Signs your getting old?
Signs your getting old?
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- bainbridge0
When you realize the people you idolized as a teen or in college were maybe 30 at the time, and had accomplished much more than you did. And now they're surprising not much older than you now.
- slappy2
I got a text massage from the goverment offering me free bowl cancer screening today..
- They're serving it in bowls now?CyBrainX
- FFS, I'll be in the rec room.slappy
- Got my test in the post a few days after I turned 50.microkorg
- How many bowls did you gets screened in the end?Continuity
- i prefer my massages in person..autoflavour
- renderedred0
I'm like an ancient Volkswagen Beetle. Half of the things are pure improvisation or don't work at all. But I am still going.
- That's the way ;)OBBTKN
- My dad had a 1959 Beetle. It didn't even have a gas gauge.CyBrainX
- ... your best feature is in the back.palimpsest
- neverscared1
good old times
- kingsteven5
- How and why did this get 171 responses?CyBrainX
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- renderedred0
I was in the US for the 200-year independence celebrations.
- "Oh say can you see..."
Shut the fuck up about my presbyopia already!!!palimpsest - :)renderedred
- same. I was only 5 but remember all the parades and red white and blue hoopla.fooler
- I remember too. Patriotism was just an ordinary cash grab back then, not a vomit inducing hypocritical fever dream;.CyBrainX
- "Oh say can you see..."
- whatthefunk2
- https://i.imgur.com/…Gabriel
- https://i.haasie.com…palimpsest
- https://i.redd.it/3x…GuyFawkes
- Iggy Pop?rzu-rzu
- cool leather jacketKrassy
- That has got to be Iggyjagara
- prophetone11
- Oh good lord, that took me WAY too long to figure out. :(Akagiyama
- that's a stretch.bogue
- Wat?********
- "Bad Day"palimpsest
- "Very Bad Things"palimpsest
- Camer en Di azprophetone
- I had a Gweneth Paltro? help me out, is that a new Gen Z thing?capn_ron
- Nice phonetic breakdown @prophetone!
Lolz.ideaist - Camera in da ass.
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- PonyBoy6
My AARP card arrived today... :/
- AARP: American Association of Retired Persons
PonyBoy - AARP is my clan tag in call of dutyGuyFawkes
- You're.. retarded?Nairn
- given I'm nearly 100% welsh... yesPonyBoy
- My condolencesOBBTKN
- https://media1.tenor…pango
- Welcome.moogchild
- @Pony Through some clerical mishap on their end, I got my first AARP spam snail mail when I was 25.garbage
- @Nairny please tell me you're referencing the literally very special episode of Quantum Leap.garbage
- Clenches Fists...Yells at Clouds.utopian
- Welcome to the club!Akagiyama
- How old *are* you people that you're getting pensioner cards, anyway??Continuity
- I thought you were building a synthesiser at first glance.mort_
- ^lol @mort_ also a sign your getting oldkoma_
- ^ Truemort_
- AARP: American Association of Retired Persons
- Continuity6
We're having fun and animated conversations on QBN about cooking-acquired blisters.
- Nairn14
You increasingly use your phone's camera, sometimes macro mode, to read small text.
- It comes in handy for reading serial numbers on devices with tiny text in very inconvenient places.CyBrainX
- every time I buy a DJI productGuyFawkes
- ...in a dimly lit restaurant...canoe
- yes and usually with medication bottle dosage at 3am for some reason, damn eyeswhatthefunk
- Yep! so many products now have their ingredient list in the tiniest font. I need to know if this product has dairy in it! :(Akagiyama
- Yes. Fuck you tiny cooking instructions.mort_
- ^Continuity
- Ha! The silent revenge of the nearsightedOBBTKN
- and make the logo biggerneverscared
- or smaller and the small text largerneverscared
- took a photo of centrum multivitamins bottle to read the micro list of what vitamins and amounts were in a pill, pinch zoomed like old bag of dustprophetone
- Sometimes I go through my photos just to delete all the photos of close ups I can’t readdmay
- i was nearsighted but getting old actually corrected that... lolpango
- 100%_niko
- lol@nevercanoe
- Every time I rebuild a carburettor now, I use my phone to read the jet and valve sizes. So annoying. Might buy one of those magnifying lamps and admit defeat.slappy
- this should be inthe useful threadArchitectofFate
- Good tip and feel you on this one. Over the last 6 months my eyes have literally given up focusing on anything. And Mort, Aldi cooking instructions are STUPIDIanbolton
- You know there are drops that can temporarily fix blurry vision due to age?lemmy_k
- iPhone has a native magnifier app - works way better than just zooming in with the cameraGnash
- Do we have to enable "ur a bag of sad dusty sand" accessibility features to use itprophetone
- "You know there are drops that can temporarily fix blurry vision due to age?
lemmy_k" <— go on.Continuity - DMT eye dropsprophetone
- d_gitale2
I just bought myself a hedge trimmer.
