Crap. I think I must be considered "middle-aged"

I can't think of any other artificial qualifier that fits. x(

I never liked that one. It sounds so dull. I would prefer to skip that one entirely and go right to "old bag." :P

as ripe for the picking!!!

there is no such thing as "middle aged"
that is a horrible moniker....

we are young... as young as we want to be....



:pals: :pals: :hi: :hi:

lost

ripe for the pickin' :evilgrin:

;)

:hi:

I never really have. It's the words used to describe it. :)

:hi:

back in the 80s, at a marketing class, the instructor said that middle age was 35!

Today it is around 50, I think.

There's a relief. :P

a crone in training. Crone sounds so much classier than old bag to me.:D

When I had this revelation, I mentioned it to my SO and complained how it sounded so damn dull and boring - like people who are stuck in a rut, and never do anything interesting, or go anywhere interesting and have no life and he pointed out that this was an exact description of us. ~sigh~

D'oh! x(

I am a geezer.
Sayonara
:hi:

we're at the prime of our lives! :D

seriously

we know things we didn't know in our 20's and we are still capable of doing things we want to do :evilgrin:

Learning new shit just never stops.
You can't help it.

the sky is the limit!

age is a state of mind... I've seen people that were 90+ years old sharp as can be and fit. I've seen people much much younger who were on their way out.

:hi:

learning new shit never stops

Almost every day I have at least one 'No shit?' moment.
And some of it I don't even want to know.
But there it is.

I've been through 'coffee's bad for you, good for you, bad for you, good for you, doesn't matter, no, it's DECAF that's bad for you, no, it's good for you, no, it doesn't matter' until I want to quit reading/watching the "news".

Same for Vitamin C, Nutrasweet, salt, milk, aluminum pots, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Most of what I'm 'learning' now is not useful.
Or just plain wrong.
And this just turned into a small rant.

:shrug:

Of course, 3/4 of it is stuff I learned the day before but already forgot. :eyes:

"Geezer" is cool. "Old bag" or "coot" I like. I just hate the sound of middle-aged. It sounds unbelievably boring. :rofl:

:P

Note the red eyes. :rofl:

...have a good chance of living to be 1,000, with all the advances in longevity coming in the next few decades. By that reckoning, I'm still 455 years from being middle aged.

a little scared of that....
not sure if I want to see 1000....

maybe 100 if I have all my faculties



lost

Imagine being around for the Y3K disaster and a whole new era of millennial hysteria. Of course, we'll all have genetically-engineered asbestos skin then, to help us endure the 200 degree daytime temperatures runaway global warming will have caused.

And imagine how totally you'll be able to bore your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great
-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren with stories about the 'good old days' 800 years earlier, when you could go outdoors wearing nothing but a space suit.

LOL

ok I'll stick around!!!!!


tell everyone to buy bottled water and cans of soup....

and regal them with stories of Y2K!!!!!!


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lost

seriously

In a hundred years they'll grow you a body to order.

I mean I don't really expect to live much past 80 (barring sudden longevity breakthroughs as depicted in some current SF).

I met someone last weekend who in the course of the discussion I learned was 55 years old and who also referred to himself as 'middle-aged' and the first thought that came to my mind was "This guy expects to live to 110 or so?"

if I'm around my little sister or her friends, I'm old. (She's still in high school, and I'm 25. :) ) If I'm around my older brother or his friends, I'm young (My brother's 30, most of his friends with the exception of his wife are older than that).

:rofl:

People refuse to grow up.

Deal with it. You are not a child and should act that way.

And obviously you didn't get the point which is not that I don't want to grow up but that I don't like the term "middle-aged" because it sounds so frigging boring.

Hell, I've been grown-up since I was about 17 and I have no problem with getting old - I've got the gray hair and wrinkles to prove it. Big fucking deal.

It's the semantics that irritate me.

And my life expectancy is 84.

http://www.poodwaddle.com/realage.swf

According to that, my life expectancy is 79. (I'm 38 but "really" 34)

What's really interesting is that the stress and depression factors "aged" me more than smoking a pack a day does.

Nice word, that: "crone".

But it makes me hungry.

:shrug:

Then I realized it was true.

Middle aged is BAD, but so is paunchy post hottie.

I turned 38 this summer, and never before have I considered myself "middle aged."

A friend of mine sent me this quote last week - the interview it came from is very interesting too:



"A man told me in Berkeley, said-- 'Eldridge,the two most dangerous demographics in the Bay Area right now are young black men with guns and middle-aged white women with Volvos.'"




Eldridge Cleaver in spring 1997 interview by Henry Louis Gates junior
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/ecleaver.html

Thirty nine and holding.

it sounds so nice and wishy washy... just like me. :P

"If you didn't know how old you was, how old would you be?"