The Gen X Thread: Older, Fatter, Still Alienated

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Re: The Gen X Thread: Older, Fatter, Still Alienated

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101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:15pm
Kory wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:01pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 4:19pm
You know you are getting old when the injuries you used to get from playing sports you now get from doing fuck all and for no apparent reason.
You may have read my post a few months back about throwing my neck out while washing my hair.
I thought that was a euphemism
I have hurt myself doing the following things in the past year:
1. Sleeping
2. Sneezing
3. Walking at a regular pace over flat ground
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Wolter wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 6:26pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:15pm
Kory wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:01pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 4:19pm
You know you are getting old when the injuries you used to get from playing sports you now get from doing fuck all and for no apparent reason.
You may have read my post a few months back about throwing my neck out while washing my hair.
I thought that was a euphemism
I have hurt myself doing the following things in the past year:
1. Sleeping
2. Sneezing
3. Walking at a regular pace over flat ground
I find this list of your weaknesses VERY illuminating.
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Re: The Gen X Thread: Older, Fatter, Still Alienated

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Kory wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 7:14pm
Wolter wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 6:26pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:15pm
Kory wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:01pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 4:19pm
You know you are getting old when the injuries you used to get from playing sports you now get from doing fuck all and for no apparent reason.
You may have read my post a few months back about throwing my neck out while washing my hair.
I thought that was a euphemism
I have hurt myself doing the following things in the past year:
1. Sleeping
2. Sneezing
3. Walking at a regular pace over flat ground
I find this list of your weaknesses VERY illuminating.
He also cries while watching GI Joe cartoons. It's simultaneously sweet and sickening.
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Re: The Gen X Thread: Older, Fatter, Still Alienated

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Kory wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 7:14pm
Wolter wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 6:26pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:15pm
Kory wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:01pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 4:19pm
You know you are getting old when the injuries you used to get from playing sports you now get from doing fuck all and for no apparent reason.
You may have read my post a few months back about throwing my neck out while washing my hair.
I thought that was a euphemism
I have hurt myself doing the following things in the past year:
1. Sleeping
2. Sneezing
3. Walking at a regular pace over flat ground
I find this list of your weaknesses VERY illuminating.
Oh, it’s easier and quicker to list what I’m not vulnerable to.
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I just turned 50 and after living a life of working outdoors on ships in the summer and working as a stagehand in the winter I've got so many aches and pains and have had several surgeries but I wouldn't trade it for anything. Everytime something hurts, it makes me smile and think oh I had a good time getting that one

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 7:16pm
Kory wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 7:14pm
Wolter wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 6:26pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:15pm
Kory wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:01pm


You may have read my post a few months back about throwing my neck out while washing my hair.
I thought that was a euphemism
I have hurt myself doing the following things in the past year:
1. Sleeping
2. Sneezing
3. Walking at a regular pace over flat ground
I find this list of your weaknesses VERY illuminating.
He also cries while watching GI Joe cartoons. It's simultaneously sweet and sickening.
I HAVE NEVER CRIED WHILE WATCHING THE CARTOON.

IT WAS THE COMIC. WHEN KWINN DIED.
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Wolter wrote:
11 Jan 2018, 11:52am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 7:16pm
Kory wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 7:14pm
Wolter wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 6:26pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 5:15pm


I thought that was a euphemism
I have hurt myself doing the following things in the past year:
1. Sleeping
2. Sneezing
3. Walking at a regular pace over flat ground
I find this list of your weaknesses VERY illuminating.
He also cries while watching GI Joe cartoons. It's simultaneously sweet and sickening.
I HAVE NEVER CRIED WHILE WATCHING THE CARTOON.

IT WAS THE COMIC. WHEN KWINN DIED.
Speaking as a Euro-Canadian, your empathy for him is confounding.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:56am
edit: Additional side note: Holy crap but tiger balm penetrates the muscles. Definitely worth smelling like I'm wearing a cinnamon cologne.
Oh man, second year undergrad I lived with the basketball team, who had their rookie night at our house. One of the hazing things was to wear a jock loaded with tiger balm. This was their third or fourth stop, so everyone was already really drunk when they were instructed to disrobe and led to the dark basement and told to put on the jocks — which they didn't know were laced with the deadly poison.

I'll never forget the screams.

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Inder wrote:
11 Jan 2018, 2:10pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:56am
edit: Additional side note: Holy crap but tiger balm penetrates the muscles. Definitely worth smelling like I'm wearing a cinnamon cologne.
Oh man, second year undergrad I lived with the basketball team, who had their rookie night at our house. One of the hazing things was to wear a jock loaded with tiger balm. This was their third or fourth stop, so everyone was already really drunk when they were instructed to disrobe and led to the dark basement and told to put on the jocks — which they didn't know were laced with the deadly poison.

I'll never forget the screams.
That's horrible. Absolutely nothing penetrates deeply like tiger balm and activates like pure fire. How many of those guys ended up being sterile?
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Okay, this will be a totally duh observation (it is, after all, my speciality), but because I don't do Facebook or anything like that, my encounters with people with whom I went to high school is very rare. One guy whom I hadn't thought of in maybe twenty years popped into my head this morning, so I hunted him down and found his Facebook page. And it turns out he's "friends" with pretty much everyone we went to high school with, so my voyeur activities expanded considerably. And, holy crap, the vast majority of them look seriously old. Beaten-up by life old. Flabby and wrinkly old. Nose getting bigger old. Not aging gracefully, but slammed by a wizard's curse. Sure, the top of my head does not suggest youth, but I was in a rare situation of looking at others, comparing them to me, and feeling pretty good about myself.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 1:15pm
Okay, this will be a totally duh observation (it is, after all, my speciality), but because I don't do Facebook or anything like that, my encounters with people with whom I went to high school is very rare. One guy whom I hadn't thought of in maybe twenty years popped into my head this morning, so I hunted him down and found his Facebook page. And it turns out he's "friends" with pretty much everyone we went to high school with, so my voyeur activities expanded considerably. And, holy crap, the vast majority of them look seriously old. Beaten-up by life old. Flabby and wrinkly old. Nose getting bigger old. Not aging gracefully, but slammed by a wizard's curse. Sure, the top of my head does not suggest youth, but I was in a rare situation of looking at others, comparing them to me, and feeling pretty good about myself.
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Silent Majority wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 2:15pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 1:15pm
Okay, this will be a totally duh observation (it is, after all, my speciality), but because I don't do Facebook or anything like that, my encounters with people with whom I went to high school is very rare. One guy whom I hadn't thought of in maybe twenty years popped into my head this morning, so I hunted him down and found his Facebook page. And it turns out he's "friends" with pretty much everyone we went to high school with, so my voyeur activities expanded considerably. And, holy crap, the vast majority of them look seriously old. Beaten-up by life old. Flabby and wrinkly old. Nose getting bigger old. Not aging gracefully, but slammed by a wizard's curse. Sure, the top of my head does not suggest youth, but I was in a rare situation of looking at others, comparing them to me, and feeling pretty good about myself.
Any Biff Tannens failing satisfyingly?
An alarming number of people still living in that same shitty hometown that has gotten shittier since I escaped. I'm betraying a cosmopolitan snobbery here, but I regard that as failure. The next and final time that I'll set foot in that town is my mother's funeral.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 2:30pm
Silent Majority wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 2:15pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 1:15pm
Okay, this will be a totally duh observation (it is, after all, my speciality), but because I don't do Facebook or anything like that, my encounters with people with whom I went to high school is very rare. One guy whom I hadn't thought of in maybe twenty years popped into my head this morning, so I hunted him down and found his Facebook page. And it turns out he's "friends" with pretty much everyone we went to high school with, so my voyeur activities expanded considerably. And, holy crap, the vast majority of them look seriously old. Beaten-up by life old. Flabby and wrinkly old. Nose getting bigger old. Not aging gracefully, but slammed by a wizard's curse. Sure, the top of my head does not suggest youth, but I was in a rare situation of looking at others, comparing them to me, and feeling pretty good about myself.
Any Biff Tannens failing satisfyingly?
An alarming number of people still living in that same shitty hometown that has gotten shittier since I escaped. I'm betraying a cosmopolitan snobbery here, but I regard that as failure. The next and final time that I'll set foot in that town is my mother's funeral.
Six months living in West Michigan alerted me to the fact that few there ever leave. We do a weekend a month in Chicago of Detroit so that we can eat seasoned food when we dine out. I find that people think we are very exotic.
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I go back to my home town every so often. Sometimes I'll see someone I recognize. I just observe.

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revbob wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 9:37pm
I go back to my home town every so often. Sometimes I'll see someone I recognize. I just observe.

I was riding with my dad through his old neighborhood when I was in high school.

“Dad, is that Uncle Ken?”

“Yup”

He just kept driving.
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