Author Topic: You know you're middle aged when  (Read 185761 times)

Basil

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #775 on: 11 January, 2019, 08:16:17 pm »
On that reckoning, lou, middle age comes round time and time again; in fact, every 10 years!

Middle age is when you start counting in hexadecimal to try to reduce that...

 :D Hey.  I'll be only 46 in March.   :thumbsup:
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

lou boutin

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #776 on: 11 January, 2019, 08:35:59 pm »
True, but this first number change is definitely a big sign of middle age :(

mattc

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #777 on: 12 January, 2019, 01:59:23 pm »
Don't worry Lou - I'm finding 29 tough too  :-*
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #778 on: 12 January, 2019, 02:03:13 pm »
I have a similar problem, Lou, except some people will think I'm leaving middle age this year...
"No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everybody on the couch."

lou boutin

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #779 on: 12 January, 2019, 05:01:05 pm »
Don't worry Lou - I'm finding 29 tough too  :-*

He he! I wish.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #780 on: 12 January, 2019, 06:55:03 pm »
All you think about when in work is about retiring.

ElyDave

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #781 on: 12 January, 2019, 07:47:23 pm »
One of my son's carer's said that both me and SWMBO look younger than our years. 
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #782 on: 13 January, 2019, 10:25:33 am »
Don't worry Lou - I'm finding 29 tough too  :-*

The man's in his prime. Me too, but as of next week I won't be.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #783 on: 08 February, 2019, 10:14:18 am »
When you check the LInkedIn page of the graduate who's leaving, to discover that she must at least be in her early 30's.  :-\
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #784 on: 08 February, 2019, 10:22:34 am »
When you check the LInkedIn page of the graduate who's leaving, to discover that she must at least be in her early 30's.  :-\
When you think that "early 30's" is young, because you have two children older than said graduate.

Next significant birthday of one child (well, step-child) is her 40th.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #785 on: 08 February, 2019, 10:48:36 am »
When you look at medium sized trees and think “If I planted trees like that now, I’d never see them that size.”
It is simpler than it looks.

Redlight

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #786 on: 08 February, 2019, 11:47:57 am »
You go to a gig and, at the interval, the queue for the tea, coffee and hot chocolate is twice as long as the one for the beer
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #787 on: 08 February, 2019, 11:58:14 am »
On that reckoning, lou, middle age comes round time and time again; in fact, every 10 years!

Middle age is when you start counting in hexadecimal to try to reduce that...
The Tom Lehrer approach (giving his age in Celcius) works well too.
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"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #788 on: 08 February, 2019, 12:21:46 pm »
On that reckoning, lou, middle age comes round time and time again; in fact, every 10 years!

Middle age is when you start counting in hexadecimal to try to reduce that...
The Tom Lehrer approach (giving his age in Celcius) works well too.

Only for people old enough to have been counting in Fahrenheit from the outset.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #789 on: 08 February, 2019, 12:36:17 pm »
All you think about when in work is about retiring.
^This.

Relatively good day = retire end of May 2019 after 59th birthday.
Dealing-with-numpties day = retire early Jan 2019 at 30 years service.

So far this year, it's a walk-over for the numpties.  ::-)

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #790 on: 26 February, 2019, 08:29:52 pm »
You do the following when reading that someone has died:

- ascertain cause of death (always a disappointment when not provided)
- consider age of person relative to own age
- evaluate risk factors for cause of death; compare with own
- symptoms check




fuzzy

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #791 on: 26 February, 2019, 08:54:17 pm »
You collect your first pair of varifocals.

Cue lots of wierdness and nausea.....

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #792 on: 26 February, 2019, 09:12:56 pm »
You walk through the buildings canteen area & don't recognise a single person you used to work with.
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ElyDave

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #793 on: 26 February, 2019, 09:16:24 pm »
You collect your first pair of varifocals.

Cue lots of wierdness and nausea.....

Don't! SWMBO keeps on at me to get my eyes checked for those.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #794 on: 26 February, 2019, 09:26:24 pm »
You collect your first pair of varifocals.

Cue lots of wierdness and nausea.....


Careful going down stairs !   Actually I've more or less abandoned contact lenses now & am a full time vari wearer.  A great improvement on my old single distance ones.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #795 on: 27 February, 2019, 07:52:23 am »
You collect your first pair of varifocals.

Cue lots of wierdness and nausea.....


Careful going down stairs !   Actually I've more or less abandoned contact lenses now & am a full time vari wearer.  A great improvement on my old single distance ones.

I've worn varifocals for years, without many problems.  But, although my prescription changed only slightly, I needed new ones recently.  I went for ones with a wider 'sweet' spot so I don't have to turn my head so much (I have 4 fused cervical vertebrae).

These have been a real learning curve.  Stairs are an issue I never had before and even after a couple of months I'm still not fully acclimated.  I also bought (with the free second pair offer) a pair with a fixed distance at about 4 feet - for reading music.  These are brilliant for this, but get up and walk to the kitchen to get a coffee and it's a near-death experience.  That and the nausea.

Getting older sucks.  I get my pension this year too.



Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #796 on: 27 February, 2019, 01:13:37 pm »

I also bought (with the free second pair offer) a pair with a fixed distance at about 4 feet - for reading music. 


That's a failing of varifocals for me too.  Being a clarinet player, the tilt of the head and position of the throat just does not work with my varifocal prescription.

I have a pair of half glasses on an older prescription that helps, but must get something better.  It's a good excuse for the occasional wrong note :)

Varifocals also don't work for cycling with me as I lower me head and look upwards to compensate (not that I have pretensions of being aero....).

LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #797 on: 27 February, 2019, 01:34:39 pm »
I got a couple of sets of varifocals specifically for cycling so that I could see both the road and the handlebars in focus with a normal cycling head position. The transition between prescriptions is accordingly somewhat higher than is standard.
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Torslanda

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #798 on: 27 February, 2019, 03:08:44 pm »
@Fuzzy I may be around a decade ahead of you but you do get used to them. So much so that my latest pair of Fakeleys are useless for driving because distance is crystal clear but the dash is all blurry with single vision lenses and the lens carrier is too small...
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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Basil

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #799 on: 27 February, 2019, 04:34:49 pm »
You usually, depending on the supplier I suppose, get to discuss the shape of the varifocal areas of your lenses. For example, I requested that the long distance top area extended to the sides for over the shoulder glancing when cycling.

Agree about the going down stairs thing.  That still catches me out after 12 years of use.
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