Hamburg - anybody visited recently?

[Nirish guy]

I agree too and many a weekend was a "so where will we go THIS weekend" with jaunts to just about all the party towns in spain etc and then back to work for monday ( or more than usually NOT and a weak phoned in excuse to an ever easy going boss thank god who looking back I think actually loved the fact that we were young and doing it as he I now realise did in his own youth too.

However now it's more of a hassle than an enjoyment and as you get older and you HAVE seen and done it all ( or at least a lot of it) the novelty value soon wares off and now unless there's a bit of decent time involved there, plus preferrably with long access, a nice hotel with taxis to and from the airport and speedy boarding at the gate I can rarely be arsed. Saying that my friends would still say that I'm still rarely home for long before nipping off on some other adventure so I guess there must be some life left in me yet - mind you I'm 50 next week so I guess after that it's time to cut my wrists and resign myself to sitting in a pool of my own shit and piss for the next 30 years ! lol

[gerefan2]

- mind you I'm 50 next week so I guess after that it's time to cut my wrists and resign myself to sitting in a pool of my own shit and piss for the next 30 years ! lol

You’ve deteriorated early then...I guess it’s all that Guinness!

[Nirish guy]

You’ve deteriorated early then...I guess it’s all that Guinness!

Well, all depends what you mean as on one hand I'm still thankfully managing to just about hold it all together and still dont look too out of place on a night out......HOWEVER .......under the veneer or hair gel and botox I really wish men were more honest and open with each other about ageing as I cant deny this last two or three years has been a seemingly constantly new rhyme of WTF when being honest with myself, between my hearing starting to go, by reading eyesight going to crap and reading glasses now being used WAY more that I ever thought I'd need. Through to new spurts of hair growing from places I never had hair before or simply creaking and having to bend over and stretch each morning and night just to get in and out of bed without wrecking my back ( any more than it already is).

No one tells you this shit about ageing and so you think that all of a sudden you must be coming down with a ton of serious medical issues that need urgent attention, until you DO confide in someone a bit older who THEN laughs and says "ohhhh YEAH dont worry that happens all of us, welcome to the club !" Fuck if only someone had warned me at least I might not have shit myself just so much thinking I was dying ! And dont even start me on hard ons not being the hard ons I USED to have, no one talks about THAT either it seems - well, again until after a few beers and THEN the truth comes out round the table ( if you're in genuine and true company that is) otherwise you just get the "ohhhhh I'm 70 and still fuck like a 20 year old and no viagra for me thanks" - yeah, RIGHT !

Ha, reading the above you can sort of tell it's my 50th next week and I'm feeling ( dreading) it coming eh ! :-) Oh well, no doubt I'll wake up the day after and realise it's just another day and my body will keep decomposing at the same rate as before ( or faster perhaps .....omg, please dont tell me THAT too !!

* opps sorry Mods -I've just realised that we (I've) drifted so far off the topic with my above that I can hardly remember the topic anymore ! Do feel free to edit, move or delete the above to a new thread, perhaps entitled "I
So, is getting old(er) really shit then or what?" or some such thing if you wish

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