You Know You Are Old When

[CalG]

 

[scootr]

 

[Sigarms]

Same here, I toured one in Cleveland. I didn't know I had claustrophobia, we're standing in the Sub while the guy is talking on and on. I could see the sunlight past him, my heart starting pounding, breathing picked up and I wanted to climb over the top of those people to get the h*ll out of there.

It was interesting to see how small it was, the bunks and sinks. I guess that's why Sub service is voluntary.

Consider the internal square footage of a WW2 sub is from 1,500 - 2,000 square feet (not including the area taken away for controls and what have you). Average crew count figure between 45-60 men. Blows me away what those guys went through...

Guess no different than those guys flying those bombers...

 

[bigtiller]

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I had one with stick figures of people. Similar to this one. It was fun as a young teenager to mix up the body parts. I could solve the puzzle in about 20 seconds back then.

 

[WinterDeere]

YKYO when you get your first less-than-glowing health physical report, after 50 years of nothing but "looks good" from the doc. I'm still in great shape otherwise, but it seems my cholesterol indicators are way up, and now the doc is telling me to reduce fats and carbs. Apparently, it's not just the chubby folks who need to worry about this, I'm 5' 11" and under 170 lb.

Now I need to decide how to manage that with the least misery. I can easily switch my 6am cappucino to macchiato, and go straight espresso for the rest of the day, I guess whole milk is not helping me. I could even switch back to skim on my cereal, I drank nothing but skim milk in my youth, as my father had high cholesterol.

I know alcohol raises triglicerides, but it also raises HDL (good cholesterol), so I guess I can keep that. Just shoot me, before taking away my evening coctail.

I've been terrible on vegetable consumption. I enjoy raw vegetables, but they're tough to source year-round, and I loathe most canned or frozen vegetables. Hmm...

Lunch has always been meats and cheese, either with crackers or as a sandwich. I guess that's gonna have to change, too!

 

[deserteagle71]

YKYO when you get your first less-than-glowing health physical report, after 50 years of nothing but "looks good" from the doc. I'm still in great shape otherwise, but it seems my cholesterol indicators are way up, and now the doc is telling me to reduce fats and carbs. Apparently, it's not just the chubby folks who need to worry about this, I'm 5' 11" and under 170 lb.

Now I need to decide how to manage that with the least misery. I can easily switch my 6am cappucino to macchiato, and go straight espresso for the rest of the day, I guess whole milk is not helping me. I could even switch back to skim on my cereal, I drank nothing but skim milk in my youth, as my father had high cholesterol.

I know alcohol raises triglicerides, but it also raises HDL (good cholesterol), so I guess I can keep that. Just shoot me, before taking away my evening coctail.

I've been terrible on vegetable consumption. I enjoy raw vegetables, but they're tough to source year-round, and I loathe most canned or frozen vegetables. Hmm...

Lunch has always been meats and cheese, either with crackers or as a sandwich. I guess that's gonna have to change, too!

Yup. The body definitely changes when it gets to a certain age.

Physically, I'm about the same as you (height and weight). And in my case diet changes made very little difference in my cholesterol numbers. Doctor says that heredity (genetic makeup) plays a very large part in your cholesterol numbers - your body will manufacture what it thinks it needs. So in my case he had to put me on a very mild statin and that did bring the numbers down. That was a couple years ago, and so far, I've not noticed any detrimental effects of taking the statin.

 

[WinterDeere]

Yup. The body definitely changes when it gets to a certain age.

Physically, I'm about the same as you (height and weight). And in my case diet changes made very little difference in my cholesterol numbers. Doctor says that heredity (genetic makeup) plays a very large part in your cholesterol numbers - your body will manufacture what it thinks it needs. So in my case he had to put me on a very mild statin and that did bring the numbers down. That was a couple years ago, and so far, I've not noticed any detrimental effects of taking the statin.

Sounds like a good argument to not unnecessarily torture myself with a crazy low-fat diet! My father and his father both suffered from this, and I remember my grandfather in particular torturing himself with extreme steps like apple juice to replace milk on his morning cereal and rice cakes instead of bread for lunch.

 

[sixdogs]

You know you're old when you have to double-check with the wife on your exact age. You may know within a year but need a confirmation just to be sure.

 

[CalG]

The good days...Early morning, not wanting to wake up mom and dad.

 

[scootr]

YKYO if you have used the pointy end of a bottle opener