Signs your getting old?
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- zaq3
got glasses.
office progressive. need to get used to them.- I've had progressives for 3 years, still can't get used to them. Need to take them off to draw, sew or read my phone.palimpsest
- Got used to my varifocals in 20 minutes. Get your prescription rechecked.comicsans
- I work with glasses, when I need to check something near on paper, I take off them, and voilá!
The only advantage of being myopic ;)OBBTKN - What you sewing pamp?garbage
- Just mending nowadays, Santa never brough me the sewing machine. Started making zipper pouches with my MIL's machine and doing sashiko on them a few years ago.palimpsest
- Nice. I'm embarrassed, but not too proud to admit it took me too long to realize MIL's wasn't a brand. My mom quilts, it was a family thing.garbage
- I have a tattered-ass quilt that's literally from the Civil War era, and it need some work. Think my great great gran made it?garbage
- It's literally a museum piece, and it's currently.. protecting the screen of a spare flatscreen in my closet.garbage
- Eventually I'm going to make a frame for it. My mom went apeshit when she found out I was actually using it.garbage
- Yeah, protecting a screen was a bit too much. I think having it over you bed would have gone down better. But you're making up for it with the frame!palimpsest
- I loved tattered fabric, that's why I'm practicing sashiko. My sewing is still wobbly but my goal is to build a boro jacket from my own tattered clothes.palimpsest
- fooler6
I bent over to pick up laundry off of the floor Monday morning and felt a little pop in my lower back. 1 hour later I was in debilitating pain and couldn't stand up. I spent 3 days in the hospital flat on my back.
- That’s called the grandpop pop ‘n lockprophetone
- My lower back does that all the damn time, from doing minor things. It suckssssselahon
- once a sneeze threw out my back for like a weekYakuZoku
- I had back pain for a period of 2-3 years, it went over by itself and never bothered me again, I dont know why or howdrgs
- This happened to me trying to suck my own dick once.Khurram
- ... twice :-/Khurram
- Talk to an osteopath or sports physio. Do not have any dealings with chiropracters, they are unqualified quacks.comicsans
- What was it that happened?monospaced
- I couldn't stand for more than 15 minutes for 2 years. Now I do yoga several days a week.formed
- My back problem was resolved after pilates. Core strength around the waist most probably.comicsans
- < this. I do 5 slow push-ups if I grunt while picking up a dropped thing. It's OCD, but your core is everything. Also knees bend before the spine.garbage
- HijoDMaite4
- They last 2-3 monthsdrgs
- it's not newbalance. i'm disappointedpango
- Signs Your (sic) Getting FitKrassy
- haha! i picked up a pair of 6’s two weeks ago. i am still not sold on them. the toe cage(?) just feels wrongscruffics
- I feel two inches taller and the rocking effect is weird. Only day one.HijoDMaite
- Welcome to the club of shoes that correct your slouching caused by child ownership / aging / a combination of factors!ideaist
- idk theyre funky for sure but gave me motivationSquiddy
- "When you start looking like Marines, you'll start feeling like Marines, and pretty soon, God dammit, you'll start acting like Marines." or something. lolSquiddy
- lol i got a pair for work last season, took me a while to like them. once i broke em in i can use them all day now. fun for dancing and stuff, bouncy haha.sea_sea
- https://youtu.be/J-F…drgs
- been on the hoka train for a couple of years can't live without 'em now since they add like 3 inches in heightArchitectofFate
- You finally budged and got a pair of, uh... Hoka. Beloved by all Latvian athletes. Or something. What is Hoka.jagara
- It is entirely possible that I'm out of the loop regarding popular sneaker brands. I like Vans.jagara
- bezoar3
At the local Renaissance Festival my family and I casually walked passed The Heckler and he shouted, "Who's next? How 'bout you, Baldspot?"
"Hey, don't talk to my wife that way!" Ha, I said no such thing.
- it would probably be your last words :)zaq
- "Keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth!" would have gotten you a free pass with your wife.palimpsest
- letterhead3
^^^^
I also work with a bunch of graphic designers, 20-30YO. Their skills range, some are very good. Excellent, even.
Working on some substantial brochures/catalogs with lots of information to convey. Decent budget with high-end finishes, etc. It's a really legit & fun opportunity. I find out NONE of them give 2 shits about grid systems.
I pull out books by Joseph Muller Brockmann, Wim Crouwel etc. for a bit of inspiration/educational time. NO ONE has even heard of them. They go on paging through the books with looks of subtle amusement, then set them down and go on their way designing without ANY fucking grids.
Makes me wonder what the fuck I'm even doing anymore
- you should do the grid system and let them fill stuff in :-)
Did you ever notice that Brockmann published a manual for industry users on how to use grids.uan - it's like a template. layout thinking boiled down to some rules, with solutions for common problems.uan
- Like no standard columns or margins?! WTFmonospaced
- Not only as a designer, also as a consumer, I find grid systems very pleasing. So, I don't understand the young designers.SimonFFM
- grid systems don't let me express my feelings through art thodoesnotexist
- you should do the grid system and let them fill stuff in :-)
- _niko1
I started taking statins this week.
I've had naturally high cholesterol my whole life, nothing I do brings it down.
For the past year I became a pescatarian, ran 3-4 times a week, played ball-hockey once a week, cut down alcohol to 1-2 drinks a week, worked fairly regularly, took a Metamucil supplement daily and have a high metabolism so I've always been fairly fit...and yet my cholesterol level shot up to the highest it's ever been ffs.
so after much debating and on the urging and recommendation of my Dr, I finally bit the bullet and took the damn pill.
I feel defeated, but probably for my own good. Any one else on it?
- I also eat olive oil by the gallon so my good cholesterol is at a good level but my bad cholesterol is off the chart._niko
- <* worked out fairly regularly_niko
- I take Atorvastatin. Doc says it's helping my numbers!Akagiyama
- Probably genetic like me - look into disbetahyperlipidemi... and specifically your beta-LDL component to the total?theonlyengineerhere
- @Akagiyama - Atorvastatin Calcium is the generic name of Lipitortheonlyengineerhere
- Change your lifestyle, wait a while for it to settle, remeasure. Repeat. But sometimes your genetics are against you.comicsans
- He did change his lifestyle. Lolmonospaced
- Akagiyama9
- Coffee & Melatonin, bitchNBQ00
- omg this is so truemonospaced
- maquito10
I work with some 22-26 y/o fellows that never studied editorial design. I mean, they put up layouts for digital stuff like commerce and landing pages, but have NEVER had an infatuation with Emigre, Raygun, The Face, i+d, Print, or shit. They just fucking exist and make me feel old and grumpy.
- i am treated like a sad mystical wizard who is called in when shit hits the fan and or the project is near catastrophic failurejonny_quest_lives
- it's not a good existencejonny_quest_lives
- https://filmschoolre…jonny_quest_lives
- the Template Generationben98
- time to retired_gitale
- Don’t forget B I K I N I magazineprophetone
- You hired the wrong people. I know kids who know this stuffbainbridge
- Raygun and Print were never goodbainbridge
- Ah BIKINI. Had a few issues.microkorg
- As Ben said above - the template generation. and instead of a library of design books at home they've got Pinterest.microkorg
- Across my office is a "TikTok agency", I see all these young people and don't understand what they're doing.SimonFFM
- if you care about some but not all of them is that ok :D fuckin hate raygunArchitectofFate
- How do you NOT know what Emigre and Raygun are? I mean, do they even know what kerning like a bitch means?maikel
- Embrace the idiocracy while you can, AI will make them all irrelevant soonBluejam
- All those fantastic magazines date back to 25 years ago. The challenge lies in your hands to present them in a captivating and valuable mannerSlashPeckham
- Still see some nice magazine designs these days. Nothing groundbreaking but well designed.microkorg
- Can AI kern like a bitch? can it?
utopian, let us know.monospaced - lol i fucking hated editorial design.sted
- Baseline too...wordssssss
- I was chatting to a young designer today who just uses Canva, she was saying since leaving college it's easy to smash designs out in that. And fuck adobe.PhanLo
- Canva is for marketers who don't have budget for real designers, and who are happy to settle for absolute shit.monospaced
- An old school mate was using Canva to do his menus for his take away and his instagram posts. I still use Illustrator, hehe.PhanLo
- A good designer can get by in canva, but it isn’t a standalone by any means.monospaced
- drgs5
Pee and check if you have to poop before you leave, pee when you arrive at the place, pee before you start heading home, pee when you are back at home
- this is literally the childhood road trip checklist.imbecile
- Yup, the way back to the toiletmaquito
- However, I prefer “piss”maquito
- Not every pee pee time is a poo poo time. But every poo poo time is a pee pee time.microkorg
- should have told that the jan.6 insurrections than they wouldnt have pooped inside the capitol building...neverscared
- When on the go, I pre-emptively take a piss wherever toilets are available.jagara
- ben983
Going to concerts is a physical challenge.
- The worst are on the beachOBBTKN
- Especially if you have to work the next day!lemmy_k
- I miss going to shows, ain't shit where I'm at, appreciate it while you have it and go to a show for me please!YakuZoku
- I still go when I can. But yeah. I hate the waiting time and standing still and being uncomfortable for 4-5 hours.ben98
- iam def getting old! lolben98
- My back injury is killing me, It ruins it more than a bit.jagara
- I've been to more in the last 2 years than the last 15! Mostly edm/dance stuff, too. Mushrooms are your friend! NO hangover, save tons on drinks.formed
- Just don't forget the ear plugs!formed
- Here's another sign: I wish I had plugs for Oppenheimer but I suspect that would have been excruciating at any age.CyBrainX
- maquito0
Had to edit an 8min vid of some keynote slides with a bunch of animations, pre-recorded v/o and a subtle soundtrack following the silences between each v/o bit... in one day.
Even if I first thought “meh, been there, done that”, it was just terrible. Worst thing I had to do in the last 3/4 years. I eventually thought I wasn’t going to make it.
30 y/o me is probably still laughing at his older, slower, dumber version {:(
- NBQ00-3
- I'm sure she's proud.omahadesigns
- I can smell this gifutopian
- Sex traffickingjmckinno