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    Giles
    IHUK Crew
    Joined: 22 Sept 2009

    The trouble is, I sort of never did 🙂

    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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      Matt
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      @endo
      Joined: 4 Oct 2011

      @endo said in When you suddenly feel old —:

      @Daniel-San said in When you suddenly feel old —:

      Guys the trouble really starts with 50

      but it gets better later, you just don't give a fuck anymore (exhibit A: @Giles)

      Qft

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        Daniel San
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        Joined: 2 May 2020

        😂 cheers

        image.jpg

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          Matt
          見習いボス
          Joined: 4 Oct 2011

          Katie asked me if getting old is when your back starts to hurt. I told her no, it’s when everything hurts, all the time. Then you just get used to it and stop complaining until you’re really old then all you do is complain.

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            FlavourFade
            Raw and Unwashed
            Joined: 15 Jan 2024

            Tbh I love not being 20something anymore, am 33 years old and I live the best life ever .. but what really hurts sometimes is when people I assume are my age adress me with a formal "Sie".. 🤣

            Insta: free_the_fades

            wtb:
            The Pale Rider XXL

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              T4920
              見習いボス
              @FlavourFade
              Joined: 27 Apr 2022

              @FlavourFade also 33. I'm as a fit and active as I've ever been, but I do feel those looming symptoms of aging... stiff knees in the morning (and the uncontrollable urge to pee the moment my eyes open!)

              “𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡.”

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                jerkules
                啓蒙家
                Joined: 26 Aug 2018

                Good thread! I’m 38 this year, have definitely noticed changes to how I feel creeping in. I cannot drink copious amounts of booze without paying for it to the point that it rarely seems worth it. A full sugar coke will leave me feeling nauseous now, while I I used to down energy drinks like water in my early twenties 🤢.
                In other ways I still feel surprised that I’m approaching 40. I still couldn’t give a shit about work despite having a decent job with a reasonably high salary. While other people my age are planning the next career move, I’m more interested in what music I’m listening to, what I’m gonna eat for lunch, or what book to read next. Sometimes I worry that I’m letting opportunities, and therefore life, pass me by. But we’ll all by pushing up daisies at some point, might as well try to extract some humble pleasure or joy from day-to-day existence rather than chase the next thing.

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                  goosehd
                  Mod Squad
                  @jerkules
                  Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                  @jerkules I think you touch on a good point. Everyone is so concerned with climbing up the ladder, competing with the neighbours, and trying to out selfie each other, that no one is truly enjoying day to day life.

                  Enjoy what you have to the fullest and I think you’ll experience true happiness.

                  "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                    Matt
                    見習いボス
                    Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                    Pros:

                    Don’t give any shits
                    Salt/pepper George Clooney hair
                    Financial stability
                    Life experience
                    Pending death

                    Cons:
                    Full body pain
                    Constant peeing
                    Extra neck skin
                    Male pattern baldness
                    Hair growth in new places (ears, nose, back etc.)
                    Pending death

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                      Matt
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                      Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                      I’d be bummed about getting old but as I’ve previously noted, I can’t be bothered to give a shit.

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                        goosehd
                        Mod Squad
                        @Matt
                        Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                        @Matt Holy fuck…keep this up and you’re going to give the great Greek philosophers a run for their money.

                        "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                          Mizmazzle
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                          Joined: 29 Jun 2021

                          When you start referring to anyone doing something new or odd as a “hipster” you have obtained oldness.

                          In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

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                            goosehd
                            Mod Squad
                            Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                            Previous generations used to call it “wet behind the ears” or “fucking kids”.

                            "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                              steelworker
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                              Joined: 16 Apr 2014

                              When I showed my kids how a rotary dial phone works they laughed their asses off

                              Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                              Well, I have others.

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                                steelworker
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                                @goosehd
                                Joined: 16 Apr 2014

                                @goosehd said in When you suddenly feel old —:

                                @Matt Holy fuck…keep this up and you’re going to give the great Greek philosophers a run for their money.
                                Careful @goosehd he may be a nihilist. It aint only a river in Egypt

                                Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                                Well, I have others.

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                                  seawolf
                                  Mod Squad
                                  Joined: 28 Oct 2011

                                  I'm in an undergrad program so I'm around college aged people all the time, and I definitely relate more to the professors 😂

                                  I understand that a lot of students think I'm old, and some of the faculty (and students) have wrongly assumed that I'm a professor. To be honest with you, I actually love where I'm at with my age (43). I'm old enough to have a lot of experience, but young enough to still feel relatively young. Despite the fact that I have a chronic illness that mostly affects men much older than me, I still do a lot and feel pretty good!

                                  “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

                                  @zeebeeleather

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                                    endo
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                                    @Matt
                                    Joined: 29 May 2020

                                    @Matt said in When you suddenly feel old —:

                                    Hair growth in new places (ears, nose, back etc.)

                                    that's the real scourge of humanity

                                    si tacuisses

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                                      goosehd
                                      Mod Squad
                                      @steelworker
                                      Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                                      @steelworker 😂 Nothing better than getting most of the way through a telephone number and your finger slipping on the dial…immediate start over 🙂

                                      "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                                        Tago Mago
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                                        @FlavourFade
                                        Joined: 16 Jan 2021

                                        @FlavourFade you can say you to me

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                                          Tago Mago
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                                          @goosehd
                                          Joined: 16 Jan 2021

                                          @goosehd a sentiment that Plato also lays out in „the republic“. Speaking of Greek philosophers

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