You know you are getting old when:

[tamoko]

And this is help when pills have a different colours. Was pretty dangerous with all white.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

Over a period of years I worked part-time in a tobacco store with a very dear friend, now, alas, deceased. Always wearing a sport coat, he kept is wallet in the right inside pocket, his cigar case in the left inside pocket, his glasses on his nose and his testicles in the standard location.
His version of checking was, "Spectacles, testicles, wallet, cigars." If you follow the path as you use your right hand to check that everything is where it ought to be and you may think you just entered a church.

 

[tonyb]

And this is help when pills have a different colours. Was pretty dangerous with all white.

I’m on so many prescription meds that I take a U-Haul to the pharmacy.

If not for the pill sorter thing (my lovely missus bought me a nice handcrafted wooden one) I would all but certainly not take the right meds at the right time. Attribute that in part to the numbers of pills I take, and in part to creeping senility.

 

[Trenchfriend]

And if your not into the topic.

You don't need your Vitamin B12 checked (Holo-Transcobalamin). Just start with a serious Vitamin B-"complex" or "complete" OTC from pharmacy, not the drugstore stuff.

I'm taking it since 2017.
We are not more in 1995. Today, we know much more how the eight Vitamin B work together.

 

[Trenchfriend]

"Gauze"!!
When I heared the medical word the last time, I don't know!

 

[Jon Crow]

Tell me, is it getting old when, after a thorough fruitless search for your keys, you find that they have been in your pocket all the time. It makes me feel such a d*ckhead!

How about glasses on the top of your head haha bellend moment methinks

 

[Bushman]

I've hit 32 and my knees are starting to sound like walking on crushed gravel. I know getting old beats the alternative, but it still stinks.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Back to cigarette topic.

In my ashtray next ot our apartment block, I saw a Winston stub. Something of the old world we still know must be alive!

 

[Zombie_61]

Back to cigarette topic.

In my ashtray next ot our apartment block, I saw a Winston stub. Something of the old world we still know must be alive!

When I got serious about smoking and started seriously back in...1987?...Winston was my brand. Now, I couldn't tell you why. Over 30 years I switched two or three times, and now I can't remember what the brand was when I stopped for the last time; Benson & Hedges, I think. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[GHT]

How about glasses on the top of your head haha bellend moment methinks

 

[GHT]

Many an old person will tell you that ageing has a detrimental effect on the body functions, not so.
I pee every morning at 6:00. I pee like a racehorse on a flat rock; no problem at all.
The bowel is in good order too. I crap every morning at 6:30.
My problem is, I don't wake up until 7:00!"

 

[steveclark]

But what is it with this Minecraft game? Is it really good, funny? Should I have this, as a 40+ boy?

Still plugging away at my novel draft—some days it feels like carving marble with a spoon, other days it flows like jazz. Depends on how much coffee and patience I’ve got in the tank. But here’s a bit of a curveball—what’s the deal with Minecraft? I keep hearing about it, and I know it’s been around forever now, but I never tried it. Is it actually fun, or just one of those things people like because they grew up with it? As a 40-something guy who remembers when Tetris was cutting-edge, I’m wondering if I missed the boat—or if maybe I ought to fire it up and see what all the fuss is about. Anyone here play it, or am I too old to be building pixel castles and hiding from blocky zombies?

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^^^
It was when I was closer to your age, back when the Dead Sea was still sick, that I came to the realization that I wasn’t missing much by not staying current on most popular entertainments. That was true when I still paid more attention to such things, and it’s true now. This is not to say it is all instantly forgettable, but that most of it is. The cream will rise, and if it is deserving of my attention I will become aware of it soon enough.

I recall chatting with a fellow a generation younger than me, 30 years or so ago, who was a fan of what was then starting to be called “classic rock” (kinda oxymoronic, but wotthehell). I told him that most rock ‘n’ roll current when I was his age was crap, too. What he was such a fan of was but a fraction of what came over the AM radios in our well-worn VW Beetles and Ford Falcons.

 

[GHT]

There's three pieces of sound advice that I have learned about getting old. Never pass a bathroom, never waste a hard-on and never trust a fart.
I tell you, this getting old malarkey ain't the golden years that it's cracked up to be. Nowadays getting lucky means remembering where I parked the car.
What I need is Old Fart training. On the stick deodorant my missus bought me, the instruction reads: "Remove cap and push up bottom." It hurts to walk but whenever I fart, the room smells lovely.

 

[Tiki Tom]

See? There is always hope.
Perhaps your next wife has not even been born yet.
Apparently Mick and his girlfriend are engaged.

https://www.today.com/parents/celebrity/mick-jagger-melanie-hamrick-relationship-timeline-rcna172291

https://www.eonline.com/news/1416041/mick-jagger-engaged-to-melanie-hamrick

 

[GHT]

See? There is always hope.
Perhaps your next wife has not even been born yet.
Apparently Mick and his girlfriend are engaged.

https://www.today.com/parents/celebrity/mick-jagger-melanie-hamrick-relationship-timeline-rcna172291

https://www.eonline.com/news/1416041/mick-jagger-engaged-to-melanie-hamrick

Can you visualise the happy couple, hand in hand, walking into the sunset?
Mick might be saying: "Did you put talcum powder in my underpants?"
To which Melanie might reply: "No darling, that's Miracle Grow!"

 

[Trenchfriend]

Just imaging such a possible conversation.

"Grandpa, did you have baby wipes, back in your days?"

"No, honey. But we had washcloth of course, if we really needed to, but mostly we were fine with paper only.

"Paper only?? But how did you clean yourself completey?"

"Uuuum, you ever heared of skid marks?"

 

[steveclark]

But what is it with this https://aviatorgame.in/ game? Is it really good, funny? Should I have this, as a 40+ boy?

Maybe there's something meditative about stacking blocks and shaping your own little universe—kind of like digital Lego therapy? Or maybe it's just chaos with creepers and chickens. I’m curious if there’s a creative angle that’d click with someone who enjoys storytelling and world-building. Could Minecraft be a kind of sandbox for the imagination, even for someone whose idea of “multiplayer” peaked with LAN parties in the ‘90s? Genuinely open to thoughts—convince me it’s worth a try, or save me from a midlife gamer crisis.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you know how to Chicken Fricassee, BEFORE there were ready canned products...