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Reasons you know you are getting old

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weekend_warrior said:
Kids today don't make any sense to me.

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Its like Marty McFly and Rachel Maddow had a love child.
 
Looking through the paypal is a scam threads that pop up every now and then
(I remember back in 98/99 doing ebay meant you had to send in your personal check or cashier's check all based on user feedbacks and good will. Paypal was introduced in 99 and sellers were putting the promotional link for 5 dollars off for signing up with paypal).
 
- At the age of 30 or maybe even as early as 28, I noticed physical diferences. I strained something in my back a couple months ago. It's been irritating my sciatic nerve. I have pain in my lower back and it stretches all the way down to my lower leg.

- Hangovers last longer. Much longer.

- I'm much more content not going out.

- I've fallen out of the MTV generation. This includes clothes and music. I litterally look at todays youth and think, "how stupid these kids are", "what is this crap their listening too", "girls jeans on men?"

- I drive slower

- I like beer for the flavor

- I recently bought a Subaru Outback because I'm planning on kids in a year or so

I'm 31 and 5 months away from 32 FYI
 
I jumped 7 feet and I though I had landed on spikes. My feet hurt all day.

Also I can't even do a full 90 minutes soccer match anymore, used to play an entire afternoon before.



And yeah, dubstep.
 
I've acted like an old man since puberty. But the things that really gets me, is a hair growing from my ear...I trim it, but still, hair growing from ears = OLD.
 
Dubstep is tripe so that's ok.

For me, I'm only 23 and I've seen a couple random grey hairs. I don't feel old though so it's all good. I don't really mind them at all.
 
Honestly most age "problems" I experienced myself and I saw oher people experiencing were psychological ones. When you are young you tend to believe a lot of stupid shit and that powers you up. But the more you experience things the less illusions you have - the less hooks they have in you, the less motivation you have to go. You experienced that beatiful girl but now you need brain, not just tits. You experienced brain, now you need a sane brain. You got your first big money salary and blowed it on some useless stuff you thought you wanted but really you didn't. You traveled and saw that while the world is amazing, people are pretty much the same everywhere, only flavour differs.

Then why should I exercise if I'm content with a current girl who is not Miss Universe but will do? (belly grows)
why should I go out if I walked these streets 100 times? (stays at home, belly grows, less movement - feels worse)
why should I make more money if I don't want to buy this shit? (not motivated to work better)

And then you feel bad worse and worse everyday until you realize that you:

1)read more than a fucking forum when you was younger because there was no fucking forum, just books
2)exercised every day because you wanted to stay fit for this beatiful girl who was a dumb bitch but that didn't matter
3)never stayed until 3 a.m. because you had to exercise the next day and didn't have a fucking forum to read.

Then you revert yourself to all these activities (sports, books) for like two weeks and start feeling.... young again? Yes! But then you realize that all illusions are gone, that this girl is nice enough and will do, that your job gives you enough money because you don't buy useless shit and you don't need to read books because there is a forum and you don't need to exercise because your woman donesn't give enough fuck about your growing belly. And you go down again to realize that it's all in your hands really.
 
Start drinking tea.

Start thinking everything and everyone looks "stupid".

Start thinking modern music sounds, ohhh, ugh, like new-fangled robot-speak, meep-meep-meep.
 
Ever since they started putting the year movies were released as you flip through the channels. I am watching Saving Private Ryan with a big fat 1998 next to it and realized that it has almost been 14 years since I saw it in theaters.
 
I recently turned 30, and even though I missed out on the fun of youth (to give one example I've never really been to a party), I find myself more content with spending my free time sitting at a cafe reading a book. When I was 23 I never would have done that. There's a still a part of me that wants to get out and be wild, but I think it's gotten to the point where it's more a matter of "I should" than "I want to".

Late nights take their toll on me in ways they didn't use to. I can still manage it, but I honestly can't remember the last time I wasn't truly 100% not tired without the aid of caffeine.

I have less of a tolerance for gruesome or really cruel violence on tv or in movies. Maybe it's a heightened sense of empathy that comes with age, I dunno. Same goes for "Haha dumbass fucked up his skateboarding trick and broke collar bone!" youtube videos.

When it comes to movies I tend to enjoy character study/drama/cerebral movies much, much more than straight-up action movies.

There are girls I could legally have sex with who now look like kids to me.

Recently started seeing my parents as "other adults" instead of my mom and dad.
 
the loudmouth teens annoy me on the metro.

more gray hair.

hair growing at alarming rates in the eyebrow/ear area. one week and i'm a civil war re-enactment enthusiast.

morning wood no longer a given.

all of my highschool friends look like fat old fucks. with a few exceptions.

very particular about my car now. i am easily stressed in parking lots and prefer to park away from the fray.

after i finished air assault school i was 6'1 210 solid muscle. deisel. now i look like an older semi-fit dude.

i am much less tolerant of incompetent individuals in a retail setting. i am a fucking nightmare to a service worker that doesn't know the job or have common sense.
 
I like exotic are rare cheeses and buy a different cheese each time i go shopping.
I think the majority of people are dressed like cunts
I want to watch all the james bond movies
I much prefer time in my house with a friend or my girl over going out.
I no longer want to argue with stupid children over the internet

Im 21 :(. When im 40 ill be horrible
cant wait
 
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A few white/gray hairs have popped up. A couple on my head, one in my beard... and one in my nose. Yes, nose.

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I've got 'em on my eyebrows and beard. Eyebrows, man.


DeaconKnowledge said:
Don't come to my house.

If you have to come, clean up after yourself. Don't touch the walls.

At the end of the night, get out. No you can't stay over, I'm not feeding your sorry ass breakfast.
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AMEN.
 
I was made pretty poorly, so I haven't noticed much. I get lower leg pains, my teeth are to sensitive, and my beard is turning gray.
I'm 20 =/
 
I'm still pretty much a kid at 27 so a huge LOL to people who think they're old at 20.
 
Bumping an old thread, but I am feeling absolutely wrecked today. At 30, 3 days of working and boozing at E3 have completely knocked me on my ass. I've been sleeping on and off all day and feel mortally drained. Sign of the times. I am officially old. ;)
 
H.Protagonist said:
Bumping an old thread, but I am feeling absolutely wrecked today. At 30, 3 days of working and boozing at E3 have completely knocked me on my ass. I've been sleeping on and off all day and feel mortally drained. Sign of the times. I am officially old. ;)
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There's your problem.
 
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