This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

Huuuuuuuuh.

Welp.

I find myself doing that all the time. I see someone in an old movie or TV show who seems like a capital-A Adult, an elder if you will, and then discover, yeah, I'm older now than they were there. Sheesh.

i try not to think about it but it was super cool of this person to call it to our attention

Dylan in particular there does that for me. In the '80s when I was in high school and college, he seemed so ridiculously OLD. He'd been through like five different careers. But for nearly the whole decade he was younger than I am now. (There's a "My Back Pages" joke there somewhere.)

Though of course with my couple of career changes and divorces and a kid in middle school, I know I am myself ridiculously old.

As it happens, I was born exactly 30 years after Bob Dylan, so I have an ever-present reference point here.

I'm right between Harrison and Dylan in that picture.

Jeff Lynne still looks exactly the same

i guess i didn't realize Orbison was only 52 when he died

So, going by 2017 numbers:

<pre>DYLAN : 47 : DMX</pre>
<pre>LYNNE : 41 : RICK ROSS</pre>
<pre>PETTY : 37 : GUCCI MANE</pre>
<pre>ORBISON : 52 : DR. DRE</pre>
<pre>HARRISON : 45 : BUSTA RHYMES</pre>

"Old Man Tries CSS on HTML Machine, Film at Eleven."

DYLAN : 47 : DMX

LYNNE : 41 : RICK ROSS

PETTY : 37 : GUCCI MANE

ORBISON : 52 : DR. DRE

HARRISON : 45 : BUSTA RHYMES

in other oh fuck we're dying fast news, twitter informs me that "Girl You Know It's True" is thirty years old.

:(

I just heard "handle with care" in the grocery store the other day for the first time in ages and immediately though how three of them are dead now. I had no idea that Tom Petty was only 37 then, they all seemed so ancient.

I think about this a lot in context a lot of those 80s network tv dramas from the 80s that I knew of but never really watched when I was a kid. Magnum PI and Matt Houston were both my current age (43) or younger when those shows were on but they looked SO OLD and I refuse to believe that they aren't like 50 years old in pictures from that era:

http://dtlon6z3v1kfl.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/19155710/Aloha-Shirts-Tom-Selleck-Magnum-portrait1.jpg

http://www.davidhedison.net/hedison/galleries/gueststar/Matt_Houston/Matt01.jpg

omg i totally forgot about matt houston

I had no idea that Tom Petty was only 37 then

Petty didn't seem that old to me at the time. i was really only familiar with his MTV era songs when the Wiburys hit and i guess he didn't really start charting until his late 20s. wasn't until he died that i realized he was the same age as my mom. he certainly seemed a lot more of my gen than hers.

the rest though def seemed like grandpas.

I had no idea that Tom Petty was only 37 then, they all seemed so ancient.

and yet bowie was older and didn’t. perhaps the wilburys were just strange.

Petty def the youngest one and always the weakest link in the Wilburys but sorry, I’ll duck off and take it to some TW thread

But yeah I’ve lapped the fools and the bartenders at the bars by a factor of at least one and it’s amusing as hell

I realised recently that had I had kids as soon as feasible (lets say at 21), I could now easily be a grandma if my daughter did too. Ack.

yeah i know someone younger than us who’s solidly a grandfather, meanwhile we almost owned a cat once

I was looking up people from my grade school, and a girl who was in my class IS a grandma.

Maybe I should share that the next time someone tells I'm young and have plenty of time to have kids.

This has come up already OTT but my grandma was 37 when I was born.

how can you tell whether you have lower back pain in the morning because you old, or it's just time to replace your "2nd cheapest from Sears" mattress you bought 8 years ago?

I broke out into a little sprint yesterday but had to stop almost immediately because of a incapacitating twinge in my left knee.

sarahell, does the pain manifest itself while in said bed, or shortly after getting up?

I think that if a mattress is the problem you'll be aware of it throughout the night, not just in the morning. Back pain specifically in the morning is probably more about your body complaining about what you're asking it to do (namely, get up and deal with shit). Back pain also very famously associated with stress.

I get a twinge of morning back pain sometimes; it arrives about 7 AM while I am feeding people breakfast and radiates downward into my thighs. Sitting on a heating pad for a while eases it tremendously. A heating pad is a great thing to have around anyway.

Of the four distinct flavors of pain I get, it is probably the most benign because it's treatable. (The others are gouty arthritis, Lyme arthritis, and a nonspecific wandering arthritis.) I don't do a lot of performative groaning (at least I don't think I do), but I do do a lot of stoic wincing.

another holy shit i'm dying moment: Snow's "Informer" is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month.

A choccy gum gum now?

xxp - it's less of a pain, and more of a dull ache that goes away after I've had coffee. It was pretty minor this morning -- I moved more towards the center of the mattress last night when sleeping, so the mattress theory seems more likely atm

Reginald Perrin is a grandfather at 46, perfectly normal.

I'm getting that loback pain too..

lower back pain : do some 'planking'

i try and do about 60-90 seconds a day to keep my core muscles in action.

since i started, it has cleared up my reoccuring lower back spasms/muscle sprains.

Do I have to plank in a public place and post a photo on social media in order to derive lower back pain benefits, y/n

Hmm, worth a go

Next question, how I get go elsewhere of warts on finger 🖕

In the Signals household, "planking" is childhood patois for a meal of pancakes.

Is "planking" the thing where you get in push-up position but don't actually do any push-ups?

yes
it's very effective for building strength and you can do it anywhere!
http://www.yogawiz.com/images/yoga-poses/dolphin-plank-pose.jpg

Why not just do push-ups?

I think I "planked" once at a party. Someone was explaining it to me, and I did it, but I was also very drunk. From that experience, I believe that it is something you should not do while drunk.

pushups put the brunt of the work on you pecs and tris, planks (done correctly) are about core strength

thanks! I still don't know the difference between yoga and pilates, so clearly I am not up on my 20th century fitness activities.

^ er 21st century.

yoga is crazy ancient!

Seriously! It's been around since at least the mid-'90s!

planks are peaceful
pushups, less so

haha, i sorta found it the opposite, because with push-ups you at least were "doing something" as opposed to holding your body in one position for more time than is natural, which is something I don't have the patience for.

i like to listen to a song i like with a long intro and then trying to plank for as long as possible (i've only made it maybe 3 min max)
keeps me from overfocusing on how bored i am
preferably something slow, super loud, heavy enough to be distracting

OK, "Fascination Street" it is then.

i like to listen to a song i like with a long intro and then trying to plank for as long as possible (i've only made it maybe 3 min max)

humblebrag.

(i rarely can go beyond 90 secs these days)

for a while before my 40s i was running, and it turns out that it's just too hard on me (and i don't really like it that much apart from listening to music while i do it), so i had to switch up exercise routines to something more placid/indoors
i don't really pay much attention to the time -- once i estimated i was planking for 4 min and it was like 2.5, lol. i briefly tried to increase my time (hence my record) but stopped caring and went back to just planking for as long as possible...and then a little more. eventually the time increases but i try not to pay attention to that.

i do the same.
put on something loud, and try and stay distracted.
no outdoors crap/gear required, and so far has deterred my back issues.
that and my exercise bike (which i have just rediscovered after years of neglect), will have to suffice cos i refuse to leave the house to do any of this shit.