Dang, we getting old

Im reminded of something we used to say in fire brigade...

How long ya been in the job Meako?
23 years.
Name's not even dry in the book yet.

Good days such fond memories

I just looked up my membership...06 I joined and just turned 58...I only came here looking for sharpening advice...
 
5K Qs said:
When you joined BF 12 years ago at age 32, your next birthday would indicate that your age had increased by 1 year out of 32, or 3.125%.
But your birthday coming up in less than 2 weeks will indicate that your age increased by 1 year out of 44, or 2.273%.
So look at the bright side - your aging is slowing down!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:🤓
(My birthday later this month will show that my age increased by 1 year out of 70, or 1.429%; I'm hardly aging at all these days, so I got that going for me!)

- GT
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The beauty of math!
It's not only the aging which slows down, i slow down, conscientiously. Slowness makes things more beautiful.

Dan.
 
I joined in 2011 and was already past 45, I just became the Scoutmaster of my sons' troop and got into knives from showing the boys how to use them. Now I'm on the wrong side of 55 and there's still too many knives calling my name!
I dug this photo up since I'm carrying a Buck 309 now and I already posted it today so here's another favorite that sees a lot of carry, a Boker stockman:

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The older I get, the older old gets.

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Zieg
 
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The older I get, the older old gets.

Zieg



Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-la. --Pierre-Simon Laplace (apocryphal)
 
dantzk8 said:
The older I get, the older old gets.

Zieg



Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-la. --Pierre-Simon Laplace (apocryphal)
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Ah! c’est une belle hypothèse; ça explique beaucoup de choses. --Joseph-Louis Lagrange
(One of my favorite stories from the history of mathematics! :thumbsup:🤓)

- GT
 
I’m 43.
I collect grandpa knives.
I have no sense or care for fashion.
I have 4 kids…2 will be teens next summer.
Dad humor and sarcasm is rampant.
I don’t participate in social media other than an archaic Y2K style chat room where I am nearly the youngest participant.
My wife says that I’m a premature grandpa with a humor that never left middle school.

She also says she is going to commit me to a mental health institution if she starts finding Werthers Originals in my pockets that I intend to give to all the children at church.

I’m down with it. I like the idea of trying to get away with old man mentality in a 43 yr old body. Don’t give a crap what others think of you. Focus on faith, family, and living in the moment. Collect grandpa knives.

This post is brought to you by cheap 4” stockman knives.

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Old Engineer said:
So I should feel pretty good about aging 1.234568 % this year ????? It felt like a lot bigger percent to me Gary . Every 2 years Aches and Pains are squared at that rate, but that does not hold true for every year .

Harry
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I'll admit that my analysis was one-dimensional, Harry, focused only on the age number itself.
And there are lots of other factors of aging that need to be taken into account. For example, I spend more time every year doing stretching and exercises when I get up in the morning just to try to keep as many of my parts working as I can! o_O

- GT
 
Lol this post has spawned some funny side conversations.

I think because I went completely grey/silver by 40. And most of my friends are younger, they've all been calling me the old man for the past 7-8 years.

Also despite discovering that to many of you that 45 is still young pup stage, I think it might be a milestone for me and it hit me the other day
 
My dad humor is not funny except to me, and my daughter reminds me that she decides what nursing home I’ll go to, and that she’ll sell my knives for cheap!! The nursing home doesn’t bother me, but it makes my heart jump when she says sell my collection! 😆
 
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