The middle aged thread

The day of the eyebrow trim at the barbers finally came. The burning the ear hair off with a flaming lump of rag on a stick was more impressive though.

I had my ear hairs done with the flaming torch thing a few years ago at a Turkish barbers,don’t recall being asked if I wanted it. Anyway, after a month or so I started getting insanely itchy ear holes, like wake-up in the night have to scratch. Turns out this was otitis, or swimmers ear. I don’t really swim much, and to my mind this started shortly after the ear hair removal- those little hairs have a purpose to disperse water (to my distinctly non medical mind). Now I just trim off the longer poking out ones

Moving house with approximately 4000 records, need thoughts and prayers.

Since discovering the USB battery pack things jump starting a car is way easier.

we were very sad when the barber went ahead and trimmed my eyebrows, i’d been growing them to see how norman lamont i could get (except tory)

I moved mine to my parents and then on to the new house later. There was no way the removal people were going to touch them.

Being asked by your neighbour to help reconnect their mobile phone to the car for the 4th time in 2 years.

Asking your neighbour to help reconnect your mobile phone to your car.

New nose hair trimmer arrives today. Had one ages ago that wasn't getting much use so went in a box that has seemingly vanished. Now at the point where it takes more than the odd pluck when I notice stragglers in the bathroom mirror.

Eyebrows get trimmed every time I do my beard and hair. Though now, again, the requirement for interval trimming is increasing. And the thickness of said stragglers is increasing exponentially it seems.

Yeah, used mine a lot with my wife's car that a) had a dodgy battery for a bit and then didn't get driven a lot for periods at a time.

Appears that the car charger scene has moved on since I was last interested, now there's lots of different varieties in Halfords. Panicked, bought a smart one because it looked nice & promised 9 cycles of charging which sounds a lot, but in the end useless as are the leads as it turned out to be a knackered battery.
Car thread etc>>>>>>

New gaff has a downstairs loo, game changer

Good spot to keep the collection of Giles annuals?

If you're properly middle aged, you meant Viz. Damned fine place for an undisturbed dump is a downstairs shitter.

I had three 330ml bottles of 4.6% beer last night, and now I have a hangover

Similar.. which resulted in shouting at R3 this morning when the flibbergibbet started cooing about some listener inclusivity shit re cassette tapes then forgetting to introduce the next pop classic piece.

20 yrs ago it was all TV on the Radio now it's shouting at the radio.

Everyone knows viz isn’t as good as it used to be.

FB kicking me in the feels

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Being on FB is profoundly middle aged in itself.

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What do you expect, you're still drinking in EU.

No, that was Punch.

Fuck, I'm not middle aged, I'm sodding geriatric.

Had to take my blood pressure for a Thing.

So now I have hypertension, and no easy way to reduce it, other than maybe reduce my salt intake (which isn't particuarly high in any case).

So that's another Thing to worry about.

Try Amlodipine and Ramipril, ask me how I know. 🙄

Yeah, I went in to the Dr's with a weird dizziness thing. They did my blood pressure and it was very high (i was also ill at the time). They did a blood test and a few days later got an invite to a QRisk appointment. They wouldn't tell me what was in the test results, just that I had to wait 2 weeks for the appointment, when they would go through it.

Didn't know what the feck it was, googled it and saw it was something to do with chance of having a heart attack in the next 10 years. Cue panic stations (for my wife mainly).

In that two weeks, cut out all butter and most cheese from diet, switched to Benecol spread and benecol drinks, stopped adding salt to stuff and started exercising a bit more (having young kids had severely cut that down).

Had the appointment, they said actually my cholesterol was less than 5, but the ratios were a bit weird. Did the risk assessment and came out with a score of <3% for chance of heart attack in the next 10 years. Blood pressure had also come way, way down, back to normal. Panic all seemingly for nothing, but it was a bit of an eye opener.

You got off pretty lightly then. I went to my GP for a routine check-up and found my blood pressure had spiked, wore a BP monitor for 24hrs and got prescribed Ramipril straight away. It went up again a few months later so got put on Amlodipine as well. Hereditary in my case, just popped up in my late 40s.