I'm getting too old for this.
I had an evening meeting to attend last night in the arse end of nowhere. I got home at 10:30, feeling suitably knackered after a 13 hour shift at work.

Did I kick off my shoes, have a mug of cocoa and then hit the hay? Or did I sit for another 3 hours drinking wine, talking to the missus and watching videos on rathergood.com?

I really should learn to listen to what my body is telling me rather than think I can still hack the pace these days. What can you no longer do that never used to affect you when you were younger? Or, if you're still young, why aren't you at school/college/university, you skiving scrotes? And turn that bloody music down.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:29, 36 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm young
But I'm sat at work, joy of joys!

And I can't exercise much currently, due to a knackered knee, and terrible asthma. However, that is being remedied by a prescription, and a knee support. I'll be back at the gym within weeks!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:31, Reply)

^This
I start worrying about the next day if I'm not in bed by 11pm. At the age of 30 I used to go on benders mid-week and get to work the next day after 4 hours sleep. I wasn't much use there obviously but I got there and looked busy whilest gripping my chair in case I fell off.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:32, Reply)

Actually...
I couldn't tell you the last time I had a killer hangover.
Ok yesterday I had A hangover of sorts, but the main problem was that I got up too late and stunk of booze. I could have actually gone to work if I'd hurried myself. The headache etc was quite bearable and I didn't throw up.
When I was younger, I'd have been sick for two days. I'd have cried and I'd have vomited.
I don't know whether this means I'm growing more resilient or whether it means I'm becoming an alcoholic. I like it though.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:33, Reply)

Fortunately I rarely get killer hangovers.
Once I'm vertical, had a coffee and a shower I'm generally OK. It's just the overwhelming feeling of tiredness that cripples me.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:36, Reply)

Do you try to keep your eyes open but succeed only in going cross-eyed?
I do that in meetings.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:37, Reply)

I tend to glaze over.
I have done that 'jerking your head suddenly' thing though. Several times. I'm sure someone must have noticed. Fortunately I haven't done 'falling asleep dribbling' yet.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:39, Reply)

"FIGHT YOU!"

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:39, Reply)

Oi!
I was up at 8 so I could get to the bank. And I'm not leaving yet.

Dictionary Number 1 (English) arrived today. So excited for 2 and 3! And the two grammars. And the comic.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:34, Reply)

I'm 25 and am starting to
make 'eeeep' noises when I bend down to pick something up. This could be because I'm getting old or it could be because I've taken to wearing stupidly high shoes so I have to bend further??? I'm not sure!?!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:36, Reply)

It's the stupidly high shoes.
Bad for the feet too, y'know. You should wear comfortable, sensible shoes. With steel toe caps, to keep Tightly in line...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:45, Reply)

Hahaha
They are probably bad for my feet, I blame office girls, they are bad influences, I never cared about shoes until I worked in an office with women! Curses!!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:47, Reply)

GET A HAIRCUT

( thealternativefact, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:38, Reply)

Who, me?
I do need a haircut actually. It's getting so long I can't stick it up anymore.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:39, Reply)

*insert carry-on film response here*
Insert...*sniggers*
Etc.
( thealternativefact, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:41, Reply)

Stick it up what?
Edit: etc etc
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:41, Reply)

Vertically
With the aid of powerful hair products and raw talent.

It's also getting too thick to stick up too and needs a good thinning.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:43, Reply)

My hair is stupidly thick
and I stopped cutting it in February to see how long I could grow it before it pissed me off. As it turns out, pretty long. I buzzed it to grade 4 a couple of weeks ago. It's the only way to be sure.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:49, Reply)

Live with a vague assumption that my life will be OK in the end
Can't do that any more, due to the magic of EXPERIENCE.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:43, Reply)

When I was in my teens, I never had any hangovers or ill-effects from drinking the next day.
When I was in my twenties, I never had any hangovers or ill-effects from drinking the next day.
Now I'm in my thirties, I never have any hangovers or ill-effects from drinking the next day.
I'm like my Nan - she was on 80 smokes (OK, I don't do that) and a litre and a half of neat whisky per day, needed only about six hours of sleep per night and never suffered a hangover in her life.
*smugs*
*cries for decomposing liver*
( thealternativefact, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:45, Reply)

I've noticed.
You were ridiculously chirpy the other week at ours, after a long and drunken night.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:47, Reply)

Wookiee hates me for it.
And lots of other things :(
( thealternativefact, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:49, Reply)

Damn you.
*clutches head*
( Cawl, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:49, Reply)

Haaaaaaaaahahahahahaha
I like your hangovers :)
( thealternativefact, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:50, Reply)

I do not.
I got internet now. Excellent stuff.
( Cawl, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:52, Reply)

Oh dear.
Is it coal-fired Internet?
( thealternativefact, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:53, Reply)

No.
It actually works, unlike my Essex internet did.
Y'know what? Being unemployed ROCKS.
( Cawl, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:56, Reply)

Oh yeah, totally.
I'd love to be poor in the countryside.
( thealternativefact, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:57, Reply)

I heard
that it's powered by a Welsh male voice choir that has been hooked up to the grid and forced to sing endless rugby songs.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 9 Sep 2009, 12:16, Reply)

YOU KNOWS IT!
Safe as fuck, clart.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:53, Reply)

I don't get hangovers either.
We should go out and get horribly utterly drunk sometime.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:50, Reply)

Nothing horrible about being drunk.
Not in my world.
( thealternativefact, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:50, Reply)

:)

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:54, Reply)

I don't think
I like you much. Fair enough - when I was younger (about 16-21 I guess) I could go out four times a week, stay out til 2am, get four hours sleep and then do a full day of college or uni, then back out again the following night etc. I never seemed to get a really crippling hangover, but I would sleep for 12+ hours when it got to the weekend.
Now if I go out I get bored and tired by about midnight, or if I've gotten fairly hammered and want to stay out and dance like a twat I honestly feel like I have some kind of deathplague the following morning. When the hell did I get old and boring?!

/sniffs woefully
(berk, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:51, Reply)

*dances around hungover berk*
*prods her with a stick*
( thealternativefact, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:53, Reply)

My nan was like that.
She got to 83, and was only sick for a few months really.
Cracking old gal.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 11:54, Reply)

@Clendrix - I always thought there could be nothing about you that would be annoying.
How wrong I was : )
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 13:04, Reply)