You know you're getting old when.....
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Some locations have multiple area codes for one city. Two folks could have the same 7 digit number, hence the need for the area code. I dunno, I stopped giving a fuck when numbers could be programmed into my phone.
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Phone lines are digital (voip). All numbers are 10 digit, even locally. Still, it's a single click to on a saved number vs. tapping my screen on my phone.
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When I was young I was super fit. Played basketball in university, ran, muay thai, I was a machine. I would sometimes literally play basketball all day long with a quick break for lunch and dinner. Sounds good, right? Setting myself up for older age with a healthy lifestyle, right?
Wrong. So. Fucking. Wrong.
Horrific bone spurs. Walking is agony. I feel like a crippled person and some mornings it is so bad I can barely hobble to the shower. Spent over $3,000 this year alone on various kinds of treatment. Worse thing is feet always hurt...so you feel tempted to sit more...and by sitting more tend to gain weight...making feet hurt worse.
I've gradually begun to get out of that loop by biking and swimming more but, fuck me, you have no idea how much you hate life when you can't, for example, walk to get coffee without massaging and bathing your feet in cold water for 30 minutes after.
Oh. And I also want to fuck too many young girls.
Wrong. So. Fucking. Wrong.
Horrific bone spurs. Walking is agony. I feel like a crippled person and some mornings it is so bad I can barely hobble to the shower. Spent over $3,000 this year alone on various kinds of treatment. Worse thing is feet always hurt...so you feel tempted to sit more...and by sitting more tend to gain weight...making feet hurt worse.
I've gradually begun to get out of that loop by biking and swimming more but, fuck me, you have no idea how much you hate life when you can't, for example, walk to get coffee without massaging and bathing your feet in cold water for 30 minutes after.
Oh. And I also want to fuck too many young girls.
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Caliane
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this is the thing. its all digital now. I don't even know why phonenumbers are still a thing. It could just as easily be phased over to addresses like email addresses.
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Awesome. I can just imagine it.
"What's your phone number?"
"Call me at[email protected]/* <
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"What's your phone number?"
"Call me at[email protected]/* <![CDATA[ */!function(t,e,r,n,c,a,p){try{t=document.currentScript||function(){for(t=document.getElementsByTagName('script'),e=t.length;e--
if(t[e].getAttribute('data-cfhash'))return t[e]}();if(t&&(c=t.previousSibling)){p=t.parentNode;if(a=c.getAttribute('data-cfemail')){for(e='',r='0x'+a.substr(0,2)|0,n=2;a.length-n;n+=2)e+='%'+('0'+('0x'+a.substr(n,2)^r).toString(16)).slice(-2);p.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(decodeURIComponent(e)),c)}p.removeChild(t)}}catch(u){}}()/* ]]> */"
Drajakur
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Phoning me at work is the best way to let me know what your call is unimportant and I shouldn't waste my time answering. Need me? IM. Low priority or follow up? Email. Want to talk? Put a conference in my calendar - if the calendar is full, here's a hint - I'm not answering the phone because I'm probably busy.
Best screening mechanism there is.
Best screening mechanism there is.
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You are getting old when your birthday present is a wrapped box of dirt with a message that it was tested and is younger than you,
Aaubert
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Just came across this today and remembered Selix's $14,000 computer fantasy.
PC Gamer's Large Pixel Collider has a price tag just over 10k, and it can actually run any game out there on the highest settings, show the benefits of those highest settings, and still not lag. Like, we're talking full graphics mods on Bethseda games.
I still don't think it's a good buy, but man, I really do remember looking at the computers that were benchmarked higher than the alienware desktops in the 1990s in the back of PCAccelerator magazine. 14k totally happened.
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Drajakur
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Videogame industry. Before that semiconductor. Also spent time in Digital Media.
The semicon was where I adopted the practice.
Paul's Boutique is 25 years old. Ouch. Remember cruising around with my cousin drinking and smoking listening to this over-and-over in highschool.
