Poll: what's the worst part of getting old?

i guess i'm more or less okay with disintegration and the stone roses and doolittle being 30 years old

i'm *not* okay with them being the midway point between now and buddy fuckin holly tho

rapidly receding midway point

try not to think about Thriller being the halfway mark between now and a) George Jones beginning his career at age 16 and b) Frankie Laine's first gold record.

thriller the midpoint between now and world war 2 is a little more visceral

Think I’ve reached that point where my brain has started overwriting my years of accumulated trivia/table quiz gold with useful information, it’s a sad day when you have to google stuff you used to know.

Also every year is the year I think I might have to start dying my hair, except it might really be this year.

when I was a kid there were still lots of old rusty Anderson shelters strewn about in the wilderness that we used to play in. I think there was only one spotting of the Luftwaffe in W Yorkshire during ww2 and that was some straggler who got lost en-route to Manchester. anyways it troubles me thinking that the gap between now and the 80's is the same as between my childhood and ww2.

Dealing with aging parents

I don't need any of this "midway between" arcana to tell me I'm getting old. it troubles me to think I turn 65 this year. I took a big hit of stress over the past 20 months, so I'm feeling my age a lot more than before. I'm hoping to claw back some of my lost energy in the next few months, but there's no guarantee.

I pulled my calf muscle the other day. While I was asleep.

Oh the whole 'waking up to find I've pulled a muscle in my neck/shoulder/arm/leg/back' is absolutely classic.

Reminds me of going to the clinic with "I don't remember hitting anything, but I think my toe is broken!" and the result being "dude you have gout."

Hi, old person here (58)

Hi, old person here (50).

Hasn't happened at all: OK maybe now..
Losing hair where you don't want to lose it still hairy as
Deteriorating hearing Nope
Deteriorating vision OK, you got me here. Long and short sighted. Do the glasses juggle!
Graying hair not much, no
Papery skin/loss of elasticity in skin/wrinkles not yet
Slower reflexes um............... No. I don't think so, but who knows?

Oh, the memory thing...

I don't recall making that posting two months ago.

I'm early by five and a half years, it seems.

Think I’ve reached that point where my brain has started overwriting my years of accumulated trivia/table quiz gold with useful information, it’s a sad day when you have to google stuff you used to know.

This sucks! I used to be a trivia monster, now not so much. The process of losing this feels like living through Flowers for Algernon.

Not remembering how to play Uno

hoard as many Skip cards as you can iirc

Discovering Flowers for Algernon is actually about everyone.

stretching for something an inch out of comfortable reach becomes a matter of deadly risk

I don't have vivid dreams anymore. When I do dream, they're mostly about common occurrences. Most recent one was about a friend of mine telling me a funny joke.

I also keep having dreams where the doorbell rings, which let me tell you something, brain, it ain't funny.

But there is a disconnect where I have false memories at times - was that something that actually happened or did I dream that? isn't just some whimsical question anymore.

I don't have vivid dreams anymore. When I do dream, they're mostly about common occurrences. Most recent one was about a friend of mine telling me a funny joke.

So fucking true. Last night I dreamed I was jogging. I'm not even 50 yet.

Not long ago I was getting ready for work, glanced in the mirror at myself, and thought, "Guess what? You're no longer 20 years older than 20-year-olds. You're 6 months away from being 20 years older than 30-year-olds." I know it's arbitrary and insignificant, but it just kind of gut-punched me.

xp I still have weird and vivid dreams all the time but that may be the hormones or other medication.

I have insane dreams most nights. The other night I dreamt I had a hole in the top of my skull covered only by a thin membrane and my brain was swelling and I knew I was going to die but couldn't get anyone to believe me. Then I was eating cotton candy and ignoring the hole. Yeah, I don't know either.

I have crazy weird dreams every night thanks to melatonin.

stretching for something an inch out of comfortable reach becomes a matter of deadly risk

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I keep mildly injuring my fingers by reaching for things wrong. It's like, a serious discomfort, but it the pain goes away quickly. Completely new phenomenon for me at age 40.

Ear hair is still my daily enemy. Chest hair is getting increasingly gray and I'm actually really digging it.

Had some strange dreams myself lately. Who knew!

Honestly think I will just give in and get electrolysis for my ear hair, which I am deeply not fond of. Never been interested in any cosmetic surgery but this is the one exception.

I'm so glad I usually don't have dreams vivid or memorable enough to wake me up -- I can drop off in a minute or two when I first go to bed, but it takes forever to get back to sleep if it's interrupted in the middle of the night.

i have had vivid dreams two out of the past three nights and havent had any at all i can recall for a year before that.

shook by the revelation that Ned has never had any work done

Physically: Dodgy knees, which often, but erratically, feel painful and also feel like they need to be 'clicked into place' properly

Mentally: Feeling old, slow amd irrelevant. Not so much in terms of knowledge or intelligence, but in the fast-paced cut and thrust and topics of group conversations.

i've almost certainly asked this before, but -- what is the evolutionary purpose of the ear hair? why are my dwindling physical resources being so ill spent?

what is the evolutionary purpose of the ear hair?

More than likely the ear hair is a free-rider on some actually useful trait. Because it normally emerges at an age where our ancestors were well past their life expectancy, it probably has no effect on the reproductive success of individuals or our species as a whole.

unionize my traits

I've been having increasingly vivid and batshit dreams lately. Latest was being a passenger on a time-traveling vehicle piloted by Bob Seger. Haven't bothered to unpack that one yet.

I love all my crazy ass dreams as I get older. It's less work than actually doing the crazy ass things.

xp I still have weird and vivid dreams all the time but that may be the hormones or other medication.

i think we end up having weirder and more vivid dreams as we age because of the increasing amounts of medication we end up taking ...

anyone wanting some herbal powered epic REM sleep time without prescription drugs, just get siberian ginseng/rhodiolia rosea - that does the trick.

^^
bad part of getting old: developing a fascination with dodgy herbal supplements from e-bay.

being a passenger on a time-traveling vehicle piloted by Bob Seger

massive lols at this

spurs finding new ways to hurt you

Did he know right then he was too far from home?

I find myself making more noises these days. All early morning stretching and rising is accompanied by groaning and moaning and the occasional "oh my back/neck/knees"

If I put my left foot up on a footrest it feels like there is a loose wobbly bone in the ball of my foot. It works fine walking, it only becomes apparent if pressure is on the back or side. Just a minor quibble but these little quibbles do seem to be piling up recently.

It is truly the age of involuntary eructations. I groan and bark every time I move these days.

I am like Keith Jarrett or Mingus off-mic moaning over the symphony of my life.

i've been working lately to cut back on what i call my "old man noises" because they are, uh, incongruent

actually learning to move correctly is helping a lot - sitting down and standing up is less likely to provoke old man noises if i actually bend at the knees instead of just bending over all the time - but even if i do things "right" my spinal curvature does complicate things

and just as i posted that i'm starting to have extremely loud knee crepitus... it's harmless and there's no pain but yeah. old.

I've always had painless but loud knee crepitus so this is a part of getting old I will miss out on.

Worst part due to being in sales: painful feet. Argh

seems like having to piss used to be a calm, reasonable process. now i don't seem to get notice until it's urgent? wtf

prostate issue maybe