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Last week I waited until we got the kids to bed and then spent two hours at Walmart and the grocery store because shopping alone is relaxing and a luxury.
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butplug accident posted:if you take age to mean time as a function of brain plasticity/learning ability, as opposed to chronological age which is pretty arbitrary, you're middle-aged at around 20, op no. the brain is the one thing that keeps working into old age. As long as you don't get a disease like Alzheimer's or dementia.
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who gives a gently caress about yo brain how long will my cock last???
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Zzulu posted:who gives a gently caress about yo brain how long will my cock last??? bout 60 years. 70 if your lucky
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gently caress, I turn 40 in exactly 1 month. The bad: My hair is going fast, I'm about 15 lbs heavier than optimal, and after gettin' it on with the wife I need a full 24hrs before my soldier will stand at attention again. The good: I've reached the point in my career where I'm at the top. Nice house, great wife, kids, dog, etc. Can still outplay the 20somethings I work with at pretty much everything. Bottom line: Not so bad.
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I'm closing in on fifty and I'm happier than I've ever been. Work is great, I head up my department so I get to tell other people what to do, I like my work and and I'm sent to professional development courses where I learn stuff I enjoy, and I make modest bank. I own my own house, car, camper, and boat, and all of the debts of my youth are cleared away, financially and figuratively. I've had a few minor health issues but eating healthy, avoiding processed foods and alcohol, and thyroid medicine have taken care of all that (and there's still  for relaxing and chilling out.) I have the time and money to pursue my hobbies and pleasures without having to deny myself much of anything. As a middle-aged woman I'm basically invisible to men now, but after a bit of initial mental adjustment I have really started to enjoy a permanent vacation from the male gaze, and I've met a lot of cool women my age who like the same things I do and feel the same way so there's never a shortage of friends to hang out with. I never had kids but I've watched my nieces and nephews grow up and now they have children of their own, so I get to be a great-aunt-grandma-by-proxy and spoil their little nippers (and occasionally help them out with some cash.) I feel loving awesome and life is good, and I'm glad I hung on long enough to get to this place.  You will be, too. You're only 31, don't give up yet.
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Dirty Sanchez posted:I need a full 24hrs before my soldier will stand at attention again. Except sex.
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The last few old people posts have been heartening. Thanks.bonestructure posted:avoiding alcohol This however, I feel, is a mistake.
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Waltzing Along posted:Except sex. Touche. At least there's a pill for that. Unfortunately (or fortunately), with two little ones in the house it hasn't been called for.
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Dirty Sanchez posted:Touche. At least there's a pill for that. Unfortunately (or fortunately), with two little ones in the house it hasn't been called for. What? Are you the only man alive who won't gently caress his woman because there are children in the house?
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Jul 20, 2014 21:52
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just take her into the woods and gently caress her like an ape
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52, trippin balls, trusting no one
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Subliminal Sauce posted:52, trippin balls, trusting no one fuckin sweet av, old man. edit: The few times I've tripped balls in my life were some of the best times of my life. I feel like I've had this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect without ahvintg to have been to space.
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Subliminal Sauce posted:52, trippin balls, trusting no one you rule grandpa
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Ramsus posted:lmao at a man that is worried about what his wife will think if he drinks a few beers at home on the weekend while he cleans the house and doesn't have any kids.
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it must be pretty bad to have an IT career, even if the pay is okay.
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Faux-rear end Nonsense posted:it must be pretty bad to have an IT career, even if the pay is okay. you don't have to be spiritually or emotionally dead to thrive here, but it helps
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Jul 20, 2014 23:13
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Mods ban this chucklefuck for drunkposting in GBS.
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Jul 20, 2014 23:28
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Four beers, lol
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brizna posted:bitching SERIOUS GBS POST: I am 31 and in exactly the same boat as you except it was 12 months ago when I realised how bored and depressed I was and that I had to do something about it (thanks for the motivation to make me desperately not want to end up like you for the rest of my life, Work Crew thread) I'm now quitting work to go and do a funded masters and then a 1-year funded residency at the same major research university to develop my business idea How about you sack up and do something about it, put kids off for two or three years, you're a young white male who can code well there is literally NO BETTER PERSON TO BE to make a major change in your life
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Jul 21, 2014 16:03
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four beers makes you fear for your sobriety and dehydration? lol
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Jul 21, 2014 16:20
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poo poo old man I had like 4 beers by noon yesterday. mowed the grass, weed whacked and poo poo too
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I'm almost forty and as happy as I've ever been. The bad? I need to stay on top of poo poo like never before. If I don't watch what I eat, I gain weight faster than I did when I was thirty. It takes about ten pounds before I can't sleep well and my blood pressure spikes. That means almost no drinking, sugar, fried food, and so on. The older I get, the more my quality of life is a product of my screwups than my moments of genius, so the rule of the day is keeping the screwups in check. The good? I'm more focused and resilient than I was when I was twenty. I can work on a project for five years and not lose any sleep if it fails. I'm also more honest and direct with myself (and everyone else), and better at reading people, so my relationships are better. Girlfriend is in her late 20s, and late-20s me wouldn't have had a chance making things work with her. brizna posted:I can't stand work. We supposedly live in a democratic society, but our day to day lives are ultimately authoritarian. Corporations are extremely hierarchical and I've done a good job of climbing the ladder, but I can't stand what I've done/become. God I hate sending emails across lines of business just to make my name known. Ugh. We live in a farce. I wish I made more money so I can check out earlier. Well, that's sad. If you hate it enough to complain, you hate it enough to do something else. So do something else. You're an educated white guy who's part of a dual-income/no kids household. You're not going to starve. Also, have you talked to your wife about this? That's, like, a big part of what she's there for, and I promise you she'd rather you talk to her about this than stay quiet and wetjet the apartment.
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im 25 and i have no meaningful work experience. gettin a masters and poo poo. how hosed am i and can i look foward to a life of wage slavery?
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brizna posted:I just spent the last few hours cleaning the apartment while drinking beers and listening to music. The wife started her morning with yoga followed by lunch/drinks with her old coworkers, so I took advantage of the four (4) beers in the fridge and wetjetted this poo poo like a pro. Same but turning 26 in a few months (and also no kids or gf on the horizon)
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Jul 21, 2014 21:59
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Dear Op, Smoke weed every day.
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You're welcome.
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Ramsus posted:lmao at a man that is worried about what his wife will think if he drinks a few beers at home on the weekend while he cleans the house and doesn't have any kids.
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Don't have any loving kids. Unless, of course, there is no real point to your existence and you might as well sacrifice yourself.
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OP, I'm about your age. Got the marriage, the kids, the yard, the basic grownup thing. I could blather on about my life and how loving something or other it is, but no one gives a poo poo about that. The only point I want to make is that you aren't loving trapped. The idea that anyone can be trapped in a life they are not happy with is absurd. Your freshly wetjetted apartment isn't Auschwitz. Your job, your wife, and your beery brain aren't trapping you. You can do whatever the gently caress you please at any given moment. Don't want to leave your wife and job? Cool. But own it. Life is like linear algebra. Iterate until you reach an optimization given the constraints. Got a wild-rear end idea? Do it. Hate matrices? Me too. Understand what sacrifices you are willing to make and what sacrifices you aren't. Don't look for the ending of your quiet life of desperation. It will find you soon enough. Think about things you want to do. Not the things that give you brief pleasure like cumming, but the things that are compelling like romance. Plan it out. Indulge yourself in a little bit of megalomania. No one else is the loving star of your life, so live like it. You aren't an extra is someone else's goddamn movie. Humans are the only creatures that can craft a world or a situation in their head and then use those simulations to cause it to be reality. Fail to utilize that ability and you are basically sitting in the grass chewing your cud. Now slap yourself in the face and go own your life. Jesus
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Clamps McGraw posted:SERIOUS GBS POST: I have a similar story. I'm 35 and recently discovered weed. I was never really into it in my youth but god drat I like me some weed now.
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Leroy Diplowski posted:OP, I'm about your age. Got the marriage, the kids, the yard, the basic grownup thing. don't sign your posts
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sid vicious is a postmodern bohemian
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Take steroids. Any guy over 30 should be juicing. Your natural testosterone is starting to plummet around that age, so it only makes sense. You can probably even get tested and get a prescription for TRT so it's all legal and possibly covered by health benefits.
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I want to live in a world where everyone over 30 looks like vince mcmahon
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any useful advice for an early-20s chronic fuckup?like i managed to flunk/do badly in pretty much every academic endeavour so far and have only had a handful of service industry jobs with super long employment gaps. basically just ways to make my mind less lovely & weak, & get some idea of what i want to do & how to get there.figure somebody in this thread must have clawed their way out of a similarly embarrassing life situation.plus it's always cool to hear how people got their poo poo together
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I feel old because I care about insurance quotes and power bills and poo poo now, but at least im not fuckin trapped. I have rad friends, a rad car (I like cars so this means something to me), and a rad computer. Once that starts going its straight to Eve Online
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you married too early
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