The middle aged thread

While one can have a debate about when middle age starts (35 or 40?) I am now wondering when it ends. I used to think it was 60 but find myself clinging on to middle age before biting the bullet that I am indeed simply "old".

U.K. make life expectancy is 81, so young until your 27, middle aged until you’re 54, then old.

Had that for the first time recently. Until then they'd asked. Increasingly onerous hair management is one of the major banes of getting older. I've even started getting the occasional hair growing on the outside of my nose as well as the inside.

I had this a few days ago. Sun streaming in the bathroom window and I noticed I had some hairs growing out of my earlobe, that's right, the lobe itself.

I'm 41 and my hair's been like a widow's peak of brown smoke since I was 26. Hasn't receded much in the last ten years but it's irritatingly impossible to do anything with. I have a lot of hats.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

I'm considering spending £80 on a pair of slippers.
I baulk at spending £100 on trainers.

Only four years to go then the grumpy old git moniker will fit me perfectly. I now have a life plan.

I don’t remember exposing my ballsack to the sun.

Doesn't mean it didn't happen...

I wish I had worn a hat.

Ahem

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Ah, that was clearly too small a hat. Look at the greying temples.

Ahead of the curve with the #luft

Get yourself a pair of Glerups for £55 ish. Best slippers ever.

I have three pairs of Glerups. I still can bring myself to bin the first pair which are now more hole than felt and smell horrible. Then I have their replacement and the bootie version. Such comfort, so old man

U.K. make life expectancy is 81, so young until your 27, middle aged until you’re 54, then old.

Thanks for the encouragement Andy.

Ooh, hadn't seen those.
Currently deciding between the mule or the chukka.

Have you tried washing them? I'm a bit nervous that they won't be the same after...

@DethBeard - HTH! Mules for me - they've been plenty warm enough, but I have mostly warm feet. YMMV

I quite like my Lithuanian hand-made felt slippers. I took them to Iceland with me, and apart from my cycling shoes they were the only shoes I had. Very comfy. OK outdoors too, although I suspect I did look like I was making a break for it from the local old people's home.

What are you doing/going to do with your extra 10/12 years?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/30/the-five-habits-that-can-add-more-than-a-decade-to-your-life
(Big assumption; those that have reached 'Here', have already adopted the 5 recommendations above).

Probably sitting in a chair in a puddle of my own piss with very little understanding of my surroundings.

You can be middle-aged before you’re 30?
Does that mean I can stop going out out now?

Get really painful right-hand joint / ligament pain now, about an hour in to any ride (shaking the hand out works for a bit, but still painy / cicky.)
Use a Mac mouse at work a lot and have family history of (really) severe Arthritis so wondering if keeping the joints warm (even in the UK 'summer') might help...
Gloves All Year Round?
Of just something else to have to deal with :(

Probably sitting in a chair in a puddle of my own piss with very little understanding of my surroundings.

But what about the days you aren't at North Drinks?

22 days from set up to punch line, is this a record?

Ah FFS, I’m in my 40s now, I might as well admit it here.

What are you doing/going to do with your extra 10/12 years?

Eat, drink, sit around getting fat and smoke more.