OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[Brutus Buckeye]

Krystal is like White Castle, right?  So gross.

Maybe I've changed my mind.  Being force-fed White Castle would make me REALLY grumpy.

White Castle is the worst one that I've ever tried to eat. I've never had Krystal, but it's knock off White Castle. So it has to be worse. They don't even get the fries right. 

[Gigem]

I did not state or suggest that only stoners watched it.

I didn’t say you did. But for my little slice of GenX it was very popular. 

[MikeDeTiger]

What a strange reason anyway to not like something or ignore it.  I like or don't like stuff based on my proclivity toward it, not based on whether or not I like/dislike or agree/disagree with some other group that likes something.  

B&B came out when I was in about 8th grade or so.  If it was juvenile, it would make sense that it still had an appeal to me.  

[MikeDeTiger]

I'm in the middle of a round of medical tests and it's wearing thin.  Both taking time off of work and just the hassle of it all.  The older I get, the more like my dad I get.....I don't like going to the doctor, if something's going on, I don't want to know and I don't think "they" can fix it most of the time anyway.  Whatever happens, I'm probably fine, and if I'm not, oh well.  Unfortunately I'm not willing to put up with the clash with Mrs. DeT that would entail.  

While testing for something else unrelated, a radiologist recommended another imaging to get more info on something he thought he maybe saw.  After an ultrasound more info was confirmed and a final CT was recommended and a referral back to urology, where he'll take the CT results and decide what to do.  I have a mass on my right kidney, which is the concern.  I also have a bunch of nodules on my thyroid, so now I have to go to endocrinology too.  

My wife says the possible scenarios at this time for the kidney are 1) it's cancer--it has to come out (surgery), 2) it's benign, but vascular--it has to come out (surgery), 3) it's benign and basically just a bunch of fat tissue or something that might not hurt anything--it doesn't have to come out, or at least I have the reasonable option to leave it alone.  She says re: the thyroid, it's probably nothing, but Endo needs to biopsy it anyway to be sure it's not cancer, in which case they'll just probably leave it alone and monitor for changes.  

I don't hurt, my kidney function is great, my thyroid function is great, I would rather ignore it all until something changes, and as I said, I'm tired of testing and dr. appointments.  But, my doc recommends against doing nothing, and as mentioned, my wife is kinda up my arse about this.  Plus my mom is always wanting updates (I didn't tell her anything, the wife did that) and doesn't listen when I tell her it's probably nothing, and wants to know when she can tell dad and my sister, etc.  I'm like "Um....whenever there's something to actually tell.  There's just a big ball of nothing at the moment, and it's likely to stay nothing.  There's no indications so far any of this is anything serious."  But at any rate, I don't want them worried, I don't want them fussing over me, I don't want them calling me trying to talk about it.  Lolz, ok, well, my dad will never call to "talk about it," or talk about much of anything, but still.  

AND, I just had an old man surgery just three months ago, by which I mean I had to have a procedure done that is typically something only more elderly men have to deal with.  That was a bunch of appointments, nearly a week off work, and it just puts me way out of the mood for any of this.  

Yes, I'm grumpy about it.  The constant appointments and the fussing by the wife/mom.  Thus, I'm venting here.  God forbid I ever actually get sick because I'm using all my accumulated sick time on these damn appointments.  

[Gigem]

I'm in the middle of a round of medical tests and it's wearing thin.  Both taking time off of work and just the hassle of it all.  The older I get, the more like my dad I get.....I don't like going to the doctor, if something's going on, I don't want to know and I don't think "they" can fix it most of the time anyway.  Whatever happens, I'm probably fine, and if I'm not, oh well.  Unfortunately I'm not willing to put up with the clash with Mrs. DeT that would entail. 

While testing for something else unrelated, a radiologist recommended another imaging to get more info on something he thought he maybe saw.  After an ultrasound more info was confirmed and a final CT was recommended and a referral back to urology, where he'll take the CT results and decide what to do.  I have a mass on my right kidney, which is the concern.  I also have a bunch of nodules on my thyroid, so now I have to go to endocrinology too. 

My wife says the possible scenarios at this time for the kidney are 1) it's cancer--it has to come out (surgery), 2) it's benign, but vascular--it has to come out (surgery), 3) it's benign and basically just a bunch of fat tissue or something that might not hurt anything--it doesn't have to come out, or at least I have the reasonable option to leave it alone.  She says re: the thyroid, it's probably nothing, but Endo needs to biopsy it anyway to be sure it's not cancer, in which case they'll just probably leave it alone and monitor for changes. 

I don't hurt, my kidney function is great, my thyroid function is great, I would rather ignore it all until something changes, and as I said, I'm tired of testing and dr. appointments.  But, my doc recommends against doing nothing, and as mentioned, my wife is kinda up my arse about this.  Plus my mom is always wanting updates (I didn't tell her anything, the wife did that) and doesn't listen when I tell her it's probably nothing, and wants to know when she can tell dad and my sister, etc.  I'm like "Um....whenever there's something to actually tell.  There's just a big ball of nothing at the moment, and it's likely to stay nothing.  There's no indications so far any of this is anything serious."  But at any rate, I don't want them worried, I don't want them fussing over me, I don't want them calling me trying to talk about it.  Lolz, ok, well, my dad will never call to "talk about it," or talk about much of anything, but still. 

AND, I just had an old man surgery just three months ago, by which I mean I had to have a procedure done that is typically something only more elderly men have to deal with.  That was a bunch of appointments, nearly a week off work, and it just puts me way out of the mood for any of this. 

Yes, I'm grumpy about it.  The constant appointments and the fussing by the wife/mom.  Thus, I'm venting here.  God forbid I ever actually get sick because I'm using all my accumulated sick time on these damn appointments. 

Welp, get better bud !  

[betarhoalphadelta]

I don't hurt, my kidney function is great, my thyroid function is great, I would rather ignore it all until something changes, and as I said, I'm tired of testing and dr. appointments.  But, my doc recommends against doing nothing, and as mentioned, my wife is kinda up my arse about this.

Yeah, I know you don't want to hear it, but the problem with anything that "might" be cancer is that by the time you start feeling like something is wrong, it's typically a lot harder to deal with. 

Plus my mom is always wanting updates (I didn't tell her anything, the wife did that) and doesn't listen when I tell her it's probably nothing, and wants to know when she can tell dad and my sister, etc.  I'm like "Um....whenever there's something to actually tell.  There's just a big ball of nothing at the moment, and it's likely to stay nothing.  There's no indications so far any of this is anything serious."  But at any rate, I don't want them worried, I don't want them fussing over me, I don't want them calling me trying to talk about it.

THIS I understand lol... I don't need to talk to people to deal with my stuff, and so I absolutely HATE when people are brought into my business and then they want to be constantly informed. 

Of course, I also then berate my parents when they'll have something happen like my mom going into the hospital and they don't tell ANY of us that it's going on until she's out. My wife is on my case because I'm going to start up with new primary care doc and she wants me to find out what kind of cancer my dad had--that I didn't know about until years after the fact, and only heard about from thirdhand from my sister. 

[utee94]

What a strange reason anyway to not like something or ignore it.  I like or don't like stuff based on my proclivity toward it, not based on whether or not I like/dislike or agree/disagree with some other group that likes something. 

B&B came out when I was in about 8th grade or so.  If it was juvenile, it would make sense that it still had an appeal to me. 

Let me be clear-- I think it's stupid and juvenile, which is standard for typical stoner humor.  I don't dislike it solely because it appeals to stoners, other than stupid and juvenile stuff tends to appeal to stoners, and I don't like that kind of humor.

I also don't like the Cheech and Chong movies, because they are also stupid and juvenile.

[MikeDeTiger]

Yeah, I know you don't want to hear it, but the problem with anything that "might" be cancer is that by the time you start feeling like something is wrong, it's typically a lot harder to deal with. 

Yeah, yeah.....  Just let me complain like a grumpy old man, will ya?  

[Gigem]

Let me be clear-- I think it's stupid and juvenile, which is standard for typical stoner humor.  I don't dislike it solely because it appeals to stoners, other than stupid and juvenile stuff tends to appeal to stoners, and I don't like that kind of humor.

I also don't like the Cheech and Chong movies, because they are also stupid and juvenile.

I have to admit, if I wasn't in that narrow window of older teenager/early 20's I probably wouldn't have liked it either.  As I age, I re-watch some of the old stuff, and some of the new stuff and I pick up on subtle things that I may have missed as a 15/16 year old.  The writing on some episodes is incredibly good.   A lot of the really good stuff from B&B is pretty directly exported to KoTH, including Hank Hill being almost a carbon copy of Mr. Anderson.  The bit about the hippy high school teacher and his dorky ways is pretty funny as well.  

[utee94]

I have to admit, if I wasn't in that narrow window of older teenager/early 20's I probably wouldn't have liked it either.  As I age, I re-watch some of the old stuff, and some of the new stuff and I pick up on subtle things that I may have missed as a 15/16 year old.  The writing on some episodes is incredibly good.  A lot of the really good stuff from B&B is pretty directly exported to KoTH, including Hank Hill being almost a carbon copy of Mr. Anderson.  The bit about the hippy high school teacher and his dorky ways is pretty funny as well. 

Yeah I really like KotH, possibly because it distills a lot of the good stuff, and omits a lot of the juvenile and stupid stuff, from B&B.

[jgvol]

B&B is one of the dumbest, low IQ, idiotic shows ever produced.  And why it was on MTV, no doubt.

I was drinking and stoning back then, but still wasn't that low brow.

Also, it was hugely popular (a fad), everyone quoted it non-stop, to the point of making me sick.  I generally zig, when everyone else is zagging, so there is that.

I am in the correct thread, right?

[MikeDeTiger]

Let me be clear-- I think it's stupid and juvenile, which is standard for typical stoner humor.  I don't dislike it solely because it appeals to stoners, other than stupid and juvenile stuff tends to appeal to stoners, and I don't like that kind of humor.

I also don't like the Cheech and Chong movies, because they are also stupid and juvenile.

I figured you probably had other reasons such as these for not liking it.  Your post just didn't read that way, so I wasn't sure.  

For me, there's a distinction between stupid and juvenile stoner mentality, and something that makes fun of stupid and juvenile stoner mentality via satire.  I considered Beavis and Butthead the latter, but obviously one's mileage can vary.  It clearly made use of stupid and juvenile humor, so if one does not make a distinction, I can see that.  I thought it was done in service to mocking kids like that, so it struck a different chord for me.  

I actually never saw a whole Cheech and Chong movie, so I can't comment on those.  

It's kinda like Breaking Bad, which we previously discussed in the movies/tv thread.  My brother-in-law used to work at a drug rehab center in DFW and he says all the guys there just loved Walter White and viewed him as some sort of hero.  I thought it was obvious the show was trying to show how little there was redeemable about the guy, and ultimately how those life choices lead to terrible things.  But the show did indeed present him as some law-breaking DGAF guy, and those guys apparently saw the same show and thought it was presenting something you're supposed to endorse or look up to.  I thought it was presenting something you're supposed to despise.  Either way, it definitely made use of the aspiring drug-kingpin character and so it's interesting to note how different people viewed it.  

[utee94]

Yeah I understood what Breaking Bad was trying to do, I just had no interest in watching them do it.

[Riffraft]

Personally I am not sure what is wrong with most of y'all's taste buds.  I love downing a sack of white castles.  I don't get to do it too often because their isn't one near me, but when one of my football games takes me near I have been know to stop on the way home.