Age related deterioration

Jalapeno

Nitefly said:

On the "three score and ten" scale, I'm into my last six months 

Thought it was "four score"

Grangousier

That's the Gettysburg Address - "Four score and seven years ago..."

Nitefly

Jalapeno said:

Nitefly said:

On the "three score and ten" scale, I'm into my last six months 

Thought it was "four score"

Good point - wasn't sure so I went and checked. 

"Four score and seven" is from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. 

"The days of our years are three core and ten" is from the Bible, Psalm 90.

Every day is a school day!

Blaendulais

tone1 said:

I’m a 71’ model, so for those not good at maths that makes me 47....Apart from having my Wisdom teeth out and a Hernia op at 40, I’m fecking fantastic....couple of grey hairs, no viagra needed, no medication, no fillings, no glasses, I can still see my bits when I look down standing up,...yep I feel like I’m 18 pretty much most of the time..... Strange thing is, I’ve had a lucky life really, but here’s the rub.......I know I’ve got all the shit stuff to come....Parents passing, Friends passing, Age eventually catching up with me......30 years of working outside, mostly on Dartmoor doesn’t come for free health wise. I’ve got 2 great kids, I’ve been with my Wife for 29 years and she doesn’t piss me off (yet)..... Yep I’m basically Peter Pan and I don’t want to grow old.....

why are you a fretboard member

tone1

Blaendulais said:

tone1 said:

I’m a 71’ model, so for those not good at maths that makes me 47....Apart from having my Wisdom teeth out and a Hernia op at 40, I’m fecking fantastic....couple of grey hairs, no viagra needed, no medication, no fillings, no glasses, I can still see my bits when I look down standing up,...yep I feel like I’m 18 pretty much most of the time..... Strange thing is, I’ve had a lucky life really, but here’s the rub.......I know I’ve got all the shit stuff to come....Parents passing, Friends passing, Age eventually catching up with me......30 years of working outside, mostly on Dartmoor doesn’t come for free health wise. I’ve got 2 great kids, I’ve been with my Wife for 29 years and she doesn’t piss me off (yet)..... Yep I’m basically Peter Pan and I don’t want to grow old.....

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Addiction is a cruel mistress....see below

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/139302/fretboard-addiction/p3

Reverend

45. Had out first go of the year booked back in August on a Saturday. On the Thursday I had a bit of a stomach ache. On the Friday morning my GP sent me to a+e. Acute Diverticulitis. Turns out you really need to watch your fibre intake.

Snags

Should say that apart from the cystoscopy thing (which happily turned out to be precautionary and with No Fault Found), at 49 I'm  not significantly more fucked than normal.

To date the main issues seem to be the iniquity of not being able to drink a pint of water after 8 p.m. without needing to pee in the middle of the night, but being able to drink four or five pints of beer and have no problem (so that's a workable solution), and the crushing nihilism and realisation of one's own mortality, which I've had more or less from my late 20s anyway.  Oh, and the beard being greyer than Gandalf's after months down the mines. If life were a video game I could benefit from a do-over on a few things armed with hindsight, but … not so bad.

Otherwise I'm mostly keeping the weight off, having become a seriously fat bastard through my 30s and into my mid-40s, the eyesight's no worse than it's ever been (shit), and I'm about as unfit as I have been since I was a skinny lazy kid.

Of course, my old man was perfectly fine right up until he went into hospital at 67, and was dead 16 weeks later; the grandparents made it to stupid ages (high score 102), and mum's not doing bad at 80. So who actually knows?

Phil_aka_Pip

Question - see BCD ...

Octafish

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Who said "Nobody gets out of here alive"?

Apparently it was the title of the first biography of Jim Morrison

  To be a pedant... it was "No one here gets out alive". Title of the Morrison bio taken from the Doors song '5 to 1'. Damn forgot how good a song it is....

Thread diversion over....

deano

I'll tell you what, it's a weird feeling when you get older than your parents were when they died. My dad died when he was 49, I'm now 51 and it was a very strange day when I realised I was older than my dad was when he died.

I don't know about anyone else but I always thought he knew what everything was about. When I got to the same age he was at and realised I knew nothing, I realised he didn't know everything, and probably knew the same as me. Life: We just make it up as we go along!

Emp_Fab

deano said:

I don't know about anyone else but I always thought he knew what everything was about. When I got to the same age he was at and realised I knew nothing, I realised he didn't know everything, and probably knew the same as me.

+1 to that.  Given the comparative dearth of information about anything in the pre-internet era, he probably knew far less than you.  I think back about my dad starting a family, moving house, changing jobs, setting up his own business and moving out of London to Wales etc....   I couldn't do that now, never mind at the age he was when he did it !

munckee

The inability to drink any more.  Went for a few drinks with chums Friday for the first time in ages, 3am my wife found me in our bedroom in a tshirt and boxers going through her make-up drawer, she asked what I was doing and I said "looking for my pyjamas"  haven't had pyjamas since I was 10 probably.

Saturday my daughter showed me a video on facebook of a group of 6 middle aged blokes "helping" the lead singer of the pub band by all shouting the choruses of hi ho silver lining with the musical subtlety of a chainsaw, accompanied by some dad dancing, including one (thankfully not me) falling over half way through after trying some unfathomable dance move.

HAL9000

Finding I prefer roadies to groupies - time to let someone else do the humping!

57Deluxe

I wonder which riff will be the last I play??