Those things that age takes away

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**whembly**

Easy E wrote:
d-usa wrote:
I used to be a Republican, but then I got older and wiser.

I use to be a Republican too, until I entered the real world.

Maybe I will go back someday?

Bah... I was the opposite... hard-core democrat liberal when I was a pup.

Then... I grew up.

Now I'm a "South Park Conservative".

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

Talizvar wrote:
Older guy at 43 old new:

Music: Old:Metal (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest) New: Dubstep (ish) Haduken, Skrillex but also into Industrial/Goth/Steampunk
Added note: VERY picky of ensuring higher sample rate and keeping dynamic range and not letting "autoleveling" turn it into mush.

Clothing: Old: jeans shirt = black, New: Dress pants sometimes suit = black.

General appreciation/reward new ideas in anything. Nostalgia is nice but I am on this round planet for the new and trying to create with the least borrowing possible. This is why Dakka can be fun.

Love Hadouken!

timetowaste85 wrote:
I was just discussing this with someone at work yesterday: as a teen, I promised myself is always listen to punk and pop punk-green day, bad religion, rancid, blink 182, alkaline trio, offspring...now at 27 I find myself preferring the eagles, the police, black sabbath, blue oyster cult...what happened to me, Dakka?! *sob*

And dammit, I'm keeping my spicy food, no matter how old I get. I don't care that I may need to buy a new toilet the next morning.

I still listen to punk, and am also 27, but also find myself listening to the above. Kept singing Hotel California the other day, all day. And spicy food fo sho. What's your standard death sauce?

Shadowbrand wrote:
I can't run around naked anymore.

I still do, just around fewer people.

d-usa wrote:
I used to be a Republican, but then I got older and wiser.

Yup.

I've also lost the faith I once had. It used to be the center of my being and now it just makes no practical sense to me whatsoever.

**dogma**

whembly wrote:

If you have a PS3... check out Metal Gear Solid 4. Seriously... one of the first game to come out with the PS3 and imo still one of the best.

The PS3 came out in 2006, MGS4 came out in 2008.

**whembly**

dogma wrote:
whembly wrote:

If you have a PS3... check out Metal Gear Solid 4. Seriously... one of the first game to come out with the PS3 and imo still one of the best.

The PS3 came out in 2006, MGS4 came out in 2008.

OKay... it's the first game I bought when *I* got the PS3.

My world started then... so THERE!

**DutchKillsRambo**

dogma wrote:
whembly wrote:

If you have a PS3... check out Metal Gear Solid 4. Seriously... one of the first game to come out with the PS3 and imo still one of the best.

The PS3 came out in 2006, MGS4 came out in 2008.

**Lt. Coldfire**

Video games. I use to play 3-5 hours of video games per day on average. Now I'm down to about 3-5 hours per month. For serious.

**VikingScott**

Bran Dawri wrote:
Mostly, it's enjoyment of new stuff. It all always seems a rehash of older stuff that was, usually, better. Even if it's not necessarily worse, it's still predictable and boring, because it's been done before.
I've stopped watching TV, because it's all crap. Most new music is also crap, and the 1% that isn't is either barely tolerable, or gets played to death within weeks.

...

Oh wait, that's nothing to do with age, I've just got cynicism.

This guy said it for me so I'll just quote him.

**kevlar'o**

28 years old

old music - metal
new music mid 80's rock

young sleep up to 10 hours
old sleep 6 max

it only seemed recently that '' oh crap i'm 28'', look at all the young people - start feeling the hate

stoped going out on friday and staurday nights stay home and paint

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

I've recently started getting back into them. As a youngster going to Blockbuster and picking up a new game for the week was the best thing ever. Now I can download all of those. I have hours of gameplay to catch up on.

**flamingkillamajig**

I think when you get old your pride goes away. You can't really pee into a catheter (a plastic bag where your pee goes into when you can't go to the bathroom yourself) and still feel a sense of pride and maintain self respect. I can imagine self respect goes out the window once you become old. Sadly it seems everything awesome you can or could've done happened yesterday whereas now you can't do much so you spend all your time remembering the good ol' days.

**unmercifulconker**

The love of youth

**djphranq**

I didn't think it would happen but I find myself drifting away from console games. Also I don't feel as compelled to own a bunch of sci-fi novels, games, movies, swag, or material items in general.

My music tastes have changed in that it incorporates more types as I grow older.

**BryllCream**

I find I get a bad back if I have sex too much. That may just be because I'm chronically unhealthy though

**chromedog**

Hell, I didn't GET a console of my own until I was 32- which was a PS2 - and that was because it was cheaper than a DVD player at the time.

I find I play games on it about the same as I did back then. I still listen to the music I listened to as a 'kid' (but I didn't actually listen to music as a young teen - not getting into it until I was 19 or so).

But the "it's all been done before" thing ? Yeah. I see that.

**Frazzled**

flamingkillamajig wrote:
I think when you get old your pride goes away. You can't really pee into a catheter (a plastic bag where your pee goes into when you can't go to the bathroom yourself) and still feel a sense of pride and maintain self respect. I can imagine self respect goes out the window once you become old. Sadly it seems everything awesome you can or could've done happened yesterday whereas now you can't do much so you spend all your time remembering the good ol' days.

What are you, twelve? Thats so wrong its like a thousand wiener dogs just peed on your face level wrong. My father had dignity up to the day he lost consciousness.

**d-usa**

Frazzled wrote:
flamingkillamajig wrote:
I think when you get old your pride goes away. You can't really pee into a catheter (a plastic bag where your pee goes into when you can't go to the bathroom yourself) and still feel a sense of pride and maintain self respect. I can imagine self respect goes out the window once you become old. Sadly it seems everything awesome you can or could've done happened yesterday whereas now you can't do much so you spend all your time remembering the good ol' days.

What are you, twelve? Thats so wrong its like a thousand wiener dogs just peed on your face level wrong. My father had dignity up to the day he lost consciousness.

Old patients may have zero control over anything that is happening to them. They might not be able to tell us what they need, or tell us what they want. They might never hold a loved one again or feel like they are needed. But they always have their pride and dignity until death takes them. At least that is how I tread my patients and how I feel they should be treated.

**Bullockist**

Hair and the rock hardness of my youth.

**Frazzled**

d-usa wrote:

Old patients may have zero control over anything that is happening to them. They might not be able to tell us what they need, or tell us what they want. They might never hold a loved one again or feel like they are needed. But they always have their pride and dignity until death takes them. At least that is how I tread my patients and how I feel they should be treated.

Damn straight D.