Oldest dude on the block - The Old EADD Fart Thread

[maxalfie]

I turned 41 a few weeks ago and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

 

[Glitched]

Is this going to become the old eadd fart thread? :D

Yep.... Title changed :-D You're welcome

Who added Rockstar to the poll answers?! Brilliant!

 

[Allein]

Well I could tell a 5 year old that their perspective on time will change dramatically by the time they are 20? When you're five time goes much much slower, that's why you add 1 minute per year of a child's life to calculate how long they sit on the naughty step for :D

I have a 9 year old and a 4 year old, are they really experiencing time at a slower or faster rate or is there something deeper there about maybe not experiencing time in the same fashion, I'm not sure you can really tell, the subject is a fascination and one that I thing is much more complex than fast or slow as these are references to time itself.

If a child watches a match burn do you think it seems to take longer for the match to burn for a 4 year old than it does a 9 year old ?

The naughty step thing is hardly, although I do use it adding any validity to the idea that the younger child experiences a longer minute in fact the whole idea becomes a paradox the more you think about it.

We can only really judge in retrospect, saying things like "hast this week gone quickly" or "how did it get to be 4 O'clock", I get to work sometimes and can barely remember the commute, but that doesn't mean I didn't experience it at the time I was doing it.

The whole concept of measuring time is just a convenience as far as I'm concerned, what we experience old or young is a totally different matter.

 

[SpecialK_]

I have a 9 year old and a 4 year old, are they really experiencing time at a slower or faster rate or is there something deeper there about maybe not experiencing time in the same fashion, I'm not sure you can really tell, the subject is a fascination and one that I thing is much more complex than fast or slow as these are references to time itself.

If a child watches a match burn do you think it seems to take longer for the match to burn for a 4 year old than it does a 9 year old ?

I think it is similar to everyone, it depends on the setting they are in. I recall when I was younger (that age) waiting to go into the dentist or doctors felt much longer in the waiting area, whether that is due to service speeding up I highly doubt. I noticed back in my school days, that at that age summer felt like a lifetime and it isn't an exaggeration I remember it feeling like a significantly long period of time. In my final years, summer ends in what feels like two weeks. More so do to with concentration levels also, in my experience (although not that I really have any) a child is gonah get bored more easily sitting waiting than an adult would and boredom slows time as we all know.

 

[Shambles]

Why are these polls always using mid-decade as the metric? 18-25, 25-35 and all that. It's all just dandy till you hit one of those pesky 6 years and then you just start creaking. Have been in the 25-35 group in every version of this poll I've posted in as a BLer and could at least comfort myself with the thought that I could claim the youthful end. 36 - but four steps till forty. And steps seem so much shorter now what with the zimmer and all

Mine are 23 + 25 this year and I wish I'd had the access to information they have these days about drugs. I started very young and didn't have a clue about anything apart from what my family-folks told me...no wonder the road has been so bumpy We're so lucky to have places like bluelight and erowid now.

Tis slighty surreal just how much more available actually informatively informative info on Goodies is with tinterwebz. First time I saw someone skinning up I had no idea what they were doing - just a bit bemused at why anyone would break up a proper fag and make rollies with it... and what's with the Oxo bizniz? Such an innocent boy. Then and now.

*ahem*

Mr SB in general it is assumed that we experience time in a linear fashion, I can't really see how anyone could give a genuine answer to your question.

I mean how do you go about feeling a week and then deciding that actually it feels more like a day, I'm not messing my head up further by even trying to extrapolate an actual means of testing it let alone carry out what ever twisted experiment might be required to provide an answer

This has been tested experimentally but buggered if I could point you to where. There is a specific reason for the perceived temporal acceleration with age though - pesky neurochemicals combined with memory shenanigans and stuff was, I believe, the official result. Unless that's just the dementia talking

 

[Allein]

^^^^

"Slows down time" really you'd have trouble substantiating that.

In truth I don't disagree with the concept of people feeling time is passing slower or faster, anyone who has taken LSD is likely to have felt that time maybe a little less than linear or that e are all experiencing it in the same way.

My view is that it is very much a construct that we use in order to ...have order, we can measure it just like I can a length of wood but in the grander scheme its a false reference point as there is no reference pint to be had when it comes to our own individual perceptions.

I think the 4 year old has a much better and more fluid view of time and space than we do and in many ways is far more in touch with the genuine fabric or space time ...but I digress, wildly There is no answer IME but its a subject that I have always been fascinated by as you now all know as I've totally derailed the thread.
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I'm 41

 

[Shambles]

Familiarity and plain ol' boredom at the same shit, different day kinda stuff surely contributes greatly to the whizziness of time past puberty and a bit, I'd say. Think that may have been part of the "memory shenanigans" bit of the study into such things come to think of it. Seems like just yesterday I read about it too...

All relative and all that - the faster you move the slower time ticks. Sod all that light speed biznizz - compare sitting in your pants watching Jezza for a week with being out and about doing stuff for a week and it all becomes clear.

 

[swedger77]

35....don't look 30......in fact some say i only look about 26/27.

I got Id'd for booze last September.....Felt fucking great.

 

[Allein]

@Shambles

Exactly my point the effect is often retrospective at the time you don't recognise it but your memory of different events appears to support time being slower of faster.

Personally I don't think its either it just is our perception is fluid and not controlled by such crude mechanisms.

 

[Shambles]

As far as I know time is fluid and dependent on action and stuff and I'd agree that perception is also fluid so that makes at least two fluidy fings sloshing around together all the time. As it were. Kinda like making orange squash perhaps. Summat all slooshy and whooshy and whizzy anyway. And possibly orange flavoured.

Does seem to accelerate rapidly as the years go... but I do spend large parts of those years in Jezza/underpants territory so can blame nobody other than dolescum, sofa manufacturers and comfy pants.

 

[Allein]

^^^

Mr Hawking has got nothin on you and I bet his pants aren't as comfy either


(good to see you back BTW)

 

[Shambles]

Hehe. If I were an android confined to a chair with but a single remaining twitch for doing owt I'd insist on comfy pants meself. Would take a while to convey said insistance admittedly... but definitely worth it. That or some kinda hoover attachment anyway.

And good to be back thanks

Am quite big on the time stuff recently as it happens and it almost definitely for sure is on topic to ponder about the concept - and indeed flavour - of such things. It's a topic that could run and run. Or walk and walk. Or roll and roll.

Am quite enamoured of the "grainy" time thing at the moment. Kinda like music: each note is but an isolated moment but put together in different ways it flows at various tempos and becomes something else entirely.

 

[Space invader]

Lol, how things develop when u r away! The whole point of this thread is not about being old per se. Its how the people i/we see now in this loop look young! My brain is still 21! Lol for me finding like minded people crossed a generation. Thats cool as fuck really.

 

[Shambles]

At 21 I would've killed myself for saying this but I - like most folks - was a bit of a nob at that age. Keen though admittedly.

I'm starting to appreciate some aspects of aging actually. Some. The rest are truly shit

 

[ageingpartyfiend]

if I did regrets, I might have a small one about prefacing my 'partyfiend' with 'ageing', whereas the prefix perhaps should (If I did 'shoulds') have been 'sometime', or 'occasional'.

I didne mean to define myself as 'ageing' and was having a bit of a melacholic evening on registation night, bah, feels wrong somehow

Am 45 btw

 

[Space invader]

Ok, i dont have any regrets. I lived my dream as a poor person lol! Would never change a thing. My thread was based on experience of meeting people from this forum and feeling old. Thats just me sometimes. Ive a gorgeous family, life is good. I drink worse than ever before. In fact, people look at me strangely when i tell them i didnt drink till i was 30. Its not that i think im old as such, more so the guys these days look really young! Lol

 

[Shambles]

I wonder where the age:experience zenith is. Gotta be round here somewhere surely. Being young is horrid but feels great at the time and getting old is the antipode so where's the fulcrum? The nadir is definitely somewhere in the teens though. Fuck being properly young again

Under the circumstance I'm going with mid/late-30s being the best bit. One can but hope :D

PS: All outta vaguely astronomical terms for points on the age spectrum now so will return to topic by degrees.

PPS: Policemen really do get younger as I get older. True story.

 

[Mugz]

this time next week i'll be in next ()

 

[Shambles]

Then let me be the first to wish you a happy 71st, Mugz

 

[Mugz]

come and celebrate with me and some other brizzlers. Hitchike down