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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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          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
            見習いボス
            Joined: 19 Feb 2010

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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
              見習いボス
              Joined: 29 May 2020

              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
                    Haraki san Expert
                    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
                      Joined: 24 Nov 2022

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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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                        goosehd
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                        @IrishHeart
                        Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                        @IrishHeart That’s not being a grumpy git, that’s managing your time wisely!!

                        "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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                          Giles
                          IHUK Crew
                          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                          I have frequent discussions with P around why I don't want to spend time with people I don't get along with/have zero in common with/think are twats, she thinks I should make an effort. Life's too fucking short......

                          "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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                            Tago Mago
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                            @Giles
                            Joined: 16 Jan 2021

                            @Giles amen

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                              WhiskeySandwich
                              啓蒙家
                              @injunjack
                              Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                              @injunjack dude fuck yea. I'm with you. We're all just kids in aging bodies. I still cant wait to bail from work and get into some fun. I sit in meetings and look around at all the people taking themselves too seriously, and all I see is the kid they were when they were 8 and how they'd laugh at what they've become. Not to judge others, but to give myself some perspective to work with. I think we all kinda fake-it-till-ya-make-it to some degree. We get in to character to 'succeed', but some people get stuck in that role and forget to turn it off and play.

                              I agree with Giles that it's a state of mind. It's almost a choice to stop having fun, but that's the most important thing.

                              "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                              -Seneca

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                                mclaincausey
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                                Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                We had a 40th birthday party for a friend at this food hall that is definitely a meat market for people in their 20s (we wanted to host at a posh cocktail bar but were overridden). It’s a first come first served seating situation. We were holding a block of seats for our crew and some young ladies came by and asked if seats were taken. We said they were and as they left they saw some of the 40th birthday paraphernalia and one of them scoffed “40?! shudder” to the other.

                                Didn’t make me feel old (I’m closer to 50) but it did make me feel right about the cocktail bar being the appropriate venue. And I did give my wife and me a good chuckle.

                                You should be so lucky, ladies, to be celebrating your own 40th in a couple decades.

                                Think it, be it.

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                                  WhiskeySandwich
                                  啓蒙家
                                  @mclaincausey
                                  Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                                  @mclaincausey "you should be so lucky..." damn right. one day.

                                  This also reminds me of the moment in Lucky Number Slevin:

                                  Nick:
                                  There was a time?

                                  Smith:
                                  Mm-hmm. Take Brown Sugar back there, for example. [indicates elderly woman] She's pretty f***ing foxy, right?

                                  Nick:
                                  [pause] She's seventy.

                                  Smith:
                                  If she's a day. But there was a time.

                                  "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                                  -Seneca

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                                    indigostiff
                                    Joined: 23 Jul 2023

                                    This show, Still Game, is one of my all-time favorites, and makes me look forward to those days in the future -- should I be so lucky to get them --

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                                      popvulture
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                                      @Giles
                                      Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                                      @Giles I’ve had the same realization lately and have, for lack of a better phrase, opted out of the relationships with people I don’t have anything in common with. Being friends with some of them was actually a negative experience, but for some reason I felt some obligation to keep it going.

                                      When I was young, I loved having as many friends as possible. Now I really appreciate having a core crew of friends I really love and trust. Hollow relationships? Ain’t nobody got time for that.

                                      WTB
                                      IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
                                      Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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                                        jfk1117
                                        Haraki san Student
                                        @popvulture
                                        Joined: 28 Sept 2022

                                        @popvulture reminds me of this new song by a favorite artist of mine

                                        https://open.spotify.com/track/3WghcqikIY7SYGoSCxjuGK?si=PEiv44U9R_2VZpitKWLvww&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6DUyohk95eun9LArJtHyF7

                                        And

                                        https://open.spotify.com/track/4koDjFHualV1u6yndB5rhD?si=mCq8FL7_TySXumaGwyzjpA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6DUyohk95eun9LArJtHyF7

                                        Wtb
                                        Brown or blue hairline duck - ihsh-92 - XL

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                                          mclaincausey
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                                          @popvulture
                                          Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                          @popvulture as an introvert, that resonates with me. I’m certainly sociable and have plenty of friends, but socializing, while entertaining, is also draining, and I need my solitude (which can include my wife, dog, and kid). I don’t reach out even to close friends too often but we pick up where we left off when we get together. I think they know me well enough to understand I’m not someone to pick up the phone and talk; we will chat when we see each other. And the acquaintances that aren’t of interest just kind of take care of themselves since I don’t engage. I have zero tolerance for manufactured drama (and plenty of sympathy/empathy, patience, compassion, and desire to help when there is a legitimate mess), and that probably the fastest way to exit my friend zone. I got my own shit to deal with 🤣 and I’ve been this “old” curmudgeon since I was young.

                                          Think it, be it.

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