years ago) link
"the human body wasn't DESIGNED to last this long"
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 16 March 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link
Lack of meaning and enjoyment in life is the primary problem I would guess: e.g. why are I going through all these empty routines, did I waste 20 years of my life on something I haven't particularly enjoyed, can I face another x years of this and what for?
Loneliness is a secondary problem because there's no support to deal with the meaningfulness questions.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Thursday, 16 March 2017 08:09 (seven years ago) link
I get irritated with probably well intentioned, but fluffy, articles in the media about how everything would be alright if only people would talk to each other more and had deeper friendships.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Thursday, 16 March 2017 08:17 (seven years ago) link
both those posts otm
― Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 March 2017 09:14 (seven years ago) link
I have family and close friends and work people I'm friendly with and a pub full of people I can generally chat to and hang with and ILX and the emptiness doesn't go away hardly ever
― Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 March 2017 09:17 (seven years ago) link
People conditioned to underrate salary, comfort, entertainment by the last twenty years of thinkpieces imo
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 March 2017 09:56 (seven years ago) link
hey if my salary was only a couple of thousand nearer the national median a lot of things would be notably rosier
― Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 March 2017 09:59 (seven years ago) link
but the rest of it is nah you're advocating for emptiness. tho I guess I have no ish with Emptiness. everything sent to try us mebbe.
― Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 March 2017 10:01 (seven years ago) link