Getting Old - The 40+ Brigade

[Davo]

If only the same were true with shoulder hair going grey.

Ew!

[cookie]

Turning 40 next year and been losing the hair on my head more quickly the last couple of years so will have to make a choice soon.

Its not all bad though as I guess I have never really lost my hair it just migrated from my head to my back, nose and ears.

[wimmera1]

I used to worry about what to do with my hair, thinking I’d have to go full chrome dome.
Turns out I’m not bothered.
I just keep it short.
As long as you’re not doing a comb-over, you’re fine.

[barnz]

comb-over

comb over is the denial state.

[wimmera1]

comb-over

comb over is the denial state.

Exactly.
Some people think I’m grimly hanging on by just keeping standard mpb short, but they mistake laziness for vanity.
Who can be arsed shaving your head every few days?
Not me.

[Deckham]

If only the same were true with shoulder hair going grey.

Ew!

Let me tell you about my merkin…

[Diggers]

Having said that, I’ve seen a few ‘sleazy’ comb-overs around the place.

Combined with the right clothes at the right occasion, it kind of works. In an ironic sort of way. A bit like Norman Gunstan but without the tissue paper on shaving cuts.

It’s a bold statement.

[wimmera1]

It’s certainly that.
You’d need a big personality to carry it.

[DonMania]

Starting to appreciate (use that term loosely) the annoyance of hair disappearing up top and appearing in totally unnecessary places.

[Alan_Noonan_10]

I had to go into Warrnambool Base Hospital yesterday for my annual scan (just checking that a benign cyst doesn’t turn) and the female radiographer was an extremely pleasant, attractive, mid-30s lady who persisted in calling me sweetie, my darling etc.

If I’d done that, I’d probably be seeking bail today. But she was very chatty,I think I got her life story.

So…do they only talk that way when they perceive you as an old pharte?

[bloodychoir]

Starting to appreciate (use that term loosely) the annoyance of hair disappearing up top and appearing in totally unnecessary places.

I’m gonna assume you mean tongue. Who would’ve expected that?

[Deckham]

I had to go into Warrnambool Base Hospital yesterday for my annual scan

far out - I did a quick double-take then…

[FuriousGeorge]

I had to go into Warrnambool Base Hospital yesterday for my annual scan (just checking that a benign cyst doesn’t turn) and the female radiographer was an extremely pleasant, attractive, mid-30s lady who persisted in calling me sweetie, my darling etc.

If I’d done that, I’d probably be seeking bail today. But she was very chatty,I think I got her life story.

So…do they only talk that way when they perceive you as an old pharte?

Well, having met you I can confidently say it would be highly unlikely she was flirting with you.

[Alan_Noonan_10]

I had to go into Warrnambool Base Hospital yesterday for my annual scan (just checking that a benign cyst doesn’t turn) and the female radiographer was an extremely pleasant, attractive, mid-30s lady who persisted in calling me sweetie, my darling etc.

If I’d done that, I’d probably be seeking bail today. But she was very chatty,I think I got her life story.

So…do they only talk that way when they perceive you as an old pharte?

Well, having met you I can confidently say it would be highly unlikely she was flirting with you.

That’s very hurtful!

[Diggers]

I don’t even know Noons and I felt that from here.

[dingus]

As the youth of today would put it;

“ooooft”

[bloodychoir]

If you know Furious George’s avatar he’s just being himself.

[FuriousGeorge]

That’s what happens when you call people “a malignant c##t”.

Anyway, will you feel better if I offer you a free cuddle?

[FuriousGeorge]

Also, I’m a total c##t.

[Alan_Noonan_10]

That’s what happens when you call people “a malignant c##t”.

Anyway, will you feel better if I offer you a free cuddle?

Paulie Walnuts didn’t react that way when Tony Soprano called him a malignant c##t.

• might have been other Sopranos characters, but WGAF?

And anyway, I don’t remember calling you a malignant c##t. I have called most people on this site that, but I’m usually more circumspect around people with access to heavy duty ordnance and could kill me with a twitch of their little finger.