How old is "old"?

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Posted: 5/6/2016 1:59:57 PM EDT

I'm 38 and I was just thinking about getting a fishing hat. (Think Filson, Tilley etc).

And I thought to myself, fuck it, I'm kinda old now, I can wear that shit.

So how old does a guy have to be before he's old?

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:00:49 PM EDT

[#1]

Old to me is 60+. Im 33 btw

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:04:40 PM EDT

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30 to me is old.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:05:52 PM EDT

[#3]

10 years older than me.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:05:59 PM EDT

[#4]

Old is a state of mind; you have it.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:06:52 PM EDT

[#5]

When I was in my 30's, I had a boss who was 75. To me he was old old old. Several times he during conversations, he would refer to this "old guy" at his church. One day I asked him exactly how old this "old guy" was. He thought a few seconds and then said 80 years old. My boss didn't think of himself as old, but someone 5 years his senior, now that was an old guy.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:10:30 PM EDT

[#6]

Abraham Lincoln once said "A man is as old as he makes up his mind to be". By that reasoning I'm about 30 yo. Works for me

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:10:57 PM EDT

[#7]

A fishing hat? What the hell is a fishing hat?

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:11:31 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/6/2016 2:11:39 PM EDT

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If you are SLOWER than me, then you're old.
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Posted: 5/6/2016 2:12:21 PM EDT

[#10]

I'm old and won't wear a Tilley hat.

Boonie or a camo ballcap when out in the sun. I really don't like wearing hats, but....

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:12:24 PM EDT

[#11]

for a MAN when you CANT pat the nurse on the FANNY any more...lol

for a woman ah when she nolonger puts out and the OLD guys
dont LQQK at her no more....

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:12:41 PM EDT

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no matter how old i am, it will always be 7 years older than that.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:13:48 PM EDT

[#13]

my body feels old, that count for anything?

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:14:12 PM EDT

[#14]

I remember sitting at my desk in first grade as we talked about the year 2000.

I was six and we just had the bicentiennial the prior summer.

I realized after doing the math that I would be 30! in the year 2000.

That seemed really old to me at the time.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:14:42 PM EDT

[#15]

I'd say old is when you really start to feel it in your body and slow down. When you actually feel it.

Numbers don't really mean shit.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:15:08 PM EDT

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I'm 38 and I was just thinking about getting a fishing hat. (Think Filson, Tilley etc).

And I thought to myself, fuck it, I'm kinda old now, I can wear that shit.

So how old does a guy have to be before he's old?

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25

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:16:19 PM EDT

[#17]

15 years older than I am.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:16:49 PM EDT

[#18]

10 years older than yourself.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:17:29 PM EDT

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I remember sitting at my desk in first grade as we talked about the year 2000.

I was six and we just had the bicentiennial the prior summer.

I realized after doing the math that I would be 30! in the year 2000.

That seemed really old to me at the time.

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I did the exact same thing.

The year 2000 is so far in future, and you know that they're be all kinds of cool future stuff, but I'll be so old. I mean 30 is really old.

Turning 30 didn't bother me, turning 40 didn't bother, but for some reason the prospect of hitting 46 this summer seems to be weighing on my mind a bit.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:18:13 PM EDT

[#20]

I think it depends.

Hell, I'm only 26 and I'm the "old man" in my college circle. Some of these kids were born in '97! Their music is different, they have no memories of the 90s, their knowledge of 9/11 is from secondhand accounts. I watched the towers fall on live TV! Oh, and they won't stay off their damn phones!

I still feel like I'm 12 when hanging around my dad's friends. They're only in their early 60s.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:18:37 PM EDT

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I remember sitting at my desk in first grade as we talked about the year 2000.

I was six and we just had the bicentiennial the prior summer.

I realized after doing the math that I would be 30! in the year 2000.

That seemed really old to me at the time.

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We be the same age.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:19:27 PM EDT

[#22]

Old is how I feel today

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:19:45 PM EDT

[#23]

I have always said that you are only as old as the people you feel.

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Posted: 5/6/2016 2:20:48 PM EDT

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I remember sitting at my desk in first grade as we talked about the year 2000.

I was six and we just had the bicentiennial the prior summer.

I realized after doing the math that I would be 30! in the year 2000.

That seemed really old to me at the time.

We be the same age.

1970 represent.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:20:59 PM EDT

[#25]

Old is the highway where "not knowing any better" and "I don't give a fuck" merge into left blinker on all the time forever.

Old is a state of mind.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:22:11 PM EDT

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Yeah, but where is old Abe now? Exactly.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:22:36 PM EDT

[#27]

My definition of old has changed a bit over the years........

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:22:37 PM EDT

[#28]

This old.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:22:46 PM EDT

[#29]

My only surviving grandparent is my grandmother and she just turned 98. She is OLD. She has early stages of dementia and her body is just not working like it used to, she can still walk but only assisted. My grandfather died when he was 97. He was still a strong man and was up and walking until the day he died from throat cancer. If he would have not gotten cancer he would most likely still be alive. He never even had a heart attack or stroke up until 97.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:23:17 PM EDT

[#30]

Your current age divide by two +8, or maybe that's for something else.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:23:21 PM EDT

[#31]

35 is the beginning of middle age, so you're fine age wise to wear old man stuff.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:23:41 PM EDT

[#32]

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It ain't the years, it's the mileage.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:24:41 PM EDT

[#33]

Fishing hat?

I thought you said "fishing cat" . . .

BTW: Get off my lawn, kid.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:24:42 PM EDT

[#34]

To me, you START to get old at around 40.

That's when your vision starts to go (and you start needing reading glasses). It's when you notice that injuries don't heal as quickly as they used to, and you never QUITE get back to 100%, etc.

At 50, I think you start to REALLY notice that you can no longer easily do things that you used to be able to - but you can still stay relatively fit and active if you are willing to put in the effort - but it takes a lot more effort, and is a lot more difficult to sustain without constant injury.

To my mind, 60 is when you officially reach the status of "old" - and have to accept that you are on the final lap.

Obviously, YMMV.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:25:31 PM EDT

[#35]

70+

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:26:50 PM EDT

[#36]

When you can wear just a mustache and not look like a creepy perv.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:29:42 PM EDT

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Are you telling me I was old when I was in the army?

Oh wait.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:33:11 PM EDT

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Old to me is 60+. Im 33 btw

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I'll be 60 in a couple of months.

I'm just now starting to not give a shit, but only just starting.

My brain seems to think I'm still 40 but my body is starting to disagree......

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:35:24 PM EDT

[#39]

I hit 50 last November. With all the crap I've had (and am still having) in the last 5 years, I feel quite old.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:35:48 PM EDT

[#40]

I guess everyone is different. I will be 69 in November. Last Friday and Saturday, cruised down to Biloxi for Alice Cooper and Air Supply. Sunday me and the wife drove down to Ft Walton Beach for a week of fun. Now Friday again and in Crestview Florida for my buddies birthday party, (Filipino style). Sunday back home (Middle Ga). Back to work Monday, (not because I need to, but I want to). Next Friday in the deer woods working food plots and keeping shot lanes cleared. Saturday wife and I playing at 3 gun. Life has never been better. If you worry about getting old - you will.

My mom will be 90 in January and still lives alone and takes care of her place.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:35:56 PM EDT

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I'll be 60 in a couple of months.

I'm just now starting to not give a shit, but only just starting.
My brain seems to think I'm still 40 but my body is starting to disagree......

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Old to me is 60+. Im 33 btw

I'll be 60 in a couple of months.

I'm just now starting to not give a shit, but only just starting.
My brain seems to think I'm still 40 but my body is starting to disagree......

My brain seems to think that I'm still 26, but . . .

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:37:14 PM EDT

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That's why Catholic priests live so long

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:40:23 PM EDT

[#43]

I'm 47. I like hats. I pretty much wear whatever I have to to keep the sun off my face, neck, etc. 2 reasons. I don't give a shit what anyone thinks of my headgear and my BIL just died of melanoma.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:45:23 PM EDT

[#44]

It's totally dependent on what issue is being discussed. 18 is too "old' for dating 15. 36 is too old to enlist in the Army. 38 is too old to begin Law Enforcement with the Feds.

When it comes to clothing I don't wear stuff that's blatantly offensive or inappropriate for the occasion or anything that would cause folks to associate me with society's douchbags.

Other than that, 12 is 'old' enough to dress practically instead of worrying about whether it's fashionable.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:46:20 PM EDT

[#45]

Have you considered a Fedora?

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:46:42 PM EDT

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Abraham Lincoln once said "A man is as old as he makes up his mind to be". By that reasoning I'm about 30 yo. Works for me

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Makes me about 12 then

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:47:18 PM EDT

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God I hope not!!!!

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:50:24 PM EDT

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I look at some people in their 70's and think they look amazing and when you talk with them they aren't stuck in 1950. On the other side I see guys and gals in their 30's and 40's that are stuck in a time warp and look like hell.

For me old is probably somewhere in the 70 range these days , but it all depends on the person.

Posted: 5/6/2016 2:50:27 PM EDT

[#49]

What's the average life span now 78 or so - I guess by the time you are in you 60's you are going to have to claim it (and I'm way too close to it to like saying this).