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In this post, we discuss getting old.
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In this post, we discuss getting old.


Mar 1, 2021, 1:55 PM

Greenr has always had great vision. Greenr is the ONLY one in his family with great vision. Greenr married a girl who has terrible vision. Greenr's oldest child inherited the bad vision from her Mom. About 6 months ago, Greenr realized he needed to keep the phone a little farther from his face in order to read Facebook posts and to fully see the good action on reddit.

Fast Forward to yesterday, I mention that to Mom. She brings out a BOX of reading glasses, apparently as old people you collect those. Grab a pair of Dad's reading glasses and it fixes EVERYTHING up close. I mean, I can literally see the grool in the video up close, no need to just assume it is there. Is that squirt? Is it pee? Who cares, I can finally see it. Apparently Dad didn't need glasses until his 40s and I am rapidly approaching that age.

This and the constant backpain and sciatic pain is really a reminder that I will probably die sooner rather than later.

Hair is turning grey
Beard is turning grey
Eyesite is going bad
Knees are going bad
Back hurts constantly
I bought Scotch this weekend
I complain about the weather alot now.

I am getting old.

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I pulled a gray nose hair today


Mar 1, 2021, 1:56 PM

Vision started declining about 4 years ago. This shid sucks.

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Please forgive me, @IneligibleUser


Done that too. I also found ear hair on the top. I feel


Mar 1, 2021, 1:57 PM

like Eugene Levy

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All my hair is leaving my head and migrating south


Mar 1, 2021, 1:59 PM [ in reply to I pulled a gray nose hair today ]

to my ears, nose, chest and balls.

Good times.

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I think it's been at least two years since I last had a


Mar 1, 2021, 1:56 PM

wet dream.

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Congrats on being 15***


Mar 1, 2021, 2:01 PM



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Please forgive me, @IneligibleUser


When we were discussing purchasing the house


Mar 1, 2021, 2:00 PM

I started feeling really bad really fast. Wife of took my BP it was 220/160.

Luckily I sat down and rest for a few minutes and it went back down.

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I like your funny words magic man


Thats probably the general obesity


Mar 1, 2021, 2:02 PM

and unhealthy lifestyle. Breathing in the pallet wood you burn can't be helping either. Nothing to do with age.

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Please forgive me, @IneligibleUser


I'd be concerned about that.***


Mar 1, 2021, 2:12 PM [ in reply to When we were discussing purchasing the house ]



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Damson


Mar 1, 2021, 2:21 PM [ in reply to When we were discussing purchasing the house ]

I get worried when mine is 140/90.

Get that #### checked out, dude.

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All I have to do is not buy/sell a house***


Mar 1, 2021, 2:23 PM



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I like your funny words magic man


Mine was 160/110 one day


Mar 1, 2021, 2:42 PM [ in reply to Damson ]

nurse help me in her office for three hours scared I was having a stroke.


Put me on amlodipine

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You should be at the doc today/tomorrow....


Mar 1, 2021, 2:39 PM [ in reply to When we were discussing purchasing the house ]

seriously.

220/160 likely isn't stress

I'm no doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

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Well I got good news and bad news.


Mar 1, 2021, 3:12 PM [ in reply to When we were discussing purchasing the house ]

The good news is you don't gotta worry about getting divorced. The bad news is you gonna die soon.

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Why do I picture you doing some folk remedy


Mar 1, 2021, 3:23 PM [ in reply to When we were discussing purchasing the house ]

For this, like mixing vaporub and sundrop and rubbing it on the back of your neck with a coonskin cap?

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2 worst things for me


Mar 1, 2021, 2:01 PM

can't hold my liquer as much. Probably at 50% capacity now
Freakin reading glasses. i can get by most of the time but in low light. fuggitaboutit

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Not to derail this conversation, but re: grool, I don't


Mar 1, 2021, 2:01 PM

know how women walk around with those things. If I have a wet fart, the bathroom with be priority 1 in the coming minutes of my life. There's no way I'm just going to sit in it all day. I can't imagine a life where the result of me getting unsolicited dink pics from strangers on Tigernet would make me mess my britches, and I'd be cool to just sit around in it the rest of the day.

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I wouldn't be able to walk around with it for at least a


Mar 1, 2021, 2:31 PM

couple months. Unless having both hands down the front of your pants in public is acceptable now. I don't think they changed that rule (yet).

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You'd get all prunie.***


Mar 1, 2021, 2:44 PM



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You seen those videos where they girl lets the guy


Mar 1, 2021, 2:38 PM [ in reply to Not to derail this conversation, but re: grool, I don't ]

spill his manmilk into her underbritches and then she just pulls them up like she is going to go to yoga class with that in there? Seems unsanitary and quite off-pudding.


#VanillaPudding
#ButterscotchPudding

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It didn't really dawn on my until well into my 20's as to


Mar 1, 2021, 2:47 PM

why women thought it was so disgusting to be trying on bathing suits. They'd always complain about it being up against someone else's body.



I realized someone else's body = the sloppy drooling beave.

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They know they can legally steal a lot of money with it.***


Mar 1, 2021, 3:15 PM [ in reply to Not to derail this conversation, but re: grool, I don't ]



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Re: In this post, we discuss getting old.


Mar 1, 2021, 2:03 PM



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Turn 50 on the ninth


Mar 1, 2021, 2:04 PM

I can tell you it don’t get any better. All the things in your list, and add hip pain.

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MauldinT, where are you???


SONOFABISH***


Mar 1, 2021, 2:07 PM



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Every 5 years the pain doubles


Mar 1, 2021, 2:07 PM

old people seemed to complain a lot about pain, then I understood.

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stop running


Mar 1, 2021, 2:10 PM

it will kill you

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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


Not running tried to kill me.***


Mar 1, 2021, 2:11 PM



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I think TIME is what kills us all, whether we run or not.


Mar 1, 2021, 2:12 PM [ in reply to stop running ]

So I balance the running with drinking and drugs

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killed Jim Fixx


Mar 1, 2021, 2:17 PM

dead

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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


Being human is what kills us.


Mar 1, 2021, 3:23 PM [ in reply to I think TIME is what kills us all, whether we run or not. ]

Mummies from Egypt and Greenland were all found with the early signs of arteriosclerosis. These were people that were in far better health than the average person now, who had much better diets. The mummies in Greenland diets consisted mainly of fish, and the Egyptians consisted of grains and fruits. And no preservatives, or high fructose corn syrup. And they both had calcification of their arteries, and both groups heavily exercised.

If you live long enough either cancer or heart disease will kill you. Its a sign of being human, not of whatever we think it is today, or this year.

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My boomer parents say this


Mar 1, 2021, 2:30 PM [ in reply to stop running ]

They also have not been physically active in the 30 years I have been alive so they are convinced that anything good for you is actually not good for you.

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Please forgive me, @IneligibleUser


About the same time I started tromboning.


Mar 1, 2021, 2:10 PM

Transitioned from reading glasses to progressives because carying around the reading glasses and taking them on and off was a pain. Then developed astigmatism in one eye requiring a prescription. Then astigmatism in the other eye. Had a few years where my eye sight deteriorated that I was counting down the days for insurance to kick in. Luckily they've stayed constant for a few years now. Finding a good pair to run in was my most recent challenge.

Had back problems all of my life, running surprisingly fixed that. Knees are good so far. Like my gray, I assume it adds to the soul crushing runners younger than me feel when I pass them.

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Never needed reading glasses until I hit about 50, now I can't


Mar 1, 2021, 2:13 PM

survive without em. Have about 10 pair so they're handy and I don't have to search... in the car, in every room of the house, etc. Somehow I still end up with 4 in the kitchen and none where I'm at.

Chit hurts for no reason. Just because it's Tuesday.

My ear hair should be protected as an old growth forest, like the Calif redwoods.

I know everything, and everybody younger than me is too stupid to even justify living.

I can still f%#k longer, spit further, beat any of you phaggits in a game of HORSE, and checkmate you in 25 moves or less. By God.

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A drunk will run a STOP sign, but a stoner will wait for it to turn green.


I’ve gotten used to finding grey hairs


Mar 1, 2021, 2:14 PM

it only bothers me when I find one in my Big Mac

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov


Readers are like the gateway drug


Mar 1, 2021, 2:14 PM

first you go with 1.25x. Works great. About a year or so later, you think, hmmm, maybe 1.5x will do better...and they do! You gradually work your way up and in the mean time, you start using them for reading dashboards, etc. that are a little further away.....then comes the big boy drugs - progressives.

Just wait in 15 years or so, you will look back at the 1.25 readers and remember. Gateway drug.

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These were 2.5x and I could ONLY use them to read up close


Mar 1, 2021, 2:17 PM

everything else was like taking mushrooms

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I love my progressives.


Mar 1, 2021, 2:21 PM [ in reply to Readers are like the gateway drug ]

My wife says when I take my glasses off that my eyes dart around trying to find the proper spot.

For the first couple of years I was always hitting my shoulder on doorways and displays is stores because my peripheral vision was crap.

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I'm so used to my progressives that I often


Mar 1, 2021, 2:30 PM

forget to take them off going into the shower...

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Truth...I've gone all the way up to 1.75 in two years...


Mar 1, 2021, 2:40 PM [ in reply to Readers are like the gateway drug ]

and I keep 'em at the end of my nose most of the time in the car so I can read the phone (I mean the dash).

I walked into the daycare to drop my 2.5 year old off and the four year old who stays there started laughing at me because I had readers at the end of my nose and my sunglasses pushed up tight to my face.

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I hate Joe Na math and Medicare commercials


Mar 1, 2021, 2:21 PM

Butt it's better than being dead. I got things to deal with pain. Hair grows in all the places it shouldn't and won't grow in places it should. Beard looks good in gray.

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Ya'll already know I'm old as #### at 66+


Mar 1, 2021, 2:28 PM

Wear progressive lenses
Gray hair, but full head of hair (my bros lost a lot of theirs by 35)
BP runs 110/70 pretty consistently.
Joints are fine as long as I keep taking my Xeljanz XR
Can walk just about any distance/cant stand running..
Play golf, chop wood, landscape yard by myself

Still old, but not in mind ;)

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Find me in this pic...


Mar 1, 2021, 3:11 PM

LOL

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Am I supposed to know what you look like?


Mar 1, 2021, 3:25 PM

Girl on left about to tdrake...

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Yes.***


Mar 1, 2021, 8:39 PM



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Re: Find me in this pic...


Mar 1, 2021, 3:30 PM [ in reply to Find me in this pic... ]



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woah, wait a min... you have all of these issues and you're


Mar 1, 2021, 2:30 PM

not 40 yet? Dude, you need to make an appointment with Phil Connors. Like yesterday.

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A drunk will run a STOP sign, but a stoner will wait for it to turn green.


Phil Connors? Did he go to school with Ned Ryerson?***


Mar 1, 2021, 2:34 PM



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crap, old man brain fart... yes, I meant Ned. See? You see


Mar 1, 2021, 2:37 PM

how this happens? It's the little things at first, and it goes downhill from there.

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A drunk will run a STOP sign, but a stoner will wait for it to turn green.


Grey hair started at 28, balding started at 40...


Mar 1, 2021, 2:36 PM

reading glasses became a necessity at 50. Back pain comes and goes though the knee pain is always there to some extent.

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OK, boomer***


Mar 1, 2021, 2:37 PM



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THERE IT IS


Mar 1, 2021, 2:39 PM



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Well, obviously....


Mar 1, 2021, 3:08 PM

You shouda bought bourbon.

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Are you saying the lack of bourbon is changing my eyesight?


Mar 1, 2021, 3:58 PM

I'm going to trust you on this one and drink more bourbon, after the scotch is gone, which we put a decent dent in Saturday night.

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I kinda stopped shaving


Mar 1, 2021, 3:12 PM

I mean when I get some long hairs on my face, and I trim them, but the real reason I stopped shaving was I wanted to see how many different colors of hair my face would grow. so far I've got light brown, dark brown, what might be black, gray, white and kind of a dark gray.

Naa..I really quit because I'm lazy, the multi color hairs was just sort of entertaining all on its own.

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I went in a liquor store and bought wine last week and


Mar 1, 2021, 3:20 PM

didn't get carded.

I mean I suppose there aren't a ton of underage people buying Rose but it still stings.

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I get carded at the grocery store for beer and my kids laugh


Mar 1, 2021, 3:29 PM

at me. I'm all "you see these fucktrophies? this is why I drink and to have one that is almost 10, I certainly have to be above 21."

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Now that right there is funny...


Mar 2, 2021, 8:49 PM

"fu$ktrophies". Immature as fu$k but funny as can be. Thanks for the LOL!

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Wait’ll your scrote grazes the toilet water.***


Mar 1, 2021, 3:25 PM



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you had to wait on that?***


Mar 2, 2021, 8:50 PM



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about getting old. At some point, you realize


Mar 1, 2021, 3:45 PM

you're not counting up anymore, you're counting down.

And seriously, if you need readers, start with the very weakest ones that work. Don't make your eyes any lazier than they're sliding into anyways.

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94% of lunge posts are made by dudes wearing readers.***


Mar 1, 2021, 9:49 PM



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Re: 94% of lunge posts are made by dudes wearing readers.***


Mar 2, 2021, 10:09 AM

That is hilarious. So funny!

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Break your leg sledding with your daughter


Mar 1, 2021, 10:19 PM

yeah. That is getting old.

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Re: Break your leg sledding with your daughter


Mar 2, 2021, 3:33 AM



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Not YET...but I have come reasonably close.***


Mar 2, 2021, 7:30 AM [ in reply to Break your leg sledding with your daughter ]



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Got glasses at 12, bifocals at 42, what made me feel old was


Mar 2, 2021, 7:54 AM

having to get hearing aids at 62.

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What's that you say?


Mar 2, 2021, 8:52 PM

:)

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Turned 40 last year


Mar 2, 2021, 9:34 AM

Note: I also lost about 60lbs of straight fat too in 2019-20 so these results might be skewed

Overall I feel great! I sleep decently well, sight is not fading too bad, still have my hearing (I think), don't mind the gray hairs too much since I mostly get compliments from the womenz, even the ones in their upper 20s like it (daddy issues). I have been wearing a knee sleeve to run or play sports since college anyway and I learned to stretch my back and do yoga about 10 years ago to alleviate back pain so I can't attribute that to old age either.

I try and swim and stay in the water more in the summer and that helps with the body.

The only thing that I would say i've noticed is when i have sex, I'm pretty much one and done for the day. Occasionally I'll be ready for a 2nd round later but my days of multiple ####### are gone. I guess they make pills for that so I guess that's the next step.

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Braggart.***


Mar 2, 2021, 8:54 PM



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I tried hard to TU this post but


Mar 2, 2021, 8:58 PM

you ain't even forty so quit bitchin'. Although you did bring out the best in a lot of frens on here so maybe a TU is appropriate. Be optimistic, you only feel worse as you get older!

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Found a gray chest hair today.


Mar 2, 2021, 10:16 PM

But I also did 50 pushups without thinking I needed shoulder surgery so there is that.

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Long thread.***


Mar 3, 2021, 1:04 AM



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Many Joungers, like me, are afraid of being old like you


Mar 3, 2021, 7:40 AM

geezers.

winkyfaceemoji

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