Aragorn is now older than Gandalf. Also my neck sounds like bubble wrap when I turn my head.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I employ several tiny baby children who somehow Doogie Howsered their way into getting their master's degrees just so they can hang out at my reference desk and hurt my feelings by not understanding my references.
For example, they have no idea who Doogie Howser is.
My "crumble to dust" moment was when I mentioned World of Warcraft to a guy at work and he was like "Oh yeah, I used to watch my parents play that when I was a little kid."
Now whenever I play WoW I can't help but wonder if this is my generation's version of kick-the-can or hoop-on-a-stick.
OH, ARE YOU STILL PLAYING WOW, GRANDPA? HOW QUAINT.
I've told this story before but me and two of my cousins were chatting a while back at a family thing. One of them only a couple years younger than me and the other basically a teenager.
The topic came around to me and the older of my two cousins reminiscing about our favorite vines when the teenager chimes in "oh vine was like TikTok for old people right"
And My cousin and I we each reacted the same way. Like being punched in the solar plexus. Big oof.
Real talk, the part that’s starting to drive it home for me is all the paperwork and research I’m helping my parents with because my mom is convinced she needs to go into assisted living in the next few years
Also I’m the same age now that they were when I started college and that absolutely can’t be right
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scherbchenAsgard (it is dead)Registered Userregular
well I just ordered two of those t-shirts so thanks.
What's been hitting me is that I've got several friends who are grandparents now. Plus the number of same-age aquaintences who've died per year has increased from like a fraction to 1 now. It's probably growing exponentially.
(Thinks about it)
... logarithmically.
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"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
I employ several tiny baby children who somehow Doogie Howsered their way into getting their master's degrees just so they can hang out at my reference desk and hurt my feelings by not understanding my references.
For example, they have no idea who Doogie Howser is.
Younger guy I know just about to hit 30 who loves to give me shit about being an old. He just had a big session on Sunday and only came good today. Welcome to the three day hangovers, boyo
38 here and when I go up stairs my right knee sounds like someone just going to town on bubble wrap.
38 is the new 25, your old person credential has been revoked!
Yes, with a quick verbal "boom." You take a man's peko, you deny him his dab, all that is left is to rise up and tear down the walls of Jericho with a ".....not!" -TexiKen
My weight is down to 225 for the first time in years
I just joined a gym
My best years are in front of me motherfuckers!!!
Legit man, this is awesome
A while back I was depressed as usual and thinking about how much shit I haven’t done yet and I realized…yeah I’m old but I’m not dead. I can make the last 20+ years of my life the best part if I put a little effort into it.
Helps that my brain meds are as good as they’ve ever been at this point too.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Younger guy I know just about to hit 30 who loves to give me shit about being an old. He just had a big session on Sunday and only came good today. Welcome to the three day hangovers, boyo
I think you have to be 30 to legally post on this forum. Please leave.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
38 here and when I go up stairs my right knee sounds like someone just going to town on bubble wrap.
I hear this a lot from folks but at 44 and super fat I don't have this going on which I'm thankful for.
I can pop my ankle by rotating it just right though.
I've noticed my ankle popping since I was seventeen!
My joints don't pop as much now as they did when I was a teenager, after I grew a foot and a half in two calendar years. I used to sound like I had a whole village of Rice Krispy elves living in my skeleton.
My freshman dorm had the beds lofted up over the desks, so every morning I'd get out of bed by flinging myself seven feet to the floor and landing in a crouch and all my joints would pop at once. It sounded like a box full of maracas falling down a short flight of stairs and felt amazing.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
My current workout goal is to be able to get out of bed without groaning.
As my generation ages I keep thinking we aren't really old yet cause so few of us have the financial security I expect adults to have, enough to have a stable home and support a family if we wanted to. Then I remember oh yeah, we don't get any of that! Me and most of my closest friends will die still renting with roommates, or more likely homeless by the end. Kids forever!
At some point in the last three months my brain decided "hey guess what asshole, we get up 6am on the dot now, I don't care how much you did or didn't sleep yesterday, now up up up get up get your ass up"
Which absolutely sucks because I've never been a morning person in all my forty years, but I did get up and go for a walk with the dog before coffee/kids the other day which I've never done? So, maybe not the worst thing in the world
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
I am awake at 6:30 am having spent the last 7 hours in bed with the worst night of restless leg in my life. At no point over that 7 hours could I get my right knee to not feel like "hey, you should really hyperextend me to relieve this" only to have no amount do anything to said feeling. It's the fucking worst. Like having an intense craving for orange juice, but in your knee.
I am awake at 6:30 am having spent the last 7 hours in bed with the worst night of restless leg in my life. At no point over that 7 hours could I get my right knee to not feel like "hey, you should really hyperextend me to relieve this" only to have no amount do anything to said feeling. It's the fucking worst. Like having an intense craving for orange juice, but in your knee.
Stretch both legs (but not too much or I'll pull a hamstring while I'm laying), roll to my other side, fluff the top pillow, sandwich other hand precisely between pillows and just underneath my head (but not too much or it'll fall asleep), hyperextend other knee into my chest
Repeat every five to twenty minutes for two to four hours every single night for the rest of my life
Younger guy I know just about to hit 30 who loves to give me shit about being an old. He just had a big session on Sunday and only came good today. Welcome to the three day hangovers, boyo
I think you have to be 30 to legally post on this forum. Please leave.
Younger guy I know just about to hit 30 who loves to give me shit about being an old. He just had a big session on Sunday and only came good today. Welcome to the three day hangovers, boyo
I think you have to be 30 to legally post on this forum. Please leave.
Honestly of the sites I'm active on, this forum doesn't even take the number one spot for the oldest audience to complain about their ailments -- that honor goes to the motorcycling forum ADVRider, where there are numerous threads like "how do I know when I'm too old for this hobby anymore" because it's largely a self-selecting forum for the kind of rider who doesn't rip dank nooners down the highway at 120 mph
Meanwhile I turn 30 in November and so long as my stomach doesn't turn inside out I'm generally doing ok besides not understanding TikTok
I am awake at 6:30 am having spent the last 7 hours in bed with the worst night of restless leg in my life. At no point over that 7 hours could I get my right knee to not feel like "hey, you should really hyperextend me to relieve this" only to have no amount do anything to said feeling. It's the fucking worst. Like having an intense craving for orange juice, but in your knee.
I don't know why you wouldn't just get some oj for your knee then.
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For example, they have no idea who Doogie Howser is.
It's a whole fuckin' conspiracy.
Except that you should wear sunscreen.
Or better yet, just stay inside.
I am turning 36 in October and I have yet to accrue any wisdom to dispense
One of my analysts chimed in with 'oh yeah that all happened before I was born' and I just crumbled into dust right there on the spot
Now whenever I play WoW I can't help but wonder if this is my generation's version of kick-the-can or hoop-on-a-stick.
OH, ARE YOU STILL PLAYING WOW, GRANDPA? HOW QUAINT.
The topic came around to me and the older of my two cousins reminiscing about our favorite vines when the teenager chimes in "oh vine was like TikTok for old people right"
And My cousin and I we each reacted the same way. Like being punched in the solar plexus. Big oof.
so FUCKING old
so fucking OLD
Also I’m the same age now that they were when I started college and that absolutely can’t be right
Hollow nonsense mostly, but I spent my teens wanting to be in my 20s and then my 20s mostly sucked
(Thinks about it)
... logarithmically.
Don’t worry.
They rebooted doogie howser, it’s on Disney plus.
Satans..... hints.....
If my doctor was a literal child, I wouldn't give two shits how much of a genius prodigy they might be.
Get me someone with some fucking experience in here.
I hear this a lot from folks but at 44 and super fat I don't have this going on which I'm thankful for.
I can pop my ankle by rotating it just right though.
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My youngest kid is 7
My weight is down to 225 for the first time in years
I just joined a gym
My best years are in front of me motherfuckers!!!
Legit man, this is awesome
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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38 is the new 25, your old person credential has been revoked!
I've noticed my ankle popping since I was seventeen!
A while back I was depressed as usual and thinking about how much shit I haven’t done yet and I realized…yeah I’m old but I’m not dead. I can make the last 20+ years of my life the best part if I put a little effort into it.
Helps that my brain meds are as good as they’ve ever been at this point too.
I think you have to be 30 to legally post on this forum. Please leave.
My joints don't pop as much now as they did when I was a teenager, after I grew a foot and a half in two calendar years. I used to sound like I had a whole village of Rice Krispy elves living in my skeleton.
My freshman dorm had the beds lofted up over the desks, so every morning I'd get out of bed by flinging myself seven feet to the floor and landing in a crouch and all my joints would pop at once. It sounded like a box full of maracas falling down a short flight of stairs and felt amazing.
Which absolutely sucks because I've never been a morning person in all my forty years, but I did get up and go for a walk with the dog before coffee/kids the other day which I've never done? So, maybe not the worst thing in the world
Half of that groan is "I gotta fucking get up?!" though.
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Oh absolutely. It’s a work in progress for sure.
Stretch both legs (but not too much or I'll pull a hamstring while I'm laying), roll to my other side, fluff the top pillow, sandwich other hand precisely between pillows and just underneath my head (but not too much or it'll fall asleep), hyperextend other knee into my chest
Repeat every five to twenty minutes for two to four hours every single night for the rest of my life
It just grinds, bone on bone, as the lubricating cartilage has been worn away
And random “fuck you” pains everywhere, from joints to muscles to my butt
I also can’t lift even a 5 lb weight above my head with my right arm, from a throwing injury in my 20s during beer league softball
Well shit see y'all in 5 months.
Birthday party in the LDB thread
Meanwhile I turn 30 in November and so long as my stomach doesn't turn inside out I'm generally doing ok besides not understanding TikTok
I don't know why you wouldn't just get some oj for your knee then.
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I don't think anyone should be doing that on an motorized cycle at 120 miles per hour.