People used to regularly express surprise when they'd discover that I was roughly a decade or so older than they assumed but within the last couple of years the reaction has been more along the lines of 'yeaaaaah, that seems about right.' It's been...humbling.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
I used to get stopped for police line-ups with 40 year old blokes when I was 21. Once one of the filth reassured me in a very sensitive manner: "don't worry you look older than your age, lad"
― calzino, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
xp
yep, that's been one of the fun differences between my early 40s and late 40s
― you shoulda killfiled me last year (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
Middle-Aged Lunch OTM.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
we're close to our "twenty years of ILE" bash
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
Yup. The exact 20th anniversary of ILX as a whole, starting with the birth of ILM, will be in about two years and seven months or so.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
All of you hush and let me enjoy looking young thing while it lasts, dammit. ;) Also, I noticed little crows' feet for the first time recently and was kind of excited about it so it's not something I'm stressing about too much tbh.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
hello I am 41
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
First posted here approximately 15 years ago – was 17 at the time. This place begins to make more sense once you hit 30.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
ENBB, you might be the youngest 40something in here, so congrats.
I've always been told I was an old man ("born in a leisure suit," as my father used to tell people.) I embraced it back then, but now that I'm actually turning into an actual old man, it's not as cute anymore.
We were watching a mid-morning showing of Pulp Fiction on AMC yesterday. Between the Old People Personals commercials that were running in the breaks and that whole "Wait, you just ordered a five-dollar milkshake????? dialogue, I felt like I was 100.
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
Ha the five-dollar milkshake????? dialogue thing occurred to me sometime over the last year and made me feel ancient too. Don't think you could get one for under that at a diner around here now.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
Hello I am 41 2! I've been here approximately forever.
I think this decade is going to be the best yet. This getting older thing has really brought the benefits, ime.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
Also a member of 41 club. Also get told I look younger than I am but I think that is starting to change. At least I think I've aged - a few more grey hairs, I've put on a bit of weight (always used to be skinny but I'm 16 stone now) etc etc. I did get ID'd for booze in shops twice in 2017 though which hadn't happened to me for 6 years.
I was 27 when I started posting here...
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
i have been on ilx since 2002 or 3? so since i was... crikey... 26 or sowe are old, father william
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
i like not caring as much about ppl i dont know and what they may or may not think of me that is the thing about my 40’s that i looove
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
Yes.
I can be painfully self-conscious and over the past year when this has happened I've sometimes told myself "fuck what anyone thinks you're awesome and almost 40 who gives a shit what anyone else thinks?" and it has actually worked. I mean, sure, I still have to actually remind myself of this but it's a start.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
the thing that happens a lot for me is the realization that the person i'm talking to and hanging out with is literally young enough to be my child.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
Yeah but that's been the case for a while now.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
xp I'm still painfully neurotic but my mum told me at Xmas she stopped giving a shit a couple of years ago. She's 58 so maybe by my mid-fifties I won't be a complete wreck mentally?
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
I mean at least for me it's something I started realizing of teenagers about 10 years ago that if I'd had a kind when I was a late teen then current teenagers could technically be mine. Also, when i worked for that youth center and was only 2 years younger than one of the girl's on my caseload's mom.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
Woah young mom!
And ok lol maybe we can hope for that. Also, my mom was on the older side (she passed 6 months ago at 78) so I think that just seems especially young to me.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
I haven't quite figured out how to stop caring what people think about me (although I've definitely come a long way in recent years) but I've realized lately that I'm not really concerned with trying to impress anyone anymore. That feels like a solid start.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
xpSorry to hear that ENBB. My wife's mum had her late too, she's 84 now, 5 years older than my grandma
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
Weird to look at old ILX posts from 2003-2004 and think "wow what immature twentysomething would say something like th--ohhh"
― omar little, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
ha, yes
x-post Thank you, CP.
It's kind of crazy how we're nearly the same age but have parents decades about in age. I would still like to parent in some form (whether my own bio kid/s or adopted/fostered) and sometimes worry about being an older parent but I honestly don't think I would have been ready much before now at all.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
*apart* not about oops
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
U all old af but <3 anyway
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
deems you’re older than all of us in spirit
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
Deems is our Yoda, hundreds of years old and forever hitting us in the face with his staff.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
"Page-turners, they were not. The adaptations, even worse."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
hahahaha
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
Lol
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
Unbelievably I forgot to tell you guys about the major corner I turned last week in my journey to senescence:Bought myself a motherfucking lanyard neck cord thingy for my motherfucking bifocals, you fuckers! It’s such a relief. Why yes, I am the caretaker of this property.
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
Yep, me also. Probably the gray in the beard gives me away. Or the thin hair on top. The circles under the eyes? Hard to say really. Surely it's not a reduction in my boyish joie de vivre.
My 40s started rough but have been pretty great, all told. Best decade of my adult life, for sure. I'll be 49 this fall, so ... hope the trend continues into years that start with five.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/faJ2rWF.jpg
That one was easy. xp
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
Jon not Jon, it better be one of these and not one of those modern-looking lanyards.
https://i.imgur.com/h5h5DlX.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
^ uncanny resemblance to deems (xp)
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
great, now I have Shane MacGowan in my head singing “...and they called him the irish yooo-da”
xps
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
I am 47 btw, where the fuck has my life gone?
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
Jesus you old fuckers are mean imma leave this thread until my time
yyyyyeeeeaaarrrss from now
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
It's kind of amazing to me how many under-30 dudes I see whose hair is almost or entirely gone on top. I still have my hair, and while I don't think I look 30 at 46, I do look several years younger than I am. I think part of it is that I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I haven't got any kids. Kids make your hair fall out.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
My hair on top was almost completely gone before I even hit 30. It was nice to get at least one indignity out of the way early.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
Crossed fingers but looks like my hair is here to stay for a while.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
god ned lord willing
― j., Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
Xpost to pplains yeah it’s that kind, except for a sort of black shoelace instead of a chain.
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
I'm still getting away with 'forty-ish', so when I do go grey or thinning, can't really complain.
My wife is ten years younger, so hey.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
I am old enough to remember logging in to ILE with a PC that had a giant red SWITCH hooked right to the mother board on a PC that seemed as big as a main frame - and I still am able to leap 5 feet in the air - the reulst of good eating
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
"still" - a nice touch there
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
Was the five foot leap as a result of getting an electric shock off the giant red switch?
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link