Carry On Bronteing
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
One upside: being a dirty old man sort of suits me.
-- Rock Hardy
^^^
― moley, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― mark e, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Come on - you're not too old to have forgotten this thread already... I am too old for this...the 40 plus thread.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't even remember that thread but this one could do with a few more ovaries...
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 28 August 2008 08:53 (fifteen years ago) link
my right knee
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
wait, is your right knee also my right knee. Because - my right knee.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
No knee problems, but a lingering cough and all.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
my left knee
― in an arrangement that mimics idiocy (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
Knees still fine, but ow my aching fibroid. Roll on the menopause, please.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
back pain... bruised rib?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
Have you banged a rib?
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Not that I remember ... had a sidewalk fall about 6 weeks ago but I'm positive I landed on knees.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
I always have back pain. I just attribute it to "lol old, also sit up straight dummy" at this point.
Had surgery three weeks ago to correct a compressed ulnar nerve in my left arm. Incision is taking it's sweet time healing all the way.
The rest of my 40s are going to suck, aren't they.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
Upper, lower, middle back, Morbz?
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
left middle-lower
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Saggy mattress? I can definitely trace my back pain to mattress + increasing girth.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I try to sleep flat on my back w/a pillow under my knees when I get back pain.
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
well I sleep with my bed titled to ease the acid reflux. But yeah, mattress is old and crap.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Lord Paillasse?
Tilted means your back is still bearing weight.
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
usually sleep on my side (the right since pain started obv)
but pain is not as bad as it was in January.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Seen a chiropractor at all or anybody, really?
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
as an ILXOR in my 40s, I can confirm that GOOD POSTURE is urgent and key - even making the effort to sit up straighter at yr desk can have a tremendously positive effect on neck and back pain
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
I sleep on my side as well, and trial and error has led to this successful formula: an extra pillow to straighten my neck, and a pillow between my legs to elevate my top leg and straighten my spine. I'm still grinked up in the morning, but it eases by my 2nd cup of coffee.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
I see my GP every summer, and that takes effort.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
ppl our age really can't eat Indian food w/out sacrifice, eh?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
tmi
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
wow, earliest sign here of my back pain that turned out to be Something Serious, unrelated to posture. Had no idea it started in winter.
Hesitated this time before throwing out mailing w/ AARP card.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 January 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
My vision has gone 'bifocalish', ie I gotta take the glasses off to read.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:05 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is driving me fkin CRAZY. I just got new frames, which I love, but I only get to wear em 15% of the time. I opted not to get the progressive lenses bc I was afraid it would be annoying but...
Also damn but I (b.1970) spent 2012 feeling just physically OLD.
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 January 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
I feel great, I realize I'm fortunate to remember things other people don't, and I wouldn't trade that for anything. My sister doesn't remember our grandfather, for example - he died in 1975. I think she feels this loss, it's a piece of her history she can only access through pictures.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 4 January 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
a sign of middle age truculence ids you're stil lwilling to put up with the morning after Indian food.
(yes i have passed out of strict eligibility for this thread, whatcha gonna do abt it?)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
Hi dere
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 6 August 2016 11:05 (seven years ago) link
owhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ7NMg3-E50
― and all the politicians making crazy sounds (snoball), Saturday, 6 August 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
Welp.
― Pascal's Penisés (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:22 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB74GuvPBh8
― imago, Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:25 (six years ago) link
lol u old
― Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast." (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 September 2017 11:27 (six years ago) link
When I was a young, I lolled as a young. When I became an old, I put away slacks that only went as high as my waist.
― Pascal's Penisés (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 September 2017 12:03 (six years ago) link
Oof. Hello.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 28 December 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
Whassup fellow elders!
― calstars, Thursday, 28 December 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
Two months to go then I'm hitting the next thread up, bye-bye 40s it was (not) fun
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 28 December 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
Three years and two months for me still, so let's see how the last quarter of fortydom plays out.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 December 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
http://blog.mtgprice.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Pain.jpg
I have 47 months of my 40s left. Wheeeee!
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 December 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
on the plus side - I've felt so jaded in my 40's, that rather than worrying about illness and mortality, I started thinking: let's not be so reductive about death here.
― calzino, Thursday, 28 December 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
one month left for me.~ sigh ~
― mark e, Thursday, 28 December 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
Same. Thirty-one days exactly!
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 28 December 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
See y'all in a few months!
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 28 December 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
I feel like I should throw a party but I have hearing damage and it would basically involve me having a five-hour migraine and hiding from people. I do want to celebrate, though. Just trying to figure out how.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 28 December 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
post that effortlessly sum up being in your forties tbh.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 28 December 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
and lol at calzino. eventual death doesn’t seem nearly so much of a bad deal as it once did.
Seriously, sadly.
Just realized even though they just started that my 40s are already 1/40th over. Guess I need to hurry up and write that book or whatever it is I'm doing with this stupid 'life' thing before I'm a brittle dusty mummy.
― Encyclopedia Beige and the Case of the Bland Sandwich (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
eh?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:19 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:57 (two weeks ago) link
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 :(
― kinder, Friday, 29 March 2024 22:14 (two weeks ago) link
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
― calstars, Saturday, 13 April 2024 21:10 (five days ago) link
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.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:32 (four days ago) link
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
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:53 (four days ago) link