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Old 02-19-08 | 12:48 PM
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Don't even know of Jay-Z
You're old. End of thread.
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Old 02-19-08 | 12:51 PM
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mmm not necessarily, shanking biker is definitely of a differing musical genre then the Jay-Z. I believe he may come from a, ska, reggae, punk inspired set of listening preferences.
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Old 02-19-08 | 12:55 PM
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if you dont drink zima you are old
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Old 02-19-08 | 12:58 PM
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If you DO drink Zima, you aren't old enough.
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:04 PM
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I'm not worried about 30. If your life genuinely starts declining at 30, you're doing something wrong. ****, I'm just getting warmed up.
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You do notice a drop in metabolism but aside from that, life is good. My knees have been hurting for years thanks to a stupid snowboarding stunt; that's also why I concentrate on bicycling rather than running/snowboarding/etc. I still date "just out of college" girls. The single women I know are desperate to find men 30 years or older (we're considered mature/stable by their standards) to date and marry. Plus, you have more expendable income and can wear a suit/tux to a formal party and look the part.
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:06 PM
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mmm not necessarily, shanking biker is definitely of a differing musical genre then the Jay-Z. I believe he may come from a, ska, reggae, punk inspired set of listening preferences.
ding ding ding ding.....tell em what he's won Johnny!


As to my beverage of choice: either a brandy old-fashioned sweet (have to be from Wisconsin and be polish to understand) or Newcastle/Smithwicks.
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:07 PM
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If you DO drink Zima, you aren't old enough.
Wasn't Zima like a warrior-princess or something?
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:17 PM
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At 30 I had my first professional MMA fight in Japan, ran my first half marathon, and began biking seriously.
My girlfriend is 5 years younger than I am and is wonderfull, and I am in better shape and happier now that I am 31 than ever before in my life. I feel like I am only just starting to understand what life is all about, and I feel more enrgized and aware than ever before.
A healthy human should live in prime health for about 120 years, then rapidly decline and die.
we arent numbers, after all....
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by skanking biker
Ahh yes, thats it.


26??---Enjoy your last 4 years of youth---life sucks when you hit 30. Its like hitting a brick wall or something. You instantly become "old." Knees start to hurt. College girls start looking like jailbait; all the single women your age are divorced or have kids or have things you don't want------not a pretty picture.
I'm A LOT faster at 35 than I was when I was in my 20s. Most cyclists make huge power gains well into their 30s, and keep said gains into their 50s, and 60s.

If your knees are hurting you need to look at how you're training. Train smarter and you'll be able to ride harder.
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:24 PM
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You're not old. I'm 26 and I still don't know half the bands making videos that appear on VH1. That said, I still think most of them suck and therefore don't care either.
At 23 I'm proud to say I don't most of the bands on MTV or VH1. If your that well known theres a 80-90% chance that you totally suck.

Big usually means bad.

Everybody has heard of Budweiser and it sucks. Get yourself some Founders.
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by ChiapasFixed
At 30 I had my first professional MMA fight in Japan, ran my first half marathon, and began biking seriously.
My girlfriend is 5 years younger than I am and is wonderfull, and I am in better shape and happier now that I am 31 than ever before in my life. I feel like I am only just starting to understand what life is all about, and I feel more enrgized and aware than ever before.
A healthy human should live in prime health for about 120 years, then rapidly decline and die.
we arent numbers, after all....
That is somewhat true for me as well. After starting to exercise again five years ago, and having completely quit smoking last April, I feel much more healthier than I did in my 20s and I am a lot less heavy. That being said, I also feel like my body is paying me back for all the abuse it went through in my 20s.
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:27 PM
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At 23 I'm proud to say I don't most of the bands on MTV or VH1. If your that well known theres a 80-90% chance that you totally suck.

Agreed for the most part. The Bosstones and RBF rocked even though they had a couple of vids in the summer of 96.
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:28 PM
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:48 PM
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you guys arnt old 30 isnt old. My grandpas 93 and walks 5 miles a day. So tuff it out. U guys are in ur prime.
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:55 PM
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If you DO drink Zima, you aren't old enough.
Geez! Is Zima still around? I remember when it first came out. How's THAT for old...
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:58 PM
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You guys remember the old Van Halen video for "Jump?"

That was awesome.

jmichaeldesign, are you saying Britney Spears' video "Toxic" implies she makes bad music? Ok, well, maybe, but that frikkin' skin suit in that viddy was AWESOME! Even old guys can be dirty
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Old 02-19-08 | 01:59 PM
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Geez! Is Zima still around? I remember when it first came out. How's THAT for old...
You remember Pepsi Clear?
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Old 02-19-08 | 02:06 PM
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You remember Pepsi Clear?
Kind of. But I do remember how excited I was when you could get A&W rootbeer in a store. And I remember when they came up with "new coke" and got rid of the old formula until the nation rebelled.

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Old 02-19-08 | 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
mmm not necessarily, shanking biker is definitely of a differing musical genre then the Jay-Z. I believe he may come from a, ska, reggae, punk inspired set of listening preferences.


So does Jay-Z.







Okay, maybe not.
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Old 02-19-08 | 02:33 PM
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He might have a bit of the island soca riddem in him, but he don' record it a 'tall. Sain?
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Old 02-19-08 | 02:38 PM
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By 25 you have nothing figured out---I mean total cluelessness---but you have no awareness of this fact.


By 35 you become aware of the fact that you have nothing figured out, but have no remedy for the situation.


(knowing is still a big plus)


By 45, you have begun to figure it out, but now you are almost halfway through life, and some of the things you have figured out don't matter as much as they used to.

By 55, you buy a really fast red something and get a girl at least half our age. Bingo...you are clueless again.

By 65, you have it mostly figured out, and things start to matter again---the things that you abandoned in your mid-life crisis.

By 75 (congrats for making it this far), you really don't give a damn what anyone thinks. You are free.

By 85, you are surprised/happy to be here.

By 95, you have forgotten most of what you learned---the things that brought you so much pain and angst--, yet you have retained all that is important to you. Bliss.


Growing old ain't so bad when you think about it.
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Old 02-19-08 | 02:47 PM
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I'm not worried about 30. If your life genuinely starts declining at 30, you're doing something wrong. ****, I'm just getting warmed up.
27 is the real point of decline
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You guys remember the old Van Halen video for "Jump?"

That was awesome.
Remember when David Lee Roth left Van Halen and you thought like the earth had stopped spinning?

Remember when like Michael Jackson made that video where he jumped on the car, grabbed his crotch and broke out all the windows?----that rocked

Remember when your mother grounded you for watching the video of "I touch myself" on MTV but then you snuck out of your bedroom at night and stuck a fork in the cable box to watch soft porn on showtime??
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Old 02-19-08 | 02:55 PM
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im a super senior in college....the freshmen coming in were born in the '90's....thats weird enough for me


---and what crap did the guy in the vid stuff into his bag to make it look full. it looked ****ty, floppy and annoying

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