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post #1 of 104
2/14/09 at 3:47am
Thread Starter 
I think there may be about ten of us at the most, but nevertheless, I'd love to start a thread, god forbid, just for us older CHEWER assholes. Some of these young kids today (har) act like movies started in 1977, and anything they saw before JAWS in the metroplex with mommie is ancient history .

So get off my lawn, etc., and post in here if you're actually older than 45. And mods feel free to delete, etc., etc...
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post #2 of 104
2/14/09 at 3:55am
Can I be a groupie?
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post #3 of 104
2/14/09 at 8:24am
Renew RENEW! CAROUSEL!!!!!
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post #4 of 104
2/14/09 at 10:32am
I still got five years until I'm eligible, but I'll join the sidekick program.
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post #5 of 104
2/14/09 at 10:45am
Shit. I'll officially have three more years to go this May. Cool part is my age will be the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, which is nice.

Still, kids these days, amirite?
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post #6 of 104
2/14/09 at 10:50am
Yeah, after 37 ("I'm 37, I'm not old!"), 42 is the big geek age.
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post #7 of 104
2/14/09 at 11:06am
I've long held the view that these 'Cinematograph projections' are nothing more than a fad...
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post #8 of 104
2/14/09 at 12:43pm
Hmmm. No takers yet. Perhaps Singer is the oldest chewer.


I've got 9 years to go before I can enter this "elite" group.
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post #9 of 104
2/14/09 at 12:46pm
Jacob: In 6 years and 9 days, I can join your A-Team.
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post #10 of 104
2/14/09 at 12:52pm
Thread Starter 
Man, I feel even older now. C'mon, old farts!

But groupies always help.

I'm not ready to be put out to pasture or anything, but lately (at 47) I've noticed Mother Nature is starting to have her way with me, in humorous and evil little ways. I'd love a thread to talk about these things with other old bastiches.
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post #11 of 104
2/14/09 at 2:03pm
Well, Jacob, as they say, when you get older, the first thing to go is your memory.

Where am I again?
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post #12 of 104
2/14/09 at 2:30pm
I just turned 40, so I'd like to be a Cub Scout to your Boy Scouts.
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post #13 of 104
2/14/09 at 2:47pm
Sounds like a lot of people want to play along, but aren't 45.
Maybe you should change the club to 37 and older.


(You guys are ancient! hahahahahahahaha!!!!)
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post #14 of 104
2/14/09 at 2:52pm
You people are too old to be exploring the interwebs. Don't you have a game of shuffleboard or bingo to get to? Grow up already.
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post #15 of 104
2/14/09 at 4:21pm
Hey everybody, an old man's talking!

Can I give ya five bees for a quarter?
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post #16 of 104
2/14/09 at 4:26pm
I'll be 41 in 3 weeks, so I can be a squire for now. I'll carry Jacob's lance (and that's not a metaphor.)
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post #17 of 104
2/14/09 at 7:12pm
I turn 45 in April, so I'm joining your little club now.

And yes, my body is mounting a rebellion on me. Gout, degenerative arthritis, mysterious aches and pains, stomach problems. The price of gaining wisdom. I'm still waiting on the wisdom part.

This is a great idea, by the way. Every time I enter a thread where people talk about how much Jurassic Park affected their childhood, I want to run screaming.
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post #18 of 104
2/14/09 at 7:45pm
This thread is nice in theory but everyone who should post here will forget about the thread two minutes after seeing it.
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post #19 of 104
2/14/09 at 7:48pm
Fortunately, it's difficult to become too distracted when you can't be bothered to get out of your favorite chair.
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post #20 of 104
2/14/09 at 8:24pm
I keep coming back to this thread, staring for five minutes, reading the new posts (slowly, and out-loud), staring for another five minutes, refreshing, staring for ...
What's the point of this thread again?
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post #21 of 104
2/14/09 at 8:49pm
To remind us to take our pills.
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post #22 of 104
2/14/09 at 9:06pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
I turn 45 in April, so I'm joining your little club now.
Close enough for people who were actually alive when the Beatles broke up.

One cool thing about being old: whenever some young'un disagrees vehemently with me on the boards, I mentally calculate how many women I'd slept with while he was in elementary school. Or whether or not I had sex with his mom.
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post #23 of 104
2/14/09 at 10:21pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post
One cool thing about being old: whenever some young'un disagrees vehemently with me on the boards, I mentally calculate how many women I'd slept with while he was in elementary school. Or whether or not I had sex with his mom.
"Jacob...NO!!.....I have acute angina...!"
"I'll be the judge of THAT!!"
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post #24 of 104
2/15/09 at 12:49pm
I'd love to join, but my dick still works.
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post #25 of 104
2/15/09 at 1:01pm
Is Grandpa Singer drunk-posting again?

Also you probably DID sleep with my mom, just to get that out of the way.
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post #26 of 104
2/15/09 at 4:22pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post
Man, I feel even older now. C'mon, old farts!
Hell Jacob, I just turned 48 last month! We're as old as we feel man! Remember being excited with your first Atari 2600 or Betamax vcr? Damn!
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post #27 of 104
2/15/09 at 4:55pm
Thread Starter 
Happy belated birthday, you old bastard.
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post #28 of 104
2/15/09 at 5:03pm
Are there really that many health problems in your mid 40s? I thought most people just get injured more easily.
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post #29 of 104
2/15/09 at 5:19pm
two years (in August) before I can join the club. When I'm 48 do I get a decoder ring?
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post #30 of 104
2/15/09 at 7:47pm
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Originally Posted by Bluelouboyle View Post
Are there really that many health problems in your mid 40s? I thought most people just get injured more easily.
Actually, I'm 41, and I think I'm as healthy as a horse. I joined a gym last summer, I'm eating better, and I feel great.

I also had a small cyst removed earlier this week. On my scrotum. Close to where my leg joins my crotch, and far enough away from my naughty bits.

So, y'see, when you get older, you take the good, you take the bad, you take 'em both and there you have...
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post #31 of 104
2/15/09 at 10:41pm
Yeah, I've had one of those on my back. Fun. I'm my dad now. Except he plays in a seniors hockey league. He's actually more active than I am, which is pathetic.
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post #32 of 104
2/15/09 at 10:45pm
The good news is I get the stitches removed in a week - on my wife's 40th birthday. So, after two weeks of not gettin' any, there will be some lovin'. Which is nice.
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post #33 of 104
2/16/09 at 10:44am
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Originally Posted by Timothy225 View Post
Actually, I'm 41, and I think I'm as healthy as a horse. I joined a gym last summer, I'm eating better, and I feel great.

I also had a small cyst removed earlier this week. On my scrotum. Close to where my leg joins my crotch, and far enough away from my naughty bits.

So, y'see, when you get older, you take the good, you take the bad, you take 'em both and there you have...
Age has nothing to do with it though. I've had them (cysts) removed three times now from that area (first started popping up in my 20s). Going to a laundry soap with no perfumes/dyes seems to help (some).
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post #34 of 104
2/16/09 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post
I'm not ready to be put out to pasture or anything, but lately (at 47) I've noticed Mother Nature is starting to have her way with me, in humorous and evil little ways. I'd love a thread to talk about these things with other old bastiches.
I'm going to my 40-year checkup on Wednesday, and I'm not looking forward to it. My last cholesterol test a few weeks ago showed my cholesterol is too high for the first time in 3 years. And I'm not surprised, as between the time I got laid off and when I took the test, I've hardly exercised at all. Cut the gym membership the same day I got laid off. Now that I'm working again, I think I'm going to sign back up at my old gym where I used to box, as I pass right by it on my way home.

Plus, my head has been hurting for like 2+ days now. It seems to be slowly vanishing finally. My toe hurts like I sprained it, but the doctor's can't tell me what's wrong for sure (tested for gout, but it came back negative). I get chest pains from time to time, but I think that's related to my acid reflux. I figure I'll dump all my issues on the doctor when I'm there Wednesday.
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post #35 of 104
2/18/09 at 1:58pm
It's not so much Mother Nature having her way with me as me not wanting her to that got my ass in to the doctor. It started with my eye doctor noticing calcium deposits in my eyes, which is a sign of high blood pressure and cholesterol. That led to blood work which showed the cholesterol wasn't bad, but that there was some traces of minerals my urine. That led to an ultrasound on my kidney that revealed that no only do I have cysts on my kidneys, but that my right kidney -- the one I've had kidney stones in about half a dozen times in the past -- is smaller than the left and possibly not functioning properly, which could be contributing to my high blood pressure. The cysts aren't too worrying, but the nephrologist I was referred to wants a full renal scan to see how the kidneys are functioning. Which means I'll be spending a good chunk of Monday getting poked and prodded and possibly getting a catheter. Fun. But not nearly as bad as what I could have been looking at had I just kept on without getting anything checked.
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post #36 of 104
2/18/09 at 2:13pm
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Originally Posted by zombiefan61 View Post
Hell Jacob, I just turned 48 last month! We're as old as we feel man! Remember being excited with your first Atari 2600 or Betamax vcr? Damn!
Doesn't that phrase go "as old as the women we feel"?

I actually lost track of my age starting at 18, when that was the actual legal drinking age, 21 when when I didn't care anymore.

I'm 47 and didn't actually think there were that many on here as old as I.
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post #37 of 104
2/18/09 at 4:04pm
I may not post often but I can join the club.
I am a 47 year youngling.
My younger brother and sister look older than I do.
Here's to remembering seeing The Green Beret, Rosemary's Baby, Bonnie and Clyde, Jaws, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in their first runs...
Damn I am old
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post #38 of 104
2/18/09 at 4:05pm
No one over forty is any kind of 'ling except Earth.

Jesus Christ Dickson, take care of yourself.

Thank you to all of you for being older than me.
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post #39 of 104
2/18/09 at 4:20pm
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
Jesus Christ Dickson, take care of yourself.
Thanks Phil, I'm trying. The funny things is I feel fine. No aches, no pains, no problems with the waterworks. If I'd kept the mindset of not going to the doctor unless I was sick, I might never have known about any of this.
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post #40 of 104
2/18/09 at 4:23pm
Good luck, Richard. As someone who has passed both gall stones and kidney stones, you have my sympathy.
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post #41 of 104
2/18/09 at 4:27pm


But I really should get a full check-up soon. Just to make sure everything's where it ought to be.
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post #42 of 104
2/18/09 at 4:39pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
It's not so much Mother Nature having her way with me as me not wanting her to that got my ass in to the doctor. It started with my eye doctor noticing calcium deposits in my eyes, which is a sign of high blood pressure and cholesterol. That led to blood work which showed the cholesterol wasn't bad, but that there was some traces of minerals my urine. That led to an ultrasound on my kidney that revealed that no only do I have cysts on my kidneys, but that my right kidney -- the one I've had kidney stones in about half a dozen times in the past -- is smaller than the left and possibly not functioning properly, which could be contributing to my high blood pressure. The cysts aren't too worrying, but the nephrologist I was referred to wants a full renal scan to see how the kidneys are functioning. Which means I'll be spending a good chunk of Monday getting poked and prodded and possibly getting a catheter. Fun. But not nearly as bad as what I could have been looking at had I just kept on without getting anything checked.
Like going in for an oil change and finding out your transmission is shot.
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
degenerative arthritis, mysterious aches and pains, stomach problems.
I get those things, and I'm only 33. Stress is a bitch.
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post #43 of 104
2/18/09 at 5:02pm
I will be 40 in 30 days.
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post #44 of 104
2/18/09 at 5:04pm
Hahahahaha, you're all going to die before me!

*hit by a bus*
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post #45 of 104
2/18/09 at 5:10pm
Oh yeah, and I also found out my mom has ulcers in her lower intestines and that they're hereditary! Thanks Mom!
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post #46 of 104
2/18/09 at 5:13pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
Oh yeah, and I also found out my mom has ulcers in her lower intestines and that they're hereditary! Thanks Mom!
I've already inherited Crohn's Disease (a mild case of it) from my father. So far, I'm clear of the colon cancer that killed my mother.

Damn, I need to go and get drunk now.
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post #47 of 104
2/18/09 at 5:31pm
You people stay the fuck away from me. I don't want to catch the elderly.
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post #48 of 104
2/18/09 at 5:37pm
I got my dad's triglycerides. (Judging from the numbers, my uncle's, grandfather's and great-grandfather's as well.) The doctor told me I'm at risk of having a stroke "at any second". Whoo!
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post #49 of 104
2/18/09 at 5:38pm
Goddammit, this thread smells like formaldehyde.
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post #50 of 104
2/18/09 at 5:39pm
Ben Gay and cat pee. And whiskey.
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