The "What's on your mind?" thread

[Billy13]

Thinking about how the national debt has more than doubled in the last 7-8 years to now somewhere in the vicinity of $19.3 trillion.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by MechaGodzilla

I have been around for millennia, I have seen countless peoples come and go, empires rise and fall...

I'm 27, turning 28 in two and a half months.

That's not old.

I'm 34, now that's old.

[Billy13]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

That's not old.

I'm 34, now that's old.

I turn 43 this month. Still a kid!

[Mighty Max]

Originally Posted by Billy13

I turn 43 this month. Still a kid!

I'm older than everyone...
I've loved, I've lost, I've learned.

I still, through it, know how to have some fun...

[C. Anton]

Originally Posted by Billy13

I turn 43 this month. Still a kid!

Do you feel any different toward life than you did in your mid 30s, or has it been the same for awhile now?

[Billy13]

Originally Posted by Mighty Max

I'm older than everyone...
I've loved, I've lost, I've learned.

I still, through it, know how to have some fun...

Sounds like my outlook.

Originally Posted by C. Anton

Do you feel any different toward life than you did in your mid 30s, or has it been the same for awhile now?

Yes. I won't put up with any bullsh¡t. Pretty much the same for quite some now, except now I have zero tolerance for it. I'll cut somone out of my life with a quickness now. Life is about respect for me, and that's a quality few people have nowadays.

[MechaGodzilla]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

That's not old.

I'm 34, now that's old.

Well, even if I'm young and you're old, there's only half a decade between us so I'll there soon enough.

Age works that way, when you hit 20 you feel like you're getting old, then when you're 30 you realize you were still pretty much a kid at 20, and your perspective keeps changing the older you get. I've noticed 90+ year olds tend to refer to 40 and 50-somethings as "young", and from their perspective that is pretty young while to me turning 50 seems so far away.

Originally Posted by Billy13

I turn 43 this month. Still a kid!

I think I'm both an old soul and a kid at heart, if that makes sense.

[C. Anton]

The Best of Foghorn Leghorn - YouTube

Foghorn Leghorn is the smartest cock of the roost.

[Scarriere]

I shouldn't be up for another 2 hours. I have to get back on track after coming off of n/s, but at least I'm getting closer.

[geekesmind]

looking at all the blurays on my shelf and my bluray tracker on here, I can not believe there is 588 blurays on my damn shelf along with 45 funko pops.

[Abby is Q]

Dear lord I hate waking up with a horrible headache that gets progressively worse by the hour.

[zorbonaut]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Yeah, I'm 22 today.

Originally Posted by JWFORD

22? You mean, I'm older than you? Well, that's embarrassing.

For some reason, I always thought you were older.

No matter.

Happy Birthday, Foggy!

For some reason I thought you both were a bit older. My oldest child will be 22 this month

And all this time I thought I was young.

[Scarriere]

^ My youngest turned 22 a couple months ago.

I am wondering where Groot and Eternal Dreamer went. I liked them both and it sucks that they're not around anymore. I hope they're both okay.

[C. Anton]

Fight Club creator to bring his third novel to the silver screen

[Scarriere]

I am contemplating and trying to come up with a plan.
Tough row to hoe.

[Mighty Max]

Originally Posted by Scarriere

I am contemplating and trying to come up with a plan.
Tough row to hoe.

[Batman1980]

Thinking about my appointment on Monday with that trainer at Anytime Fitness, never really lifted weights before so I'm hoping she can get me on the right track. Want to bulk up a bit and shed a bit of this flabby gut.

[Moviefan1203]

Prayers to Orlando right now. May God be with each and every person who lost a loved one.

[Abby is Q]

I heard the news when I woke up at 5 this morning and went about my work day. Usually I'm detached from the news and the rest of the world generally enough to the point that tragedies like this don't hit me emotionally (though it never takes away from my empathy).

Right now though, I am having a hard time not crying over this.

[blurayfriend]

Very sad to hear about the victims of the hate crime in Orlando. Why are people in the world like that?

Something also on my mind in the news- the recent story about Brock Turner, the ex-Stanford student who raped the unconscious girl after a party. He's now the most hated man in America (well, second-most now) and his parents are just blindly supporting him. He got off with three months in jail, and what struck me the most is- does he not know how lucky he is that his parents willfully supported him after he committed rape? Mine would probably remind me daily about the inconvenience I made to them until the stress ate me alive. He got off way too lightly and now they're appealing that decision, makes no sense.

This enabled him to lie and not take responsibility for what he did and not give the victim closure because the parents gave him a way out- why not plead guilty and just say, "I was awkward with women and wanted to touch her BECAUSE she was unconscious as I didn't think she'd remember it and suffer?" He's become vilified in the media because of the lying just to try to not appear like a beta, and how this all happened just boggles the mind.