https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuG2uAWVlP4this makes me irrationally angry but that is dead proof i am old i guess
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
from The Times today:
Analysis: Prince is taking back controlWho 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.
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.
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
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
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
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).
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
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
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Friday, 19 January 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Friday, 19 January 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
Never mind, in Hexadecimal I'm only 39
― Mark G, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:22 (six years ago) link
i used to think the ageing process was slow, but all the elastin in my skin seems to have fucked off overnight
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 19 January 2018 12:42 (six years ago) link
Slough off to the shed thread I guess
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
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
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
jesusthat's depressing
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
holy fuck at george harrison being 45 with the wilburys, that doesn't seem possible
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
Huuuuuuuuh.
Welp.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
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.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
i try not to think about it but it was super cool of this person to call it to our attention
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
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.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
Though of course with my couple of career changes and divorces and a kid in middle school, I know I am myself ridiculously old.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
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.
― bannonality of evil (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
Jeff Lynne still looks exactly the same
― omar little, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
i guess i didn't realize Orbison was only 52 when he died
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
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>
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
"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
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
in other oh fuck we're dying fast news, twitter informs me that "Girl You Know It's True" is thirty years old.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
:(
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
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
― joygoat, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
omg i totally forgot about matt houston
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
I had no idea that Tom Petty was only 37 then, they all seemed so ancient.and yet bowie was older and didn’t. perhaps the wilburys were just strange.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
Petty def the youngest one and always the weakest link in the Wilburys but sorry, I’ll duck off and take it to some TW thread But yeah I’ve lapped the fools and the bartenders at the bars by a factor of at least one and it’s amusing as hell
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
I realised recently that had I had kids as soon as feasible (lets say at 21), I could now easily be a grandma if my daughter did too. Ack.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
yeah i know someone younger than us who’s solidly a grandfather, meanwhile we almost owned a cat once
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
I was looking up people from my grade school, and a girl who was in my class IS a grandma.
Maybe I should share that the next time someone tells I'm young and have plenty of time to have kids.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 25 January 2018 05:27 (six years ago) link
This has come up already OTT but my grandma was 37 when I was born.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 25 January 2018 07:03 (six years ago) link
how can you tell whether you have lower back pain in the morning because you old, or it's just time to replace your "2nd cheapest from Sears" mattress you bought 8 years ago?
― sarahell, Thursday, 25 January 2018 07:06 (six years ago) link
I broke out into a little sprint yesterday but had to stop almost immediately because of a incapacitating twinge in my left knee.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 08:54 (six years ago) link
sarahell, does the pain manifest itself while in said bed, or shortly after getting up?
I think that if a mattress is the problem you'll be aware of it throughout the night, not just in the morning. Back pain specifically in the morning is probably more about your body complaining about what you're asking it to do (namely, get up and deal with shit). Back pain also very famously associated with stress.
I get a twinge of morning back pain sometimes; it arrives about 7 AM while I am feeding people breakfast and radiates downward into my thighs. Sitting on a heating pad for a while eases it tremendously. A heating pad is a great thing to have around anyway.
Of the four distinct flavors of pain I get, it is probably the most benign because it's treatable. (The others are gouty arthritis, Lyme arthritis, and a nonspecific wandering arthritis.) I don't do a lot of performative groaning (at least I don't think I do), but I do do a lot of stoic wincing.
― bannonality of evil (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 January 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link
another holy shit i'm dying moment: Snow's "Informer" is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 25 January 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
A choccy gum gum now?
― i,CloudiOS (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 January 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
xxp - it's less of a pain, and more of a dull ache that goes away after I've had coffee. It was pretty minor this morning -- I moved more towards the center of the mattress last night when sleeping, so the mattress theory seems more likely atm
― sarahell, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
Reginald Perrin is a grandfather at 46, perfectly normal.
― mick signals, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
I'm getting that loback pain too..
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
lower back pain : do some 'planking'
i try and do about 60-90 seconds a day to keep my core muscles in action.
since i started, it has cleared up my reoccuring lower back spasms/muscle sprains.
― mark e, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
Do I have to plank in a public place and post a photo on social media in order to derive lower back pain benefits, y/n
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
Hmm, worth a go
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
Next question, how I get go elsewhere of warts on finger 🖕
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
In the Signals household, "planking" is childhood patois for a meal of pancakes.
― mick signals, Thursday, 25 January 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
Is "planking" the thing where you get in push-up position but don't actually do any push-ups?
― sarahell, Thursday, 25 January 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
yesit's very effective for building strength and you can do it anywhere!http://www.yogawiz.com/images/yoga-poses/dolphin-plank-pose.jpg
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 25 January 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link