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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: atomicfront on February 19, 2013, 10:03:22 pm
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Now that I am 48 I feel like I have some questions about ageing. And I realize a lot of you guys are quite ancient. I was told by my eye doctor when I was younger that I would need reading glasses at 44 but no one has told me the more important questions about ageing. Answer as many or as few of these as you like. Don't be shy I know you guys know the 411.
1) At what age will my hair start to turn gray?
2) At what age will I need viagra?
3) At what age will I find women in their 40's attractive?
4) At what age will I start to bald?
5) At what age will I get aches and pains?
6) At what age will I feel nostalgia for the music of my youth?
7) At what age will I start worrying about eating enough fiber?
8) At what age will I take the elevator instead of the stairs
9) At what age will girls in their 20's no longer hit on me in bars?
11) At what age will I need a colonsoscopy?
10) At what age will I need Depends under garments?
12) When will I get dementia and think Bob Dylan can sing well?
13) When I will tell those kids to get the hell off of my lawn?
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3) At what age will I find women in their 40's attractive?
For your, hopefully in about five years.
Is this going to be your vanity thread, like Smackie has one?
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Oh, boy! This promises to be some fun reading. Think I'll I'll go off and pop some popcorn awhile.
(http://www.anuts.com/images/C/all%20popcorn%20boy.JPG)
By the way Atomic, at what age will you finally figure out that everyone of those will tend to be different for each individual?
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Oh, boy! This promises to be some fun reading. Think I'll I'll go off and pop some popcorn awhile.
(http://www.anuts.com/images/C/all%20popcorn%20boy.JPG)
By the way Atomic, at what age will you finally figure out that everyone of those will tend to be different for each individual?
Well my eye doctor said almost everyone who needs glasses for distance needs bifocals when they are 43 or 44. I thought everything was like that.
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Well, for what it's worth, I started using bifocals, or progressives, in my 30s, except they are for close up viewing since I'm far sighted. Rarely use them when I'm driving because they actually make things a little worse and I see better without them, unless I have to read a map or something.
As time goes on, my vision keeps getting worse. What really annoys me is that I use to have very refined vision which was better than 20/20. It sucks now and I find that the glasses, or lens, themselves get in my way. I've also found that I've been making a lot more visual mistakes, like typos, because I'm tending to look less at what I'm doing and assume something is what I think or want it to be while all I'm doing is glossing over a mistake because I'm just not seeing whatever it is clearly enough.
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3) I never had any given age as a criteria for attractiveness.
9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
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I am 35 and am always shaking my cane at kids to get the f off our lawn.
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have a few grays in my beard
tbd
my wife is 41 and smokin hot
receding hairline, no biggie
got aches
fiber is cool with me
elevators too
don't really go to bars and when i do my smoking hot wife is with me so...
colo?
shoot me first
dylan rules
when they turn 18
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
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He wishes.
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have a few grays in my beard
tbd
my wife is 41 and smokin hot
receding hairline, no biggie
got aches
fiber is cool with me
elevators too
don't really go to bars and when i do my smoking hot wife is with me so...
colo?
shoot me first
dylan rules
when they turn 18
None of these answers are useful without your age.
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have a few grays in my beard
tbd
my wife is 41 and smokin hot
receding hairline, no biggie
got aches
fiber is cool with me
elevators too
don't really go to bars and when i do my smoking hot wife is with me so...
colo?
shoot me first
dylan rules
when they turn 18
None of these answers are useful without your age.
41
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I'm 25 and already tell kids to get the hell off my lawn. Little fuckers.
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BTW, in America it's spelled "aging". This isn't jolly old England.
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BTW, in America it's spelled "aging". This isn't jolly old England.
Really? That is a terrible way to spell it. Doesn't even make sense. And why is it ageism here in America then and not agism?
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
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BTW, in America it's spelled "aging". This isn't jolly old England.
Really? That is a terrible way to spell it. Doesn't even make sense. And why is it ageism here in America then and not agism?
This is why spelling confuses me to no end! One drops the 'e' when adding an 'i' ending while the other doesn't. Can't keep track of all those exceptions. Then there are those words that end in 'le' or 'el' but sound the same. As well as words that end in 'or' vs. 'er' which either sound the very same or very, very similar. That's why I'm not a spelling Nazi with informal writing in places such as message boards. Between the weird language rules and the typos, it's all too anal retentive to waste time worrying (<- another weird (<- yet another) exception to general spelling rules) about such minor infractions.
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
I am generation X.
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
im referring to RB (gen x) thinking that twenty-somethings (millennials) are attracted to wealth, not age/appearance.
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
im referring to RB (gen x) thinking that twenty-somethings (millennials) are attracted to wealth, not age/appearance.
Yeah I don't think drunk college girls at a bar are out looking for rich guys.
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
im referring to RB (gen x) thinking that twenty-somethings (millennials) are attracted to wealth, not age/appearance.
Yeah I don't think drunk college girls at a bar are out looking for rich guys.
Understood. All makes sense now. As to the question at hand, I've no idea what the upper-limit is for what a 20-something will hit on.
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(http://www.onehalfplusseven.com/home/about-the-half-your-age-plus-seven-rule/chart.png)
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According to this chart it is acceptable for me to date an 82 year old woman. That is actually kind of creepy..wait a second that is incredibly creepy.
How come no one is anwering question 2? Were all friends here...no need to be shy.
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I'd lay Helen Mirren, if we were both available and she were game. She's 67.
According to this chart it is acceptable for me to date an 82 year old woman. That is actually kind of creepy..wait a second that is incredibly creepy.
How come no one is anwering question 2? Were all friends here...no need to be shy.
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I am what we in the clique call a Shoegeezer.
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(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01537/Helen_mirren2_1537727c.jpg)
"Dream on, beer boy"
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(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01537/Helen_mirren2_1537727c.jpg)
"Dream on, beer boy"
I would have to say that is a definite "No". If you want to start a new thread called "would you hit that"...make them less obvious decisions.
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you know you are old when you would rather listen to the oldies ('60s-'70s) radio station than current popular music station
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you know you are old when you would rather listen to the oldies ('60s-'70s) radio station than current popular music station
I preferred the oldies station ever since i was a little kid.
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
im referring to RB (gen x) thinking that twenty-somethings (millennials) are attracted to wealth, not age/appearance.
LOL Me gen-x! That has to be one of the funniest and most absurd things written on this forum ever.
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you know you are old when you would rather listen to the oldies ('60s-'70s) radio station than current popular music station
You know you have good taste in music when... never mind...
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(http://www.onehalfplusseven.com/home/about-the-half-your-age-plus-seven-rule/chart.png)
In case you were wondering, this is known as the "half your age plus seven" rule.
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you know you are old when you would rather listen to the oldies ('60s-'70s) radio station than current popular music station
Well, I prefer the oldies TV stations like Me-TV and Antenna. Except for the damn geriatric commercials :-\
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(http://www.onehalfplusseven.com/home/about-the-half-your-age-plus-seven-rule/chart.png)
In case you were wondering, this is known as the "half your age plus seven" rule.
aka Smackie's Desktop Wallpaper
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it is weird how at some point 40 something women are hot to you...not the kind of thing you expect...
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Now that I am 48 I feel like I have some questions about ageing. And I realize a lot of you guys are quite ancient. I was told by my eye doctor when I was younger that I would need reading glasses at 44 but no one has told me the more important questions about ageing. Answer as many or as few of these as you like. Don't be shy I know you guys know the 411.
1) At what age will my hair start to turn gray?
2) At what age will I need viagra?
3) At what age will I find women in their 40's attractive?
4) At what age will I start to bald?
5) At what age will I get aches and pains?
6) At what age will I feel nostalgia for the music of my youth?
7) At what age will I start worrying about eating enough fiber?
8) At what age will I take the elevator instead of the stairs
9) At what age will girls in their 20's no longer hit on me in bars?
11) At what age will I need a colonsoscopy?
10) At what age will I need Depends under garments?
12) When will I get dementia and think Bob Dylan can sing well?
13) When I will tell those kids to get the hell off of my lawn?
I'll be 50 before this year is over, so...
1. Started getting grey in my 20s but it's mostly heredity anyway. Mostly grey now but not as much as Anderson Cooper.
2. Never needed it. Knock wood.
3. Sofia Vergara is 40.
4. Almost everyone's hair recedes some. My brothers are bald but I've still got about 90% of mine.
6. I sometimes feel nostalgic for bands that were nostalgic in their ways, like The Lyres.
8. My gym is four levels: B, 0, 1, 2. The entrance is on 1, the lockers are on B while the cardio machines are on 2. Being a gigantic gym, each level is around 12 feet, so three flights up is more like five (84 steps from B to 2). As I am still not in the shape I aim for, I take the elevator when going up two or more levels (except for that time when the elevator was out for more than a friggin' week >:( ). When I get down another 20 lbs I'll reconsider.
9. I don't go to bars but about 90% of the women I see on the job are between 18 and 25 and educated. It's nice to get the occasional smile.
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I'm turning 39 in about a week's time, but none of this concerns me. I've always been a believer in "it's not the year, it's the mileage" and must say, I look great for my age. It's probably because I have no children (that I know of).
I'll still answer your questions:
1) I've got a baby face and many people are surprised by my age when I share it, so I've actually embraced the salted sides of my head. It has helped me professionally for sure. I'm no where near being full gray, and don't expect that for another decade, at least.
2) Not everybody will need Viagra, but she'll tell you when you do.
3) While I've never seriously dated an older woman, I've found many of them 'cute enough' anyway.
4) Different for everyone, but I sleep well at night knowing I will likely never go bald. I get frequent haircuts because my hair is extremely healthy.
5) I have chronic aches and pains. It's the miles, remember....
6) About 35.
7) Never going to be a problem for me because of an illness, but consult your doctor.
8) I stay in decent shape, and only take the elevator after races. I'll say about 55.
9) I have no experience with this problem, and I hope it never happens. Though I will say I'be stopped "seriously dating" girls in their 20's. My current SO is on the cusp of 1980.
10) Again, not everyone needs those.
11) I've had multiple colonoscopies, and they're really not that bad. The prep was the worst part, and they've replaced the liquid with a pill so it's MUCH easier. It's the prostate check you should really be worried about.
12) Never.
13) What's a lawn?
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3. Sofia Vergara is 40.
Wait a second. I had never heard of her before but those things can't be real can they?
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Yeah buddy, it's true, those are her genuine, 100% real feet.
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will come back and read through comments later...first thoughts - good for you making it to 48 with not a lot of those items happening to you. I think I had three grey hairs at 23..anyhow, everyone should be more aware of some things in particular - have a colonoscopy by 40 in my opinion. They say 50 but with American diets (see your question about fiber) and losing a few friends to colon issues and others who have survived illness, it's a plead from my friend who didn't survive to get the word out that people in their 30's and 40's need to be more aware and get a colonoscopy earlier rather than later. p.s. I've done the pill prep and it's not easier just less terrible taste. (one had to take the pills with ginger ale + laxatives. Add carbonation to both of those...? yeah...just use a straw w/ liquid prep it's tolerable until the last slug. Sorry - enough on colonoscopies!)
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I'd lay Helen Mirren, if we were both available and she were game. She's 67.
According to this chart it is acceptable for me to date an 82 year old woman. That is actually kind of creepy..wait a second that is incredibly creepy.
How come no one is anwering question 2? Were all friends here...no need to be shy.
Some reason Cate Blanchett comes to mind..Turns out she's 43...thought she was older...She's hot. And to put it in perspective, Jennifer Aniston is 40 something and I don't think she looks it. Age is the number, it depends on who you are attracted. If you are focused on age, then I'm guessing your answer is who doesn't look over 40.
Have you been to your high school reunion? That will put your mirrored image in perspective or under analysis.
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Why is it everyone on the 9:30 board considers themselves young looking and hot, then when you actually meet them, they are total dorks (meself included)? Get over yourselves! ;D
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Yes, it's nice to meet all you dorks
;D
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
im referring to RB (gen x) thinking that twenty-somethings (millennials) are attracted to wealth, not age/appearance.
LOL Me gen-x! That has to be one of the funniest and most absurd things written on this forum ever.
not to like, call you stupid or anything, but yeah - you're gen x.
Its kind of sad but it is almost getting to that. 56 years old and lets see, three surgeries on each knee, four surgeries on my back, two on my right arm, three abdominal surgeries, one crainiotomy, two cranial gamma treatments, multiple eye surgeries (none cosmetic), several broken bones over the years, plus all the normal childhood things. The freakiest for me was when they had to do the steroid injections into my eyeball for bleeding around the optic nerve. Nothing like a hypodermic needle aimed at your eyeball to get you a little nervous. BTW I trust you had a good time at the show as well?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
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^ Except that the same site you source also defines him as a Baby Boomer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer), born between 1946 and 1964, which is more the traditional terminology for one born in his era.
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not to like, call you stupid or anything, but yeah - you're gen x.
Its kind of sad but it is almost getting to that. 56 years old and lets see, three surgeries on each knee, four surgeries on my back, two on my right arm, three abdominal surgeries, one crainiotomy, two cranial gamma treatments, multiple eye surgeries (none cosmetic), several broken bones over the years, plus all the normal childhood things. The freakiest for me was when they had to do the steroid injections into my eyeball for bleeding around the optic nerve. Nothing like a hypodermic needle aimed at your eyeball to get you a little nervous. BTW I trust you had a good time at the show as well?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
math and reading comprehension...how do they work?!
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i've made a huge mistake.
http://vimeo.com/22342619 (http://vimeo.com/22342619)
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
baby boomers, everyone.
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
im referring to RB (gen x) thinking that twenty-somethings (millennials) are attracted to wealth, not age/appearance.
LOL Me gen-x! That has to be one of the funniest and most absurd things written on this forum ever.
not to like, call you stupid or anything, but yeah - you're gen x.
Its kind of sad but it is almost getting to that. 56 years old and lets see, three surgeries on each knee, four surgeries on my back, two on my right arm, three abdominal surgeries, one crainiotomy, two cranial gamma treatments, multiple eye surgeries (none cosmetic), several broken bones over the years, plus all the normal childhood things. The freakiest for me was when they had to do the steroid injections into my eyeball for bleeding around the optic nerve. Nothing like a hypodermic needle aimed at your eyeball to get you a little nervous. BTW I trust you had a good time at the show as well?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
I am actually more baby boomer than anything. Born 1955. Then again I am not all that into labels. <Most of them are rather silly and just go to further divide society.
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
im referring to RB (gen x) thinking that twenty-somethings (millennials) are attracted to wealth, not age/appearance.
LOL Me gen-x! That has to be one of the funniest and most absurd things written on this forum ever.
not to like, call you stupid or anything, but yeah - you're gen x.
Its kind of sad but it is almost getting to that. 56 years old and lets see, three surgeries on each knee, four surgeries on my back, two on my right arm, three abdominal surgeries, one crainiotomy, two cranial gamma treatments, multiple eye surgeries (none cosmetic), several broken bones over the years, plus all the normal childhood things. The freakiest for me was when they had to do the steroid injections into my eyeball for bleeding around the optic nerve. Nothing like a hypodermic needle aimed at your eyeball to get you a little nervous. BTW I trust you had a good time at the show as well?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
I am actually more baby boomer than anything. Born 1955. Then again I am not all that into labels. <Most of them are rather silly and just go to further divide society.
oh is that why you call everyone a "libtard" about 5 times a day?
part of your not labeling people approach?
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9) Has more to do with wealth than age.
gen x, everyone.
Wouldn't this be the Millennials or whatever the 1980 and on generation was termed? Gen X'ers are what, 34 at a minimum these days.
im referring to RB (gen x) thinking that twenty-somethings (millennials) are attracted to wealth, not age/appearance.
LOL Me gen-x! That has to be one of the funniest and most absurd things written on this forum ever.
not to like, call you stupid or anything, but yeah - you're gen x.
Its kind of sad but it is almost getting to that. 56 years old and lets see, three surgeries on each knee, four surgeries on my back, two on my right arm, three abdominal surgeries, one crainiotomy, two cranial gamma treatments, multiple eye surgeries (none cosmetic), several broken bones over the years, plus all the normal childhood things. The freakiest for me was when they had to do the steroid injections into my eyeball for bleeding around the optic nerve. Nothing like a hypodermic needle aimed at your eyeball to get you a little nervous. BTW I trust you had a good time at the show as well?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
I am actually more baby boomer than anything. Born 1955. Then again I am not all that into labels. <Most of them are rather silly and just go to further divide society.
oh is that why you call everyone a "libtard" about 5 times a day?
part of your not labeling people approach?
oh snap
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Being part of the baby boomers doesn't please, I have no need for the Rogaine, little blue pills or the Eagles, etc...
i'm fairly certain at one point i was at the very beginning of Gen-x, but it appears the "experts" can't agree on when it actually starts as seen in the wikipedia article. Wasn't Henry Rollins at one time considered Gen-X even though we was born late 50s?
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Tom Tomorrow had a This Modern World comic years ago that featured him lamenting to Sparky that he didn't feel that he fit into either the boomers or Gen-X. He was born in 1961 (same year as Rollins) and felt that the media had him wedged in between the two demos. Sparky declared him a "wedgie".
I'd post the comic but Tomorrow's archives are down.
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ooh i like that... being called a wedgie :)
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I was surprised to find out that Ian Brown turned 50 this year, thought for sure the Stone Roses would have been in their 40s. So a prototypical Gen-X band are actually a bunch of wedgies :)
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I was surprised to find out that Ian Brown turned 50 this year, thought for sure the Stone Roses would have been in their 40s. So a prototypical Gen-X band are actually a bunch of wedgies :)
I knew they were older. They were an 80's band. Around since the early 80's I believe.
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Tom Tomorrow had a This Modern World comic years ago that featured him lamenting to Sparky that he didn't feel that he fit into either the boomers or Gen-X. He was born in 1961 (same year as Rollins) and felt that the media had him wedged in between the two demos. Sparky declared him a "wedgie".
I'd post the comic but Tomorrow's archives are down.
61 is a baby boomer. He isn't a wedgie. He should just embrace his baby boomerness.
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Being part of the baby boomers doesn't please, I have no need for the Rogaine, little blue pills or the Eagles, etc...
i'm fairly certain at one point i was at the very beginning of Gen-x, but it appears the "experts" can't agree on when it actually starts as seen in the wikipedia article. Wasn't Henry Rollins at one time considered Gen-X even though we was born late 50s?
You being a baby boomer does explain your musical taste.
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I am actually more baby boomer than anything. Born 1955. Then again I am not all that into labels. <Most of them are rather silly and just go to further divide society.
oh is that why you call everyone a "libtard" about 5 times a day?
part of your not labeling people approach?
well that pretty much seals up this week's POTW.
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Why is it everyone on the 9:30 board considers themselves young looking and hot, then when you actually meet them, they are total dorks (meself included)? Get over yourselves! ;D
you can be young looking and dorky. I don't do board meet-ups. I did one once on another message board and I ended up having this female live with me for 10 months due to that meet-up and it wasn't a pleasant experience.
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Why is it everyone on the 9:30 board considers themselves young looking and hot, then when you actually meet them, they are total dorks (meself included)?
with inexplicably pretty wives. can't forgot the hot wives.
I don't do board meet-ups. I did one once on another message board and I ended up having this female live with me for 10 months due to that meet-up and it wasn't a pleasant experience.
you're doing it wrong.
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with inexplicably pretty wives. can't forgot the hot wives.
I'm not a bad looking dude. Some may even say I'm handsome. But where my lady is concerned I'm punching way above my weight. Shes a fox....not too mention the coolest and funniest person I've ever met.
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Fucking Joe STILL won't leave the shrubs outside my bedroom window :(
Why is it everyone on the 9:30 board considers themselves young looking and hot, then when you actually meet them, they are total dorks (meself included)? Get over yourselves! ;D
you can be young looking and dorky. I don't do board meet-ups. I did one once on another message board and I ended up having this female live with me for 10 months due to that meet-up and it wasn't a pleasant experience.
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you too? he's such a board slut. :P
koz is not a boomer!