Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

[Cheesegirl78]

Give me 10 - 15 more years and I'm gonna be excited getting fucking tupperware or whatever we'll be storing our leftovers in.

You know you're getting old when you get excited over appliances and kitchen stuff.

 

[Dean Pentel]

You know you're getting old when you get excited over appliances and kitchen stuff.

You know you're getting old when buying Speed Queen washer and dryers are legitimately exciting.

You also know you're getting old when you get an over-use injury takes 6 days to recover from instead of 2, and a seasonal cold gives you 3 days of symptoms instead of 1. Whoever said 40 was the new 30 is a fucking liar!

 

[glass_houses]

So, it turns out that a common symptom of perimenopause is itching, because of reduced collagen or some bullshit. Okay, I could live with that, if it weren't concentrated in the centre of my back and between my shoulder blades. Overnight it feels like I've lost half of my flexibility, too; combined with the endless itching between my shoulder blades, I am not a happy camper.

 

[cactus]

So, it turns out that a common symptom of perimenopause is itching, because of reduced collagen or some bullshit. Okay, I could live with that, if it weren't concentrated in the centre of my back and between my shoulder blades. Overnight it feels like I've lost half of my flexibility, too; combined with the endless itching between my shoulder blades, I am not a happy camper.

Really? I get itching in the same place. I thought it was my nerves from a repetitive shoulder injury... Get a back scratcher if you don't already have one, the telescoping ones scratch the best.

We're already a quarter century through the 2000s... I was 14 in 2000...

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Really? I get itching in the same place. I thought it was my nerves from a repetitive shoulder injury... Get a back scratcher if you don't already have one, the telescoping ones scratch the best.

We're already a quarter century through the 2000s... I was 14 in 2000...

Buying tools/implements to relieve X makes me feel old. Based on some post here, I bought a thing that looks like a geriatric cane that helps press out my perpetual knots and 25-year pain along my scapula on one side. It rocks, actually, but I hate that I now have "devices" to address pain. OLD, fuck.

That and the 47 pairs of varying strength glasses I now own, bc I'm historically nearsighted but full strength glasses (that I need for driving and general sharp distance vision) no longer work for computer or other medium-distance work, and with contacts in I also now need presbyotic glasses for computer or any closeup work as well. And yes, my lenses are already multi-focal, but that only helps so much. Compromise sucks.

 

[cactus]

Buying tools/implements to relieve X makes me feel old. Based on some post here, I bought a thing that looks like a geriatric cane that helps press out my perpetual knots and 25-year pain along my scapula on one side. It rocks, actually, but I hate that I now have "devices" to address pain. OLD, fuck.

Oh wow, now that I know about that, I want it. Thankfully my pain doesn't really act up unless I'm reaching across a bunch.

And I almost forgot, unrelated to your post, I have 3 or 4 grey hairs... I'm unsure about the 4th since it's further back on my head.

 

[Zhores Medvedev]

Give me 10 - 15 more years and I'm gonna be excited getting fucking tupperware or whatever we'll be storing our leftovers in.

Thats how I knew my youth was over going to the store and seeing fucking bananas on sale and being genuinely elated

 

[AnOminous]

When for the third time in a year you're going to be a pallbearer for someone younger than you are.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

hearing grown adults say stuff like "woah, Tangled, i loved that movie as a little kid", then remembering very clearly how i went to see that same movie with my girlfriend at the time, both of us very much adults. That ex-girlfriend having a son now, almost a teen himself, probably older than this grown person was when he first saw that movie.

 

[DickMain]

Spending forty minutes to pick out a nonstick pot and a wooden utensil set, and when my favorite Christmas gift is socks from dad.

 

[rat fucker]

hearing grown adults say stuff like "woah, Tangled, i loved that movie as a little kid", then remembering very clearly how i went to see that same movie with my girlfriend at the time, both of us very much adults.

Yep, thats it. Experienced this recently on this very forum seeing someone say "I loved watching Steven Universe as kid" or when i see people (who probably arent adults now, tbf, but somewhat sentient) say that Elsagate fucked with their brains when they were toddlers.

In general the 2010ies feel like they just happened yesterday, but then i sit back and realize that it has been one whole ass decade since 2015!

 

[babadook]

I've gotten to the age where my continence has started to deteriorate. I'm not shitting myself frequently enough to start wearing adult diapers but it may be something I need to look into in the near future. If anybody knows any good brands that they could recommend to me I would really appreciate it.

The peepee poopoo situation is crazy

 

[seri0us]

I've gotten to the age where my continence has started to deteriorate. I'm not shitting myself frequently enough to start wearing adult diapers but it may be something I need to look into in the near future. If anybody knows any good brands that they could recommend to me I would really appreciate it.

I'm not sure, Depends™.

 

[ChompChomp]

So, it turns out that a common symptom of perimenopause is itching, because of reduced collagen or some bullshit. Okay, I could live with that, if it weren't concentrated in the centre of my back and between my shoulder blades. Overnight it feels like I've lost half of my flexibility, too; combined with the endless itching between my shoulder blades, I am not a happy camper.

The following is the most "single person" thing I own and I love it. I should probably upgrade since there's better options out there, but there's nothing better when winter hits.

(Note: I'm not that inflexible, but getting to the middle of your back is still a chore that's avoidable.)

Say hello to the Lotion Applicator:

 

[MrReeShopper]

While making an insurance claim, I used the online chat feature. I chastised the agent for using smilies, pointing out that it was unprofessional.

 

[deleuzeon]

Everybody active in the military just looks like a child to me now. Like in a literal way.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

I used to be quite a serious painter and artist when younger, and produced everything from self-portraits, to realist landscapes, to more abstract stuff.

Anyway, I organised all my old, surviving canvases and other work earlier today. I 'cannibalised' a Gainsborough print that had a nice gilt frame, and stuck an oil work I did about 18 years ago inside. It looks amazing.

Then it occurred to me that was eighteen fucking years ago. Jesus Christ. There are guys I talk to in the gym who were literal cells when I was painting that piece.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

walking into the garden center with the wife we see a duo in their late teens, post-jinko baggy all-black, about a hot topic and a half's worth of straps short of getting into Kingdom Hearts, and one has a Serial Experiments Lain shirt
I turn to her and say "keep an eye out for the portal to twenty five years ago, we might be able to go back"

 

[AnOminous]

My night vision has degenerated to complete shit.

 

[The Last Stand]

I will be 62 this weekend.

Fuck, I'm old as dirt.

Happy belated birthday.



This is Joan Crawford in her 60s. You'll be fine.

Give me 10 - 15 more years and I'm gonna be excited getting fucking tupperware or whatever we'll be storing our leftovers in.

I'm happy to find a deal on underwear.