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)
― nashwan, Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:45 (two months ago) link
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.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:30 (two months ago) link
fuck no thanks to thatknees, you got off lightly tbh its the back will kill you
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:37 (two months ago) link
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
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:48 (two months ago) link
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).
― silverfish, Thursday, 29 February 2024 18:35 (two months ago) link
Also this album which seemed mostly unremarkable to me at the time sounds really good to me right now, about three tracks in.
― silverfish, Thursday, 29 February 2024 18:37 (two months ago) link
BODY MOVIN
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 February 2024 18:54 (two months ago) link
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.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:54 (two months ago) link
aka body movin
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 17:51 (two months ago) link
lol
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 17:52 (two months ago) link
i pushed furniture around all afternoon and tweaked a knee ligament or three at football an hour ago so i hear all of that
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 21:46 (two months ago) link
did the other guy get sent off
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 22:13 (two months ago) link
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
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 22:54 (two months ago) link
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
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:42 (two months ago) link
Didn't know that people wore PAJAMAS to the gym.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:50 (two months ago) link
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.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 21:16 (two months ago) link
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!
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:29 (two months ago) link
Identified my year of retirement: 2037
― calstars, Friday, 15 March 2024 20:47 (two months ago) link
not so bad!
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 March 2024 21:15 (two months ago) link
Jonah who will turn 62 in the year 2037
― calstars, Friday, 15 March 2024 21:40 (two months ago) link
It's coming up.
― pplains, Saturday, 16 March 2024 02:54 (one month ago) link
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
― sarahell, Friday, 29 March 2024 17:32 (one month ago) link
I lost complete hearing in my left ear six months ago. No biggie
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 29 March 2024 19:17 (one month ago) link
eh?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:19 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
i bought a cute pair of Vans for fun after mostly wearing semi-orthopedic shoes for the past 5 years . i wore them to the movies, and i maybe walked half a block to and from my car. YET NOW I AM IN PAIN WTF i now have this stupid pain in my instep/arch and can barely walk and it’s like cool great fuck me ever buying “fun” shoes again i fucking hate being old
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 01:03 (three weeks ago) link
Gotta get into a stretching practice again, and make sure the chair I sit in for work had some lower back support. I’m paying the price for not doing these things tonight.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 01:11 (three weeks ago) link
― sarahell, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 01:42 (three weeks ago) link
I think they have a line of vans with better support now
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:25 (three weeks ago) link
Wait til your Insoles start reeling like the devil’s breath
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:38 (three weeks ago) link
Oops reeking
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:39 (three weeks ago) link
these Vans were like v low profile maryjanes w glued-in insoles, i realized i would have had to semi-wreck them to wear insoles in them comfortably so i just returned them instead
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 03:36 (three weeks ago) link
i tried to wear ballet flats once. _once_.
in the meantime i have all kinds of fun stretches for my feet to do. fun stretches for _everything_ haha
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 14:12 (three weeks ago) link
when I think about my feet and feminine shoes, I really wish I had insisted on wearing men's shoes much earlier in life ... I have wide feet so I have to buy wide width shoes in women's anyway
― sarahell, Thursday, 25 April 2024 16:42 (two weeks ago) link
File under the Fear of becoming invisible dept: I ordered a slice at the pizzeria. Several minutes passed and server asked how he could help me
― calstars, Sunday, 28 April 2024 17:16 (two weeks ago) link
Lol thought it was only me shit that happened too.
Did you say "waiting on the five slices I ordered and paid for"?
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 April 2024 20:18 (two weeks ago) link
depends on how many other people are at the establishmentif 0, sure go ahead and take it personally if you mustif many, cut some slack? it's probably not about you.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Sunday, 28 April 2024 20:31 (two weeks ago) link
Exactly… I had this experience in my 20s … it definitely isn’t middle age
― sarahell, Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:19 (two weeks ago) link
I had this experience once, in an airport Dunkin Donuts, when absolutely no one else was in line or being served. I gave it a minute, then left and just got coffee and OJ somewhere else.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:50 (two weeks ago) link
(I’m 47 - this happened maybe two years ago)
This can reflect the invisibility of the single person - rather than the older person, ime.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:58 (two weeks ago) link
A younger coworker started a coed recreational kickball team a few years ago, I was already in my forties and said to myself, I used to play lots of kickball when I was young, I’ll join and show these kids how it’s done. Well pretty early on in the season I kicked as hard as I could and pulled my quad so badly I thought I tore something. My leg swelled up and I could barely walk for weeks. I finally recovered in time for the playoffs, so of course I joined back up, and of course in my first at-bat I re-pulled my quad just as badly as the first time. I gave up on sports after that, I guess I’m too old. Nowadays I am getting ready to buy a pair of readers because I am sick of goggling blindly at fine print.
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:58 (two weeks ago) link
Not to be a dick, but some pretty simple stretching can go a long way in that regard. I am 39– I stretch for 15 minutes every morning, and intend on doing so until I die
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 11:18 (two weeks ago) link
This can reflect the invisibility of the single person - rather than the older person, ime.― Dr Drudge (Bob Six)
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six)
there are _so many different kinds_ of invisibility haha
it's something i struggle a lot with. am i being treated worse than the other people around me? am i being ignored? if so, _why_?
the whole phenomenon of the "karen" - to me it's kind of one response to not being _acknowledged_. it's one of the things that makes "passing" so hard for me - the way women of a certain age tend to be treated. there are _very much_ gendered differences here, ime.
women, like... we gotta learn to not take being ignored personally, even if there are, you know... even if we are being ignored _because_ we're women in our '40s. cuz if we don't that's when we get called "karens".
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 13:30 (two weeks ago) link
The invisibility experience for me was more surreal than anything else, a “am I on Candid Camera?” feeling.
(I didn’t throw a fit or anything - just stood there for a minute or two accepting that this was happening, or not happening, before floating away to another business.)
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 13:34 (two weeks ago) link