This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

You tell us, you're the role models for those of us in our thirties, y'see.

My vision has gone 'bifocalish', ie I gotta take the glasses off to read.

left out we certainly be should not.

Ah, the Iain Sinclair "serendipitous random art collage" problem (xp).

I wish I could afford a midlife crisis -- I'd sure have one.

Wait, what were we talking about again? I must have dozed off.

Btw, Rock, that just means you'll have to live longer.

The nights are fair drawing in.

My toes hurt -- do yours? I think it must be this weather.

Shit, Michael, with my genes I'm doomed to 95 years at least.

I blame it on so-called asylum seeking feral politically correct Broken Britain.

(the weather, that is)

That monologue with Rhys Ifans last night.

What was all that about?

Eh?

Eh?

I can't stop feeling all \o_O/ seeing twentysomething girls wearing essentially the same fashions that girls wore when I was twenty.

Actually more like when I was fifteen.

Haven't exactly been bombarded by deelyboppers and pop socks around these parts.

Shoreham - liminal, but copper messy.

One upside: being a dirty old man sort of suits me.

I had my midlife crisis from the ages of approx 15-42 so I reckon I'm due uncomplicated happiness now.

This thread is so much like me at an FAP that it's spooking me out.

Yeah, I'm drinking here at work, too.

One upside: being a dirty old man sort of suits me. -- Rock Hardy

As per suits, I don't think I've got any I fit into anymore.
On the, er, thinner side: I amn't that dirty really.

Just don't recognise anything in this thread. Including the posts I posted so that suggests it was probably a crap idea. Oh well, it was worth a momentary try.

Please to God never let me actually become a "fortysomething."

One upside: being a dirty old man sort of suits me.

What are the characteristics of a fortysomething? (I bet I have most of them).

I can legally have an affair with someone half my age!

so, is anyone on for it?

thread is otm, though now I can also see how it mightn't be otm, and would not be surprised to find myself arguing either side of the question for fifteen minutes or so before getting completely distracted by some other stray thought

They say memory is the second thing to go. I can't remember the first one.

My drug of choice these days is Back and Body aspirin, for that extra frisson of caffeine.

Memory is going, true, but at least I remember the 70s

Memory is going, true, but at least I have begun forgetting the 70's.

hi.

um, I'm OK.

What are the characteristics of a fortysomething?

Being aged between 40 and 49. Anyway I though we were all 'middle youths' nowadays.

sorry to have woken you oldtimers up . but. I misread Marcello's OP as

Yes, I know, creeping balkanisation etc. but why should we be left out?

But please leave cheeky Ovaries at the door.

-- Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:35 PM (7 hours ago)

I'll have you know my ovaries are extremely well-behaved; veritable paragons of polite ovarian society.

The ovaries are fine, but I'm prone to brain farts now.

The world's worst song.

Comparing your ovary to a Bronte C/D?

Wuthering Ovaries

Thrustcrotch Minge

Carry On Bronteing

One upside: being a dirty old man sort of suits me.

-- Rock Hardy

^^^

haven't you all heard - us 40+'rs are saving the music industry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/stevelamacq/2008/08/to_bb_or_not_to_bb.html

Come on - you're not too old to have forgotten this thread already...
I am too old for this...the 40 plus thread.

Don't even remember that thread but this one could do with a few more ovaries...

my right knee

wait, is your right knee also my right knee. Because - my right knee.

No knee problems, but a lingering cough and all.

my left knee

Charlie horses are leg cramps huh. I had them ALL THE TIME when I was pregnant. and also after when I used to go to gigs.

I guess this is the general body complaint thread now so I’ll share that I have a rash on two of my fingers

So I called your mom and told her I couldn’t make it tonight

Guilty lol

To read books, I don't need glasses.

To read this screen, I need this pair (blue)

To drive, the black pair.

Drinking pickle juice instantly cures leg cramps for me. Learned it from my dad who gets brutal cramps.

My life was greatly improved when I moved from readers to progressive lens glasses and bifocal contacts.

pickle juice? just get some damn electrolytes!

seriously though, any sports thing with some essential salts and getting more potassium in your diet helps with the cramps and it’s like magic for me. results may vary

thing = drink

Pickle juice taste better though.

Yeah I was going to say - bananas help with leg cramps if you get them a lot because of the potassium but I would be fine with drinking pickle juice too.

is pickle juice....vinegar?

cucumber and dill flavoured vinegar

Was gonna post this on the Hello Nasty thread but seems better here: I recently was driving my 12 & 13y/o nephews and looking for something to play that they might like, noticed the Hello Nasty CD and thought "oh yeah, slam dunk, this will be right in the strike zone for two silly boys that age who are just starting to get interested in music". They both hated it so much, "WHAT is this CRAZY NOISE?", etc. I explained to them that the disc we were listening to was actually once belonged to their mother, purchased on the day it came out in 1998 and well loved for many years, and they straight up did not believe me. "Yeah right, nice try! Mom would NEVER listen to anything like this!" I am here in this thread to say that I felt, at that moment, like an ILXor in my forties.

cucumber and dill flavoured vinegar

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

trans girl catnip

so last night I offered to help a few of my closest friends move. their new place is on the third floor, a winding staircase (similar to one I lived at ten years ago).

idk if it's just that I'm older and more out of shape or what, but within an hour my knees were buckling from the constant carrying of things up that staircase. this morning, I'm having trouble standing up due to the knee pain.

biofreeze morning!

fuck no thanks to that

knees, you got off lightly tbh its the back will kill you

what was the "crazy noise" One Eye Open?

Tell them about the bit you had to 'rewind' the CD to hear on demand and why that was so amazing at the time, they will be so impressed and fascinated (ok they won't be)

xp Just like the first minute or so of "Super Disco Breakin" - I honestly dont think they totally understood that it was even a song at first, and they were just incredulous that this crazy chaotic nonsense was music that people would listen to & enjoy. Its funny bc I wasn't trying to score cool points or "teach them about good music" or anything like that, just naively thinking "this will be an easy, unremarkable choice for everyone". They have a fairly limited media diet but they hear pop radio and are aware of & enjoy acts like Imagine Dragons, Lil Nas X, etc, but I didnt fully appreciate how they still seemed to have no frame of reference for something that sounds like that.

fuck no thanks to that

knees, you got off lightly tbh its the back will kill you

my back's not great and I have a degenerative disc in my neck. the latter is often unnoticeable until random times where I can only sit in one fixed position or feel the most repeated, uncomfortable twinges. but fortunately that's maybe once or twice a year for a few days each time

Listening to "Super Disco Breakin'" now for probably the first time in 20 years. It's true that you don't hear this kind of sound in popular music anymore, really sounds very much of its time (in a good way).

Also this album which seemed mostly unremarkable to me at the time sounds really good to me right now, about three tracks in.

BODY MOVIN

right knee is fine now. left one still unusually stiff. no actual pain, but all of the muscles extremely tight.

i have arthritis per last ortho clinic visit, so probably a combination of that and pushing muscles beyond what they're used to.

aka body movin

lol

i pushed furniture around all afternoon and tweaked a knee ligament or three at football an hour ago so i hear all of that

did the other guy get sent off

he fell backwards into me

at our age and level these mishaps are almost guaranteed to be bumbling rather than malice

big unit last week tried to turn too quick and locked himself. we had to load him sideways into the back seat like he was a set of drawers to get him home

it aint glamorous

Tfw you realize you’re wearing clothes like it’s 1995 and everyone around you looks like they’re going to or coming from the gym

Didn't know that people wore PAJAMAS to the gym.

I won't be at the doctor's until this weekend to confirm, but I think I've developed my first ulcer, likely due to prolonged ibuprofen use to treat jaw-clenching pain.

In just the last couple of weeks my eyesight has become noticeably worse. I booked myself into the opticians and they rang and asked why I was seeing them before I was due. I told them and they sent me to the eye hospital. Luckily I'm fine but I do need glasses.

At the same time I can very suddenly and noticeably feel the skin around my neck feels looser and wrinklier in a way it hadn't before.

That's it guys, I'm officially middle aged!

Identified my year of retirement: 2037

not so bad!

Jonah who will turn 62 in the year 2037

It's coming up.

I have less than 9 months to go before I graduate from this thread and now I’m getting all the back and leg aches y’all have been talking about… I used to be able to sit cross-legged on the floor for hours without problems… oops

I lost complete hearing in my left ear six months ago. No biggie

eh?

jk sry

Ha! I’m having surgery in a month. They think one of those tiny lil ear bones lost connection so they’re gonna put a prosthetic in. Should get a lot but not all of it back. It’s seriously disorienting not to have hearing in one ear. I cannot geolocate sounds for the life of me.

this happened to my husband about 10 years ago. never got the hearing back. he can't tell where any sound is coming from, it's pretty bad. plus tinnitus :(

I don’t wear bifocals or glasses of any sort but I do now (in my forties) understand why older people who do will tilt their head down when they look at something across the room and up when reading something in small print

I've got a painful foot/big toe. I've done some reading about gout and spoken to my dad, who suffers periodically, so pretty sure it's not that. I think it's probably a pressure/RSI from all the walking I do? It's manageable but is just another one of those 'it's always there' aches that makes up my body map.

I'm also now the proud owner of a 'bunion sleeve', which sounds like a rejected name for a 'combine two nouns' death metal band.

My left knee inflammation only really cleared up this week. Reaggravated it shortly after it got better when I went ziplining due to the upstairs climb. Can finally bend it again lol.

Now minor left hip twinges showed up but not painful, but enough to where I'm walking a LITTLE different