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09 May 14
21:23
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start losing your marbles?
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46...downhill all the way!!
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at around 50 ish ,often walk up stairs to get something and by the time I get up the stairs I have forgotten what I went up there for .
and last week I popped into the supermarket to pick up a loaf of bread and jar of coffee and left the missus waiting in the car ,came out of the shop and jumped into the wrong feckin car it was a similar model and same colour to mine , took a fair bit of explaining and apologising to the bird in the passenger seat ,and my missus was pishing herself laughing . |
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i would have said that too FOYLESWAR
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you nutter
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both myselves are perfectly sane of course but i have noticed approaching 40 that i have started misreading words.
Erogenous instead of erroneous was one recently but that have been a few others. |
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i was expecting you on this thread MC
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I was about 13 i think
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when i was about 5. im sure th kid next door cheated at it. i stopped playing before i lost all my marbles to him.
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Not yet, not expecting to lose my marble. Soldiering on to end. No point thinking negatively.
When mistake happens i put down to being human. |
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My theory is that your brain is like a library, and when you hit 40ish its crammed full.
So for every bit of new information, it has to discard an old bit. |
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at 40 you should be expecting to reaching the peak of your powers and continue to operate at your this level for the next 30 to 55 years provide you have good health.
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after 20+ years of gambling, boozing and womanising i am amazed i am still alive in a way (albeit with plenty of creaking).
Stress, be it physiological or psychological is surely a killer but is probably the least understood medical phenomenon of all. |
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It's a gambling forum doantwin2easy, most of us have led a very colourful life.
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good point. bit of a piszed up moan from me there.
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"at 40 you should be expecting to reaching the peak of your powers and continue to operate at your this level for the next 30 to 55 years provide you have good health."
It's interesting when TV interviews some professor or other in his 80s and he's still sharp as a tack. I think your brain is like a muscle, you need to keep using it or it'll weaken. "Stress, be it physiological or psychological is surely a killer". There were articles in the papers this week about how nagged men tend to die younger due to stress Have you put that shelf up yet? |
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There's plenty of merry widow's in their 50's who've nagged their husband's to death
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Stress is a serious problem many don't understand until they've been through it , all these chavs on benefits think they're stressed , they've never known a days stress in their lives !!
When i moved last year i broke out with uncontrollable dandruff , never had dandruff in my life , but had it for a good 6 months , quite frightening the amount of almost sugar crystals were literally dropping out my hair , i thought i had nits , even bought nit cream & spray ffs It's scary stuffs  |
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CUCKOO
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half past 2
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online poker drives you insane , but we all have to earn a good living
added stress just flipped me out though , better now x lol |
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Well stress raises BP which is bad, but it also can induce a long term fight or flight release of cortisol which does all sorts of bad things
 I think it can even literally age you, not just an old wives tale. |
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cortisol
 i did feel like i was aging , going temp grey & felt i was dying , and i'm only 38 |
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which is also why i won't tollerate w^kn3rs on here picking me up for the slightest grammar mistake , i'd smash your fkn skulls in if i ever et you !
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Cortisol. It's a fight or flight hormone, but normally you'd get a bit then it'd reduce, if you're stressed a lot you are sitting with this hormone swilling about all the time and it's really not good for you.
Maybe you shouldn't read this .. might stress you  :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol |
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sry , got stressed
thanks just checking that's v helpful , will have a good read of it later , after what i've been though nothing can stress me any more  |
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I'm a nice guy , but some people need to understand what other people have to go through , i was homeless , my old man tried to strangle me to death .. tough love hey !!
I've now moved & bought a flat outright in a totally new area , don't know anybody , play poker & gamble for my living , while these bed wetting abusive idiots mainly claim a pension .......... |
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we know you are a nice guy, one of the good guys in chit chat.
SO now you have to rebuild. YOu are a bigger gambler than me, my tip for you would be to at least go out and buy a paper at least once a day in your new area or 3 times. The normal rituals are the way to norm.imo |
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Moonbeam, "This too shall pass". It's all bollocks, 100 years time we'll all be dead and all the small crap we stress about won't matter anyway. Just try and live a good honest life, don't sweat the small stuff, and enjoy the ride :)
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Thanks Sonko
It's not easy trust me , imagine having to gamble to pay everything at 30-40 until i'm 50 & 60 ... i still won't be eligible for a Pension .. like half the guys on here .. and i grind 7 Days Per week !!!!!!!!!! |
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27, handcuffed and put in an ambo
 God bless Haliperidol. Not. |
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I have tried poker, cant make it pay. poker bores me to death, too slow. though my math mind should want me to play it
I make NH pay every year. Flat, rarely look at it. good luck mc m |
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Can anyone explain createinthesky's post? Even for BF chit chat that's a bit leftfield ;)
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I have a math brain too sonko , but is very different when trying to geind the max pos wage out year after year , Hh racing just wouldn't do it for the best of punters , which is why i play 50-100 sng's per day
thanks mate you too , how was that bird btw , did you go back |
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Had a wobbly patch, ok now though
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@Mad mad moon -- My theory is that your brain is like a library, and when you hit 40ish its crammed full.
So for every bit of new information, it has to discard an old bit. As used in The Simpsons -- "like that time I took a wine-tasting course and forgot how to drive". |
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About 10 years of age.
The big round one went first - it was a huge Cracker - multi coloured - everyone at school Was jealous of it ... Then a lovely shade of blue one -- quickly followed by A black one -- i don't think anyone else had a Black one :-( I have my suspicions it was Colin Gibson ( allegedly) But my stock was never the same after their loss. I discovered girls that year and my playing days ended. No more Playground Marbles Championships for me !! |
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lol, class.
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About 7. Very competitive in our street.
Good training for a future mediocre betting career. |