Middle Age - The Bear and Badger

davyK

I stopped checking my reflection long ago.

About the same time as when young people stopped handing me flyers in the street.

HawBawJaws

Got asked for id in ASDA about a month back which cheered me up a bit. Pissed mrs bawjaws off though, because she didn't get asked.

pantyfire

Midlife crisis is hitting me hard.
I take little or no enjoyment from anything I enjoyed in the past.
I barely post here, turned on my Xbox for the first time in a month and then sighed and turned it off 1 hour later. Outside of gaming hobbies I just can't be arsed with any of them at all.
The future is seeming pointless and something to dread at the same time.
I'm up and down mood wise like a fucking yo-yo, I'd say I was bipolar but I'm not getting the highs, just the lows. I wouldn't mind so much of I got the highs.

Career wise I'm sick to fucking death of it. I would love it to be over but literally can't think of anything I would want to do instead... See above.

Oddly, physically I've been hitting the gym hard and I'm probably in the best shape of my life.

pantyfire

Boom bringing it DOWWWWWWNNN.

Skerret

You sound depressed pants.

djchump

Never too late to retrain - got a mate who was a copper for ages, then a driving instructor for years, last year retrained as a sparky.

pantyfire

I could never be Sparky.

pantyfire

I dont have the necessary chin.

Paul the sparky

I'll chin you in a minute.

pc71

I finally accept I'm never going to be the no. 9 for( choose your team), an international groundbreaking but multi platinum selling rock star/ Oscar winner with respect and box office success. And it hurts. It really does.

bad_hair_day

Panty, if you're ever spare on Friday nights, Forza bants, blunts and booze can cure the end of the week blues.
References available.

Wookienopants

Oh god I miss Forza Friday

nick_md

I'm also coming into my looks in my 30s (34 now). Was at a wedding in Sicily last weekend and was described as a "French hunk" by a milfy Malaysian woman (I'm neither French nor a hunk, but longish hair, a beard and some aviators will do that I guess) and was told that "with straight teeth you will be irresistible" by a married, Russian man eater (I took the neg in a positive light).

I genuinely think I've grown into my body, all skinny waif and awkward features when younger, much more confident now, not bothered by the grey streaks developing. On the flipside, I'm the heaviest I've been at 12.5 stone and the hair is thinning, but it's nice to see the glint in a woman's eye even when technically in bad shape. Probably got 5 years max till I'm too far the wrong side.

My gaming skills have gone to pot though so it's swings and roundabouts really.

monkey

davyK wrote:

Skondo wrote:

Unlikely wrote:

Radio 4 really is excellent.

It really is.

yup.

I got into it in my mid 20s. I think it may actually work as an accelerant to fuddyduddyness because it was all down hill from that point.

regmcfly

Period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages

nick_md

I like history, please continue.

Wookienopants

monkey wrote:

davyK wrote:

Skondo wrote:

Unlikely wrote:

Radio 4 really is excellent.

It really is.

yup.

I got into it in my mid 20s. I think it may actually work as an accelerant to fuddyduddyness because it was all down hill from that point.

A little while ago I was driving one of my sparring partners to the Dojo, he's 18 and irritatingly fresh faced and energetic.
He laughs as he sees Radio 2 on the stereo "oh man, you listen to DAD RADIO"

5 minutes later and Copacabana came on and he reached over to turn it up and sang the whole thing with me at full pelt.

Paul the sparky

Nonce.

Wookienopants

Paul the sparky wrote:

Nonce.

As I hit "post" I immediately knew someone would make that gag

Paul the sparky

Gag?

Wookienopants

Paul the sparky wrote:

Gag?

And again... it's from teaching my last class. Always turns into innuendo bingo

nick_md

No he's not big enough

nick_md

oofph

pc71

One hour less of sleep and feel like walking dead! That didn't happen when I was 25! I was feckin invincible when I was 25! They don't tell you this stuff and they should ffs...now where did I put my glasses

equinox_code

I find this all terrifying. Everything I enjoy in life requires that I stay looking and feeling exactly as I do right now.

cockbeard

Cryogenics or vampirism, takes yer pick

pc71

equinox_code wrote:

I find this all terrifying. Everything I enjoy in life requires that I stay looking and feeling exactly as I do right now.

Forewarned is forearmed as us old cnuts say

pantyfire

Ironically I'm getting better with age. I was a fucking wretch in my 20s.
I also, oddly, need less sleep.

pc71

pantyfire wrote:

Ironically I'm getting better with age. I was a fucking wretch in my 20s.
I also, oddly, need less sleep.

So you made a pact with the devil wears Prada

RamSteelwood

One of them music video channels was on the telly last night, and as I was watching it pretty much all I could think of was how inappropriate it was that all the girls in the videos were dancing around with practically no clothes on, and what a bad example it was setting for my daughters (and other young kids).

Part of my brain did try a bit of "corr, would!, look at them 'uns" but it was only half-hearted and got drowned out by the older grumpier part shouting "they're too young for us to ogle and kids shouldn't be exposed to this shite"

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