Signs your getting old?
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- sausages4
On principle I will no long pay for haircuts or car mechanics and instead do both myself. I look like shit and my cars are in a perpetual state of unroadworthiness.
But my kids are happy I guess.
- I shave my head, now. I did, however, find a good mechanic. My wife says the hair looks good, so that's all that matters at this age.lemmy_k
- Bought hair clippers at the start of UK lock down. Used them ever since.comicsans
- I used some blunt kitchen scissors at the in-Laws to chop my hair down at Christmas. When MiL saw she complimented me "You're not right, are you?"Nairn
- Last year I put my clippers I'd used for a decade away and bought an electric head shaver. Magic, I wish I'd done it sooner. I use it every 3 days, but it takesskinny_puppy
- ... 5 minutes and there's no mess, no hassle. Can do it as you're headed out the door if you need a quick shave.skinny_puppy
- I cut my own hair during the lockdown, it came out fine, but I spent 2 hours at each sessiondrgs
- Akagiyama2
I go to a new restaurant and the first thing I do is make sure I know where the bathroom is.
- fooler1
I woke up and got out of bed at 6am for absolute no reason at all. I have no deadlines, no meetings, no commute, no kids.
- "free time"ideaist
- Then... Do nothing :)OBBTKN
- Go back to bed.CyBrainX
- 6am is lateNBQ00
- 6am is not late, you Dickensian weirdo.Nairn
- this is my life everyday. it's saturday. i have no plans. I'm wearing a tie.imbecile
- sounds like you should go out and disc golf – bang some chainzArchitectofFate
- I'd love to sleep in that late.lemmy_k
- mg333
I had to bump up the size of text on my phone by a couple sizes this week. Turned 45 in December. This must be what happens.
- my eyesight went from a 10 to a 3, in like 3 months at 48yo. sucks.dopepope
- blame the display you're staring at :)
idk what happened but these new gen displays are effing up peoples eyesightsted - Oh it's def bc I stare into two 27 inch monitors all day every day for over 20 years.dopepope
- https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- same, exploring reading glasses nowwhatthefunk
- Same here. Eyesight's gone to shit in a very short amount of time, here in my mid-forties. Often zooming texts.Nairn
- I can't even read my texts while driving anymore. It's total madnessIanbolton
- zaq4
- Pffffloating point unitsNairn
- I still have mine with games, too.lemmy_k
- Same. Had to explain to my kid what a mod chip was forkoma_
- wtfmilfhunter
- Makes me want to play Monster Ranchersarahfailin
- lajj5
Last night, I wrote an email to my mayoress to gently complain about something.
- topic was dog owners letting their pets piss and poop in the kids playground across the streetlajj
- Signs you're getting geriatricContinuity
- young people also care about their surroundings :)sofas
- I've written to my governor to secede from the United States. So far, she hasn't done it.CyBrainX
- GeorgesII3
I got drunk the other day,
took me 3 days to get back to normal, sigh...- haha same thing happened to me, plus it wasn't that much booze either.OP31
- i got drunk last night at the Slipknot concert. I feel terrible at the moment... i'm happy i dont have a lot of things to do at work.Bennn
- yep, only beers here,
so sad,GeorgesII - yep, getting over hangovers takes longer. i know how to manage my buzz now. lolsea_sea
- I started to notice I couldn't recover the next day when I was about 45. It's never taken me more than a day though.CyBrainX
- 10 days for it to completely leave your system.notype
- one reason I quit drinking. I like getting buzzed but HATED the feeling the next day....dkoblesky
- OP314
liking Joy Division makes you old?
- Think so. Never liked them before and I'm a bit emo (as the kids call it!)mugwart
- not old, that just makes you late to the party. ;)sea_sea
- Old would be more like liking the latest New Order album, released when the band members are in their 60syuekit
- ^
i feel this with the next gen prodigy fans.mugwart - Liking Joy Division should have happened decades ago. Likening them to Dolly Parton might be a sign of age, or insanity.CyBrainX
- ^ this! lollynley
- celebrate the ironytrooperbill
- utopian2
- He also suffers from alopecia.palimpsest
- ^ oh snapGnash
- :( bye herografician
- Epilepsy?cannonball1978
- he died hard too many timesimbecile
- All those shitty films he did recently make sense now. Easy work + big paydayBrabo_Brabo
- Was thinking the sameGuyFawkes
- sea_sea7
You have money in your savings account.
- Nairn4
Just, this fucking thread.
https://www.qbn.com/topics/53968…
Makes me feel old.
I'm not even not someone occasionally slightly pretentious when it comes to foot attire, but fuck me, I don't get most of it there.
Just makes me angry, most of it.
- That thread is impenetrable to me. They operate on a set of values and standards i don’t understandscarabin
- What’s fascinating is that no matter what’s posted there, it gets downvoted, even amongst themselvesscarabin
- Ooh, 'impenetrable'.
Absolutely fucking right.Nairn - We need a "Best Velcro Strap Shoes - Orthofeet" Thread!utopian
- I think that's just bad taste. Expensive sneakers are a fetish, not investing in nice footwear (which I do enjoy).formed
- Yeah let's bring it back to good stuff on which I'd bet a pair of 90s most would agree... no Yeezys or Balenciagas!MrT
- skinny_puppy4
- As much as I think this never happened, it does raise the question of how glyphs will evolve to represent increasingly archaic images of fundamental concepts.Nairn
- eg. https://cdn.shopify.…Nairn
- Totally, very interesting.skinny_puppy
- lolAQUTE
- I'm not sure software icons are in line to replace the alphabet, but then Roger Moore's in my favourite Bond movie, so...MrT
- Wot, no emoji?Nairn
- I'll go on a stabbing spree if I see emojis in software interfaces.CyBrainX
- Krassy3
- I do this sometimes not because of age but because I wore glasses all day for decades but have recently started not wearing them sometimes.nb
- I can't imagine making this mistake but I also can't imagine being this consummate sack of shit either.CyBrainX
- Ditto, nbduckseason
- A couple of times I've tried to take my contact lenses out of my eyes when I wasn't wearing any. Not really an age thing though.Fax_Benson
- Man I sleep in my contacts and only change them every few months. Always laugh when the optometrist says "Well you've got great eye hygiene".garbage
- Losing one is a strange reminder that I'm nearsighted.garbage
- I did that many years ago garbage. Fucked me up and I’ve worn glasses for 10 years now. Should I got back to contacts?monospaced
- There's a risk of getting corneal ulcers, happened to my cousin. My eyes are apparently freaks of nature. I'll do a glasses day or two every few months..garbage
- ..but I have just popped them in and forgot about them until one rips for about 20 years.garbage
- fooler3
Kurt Cobain has been dead as many years as he was alive
- Nothing new ;)OBBTKN
- Not if you count the years before he was born, he's not.Nairn
- if you don't count the time he lived before you were born this is exciting newskingsteven
- Kurt lives on. Courtney killed him.monospaced
- NirvanaSimonFFM
- That makes sense, mono.NBQ00
- @kingsteven - if I don't count the decade he was alive before I was born, this milestone would've been met in 2011 for me. *noodledNairn
- @Nairn it describes the conditions required for quantum grungekingsteven
- Ooh, +/- -01 on the nihilism scale is like -3½Nairn
- nb6
Hey if you still have data saved on CD-Rs you definitely want to get that data NOW today because it's probably already faded
- cd lifespan is 10 yrs as far as i knowrenderedred
- Uh oh. I better get to backin' that shit up.lemmy_k
- I often wonder about this but then think what fucking use is a 25-year-old Quark 3 artwork. And then I quickly forgets.MrT
- dmay4
- DUN-DUN...Nairn
- Hold on, I was 13 when Twin Peaks came out? I coulda sworn I was a wee bit older.Nairn
- I remember watching the series, but I remember nothing from itdrgs
- It is happening againBluejam
- It's a unique series that wasn't for everyone.
It was fantastic.ideaist - The Return/Season 3 was even better. Possibly the best thing Lynch ever did.CyBrainX