This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

Taking back control - the bald by choice movement.

TBF, it's not really 'hiding' anyway, inasmuch as the perimeter of the stubble still clearly telegraphs your hairline.

I'd actually been clipping my hair down to nothing for several years before I started losing it, which made the adjustment to the haircut I'd have for the rest of my life relatively smooth.

No pun intended!

Taking back control - the bald by choice movement.

― Luna Schlosser

as opposed to the InBald movement, come join our popular reddit

I used to wonder "How can my grandmother not know who Bruce Springsteen is?"

My grandpa tried name-dropping him in a dinner table conversation once, but unfortunately he called him Bruce Springlestein by mistake

― faust apes (NickB)

quick, somebody come up with a humorous mispronunciation of "brockhampton"

seriously this is the real '40s shit, i don't mind groaning every time i move (my wife insists it's performative, which it isn't, but there's no actual pain attached), but knowing that my brain function is degenerating is tough. i know more now than i did ten years ago and i'm learning more stuff all the time, but frequently i can't remember words, basic simple words like "shoe", and my typing has gotten a lot worse grammatically. i make stupid errors that i used to make fun of people for, like two/too/to and typing "grammer" instead of "grammar" and i have no idea why. and then i start leaving out connecting words so that when i write stuff it winds up not making sense (on top of the frequent logical incoherence, which isn't a new thing for me, i've always had that).

i decided long ago that alzheimer's is the one acceptable reason for me to kill myself, so i worry a lot about this stuff.

They say the memory is the first thing to go. I forget what the second thing is.

It's the memory.

Thanks. Dadjoking aside, I need words and language to eat (as I have no other job skills). Losing my grip on them would be a serious problem. It may be silly to believe in this, but I do hope that things like word games, crosswords, and Scrabble will help keep my wits about me.

xp Bruckprampton

Brocklepimpton

Throckmorton

Boringstreetrapton

i don't mind groaning every time i move (my wife insists it's performative, which it isn't, but there's no actual pain attached)

i was just thinking to myself about this this morning! It's much more prevalent than it was even a year ago.there may be a performative element but i do it when I'm by myself too so...

New maddening pain in left hip this week, firs-ever complaint related to that area for me (though unlucky in right arm, i've been lucky re: back neck and hips before now).

OK no more bitching about hair loss or aches and pains for now damn guys.

i feel great :D :D :D

that's more like it!

I'll say that I don't feel any worse than I did in my thirties. But I'm only like three months into this thing so let's just wait and see what happens.

i feel pretty good imo

I feel pretty good, considering

http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/73250/83371800.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuG2uAWVlP4
this makes me irrationally angry but that is dead proof i am old i guess

from The Times today:

Analysis: Prince is taking back control

Who would have predicted that a member of the royal family would take grooming tips from Jason Statham, Ross Kemp and the UK’s community of nightclub doormen? Yet the Duke of Cambridge has, without warning, joined their chilly-scalped gang (writes Hattie Crisell).

It probably feels like a seismic change to Prince William, but visually it’s not dramatic, truth be told: in recent years, the close and ever-diminishing style he sported was more of a nod to the idea of hair, a dream of a memory of hair, rather than anything substantial enough to be considered hair itself. Now Prince William has taken back control, with a shaven head that makes baldness into a decisive choice, not an ongoing source of hilarity for his wife and brother.

And thank heavens he has. He looks better, more modern and younger with it; it’s a style fit for the kind of future king who gives warm interviews to Ant and Dec, and speaks out on matters that previous generations of monarchy might have avoided, such as mental health. The fact is, the majority of men with thinning hair would be better off biting the bullet so bravely.

it’s a style fit for the kind of future king who gives warm interviews to Ant and Dec

rummages in the kitchen for guillotine wax

the performative groaning made me laugh. getting up and going holy mother of god or “not again”, or just leaning on the kitchen counter staring at the toaster for what five minutes in the evening when i was about to do something else but got distracted by fatigue.

I was a little 'wtf @ this performative groaning thing' and then I climbed onto the bathroom counter to clean the mirror and groaned pretty performatively and realized that yes this is probably a thing I've done for a while without even realizing (old).

One time I was carrying lots of groceries up the stairs (all on my one good arm, natch) to our 5th floor apt and the little girls who live across the hall literally laughed at my exertions
I like that memory

I feel pretty good too. My only exercise though is walking about 7000 steps per day plus climbing 11 flights of stairs a couple times a week. I have a salad as part of every lunch and try not to drink during the week.

Never mind, in Hexadecimal I'm only 39

i used to think the ageing process was slow, but all the elastin in my skin seems to have fucked off overnight

Slough off to the shed thread I guess

Was talking with friend about how impossibly old the Traveling Wilburys seemed when they released their music in 1988. I've listed their ages at the time. For some perspective, three of them are no longer alive. Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think. pic.twitter.com/eoPTmgwz1K

— Neal Brennan (@nealbrennan) January 24, 2018

jesus
that's depressing

holy fuck at george harrison being 45 with the wilburys, that doesn't seem possible

Huuuuuuuuh.

Welp.

I find myself doing that all the time. I see someone in an old movie or TV show who seems like a capital-A Adult, an elder if you will, and then discover, yeah, I'm older now than they were there. Sheesh.

i try not to think about it but it was super cool of this person to call it to our attention

Dylan in particular there does that for me. In the '80s when I was in high school and college, he seemed so ridiculously OLD. He'd been through like five different careers. But for nearly the whole decade he was younger than I am now. (There's a "My Back Pages" joke there somewhere.)

Though of course with my couple of career changes and divorces and a kid in middle school, I know I am myself ridiculously old.

As it happens, I was born exactly 30 years after Bob Dylan, so I have an ever-present reference point here.

I'm right between Harrison and Dylan in that picture.

Jeff Lynne still looks exactly the same

i guess i didn't realize Orbison was only 52 when he died

So, going by 2017 numbers:

<pre>DYLAN : 47 : DMX</pre>
<pre>LYNNE : 41 : RICK ROSS</pre>
<pre>PETTY : 37 : GUCCI MANE</pre>
<pre>ORBISON : 52 : DR. DRE</pre>
<pre>HARRISON : 45 : BUSTA RHYMES</pre>

"Old Man Tries CSS on HTML Machine, Film at Eleven."

DYLAN : 47 : DMX

LYNNE : 41 : RICK ROSS

PETTY : 37 : GUCCI MANE

ORBISON : 52 : DR. DRE

HARRISON : 45 : BUSTA RHYMES

in other oh fuck we're dying fast news, twitter informs me that "Girl You Know It's True" is thirty years old.

:(

I just heard "handle with care" in the grocery store the other day for the first time in ages and immediately though how three of them are dead now. I had no idea that Tom Petty was only 37 then, they all seemed so ancient.

I think about this a lot in context a lot of those 80s network tv dramas from the 80s that I knew of but never really watched when I was a kid. Magnum PI and Matt Houston were both my current age (43) or younger when those shows were on but they looked SO OLD and I refuse to believe that they aren't like 50 years old in pictures from that era:

http://dtlon6z3v1kfl.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/19155710/Aloha-Shirts-Tom-Selleck-Magnum-portrait1.jpg

http://www.davidhedison.net/hedison/galleries/gueststar/Matt_Houston/Matt01.jpg

omg i totally forgot about matt houston

I had no idea that Tom Petty was only 37 then

Petty didn't seem that old to me at the time. i was really only familiar with his MTV era songs when the Wiburys hit and i guess he didn't really start charting until his late 20s. wasn't until he died that i realized he was the same age as my mom. he certainly seemed a lot more of my gen than hers.

the rest though def seemed like grandpas.