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Signs that you're getting old
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El Gato De Negocios wrote: »Tbf, I've been getting my brows trimmed since my 20s cos they are facking monstrous.
*Actually, there's another sign that you're getting older - knowing who that guy is.0 -
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Humberto Salazar wrote: »To the Turkish barbers with you, they'll sort that, but keep calm with their method.
I've seen it done. :eek:0 -
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Thanks lads (and lasses, if it doesn't offend anyone to imply that there might be a gender difference
) - although calendar-age-wise, I'm up there with the best of ye, you've convinced me that I can't be as old as my random aches and irrational ear-hair might have me believe! :pac: 0 -
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+1000 and the same generational stuff that's been in play for all of human history. Old farts in Ancient Greece, Rome, China etc were complaining about the dissolute youth using exactly same points you noted above. That they were "weak willed, lack discipline, too concerned with appearance, don’t appreciate how easy they have it etc".El_Duderino 09 wrote: »Also thinking young people today are inferior to young people of your own generation - weak willed, lack discipline, too concerned with appearance, don’t appreciate how easy they have it etc.
It just means you don’t understand the difficulties young people face today and are disconnected from young people. That’s a real sign of getting old.
EG Socrates: "The youths love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” (I love the image of gobbling up dainties.
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Horace at least threw some shade at his own generation, though still thought it was better before: “Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
Brain plasticity decreases with age, triply so if left to its own lazy devices, so new things and new ideas are loud and uncomfortable noises, so nostalgia becomes a comfort and nostalgia always lies to itself.
So for me nostalgia is about the biggest sign you're getting old in mind at least. The young are living the lives you and in turn they will be nostalgic about.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” [/I](I love the image of gobbling up dainties. )
It's the "cross their legs" :eek: that gets me! One of my clearest memories of my maternal grandad was the way he used to sit with his legs crossed like a DNA double-helix! That Greek fella would have been disgusted. :pac:Being single helps IMO, I've seen a few men develop a much older attitude once they got married and had children, settling into a comfortable yet hectic domestic existence of changing nappies, IKEA, watching soap operas and tut tutting about the youth of today.
Ah, g'way outta that. I'd give anything to have a rake of nappies to change again, or snotty noses to wipe, or tantruming toddlers to lock in the shed ... :rolleyes: The mentally oldest guy I know of my own age has been single forever. I'd say hanging around with young people - the full spectrum from 0 to [self-10 years] - is the best way of staying "young" as you get to see more of the world through their eyes, and changes aren't as much of a shock because chances are you knew they were coming.0 -
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