Aging ("Ageing," to the obsolete)

Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Leo said:
Gus, if you knew anything -- about me, or the world in general -- you'd realize what a jackass you are.
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I've only skim-read this thread, but for the record I'd like to congratulate Gus on his heartfelt, if totally unconvincing, attempt to make it look like he wasn't bothered at all by Leo's brutal smackdown by joining in with a 'haha' reaction.
 
WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
linebaugh said:
talking to my parents is like this. without exaggeration I am unable get a single complete sentence in when talking to them. I think its more they are excited to share what they think is a common thought, so its not rude or dismissive, but its impossible to share a complete thought with them or even get them to consider that your thought is different from what they assume you think. And Im not talking about any serious subject matter either. If were talking about something as banal as breakfast and my parents have it in their head that were talking pancakes, I will be unable to move the conversation to bacon. theyd go something like 'ya bacon in pancakes is good too. another thing I like about pancakes is...'
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Americans can be quite bickery behind closed doors, intransigence grows when bickering escalates and all it takes is for multiple generations to be squished together and life can drag fast quickly

Saw an ex’s father launch an electrical fan off a balcony about 20feet into their neighbours bushes over a game of rummy once, happened real rapid too like a beast awakening. 1 minute he was borderline asleep from too much bourbon, the next full raging gammon. Think the fan was traumatised, no-one wanted to risk being seen moving to check in on its welfare (insert Vietnam jokes about VC on the wire), even if this event is/was atypical for Philadelphia on a hot Sunday afternoon

Noticed a real appetite among your younger men for bagging a soccer-mom too, hence Gus going against the grain for this specific age appeal. Took huge pride taking the piss about their elders, so understand if a foreigner observes y’all have some serious age kinks. Young women would gossip interminably if so and so had pulled a salt and pepper. Maybe the internet has subsequently flattened this curve

For parity, a mate came clean about an affair recently. When I asked who she was (eg did I know her), realised she was about 12 years older than him. And he’s 53. There’s a reason druidry took 20 years to complete
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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WashYourHands said:
Noticed a real appetite among your younger men for bagging a soccer-mom too, hence Gus going against the grain for this specific age appeal. Took huge pride taking the piss about their elders, so understand if a foreigner observes y’all have some serious age kinks. Young women would gossip interminably if so and so had pulled a salt and pepper. Maybe the internet has subsequently flattened this curve
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what the hell is going on with the incest thing. you bunch of nutters.
 
Leo

Leo

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WashYourHands said:
Noticed a real appetite among your younger men for bagging a soccer-mom too, hence Gus going against the grain for this specific age appeal. Took huge pride taking the piss about their elders, so understand if a foreigner observes y’all have some serious age kinks. Young women would gossip interminably if so and so had pulled a salt and pepper. Maybe the internet has subsequently flattened this curve
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MILFs are big here, for sure.
 
sus

sus

Moderator
William James on habit is a key read here, I think: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Habit_(James_1914)

> Plasticity … in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once.

> Any sequence of mental action which has been frequently repeated tends to perpetuate itself; so that we find ourselves automatically prompted to think, feel, or do what we have been before accustomed to think, feel, or do, under like circumstances, without any consciously formed purpose, or anticipation of results.

> Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein. It keeps the fisherman and the deck-hand at sea through the winter; it holds the miner in his darkness, and nails the countryman to his log cabin and his lonely farm through all the months of snow; it protects us from invasion by the natives of the desert and the frozen zone. It dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again. It keeps different social strata from mixing. Already at the age of twenty-five you see the professional mannerism settling down on the young commercial traveller, on the young doctor, on the young minister, on the young counsellor-at-law. You see the little lines of cleavage running through the character, the tricks of thought, the prejudices, the ways of the ‘shop,’ in a word, from which the man can by-and-by no more escape than his coat-sleeve can suddenly fall into a new set of folds. On the whole, it is best he should not escape.

And this doomerism:
> It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
 
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