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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #645 on: April 08, 2023, 08:24:35 PM »
Don't know what I am. A grumpy old man, I guess.

Dad wouldn't mind another member to the Grumpy Old Men society.

When John Madden said that you can only have one big pain or else how does the aspirin know where to go, he was not this old yet.

When my level of daily arthritic pain is workable, I am a happy old man with lots of cool stuff I want to do still.
Just do not stand between me and the nearest toilet.

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #646 on: April 13, 2023, 01:18:01 PM »
Don't know what I am. A grumpy old man, I guess.

Dad wouldn't mind another member to the Grumpy Old Men society.

It's a calling, really.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #647 on: April 15, 2023, 05:49:40 AM »
I think I probably qualify for this thread now. Speak up son!  :poke:

When your co-workers are mostly your kids' ages, and they've noticed... and nobody ever says 'you don't look old enough for that' any more  :lol1:

I'm definitely getting to be a grumpy bastard, middle age has found me creaky, knackered and rattling like a chemist's shop. What I have left on top is a nice 50/50 blend of silver and black nowadays, though the beard's mostly black still. What I don't like is the encroaching baldy bits and the amount of daylight you can see through the rest. Especially when my youngest gleefully starts poking at new bits of scalp to make sure I'm aware of it. Cheeky little shit.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #648 on: April 22, 2023, 03:08:14 PM »
...you just don't care.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #649 on: August 13, 2024, 08:33:47 PM »
I have a few silver hairs now. I was at work and I told someone that I pull the silvers out and they were like, "Oooh, you know if you do that, two will grow in its place!" Just what I needed to hear.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #650 on: August 14, 2024, 11:04:46 AM »
I know I am 34 years old, but I don't feel 34 years old emotionally.

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #651 on: August 16, 2024, 08:22:20 PM »
^I'm 13 years older than you, heh.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #652 on: August 17, 2024, 03:35:45 PM »
^I'm 13 years older than you, heh.

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #653 on: August 17, 2024, 06:32:24 PM »
I have a few silver hairs now. I was at work and I told someone that I pull the silvers out and they were like, "Oooh, you know if you do that, two will grow in its place!" Just what I needed to hear.

I think that's a myth.  :orly: Only one hair grows per follicle, though repeatedly pulling them out could damage the follicles causing thinner hair later on than would have been otherwise. Just a few probably isn't a big deal.  :dunno:
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #654 on: August 18, 2024, 03:33:11 AM »
^ I think you're right.

The silvers that in my regular hair feel rougher though. Wouldn't like a full head of rough hair!
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #655 on: August 18, 2024, 08:10:04 PM »
I think I probably qualify for this thread now. Speak up son!  :poke:

When your co-workers are mostly your kids' ages, and they've noticed... and nobody ever says 'you don't look old enough for that' any more  :lol1:

I'm definitely getting to be a grumpy bastard, middle age has found me creaky, knackered and rattling like a chemist's shop. What I have left on top is a nice 50/50 blend of silver and black nowadays, though the beard's mostly black still. What I don't like is the encroaching baldy bits and the amount of daylight you can see through the rest. Especially when my youngest gleefully starts poking at new bits of scalp to make sure I'm aware of it. Cheeky little shit.

Hair can be an odd thing.
My beard has been gray since I was 40-ish. Now at sixty eight years of age, my beard has whitened and I've grown it past my collar bones down to the bottom of my sternum, Civil War era style. I keep it trimmed and kept looking, but massive.

My head hair is still light brown with only small singles of white scattered through.

I had a lovely fiftyish coworker come to me one day and compliment me on how I kept my hair colored so natural looking, but wanted to inform me that they make products for men's beards that can do the same.

She was stunned when I told her I had never colored anything and it looks natural because it is natural.

My brother is the opposite. He had grey hair early on, but to this day (he is sixty six) his beard is still mostly dark with light wisps around the sideburns.
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I like my giant Viking beard!
... but I am getting tired of my hair down past my shoulders. Caring for it is a handful.
Thinking of buzzing it off again and leaving the beard but I always thought that looked odd on bald guys with massive beards.

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #656 on: August 18, 2024, 08:59:04 PM »
Sitting here thinking about this stuff and had a thought.
Made a meme.

Silly, but you might get a laugh.

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #657 on: August 19, 2024, 11:01:52 AM »
Yes, I'm old... but the people I grew up with look older for some odd reason.

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #658 on: August 20, 2024, 07:16:47 PM »
^DirtDawg - :lol1:

^Genesis - you must have the autistic trait of looking young for your age. Someone thought I was in my mid 30s, not 47.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #659 on: August 21, 2024, 12:21:50 PM »
^DirtDawg - :lol1:

^Genesis - you must have the autistic trait of looking young for your age. Someone thought I was in my mid 30s, not 47.

I do have that trait... a lot of people at work thought I was in my 20s

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