Posted on 02/18/2026 6:13:58 AM PST by fruser1
Sitting down to put your socks on, seeing previous clothes come back into fashion and asking 'who?' when watching the Brit Awards are all signs you are getting on.
The study was by American Pistachio Growers, which has partnered with actor John Thomson, 56, to urge mid-life adults to age positively.
1. Talking about aches and pains with friends
2. Groaning when bending down
3. Preferring quiet venues to noisy ones
4. Preferring a quiet drink over a night out
5. Enjoying an early night
6. Not caring about the latest fashion trends
7. Thinking that new music isn't as good as it used to be
8. A recurring ache that doesn't disappear
9. Using phrases like 'back in my day' or 'remember when*?'
10. Sitting down to put socks on
11. Caring less about how you look
12. Taking shoes off as soon as you get inside - slippers have become a necessity!
13. Noticing something you wore in your youth is now back in fashion
14. Starting conversations with 'Do you remember when*?'
15. Reading menus at arm's length
16. Talking to yourself
17. Moaning about politics
18. Feeling more confident/self-assured
19. Getting up at 6am naturally
20. First 'Who?' when watching the Brit Awards
21. Looking forward to gardening
22. Feeling confounded by AI
23. Listening to the radio or podcasts instead of club music
24. Getting excited about new home appliances
25. Checking the weather forecast hourly
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LOL, I don’t enjoy noisy places at all-I have the tinnitus thing constantly, and when I am in a noisy environment, all sound, conversation, music, the clatter of chairs and everything else just melds into one ball of frustrating noise.
I try to lip read or cock my head to aim my ear towards their voice, but it doesn’t help.
I hate noisy environments now, but if I still drank liquor the way I used to, I might enjoy it, but...I don’t. Drinking takes too much energy now...so I only do it rarely nowadays.
A lot of people feel that way. When I go shopping at a store that has background music such as Trader Joe's, the music is always songs from the middle decades of the last century.
You mention sandals. I’m of the firm belief that real men don’t wear flip flops.
One, it makes you look gay and walk with a swish.
More importantly, as men, we are the protectors of our families and those around us. We need to be ready for action. You can’t run into a burning building wearing flip flops. You can’t help victims at a rollover crash with broken glass all around wearing flip flops. (I’ve done both)
You can’t run toward or from a violent encounter wearing flip flops. You make yourself a victim.
Loud clubs aren’t made for hunters, a drone might get lucky at the end of the night and after spending tons of money and getting sweaty, but who wants to waste an entire evening and night for a slight chance of an exhausted, broke, 2:00 am reward.
Guilty, and proud of it.
Well, you can swap out the cocaine for amphetamine if you’re broke.
FDR was elected 4 times, winning the Catholic vote each time, the Protestant vote the first 2 times, and the black vote the last 3 times.
26. You go to pick something up and see that your hand is dripping blood and you think, “When the hell did I do that?!”
“Sitting down to put socks on”
Who doesn’t do this?
I have always sat on the edge of the bed or chair to put socks on. They only time I do not is if I am trying to put Ski boots on in the parking lot.
I was in an Ace Hardware on Friday last week. One of the songs played was “Blue Sky” by the Allman Brothers. That’s one of the most “seventiesist” songs out there.
The quest for the ultimate in morning efficiency!
Who doesn’t sit down to put on socks? I’ve always done that.
How else would you put socks on?
I never liked loud clubs, ever, ever for that reason. But a loud party with people you like...that is something different!
I never understood the club scene either. I was never successful at it except for the drinking. Now, it would be too expensive to do even that!
“ Sitting down to put socks on”
How else could it be done?
Autotune and pitch correction make lousy singers sound barely acceptable ... at the cost of making good singers sound mediocre.
It’s very common in parts of Europe, too.
We were NEVER allowed to wear shoes in the house.
In other cultures like Japan it is considered an insult to wear your shoes in the house.
In the winter like now we take off our boots(not shoes) as soon as we walk in from the garage. I have a deacons bench in the hallway from the garage into the house.
My LL Bean slippers are there right now.
In the summer I will wear shoes into the house IF I just got out of the truck/car in the garage.
However, my work boots are on a shelf in the garage. next to an old picnic table bench where we sit to put our boots on and off.
My mom NEVER allowed us to wear shoes in the house. When she passed six years ago we cleaned out her house the following spring. We wore shoes into the house for the first time EVER. Since 1967 when they bought it.
We all said that mom must have been rolling over in her grave because we wearing sneakers in the house.
When we took out the carpet(not wall to wall) in the living room the oak flooring was discolored from the sunlight hitting the 1’ perimeter not covered by the carpet. The oak strip flooring underneath still looked brand new after 50 years. It still had a slight eased edge where the tongue met the groove of the adjacent piece. A light sanding and poly and it would be perfect.
I’ve acted this way since I was a young adult. But I will always ‘Rage,rage against the dying of the light’ when it comes to aging:
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wow. That’s rather disappointing. I guess I really can’t say how I’d vote back then because it was a very different world. I was born when Nixon was president.
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