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12 More Days

Poll: How do you feel about turning 50?
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Looking fotward to it.
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12 More Days
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#11
RE: 12 More Days
June 22, 2015 at 11:10 am
Everything about getting old is great except for the body parts that work less well and hurt more.  Can't beat the perspective and the bank account has had time to grow.  If that doesn't cheer you up, compare adding another year to the only viable alternative.
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RE: 12 More Days
June 22, 2015 at 11:42 am
Yeah, getting older means living longer, and I'm good with that. But now and then I'll hear some 40-something who gets in shape and says "I fell better than I did when I was in my 20s!" And I'm thinking that when I was in my 20s, my joints didn't make all of those funny noises when I got out of bed, or bent over, or crouched, or... ugh, how do I get out of this crouch again?
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RE: 12 More Days
June 22, 2015 at 12:52 pm
(June 22, 2015 at 10:30 am)AFTT47 Wrote: I'm afraid I don't deal with aging well. It was turning forty that really got to me. By the time I turned fifty, I was resigned to being an old fart - and I don't like it. Oh, well; what can I do?

You're not old until you bend down to tie your shoelaces and you say, "Now let me see, what else can I do while I'm down here?"
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RE: 12 More Days
June 22, 2015 at 1:18 pm
(June 22, 2015 at 10:37 am)Faith No More Wrote: I have to turn 40 before I start concerning myself with turning 50.

Get off my lawn.


I'll be 48 in September. I'd be fine if things would stop trying to kill me. Tongue
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#15
RE: 12 More Days
June 22, 2015 at 1:24 pm
FWIW I thought most of you in this thread were younger than stated....

Yea yea, off the lawn I go
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RE: 12 More Days
June 22, 2015 at 1:36 pm
(June 22, 2015 at 1:24 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: FWIW I thought most of you in this thread were younger than stated....

Yea yea, off the lawn I go

Not before you rake the rest of them leaves, young'un.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

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#17
RE: 12 More Days
June 22, 2015 at 1:40 pm
Fuck.  I can't even remember turning 50.

Which is one of the reasons to avoid it!
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#18
RE: 12 More Days
June 22, 2015 at 1:53 pm
I'll hit 50 in 1 1/2 years. I'm not worried about it.

Happy birthday, Rhonda.

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#19
RE: 12 More Days
June 22, 2015 at 2:47 pm
I wish you a wonderful time! Smile

I'm approaching 40 now, and I've long since stopped caring about age. When I was young, even 20 seemed like an impossibly ancient age that I would never reach.
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#20
RE: 12 More Days
June 22, 2015 at 2:56 pm
I'll be 30 next Monday. I have zero feelings about getting old. Except I am considering having to purchase Rogaine. It's getting thin up top.... I'll get that shit on Amazon so no one knows...

Happy Birthday Rhonda!!! Were you born on July 4th?
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