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    goosehd
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    @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
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      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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        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
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          @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
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              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
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                    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
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                        @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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                              FlavourFade
                              Raw and Unwashed
                              @T4920
                              Joined: 15 Jan 2024

                              @T4920 the peeing really increases from 30 😃 also the stiffness but I stretch a lot that helps

                              @jerkules the career thing was very important in my mid 20s for me but now I work for three years in a job that I would not have imagined back then and am as happy as I could be and don't think about switching, I even make a little less money than I did at my last job but also less headache

                              Insta: free_the_fades

                              wtb:
                              The Pale Rider XXL

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                                injunjack
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                                This pretty sums up my view about this subject.
                                I'm 60, still riding Choppers, messing with cars, gals (my wife ✌ ) and booze. Life will slow you down a bit but more active you are, happier and healthier you'll be. Don't ever stop. Train karate, go to gym, go to see gigs and dance like nobodys watching you, and most of all don't give a fuck.
                                That's actually almost the best part being in the last quarter of your life. Not giving a fuck. If you have done so in earlier life, after fifty you usually start not to.
                                I think the best part of getting old is to see that your kids get along in life and to see grandkids grow up. Small things make me happy.

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                                  endo
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                                  well said @injunjack

                                  si tacuisses

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                                    Giles
                                    IHUK Crew
                                    Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                    I am convinced that getting old is a state of mind. My grandfather got old at 50, as he was expected to, my father got old in his early 60's and basically stopped doing shit. Paula is with him in Greece at the moment and I am happy to report that he is actually walking every morning. (the irony is that I can't be there because I just had a hip replacement 🙂 )

                                    I feel blessed that for the last 20 years I have been surrounded by people younger than myself, you lot and my fishing mates, and I think that that has kept my outlook younger than my years. Yes, I'm a bit less nimble and flexible than I was, but I don't feel old (except when we go for dinner with local friends of my own age or older, and all the silly old fuckers talk about is health, I've had to ban the topic, as it does no one involved any good). I accepted an invitation to a family party recently on the proviso that any health shit was got out of the way by email beforehand).

                                    I was invited to Nicaragua fishing recently by a couple of mates in their late 20's early 30's, I was immeasurably honoured for them to consider me as a fun companion.

                                    Think young, and guess what.....

                                    "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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                                      injunjack
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                                      @Giles
                                      Joined: 19 Feb 2010

                                      @Giles said in When you suddenly feel old —:

                                      I am convinced that getting old is a state of mind.
                                      ......
                                      Think young, and guess what.....

                                      This.

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                                        IrishHeart
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                                        Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                                        When I was working I had to deal with people that I wouldn’t otherwise cross the road to speak to. I retired early as I didn’t want my last day to be a working day, and vowed not to spend any more of my time with with people I didn’t like, weren’t fun or interesting.

                                        I can highly recommend it ( although ironically my wife thinks I can be a grumpy git when I refuse invites from people who dont tick those boxes).

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                                          Brian
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                                          Im feeling it when my son plays with Lego sets from the 1980s that were mine

                                          and then I look up what they are worth and wonder why my parents didn’t keep the boxes damn

                                          I’m 43 almost 44 but feel young in some ways as really didn’t start real life until I was in my 30’s after moving countries when I was in the uk I did school uni then jobs but never with anything serious, it was only when I went to OZ for a holiday then stayed and got married and had a kid in my late 30’s that I think I was starting my adult life

                                          I feel old doing the school drop off when 90% of the other parents are in their late 20’s early 30’s
                                          Old man rant over

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