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Miss the 90s and the raves? No longer recognise the players in the England team? Coppers getting younger? Can't hang a wet towel off it anymore? No idea what a 67 is? Too proud to seek therapy?
Get it off your chest here. The worst things about being a middle aged bloke
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Middle Aged Blokes Club on 21:22 - Nov 21 with 2163 views
Middle Aged Blokes Club on 20:04 - Nov 21 by hubble
Ooh I like the sound of that. I'd LOVE to get rid of the floaters in my vision. Do you think it's a thing you can have done?
It meant remaining upright for weeks while the fluid came back - including sleeping. It had to be done under a local anaesthetic (morphine is moreish) and ached like fúck afterwards. Most disconcertingly was the fluid coming back and my vision being like a spirit level for weeks with a bubble - gave me seasickness. Would not recommend.
Middle Aged Blokes Club on 17:35 - Nov 21 by kensalriser
I suffer from frequent migraines but find the eye floaters much more difficult to deal with because they're always there. I'm sure they're not that bad, certainly not compared to actually losing your eyesight but they cause me more bother than all my other age related deterioration combined...so far.
Having my eyeballs drained to fix it sounds a bit extreme though.
If it's any consolation, if you have not had the floaters for long, you may find that you get so used to them that you begin to notice them less and less. I've had mine for over three years and that has been the case for me.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Middle Aged Blokes Club on 19:34 - Nov 23 with 1550 views
Middle Aged Blokes Club on 19:07 - Nov 18 by MrSheen
Happened to me for the first time last week. Fortunately I laughed rather than got offended.
My worst habit is whenever someone tells me they’re going somewhere in London, I insist on telling them what is was like about 1980.
OMG, I do that too! Went out with some old mates on Friday around Paddington and we were talking about how rough it used to be in the early 80’s and how rough it was back then!
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Middle Aged Blokes Club on 00:19 - Nov 24 with 1410 views
I've been playing lawn bowls since I was 10! I love it. Not just because it is actually a really tactical, skillful and - believe it or not - competitive sport, but because of the social side too. The different people I've met over the years (of all ages and backgrounds!), and different places I've been to around the south of England (and beyond) has really shaped me as a person.
Anyway, for years whenever I've told anyone that I bowl, I've always got the standard default reply - "but that's an old mans sport!" (it isn't by the way).
Now when I tell someone, they just kind of accept it... I'm only 50 ffs! But I guess I'm now seen as being in that more "senior" catagory now!
Edit: We now play in a darts league that we joined this winter. One of your Oppo's is The Conningham!
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Middle Aged Blokes Club on 10:07 - Nov 24 with 1258 views
Middle Aged Blokes Club on 00:19 - Nov 24 by W7Ranger
I've been playing lawn bowls since I was 10! I love it. Not just because it is actually a really tactical, skillful and - believe it or not - competitive sport, but because of the social side too. The different people I've met over the years (of all ages and backgrounds!), and different places I've been to around the south of England (and beyond) has really shaped me as a person.
Anyway, for years whenever I've told anyone that I bowl, I've always got the standard default reply - "but that's an old mans sport!" (it isn't by the way).
Now when I tell someone, they just kind of accept it... I'm only 50 ffs! But I guess I'm now seen as being in that more "senior" catagory now!
Edit: We now play in a darts league that we joined this winter. One of your Oppo's is The Conningham!
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Good for you, W7. I’ve often thought about giving lawn bowls a go and completely take your point that it’s not exclusively an ‘old man’s sport’. I played squash as a young man, which eventually gave way to racketball (much more forgiving but you still get the cardio ‘buzz’) and doubles tennis these days provides the social interaction without necessarily troubling the defibrillator too much at our club.
I once played the Beautiful Game (not so beautiful in my case) and still occasionally have that fantasy of being plucked from the crowd to play for the R’s in an emergency but then wonder how long I would actually last (particularly as my lack of pace was exposed recently during a game of walking football). About thirty seconds I reckon.
So what’s the perfect sport as you enter your dotage? For me it’s currently a game called ‘real tennis’, which I discovered about six months ago during a visit to Hampton Court Palace. It’s a completely bonkers game that involves whacking individually hand-made balls around with a lop-sided racket on a 500-year old court with sloping walls. You get points by hitting the ball into some sort of effigy of Henry VIII or a net with a bell in it. It seems to be a cross between tennis, squash and 3D chess (just don’t ask me to explain the rules!) but you don’t really have to be super-fit to play it.
Took me a while to get over the perceived ‘poshness’ of it (it is and it isn’t) but so far I’m loving it.
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Middle Aged Blokes Club on 10:46 - Nov 24 with 1172 views
Middle Aged Blokes Club on 10:07 - Nov 24 by TwoHalves
Good for you, W7. I’ve often thought about giving lawn bowls a go and completely take your point that it’s not exclusively an ‘old man’s sport’. I played squash as a young man, which eventually gave way to racketball (much more forgiving but you still get the cardio ‘buzz’) and doubles tennis these days provides the social interaction without necessarily troubling the defibrillator too much at our club.
I once played the Beautiful Game (not so beautiful in my case) and still occasionally have that fantasy of being plucked from the crowd to play for the R’s in an emergency but then wonder how long I would actually last (particularly as my lack of pace was exposed recently during a game of walking football). About thirty seconds I reckon.
So what’s the perfect sport as you enter your dotage? For me it’s currently a game called ‘real tennis’, which I discovered about six months ago during a visit to Hampton Court Palace. It’s a completely bonkers game that involves whacking individually hand-made balls around with a lop-sided racket on a 500-year old court with sloping walls. You get points by hitting the ball into some sort of effigy of Henry VIII or a net with a bell in it. It seems to be a cross between tennis, squash and 3D chess (just don’t ask me to explain the rules!) but you don’t really have to be super-fit to play it.
Took me a while to get over the perceived ‘poshness’ of it (it is and it isn’t) but so far I’m loving it.
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Pretty sure I came across Real Tennis whilst on a tour of Hampton Court Palace on a school trip. Very well described!
And if you ever do fancy taking the plunge and wanna give bowls a go, give me a shout. You'd be surprised how many ex footballers, cricketers, golfers, tennis players etc... now play bowls. If you are/were decent at said sports, then you'll have decent hand/eye co-ordination and would pick it up pretty quickly.
Middle Aged Blokes Club on 10:46 - Nov 24 by W7Ranger
Pretty sure I came across Real Tennis whilst on a tour of Hampton Court Palace on a school trip. Very well described!
And if you ever do fancy taking the plunge and wanna give bowls a go, give me a shout. You'd be surprised how many ex footballers, cricketers, golfers, tennis players etc... now play bowls. If you are/were decent at said sports, then you'll have decent hand/eye co-ordination and would pick it up pretty quickly.
Well, that’s a kind offer, W7. I occasionally talk to a bloke who’s involved with Dulwich Hamlet (my local non-League team) when he’s on his way to his bowls club in Denmark Hill. Don’t even know his name and it’s a bit awkward asking after 30 years! If I did take it up I think I’d have to commission a pair of those ‘swivel-lens’ glasses popularised by the snooker player Dennis Taylor in the 80’s.
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Middle Aged Blokes Club on 11:23 - Nov 24 with 1096 views
Went to our niece's bat mitzvah (coming of age) party last night. Only had two drinks, was not madly late, lights out around midnight like most nights.
Middle Aged Blokes Club on 11:50 - Nov 22 by R_from_afar
If it's any consolation, if you have not had the floaters for long, you may find that you get so used to them that you begin to notice them less and less. I've had mine for over three years and that has been the case for me.
Did a induction with a load of talented, confident, and enthusiastic youngsters at work recently. All of whom will undoubtedly be a huge asset to the company.
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