Signs of being old..

[ASMO]

The big 60 for me in Sept just gone, dont feel any different if the truth be known.

Same as 59 or when you were 29?

To be fair, light drinker, don't smoke, 6-8 km brisk walk every morning, 15-1800 kcal limit per day I feel pretty energetic and healthy. Few aches and pains from old rugby injuries but nothing debilitating. Planning retiring in the next 2-3 years, bought a place in Czech Republic near the mountains, gonna find me a nice bar and drink lots of nice Czech pilsner till I keel over.

[dpedin]

64 and retired a year ago. Never smoked but enjoy a drink, usually a G&T and eat reasonable well ie cook all my own meals, lots of veg and lean meat but enjoy some snacks now and again. Had a few health problems in last few years - septic arthritis in my left knee, blood clot in lungs post covid and a medial sternotomy to remove a lump in my thymus which thankfully turned out to be benign. Also, like everyone on here I carry lots of sports related injuries, biggest bugbear is my wrecked knees. As a result I have made it my target to keep moving as I get older so I try and play golf 5-6 days a week or if weather too bad then go to the gym instead. I expect like most folks on here I grew up playing sports and keeping fit and it has stood me in good stead, I will keep golfing, going to the gym and cycling until I get carried out of my house in a box. Sport is so important to keep fit and healthy but also to keep in touch with mates and socializing.

In January I will do my usual 2-3 months of no alcohol and diet and serious gym work in advance of the golf season starting. Ive done it a few years now and actually look forward to it as a change. Ok I don't lift as heavy weights as I used to and have to avoid certain lifts but I do more reps and try and focus on whole body circuits to get the heart rate up. I will try and build up quads and hams to compensate for the dodgy arthritic knees. Use it or lose it guys!

[Sandstorm]

The big 60 for me in Sept just gone, dont feel any different if the truth be known.

Same as 59 or when you were 29?

To be fair, light drinker, don't smoke, 6-8 km brisk walk every morning, 15-1800 kcal limit per day I feel pretty energetic and healthy. Few aches and pains from old rugby injuries but nothing debilitating. Planning retiring in the next 2-3 years, bought a place in Czech Republic near the mountains, gonna find me a nice bar and drink lots of nice Czech pilsner till I keel over.

That sounds klarse

[weegie01]

Just swapped my oil to beef dripping in deep fat fryer..

Fuck keto, and fuck it all to hell and back if I can't have my double cooked chips...

I grew up in an Italian chip shop / cafe family. We used dripping. I well remember the dripping shortage of 1964 when we scoured the country for black market dripping (I am not making this up). Everyone moved to vegetable oil, and although there are few in the family still in the trade, no one would go back.

'Dripping makes better chips' is something that seems to have grown up out of nostalgia for the good old days when everyone used it, so that is what flavoured chips, it was traditional. Even at home, people used dripping rather than oil. The reasons it was used related to availability, cost and utility rather than taste.

Dripping can take more abuse than oil. It was available and cheap, it can get hotter and lasts longer, and so in the old range fryers which were hard to control it gave more flexibility.

The last range we bought was in circa 1972. It was a top of the line Preston Thomas from Wales. Looking back I cannot believe how primitive it was. No thermostats, nothing auto, just temperature gauges. Given the amounts of heat going in, it took skill to moderate it to maintain the desired temperature while moving volumes of food through it, so the ability of dripping to handle higher temperatures was useful if you got it wrong. Which everyone did sooner or later. Ranges are fully automatic now so this is no longer an issue. Commercial oils are also now more available and better processed

I'll actually avoid places frying with dripping now, personal taste obviously, but I want to taste the chip, not what it was fried in. Obviously if someone likes the taste of dripping chips then that's their choice, and why not? Which then opens up the debate on the potato variety which is a whole other debate.

[Gumboot]

Great post, weegie!

[ASMO]

Just swapped my oil to beef dripping in deep fat fryer..

Fuck keto, and fuck it all to hell and back if I can't have my double cooked chips...

I grew up in an Italian chip shop / cafe family. We used dripping. I well remember the dripping shortage of 1964 when we scoured the country for black market dripping (I am not making this up). Everyone moved to vegetable oil, and although there are few in the family still in the trade, no one would go back.

'Dripping makes better chips' is something that seems to have grown up out of nostalgia for the good old days when everyone used it, so that is what flavoured chips, it was traditional. Even at home, people used dripping rather than oil. The reasons it was used related to availability, cost and utility rather than taste.

Dripping can take more abuse than oil. It was available and cheap, it can get hotter and lasts longer, and so in the old range fryers which were hard to control it gave more flexibility.

The last range we bought was in circa 1972. It was a top of the line Preston Thomas from Wales. Looking back I cannot believe how primitive it was. No thermostats, nothing auto, just temperature gauges. Given the amounts of heat going in, it took skill to moderate it to maintain the desired temperature while moving volumes of food through it, so the ability of dripping to handle higher temperatures was useful if you got it wrong. Which everyone did sooner or later. Ranges are fully automatic now so this is no longer an issue. Commercial oils are also now more available and better processed

I'll actually avoid places frying with dripping now, personal taste obviously, but I want to taste the chip, not what it was fried in. Obviously if someone likes the taste of dripping chips then that's their choice, and why not? Which then opens up the debate on the potato variety which is a whole other debate.

Ghee FTW

[TB63]

[Ovals]

I still manage to play a handful of cricket matches - but now a 'quick single' is where I'd once have been looking for two Since I now play in the lower leagues, there's often 4 colts, in the team, whose ages, combined, are still less than mine. I can still touch my toes, after a bit of prematch stretching exercises.

Did manage an 80 run partnership with a really good colt, last season - at 10 runs an over - by then I was knackered and needed a lie down. I really have to deal in boundaries now.

[mat the expat]

Just turned 49 but I've had RA since I was 30.

I still do all my usual exercise, Martial Arts, etc but need a hefty regimen of pills and injections to maintain it.

Moving North out of Sydney on Friday for a more relaxed life - Pool for swimming and rehab. Career change likely as well

[C T]

A bawhair away from 40 and already noticing the following:

- Two strong coffees seems to be plenty
- Need a pish more when drinking, and more seems to come out
- Bacon seems way more salty, or I seem to be more impacted by the salt
- Sleep a lot more important than it used to be

[S/Lt_Phillips]

I just wish I could make it through the night without having to get up for a pee. Getting back to sleep afterwards seems to take ages too.

[Raggs]

I just wish I could make it through the night without having to get up for a pee. Getting back to sleep afterwards seems to take ages too.

I dream of being able to sleep through the night.

Though it's mostly the cat that gets me up, and I go for a pee since I'm up.

[Biffer]

I'm quit proud of being 52 and not having to get up to pee. Not sure if that's justified. Or if I just know a lot of guys with dodgy bladders / prostates.

[Yr Alban]

I'm quit proud of being 52 and not having to get up to pee. Not sure if that's justified. Or if I just know a lot of guys with dodgy bladders / prostates.

Was 50 in June and I still don’t. It’s probably in the post though - my dad was a martyr to his prostate.

[Guy Smiley]

I'm quit proud of being 52 and not having to get up to pee. Not sure if that's justified. Or if I just know a lot of guys with dodgy bladders / prostates.

I’m 62. My GP assured me my prostate is in fine health and she does seem to have developed an enthusiasm for checking the damned thing, twice in 12 months as I went back in with weird stomach pains so she dived back in grinning like a Cheshire Cat.

I pee every night, sometimes a few times. Have done for years now, I try to keep hydrated after the litre of coffee it takes to get me moving. I don’t remember whether I was up peeing much at 52 but it’s likely. Regular sleep left me for sunnier shires sometime way back in the Renaissance.

[Stranger]

I am 58, no problem going the night without peeing, but had to have a cataract done two weeks ago.

[dpedin]

I get up once a night for a pee but drinking less alcohol will see me get through the night without getting up! Off to gym again tonight as I can get out golfing due to this shitty weather. That's 4 times in 7 days and feeling ok apart from mornings when getting out of bed can take a while. Use it or lose it!

[TB63]

Nobody believes how old I am until they hear me stand up...

[Tilly Orifice]

I'm 61 (yikes, 62 next month). Got no prostate since it had to be zapped after it grew to 74 grams (not malignant) a couple of years ago, which has certainly sped up the process of peeing. No change re getting up to pee, I've never done that.

[Ovals]

70, almost never have to get up and pee in the night. Sleeping really well over the past few years - used to have awful problems getting to sleep but fall asleep quickly these days - as long as I avoid any dozing off during the day.

[vball]

Just bought a bottle of sherry for Christmas. For drinking and not for cooking with.
Certainly getting old !!

[Tichtheid]

Just bought a bottle of sherry for Christmas. For drinking and not for cooking with.
Certainly getting old !!

I hope you have the appropriate little sherry schooners to sip delicately from?

I can see myself in my dotage sitting in high backed chair by the fire in my tweeds, sipping on a single malt

[Sandstorm]

I can see myself in my dotage sitting in high backed chair by the fire in my tweeds, sipping on a single malt

I'm 51 and did that on Saturday with a couple of mates (they wore tweed, I wore my brown cords)

[tabascoboy]

Just bought a bottle of sherry for Christmas. For drinking and not for cooking with.
Certainly getting old !!

"More tea vicar?"
"I prefer sherry!"

[vball]

I can see myself in my dotage sitting in high backed chair by the fire in my tweeds, sipping on a single malt

Oh I already have a nice Parker Knoll next to the fire. Some evenings I have a nice cigar and a malt.
And I do wear tweeds quite often ... well nice sports jacket. Normal attire for us country folks you know !!

[mat the expat]

Not wanting to trust the new, fangled button handbrake on the new car on a slope.....

Edit: My car, and all our old ones have been Manual - this is the Lady of the House's new steed

[Blackmac]

Just been at the GP, having my regular cortisone injections to alleviate the trigger finger I have in both hands. I've been waiting for about 18 months for the operation with no light at the end of the tunnel.

[Biffer]

Not wanting to trust the new, fangled button handbrake on the new car on a slope.....

Edit: My car, and all our old ones have been Manual - this is the Lady of the House's new steed

I don't care what anyone says, I'll never really trust a push button hand brake.

[Hal Jordan]

In my late forties, and I can see the era of skinny fat approaching.

[bogbunny]

I've been 31 for quite a while, my eldest is now 6 years older than me and has 3 kids.

Time for a reassessment.

Get on great with all the females in the offices, have a great laugh, obviously I am too old to be trying it on!

[S/Lt_Phillips]

Not wanting to trust the new, fangled button handbrake on the new car on a slope.....

Edit: My car, and all our old ones have been Manual - this is the Lady of the House's new steed

I don't care what anyone says, I'll never really trust a push button hand brake.

Agreed - it's not an age thing. My 20 yo son does not trust the push-button handbrake on my car. Takes foot off foot-brake very carefully when parking on the drive (which slopes downhill to the garage).

[Guy Smiley]

Not wanting to trust the new, fangled button handbrake on the new car on a slope.....

Edit: My car, and all our old ones have been Manual - this is the Lady of the House's new steed

I don't care what anyone says, I'll never really trust a push button hand brake.

Agreed - it's not an age thing. My 20 yo son does not trust the push-button handbrake on my car. Takes foot off foot-brake very carefully when parking on the drive (which slopes downhill to the garage).

Definitely not an age thing... I'm older than most of you and don't give the thing a second thought...

I'm a mechanic by trade, too.

[Enzedder]

Yay - three more sleeps till Christmas (mostly in the afternoons in my armchair)

[mat the expat]

I don't care what anyone says, I'll never really trust a push button hand brake.

Agreed - it's not an age thing. My 20 yo son does not trust the push-button handbrake on my car. Takes foot off foot-brake very carefully when parking on the drive (which slopes downhill to the garage).

Definitely not an age thing... I'm older than most of you and don't give the thing a second thought...

I'm a mechanic by trade, too.

There is nothing mechanically wrong with it - it's just mental adjustment after only using a physical one.

[Sandstorm]

Yay - three more sleeps till Christmas (mostly in the afternoons in my armchair)

It’s only the 14th. You really are Rip van Winkel.

[Guy Smiley]

Agreed - it's not an age thing. My 20 yo son does not trust the push-button handbrake on my car. Takes foot off foot-brake very carefully when parking on the drive (which slopes downhill to the garage).

Definitely not an age thing... I'm older than most of you and don't give the thing a second thought...

I'm a mechanic by trade, too.

There is nothing mechanically wrong with it - it's just mental adjustment after only using a physical one.

Ah...

fear of technology

[ASMO]

Never realised there was so many old fuckers on here. We should organise a London spiteful cabal with Sanatogen cocktails all round.

[TB63]

Not many pubs have disabled parking..

[Ovals]

Not many pubs have disabled parking..

We've all got bus passes !!

[TB63]

Not many pubs have disabled parking..

We've all got bus passes !!

At least Sefton wouldn't have to turn up, most would piss down their own legs..