Mid-Life Crisis !!!

[baltoro]

Well,...actually, I'm so old, that it seems more like an After-Life Crisis,...
I'm experiencing EXTREME boredom. Nothing is fun anymore,...(Uh, Huh,...)
I read somewhere that some middle aged guy started a twitter account in which he masquerades as a lesbian,...
...Which I thought was pathetic,...but, it gave me an idea,...
So, I started a twitter account. Very Exciting. I have ZERO followers.
Then I had an inspiration: I have proclaimed fatwas. Lots of them. Against the powers that be,...

Dave Letterman
Global Warming
Hollywood
OPEC
Weaponized Ebola
Sarah Palin
The Debt Crisis
Microsoft
Whoever Killed Rock N' Roll
Neutrinos
Corporate Greed and Their Lawyers
...and, even,...
Endangered Species

What do you guys do with your mid-life crises ???
I could use some creative input.

[dedndave]

as i understand it, some guys buy sports cars
i have a hard time getting in and out of the damned things
i am 6'3" and don't bend in all the places that i used to

....so, i married a much younger woman, instead   :lol

[hutch--]

baltoro,

Take up a hobby or 3, assembler programming is a good start, by a pushbike and see the world at an understandable pace, take up house restoration, it lasts forever, find yourself a blonde (brunette if you are desperate), do something truly disgusting, join a gym and get super fit and even worse, learn to eat well and only healthy food (I am working on that one myself once I learn to cook properly), develop voluntary senile decay (I don't remember ever making a mistake) and the list goes on to eternity.

The meaning of life is what you do with it, sit introspecting at your navel while blowing a joint and that is the meaning of life, start downhill ski-ing down Mount Everest and if you make it thats the meaning of life. Most settle for something inbetween.  :P

[dedndave]

Most settle for something inbetween.

navel skiing, anyone ?

[hutch--]

> navel skiing, anyone ?

This conjures up images of someone water-skiing behind an aircraft carrier.  :bg

[dedndave]

you Aussies are strange
i had a wholllllllle different visual going on   :bdg



from the movie "Armageddon"

[Bill Cravener]

I've never had the time for a mid-life crisis nor have I ever quite understood what a mid-life crisis is. I gave marriage a ten year try long ago but just wasn't my cup of tea. I know men who go thru something where they can't handle aging find a younger woman and their wives they lived with for 40-50 years divorce them take everything he's worked for all his life and before long the younger woman leaves him too. So I guess it most be some kind of hormone thing. :bg

[baltoro]

Hmm,...well, I've been giving it some thought, and, doing some research. There are some serious Freudian/narcissistic implications.
I feel the need to develop the full spectrum of malignant psychological disorders,...degenerating eventually into a fullblown pathological dementia,... :eek

Funny, how everything that I read emphasizes the common nature of the mid-life crisis being dissatisfaction with your near-death marital status and the absolute necessity of seducing a beautiful, young woman as the only reliable cure (or, as Hutch so eloquently put it,...find yourself a blondie,...a brunette if you are desperate).

I was thinking of getting into therapy until I read this (from Dennis Miller): "Now, I've had some great therapists in my life, and I've also had some who left me questioning their credentials. No doubt the worst was Doctor Cletus, a Jungian in bib overalls who, while I poured out the most intimate details of my very existence, would thumb through back-issues of "Guns & Ammo" magazine, occasionally glancing over at me, giggling and muttering, 'Man, that is some weird-ass shit.'"

[dedndave]

i am reminded of the movie "The Matrix"

while pondering your mid-life issues, consider the little kid that bends spoons....

"There is no spoon."   :U

[baltoro]

DAVE !!!
...Ah,...yeah,...I see your point,... :eek
Meds !!! The asnwer is meds,...I'm sure that's the optimal solution,... :eek

[dedndave]

yahhh.....

i got greedy and took both pills - oops !

[Farabi]

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[Farabi]

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[vanjast]

Farabi !!,  ...are you're a doctor in disguise?  :eek  :green2


I'm with Dave on this one...

hmm.. that came out wrong!!!... Well no..  yes... !!!  you know what I mean  :bg

[dedndave]

 :bg

that is Liv Tyler's tummy   :P