atomicfront
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Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 02:03 AM UTC
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Now that I am 48 I feel like I have some questions about ageing. And I realize a lot of you guys are quite ancient. I was told by my eye doctor when I was younger that I would need reading glasses at 44 but no one has told me the more important questions about ageing. Answer as many or as few of these as you like. Don't be shy I know you guys know the 411.
1) At what age will my hair start to turn gray?
2) At what age will I need viagra?
3) At what age will I find women in their 40's attractive?
4) At what age will I start to bald?
5) At what age will I get aches and pains?
6) At what age will I feel nostalgia for the music of my youth?
7) At what age will I start worrying about eating enough fiber?
8) At what age will I take the elevator instead of the stairs
9) At what age will girls in their 20's no longer hit on me in bars?
11) At what age will I need a colonsoscopy?
10) At what age will I need Depends under garments?
12) When will I get dementia and think Bob Dylan can sing well?
13) When I will tell those kids to get the hell off of my lawn?
James Ford
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 02:31 AM UTC
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3) At what age will I find women in their 40's attractive?
For your, hopefully in about five years.
Is this going to be your vanity thread, like Smackie has one?
jaguar
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 02:53 AM UTC
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Oh, boy! This promises to be some fun reading. Think I'll I'll go off and pop some popcorn awhile.
By the way Atomic, at what age will you finally figure out that everyone of those will tend to be different for each individual?
jaguar
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 04:27 AM UTC
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Well, for what it's worth, I started using bifocals, or progressives, in my 30s, except they are for close up viewing since I'm far sighted. Rarely use them when I'm driving because they actually make things a little worse and I see better without them, unless I have to read a map or something.
As time goes on, my vision keeps getting worse. What really annoys me is that I use to have very refined vision which was better than 20/20. It sucks now and I find that the glasses, or lens, themselves get in my way. I've also found that I've been making a lot more visual mistakes, like typos, because I'm tending to look less at what I'm doing and assume something is what I think or want it to be while all I'm doing is glossing over a mistake because I'm just not seeing whatever it is clearly enough.
RatBastard
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 05:39 AM UTC
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3) I never had any given age as a criteria for attractiveness.
9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
K8teebug
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 02:47 PM UTC
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I am 35 and am always shaking my cane at kids to get the f off our lawn.
chaz
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 03:36 PM UTC
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have a few grays in my beard
tbd
my wife is 41 and smokin hot
receding hairline, no biggie
got aches
fiber is cool with me
elevators too
don't really go to bars and when i do my smoking hot wife is with me so…
colo?
shoot me first
dylan rules
when they turn 18
Relaxer
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 04:01 PM UTC
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He wishes.
chaz
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 04:20 PM UTC
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atomicfront wrote:
chaz wrote:
have a few grays in my beard
tbd
my wife is 41 and smokin hot
receding hairline, no biggie
got aches
fiber is cool with me
elevators too
don't really go to bars and when i do my smoking hot wife is with me so…
colo?
shoot me first
dylan rules
when they turn 18
None of these answers are useful without your age.
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DeathFromAbove1979
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 04:33 PM UTC
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I'm 25 and already tell kids to get the hell off my lawn. Little fuckers.
chaz
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 05:15 PM UTC
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BTW, in America it's spelled "aging". This isn't jolly old England.
imbecile
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 05:34 PM UTC
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stevewizzle wrote:
RatBastard wrote:
9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
jaguar
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Re: Ageing Thread
February 20, 2013 at 06:19 PM UTC
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atomicfront wrote:
chaz wrote:
BTW, in America it's spelled "aging". This isn't jolly old England.
Really? That is a terrible way to spell it. Doesn't even make sense. And why is it ageism here in America then and not agism?
This is why spelling confuses me to no end! One drops the 'e' when adding an 'i' ending while the other doesn't. Can't keep track of all those exceptions. Then there are those words that end in 'le' or 'el' but sound the same. As well as words that end in 'or' vs. 'er' which either sound the very same or very, very similar. That's why I'm not a spelling Nazi with informal writing in places such as message boards. Between the weird language rules and the typos, it's all too anal retentive to waste time worrying (<- another weird (<- yet another) exception to general spelling rules) about such minor infractions.