The Getting Old Thread

Wondering if you're able to start. That's being old.

Doing the school run, seeing most of the parents looking pretty old and realising I’m the same age.

I was always told the school run would be swarming with young hot MILFs, not 26 stone 45 year olds.

(For clarity I’m not 26 stone or quite 45).

I fucking hate the school run, that said now I've refined it down to dropping him off at a nearby bus stop in the morning and when collecting him arriving a bit late after the rush and parking in the same bus stop and running in to collect him 5 mins late avoiding any contact with anyone except his teacher.

My mental development basically stalled at, I guess, 21, 22. My cynicism and general tiredness of life odd probably of somebody twice my age.

I think my life peaked at university. Made a decent animated short film that was shown at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival (in the different category and it didn't win), since then - 17 years ago - it's been a gradual side into obsolescence and mundanity.

So now I'm just a man child regressing into my past on seek of some comfort, painfully aware of how fucking embarrassing I look.

Unlike most people on don't even have any other big life events to really mark my progression into middle aged. No partner, no kids (and tbf I'm determined to remain child free), mortgage. That doesn't really bother me, as frankly those aren't massive aspirations of mine, can take it or leave it. But it does mean I don't have any real milestones in the last 15 years or so to delineate the passage of time.



It's overlapping into The Depression Thread so I'll stop my whining there.

I have this weird quirk about music, where it doesn't matter if it's good or not, if you're more than 5 years younger than I, I shouldn't be listening to it. I think it helps that currently, a lot of artists, or actors or wrestlers or whatever are in my age range so it still seems the "standard" entertainment age to me. But like Billie Eilish as an example. I've never actively listened to her. I was in the car with a friend a few years back. A song is playing, I ask "who is this?" "Billie Eilish? Do you like it?" "Yeah, I guess."

I know damned well my old ass shouldn't be listening to Billie Eilish.

Why shouldn't you, if you like it?

I've always loved Springsteen (well, up until about the Rising, anyway, after that his catalog is patchy) and I don't care what anyone thinks 😁

My playlist in the car starts with some 50s stuff to modern day but probably about 80% is 80s. It was a revelation to me about 8 years ago when I finally realised I pretty much only like 80s stuff, all of a sudden I could give up trying to find new music to like when I had a massive pool to draw on already.

I'm surprised no one's asked if anyone has grey pubes...so do you?

Veet is surprisingly popular on this forum.

I started going grey (on my head not downstairs) before I was thirty and while becoming like Reed Richards in that respect was a bit annoying that early at least I've still got a full head of hair 20+ years later.

I'm like George Clooney now* with my salt and pepper hair.



*Unfortunately not with the fame, money, talent and great wife.

Not according to the tax man. /taps nose

Solid argument imo.

They all reek of weed now though, tbf.