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There is a word for it

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I’m getting old.

I reckon that in the last four or five weeks I have aged about ten years or more.  Where I was a thirty year old in a forty year old body, I’m now a forty year old in an eighty year old body.  Not bad for just a few weeks?

So the joints are aching and some of the aches have developed aches.  Doing anything is an effort, whether it’s physical or mental.  The worst bit is the overall tiredness.

The Eskimos reputedly have a dozens of words for snow, but none for sand, while the Sahara Bedouin have dozens of words for sand but none for snow.  So presumably the prevalence of something means that there are more words for it?

We must be a tired species around here?

I would describe myself variously as…

Tired

Bollixed

Fucked

Knackered

Wiped

Shagged

Bate

Weary

Banjaxed

Guntered

Done in

Zonked

Have I left any out?

 

 

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There is a word for it — 23 Comments

  1. “mullered”

    “Jacobed” (Jacobs Cream Crackerd= ‘Knackered’, London slang)

     

  2. The Germans, colourful lovers of fun analogies that they are, have one which I use a lot “I feel as if I have been broken upon the wheel” (which harks back to a particularly nasty form of execution in the middle ages) or more commonly simply “wheeled”.

    I move that ” I feel like the thrice brexshited shroud of Lazarus” enter popular parlance.

    • The thing about Germans is that they somehow seem to be able to cram an entire sentence into one word.

      A sentence like “may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits and may you suffer a bad dose of galloping knob rot” becomes something simpler “fuck you”, though with a lot more letters in it.

      • “Gliednekrötisierendeachselinfektierendekamelenflöhenplage”  does just roll off the tongue doesn’t it?

        (might have missed an ‘e’ or an ‘en’ in there somewhere). Germans rock Scrabble.

      • “The thing about Germans is that they somehow seem to be able to cram an entire sentence into one word.”

        Funny. I (= German) always think that it’s much easier to in English cram into one word something for which I’d need a whole sentence in German. 😉

        Oh, and btw, what about the good old “exhausted”?

    • That applies to age rather than tiredness?

      I was going to say physically enhanced, but that’s wrong.  Physically dehanced?

  4. Have I left any out?

    In Australian slang “I’m buggered” is readily understood to mean “I’m exhausted.”

    • Could be applied here, though generally it means “in trouble” as in “They have the evidence, I’m buggered” or  broken as in “this web site is buggered”.

  7. O/T GD but what was the name of the pipe maker(makeress?) you favour? I meant to go back and browse their site at my leisure when you posted about it before.

  9. Nothing a Valium, a small glass of Scotch and a very good nights sleep won’t fix.

    And as long as your grandchildren still dote on their granny and granddad, then who gives a flying fart about their seed donor?

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