I’ve become a lot more pragmatic and dry in my political views. I was very much on the radical left from late teens into my 30s.

I’ve spoken about it here a bunch but I’m a lot more interested in big bucket policies that help big intersectional communities than fighting on the margins of single issues.

I’m also much softer and more interested in things I actively disliked when I was younger, like silly social traditions, old buildings and even aesthetic trappings of European Christianity. I have zero time for the bullshit evangelical commercial Christianity of the US and Brazilian Pentecostal cult.

Wood Goblin wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 9:47 amEar hair.

enframed wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 9:59 amEar hair, yes.

major wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 10:47 amThe ear hair is the worst (so far).

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 4:23 pm

jfv wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 3:00 pm +1 on ear hair. Goddamn.

Yup. Also nose hair

FOLKS. BUY A TRIMMER. I bought this one for like $20 years ago. Still going!

Owen wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 7:49 pmI have a dedicated ear and noise hair trimmer and tweezers for plucking.

Owen gets it. Same here. Salut!

Ugh, this topic is giving me the UGH.

kerble wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 1:38 pm

Wood Goblin wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 9:47 amEar hair.

enframed wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 9:59 amEar hair, yes.

major wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 10:47 amThe ear hair is the worst (so far).

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 4:23 pm

jfv wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 3:00 pm +1 on ear hair. Goddamn.

Yup. Also nose hair

FOLKS. BUY A TRIMMER. I bought this one for like $20 years ago. Still going!

Owen wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 7:49 pmI have a dedicated ear and noise hair trimmer and tweezers for plucking.

Owen gets it. Same here. Salut!

Eyebrows are starting to get out of control, too. Had one pop up out of my forehead a solid 1/4” above where it should be. And I trim.

I have a trimmer!

I haven’t completely given up, not yet.

Robo-calls from scammers about my "senior benefits package."

30 somethings in the office saying I don’t look 40. 60 year olds going ‘well when you get our age’ - bitch, who’s age?

Couple years ago we were headed down to PRFBBQLOU, I wanna say 2022? I was still masking indoors, so when we stopped at Culver's to get a bite on the way, I was masked at the counter. 48 years old, but all the teenage girl at the register could see was my head full of gray hair. Got my first ever senior discount that day.

DrAwkward wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 6:51 pm I am currently reading this thread on my phone with my glasses lowered on my nose, because I need bifocals now and am resisting getting larger frames to compensate. Soon I will need to cave and get huge, blocky, hipster glasses like all my older pals. I will join you all soon.

Right there with FM DrAwkward - I am resisting bifocals like crazy, but my little depth-window of clarity is getting smaller every day….

seby wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 10:51 pm

DrAwkward wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 6:51 pm I am currently reading this thread on my phone with my glasses lowered on my nose, because I need bifocals now and am resisting getting larger frames to compensate. Soon I will need to cave and get huge, blocky, hipster glasses like all my older pals. I will join you all soon.

Right there with FM DrAwkward - I am resisting bifocals like crazy, but my little depth-window of clarity is getting smaller every day….

You don't need big frames. Try progressives--they work fine on smaller lenses, though some people evidently are irritated by them. i love 'em.