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"The producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Habit is necessary; but it is the habit of having careless habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways." ~ Eric Trump
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kntfkr posted:"The producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. How dare you
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Apr 25, 2024 22:40
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I don't know if it's "old" but I'm in my late 30s and I have felt myself diminish in certain ways compared to what I was in my 20s. I've absolutely lost a step or two playing sports and I don't recover as quickly as I used to. But I guess aside from athletically I'm not feeling it all that much in my day to day or whatever
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Apr 25, 2024 22:43
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Ginette Reno posted:I've absolutely lost a step or two playing sports and I don't recover as quickly as I used to. Yeah, that APM really falls off fast as you get older
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Apr 25, 2024 23:02
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kntfkr posted:"The producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Makes you think
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Apr 25, 2024 23:25
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redshirt posted:Makes you think Thinking is for the young
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Apr 25, 2024 23:30
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Think fast, die, cum.
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Apr 25, 2024 23:44
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Jesus imagine being 30 dreaming about how great retirement will be You will be a decrepit wreck in 40 years if you're allowed to retire at all
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Apr 26, 2024 00:23
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Strategic Tea posted:Jesus imagine being 30 dreaming about how great retirement will be Rude 
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Apr 26, 2024 00:36
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im 31 and felt like when i hit 30 i started having health issues. nothing serious just small stuff where you feel the pain. i hurt my back last week and was basically immobile for two days and achey for a week. makes me a little scared of getting old but i also worked my first job at a retirement home and the human body can really take the beating from age. most people were 70+ minus a dude who had 3 heart attacks and was like 50. i remember a story of a lady falling, calling for help, and when the present manager helped her up by her arms, the skin sloughed off from the arms and she fell back down. them oldies miss their noses and flesh chunks but they can keep trucking. so physically i dont feel young, but know it can get worse. socially I feel youngish. if im lucky i get another 50 years maybe more. idk heres to daily stretching i suppose
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Apr 26, 2024 00:52
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*long tortured farting noise that rises a full octave and ends with a tiny squeak*
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Apr 26, 2024 00:54
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I'm 37 and I mostly feel fine. My hair is a little grayer but otherwise pretty much feel same as always.
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Apr 26, 2024 00:58
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I just turned 40, so if being in your mid or late 30s is "old" then I guess I qualify. Oh well. I'm comfortable with being middle aged.
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Apr 26, 2024 02:55
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nah it's great, people made fun of me in my 20s for looking 14, now they're too worried i'm going to drink their blood
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Apr 26, 2024 02:57
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Heard a 22 year old at work complaining that a guy "whos like 27" was cracking on to her friend and it made me feel old for a minute. Then again shes only getting in front of herself by only kicking it with people "in her grade" or whatever.
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Apr 26, 2024 09:40
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You know when you're playing a Bethesda game and I'm talking one of the good ones here like I'm talking Morrowind it's the only good Bethesda game so like you're like a real life month into the game your character's pretty good up ons there's a ton of stuff you haven't gotten to yet there's so much of Tamriel Rebuilt you haven't visited and you're using a ton of mods to moderate the leveling and the difficulty so you aren't steamrolling everything even STILL, but like, you've been playing for a while and you're forgetting what this character's done or not done, you're forgetting the context behind some of the souvenirs you've been keeping, you can't remember what your character did at ALL last in-game month, and after a certain point it's like, well, I kind of just want to start over and get a fresh start this character's gone on too long, and I think you hit that point in your mid or late 30s tbh I think at this point my character I've been playing IRL yeah it's been through some really dumb things and IDK I'm still attached to it you know but it's like, eh, ehhh, no okay maybe I see the argument against immortality you kind of keep accruing things and you either forget the majority of them and lose all sense of self continuity which is disorienting because it's like waking up in someone else's body in someone else's life and it's like, you know, you pick up your saved game a few months later and you can't remember what your character was doing at all, were you doing a more intense character-driven roleplay with this one, what were they even about? And it's either that or it becomes so big it's like you have all these notes you have to cross reference and you realize, see I'm changing metaphors here but have you ever written a really long work of fiction and eventually it feels so bloated it's like, man, I can see the appeal of novellas now, I'm having trouble keeping track of everything and fitting all the pieces in, and I think at like yeah by the end of your 30s you start hitting that point where you wish you were a novella instead but it's okay your life is illusory anyway no worries everything is a kaleidoscope of narration and the secret is it mostly loops infinitely so again no worries! You can have a hamburger and it will still taste good.
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Apr 26, 2024 11:35
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just cracking his dry old bones at her (hope i'm doing it right)
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Until you're in maybe your late 50s, age only matters because good and bad habits (or good or bad luck) have had more time to play out. Also because young people keep reinventing stupid poo poo. Brainworm fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Apr 26, 2024 16:37
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dee eight posted:*long tortured farting noise that rises a full octave and ends with a tiny squeak*
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Apr 26, 2024 17:06
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I just turned 40, so if being in your mid or late 30s is "old" then I guess I qualify. Oh well. I'm comfortable with being middle aged. No, no. You should be really upset. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
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Apr 26, 2024 17:07
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dee eight posted:*long tortured farting noise that rises a full octave and ends with a tiny squeak* *sniff* meaty….
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Apr 26, 2024 18:18
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FlocksOfMice posted:You know when you're playing a Bethesda game and I'm talking one of the good ones here like I'm talking Morrowind it's the only good Bethesda game so like you're like a real life month into the game your character's pretty good up ons there's a ton of stuff you haven't gotten to yet there's so much of Tamriel Rebuilt you haven't visited and you're using a ton of mods to moderate the leveling and the difficulty so you aren't steamrolling everything even STILL, but like, you've been playing for a while and you're forgetting what this character's done or not done, you're forgetting the context behind some of the souvenirs you've been keeping, you can't remember what your character did at ALL last in-game month, and after a certain point it's like, well, I kind of just want to start over and get a fresh start this character's gone on too long, and I think you hit that point in your mid or late 30s tbh I think at this point my character I've been playing IRL yeah it's been through some really dumb things and IDK I'm still attached to it you know but it's like, eh, ehhh, no okay maybe I see the argument against immortality you kind of keep accruing things and you either forget the majority of them and lose all sense of self continuity which is disorienting because it's like waking up in someone else's body in someone else's life and it's like, you know, you pick up your saved game a few months later and you can't remember what your character was doing at all, were you doing a more intense character-driven roleplay with this one, what were they even about? And it's either that or it becomes so big it's like you have all these notes you have to cross reference and you realize, see I'm changing metaphors here but have you ever written a really long work of fiction and eventually it feels so bloated it's like, man, I can see the appeal of novellas now, I'm having trouble keeping track of everything and fitting all the pieces in, and I think at like yeah by the end of your 30s you start hitting that point where you wish you were a novella instead but it's okay your life is illusory anyway no worries everything is a kaleidoscope of narration and the secret is it mostly loops infinitely so again no worries! You can have a hamburger and it will still taste good. i appreciated it
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One thing that has changed is whenever I shower I'm consciously aware of how easy it could be to slip and fall and bash my head
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Apr 29, 2024 21:23
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i don't know if this is a getting older thing, because it's not specific to people younger than me, but i think the global english vernacular has become really homogenous and that everybody talks in the same copied from black culture social media kind of way, worldwide. the same stock phrases for situations and expressing opinions everywhere. it makes everybody seem pretty stupid and like they don't have their own thoughts. i wonder if it has always been this way or if the internet is the new factor. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Apr 29, 2024 23:14
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back people
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roomtone posted:i don't know if this is a getting older thing, because it's not specific to people younger than me, but i think the global english vernacular has become really homogenous and that everybody talks in the same copied from black culture social media kind of way, worldwide. the same stock phrases for situations and expressing opinions everywhere. it makes everybody seem pretty stupid and like they don't have their own thoughts. the use of those phrases globally represents more people, including non-english speakers, being able to express themselves and interact with english language media. connecting it so much to social media shows how you are interacting with it, and social media's not really great for people 30+ to be forming opinions from.
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Apr 30, 2024 16:09
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Before I hit 30, I thought being in your 30s was old. Now that I have passed 60, I realize that I was full of poo poo and the 30s were still young. I miss my working, pain-free joints.
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Apr 30, 2024 16:53
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Old according to who, junior?
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Genesplicer posted:Before I hit 30, I thought being in your 30s was old. Now that I have passed 60, I realize that I was full of poo poo and the 30s were still young. Indeed. I saw that the official oldest person in the world is a 122 year old French woman who of course smokes and drinks, and I think: Wow, she was "old" at 72, and then 50 years later.....! She's having a smoke and a cognac.
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Apr 30, 2024 17:20
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I regularly hang out with friends who are a decade older than me and it's both nice to be able to get them out of their comfort zones and feel a little younger just as it is nice for me to have an excuse to stop doing stuff at 9 and just go the gently caress home. Just went to a celebration for a friend where a bunch of folks a decade younger than me were there and man did that make me feel old, especially since I didn't know them. We kept up until the end of the evening but man I need a week of recovery from that poo poo. So yeah old/young is relative Alucard fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Apr 30, 2024 |
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Apr 30, 2024 20:01
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redshirt posted:Indeed. She's probably actually dead and her grandkids weekend at bernies her to keep the pension checks coming. That was a thing in Japan.
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Apr 30, 2024 22:11
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Alucard posted:I regularly hang out with friends who are a decade older than me and it's both nice to be able to get them out of their comfort zones and feel a little younger just as it is nice for me to have an excuse to stop doing stuff at 9 and just go the gently caress home. You sound old
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Apr 30, 2024 22:31
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I'm turning 38 in a week, main things are grey hair (though luckily I've kept it all...so far) and hangovers getting worse, which sucks but giving yourself a reason not to have that 5th beer is probably a good thing overall
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Apr 30, 2024 22:35
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kntfkr posted:She's probably actually dead and her grandkids weekend at bernies her to keep the pension checks coming. She looked alive enough in the Le Monde video
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Apr 30, 2024 22:47
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no lol
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Apr 30, 2024 22:58
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...! posted:You sound old Thankfully I caught this post before my bedtime and am at a loss for words. Probably because of my cognitive decline.
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Apr 30, 2024 23:07
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*Does the airline attendant oxygen mask move
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Apr 30, 2024 23:23
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Turning 37 was pretty hard on me, I feel you.
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Apr 30, 2024 23:42
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I mean I used to think so, but I've seen people kick rear end in their thirties. It's not the worst time to start really living because the previous 20 years were unfairly lovely to you.
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i’m turning 41, and the biggest difference, apart from a greying, beard is how tired I get around midnight now compared to ten years ago
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