― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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― scott seward, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
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― scott seward, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Casuistry, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
I thought it was one of those age-morphed photos of Ned.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Revive for those of us between them pesky kids and the over 50's.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 23 August 2008 08:15 (fifteen years ago) link
You are probably wiser than many ILXors. Am I remembering correctly that you have kids? They must be growing up! I am looking forward to my kids being older and less dependent on me...
-- Sara R-C, Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:57 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
My kids are now 10 and 7. And are less dependent on me. But I am no wiser. If anything I'm getting more confused. Although perhaps my recognition of my confusion is a sign of wisdom?
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 23 August 2008 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I've already started thinking of myself as 40 even though I've technically got a year and a half left.
It's kinda nice. Being young sucked. Being middle aged is way better. Being old is going to be the best yet. I just wish I could make the menopause come early. I know there are drugs you can take to delay it, aren't there drugs you can take to bring it on?
― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 23 August 2008 08:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think being young has to suck. It's just that you need certain factors in alignment to make the best of it:
-supportive parents - stimulating educational environment - access to a social network
For some reason, despite my mother being mentally unstable, my parents took themselves off to Africa, and had five children without seeming to have any interest in children whatsoever.
― Bob Six, Saturday, 23 August 2008 09:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Funny that, I think of myself as 38 and a half, even though technically I'm 42.
― Billy Dods, Saturday, 23 August 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Celebrities Hitting The Big 4 - 0 In 2008.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 23 August 2008 10:04 (fifteen years ago) link
40 can be a very, very good time of life, if everything is going well for you, but it can also be a time of great discouragement, if you look at yourself and don't like what you see.
My best advice for the ILXors in their early 40s is not to lose sight of the person you most want to be (not necessarily the person you wanted to be when you were 20 and wished you could be a rich and famous whatever-it-was). Then do what it takes to move toward becoming that person. If you do not, you risk becoming an empty husk and a very sad person.
Also, in your 40s, your body should still respond fairly promptly to exercise and reward you for your efforts by adding strength, stamina and energy. If you slide through your 40s, don't expect to make up lost ground very easily in your 50s. It will be 3X harder then.
― Aimless, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i think a few of the people on that list may be lying about their age. no way is gillian anderson only 40!
― get bent, Saturday, 23 August 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Allow me to kill this thread by hitting it on the skull with a heavy, blunt piece of advice. Oh, wait... I already did.
― Aimless, Sunday, 24 August 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh! I thought I replied to this. Eh. I must be getting senile. Is this what my 40s are gonna be like? Becoming even more forgetful?
― Masonic Boom, Sunday, 24 August 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
ahahah aimless I loved your advice, classic words of wisdom.
― sleeve, Sunday, 24 August 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I am afraid my 40's are going to involve more full-time work than the last decade did.
Yeah. You can still get bigger and stronger in at least your early 40s. I suspect things decline in your 50s though.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 24 August 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
(Or getting results gets much harder, I should say).
I'm certainly getting bigger.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 24 August 2008 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks Aimless. I think I need to pin this to the fridge and meditate on it daily. I'm in danger of this very problem, I fear.
― Trayce, Monday, 25 August 2008 04:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I am too old for this...the 40 plus thread.
vs.
This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties
FITE!!!!!
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 29 August 2008 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
No contest. I apologise for starting that other one.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 August 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
This is the reason I'm exercising now. I mean at age 34, not right now this minute - although I suppose I'm exercising my fingers. Put it another way, I'm doing it because I'm lazy, and it'll be a lot harder if I wait until I'm 40 to start getting fit again.
― snoball, Friday, 29 August 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
No need for apologies! xp.
In a few years time so many of us will be in their 40s we will need both threads.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 29 August 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, that last sentence didn;t really make sense but I think you see what I mean. Unless dementia is setting in.
Every time I do any kind of activity I read, often the next day, of someone conking out or at the very least suffering a stroke while doing that same activity, mowing the lawn, having sex, doing the hoovering. Is anything safe for the over 40s?
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 29 August 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't want to sound like Debbie Gibson but a little more positivity on these threads wouldn't hurt.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 August 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
(there's a reference for the over-40s if ever there were one...)
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 August 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
grey hairs really coming in now :-\
― velko, Saturday, 28 February 2009 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link