This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

Just don't recognise anything in this thread. Including the posts I posted so that suggests it was probably a crap idea. Oh well, it was worth a momentary try.

Please to God never let me actually become a "fortysomething."

One upside: being a dirty old man sort of suits me.

What are the characteristics of a fortysomething? (I bet I have most of them).

I can legally have an affair with someone half my age!

so, is anyone on for it?

thread is otm, though now I can also see how it mightn't be otm, and would not be surprised to find myself arguing either side of the question for fifteen minutes or so before getting completely distracted by some other stray thought

They say memory is the second thing to go. I can't remember the first one.

My drug of choice these days is Back and Body aspirin, for that extra frisson of caffeine.

Memory is going, true, but at least I remember the 70s

Memory is going, true, but at least I have begun forgetting the 70's.

hi.

um, I'm OK.

What are the characteristics of a fortysomething?

Being aged between 40 and 49. Anyway I though we were all 'middle youths' nowadays.

sorry to have woken you oldtimers up . but. I misread Marcello's OP as

Yes, I know, creeping balkanisation etc. but why should we be left out?

But please leave cheeky Ovaries at the door.

-- Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:35 PM (7 hours ago)

I'll have you know my ovaries are extremely well-behaved; veritable paragons of polite ovarian society.

The ovaries are fine, but I'm prone to brain farts now.

The world's worst song.

Comparing your ovary to a Bronte C/D?

Wuthering Ovaries

Thrustcrotch Minge

Carry On Bronteing

One upside: being a dirty old man sort of suits me.

-- Rock Hardy

^^^

haven't you all heard - us 40+'rs are saving the music industry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/stevelamacq/2008/08/to_bb_or_not_to_bb.html

Come on - you're not too old to have forgotten this thread already...
I am too old for this...the 40 plus thread.

Don't even remember that thread but this one could do with a few more ovaries...

my right knee

wait, is your right knee also my right knee. Because - my right knee.

No knee problems, but a lingering cough and all.

my left knee

Knees still fine, but ow my aching fibroid. Roll on the menopause, please.

back pain... bruised rib?

Have you banged a rib?

Not that I remember ... had a sidewalk fall about 6 weeks ago but I'm positive I landed on knees.

I always have back pain. I just attribute it to "lol old, also sit up straight dummy" at this point.

Had surgery three weeks ago to correct a compressed ulnar nerve in my left arm. Incision is taking it's sweet time healing all the way.

The rest of my 40s are going to suck, aren't they.

Upper, lower, middle back, Morbz?

left middle-lower

Saggy mattress? I can definitely trace my back pain to mattress + increasing girth.

Yeah, I try to sleep flat on my back w/a pillow under my knees when I get back pain.

well I sleep with my bed titled to ease the acid reflux. But yeah, mattress is old and crap.

Lord Paillasse?

Tilted means your back is still bearing weight.

usually sleep on my side (the right since pain started obv)

but pain is not as bad as it was in January.

Seen a chiropractor at all or anybody, really?

as an ILXOR in my 40s, I can confirm that GOOD POSTURE is urgent and key - even making the effort to sit up straighter at yr desk can have a tremendously positive effect on neck and back pain

I sleep on my side as well, and trial and error has led to this successful formula: an extra pillow to straighten my neck, and a pillow between my legs to elevate my top leg and straighten my spine. I'm still grinked up in the morning, but it eases by my 2nd cup of coffee.

I see my GP every summer, and that takes effort.

ppl our age really can't eat Indian food w/out sacrifice, eh?

tmi

wow, earliest sign here of my back pain that turned out to be Something Serious, unrelated to posture. Had no idea it started in winter.

Hesitated this time before throwing out mailing w/ AARP card.

My vision has gone 'bifocalish', ie I gotta take the glasses off to read.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:05 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is driving me fkin CRAZY. I just got new frames, which I love, but I only get to wear em 15% of the time. I opted not to get the progressive lenses bc I was afraid it would be annoying but...

Also damn but I (b.1970) spent 2012 feeling just physically OLD.

I feel great, I realize I'm fortunate to remember things other people don't, and I wouldn't trade that for anything. My sister doesn't remember our grandfather, for example - he died in 1975. I think she feels this loss, it's a piece of her history she can only access through pictures.

a sign of middle age truculence ids you're stil lwilling to put up with the morning after Indian food.

(yes i have passed out of strict eligibility for this thread, whatcha gonna do abt it?)

I am a very old returning poster. I used to just go by "Chris F.", and I think I just used my gmail address as my login or something, because if you look at my old posts it gives my username as "servoret" but clicking through says that I don't exist, and I remember running into someone IRL in 2006 and giving out my email and him instantly recognizing me from that as an ILX0r. Sorry to come off as out of nowhere confessional. I was never a very good poster here; many apologies to anyone who ever read me and wished they hadn't. I just missed this place for some reason and there's thoughts I can't share with anyone IRL that I feel like I have to get off my chest; like I'm never going to tell my brother I think my dad might have NPD and that it fucked us up. I don't know, I could be wrong. I do love my dad; he's just got very clear limits as a person and it's frustrating to interact with that sometimes. My mom thinks he has autism; that's also quite probable and maybe it's both.

Is it too late to start skating again? Santa Cruz blue dot being delivered Monday

My wife, who is 50, recently got a pair of rollerskates and I’m terrified for her but acting like it’s cool because she’s a grownup. She was briefly flirting with the idea of roller derby and I gently reminded her how many back operations/injections she has had and I think she’s backed off of that.

Edit; It’s never too late to skate

Im at the coffee place and I order a small drip. Server takes my 4 dollars cash, makes change, I place the coins in the jar, she looks at the next customer. I stand there and she looks back and “oh!”

you got change for 4 bucks in a coffee shop in 2025??

for a small drip, there better be change for $4

It’s like that scene in caddyshack
“I ain’t paying no 50 cents for no coke”
“Then you ain’t gettin no coke my friend!”

Feel like I'm having my first bout of diverticulitis. They told me I had the pouches indicating diverticulosis earlier in the year, and I've had every symptom all week.

Ugh. Dad suffered from it around same age

Sorry to hear Neando— as someone who went through a major stomach related issue this summer, my sympathies are with you.

A colleague, unprompted, put my age at "about 27" today. I like him.

ha, i am lucky to also be pegged as much younger than i actually am, but usually it’s 32. i will take it.

I should add that when I went for a haircut last month I was asked (for the sake of discounts) if I was over 50, so I dunno what's going on.

yeah, I recently got a couple of people who thought I was roughly 10 years younger than I was. But my hair going gray really quickly these days so I think that might not last much longer.

ive always presented as ten years older than i am, since probably early twenties

it keeps them surprised when i nip at their heels at the five a side matches at least

if i am like either of my parents, i won’t start getting a noticeable number of grays until i am in my sixties.

ok ok youve made yr point youngfella

lol

I think at my age (38) my father was already mostly grey, and he turned white in his fifties. I've definitely started greying but I'm only at the point where I've stopped plucking them out, and I can draw some Schadenfreude that my younger brother is greyer. I must have been eating my vegetables, or been less stressed. As my partner would remark, I have seen everything under the sun and behold, it is all vanity and a chasing after the wind.

In other news (seems pointless to unearth the other thread), I am now on regular BP meds, I have gotten myself some orthopedic insoles to address the balance in my feet and the stress fracture that has been lingering there (and of course my mom wears the same soles), and on Monday I'm going into surgery (the most common one for men). Anesthesiologist called and tried to open with a reassuring "so Mr ***, I see in your file that you've been operated before" and I was like "yeah, it's been a while though (I was 7)". Now I can look forward to that big needle entering my spine.

on Monday I'm going into surgery (the most common one for men)

dick reduction?

hemarrhoids, dermatitis, osteoarthrosis...what other wonders await me this decade???

if your sinuses worked before, enjoy that while it holds true

^^

also, TUMS

acid reflux, thinning hair, brittle nails…

thus it begins, leading ever onward to new horizons...

acid reflux, thinning hair, brittle nails…

two for three here (the reflux, though once in a blue moon, precedes my forties by some stretch tho)

and yes TUMS, oof