Over 50 and Feeling the Frustration

[Presnock]

On 10/30/2024 at 1:02 PM, newbee2022 said:

Is this really all what matters??? You don't have anything else in your head?? Poor (little) man.

Basically, if one has been following the researchers, it is metabolism.  We have been led to believe that once one hits 50-60 years of age it is time one is already fatter or getting fatter, doing less exercise as it might be dangerous (heart wise as one has been sedentary too long already, but in reality the research clearly shows humans have the same basic metablistic stages no matter what country or race or whatever on might be.  there is a smaller group of humans that yeah they are faced with some gene (DNA) problems and need to take other measures to compensate.  But the majority of people basically suffer from a poor (health) lifestyle which brings on the major death causing health issues.  All one needs to do to see proof of this is to google disease/health statistics of different countries.  Take the US for instance - biggest spender of health care yet over 50% of the citizens are overweight - not just by a few pounds either and 42% are diabetics and those figures grow regularly.  Foods now are loaded with chemicals which are alien to the human body and which sure as hell do not foster good health but just the opposite.  I am not a "health nut" or maybe I am but I am approaching 78 years of age this month, have had health insurance my whole adult life and have never used it as I haven't had any bad health issues.  I did contract COVID from my wife and daughter - (slight sore throat for 2 days like my daughter but wife did spend 5 days in the hospital.  I have exercised (running a couple of marathons (UGH!) probably 20 half marathons, hundreds of races below that and 6-10 miles daily until 65 and thought my knees might give out as only sidewalks or paved roads were available so beban walking 8-16 kilometers a day (last couple of years 5-6 kilometers a day, plus lift weights several times per week, do core exercises 45-60 minutes on the non-lifting days and have continued this routine for over a decade.   I avoid eating/drinking alcohol and sugary drinks/food, don't do drugs of any type, not even aspirin as I haven't even had a headache in over 30 years.  I eat foods recommended by researchers that studies have shown help prevent those killers - Heart disease, diabetes/obesity, Alzheimer's, cancer and stroke.  I realize too that I am at the mercy of my parents DNA (both were affected by one or more of the above health issues) but hopefully my diet will help me last a while longer.  Many doctors are now beginning to recognize that lifestyle and diets affect the lives of their patients and some have begun to change their diagnosis and treatments.  Hopefully everyone reading this verbiage by me will think about their own lives and those in need take the necessary steps to improve their own health.  I wish only the best for all as it is really up to YOU and just as you are thinking, whatever you want to do!  Have a great day!

[StreetCowboy]

On 10/31/2024 at 10:08 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Seems to me, Sir....

 

That you have been quite successful at being younger.

 

For one thing:  Your passion for riding is a definite PLUS in your life.

 

As for me, I had taken GREAT PLEASURE in ROWING.....when I was younger.

 

Wishing you WELL, Sir.....as you age further.

 

You are a...GOOD MAN, IMHO.

 

As I know you know that I know that you are...INDEED.....

 

NOTE4:  Maybe, someday, I will visit Scotland, and I will find out what is so special about that place.  But, FIRST, I will visit Ireland....something I dearly wish to do....before I die.

 

I want to visit Ireland, to FEEL the land that created GREAT WRITERS.....as you might imagine....

 

THWACK

THWACK

THWACK

 

There was NO BETTER typewriter I might have purchased, when I was 16, back in the day, other than the OLYMPIA Office-Model, electric, which weight a tonne!

 

Just trying to move that typewriter, off my desk, in order to dust underneath, caused me a slipped disk, in my callow youth, which I still live with, so unfortunately.

 

Still, this slipped disk is worth having, since it reminds me of that wonderful KRAUT engineering, that I love...including the engineering of the Benz I owned, later in life.

 

By the way, I forgot to tell you:

 

After my Olympia was stolen, and it was stolen in that forbidden isle of Formosa, that HELLHOLE of an island....

 

I purchased an IBM SELECTRIC typewriter with the BALL.

 

Balls are the best.

 

IBM is an amazing company, even today.

 

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I could gush on, further, about IBM and Olympia.

 

Soon, I will start a Topic about both companies....

Hope you do not mind.

 

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NOTE4:  IMHO, and to all TV Members...  I would say that it might be almost impossible to find a better member than StreetCowboy, on the TV Forum.

 

My advice to all member is to do one's best to emulate StreetCowboy in all ways.  Doing so would definitely improve the inherent quality of this magnificent forum, a forum that I have been in love with...for many years.

 

I will not leave TV until forced to do so.

Hopefully, this will NEVER HAPPEN....

Being younger was pretty good, back in the day, and I'd do it again tomorrow, given the choice.  I think I'd be able to do it better, now.

[JimTripper]

14 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Being younger was pretty good, back in the day, and I'd do it again tomorrow, given the choice.  I think I'd be able to do it better, now.

Not if you can't maintain an erection...

[StreetCowboy]

4 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

Not if you can't maintain an erection...

Scaffolding.

If you want to learn about maintaining erections, search on the late Fred Dibnah.

[petermik]

2 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Scaffolding.

If you want to learn about maintaining erections, search on the late Fred Dibnah.

Freds expertise was in demolishing...not erecting

[StreetCowboy]

3 minutes ago, petermik said:

Freds expertise was in demolishing...not erecting

 

[save the frogs]

33 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

Not if you can't maintain an erection...

Join the priesthood, man. 

 

[NowNow]

1 hour ago, JimTripper said:

Not if you can't maintain an erection...

 

You are focusing on the negative and perhaps looking in the wrong places. If you find someone who speaks English, she's likely been on the carousel. Maybe you need to speak Thai.

For what are you looking? Sex or a lifelong partner?

[save the frogs]

1 hour ago, NowNow said:

For what are you looking? Sex or a lifelong partner?

for a lifelong partner, he would need to find someone who can tolerate him, which may not be easy.

he might be better off going the cialis quickie route. 

[JimTripper]

1 hour ago, NowNow said:

For what are you looking? Sex or a lifelong partner?

I'm not really looking for anything...

[NowNow]

50 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

I'm not really looking for anything...

 

I don't believe you 😊

[JensenZ]

3 hours ago, NowNow said:

 

You are focusing on the negative and perhaps looking in the wrong places. If you find someone who speaks English, she's likely been on the carousel. Maybe you need to speak Thai.

For what are you looking? Sex or a lifelong partner?

My girlfriend speaks no English and I speak no Thai. We conduct our relationship entirely through the Google Translator App. One month in it's going really well. Slowly I'm learning some Thai and she's learning English. There are many gems out there who have never worked in a bar or been near a foreigner. It just requires some patience and the Google translator app.

[scubascuba3]

5 hours ago, JensenZ said:

My girlfriend speaks no English and I speak no Thai. We conduct our relationship entirely through the Google Translator App. One month in it's going really well. Slowly I'm learning some Thai and she's learning English. There are many gems out there who have never worked in a bar or been near a foreigner. It just requires some patience and the Google translator app.

Boring those relationships when you can't communicate, it will get better though if it survives long enough

[JimTripper]

5 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Boring those relationships when you can't communicate, it will get better though if it survives long enough

Unlikely. Usually the communication barrier is unsurmountable.

[Bday Prang]

On 10/30/2024 at 4:52 AM, Alpha84 said:

So that's how you roll?

Any two particular fingers that you favor?

those belonging to another person presumably

[JensenZ]

7 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Boring those relationships when you can't communicate, it will get better though if it survives long enough

But I can communicate. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible, but with modern technology, it's not very difficult. The conversation mode of the Google Translate App is pretty good as long as you choose your words carefully. Even if you find an English-speaking Thai girl, it's likely only conversational English, so to get into a deeper conversation, you'll need a translator.

[JensenZ]

21 hours ago, Presnock said:

I eat foods recommended by researchers that studies have shown help prevent those killers - Heart disease, diabetes/obesity, Alzheimer's, cancer and stroke.

It doesn't matter what you eat, the likelihood that some disease will kill you between the age of 70 and 100 is very high. You've listed the diseases that kill most people. At this point, there is no cure for old age and death.

[JimTripper]

54 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

It doesn't matter what you eat, the likelihood that some disease will kill you between the age of 70 and 100 is very high. You've listed the diseases that kill most people. At this point, there is no cure for old age and death.

If you eat well the liklihood of disease decreases.

[JensenZ]

18 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

If you eat well the liklihood of disease decreases.

How to eat well is one of the most controversial and hotly debated subjects on the planet with little consensus about what is best to eat. You only get one try at it. Try your best, but unless you die from some accident, you'll get disease and die from it.

[JensenZ]

4 hours ago, JimTripper said:

Unlikely. Usually the communication barrier is unsurmountable.

Unless you find a lady who has a high education with exceptional English skills, there's not much difference between a girl who knows conversational English and none at all. Using the translator will enable you to get deeper.

 

It's up to the patience of both partners.

[NowNow]

26 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

Unless you find a lady who has a high education with exceptional English skills, there's not much difference between a girl who knows conversational English and none at all. Using the translator will enable you to get deeper.

 

It's up to the patience of both partners.

 

There's a huge difference.

[JensenZ]

1 minute ago, NowNow said:

 

There's a huge difference.

For people like you who are satisfied with superficial conversation, there might be a big difference, but it doesn't take long to teach a lady English to your required level. Most girls manage that on YouTube.

[RSD1]

15 hours ago, JensenZ said:

My girlfriend speaks no English and I speak no Thai. We conduct our relationship entirely through the Google Translator App. One month in it's going really well. Slowly I'm learning some Thai and she's learning English. There are many gems out there who have never worked in a bar or been near a foreigner. It just requires some patience and the Google translator app.

I can't even imagine what that's like. I speak fluent Thai and most of the time I still find meaningful conversation and anything more than superficial dialogue a challenge because of social and cultural differences. And that's coming from somebody who has lived in the country possibly even longer than your new native girlfriend has. But you've been together a month and you think you've already got it all worked out. Hopium. That's great. 
 

Two people trying to conduct a meaningful romantic relationship when neither speaks each other's language is like both people being bound to a wheelchair or a set of crutches. Thus, it will get old very quickly when the initial newness and allure of it all wears off. Having to reach for a smartphone and to type something out every time I want to talk to with my girlfriend would be torture, but that's just me.
 

To be honest, I'm not trying to be judgmental or critical of your relationship. I hope it works out the way that you are hoping and that it proves to be happy and fruitful for both of you. But I'm just being realistic. And from an outsiders perspective looking in, your longer term expectations seem unrealistic and clouded by a self fulfilling prophecy, unless either of you is going to make the effort necessary to become fluent in each other's language, which is at least a 3 to 4 year learning commitment. 
 

I assume you're going to think that I'm all wrong, that I don't know you or your girlfriend, and so there's no way that I could possibly understand. That's fine. I'll accept that criticism, knowing that there is objective truth to what I'm saying.

[NowNow]

8 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

For people like you who are satisfied with superficial conversation, there might be a big difference, but it doesn't take long to teach a lady English to your required level. Most girls manage that on YouTube.

 

People like me? I have a real partner who speaks two languages fluently and is educated to Masters level and beyond. We discuss psychology and much more on a regular basis. How about you? What do you discuss via Google Translate with your girl from Issan?

[BritManToo]

16 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

For people like you who are satisfied with superficial conversation, there might be a big difference, but it doesn't take long to teach a lady English to your required level. Most girls manage that on YouTube.

I'm not that bothered about conversations with women, as long as she can understand "get me a sandwich and a cold beer" it's all good.

 

But wasn't this thread about impotence?

[Nick Carter icp]

2 minutes ago, NowNow said:

 

People like me? I have a real partner who speaks two languages fluently and is educated to Masters level and beyond. We discuss psychology and much more on a regular basis. How about you? What do you discuss via Google Translate with your girl from Issan?

 

   I usually talk about whether people live on the stars in the sky/the Moon  and whether they come to Thailand for a holiday or not and how much money they got 

[thaibeachlovers]

On 11/2/2024 at 6:03 PM, Will B Good said:

 

An extract for your book......"How to Make Friends and Influence People"......?

I rarely agree with you, but on this 🏆.

 

Some of the sense of superiority is mind boggling.

[thaibeachlovers]

6 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I'm not that bothered about conversations with women, as long as she can understand "get me a sandwich and a cold beer" it's all good.

 

But wasn't this thread about impotence?

I get the impression from some of the posts that some posters like to discuss Plato, quantum theory physics and the works of William Shakespeare with their refugee from the village.

 

I think the most profound thing I discussed with my refugee was which restaurant we would go to.

[RSD1]

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I think the most profound thing I discussed with my refugee was which restaurant we would go to.

What about time duration and service fees?

 

[thaibeachlovers]

19 minutes ago, RSD1 said:

I can't even imagine what that's like. I speak fluent Thai and most of the time I still find meaningful conversation and anything more than superficial dialogue a challenge because of social and cultural differences. And that's coming from somebody who has lived in the country possibly even longer than your new native girlfriend has. But you've been together a month and you think you've already got it all worked out. Hopium. That's great. 
 

Two people trying to conduct a meaningful romantic relationship when neither speaks each other's language is like both people being bound to a wheelchair or a set of crutches. Thus, it will get old very quickly when the initial newness and allure of it all wears off. Having to reach for a smartphone and to type something out every time I want to talk to with my girlfriend would be torture, but that's just me.
 

To be honest, I'm not trying to be judgmental or critical of your relationship. I hope it works out the way that you are hoping and that it proves to be happy and fruitful for both of you. But I'm just being realistic. And from an outsiders perspective looking in, your longer term expectations seem unrealistic and clouded by a self fulfilling prophecy, unless either of you is going to make the effort necessary to become fluent in each other's language, which is at least a 3 to 4 year learning commitment. 
 

I assume you're going to think that I'm all wrong, that I don't know you or your girlfriend, and so there's no way that I could possibly understand. That's fine. I'll accept that criticism, knowing that there is objective truth to what I'm saying.

LOL. My wife spoke perfect conversational English, so why would I need to learn conversational Thai? I spoke Thai well enough to get by. More than that would have been a waste of my time.

 

Two people trying to conduct a meaningful romantic relationship when neither speaks each other's language is like both people being bound to a wheelchair or a set of crutches.

LOL.

Given no Thai woman I ever spent time with had anything resembling a romantic side as we farangs understand it, why would I have bothered with the flowers or the prezzies? With me she had aquired the winning Lotto ticket- no need for more.

That's what I liked about the "dating" ( for want of a more appropriate word ) game in LOS was that there isn't one unless one likes pretending. It's just transactional. Thais are so much more practical than stupid farangs that think they have to woo the woman.