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Hitting 40

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  • 19-03-2015 1:48am
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    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Today I turned 40 but I don't feel 40. I honestly don't know where the last 20 years have gone - they've certainly flown.

    Boards.ie wished me a happy birthday. Any other AHers who have hit the big 40 got any advice or words of wisdom?


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    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Don't ever get married.


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    johnny osbourne
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    happy birthday

    ya its time to make a life plan and get your priorities in order


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    wandatowell
    Registered Users Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Get married to the right person.


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    Maximus Alexander
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    By the time I'm 40 you'll be 51. So uh, I guess you should enjoy only being 40 and stop worrying about it. Soon you'll be 51.


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    PandaPoo
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    In dog years, you're dead :)


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    Wacker The Attacker
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    I'm 38 and my mickey still works. I'm happy.


    I **** therefore I am.


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    Kevin McCloud
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    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    I'm 38 and my mickey still works. I'm

    Your mickey should stay working till your 91.


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    Lapin
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    40 is the new 70.


    Hang on, is that right or should it be t'other way round?


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    PandaPoo wrote: »
    In dog years, you're dead :)

    In Pluto years, it'll be another 208 earth years before you're one year old.

    Pluto is a dog. In plutodog years, you're still in nappies. Age is a matter of cosmic geography.


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    PandaPoo
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    endacl wrote: »
    In Pluto years, it'll be another 208 earth years before you're one year old.

    Pluto is a dog. In plutodog years, you're still in nappies. Age is a matter of cosmic geography.

    Jaysus


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    NachoBusiness
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    Turned 40 last year. I'm the same, don't feel it, although I'm starting to hurt myself doing simple things. I moved the sofa recently for example and and I got a sharp pain in my lower back and my hip started to throb and has been sore ever since. Think I may have gout in my left heel also. I now judge restaurants not by their food, but by how comfortable their seats will be to sit in for a couple of hours.

    The real headwrecker for someone around our age though is that the distance in time from the mid 90's until now, is roughly the same amount of time as from the time we were born, until the mid 90s.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isdjOvmWb6I


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    The Backwards Man
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    I'm 37 and I haven't a clue if my micky still works or not


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    Kevin McCloud
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I'm 37 and I haven't a clue if my micky still works or not

    Do you wear nappies?


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I'm 37 and I haven't a clue if my micky still works or not

    Do you have it on backwards?


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    The Backwards Man
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    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    Do you wear nappies?
    endacl wrote: »
    Do you have it on backwards?
    Yeah:rolleyes:

    Jaysus lads, yous can do better than that!


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Yeah:rolleyes:

    Jaysus lads, yous can do better than that!

    It's years and years of pints of Tennant's, isn't it? Does things to a man's mickey. You're afraid to check? Go for it, man. We're all here for ye!


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    Kevin McCloud
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Yeah:rolleyes:

    Jaysus lads, yous can do better than that!

    Does your mickey get excited when you are stripping the scrath off the bog?


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    The Backwards Man
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    endacl wrote: »
    It's years and years of pints of Tennant's, isn't it? Does things to a man's mickey. You're afraid to check? Go for it, man. We're all here for ye!
    That's better, witty and original :pac:

    My micky is like a fully charged power screwdriver, pull the trigger and its raring to go, but if you've nothing to screw you haven't a clue how good it is.:)


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    The Backwards Man
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    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    Does your mickey get excited when you are stripping the scrath off the bog?
    My whole body trembles with excitement when I'm on a bink:)


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    Witchie
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    As a 41 year old my mickey usually still works as I like younger men.

    OP, turning 40 is great. People take you seriously but you are still young enough to go out and have loads of fun. Have loved life more since turning 40. Think I am more comfortable in my own skin and don't give a toss what others think coz am of the opinion that I know myself well enough to know what works for me and they don't.

    Enjoy it and happy birthday.


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    Kevin McCloud
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    Some say it takes longer for the mickey to get going when you hit your forties, abit like the electric kettle with limescale.
    It will boil the water but takes longer.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    Some say it takes longer for the mickey to get going when you hit your forties, abit like the electric kettle with limescale.
    It will boil the water but takes longer.
    Limescale doesn't do much harm if you keep the element well scrubbed.


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    Witchie
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    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    Some say it takes longer for the mickey to get going when you hit your forties, abit like the electric kettle with limescale.
    It will boil the water but takes longer.

    Weird am watching you........Your voice is very soothing.


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    Kevin McCloud
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    Witchie wrote: »
    Weird am watching you........Your voice is very soothing.

    Once you aren't scrubbing your element.


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    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    Once you aren't scrubbing your element.

    I will have you know my element is in perfect working order.


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    Galwayguy35
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    Turned 40 in December, feel just as good as I did 10 years ago, find it's a bit tougher on the dating scene though as I get older.


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    Tigger
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    I'm 40 and I tink I look and feel 25 however I think people that are 25 look 12 and I'm not allowed feel them.


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    Pumpkinseeds
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    I'm 42 and I think most people feel the same as the OP about turning 40. It's the first milestone birthday people don't look forward to and it does make you take stock of your life. Feeling younger than you are is quite normal.


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    _Kaiser_
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    40 this year as well and like others above I don't feel it either

    Here's a question.. is "turning 40" still a big deal as in do ye have a big bash etc? I don't think I'd have the interest.. just another day to me


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    jaymcg91
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    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    40 this year as well and like others above I don't feel it either

    Here's a question.. is "turning 40" still a big deal as in do ye have a big bash etc? I don't think I'd have the interest.. just another day to me

    Maybe just do something special to you, like take a trip or something, if you don't want to have a party? I think it's nice to mark milestones, just in my own way rather than automatically deciding to have a party :P.


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