Signs that you are getting older

[Primo Carnera]

Got a new car which is my first since 2009. It is all electric brakes, automatic wipers, lights, drive assist on hills, keyless entry/start, alerts when it thinks you will crash which cause you anxiety etc

I am finding it hard to give control to the car.

Getting close to driverless cars.

Ha! I get you. We got a brand new motability motor 2 yrs ago now and the auto handbrake thing did my head in at first. Bad enough not having some wire ratchet to pull with both hands, now replaced by a little button lever, but then for the car to apply the handbrake for you freaked me out. Auto headlights, auto this that and the other, but luckily still has manual gears, which i could never imagine driving without. How souless and joyless to drive a car where the car even decides what gear you should be in?

Definitely love my gears.

What man does not love to play with his nob.

See, now I must be a few steps ahead on the road to “fogeyism”, but I CRAVE an automatic car next time round. I hate changing gears.
Or more to the point , I hate being in a car with my missus , and her bleating “you should be in 5th now!”

[NoSavingByTheBell]

"Soulless & Joyless"

by Shiver-me-timbers


The wind from the sea blew in hard
It got blown hard
By a pirate's uncle:
His name was Billy Bugger
Who hung round on the docks
Sucking cocks

(this was when he turned 50)

[Spicoli]

Ever feel like you have 'writers block' or you've just lost your wit . Strangest thing to describe but sometimes now I look at the screen with intent to go all in and go long winded etc but find myself thinking it to myself and then not having the 'umpf' to put finger to keyboard . Dunno if it's attention span, which has been utter shit for the last year or two, or just a mental block but it's quite curious. You don't feel sharp, spontaneous and free flowing. Just blank in spots.

[Master]

Ever feel like you have 'writers block' or you've just lost your wit . Strangest thing to describe but sometimes now I look at the screen with intent to go all in and go long winded etc but find myself thinking it to myself and then not having the 'umpf' to put finger to keyboard . Dunno if it's attention span, which has been utter shit for the last year or two, or just a mental block but it's quite curious. You don't feel sharp, spontaneous and free flowing. Just blank in spots.

It is called a senior moment.

If it is any consolation, Biden gets it all the time.

[Spicoli]

Ever feel like you have 'writers block' or you've just lost your wit . Strangest thing to describe but sometimes now I look at the screen with intent to go all in and go long winded etc but find myself thinking it to myself and then not having the 'umpf' to put finger to keyboard . Dunno if it's attention span, which has been utter shit for the last year or two, or just a mental block but it's quite curious. You don't feel sharp, spontaneous and free flowing. Just blank in spots.

It is called a senior moment.

If it is any consolation, Biden gets it all the time.

Senior moment?! Must be on a slow curve. I mean I was wandering into rooms with no idea what I was looking for back in my teens soo . Looking forward to leaving the car keys in the refrigerator and mistaken the racoons for "bears"

[NoSavingByTheBell]

When you easily can eat a stick of butter with a couple slices of bread, but when you were younger a tablespoon of butter was considered too much cholesterol.

[Spicoli]

When you easily can eat a stick of butter with a couple slices of bread, but when you were younger a tablespoon of butter was considered too much cholesterol.

Ate a full stick in my 20's with mustard and cornflakes after losing a bet once. Never make bets with md20/20.