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41 here and resolutely pathetic.
All the cock measuring stuff that some other Dads in the playground seem to go in for just passes me by.
Flash motor? Great, but I prefer having a crap one I don’t have to be too careful with.
Clothes that are 20 years too young for them? I tend to wear whatever I am comfortable in.
I think I might well have reached peak apathy, I only really listen to people I like and trust when it comes to ‘life’ stuff. There are far too many pillocks about and far too many people who get bothered by what those pillocks think.
I worked out a while ago that you don’t need to be liked by everybody and you don’t have to take what everybody says to heart. It makes life much easier.
Don't worry about the cash, by 40 single women have up all hope that any man can even rise to the occasion. So as long as you can get up out of your chair and put the bins out without being asked you're a good 'un
46 year old office worker with a very responsible job but still getting PR's and usually top 3 or so strava times for most trails on the day around surrey.
Having said that i just bought a BMX for the first time in my life so yea, pretty pathetic! and i accept im going to look a right clown my first few times riding at the skate park.
To gnusmas, I’m 47, separated with four kids and a face that looks like its been slammed repeatedly in a car door.You would think that separated with 4 kids might raise red flags for women as in he must be a barsteward leaving his kids, must be a bad guy etc but not the case in reality.Women are a lot more open to giving people a chance in my experience and not being so judgemental.None of these accusations above could ever be made against you going on your previous posts. Your doing the very best you can in very difficult circumstances.Dont you worry mate,if I can get dates then when you are ready they will be beating your door down 🙂
Like, for a (heterosexual) bloke at least, attraction seems to be “my age or younger.” In my mid-30s I’d have considered pulling someone in their mid-20s to be quite a coup,
There's a formula for this - the lower limit being half your age plus 7.
Nearly 50 and prefer slipper socks to slippers… 🙂
I've just bought two of these.
Beat that.
I’m wrecked.
Whistling? Yep.
Dreams gone? Yep.
Fat? Yep.
Sucks belly in? Not really. Got to the point where I don’t care.
‘Young’ clothes? Lived in T shirts and cargo shorts for 30 years now. But now it just makes me look special-needs/easily-undressed for slipper-bath
Bald? Full MPB. Nice ‘M’ shape. ‘M’ for Monkey’s arse.
Trying to be cool? No. Never was cool. But I just bought an adult kick scooter and a pair of Quicksilver skater-pumps (£3 new from YHA shop!) to punt it along. I wear hi-viz ankle bands when exercising and one of them is labelled ‘active-wear’. This could function as a clue-giving anklet, communicating my keen-ness for regaining a semblance of fitness. I now have prescription distance-spectacles for TV and driving. They make me look a bit Dicky Attenborough-ish. Should look good on the scooter.
Pathetic? Just wait till those unwanted pop ups change from "Hot MILFs in your area" to "Hot GILFs"...the algorithms sadly,have it right once again.
I'm liking the concept of "peak apathy"
You should go over and give her guide dog a biscuit.
Yup, tis why I'm in amazement. With an enormous nose and squinty eyes put together with awkward mannerisms is doesn't happen often.
Anyway, turns out she wanted one of our free foldable eco-cups.
Women are a lot more open to giving people a chance in my experience and not being so judgemental
Where is this strange planet? And is Richard Branson arranging trips there?
I felt a very small rush of excitement when I unfolded the electric blanket and put it on the bed on Sunday.
I have grey slippers.
I think I have trimmed my annual clothes budget to less than £100
I can't actually remember the last time I played hide the sausage.
He is
Thomas Cook are doing the flights. Its one way only, you can check out, but never leave.
Anyone into Jazz yet 🤪🤪
Awe, well there’s this guy called Robert Glasper who is awesome, and mixes HipHop/Rap/Jazz/Soul/Funk into his music... frankly he’s one of my favourite Artists..
Check him out:
(I’ve blotted our the naughty word for this site, but you can guess what it is...)
We might be old and pathetic, but we still ride bikes doing stupid stuff that most of the kids won't do. I'm 50 very soon, and none of the youngsters in my office ride a bike or do anything 'dangerous'. The odd gym bunny.
We had two cyclists in the office, another roadie (I'm ex roadie now MTB'er) and an Enduro rider, none of whome were kids. They've both moved offices and I'm 3 floors away from my bike buddies. Can't talk bike crap in the office now.
Just done an MTB weekend with 3 mates last weekend, all of us 48-53, of which 3 of us have broken our spines (2 on bikes) and the other had recently has a suspected TIA (mini stroke) - not stopped us.
We were getting pissed in a local gin bar in N. Wales after Brenin, and it's popular with the youngsters. We were busy talking bikes, then discussing how such a girl's skirt was way too short (dad mode kicked in as we are all married with kids). My daughter won't be going out like that ! Old duffers, more interested in bikes.
My French teacher (who was French so had a slightly different outlook than the other teachers at school) said the benefit of getting older is that the age of women you find attractive increases as you age.
He knew he was getting old when he started to find the mothers of the fifth formers (year 11 in current terms?) attractive, whereas when he started teaching they were too old.
I am quite a logical person normally but lately the loneliness and lack of adult conversation is really getting to me. I think it's just another part of my minefield called my brain.
Dont you worry mate,if I can get dates then when you are ready they will be beating your door down 🙂
I really hope your not on about my back door......
As somebody who resembles an experiment by evolution to see what it could get away with, combined with Asperger's which means that I have the social skills and perception of a lump of rock, I learnt a long time ago not to even bother trying to talk to women. Or anybody, for that matter.
Somehow, I managed to get married and have two beautiful daughters, but that was a fluke. I'm 41 and have no friends. That's not an exaggeration. Sometimes I forget my place and try to exchange words with somebody, but soon get brought back to reality.
My local bike shop is MTB-only and is staffed and frequented by confident, good-looking, sociable, outgoing alpha males who use all the latest lingo. The thought of going there to buy anything fills me with dread. I once had to deal with them for a warranty claim on an expensive set of carbon wheels, but didn't even get as far as taking the wheels back to the shop because I was so intimidated by them. That's pathetic.
Mountain biking is my release from all this, and I hate to think what would happen if I had to give it up.
OXO Tower
thats a euphemism, right? Having said that Centerparcs might be too. But no I’ve never been up the OXO Tower either.
65, and I gave up giving a toss thirty-odd years ago. Shonky knee means I haven’t ridden a bike for some years, but there’s a skate shop in Bath with a really nice looking long-board for £99, which would then justify my getting a Thrasher Skate Magazine hoodie.
Somewhere I think I’ve still got some original 80’s copies of that mag.
I think I could still cut a bit of a dash wearing shorts and a ‘Skate and Destroy’ teeshirt...
I was looking at farrah trousers in M&S on Sunday.
I fell off my bike on a flat path tonight.
@trustysteed where are you geographically?
I fell off my bike on a flat path tonight.
I've lost count of the times I've done that. Always with a large audience for maximum embarrassment.
Edit: Ahem. I should probably sit on my stories of the ageing lunatics I’ve met in London for a bit longer.
The trick I think, in regards to the people I’ve met in their forties and fifties to enjoying life is not caring what others think of you. None of the lunatics I’ve met, that lived life as if they were still twenty cared about how others saw them.
Somehow, I managed to get married and have two beautiful daughters, but that was a fluke. I’m 41 and have no friends. That’s not an exaggeration. Sometimes I forget my place and try to exchange words with somebody, but soon get brought back to reality.
I’ve known a few autistic guys who were popular - they weren’t chatty. The trick is not trying hard to be chatty, they were always the broody people in the group. People do actually quite like people who don’t say much. You just have to find a way to sell it. Don’t worry about talking to some bellends in a shop - that’s all fake crap. You can though, meet people who will bring you into the fold of a riding group without expecting you to be chatty.
We had a friend in a group of mine that was so out there, that we fully expected him to go postal one day. It didn’t mean that his presence wasn’t enjoyed and entertaining. :p Then again most of my social circles tend to involve people who don’t really care - even if they are the “jockish” types that you mentioned in the cycle shop, find people who don’t care much for social norms.
I'm 46. I tend to view many characteristics that the younger generations have now as pathetic. I guess that makes me pathetic?
Whatever. Time for this.
The trick I think, in regards to the people I’ve met in their forties and fifties to enjoying life is not caring what others think of you. None of the lunatics I’ve met, that lived life as if they were still twenty cared about how others saw them.
100% this ..
The age difference thing between myself and my missus really used to make me self conscious when we first met ..but after a while you just get to thinking "**** it ..if they want to think I'm her dad then thats their problem "..
Now it's a source of amusement when I see strangers trying to figure it out..
As a mate of mine once wrote on an album track .."I'll never lose the kid in me ..it makes me real "..and it's been my life motto ever since 😁
A few years ago I did grow my hair long simply because all my pals are grey and slapheads 🙂 However this did lead me to appearing at a party like this ( I am on the left)
Pathetic - you judge 🙂
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Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen has let himself go.
🙂
When I emerge from the shower I think I'm Frank Sinatra, by the time I've dressed and staggered down stairs it's more Frank Sidebottom
usually top 3 or so strava times for most trails on the day
But high on the all time leader board for this thread 😁
Thought I was grumpy, old before my time, falling apart and just generally a bit sh1t at life.
Then I read this thread.
Thanks for making a late 30 something very happy, some of you really are pathetic losers 😉
With regard to TJ..I kinda get the LLB comparison (it's the cravat..innit) ..however I think he is going for the "Sean Bean at a luvvies gathering" look ..and to be fair he quite suits it .
What he is not telling is that he was 21 years old at the time ..😉😁
With regard to TJ....
Let's face it.
It's not hard to look suave when you're stood next to a dude in a too small, leather waistcoat and a bum bag. 😉
Long may I still leap like a gibbon...😂
@cougar Leeds/Harrogate area. I've tried looking for local MTB groups, but it all seems to be roadie groups around here.
@raybanwomble I appreciate your words. Perhaps I'll start my own local MTB group or something. The previously mentioned bike shop does rides from the shop, but the thought of joining one terrifies me!
They'll be all like "Hey dude, let's pull some sick moves on the berms* and loam* and then drop some edits", and I'll be like "Errm, I just wanna go MTB'ing on some nice paths and tracks and maybe upload a short video of my unexciting adventures later".
*I have no idea what these are, but I see them mentioned a lot. A berm sounds like a type of small rodent.
This sparked an interesting conversation in our house last night. I share all the above symptoms. 64 a few weeks ago with average fitness but bald and bit overweight. So George Clooney is an extreme aspiration. I can accept that Matt Lucas is probably more realistic.
Anyway I asked my (wonderful, intelligent, fit and considerably younger) wife who I compared with and she said a younger Kirk Douglas. We discussed and compared the merits of my flab and his athletic prowess and she said the most seductive features about any man start with the twinkle in the eyes. Get that right and you can get away with a lot apparently.
My pathetic defence strategy will be to issue any younger pretenders coming into the house with dark sunglasses from now on!
The TV show Teachers came out when I was 21 and I remember loving it. These teachers were cool, mature and how I aspired to be.
Watching it again this week, they're pathetic borderline alcoholic perverts.
My wife pointed out that they hadn't changed but I had. I'm old 😲.
The soundtrack is still great though.
48 next month, my Mum brings me a cuppa every workday morning, most days I can get away without speaking to anyone at work and I can only reminisce about when I was one of the Top 5 Big Hitters on this very forum.
I'd say I'm doing alright.
48 next month, my Mum brings me a cuppa every workday morning
I'm hoping thats "as she walks past my house on the way to pick up the morning paper"
rather than "while she also tucks me in at night with my blanket and a kiss on the cheek"
Is Weeksy jealous I wonder!
I wouldn't blame him, I bet He has to open his own curtains in the morning!
Yep,mid fiffties here,achieved very little and starting to creak a bit.I still notice the young ladies walking past and the dagger in your eyes look I sometimes get.I also find modern Britain utterly repulsive.It's loud,selfish,violent and dishonest/greedy.Either, I really am a miserable old get or the countries gone down the pan.Feel free to tell me.
Both?
Explain how I,m wrong binners.
I was wondering why the country is getting 20,000 more Police Officers.It must be because everything is going so well!