The worst part of getting older

[The Douche]

Is that my nose hairs keep growing out of my nose.

[Rafiq]

Then no one has anything to worry about, I suppose.

[Book O'Dead]

Start worrying when they begin growing out of your ass.

[Welshy]

Start worrying when they begin growing out of your ass.

But they've been growing there for me since I was 12 :crying:. Unless you mean asshole, in which case I would have to say wtf.

[Comrade Samuel]

But they've been growing there for me since I was 12 :crying:. Unless you mean asshole, in which case I would have to say wtf.

I can tell when within the first 5 posts of a thread and we are already talking about 12 year old ass hair we are all it for a fun time. :rolleyes:

The acne, It's a real pain.

[NewLeft]

The acne, It's a real pain.
How old are you? I stopped getting spots after 15..

[Comrade Samuel]

How old are you? I stopped getting spots after 15..

I am 15 so I'm not worried about it being there much longer but that doesn't detract from how annoying it is at the moment especially with all of the crap they try to sell to kids my age telling them how they will have perfect complexion like celbrities and what not as long as they purchase their snake oil.

[Quail]

Birthdays get boring as you get older I've realised. I'm only 22, but my birthday present last year was a dishwasher and this year was money towards a sofa! I miss the excitement over all the little things, but having my own kid means I get more excited about his birthdays and his excitement is kind of infectious. :)

Birthdays getting boring isn't the worst thing about getting older, but it's my birthday soon so it was the first thing I thought of.

[Sasha]

After you turn 30 shit only gets better again though..

[Sentinel]

Even though I've started having all kinds of aches etc, not really having wrinkles and so forth leaves baldness as the only physical thing that really bothers me so far. But it's the mental side that is worst, the boredom and feeling of 'having seen it all'.

My maternal grandfather is turning 80 in a week or so and we're going to have a huge family gathering in Finland. Attending to that will hopefully put this aging thing into proper perspective for me, I sometimes feel ridiculous for feeling so old at only 31..

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Hangovers.

[citizen of industry]

Hangovers.

[Book O'Dead]

To me women are more attractive at 40 than at 20.

[The Douche]

Hangovers?

I can't even drink anymore, cause I'm almost non-functional the next day. This presents a real problem for a functioning alcoholic like myself.


Its also weird to still see yourself as young or as a kid (I'm 24), but to see kids look at you as an adult, its so weird to me that lots of teenagers are really awkward in the way they interact with me (like they're interacting with an adult stranger), but their parents just talk to me like its no big deal. I feel like I have way more in common with a 16 year old than with a 46 year old...

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Hangovers?

I can't even drink anymore, cause I'm almost non-functional the next day. This presents a real problem for a functioning alcoholic like myself.


Its also weird to still see yourself as young or as a kid (I'm 24), but to see kids look at you as an adult, its so weird to me that lots of teenagers are really awkward in the way they interact with me (like they're interacting with an adult stranger), but their parents just talk to me like its no big deal. I feel like I have way more in common with a 16 year old than with a 46 year old...
Same here...I'm about the same age as you. My last job, I was a cashier as well as a cook at this restaurant. When I was working the front high school kids from down the road would walk up after school all the time and act like they were talking to their principal or something. "Yes, sir!" and all this crap. Shut up, I'm not a 'sir' god dammit!! While 90% of the people who sat and actually talked with me (hole-in-the-wall restaurant, everyone was in your face even if you didn't want to talk to them) in a normal way were older than me, in their 30s or 40s.

And, yeah, I'll agree with several posters above me that hangovers are a big part of the reason why I rarely drink anymore. I miss being 17 and being able to get near-toxic drunk without having a hangover...

[Ostrinski]

Man I stopped doing birthdays at 15

[Book O'Dead]

Man I stopped doing birthdays at 15

Last year!?!

[Ostrinski]

Last year!?!
wat

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I'm 22
But I look 16

Some days I wake up thinking I should get ready for school.
Then I remember I live on my own and have a bunch of bills to pay instead.
Responsibilities are lame.

Plus, the only time I do get hit on (once a year?) is by immature high school girls.
Derp.


THIS IS MY LIFE, THANKS FOR READING.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

I repeat, hangovers.

arghhhhhh :(

[Quail]

Hangovers are awful now. I can drink up to 2 bottles/pints of cider or 3-4 small glasses of wine without feeling too bad, but any more and the next day I feel horribly anxious and depressed and paranoid that I'm an idiot and everyone hates me. I'm only 21 (well, nearly 22) so I don't want to think about how bad hangovers will be when I'm 31, 41, etc. because damn it, I like my booze and I like getting drunk.

[Ele'ill]

The worst part about getting older is everything you've done and everything you haven't done catching up to you. Also societal pressures to be a specific cookie cut something start to take on a new twist that generally for me went away for the most part of the middle of my 20's.

[Book O'Dead]

What about the 'best part' of getting older?

Is there anything good to be said about getting old?

[Ele'ill]

What about the 'best part' of getting older?

Is there anything good to be said about getting old?

Yes probably in another thread.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Hangovers are awful now. I can drink up to 2 bottles/pints of cider or 3-4 small glasses of wine without feeling too bad, but any more and the next day I feel horribly anxious and depressed and paranoid that I'm an idiot and everyone hates me. I'm only 21 (well, nearly 22) so I don't want to think about how bad hangovers will be when I'm 31, 41, etc. because damn it, I like my booze and I like getting drunk.

I'm going off booze a bit. i mean like, in the 'boozing' sense. Few times recently i've just had something nice like sherry or port (or port and brandy) or some other nice wine over dinner and enjoyed it, been merry but happy and no hangover.

Last night went out for a quiet few pints (probably 7 or so) and just woke up feeling awful this morning. And it's the Great British Beer Festival coming up in a couple of weeks, wahoo! :rolleyes::laugh:

[Ele'ill]

Only 7?

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

yeah. I'm not a massive drinker and, in any case, hadn't gotten drunk for the past 5 or 6 weeks.

I used to be able to hit double figures, but not anymore. Kinda glad too, I don't see the whole 'boozing' thing as positive really.

[bcbm]

hangovers aren't that bad you just have to make sure your schedule allows time to recover, drink lots of water and gatorade, smoke weed, blah blah.


The worst part about getting older is everything you've done and everything you haven't done catching up to you. Also societal pressures to be a specific cookie cut something start to take on a new twist that generally for me went away for the most part of the middle of my 20's.

this. for most of my early 20s i didn't really care about living a lifestyle 'outside the mainstream' but now i feel a lot more pressure to do so, if only for the sake of not being dirt poor forever

[Magón]

Hangovers
Bills/Taxes
Making sure you have a job to pay those bills and taxes
The higher possibility of getting jail time for something
Realizing most people, although "adults", still act out petty shit and problems with each other.
Having to shave almost every day. (I would shave every day, but I just get so lazy, it's every other day or, every other other day.)

[maskerade]

Worst part about getting older is working, without a doubt. I hate work. I miss high school when everything was a joke and nothing mattered and I could walk around late at night smoking cigarettes and drawing mustaches on billboard ads and genuinely not giving a fuck because i didn't have a fuck to give. Can't do that anymore, and it sucks. Phone bills, rent, food, electricity, internet...bah, a lifetime of waking up early and paying bills.

[Quail]

I second the bills. Sorting out my finances is so stressful I wonder how the fuck other people cope with being an adult.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Looking at younger people and feeling a certain level of resentment and annoyance...I was that kid not too long ago, but my curmedgeonly nature takes over sometimes.

[maskerade]

I second the bills. Sorting out my finances is so stressful I wonder how the fuck other people cope with being an adult.

there's absolutely nothing I hate more. i think i've been late on every bill that i've ever received, and some asshole utilities company cut me off and then charged me a fortune to install some pre-payment meter so it wouldn't happen again.

took me a year to pay for that fucking thing...I don't understand how a gas company thinks it would make sense for me to pay off a 900 quid gas meter after i couldn't pay a 30 quid bill...fuck the world i hate everything.

[Quail]

Yeah that's something I don't understand either. Charges for not being able to pay for something. It doesn't make any sense.

"Ah, I see you don't have any money. Well, since you don't have any money, here's a fine to pay on top of what you already can't afford to pay me."

[Jimmie Higgins]

Worst part..?

Hmm, that time goes by so much more quickly - I think in part it's having to work all the time. School kind of makes each year distinct in your memory whereas once you're working all the time you memory is just marked by the job or apartment you had at the time and everything else is just a blur because each day is more or less the same, no new subjects or teachers or shit to kind of make the days at least a little different in content if not form. Years bleed together and it's weird to think what feels like one year in high-school-time now is like a whole Presidential term equal to that one calender year of school. High School seemed to last forever whereas now four years pass and I barely feel it at all... another fucking election already?

Ditto on drinking. I used to get wasted like it was nothing and never had hangovers but now there are times where I barely get a buzz but wake up feeling like shit.

Increasing awareness of mortality and the shortness of life.

Another thing is that you and the people your age that you've known for a while become increasingly damaged. People collect more baggage as you get older... when I was young baggage was a bad family background, some shitty but unusual trauma, but mostly just bad relationships. Now it's like I know so many more people who've had "adult" problems - divorces, drug-dependency, jail, or just growing dim from soul-sucking work. People seem to get crazier - or their craziness that I thought was youthful enthusiasm now just seems like dysfunction. I don't believe in the whole "people grow conservative as they age" because that just hasn't been my experience anecdotally, but I think part of where that logic may come from is that people I've known have grown much more cynical as they age.

[Bandito]

You start worrying about fun shit you missed trying to grow up.

[Igor]

Hangovers are awful now. I can drink up to 2 bottles/pints of cider or 3-4 small glasses of wine without feeling too bad, but any more and the next day I feel horribly anxious and depressed and paranoid that I'm an idiot and everyone hates me. I'm only 21 (well, nearly 22) so I don't want to think about how bad hangovers will be when I'm 31, 41, etc. because damn it, I like my booze and I like getting drunk.

this so much, i feel like i get really terrible hangovers every single time i go drinking, like at all. few years back and i had no problems the next morning even if i had been pretty damn hammered

also i've had pretty bad nose hairs since my teens :(

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Never suffer from hangovers, even after I get seriously hammered. Might change with age though, I'm 25, I'll see how I feel when I'm 35.


Hmm, that time goes by so much more quickly

This. Summers seemed to last forever as a child, 8 weeks holiday was a lifetime. Now, 8 weeks before I got back to Uni its like 'For fuck sake, is it that time already?'...

[Welshy]

I completely agree the paying bills part. Also realizing you can't really afford to eat as much as you want and should, because so much of your money goes into fucking bills.

[Ele'ill]

You become less inclined to view the world as a magical place and certain parts of what you remember from childhood seem to die. Perhaps in reality it is a magical place just as it was and the illusionary veil is the system of poverty and work.

[The Douche]

You become less inclined to view the world as a magical place and certain parts of what you remember from childhood seem to die. Perhaps in reality it is a magical place just as it was and the illusionary veil is the system of poverty and work.

Okay, Tiqqun...

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

tikkun olam

[coda]

how about the decrepitation part?
http://fiveyearphotos.com/

funny, I'm not looking as bad as some of them... rather, for me it's all the things of my reckless youth that came back to bite me in the ass...

[brigadista]

being increasingly unable to burn the candle at both ends :crying:

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Another bad thing about getting older is when you come home from uni having had a job there all term, and you can't relax at all, you have to work all summer.

Being a proletarian, despite what the hipsters like to say, is actually not all that much to celebrate :(

[Crux]

It's not a teenage depression any more.

[RedAnarchist]

At 26, I don't feel particularly old yet, although if you think of life expectancy being about 75 for a white male, I'm already in the second third of my life. I do look a few years younger than I am, and my health is very good for someone in their mid-twenties, apart from the broken wrist I currently have (I fell over in mid July, thought I had sprained it and went four days before going to A&E about it. Turns out I not only broke both my ulna and radius, but I needed surgery to fix them. I had a metal plate attached to my radius on Tuesday - the ulna just needed resetting - and now its healing in a cast. The first time I ever break a bone, and I go and break two. Luckily it is my left and therefore non-dominant hand).

I don't tend to get hangovers, although some mornings after drinking I get horrible acid refluxes, especially after drinking vodka (I don't have GERD or anything like that, I think it's because I'm a few stones overweight).

I haven't had a job until recently (I have a two day a week job working as a Systems Administrator for the HR Department of one of our supermarket chains here in the UK), so I've not really had much experience of the workplace.

I don't fear growing old, and in fact I am looking forward to my thirties and forties. I hate the fact that my brain and my body are soon going to start the descent towards the end, but I guess I'll adapt to it.

[citizen of industry]

Just noticed eye-hoods are the shizzle. People pay money for plastic surgery to get them removed but they are there for a reason. With the jobs and the kids and the hangovers, etc., you get tired. But being tired isn't so bad, except that your eyes get tired. There is constant pressure on the eyes. But eye hooding is like giving up, the eyes surrender, the pressure is lost and sleep isn't as necessary. Yeah!

[Ele'ill]

Okay, Tiqqun...

Calvin and Hobbes

[The Douche]

Calvin and Hobbes

Same thing.

[Ravachol]

No problems with the hangovers here, quit alcohol altogether for almost 2 years now and it suits me just fine.



Its also weird to still see yourself as young or as a kid (I'm 24), but to see kids look at you as an adult, its so weird to me that lots of teenagers are really awkward in the way they interact with me (like they're interacting with an adult stranger), but their parents just talk to me like its no big deal. I feel like I have way more in common with a 16 year old than with a 46 year old...

this

I get asked to get dope from coffeeshops all the time by slightly nervous bands of giggly 16 year old highschoolers who call me 'mister' even though I don't look anything like a 'mister'...


The worst part about getting older is everything you've done and everything you haven't done catching up to you. Also societal pressures to be a specific cookie cut something start to take on a new twist that generally for me went away for the most part of the middle of my 20's.

Even though I've got really quite lucrative 'career prospects' in terms of education what I find most harrowing is that, slowly but surely, the prospect of 'getting a job' (other than the little side-job and occasional thing going on right now) is creeping up to me and I'd seriously rather fucking off myself here and now than spending 40 hours a week in some dull office building staring at terminals, sweeping rfid cards at building entrances and zoning out near the water cooler before taking the evening commute back to some dead-end suburbia.... :crying:

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Is Folgers in my cup

Fixed.

[Ele'ill]

Even though I've got really quite lucrative 'career prospects' in terms of education what I find most harrowing is that, slowly but surely, the prospect of 'getting a job' (other than the little side-job and occasional thing going on right now) is creeping up to me and I'd seriously rather fucking off myself here and now than spending 40 hours a week in some dull office building staring at terminals, sweeping rfid cards at building entrances and zoning out near the water cooler before taking the evening commute back to some dead-end suburbia.... :crying:

Yeah, I don't think I can ever do it. We're literally living the zombie apocalypse right now and it's so painful to watch people you knew fall in line. There's always a lot of tough talk in their defense but they normally don't stay radical they just fucking die.

[bcbm]

my knee hurts

[Ele'ill]

my knee hurts

That's pretty much the end of your adventures.

[Magón]

That's pretty much the end of your adventures.

Until an arrow is protruding, that' when the adventures are over.

(YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, I JUST MADE A STUPID VIDEO GAME MEME, COMMENT!)

[Ele'ill]

Until an arrow is protruding, that' when the adventures are over.

(YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, I JUST MADE A STUPID VIDEO GAME MEME, COMMENT!)

That's what I was referencing.

[bricolage]

getting a job is shit but, in my opinion, if you (ironically) accept elements of precarity you can to some extent work around it. I do a mix of part time work and fortnights of 12 hour shifts followed by weeks of not much. I dunno, I don't save as much and obviously it's still shit that you have to work in the first place but I feel better than just doing 9 to 5 all the time.

[Crux]

aedfvFK-ROg

[brigadista]

best part of getting older -
no longer giving a fuck about things that used to seem so important and giving a really big fuck about really important things