Things that make you feel old

Baldybonce said:

Masterbrew said:

@usetobunkin a few more ideas. Do creative things; make stuff, even if only plastic kits, mend or restore old things, take up drawing or painting. If you don't know how to, look up adult education classes. Do a bucket list trip - safari, Golden Triangle in India, cruise the Croatian coast. Enjoy relaxed sex in the afternoon, rather than last thing at night. 

The sex in the afternoon is not so relaxed if you've got to keep an eye on the clock for the Mrs getting home from work.

But it means that you get home in time for dinner 

Danepak said:

Buying tickets for Tyler, the Creator. Going with my 14 year old daughter and one of her friends. I really don’t get the music. But that’s probably me being close to 50.

Being an older Dad to, i used to take my son to see films i had no interest in but used it as an opportunity to have a snooze.

This appeared on my social feed and started me thinking it’s 40+ years ago since the FADS days.

Gribbo said:

Those Covid years have definitely sped things up a bit. Or at least make it feel like it's gone faster.

When I think of things I done just before Covid, it don't feel like 5+ years ago

Had this very discussion with Mrs Stig yesterday. We were both questioning whether we might have some low-level form of long-covid* or whether that's what we would have expected to happen with those few extra years anyway.

*Not the sort of thing that might stop someone from working, or make them feel ill enough to try and see a doctor; just enough to slow us down a bit and feel more tired and lethargic.

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Stig said:

Gribbo said:

Those Covid years have definitely sped things up a bit. Or at least make it feel like it's gone faster.

When I think of things I done just before Covid, it don't feel like 5+ years ago

Had this very discussion with Mrs Stig yesterday. We were both questioning whether we might have some low-level form of long-covid* or whether that's what we would have expected to happen with those few extra years anyway.

*Not the sort of thing that might stop someone from working, or make them feel ill enough to try and see a doctor; just enough to slow us down a bit and feel more tired and lethargic.

 Now you’ve done it. You brought in Covid. Anyway, I did start to wonder about the impact of it the other day. 

Regular check ups over the years have basically brought back positive numbers and results except about a year ago my iron levels came back low. For some reason it’s never been tested and so whilst I seem to have records of tests going back years to track I didn’t have anything for iron levels. This brought about lots of other tests to see what was causing it with scans, and cameras down my throat and up my arse. The upshot was nothing was found and i’m just increasing my iron intake. No big deal and combined with a bit of exercise I’m not so tired anymore. Then I  noticed more and more people seemed to be having the same issue. Post Covid, it just made me think it’s either a coincidence, or it’s not…

blue touch paper lit…

I've seen graphs showing the increased incidences of other illnesses which closely follow the start of the pandemic. I've been saying for some time now that Covid has made people sicker.

sillav nitram said:

Just watched, Alien Romulus over the weekend, all the actors looked like F ing children!

Woody Allen in it?

Trying to get a paracetamol out of the packet without it breaking

Is it possible to take the Covid discussion off this thread, and continue it in the Covid thread. Thank you.

SporadicAddick said:

ME14addick said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Stig said:

Gribbo said:

Those Covid years have definitely sped things up a bit. Or at least make it feel like it's gone faster.

When I think of things I done just before Covid, it don't feel like 5+ years ago

Had this very discussion with Mrs Stig yesterday. We were both questioning whether we might have some low-level form of long-covid* or whether that's what we would have expected to happen with those few extra years anyway.

*Not the sort of thing that might stop someone from working, or make them feel ill enough to try and see a doctor; just enough to slow us down a bit and feel more tired and lethargic.

 Now you’ve done it. You brought in Covid. Anyway, I did start to wonder about the impact of it the other day. 

Regular check ups over the years have basically brought back positive numbers and results except about a year ago my iron levels came back low. For some reason it’s never been tested and so whilst I seem to have records of tests going back years to track I didn’t have anything for iron levels. This brought about lots of other tests to see what was causing it with scans, and cameras down my throat and up my arse. The upshot was nothing was found and i’m just increasing my iron intake. No big deal and combined with a bit of exercise I’m not so tired anymore. Then I  noticed more and more people seemed to be having the same issue. Post Covid, it just made me think it’s either a coincidence, or it’s not…

blue touch paper lit…

I've seen graphs showing the increased incidences of other illnesses which closely follow the start of the pandemic. I've been saying for some time now that Covid has made people sicker.

From the ONS for the 4 weeks to 5th March 2023 (The latest release so not sure if this analysis stopped at that point).

Apologies if I come across as cynical, but I'm not surprised by the fact that most long covid is self reported, and the groups reporting it the most include those with existing conditions and those not working nor looking for work. 

There's a good chance that many on here feel more tired than we did before covid because we are all nearly 5 years older.

I have no doubt that there are genuine cases of long covid.
 

• Long COVID symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities of 1.5 million people (79% of those with self-reported long COVID), with 381,000 (20%) reporting that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been “limited a lot”.
• Fatigue continued to be the most common symptom reported as part of individuals’ experience of long COVID (72% of those with self-reported long COVID), followed by difficulty concentrating (51%), muscle ache (49%) and shortness of breath (48%).
• As a proportion of the UK population, the prevalence of self-reported long COVID was greatest in people aged 35 to 69 years, females, people living in more deprived areas, those working in social care, those aged 16 years and over who were not working and not looking for work, and those with another activity-limiting health condition or disability

The ONS gave a figure of 2 million people with Covid to 31 March 2024. There are approximately 119,000 children living with Long Covid. 

The Covid Inquiry has heard from many people with Long Covid recently. A former nurse gave evidence this morning. 

There is no definitive test for Long Covid yet, though there are advances in how the Sars Cov-2 virus affects the body, so there may be in the future. 

Thankfully the days of people with ME/CFS which are post viral conditions like Long Covid, not being taken seriously by medical professionals are now over.

Back to the theme of the thread. Posting of events in the past such as attending fans meeting players or scores from matches and getting agreement on CL with a few corrections like on who the player was or the correct result or score.

I've just seen a post on social media that it's 13 years to the day since someone uploaded a video to YouTube of a bloke losing control of his dog in a deer park and the ensuing chase scene.

Fenton!!

Watching a game of football that has Lou Macari's grandson is playing.

Timothy Dalton is 79 today. That is absolutely absurd. I watched Licence To Kill last week and he was only about 40, and that's a recent film in my head. 

Ian Wright is 61. Also ridiculous, he only retired about 5 years ago. 

My new neighbour appears to be an adult, but was born this century, which doesn't make sense as I distinctly remember celebrating the new millennium a couple of years back. 

Find this stuff terrifying. I'm 45 years old, still not decided what to do when I grow up but simultaneously feel like I'll be 75 in what will seem like a fortnight.

Separately from that, a couple of things I read recently that fascinated me.Taggart from Beverly Hills Cop was 35 when it was filmed in 1984 (his character's personality and appearance suggested 50).

Danny Glover was only 42 when he said "I'm too old for this shit" in Lethal Weapon.