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[Woggleman]

You are walking around town with your niece and telling what stores and restaurants used to be there.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Trust me, it gets worse, where I live all my best places are flats, houses, or junkie spots

 

[Trogdor1123]

Everything hurts that didn’t before. I’m only 42, decent shape as I’m pretty active, and still everything hurts all the time haha. Benefits are hang overs don’t bug me as much… I just work through them.

Another thing my wife has told me is that I sit and stare with a terrible scowl at all the young retards with their stupid clothes. I don’t even bother trying to hid it haha.

You also have a shit ton more money…

It’s great getting older.

 

[Jaybe]

 

[Woggleman]

I try not to be too judgmental towards youngsters since the older generation did the same to us Gen X ers and their parents did it to them. I never want to reach that get off my lawn stage.

 

[BadBurger]

For me, it was driving through my old stomping grounds where I formed memories by myself and with dozens of friends over the four years of high school, and barely recognizing some houses due to the neglect of years, while realizing literally every store or restaurant aside from the 7-11 were gone. Who knew a scant ten or so years could change about ten blocks of suburbia so much.

 

[//DEVIL//]

I am 41 and I feel like I am about to be torn from the middle around the back area. Hurts to bend over sometimes.

Nothing wrong with me but man,,,. I feel so stiff.

 

[Woggleman]

The summer before the pandemic I decided to go to some of my old hangout spots in NYC mainly on the Lower East Side and areas around that and they are all high end boutiques or chains. The old hole in the wall clubs and record shops are gone.

 

[Tams]

You feel old.

 

[ReBurn]

You feel old.

And everything hurts

 

[k_trout]

...people seem to be so angry at each other all the time and you don't understand the reason

 

[LaughingStock]

Pubic hair starts to turn grey.

When I wake up, grab my phone but can't see shit without glasses.

 

[MastAndo]

Hangovers become devastating. If you're going to be drinking, you start having to be mindful about preventative measures to avoid a day of suffering.

 

[Beastclaw Raider]

Started to wear glasses last year at 42, back hurts sometimes, more tired than I used to. Only the 40s, it's a bitch

 

[Ownage]

You are happy to listen to Dionne Warwick.

 

[bitbydeath]

I’m in my forties and feel no different to my twenties.

Don’t mind a nap during the day every now and then though I guess.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

You have to watch what you eat.

You have to purposefully exercise.

 

[eddie4]

 

[TGO]

This is what I picture when the lads/girls at work invite me to their parties and I obviously decline with " I don't think that would be a good idea "

 

[Doom85]

can't see shit without glasses.

What are you implying?! That means I’ve been getting “older” since I was like 9!

 

[Trogdor1123]

I’m in my forties and feel no different to my twenties.

Don’t mind a nap during the day every now and then though I guess.

I didn’t nap till I was 37… you are old now

 

[Nobody_Important]

When you start making threads with that title.




Also very fucking true OP. I spent a few minutes explaining to my youngest sister about a pizza joint that used to be in our hometown that closed when she was 2. She gave the classic "oh that's nice" look lol

 

[nkarafo]

You also have a shit ton more money…

Not necessarily.

 

[fran.fernandez]

After some drinks at the club y constantly go to toilet pee

 

[nush]

us Gen X ers and their parents did it to them. I never want to reach that get off my lawn stage.

I think I'm overcompensating when I let the kids in the building come in and play Marvel vs Capcom.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

...people seem to be so angry at each other all the time and you don't understand the reason

OMG, this. Everybody is rushing, stressed all the time, passive aggressive towards others. You just don’t give a shit.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

When I saw this thread and it took a solid 25 seconds and more than one try to recall my own age correctly.

 

[John Bilbo]

When you have to make a sound getting up or sitting down

 

[niilokin]

got myself a nosehair trimmer

 

[Hoppa]

When I turned 25 and realised I was older than most of the famous celebrities

 

[Edmund]

When I stopped getting morning wood.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

You are walking around town with your niece and telling what stores and restaurants used to be there.

Honest question: why do you do this?

 

[Unknown Soldier]

When I realized I have never played Fortnite and I never will

 

[Dr.D00p]

..All those family friends you grew up with start dying off.

 

[cormack12]

When you can no longer bend down without an exhale passing your lips.

I'm in OK shape. Possibly a few lbs overweight but I workout (though I hate it). It's more the little niggles that are more frequent. Like a stiff neck, bit of back pain, pulled muscles. They just seem to hang round a bit longer. Plus nose hairs yeah, what a fucker. Why is my nose hair related to my age? What kind of shit evolution is that?

 

[RJMacready73]

When the youngsters in work are heading out to techno festivals talking about the DJs and I'm like who? And then they play some tune on their phones and I just walk away thinking what a pile o bollocks, back in my day techno made your nose bleed, eyes pop and you'd drop 5stone when you left the club through 8hrs of dancing and mountains of drugs... Nowadays they whiff some fucking canister of laughing gas shite and stand around trying to look insta-cool in whatever brand is currently doing the rounds... What's happened to taps aff?

 

[Woggleman]

Honest question: why do you do this?

She wanted to take a walk around the neighborhood. I wish she would have chosen a warmer day but it is what it is.

 

[Chozoldman]

I think that...wait...what did I come into this thread for again?

 

[V1LÆM]

I remember my parents doing this and thinking omg you're so old do you also remember when there were dinosaurs kicking about?! I noticed I'm doing it now

That's just how things go I suppose. COVID really accelerated it though with how many places shut down, were left abandoned, and were bought out again. My local town centre is almost unrecognisable to what it was just 5 years ago.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Not necessarily.

I suppose, but for most people it’s the start of their best earning years.

 

[sono]

You prefer a nice cup of tea instead of talking to that pretty girl

 

[PapaEmeritus]

You wake up in the morning and stretc..........AH FUCK I PINCHED A NERVE BETWEEN MY SHOULDERS!

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Gets better every passing day.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

You prefer a nice cup of tea instead of talking to that pretty girl

That's not turning old, that's turning gay

Ps no homophobia. Gay men love me.

 

[Puscifer]

When you have a bad sneeze your entire skeleton is feels like it's on fire, your spine decides you have lifelong back problems, your head feels like it's going to explode and you sit down for 10 seconds and go "wow what the fuck was that?" Then you go about your day.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

When you have a bad sneeze your entire skeleton is feels like it's on fire, your spine decides you have lifelong back problems, your head feels like it's going to explode and you sit down for 10 seconds and go "wow what the fuck was that?" Then you go about your day.

You 90 or something?

 

[Artoris]

When your PlayStation 1 starts to turn yellow

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

FWIW Time is what got me into Pink Floyd. Mike Maldonado used it in his part in an old Toy Machine skateboarding video.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Bonus: when you start giving less shit about what others think of you.

 

[thefool]

Mostly dating. I feel super old when im with younger girls.