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The physical signs of aging

  • 10-06-2010 11:35PM
    #1
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭


    Are any of you experiencing the atrocity that is getting older on a physical level? Which parts of you aren't what they used to be?

    I'll be 27 in September and I'm gaining grey hairs at at alarming rate. Both sides of my head are about 35% grey at this stage.. it's frightening.. I look like a pale, pikey José Mourinho. My knee isn't the May West either, injured it years ago and didn't take any notice of the residual pain until recently.. it hurts when it rains.. that saddens me deeply, I remember my granny saying her hip used to be sore while it rained. I even bought a pair of those curved walking shoes to see if they help.. not long now 'til the peace of the grave

    So are you feeling older?


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  • #2
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    My liver hurts.


  • #3
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    I keep finding long hairs in my eyesbrows and nose!!
    Why do fúck am I losing hair on my head and gaining it in my ears and eyebrows!?:eek:

    If it ever starts coming out my ears I'm gonna start hurting people (or kittens)


  • #4
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,755 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    I feel f*cking depressed after reading that........


  • #5
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    God yeah. I'm 30. My knees kill me. I've got loads of grey hairs. I find it a lot harder to get rid of any weight i put on. I'm as blind as a bat.. I could go on,but i'd only depress myself :(


  • #6
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Are any of you experiencing the atrocity that is getting older on a physical level?

    I'll be 27 ...

    To quote Shane McGowan:

    "How are ya kid and what's your name, but how would you bloody know?"

    I'm 37, wait till you need a walker like me ;)


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  • #7
    bazmaiden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


    Yeah after four songs at RATM on tues i was knackered!!

    nearly 24 and feeling it!


  • #8
    Bajingo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Bajingo


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Are any of you experiencing the atrocity that is getting older on a physical level? Which parts of you aren't what they used to be?

    I'll be 27 in September and I'm gaining grey hairs at at alarming rate. Both sides of my head are about 35% grey at this stage.. it's frightening.. I look like a pale, pikey José Mourinho. My knee isn't the May West either, injured it years ago and didn't take any notice of the residual pain until recently.. it hurts when it rains.. that saddens me deeply, I remember my granny saying her hip used to be sore while it rained. I even bought a pair of those curved walking shoes to see if they help.. not long now 'til the peace of the grave

    So are you feeling older?


    Ahhh! Im 20 next month!!!:(


    I know..hate me..


  • #9
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    I've had grey hairs for ages, but I don't look my age. People tell me I look way younger :cool:

    My knees also hurt when the weather changes... and this is Ireland, so go figure. But it's been like that since I was a kid

    And hangovers. It takes me a week to recover, and then you are ready for the weekend :D


  • #10
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Not at all!
    I'm 22 and as for bad knees?! I leg pressed 1000lbs(x10) today! :p


    sucks to be old people!


  • #11
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I even bought a pair of those curved walking shoes ...
    Lol.


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  • #12
    midlandsmissus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    As a woman of 26 I found it alarming how much I've aged over a year. I even posted a thread on here last year how annoying it was to get asked for I.D at 25!! Oh how young and foolish I was.

    In the past year, what I've really noticed is my whole face seems to have dropped, less fat on my cheeks- older looking. My neck looks scrawnier, and my eyes just look alot older.

    Barely recognise myself from how I looked about a year ago :(.

    Is 26/27 the year it just really creeps up on you?


  • #13
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    An indicator - or so I'm led to believe......


    1. Pinch the skin on the back of your hand and hold for five seconds.

    2. Release, and count how long it takes for the skin to flatten out.

    How to score:

    Time (seconds)

    1-2 (under 30)

    3-4 (30-44)

    5-9 (45-50)

    10-15 (60)

    35-55 (70)


    Some Google derived source.......http://thestir.cafemom.com/healthy_living/7565/How_Old_Is_Your_Skin
    Untitled Image




  • #14
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Yeah, I can't drink like I used to.

    There was a time when I could do 3 or 4 nights a week drinking, out until the sun comes up & in to work the next day with a (slight) drunken pep in my step.
    I'm lucky if I manage a Saturday night now, it usually takes until Tuesday until I'm right.


    And I'm three years off thirty :confused::mad:


  • #15
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    The soles of my feet are a lot smellier and uglier than they used to be, I'm getting a slight receding hair-line and I can now legally score people who weren't born yet when I was starting primary school.


  • #16
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    "youth being wasted on the young" and all that.

    I'm 44yrs old and still a competitive fighter, I busted by ass for the last two months preparing for this weekend only to blow my ankle two weeks ago and ended up on crutches and out of training for at least six weeks.

    Do I think it was down to my age?.. No, I think it was down to busting a gut which would give nightmares to lads twenty years my junior.

    I can still shimy up a lamp post, or scale over walls and railings and still get 'the glad eye off de ladeez!.

    Oh yea, and I could pole vault for Ireland in the olympics on my stiffy tomorrow morning :D


  • #17
    littlefriend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭littlefriend


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I look like a pale, pikey José Mourinho. ?

    If you look anything like Jose Mourinho you'll be more than fine...(lose the shoes though)


  • #18
    Scarydoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Scarydoll


    Some day's I feel old and others I don't. I definately notice more grey hairs and stuff.
    Although, a few weeks ago I was asked for ID when buying drink. I didn't have any on me at the time and they refused to serve me lol I should point out that I'm 31.
    Best day ever.


  • #19
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I'm 32 and not experiencing any particularly noticeable physical ageing signs (apart from white hairs but I've been getting those since I was 17, as did my mother) - I don't know... kinda think a lot of the ageing people talk about in their 20s is all in the head.


  • #20
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    I'm 30. My hairline has been receding veeeery slowly since I was about 10. The grey hairs are coming thick and fast, I've no qualifications and no job. I've promised myself I'll start worrying about it next year. Till then I'm going to play golf, drink and enjoy finally having my girlfriend home from Australia after a year. I don't feel any older then I was 10 years ago. A little bit smarter and more sociable maybe, but no older.


  • #21
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Harmony Petite Underclothing wrote: »
    I keep finding long hairs in my eyesbrows and nose!!
    Why do fúck am I losing hair on my head and gaining it in my ears and eyebrows!?:eek:

    If it ever starts coming out my ears I'm gonna start hurting people (or kittens)

    They're migrating because of gravity.. in a few years you'll be walking around like a grandfather clock, with your balls bouncing off your knees


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  • #22
    Offy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭Offy


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Are any of you experiencing the atrocity that is getting older on a physical level? Which parts of you aren't what they used to be?

    I'll be 27 in September and I'm gaining grey hairs at at alarming rate. Both sides of my head are about 35% grey at this stage.. it's frightening.. I look like a pale, pikey José Mourinho. My knee isn't the May West either, injured it years ago and didn't take any notice of the residual pain until recently.. it hurts when it rains.. that saddens me deeply, I remember my granny saying her hip used to be sore while it rained. I even bought a pair of those curved walking shoes to see if they help.. not long now 'til the peace of the grave

    So are you feeling older?

    Im 37, my right shoulder hurts before it rains for the last few years :( no gray hairs yet but I cant drink red wine or cider anymore. Other than that Im doing pretty damn good :) I havent been to a doctor in about four years now, it seems the older I get the less often I get sick.


  • #23
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    bazmaiden wrote: »
    nearly 24 and feeling it!
    Ah... what "oldness" is there to feel at not even 24?! :D


  • #24
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Scarydoll wrote: »
    Some day's I feel old and others I don't. I definately notice more grey hairs and stuff.
    Although, a few weeks ago I was asked for ID when buying drink. I didn't have any on me at the time and they refused to serve me lol I should point out that I'm 31.
    Best day ever.

    Dye???

    Well done on the ID by the way.
    I love when I get asked. Since I turned 18 I've been asked about two times, it makes me all happy & skittish...possibly like an underage girl that managed to get into the pub/ nightclub!


  • #25
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    I'm 26. Long term back problem, went away in my early twenties. Now i cant get out of a chair without something to grab onto


  • #26
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Oh yeah, my hangovers have started to get worse but that's because I drink more now than when I was younger - although I definitely don't mix my drinks anymore...


  • #27
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Here's one for those of you who are feeling their years...

    CLICK HERE

    One of these lads was recently telling me that in 40years driving in C.I.E. and Dublin bus he had 3 sick days, and hasn't seen a doctor for the last 37 yrs!.


  • #28
    Boxoffrogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭Boxoffrogs


    I can't believe so many people are saying they feel old in their 20s, not the first thread I've seen that said either. I was spritely in my teens, 20s, still am spritely in my 30s, plan to be in my 40s. Hell my Dad is in his 70s and there is no stopping him.

    What's wrong with you people, you're only babies!


  • #29
    Scarydoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Scarydoll


    easyeason3 wrote: »
    Dye???

    Naw I just pull the feckers out. Don't want to have to go down that route because then I'll really feel old lol It makes sense in my head.


  • #30
    bazmaiden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


    Dudess wrote: »
    Ah... what "oldness" is there to feel at not even 24?! :D

    Just wasn't able to keep up with the 18 year olds at the gig like I used to, all my friends with me said the same.

    also on the physical signs of ageing I think they just dropped!!:eek:


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  • #31
    Boxoffrogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭Boxoffrogs


    Scarydoll wrote: »
    Naw I just pull the feckers out. Don't want to have to go down that route because then I'll really feel old lol It makes sense in my head.

    Tee hee, don't you know, you never pull them out, you get double the grey back:D


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