How old are you? ATOT is for old farts. Youngun's don't come here anymore!!! They go to dem ireadit or something.

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purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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I turn 38 in November. I joined here when I was 17 or 18 when I first found the Hot Deals section. I think my first post was a bit afterwards when I started building my own PC's based on parts I was seeing on the hot deals section. Then I started using the classifies to buy/sell a bunch of stuff.

I never really got into ATOT until my first "real" job in the summer of college one year when I was at a desk all day.

This place peaked around when the "change of culture" crap happened and the forums were fractured into a bunch of stupid subforums. It was the best when ATOT was like a catchall for non-hardware stuff. You could press F5 on page 1 every second and posts would be shifting around. Your post would last like 2-3 minutes on the first page before it was on to page 2.

Those were the days...
 
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snoopy7548

Diamond Member
Jan 1, 2005
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I'd rather be young than old. All you old farts are just jealous we're not knocking on death's door.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
63,390
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I'd rather be young than old. All you old farts are just jealous we're not knocking on death's door.

You might be...just keep runnin your mouth...



There is one advantage. At least I know I'm going to live until I'm 64.5, you don't.

You might die in the next ten minutes.............

Especially if he keeps runnin his mouth...



Youth is wasted on the young

Ain't that the fucking truth...

 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
67,907
12,375
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www.anyf.ca
mid 30's here. Anyone remember Boomer? _that_ dude is old.

He was around when the lawn he tells us to get off of was actually owned by a prehistoric zoo. They had all sorts of dinosaurs and stuff in captivity but it was deemed inhumane so they shut it down and converted it to residential areas. Something about that soil makes the lawn so nice though.
 

Zanovar

Diamond Member
Jan 21, 2011
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haha"fight me if you wish,but remember i am old for a reason"That is fucking awesome.love it
 

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
43,551
5,960
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55 here ... it creeps up on you!
Same. The suck is that I still want to bike for an hour, lift for an hour and do all of the Moms for several hours but my body tells me to eff off. :shakes fist;
35 is the new 65. I was working with a young fellow last week 40 years younger than me and he had trouble keeping up.
Kids today are astonishingly soft.
My bro, the plumber, is 58. 14 hour days are his norm. I swear he's on meth. He's quite the health nut, has a nutritionist make his meals, 4K+ calories/day and he's 175lbs.

Screw that level of hard work. Catching up with him though. Needs a shoulder replacement and one of his knees worked on.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
67,907
12,375
126
www.anyf.ca
Same. The suck is that I still want to bike for an hour, lift for an hour and do all of the Moms for several hours but my body tells me to eff off. :shakes fist;
My bro, the plumber, is 58. 14 hour days are his norm. I swear he's on meth. He's quite the health nut, has a nutritionist make his meals, 4K+ calories/day and he's 175lbs.

Screw that level of hard work. Catching up with him though. Needs a shoulder replacement and one of his knees worked on.

There seems to be an odd thing where people are proud of how hard they work or how many hours they put in. It's not really something to be proud of. Your work is benefiting someone else, not yourself. Ones goal should be to work the least while still being able to pay the bills and afford things to enjoy. There is one thing more precious than money, and that is time.
 

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
43,551
5,960
136
There seems to be an odd thing where people are proud of how hard they work or how many hours they put in. It's not really something to be proud of. Your work is benefiting someone else, not yourself. Ones goal should be to work the least while still being able to pay the bills and afford things to enjoy. There is one thing more precious than money, and that is time.
lol no, you don't get it. The hard work affords him to have/do/etc whatever he wants...at $140/hr because he has the ability/knowledge/skill.

And, it's him, his time. Makes him happy.


Posted before, stopped by and he had a rifle scope on his dining room table. So I picked it up, "That's $3K, be careful." ..whatever...
 
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clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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I'm 36; joined here when I was 20. Dang that was a long time ago. I was a lot happier then too. Bah
 

Exterous

Super Moderator
Jun 20, 2006
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I was working with a young fellow last week 40 years younger than me and he had trouble keeping up.
Kids today are astonishingly soft.
I agree. I have the same problem where I work with the young ones.

They make a pill for that but if they're young and soft it might be the wrinkled old guys on the other side of the equation causing that
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
67,907
12,375
126
www.anyf.ca
lol no, you don't get it. The hard work affords him to have/do/etc whatever he wants...at $140/hr because he has the ability/knowledge/skill.

And, it's him, his time. Makes him happy.


Posted before, stopped by and he had a rifle scope on his dining room table. So I picked it up, "That's $3K, be careful." ..whatever...

But when you work 12 hours every day you don't have time to enjoy any of that stuff. Money means nothing if you have no time to enjoy the things it brings you.
 
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