The middle aged thread

it's when they ask if you want your ears done that it really bites.

There's a guy in Kings Cross removes your nasal hair with wax.

There's a guy in Kings Cross removes your nasal hair with wax.

Don't most Turkish-style barbers do this + the flaming ear hair thing?

The sticky lollipops up the nose, right? Hands you a tissue: “you’ll need this for your eyes afterwards, sir”.

I don't even know what they were proposing to do for my eyebrows.
just pull out all the big grey hairs?
shave it all so its a uniform length?

When they do mine they put a comb up against them and use the trimmer to shorten them.

Helps you stop going full Roy Hattersley:-

He needs a toothbrush.

For a major birthday I was given one of those "proper gentlemen barber" experiences - including a nose waxing. My wife enjoyed it so much that she bought me a kit off the internet. If you can stand the pain it's the only way of stopping the nasal forest. And the inside of your nostrils feels silky smooth afterwards.

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Ah yes. Good point.

barber asked me yesterday if i wanted my eyebrows done as well as my hair

Mate, real middle age is when they don't even ask anymore.

Pretty sure yer potassium nitrate in bacon is there to inhibit botulism as much as it’s there to keep it pink. I don’t mind making my own bacon with just salt and sugar, but I don’t think the supermarkets will risk it?

Edit: wtf? How did I reply to this in completely the wrong thread?

I'm heading to the recycling centro tomorrow (whilst on holiday). Quite excited, will report back.

Make sure you bring back some good stuff 👍

Mate, real middle age is when they don't even ask anymore.

Indeed. Just what I was going to say!

Ear wax getting serious these days.

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Sadly I was accompanied on the ecocentro visit so the dream of unearthing a 70s Columbus tubed frame from a pile of scrap in the corner was brutally curtailed in favour of shopping. (Perhaps not) interestingly the centro did not accept general waste only recycling.

Are you sure that came from your ear?

I went to one of those earwax places a few months ago, so satisfying

<CSB: somewhere there is a photo of my dad and Dennis on holiday in Italy comparing the length of their eyebrows. I can't remember who won.

I have to choose what to hate - the dream, that my intelligence loathes, or the action, that my sensibility disgusts. The action, for what I’m not born for, or the dream, for what nobody is born for. As a result, because I hate both of them, I choose none. Although eventually I have to dream or do, I blend one thing to another - (Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935)

when you get to my age, you just end up hating everything, probably everyone, as for dreams just distant memories

I am joking, just wanted to share quote,

Happy Friday y’all
xx

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Going out naps? That is definitely me

2 bags of Werthers Originals have silently appeared in the house. I'm not ready for this.

Count yourself lucky. This week, in the year that I planned was my hillclimb comeback season, I discovered that I have moobs. More shocking still is the nightmare that this will lead on to finding myself wearing a M&S burgundy and blue striped polo shirt, grey slacks and sandals.

GP told me I needed a certain test the other day as, in her words, although I'm not quite a man of a certain age I will be next year.

Thumbs up for a healthy prostate!

I stumbled upon something I worked on on Youtube and one of the comments was "I remember that from when I was a kid"