Dying
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I have turned down my missus more times this year then I have in the previous 23 years of our relationship, never thought I would see this day. Sometimes I'm just too tired and want to go to sleep. I'm assuming I must be alone or is anyone else drive diminishing as they age?
get. The fuck. out.
have a word with yourself.
The one you turn down is the one you miss out on.
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@Rembrandt said in Aging:
Apologies guys but if memory serves certain discussions involving particular penetrative acts could get tsf in trouble with the Google Staatssicherheitsdienst. So its gotta be super tenuous and vague and if you can't read between the lines that's on you.
Now if you'll excuse me its garbage collection tomorrow so I'm going to busy myself separating the recyclables and wheeling the bins out ..if you get my drift.
@Bones insert bin day gif quick!!!
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I have turned down my missus more times this year then I have in the previous 23 years of our relationship, never thought I would see this day. Sometimes I'm just too tired and want to go to sleep. I'm assuming I must be alone or is anyone else drive diminishing as they age?
I turned the wife down down once in the last 2 decades, on principle. And typing that out makes it sound even more stupid than it was at the time.
She had been out with her friends (I was looking after the kids) and was a little tipsy when she got home i.e. raring to go. Now, The Red Baron was in town at this point. Noting that had been used as her excuse multiple times to halt my amorous advances in the past decade, I decided to take a stand - on principle.
I should add that I didn't simply turn her down; tried to secure a blowjob before the main act, but she wasn't going to budge on that so I walked away from negotiations.
In my defence, her friend was sleeping in our spare room, and I was just smart enough to avoid asking if her mate might be interested in helping sway my decision.
@mariner4life said in Aging:
The one you turn down is the
onemonth you miss out on.Fixed.
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I have turned down my missus more times this year then I have in the previous 23 years of our relationship, never thought I would see this day. Sometimes I'm just too tired and want to go to sleep. I'm assuming I must be alone or is anyone else drive diminishing as they age?
I turned the wife down down once in the last 2 decades, on principle. And typing that out makes it sound even more stupid than it was at the time.
She had been out with her friends (I was looking after the kids) and was a little tipsy when she got home i.e. raring to go. Now, The Red Baron was in town at this point. Noting that had been used as her excuse multiple times to halt my amorous advances in the past decade, I decided to take a stand - on principle.
I should add that I didn't simply turn her down; tried to secure a blowjob before the main act, but she wasn't going to budge on that so I walked away from negotiations.
In my defence, her friend was sleeping in our spare room, and I was just smart enough to avoid asking if her mate might be interested in helping sway my decision.
@mariner4life said in Aging:
The one you turn down is the
onemonth you miss out on.Fixed.
firstly, that single-word last line made me sad
second, i have tried to make a moral stand for some perceived slight in past. Turns out i have zero will power.
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@mariner4life said in Aging:
second, i have tried to make a moral stand for some perceived slight in past. Turns out i have zero will power.
Two heads, one brain.
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Fun thread to scroll through.
In no order:
1st Jobs - like many I had the pamphlet/paper run. I remember getting $4.50 for the Sunday morning paper (they fired me when my delivery count fell from 20-odd initially to 4) and $17 per week for the 6-day per week Evening Standard. Mowed a lot of lawns (badly). I also worked at Pak'n'Save for $3.63 / hr for a while, and I remember feeling so rich when I got a job at Maccas for $7.50.
Turning down the wife? Have thought about it, never managed it.
Memory? Definitely fading, maybe that's for the best
Pee in the night? Yeah, 70% of the time between 4-5am, bloody annoying
Music - hardly listen to the radio, all Spotify stuff (enjoying "Early Alternative" right now). Don't actually mind Dance Monkey (her live performance at Splendour was awesome and it still blows me away that she is a white Aussie bogan not a small girl from South America), but fcking hate the way every single decent song has to be re-made by someone with a slight shitty twist. Just leave it alone!
Grumpiness - where do I start? People who have no sense of personal space, wandering around with their head in their phone. When people (mostly female) walk right around you to get in a lift ahead of you. Any time some cnt cuts in front when you're driving and doesn't give you a courtesy wave. I actually reckon you could ram your car into mine and set off my airbags and I'd be OK with it provided you gave me a wave.
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oh i missed the first job bit.
From as early as i can remember i worked in dad's factory for pocket money at best. Was still doing that over uni summers until i was 20 i reckon
Pamphlets was my first. I got fired from that for missing too many deliveries. I had the New World coupons in a retiree area, so those biddies used to ring up if they didn't get them. What really offended me is i never even dumped, i legit did that job so fuck knows why they weren't getting them. 500-odd pamphlets a week.
Mobil forecourt which was pretty sweet.
Best one was cleaning a bakery. Worked around sport, full-time available over holidays if i wanted. Basic baking duties sometimes. Food at the end of every day. Mint
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I remember when Dad retired and was only play golf (Retired around 55) and going to the beach house, he wanted to show me that you had to work for money and that any job is a good job.
So when I was about 14 or 15 he took me to a night job packing boxes in a warehouse (books I think) and it was only supposed to be for 2 hours per night. After the first night we never went back and he basically said find something you like and do it.
It must have been the most torturous 2 hours he had ever worked. Big ups to him for trying to teach me a valuable lesson.
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First job: family farm - shearing shed to be precise. Didn't get paid for that really, tho dad did take us to a nearby farm for my first tax paying job when I was 14. Hot. Owner was a dickhead and didn't treat his sleep for lice, so the wool was total crap to work with.
Fuck all that. It's why I bludge in an office for a living. Every time I get frustrated with the political corporate shit, I look at the brickies building houses in searing heat, and think about the farm.
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@NTA yeah, fuck working outside in this country, it's ridiculous
Qld Govt looking to bring in legislation (driven by unions) that will force tradesmen to stop work if the temp hits 28, or the humidity 75%. So for 9 months of the year in Cairns then
It was 28 degrees as i drove to work at 7.40 this morning.
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@mariner4life said in Aging:
@NTA yeah, fuck working outside in this country, it's ridiculous
Qld Govt looking to bring in legislation (driven by unions) that will force tradesmen to stop work if the temp hits 28, or the humidity 75%. So for 9 months of the year in Cairns then
It was 28 degrees as i drove to work at 7.40 this morning.
28 seems low, but presumably there is a temperature above which it's dangerous to work outside, even if that's 40.
Or in the spirit of the thread, they should man up or find a softer job.
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On hot weather working, one of my worst jobs ever was picking strawberries in summer in Hawkes Bay. Start work stupidly early in the morning (was not a morning person back then) then try and pick as much before 8am so you could cruise a bit to 10-12 and then go home.
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On hot weather working, one of my worst jobs ever was picking strawberries in summer in Hawkes Bay. Start work stupidly early in the morning (was not a morning person back then) then try and pick as much before 8am so you could cruise a bit to 10-12 and then go home.
Similar job out our way was cotton "chipping" i.e. chipping or pulling burrs and weeds out of cotton crop rows in order to prevent contamination of the final product.
I never did it (mornings? ugh), but mates would in school holidays: Get up before dawn, go up and down the rows for hours at a time in increasing heat. Few breaks and make sure you're in long sleeves and a decent hat. Pay was OK, from memory.
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@mariner4life said in Aging:
Qld Govt looking to bring in legislation (driven by unions) that will force tradesmen to stop work if the temp hits 28, or the humidity 75%. So for 9 months of the year in Cairns then
Lazy fluffybunnies. And I genuinely mean that for any person who encourages such a position.
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1st job for me was doing the payroll in the hotel my old man managed (at 11).
First paid job - woolies Got sacked for sweeping up to slowly so started my own cleaning company at 17 while at uni.
Only get up in the middle of the night for a piss if I've been on the piss.
Never too tired. It might not work next time!!! That hasn't been a problem but there's always a first so hell no.
Don't really listen to music full stop. I want to engage my brain with stuff other than work so listen to a lot of podcasts on subjects outside my comfort zone - sciences, philosophy, history mainly.
Never, ever, ever get grumpy
Still got a thick mop of hair on my head but its grey now (that started in my early 20's) but its growing in my ears now too and I seem to be developing long grey nasal hairs which look like bogeys if I don't catch them.
Have thus far managed to avoid the hairy back though.
Someone mentioned endurance vs strength. I walk 70 - 100 kms every week - mainly after work (podcasts). I was OK with fit young things leaving me for dead but increasingly it's Mums with buggies. Effectively anyone without a zimmer frame burns me off on the hills which fucks me off - or would if I was the type to get grumpy
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@mariner4life said in Aging:
One thing that I find makes me grumpier is the avalanche of stupid songs. Dance Monkey - WTF? Anything with autotune. Practically everything on high rotate on commercial radio - I know I'm hardly their target demographic but use some imagination you lazy pricks.
there are a couple of songs playing on the radio now that i quite like...
seriously outweighed by the mountains of utter shit though
Can't listen to the radio any more. Loud dickheads and ads. Or politicians. Its a lose-lose.
Agreed, the one exception being R&N Fridays on 2Day FM and other affiliated stations. Love being taken back to my "clubbing" days with all the older R&N and Hip Hop (which is not really my cup of tea but the memories).
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Every time I get frustrated with the political corporate shit, I look at the brickies building houses in searing heat, and think about the farm.
I always think of the poor roofers, laying white colourbond roofs in 30+ temps, no thanks. Or mechanics in overalls inside a hot unconditioned workshop.
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@NTA said in Aging:
Every time I get frustrated with the political corporate shit, I look at the brickies building houses in searing heat, and think about the farm.I always think of the poor roofers, laying white colourbond roofs in 30+ temps, no thanks. Or mechanics in overalls inside a hot unconditioned workshop.
I did roofing (roofing labouring really) as a summer job a couple of year at uni. Now that is some bollocks work I never want to do again.
