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Here is how I managed to confound people in my 'circle of life', some cannot handle it, some love it, and some are trying to emulate how I view and live my life...

1- You are going to make three lists: A, B, and C.

2- List A will contain all the things you do in life. Obviously, a single male will have a different list A than a married male.

3- List B will come from list A. List B will contain all the things that you will 'act your age'.

4- List C will come from list A. List C will contain all the things that you will act half your age.

For example, my ideology and politics will reflect my 56 yrs, but when am on my bike, I will act like am in my mid 20s. Believe it, I have never gotten a speeding ticket on my bike. I just know how to read traffic and be precise with the throttle. If you like fishing, why do you need to 'act your age' when you go fishing? Any man here will act half his age at the beach will all those nearly nekkid women out there. :enjoy:

People continually underestimate my calendar age by at least 10 yrs. The youngest estimate -- despite me pointing out my grey hairs -- was mid 30s. How you behave IMMENSELY affects how people estimate your age. Grey hairs and wrinkles only make it more difficult, not easier. I have the former but not (yet) the latter. I have a desk job but I work out 5 days a week in my little home gym. I do not need to suck in my gut. My waist is 29 in and I do have a hard time buying pants, so I buy 30 then run the pants thru the hot wash and dryer a couple times to shrink it. I watch what I eat but am not fanatical about it. I have no problems with two double cheese burgers from Five Guys at one sitting. Fact -- Spider-Man likes Five Guys, Hawkeye prefers In-and-Out. Look it up. I wear progressive glasses but my eyesight have been stable for past five yrs, that make me a good candidate for lasik, which will make it harder for people to estimate my age.

Having people consistently underestimate your calendar age affects you psychologically as well -- make YOU feel good about yourself. You smile often, walk straighter, and basically gives less and less f*cks on what the hell is going on with other people on what they do and say. Women who underestimated my age then found out am nearly as old as their fathers looks at me differently in a good way -- my G/F said so. I guess women notices such things among themselves. My G/F is nine yrs younger than me and she underestimated my age when we first met.

The point here is that -- If B is longer than C, then you may need to 'lighten' up a bit. If C is longer than B, then you may need to 'grow up' a bit. So the goal is to balance out B and C. As you get older, you will add to A -- the master list -- then you will have to reassess on what thing(s) belongs to which list.

Age is a number and a useful one. Whatever the context of 'act your age' based from whatever cultural impressions, why do you need to 'act' that way all the time for everything? I go crazy with my five yrs old niece and three yrs old nephew. They do not want me and their father to act our age.

@James Jaevid @jhungary @Nilgiri @Hamartia Antidote


No doubt.

Whenever I said the US is the best country on Earth, people seems to think I have never been anywhere else. I think people believe that more out of their needs to sneer at Americans at any chance they get than out of any objective assessment about the US and Americans in general. The US do not need to be perfect but just better and we do not need to be better at everything. I have been to other 'first world' countries and sure, they do have some things they executes better than US. Medical and health care issues -- we could use their inputs. But when all the nitty-gritty details are added up and averaged out, the US is better than everywhere else.
Despite you living on other side of the ocean I can relate with this post almost 100% ...
 
I must have missed the memo burdening USA to act patriotically towards other countries instead of only their own, just like all other countries do. Only the naive, confused or malignant (or any combination thereof) make such claims of treason. :D

Rebel scum! Colonial yokels getting ideas about being able to run their own affairs....*grumble grumble*

You shall submit to the crown and the empire once again...just you watch! ;)
 
Rebel scum! Colonial yokels getting ideas about being able to run their own affairs....*grumble grumble*

You shall submit to the crown and the empire once again...just you watch! ;)

Interesting to keep in mind the history of how the White House got its name, eh? :D
 
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Rebel scum! Colonial yokels getting ideas about being able to run their own affairs....*grumble grumble*

You shall submit to the crown and the empire once again...just you watch! ;)

Dont let me hate you!!!! It's 0230H good night Team America!!!

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Seems to be a trend with the over 50 crowd..you two riding motorcycles and Gomig-21 and I having our Firebirds
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He still has his (looks like this). I sold mine since I could see myself wrapping around a tree some day if the rear end came loose...as these cars love to be driven hard...and when you've got wide tires on them and can take curved exit ramps at speed...man you feel invincible...until that one time you cut it a little too fast.

Just cranked it up the other day to keep things going a little bit since she's been sitting under her cover for a little while. Mercury Marine has taken the LS6 and marinized it and putting it in boats now, producing 552HP. Mine has the first of the LS's in the LS1. Will never forget when I was ready to buy it at the dealer looking at that engine and seeing the plastic intake manifold and I was like wuuuuuuuut?! lol. We were still getting used to aluminum blocks being the norm back then, but to see hard PVC or plastic for the intake manifold was a major shock. Now it's just another "don't even think about it." One of the better things on that is the Hurst short throw 6-speed shift. Love that thing. :-)

BTW, love the Disney write-up you did. :tup:
 
Just cranked it up the other day to keep things going a little bit since she's been sitting under her cover for a little while. Mercury Marine has taken the LS6 and marinized it and putting it in boats now, producing 552HP. Mine has the first of the LS's in the LS1. Will never forget when I was ready to buy it at the dealer looking at that engine and seeing the plastic intake manifold and I was like wuuuuuuuut?! lol. We were still getting used to aluminum blocks being the norm back then, but to see hard PVC or plastic for the intake manifold was a major shock. Now it's just another "don't even think about it." One of the better things on that is the Hurst short throw 6-speed shift. Love that thing. :-)

BTW, love the Disney write-up you did. :tup:

Geez... MarketBasket was packed with people shopping before the SuperBowl. Luckily it wasn't that cold out since I had to park my car about 300 yards from the door.

 
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Geez... MarketBasket was packed with people shopping before the SuperBowl. Luckily it wasn't that cold out since I had to park my car about 300 yards from the door.

I was at the parade today, bro. My so, couple of his buddies, a friend of mine and his kids wow I tell ya,I'm definitely getting too old for this shit loool. I was friggin exhausted after being out there with thousands of Pats fans loonies. Getting tired of these parades, there's too many of them LOL! :enjoy:

Good stuff, though. Got onto the orange line in Malden and as soon as we popped out of Downtown Crossing, we had one of the best spots. Some pics.

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Bob Kraft was a mad dog lol. Great look at the Lombardi Trophy which hopefully one day in the future will be named the Belichick Torphy.

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Edleman was facing the other side but a good look at the trophy.

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And of course, the GOAT. I'll tell ya, there were more Brady shirts than any other piece of clothing material out of the thousands of people there. What a $ making machine that is. Then someone to our right had a ball and Brady told him to throw it and of course, a perfect catch.

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I was at the parade today, bro. My so, couple of his buddies, a friend of mine and his kids wow I tell ya,I'm definitely getting too old for this shit loool. I was friggin exhausted after being out there with thousands of Pats fans loonies. Getting tired of these parades, there's too many of them LOL! :enjoy:

Good stuff, though. Got onto the orange line in Malden and as soon as we popped out of Downtown Crossing, we had one of the best spots. Some pics.

M4BPwNJ.jpg

jk5f6Wr.jpg

SL6jkg1.jpg

hUbvijx.jpg


Bob Kraft was a mad dog lol. Great look at the Lombardi Trophy which hopefully one day in the future will be named the Belichick Torphy.

SAKqbrR.jpg

i2Q4vaS.jpg


Edleman was facing the other side but a good look at the trophy.

lxWXUwN.jpg

Hc9gJL2.jpg

qRnoOes.jpg


And of course, the GOAT. I'll tell ya, there were more Brady shirts than any other piece of clothing material out of the thousands of people there. What a $ making machine that is. Then someone to our right had a ball and Brady told him to throw it and of course, a perfect catch.

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Oh right you are a patriots fan...I forgot :P

Hey you sticking around this forum or just passing by? Hope everything going well with you bud.
 
I was at the parade today, bro. My so, couple of his buddies, a friend of mine and his kids wow I tell ya,I'm definitely getting too old for this shit loool. I was friggin exhausted after being out there with thousands of Pats fans loonies. Getting tired of these parades, there's too many of them LOL! :enjoy:

Good stuff, though. Got onto the orange line in Malden and as soon as we popped out of Downtown Crossing, we had one of the best spots. Some pics.

was a mad dog lol. Great look at the Lombardi Trophy which hopefully one day in the future will be named the Belichick Torphy.


Edleman was facing the other side but a good look at the trophy.

And of course, the GOAT. I'll tell ya, there were more Brady shirts than any other piece of clothing material out of the thousands of people there. What a $ making machine that is. Then someone to our right had a ball and Brady told him to throw it and of course, a perfect catch.

LOL! A ton of my coworkers couldn’t make it in to work because so many people were on the platforms waiting for the trains at 7am...especially the commuter rail ones. I made it in fine. We had planned to try and sneak out and catch part of the spectacle.


You are right by the Statehouse...just about where we’d be walking up Summer.
 
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