[video=youtube;ntEFg2k-1ew]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntEFg2k-1ew[/video] So much to say about this video, definitely a unique way to capture the times.
Saw this a few days ago. Two things that stuck in my mind: 1) This guy got really fat. 2) He wasn't shy about being filmed semi-naked. That, and I found it kinda depressing.
Weird. But then again, I've documented most of my life, at least the interesting parts, online for the world to see. What a product of our fucking generation
We're all on the same time train as that guy. Not depressing, it just is. Youth goes away really fast, too fast. One day you look in the mirror and don't really recognize the guy looking back.
his 2000 videos look like the 90s his 90s videos look like the 80s his 80s videos look like the 70s his 70s look like the 60s thats weird, and he looked old as hell for a 20 something.
I looked alot younger 17 years ago. In 1986 I was more like wtf? (didn even know where i was most of the time) today.....I just look ancient: Point is, change is inevitable.
whiskas, if you shaved your head and your mustache, get some new hip thick framed glasses, i guarantee you, you'll knock off about 30 years. or at least let your hair get a short buzz
Therein lies the problem, some people put no value on being something they're not. I'm 54, it's OK for me to look 54.
oh, i thought you were talking down on yourself by looking ancient like you wanted to look younger... well, to each his own... i'd like to see an "updated" whiskas with pics though, thats all.
Actually, I'm in great shape considering all the years of abuse and shit I put my body through compared to other 54's. Good blood pressure, good collesterol ratios, good blood sugar proccessing and PSA numbers. No complaints even though the constant non-stop pain of a worn out skeleton has me hobbled much of the time. My peers are trying to talk me into SSD and/or a OMMP card. I qualify for chronic therapy but don't want to go through life wiggly and giggly/stupid. as long as I can manage to meet the pain with stubborness and grit, I'll not pursue SSD. I still have a few miles left in me and like most of my shit, I'll run it until the wheels fall off.
Jesus Wiskas. You put your body through hell. My pops is the same age as you and looks more like your 17 years ago pic. Take care of yourself man.
I really didn't plan on living this long. My plan before I turned 30 didn't include living to 30. everyday since has been a freebee. Actually, my alter ego looks great! cloths make the man..............man.
My dad, who's probably just a few years older than you, lived with the same mentality. Now he has a whole heap of chronic pain in his back and feet and carpal tunnel in both hands. He lives super-healthy now (and getting the first carpal tunnel surgery done next week) , but it doesn't make up for it. Yesterday he told my girlfriend that he thought he was Superman for the first 40 years of his life and now he's feeling it. I'll be living here this summer helping out where I can around the house and outside (he has a lot of floral arrangements and trees and stuff outside). I even made a vegetable garden in the backyard, something that went to the grass and few cloves of some top-shelf (but invasive) garlic. To get to my point, I'd come do your yardwork anyday, Wiskas.
So long as people keep throwing away perfectly good yard equipment, I got it covered. The last time I spent 6 hours mowing the 2 acre "lawn" i did it on a machine that took less than 100 bux to rebuild entirely, then I weed eated the perimeters with a wead eater made from three scrapped weed eaters. people throw stuff away convinced they are total losses because they didn't think that fuel mixtures change twice a year. Most salvaged equipment only requires a carb adjustment and the magnetos/plugs cleaned and they pur like kittens. I did tear my rotator cuff the last time I spent an hour on the weed whacker though. Thanks anyhow Sparky, but the day I have to hire out my chores is also the day I set off a 55 gallon plastic drum full of Hh0 (AKA: I'ma chuckin' it in).....it'll be glorious! It'll be a SHTF day for all the neighbors.
Yeah. I had a friend who had a weedeater that was about to throw it away because it seized on him. I took a look at the fuel tank and saw very little color (no oil). Pulled the spark plug, set a copper punch on the piston and whacked it with a dead blow hammer. Poured a few ounces of some ATF on top of the piston and let it soak 5 minutes. Pulled on the starer (ooh it turns again) to cycle the oil in the cylinder and then started it first try. Looked at him and said "You buy the first 2 rounds tonight."
