[Closed] being 40

I'm the same, 40 this year. When I was younger I didn't get the whole '40' thing. I just thought it was another year whats the big deal? Now i'm nearly there I so get it!

Dunno, but I bet your testicles now dangle further than your cock does, best get your head round the fact that some Dr is gonna soon take an interest in probing a finger up your arse and yes you now have to trim your nasal hair more frequently than that (if you have any) on your head. Welcome to the club, enjoy the party.

Welcome, now, carry on and have some fun.

Dito

Best decade of my life (so far)!

can someone tell me where the last 20 years went?

Oh no! I'm nearly 20 so the next 20 years are going to go really fast. so I might as well be 40 then which means all these problems are just around the corner. god I'm old... 😆

been 40 for 3 years now, still does't feel any different apart form being slightly smug..and my riding has got better in the last year than ever before ??? nothing to lose now ???

PeaslakeDave - Member

Oh no! I'm nearly 20 so the next 20 years are going to go really fast. so I might as well be 40 then and so all these problems are just around the corner. god I'm old...

By the time you reach 40 there will be very little full time job around as competition intensify. My father had a cosy job until he retired but I have been struggling all these years with part-time jobs ...

40 on March 25th. Looking forward to it. Fitter than Ive ever been. Started a bicycle business that shows signs of being productive.

chewkw - Member
By the time you reach 40 there will be very little full time job around as competition intensify. My father had a cosy job until he retired but I have been struggling all these years with part-time jobs ...

Your unusual and rather secretive life story =/= everyone else's, nor our future.

Lovely - I'm 50 in two weeks - tell me where those last 30 years went!!!! Grrrr

40 next year. When am I supposed to start caring and I've worked in secure job since I was 16.

Life's what you make it.

Welcome to life's social scrapheap 🙂

I was 40 last month. Tis not all bad. Apart from the fact that I farted in the office the other day and nearly shat myself. Thats never happened before. Keep smiling.

45 this year. Not really noticed much difference except I'm less inclined to have mental shennanigans.

50's better. You become totally invisible. If you are noticed, folk just think 'that old bloke looks harmless'. It's brilliant.

I've been 40 for over 10 years now 🙂
Celebrate the fact that getting older means you no longer have to conform to society's expectations. Or, to put it another way, enjoy being an eccentric old man/woman 🙂

Try being 20, TOTALLY invisable to everyone. No one cares what you say or think, can't do anything, got no money. Half the time I don't know what to think about stuff.

er.. think we all ready have emsz

you could always get your self noticed by joining an internet forum frequented predominantly by older straight males and spice it up with your youthful tales from your interesting lifestyle.. oh, wait 😕

40 felt fine, but 47 hit me hard - as I'm definately past half-way now 😥

Try being 20, TOTALLY invisable to everyone. No one cares what you say or think, can't do anything, got no money. Half the time I don't know what to think about stuff.

40 last week, yet to notice any difference...

I was 40 last month. Tis not all bad. Apart from the fact that I farted in the office the other day and nearly shat myself. Thats never happened before. Keep smiling.

Genuine lol there...

I hit 40 in December. Not bothered...but why would I be? I have loooooaaaadddss of time left in my mid to late thirties...

40? As you were trooper, it ain't no biggie..

40, you're alright. By 50 you need to come to terms with your impending slide in performance on the bike, ultimately concluding in your death.

No one cares what you say or think, can't do anything, got no money

Many of those over 40 would probably give every last penny of that extra money to be where you are again.

enjoy being an eccentric old man/woman

Absolutely! Couldn't agree more!

Do feel sorry for folk when they met me for the first time but, mountain bikers being mountain bikers, just take you as they find you cos you ride bikes and that's all that matters. 8)

If only the rest of life was that simple ...

mountain bikers being mountain bikers, just take you as they find you cos you ride bikes and that's all that matters.

True dat! Ridden with a few peeps at work/clients whe were total a/holes..all goes out the window on a ride...

I'm 46 I think and the happiest I've ever been . The last 20 years covered getting the experiences to make me the man I am now losing the people who made me be the person I'm not finding the
Love of my life and in the last year having my son who totaly reshaped my world .

mountain bikers being mountain bikers, just take you as they find you cos you ride bikes and that's all that matters

I'll be 40 xmas day, no probs, no one will notice! kind of looking forward to having a proper number rather than 39 which is a bit of a nomark. Anyway it's not like you change as a person in exact yearly or decade increments. 2007 was a massive personal change for me, no one congratulated me on a huge change that I made and I only understand retrospectively.

going to meet some strange bloke off the internet, it'll be fine, he's a mountain biker"

Just ask molgrips! I offered to show him around the Forest and mountain bikers seem quite cool about being shown around the trails. He survived being guided by a mad woman. 🙂

had my first kid at 40.. best days work ever! 10 years on and two more kids later and i feel 25 but have family, house all the trimmings but also a sense of a clock ticking.. must get up earlier to make the most of every day!

42 now.

Mentally the same as I was 25 years ago. Playing around on bikes is still the best fun I know about that doesn't involve Zoe (and her bike).

Only difference now is I can actually afford the toys.

Better rider now than I ever have been - still shite in the grand scheme of things though.

slainte ➡ rob

cynic-al - Member

Your unusual and rather secretive life story =/= everyone else's, nor our future.

Not yours perhaps or at least not yet ... 😆

totalshell and colournoise that sounds good. think I'm getting broody.

you could always get your self noticed by joining an internet forum frequented predominantly by older straight males and spice it up with your youthful tales from your interesting lifestyle.. oh, wait

Made me chuckle...

Physical age 43
Mental age 28
Knee age 75

You'll get over it. 30 was worse for me, 40 was a breeze.

My interesting lifestyle? Going out and getting pissed on a friday night?

Christ GW your life must be ****ing boring.

40 felt fine, but 47 hit me hard - as I'm definately past half-way now

40 felt fine, but 47 hit me hard - as I'm definately past half-way now

40 this year, iron distance triathlon to celebrate, fitter and lighter than I've been in 20 years. Not sure what the fuss is about so far 🙂

Far from it emsz, perhaps you'll develop a better understanding of sarcasm along with the wisdom of age 😉

I'm 58 and I've just started doing a bit of TV extras work.

My agency took my photo and said I'd be offered quite a bit of work. I assumed it was because the George Clooney look was quite popular. They said, No, it's because there's a shortage of old men. 🙁

emsz - Member
Try being 20...No one cares what you say or think

emsz - Member
Half the time I don't know what to think about stuff.

And that's because you're only 20 and therefore don't know shit 😉

 

emsz - Member

Try being 20, TOTALLY invisable to everyone. No one cares what you say or think, can't do anything, got no money. Half the time I don't know what to think about stuff.

hate to say it but that's my life now

Maybe you should enroll in cynic-al's Big Hitter Academy?

cynic-al - Member
Maybe you should enroll in cynic-al's Big Hitter Academy?

Dude. You can't [i]learn[/i] that shit. Either you got it, or you don't got it.

38 here and feeling pretty good, thankyouverymuch.

Well if you're as young as the woman you feel, she's 40 this year 😀

I got there a couple of years back. To be honest, I'm just amazed I made it this far. Darwinism dictates I shouldn't really be here. I'm an absolute idiot who spends most of my time disproving the theory of evolution