The oldfag thread (30yo and up) - REEEEE zoomers get out!

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Suck my saggy, home owning balls, zoomers.
 
White Devil said:
You cradle robber, you!

Gotta admit, I had kind of a moral dilemma in my late 20s/ early 30s with 18 and 19 year olds showing interest in me. Like, does it make me a predator if I go for it and just have fun? They're practically children to me... But the attention and interest was always flattering and truthfully women our age just don't have bodies like that anymore.
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I used to feel awkward about that. Then I realized I was being stupid and got a young wife. It was an excellent decision, and now I suspect "you should marry someone within two years of your age" is a jewish trick.
 
A few random thoughts before I "rest my eyes" and wake myself up snoring 10 minutes later-

The jokes about random pain after 30 and then everything hurting after 40? That's the universe's joke on humans. It is not a funny one.

True story - I was having trouble finding those strawberry hard candies with the soft centers that those in my household refer to as "granny candies" until the day after my 40th birthday.

I remember well the days when pearls were being clutched over how Married With Children was going to utterly destroy the American family values. Then it was Roseanne. Then the Simpsons.

How can anyone truly know a person unless they've taken a car trip from at least Dayton Ohio to Bozeman Montana and back again, with no cell phones or internet?

What was I saying? Eh. Who knows.
 
I really should have listened to people saying, "hey, treat your body well", but I felt like I was still in my early 20s a couple years ago. You think you're invincible until you start hauling around 50-60 pound bags of feed and slip a disk. Haven't really been the same since, and can no longer do that sort of lifting. Between that and a bum knee and hip, I am falling apart and feel like death. But at least a whiskey on ice takes the edge off while watching the birds outside.
 
Okay children, today's lesson on aging:

Didn't give a fuck then, still don't give a fuck now.

Given how hard I went at life when younger, it's a bit amazing I'm still here and for the most part, in pretty good overall health. Just a SWAG, but I'm willing to bet I'm the oldest Farmer here, maybe with the exception of @JosephStalin. He might have me by a year or so but we're likely pretty close agewise.

I'm 66 this year. If you're older, PM me so we can start a Metamucil and the worst place I ever shit myself thread.

They say with age comes wisdom. Not so sure about that, but it does provide a literal shit ton of hindsight and perspective. The kind of stuff that if I only knew THEN what I know NOW, well my life would likely be quite different. But maybe not. You can armchair quarterback your life decisions to death (quite literally) but it doesn't change a damn thing in the here and now. Wasted energy, all though I do like thinking back fondly of the many women I've had in my life. Only a couple of them best forgotten by time.

Perspective is based on the the things that shaped your life the most. For me, one of the biggest was being sent home from school early in 2nd grade. All the adults talking in hushed tones as they hurried us on to the school buses. None of it made any sense until I walked in the front door and my mom was sitting on the couch crying hysterically "MY GOD! They shot him. They shot him!" On the TV was Dallas, TX. President Kennedy had been assassinated. Then Jack Ruby gunning down Oswald. Then RFK killed at a later date. Y'all like to talk glowniggers these days, but that shit was plutonium level glowing and we really don't know the true what/why of it and likely never will. I do remember as a kid that everyone thought JFK's death meant there was going to be a nuclear war. Everyday, we did the stop, drop and roll shit in school and cover your eyes!

The moon landing. Another milestone event. We watched it everyday in class. Men walking on the moon! All the boys wanted to be astronauts. It was cool!

The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. The British Invasion of rock n roll. Good times! And one of my favs of those days - The Monkees.

The Vietnam War. Bad times. Dad liked Walter Cronkite and every night during dinner Walter would solemnly deliver the body count. As if somehow the fact that we killed more of them today than they killed of us, we were winning the war. I would later go on protest the war in high school and attend demonstrations. The war ended and so did the draft the year I graduated high school but I had some older friends who were drafted and never heard from again. The fear of being drafted and sent to die in some rice paddy permeated all older teenage boys in that era. It's not something kids have had to fear since the 70's. I don't count the Sandbox because everyone there volunteered to join the service. No one was drafted.

Nixon and Watergate.

The captured American hostages in Iran under Carter. Released the day Reagan became President because they only knew Reagan as a cowboy and knew he would kick there rug kneeling asses right off the planet.

My own service in the Navy. Standing next to the Liberty Bell in full uniform on the Bicentennial of this country in 1976. Being a patriot has never changed with age, not a bit.

Raising four children. How could you get it so right with three of them and have one of the four be the bad example and get it SO wrong?

One of the things I don't mind about getting older? I lived history. Not the "right or wrong side" of it as it's portrayed today, but actual living, breathing history as it happened.

Here at the Farms? I like it. Don't hold any grudges against any age group. My best advice -- just try not to make a complete ass of yourself and you'll get through life just fine. One Dadism I'll pass along from my teen years - when my dad would come into the basement filled with smoke and we'd be stoned to the gills - he'd rant at us being losers and always end it with "Now put THAT in your pipe and smoke it instead of that other bullshit!" RIP Dad.

May y'all live in interesting times.

:drink::drink::drink:
 
Sped Xing said:
I used to feel awkward about that. Then I realized I was being stupid and got a young wife. It was an excellent decision, and now I suspect "you should marry someone within two years of your age" is a jewish trick.
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I figure it's a trick by post-wall women to kept the older guys from poaching the younger girls. With age comes the wisdom to see through young girl games and bullshit. This makes the yenta's unhappy.
 
Hothead said:
Him being an ineffectual politician is intrinsically linked to him being a good person (I actually thought he had passed by now)
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Our last good President was Ike.

That being said, no Carter is like 96 and still going. You do have something there about being a good person makes you a shitty politician.
 
White Devil said:
Do you think Biden is going to turn out to be another Carter, sans idiot brother and humanitarianism?
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Honestly? No. I think he'll be worse (for the country as a whole) and he's doing his damn hardest to prove it in his first 100 days.

Why? It ain't Biden being Biden. It's his handlers making all the decisions and that probably scares me more than Biden being himself. Biden is a joke in that regard -- 47 years in Govt. and he's never accomplished a damn thing. At least Carter walked the walk and talked the talk of what HE actually believed. He was and still is a humanitarian. He was widely viewed as weak militarily (he was) because he wasn't a war hawk. But he stood by what he believed and I can't fault the man for that. On his second day in office, he pardoned all the Vietnam draft dodgers, which was pretty controversial at the time, but an olive branch in helping the country heal after being so divided by Vietnam.

IMHO, if Biden turns out to be 1/2 the man Carter was, it will be a milestone accomplishment.
 
I'm in the 30something range, but feel stuck in a weird time warp where I paid for my first NICE car all upfront, pre-stimmy even, only to have it ran into four months later by a pair of dumb teenagers in what I guess was her first sports car.

I'm back to square one: Teen saving up for a first reliable car. *sigh*
 
White Devil said:
Our last good President was Ike.

That being said, no Carter is like 96 and still going. You do have something there about being a good person makes you a shitty politician.
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Nixon should get WAY more credit for ending the Cold War. Like equal or maybe even greater than Ronnie gets, considering him taking away China as the USSR's Eastern front cushion/protection and forcing them to greatly over expand their military spending to try and make up for it which led in no small part to their economic collapse. Dude was a dirty politician, but he wasn't nearly as awful as LBJ had been before him.

I know way too many asshole LBJ stories though since a close friend of mine's grandfather was a staff colonel assigned to the Whitehouse during the LBJ years as the SIGINT subject matter expert for the DoD. He would get woken up to go to the Whitehouse at 2am because LBJ was drunk and pissed off that he couldn't watch the news. He'd go in to the president's study and LBJ would be there nude, drink in hand, asking him why all the TVs are broken and he'd have to explain no one was broadcasting at 2am on a Thursday
 
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