#and when i hit middle age

[slowestlap]

After parting with Bradley Scanes following four years together at Red Bull, Verstappen is now working with Rupert Manwaring, who had been Carlos Sainz’s long-serving trainer. Sainz and Manwaring started working together eight years ago when Sainz was at Toro Rosso (now RB).

“We had an exceptional time together,” said Sainz. “We felt it was time to move on. Our lives were becoming different, and him living in the UK and me being more in Italy and Spain, I felt like it was time to change paths. I’m sure Max is going to enjoy the time with him.” Verstappen said it had been “nice” working with Manwaring given his F1 experience, saying he “knows what is needed.”

Verstappen noted managing sickness as being particularly important, as illness becomes inevitable with so much traveling throughout a season. Last year in Saudi Arabia, he came down with a bug that made Red Bull question whether he’d be fit for the race weekend. He only missed media day in the end.

“Everyone gets sick once a year at least,” Verstappen said. “You really try to minimize that, you try to be on top of things, and you know that when you go to certain countries, you know what you have to do to be careful not to be sick or whatever. Jet lag, traveling, it’s really about being well-rested.”

Even at 26, Verstappen is already implementing changes in his approach. “It may sound a bit weird, but I’m not 18 anymore,” Verstappen said. “At 18, you can do whatever you want, even the day before (the race)! Slowly, that is changing as well. I already start feeling that. But I’m sure we’ll come up with good plans on what to do.”

[...]

Verstappen, the overwhelming favorite to win a fourth title in 2024 and, one presumes, the majority of the 24 races, said he wanted to “make it as fun as possible” between races and find downtime away from his duties.

“Twenty-four races is a lot, and not only just the race weekend itself,” Verstappen said. “When we get back, there’s a lot of commitments. You have to get back to the factory as well to prepare with sim days, which almost takes a month as well in your schedule already alone.

“(I’m) just trying to make the best of it. Everyone knows I’m not a fan of it. But I don’t decide the calendar.”

How F1 drivers and teams are preparing for 24 races in 2024, the longest-ever season | Luke Smith, the Athletic | 26 February 2024

#max verstappen #rupert manwaring #bahrain gp #mp #quotes #articles #welcome to the getting old club!! #they really don't tell ya how young the pains starts #i used to think it's gonna hit when i'm middle aged but boom #then you're in your mid twenties and need 7+ hours of sleep to function properly #but if you sleep in a slightly wrong position your neck is fcked and back hurts #it's cold outside and it makes your joints slow #get a fever and can barely get out of bed #i thought i had more time before it all hits 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[enbysiriusblack]

middle aged james potter with his plethora of kids, and his outdated tiny little shorts, and his specially made apron with a pun printed onto it, and him coaching a weekend kids sport club where all the parents try to flirt with him, and his morning runs where he waves to all the other runners and old people, and his packed lunches for his kids with little notes in but for his teen kids he just sends them the little note every day, and his little grey hairs and his stubbly facial hair that he can never decide on whether to shave or grow out, and him having a cleaner come round every week but he likes to clean beforehand so the cleaner doesn't really have much to do and he just makes them a tea or coffee and has a chat instead, and his volunteer work during the weekdays where he works for a few shelters and makes food for homeless people, and having a free supply of his family's hair products even though he's not involved in the company at all, and being called a 'trophy husband' one time and then deciding to buy himself a trophy with that enscription that he proudly places on the mantel, and wearing a backbrace because he has ongoing backpain so him and sirius always do that back crack thing for each other, and trying to remember all the slang the kids now say but they just call him cringy, and getting wrinkles/prominent smile lines and absolutely loving it because it's, in his words, 'proof he's spending his life having a good time'.

#i'm picturing middle aged james and sirius taking their kids to a beach and continously getting hit on #also the kids all think james is cringy when he tries to be down with the kids #but when sirius does it they call him cool. double standard smh (/j) #i didn't include a partner here but i was kinda picturing lily but imagine it however you want!! #no matter the ship. james is a stay at home dad fr. #marauders era #marauders #james potter #middle aged james potter

[blorbosinmyheadcentral]

Really curious to know where in the heck people got this "Caine is an old man" thing from

#rambles #Really. Where is this information from. I know gooseworx revealed all of the humans' ages but there is nothing on Caine or any of the AIs #It makes sense why that is because he's a frickin BOT. Are you going to tell me chatGPT is a middle aged man?? #But sure he has a “coded age” or whatever; let's entertain the thought. #He clearly reads as an adult. But OLD??? #What supports this???? We don't know how much time people have been in the Digital Circus or how long it has existed #“Years” is too damn vague. There is no specific sense for the passage of time #There's no way to determine his age that way #He could very well be younger than everyone in that place #Then is it his mannerisms??? HE'S A FREAKIN RINGMASTER #Are people just collectively assuming Caine is old just because???? #I haven't found ANY basis for this ANYWHERE. GODDD #And it's annoying especially when people use this to justify antagonizing shippers #end rant #*hits edit button* AND ANOTHER THING #Look. Even if Caine IS old. That's okay #Everyone in the show is canonically an adult #I'm just baffled at this because people assume it's an absolute truth when we just. don't know.

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

genuinely there are some episodes of doctor who that fuck me up to this day

#I don’t post about it a lot and I haven’t caught up in ages #but man. man. doctor who is a silly show. and then it hits you with something that will just make you pace in circles for hours #storyrambles #much as it pains me to admit I owe a lot of my particular brand of storytelling to doctor who episodes that fucked with my head #when I was in middle school

[punkeropercyjackson]

Thinking every character would be into older men is a weird ass assumption to make actually,especially when the characters in question aren't even adults

#fr i'm 22 and men with full head of grey hairs have hit on me and i still wish i'd beat their asses in public instead running away in fear #i don't even have p//edo trauma i just find no appeal in dating men old enough to be my dad(the way this phrase is a romance/p*rn trope.die) #and no i am not saying all age gaps are bad i ship some age gap pairings and one of my selfships is a 40something y/o with a 60something y/o #i just think there's a world of difference between a young adult and someone a few years older and two minors with a 1 or 2 year age diff #and someone who's just starting out being grown and someone with decades of experience or a middle schooler and a college student #this goes quadruple for characters from pg media.you can't call 'curate your experience' when you're invading children's spaces #i assure you that most kids and even adults are MUCH more interested in rizzing up people their age than getting pewpaws and mewmaws #antiproship #age gap cw #percy jackson #antilukercy #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #stephanie brown #antisladick #antisladejay #antijayslade #roy harper #antijayroy #ra's al-ghul #antijaytim #antitimras #jon kent #antidamijon #antijaysteph #bi #trans #summerposting

[the-busy-ghost]

Alright uninformed rant time. It kind of bugs me that, when studying the Middle Ages, specifically in western Europe, it doesn’t seem to be a pre-requisite that you have to take some kind of “Basics of Mediaeval Catholic Doctrine in Everyday Practise” class. 

Obviously you can’t cover everything- we don’t necessarily need to understand the ins and outs of obscure theological arguments (just as your average mediaeval churchgoer probably didn’t need to), or the inner workings of the Great Schism(s), nor how apparently simple theological disputes could be influenced by political and social factors, and of course the Official Line From The Vatican has changed over the centuries (which is why I’ve seen even modern Catholics getting mixed up about something that happened eight centuries ago). And naturally there are going to be misconceptions no matter how much you try to clarify things for people, and regional/class/temporal variations on how people’s actual everyday beliefs were influenced by the church’s rules. 

But it would help if historians studying the Middle Ages, especially western Christendom, were all given a broadly similar training in a) what the official doctrine was at various points on certain important issues and b) how this might translate to what the average layman believed. Because it feels like you’re supposed to pick that up as you go along and even where there are books on the subject they’re not always entirely reliable either (for example, people citing books about how things worked specifically in England to apply to the whole of Europe) and you can’t ask a book a question if you’re confused about any particular point. 

I mean I don’t expect to be spoonfed but somehow I don’t think that I’m supposed to accumulate a half-assed religious education from, say, a 15th century nobleman who was probably more interested in translating chivalric romances and rebelling against the Crown than religion; an angry 16th century Protestant; a 12th century nun from some forgotten valley in the Alps; some footnotes spread out over half a dozen modern political histories of Scotland; and an episode of ‘In Our Time’ from 2009. 

But equally if you’re not a specialist in church history or theology, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to probe the murky depths of every minor theological point ever, and once you’ve started where does it end? 

Anyway this entirely uninformed rant brought to you by my encounter with a sixteenth century bishop who was supposedly writing a completely orthodox book to re-evangelise his flock and tempt them away from Protestantism, but who described the baptismal rite in a way that sounds decidedly sketchy, if not heretical. And rather than being able to engage with the text properly and get what I needed from it, I was instead left sitting there like:

And frankly I didn’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole that would inevitably open up if I tried to find out

#This is a problem which is magnified in Britain I think as we also have to deal with the Hangover from Protestantism #As seen even in some folk who were raised Catholic but still imbibed certain ideas about the Middle Ages from culturally Protestant schools #And it isn't helped when we're hit with all these popular history tv documentaries #If I have to see one more person whose speciality is writing sensational paperbacks about Henry VIII's court #Being asked to explain for the British public What The Pope Thought I shall scream #Which is not even getting into some of England's super special common law get out clauses #Though having recently listened to some stuff in French I'm beginning to think misconceptions are not limited to Great Britain #Anyway I did take some realy interesting classes at uni on things like marriage and religious orders and so on #But it was definitely patchy and I definitely do not have a good handle on how it all basically hung together #As evidenced by the fact that I've probably made a tonne of mistakes in this post #Books aren't entirely helpful though because you can't ask them questions and sometimes the author is just plain wrong #I mean I will take book recommendations but they are not entirely helpful; and we also haven't all read the same stuff #So one person's idea of what the basics of being baptised involved are going to radically differ from another's based on what they read #Which if you are primarily a political historian interested in the Hundred Years' War doesn't seem important eonugh to quibble over #But it would help if everyone was given some kind of similar introductory training and then they could probe further if needed/wanted #So that one historian's elementary mistake about baptism doesn't affect generations of specialists in the Hundred Years' War #Because they have enough basic knowledge to know that they can just discount that tiny irrelevant bit #This is why seminars are important folks you get to ASK QUESTIONS AND FIGURE OUT BITS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND #And as I say there is a bit of a habit in this country of producing books about say religion in mediaeval England #And then you're expected to work out for yourself which bits you can extrapolate and assume were true outwith England #Or France or Scotland or wherever it may be though the English and the French are particularly bad for assuming #that whatever was true for them was obviously true for everyone else so why should they specify that they're only talking about France #Alright rant over #Beginning to come to the conclusion that nobody knows how Christianity works but would like certain historians to stop pretending they do #Edit: I sort of made up the examples of the historical people who gave me my religious education above #But I'm now enamoured with the idea of who actually did give me my weird ideas about mediaeval Catholicism #Who were my historical godparents so to speak #Do I have an idea of mediaeval religion that was jointly shaped by some professor from the 1970s and a 6th century saint? #Does Cardinal Campeggio know he's responsible for some much later human being's catechism? #Fake examples again but I'm going to be thinking about that today

[doodlboy]

Yk realistically if the om bros were fucked up like demons should be, they wouldn't be that disturbed by bloodlust el's personality.

However, I think the terror and angst comes from the fact that they lived with him his whole life, and for the most part, he was very passive and calm and never immediately resorted to violence, so to see [what used to be] their human revel in bloodshed is.. unsettling.

#bc they loved him for being human #being kind!! he was their connection to the entirety of humanity bc he loved people. bc he was human #they knew he was going to die eventually bc he's mortal. to them his life feels like minutes passing by 2 their immortality #[the universe where he turns in2 bloodlust el is the 1 where solomon can't reproduce the accidental immortality spell he used on himself] #[so el dies of old age after a full life of the devildom and his partners and magic] #so- imagine you die. your life was full and complex and loving #and [for a reason i haven't decided on yet] heaven/the celestial realm wipes your memory of all of that shit and u turn in2 a blank slate #2 be molded and shaped into something befitting an “angel” #then u start getting your memory back and you damn near start another war bc you're so pissed off you fight god & actually land a hit #which gets u cast out of the heaven and when you go crashing into hell you land smack dab in the middle of the garden #that belongs 2 the ppl who once loved you #but when u crashed you fucked up your head and now you're “wrong” #different from the human these people want you to be. and you hide away. they make you feel like a monster when you can't stop it #and get imprisoned for it. then used as essentially a court jester/executioner bc the prince needed to do *something* with you #fucked up #they wouldn't care if he was just another demon. but he's what remains of the human they loved yk #so it's more disturbing #anyway long ramble over #elliot rambles #obey me #obey me mc #obey me demon mc #obey me demon oc #avatar of bloodlust #demon elliot oc

[ssreeder]

I am so bored and ive been meaning to find a way to harass you so consider this harassment ❤️❤️

This made me laugh until my side hurt. Great job 10/10 no notes

#seriously max wtf I know you’re funny but when did you get HILARIOUS?!?! #I was sitting there enjoying some tea and bam you hit me with this & I swear I laughed until my face hurt haha #these are so true #I feel so exposed with my server name being not the author hahaha #I keep forgetting I’m not the author haha #I’m actually writing so much DILF content next chapter I think y’all will explode #it’s seriously just dilfs and zukka #so like… fucking dream chapter #I swear middle aged men aren’t allowed to be this dramatic and this funny #anyway max I love that you made this #also I’m so interested how much people are talking about Zara #like it’s the moment everyone’s like WHATS THAT BITCH GUNNA DO???? #& I will say…. you won’t be finding out next chapter #sokka was DONE having her steal any of his word count #so he took it back with force #but the DILFs can share haha #also the … IS THIS HEALING?? #hahaha #every time someone comments on liab and says please let the boys heal please #I cackle because how they gunna heal that fast?? we need YEARS before we see a decline in level 10 trauma outbursts #so this squiggly path of healing is what you get haha #sometimes we’re UP & sometimes we’re DOWN depends on the day #anyway max stop being so great #& I’ll think about killing iroh #zuko really needs another thing for real haha #liab #ITF #maxxx #maaaxx #(​ I fucking HATE that I can’t see my fucking tags I am so annoyed)

[sibelin]

i'm crying about my mom once again 👍

#i'm tired reassuring others :( #i've been through hell and sometimes it just hits me #how nobody will ever know how much i suffer. and how horrible it was #nobody will know how i felt when my mom forgot about my age. and then my name. and then invented a whole other family #dreamt about wars that never existed. about another daughter that was not me. about a better life in which i was not really here #and i still struggle looking at pictures #and i still remember her without hair in the last days. when i spent christmas at the hospital in middle of the covid craze #who cares. no one at work. no one here. no one :( #sibe vents

[dandyshucks]

even online i cannot escape middle-aged adults trying to tell me their life story and hit on me,,,,,,,,, help,,,,,

#why was a 52 yr old texan trying to hit on me on THIS BLOG OF ALL PLACES....... BRO.......... #and telling me about his divorce and everything 😭😭 #also im sorry USamericans but uhm. some of yall are a little funny sometimes with the way you live in such a vacuum fdsjkl #(it is not ur fault and i understand that and i do not blame u for it. nor am i saying you are stupid or anything like that fdjkl) #(but also why tf do u not put your country in ur address for shipping.... literally every other country in the world does that JFDSJKL) #but anyways he asked me where i live and i said turtle island bc thats a safe vague answer and he... assumed it was michigan?? #for some reason ???? #but what could i expect from a 52 yr old texan trying to ... hit on a 22 year old. on tumblr. goddamn. sobbing on the ground. #WHY DO I ATTRACT THESE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE I GOOOO #i've heard so many woes and life stories of middle-aged adults and been hit on so many times and im so tired 😭😭😭 #sometimes its interesting to hear about ppls lives but not when im like. busy with shit. like at school or at my workplace or on my blog😭 #WHY WAS HE MESSAGING ME ON /THIS/ BLOG OF ALL PLACES. BRO. FJDSFJKL #this is my blog where i get silly over FICTIONAL CHARACTERS HDSGJKL CMONNNN MAN #vent // #ask to tag #dandy.cmd

[bunnyb34r]

Oh... I think the really thick dark tall patches of grass are where I threw fertilizer down last summer thinking it was grass seed when I bought it. I got it to fix the lawn that the stupid lawn care guy destroyed (they've moved onto greener pastures. Commercial private properties) and it seemed to only make it more bald but I guess it just needed time 😅 welp

#i just hope when the new guy starts this week he doesn't fuck up my lawn #I've given up on my routine on watering the front grass this summer Creepy Ben fucked up that dream ill just water the side grass #i only water bc im VERY afraid of a stray ember or firework hitting a dry patch in our yard and setting my house on fire (grass spreads to #trees and bushes which spread to the house) #i might just run the sprinkler the week before firework holidays in the front idk but i dont wanna be standing out front every day prime for #oogling by a middle aged man who is married and has children younger than me. even if he was attractive i aint a homewrecker so move on dude #like im sure you have a very lovely wife and im sure that theres a reason you married her... maybe you should refind that and leave me alone #marquilla

[themyscirah]

I think that comic creators should be forced to read the entirety of Ostrander & Yale's Suicide Squad run before they even THINK of using Amanda Waller in anything actually

#its like oh my god. read that book #i swear to god she is complex and has so much going on ans just like you NEED to read that book if you want the slightest CHANCE of doing #suicide squad justice #but then ofc ppl just care abt having a mean boss character they dont actually care about HER #i said comic creators bc its the writing and the art both #bc they dont do her character justice with the writing but then they also dont draw her anything like she looks like #like she is called 'the wall' for a reason guys she is NOT skinny as a twig like cmon #and shes not young either the woman is middle aged shes like 40s/50s #anyways. forcing ppl at gunpoint to read good suicide squad comics. instead of just slapping harley quinn on a team with some random #villains and calling it a day #also the suicide squad is supposed to be a MIX of heroes and villains!!! theres supposed to be varying moralities there! and waller isnt #evil guys istg- shes ambitious and kind of mean and p much ALWAYS stuck between a rock and a hard place but shes not evil!!!! #like cmon guys. its a book about heroes and villains on a team together doing off the books missions. its gonna have nuance esp in the #central kind of figure #godddddd ive been wanting to reread suicide squad SO bad these past 2 days #ever since plastique and waller showed up in nu52 jla im just like ahfiahdsuehdvdjc SUICIDE SQUAD #but i must stop myself. bc whenever i start reading multiple things at once THATS when shit hits the fan #and i go into a slump where i don't read comics for like 8 months and never finish the books im reading #so we're not going to do that but man am i tempted #maybe what i should do is watch the suicide squad movie. the james gunn one. maybe that would fix me actually #viola davis amanda waller goes sooooooo hard actually. casting choice of the century imo #and also they had rick flagg leading the team there which i respect. hes no ben turner but its something #especially since nu52 jla tried to turn steve trevor into a bargain bin rick flagg jr which was... certainly a choice #anyways <3333 #also rip my stats this is a loss for feminism geoff johns just knocked kim yale out of my no 5 comic author spot on the tracker app 😔😔😔 #im so sorry kim i didn’t mean to do you dirty like that ma'am #blah #suicide squad #dc comics #amanda waller

[nylwnder]

THEYRE CHANGING THE GOAL SONG LETS GOO WE HAVE WON.

#like it is not a goal song. #number one the dj barley blasted it when gregor scored. why? maybe cause he was like ummm yeah tf is this BEKDHAKEJE #LIKE IF YOURE INTRODUCING A SONG WHY ARENT YOU BLASTING IT??? #like who tf is kid cudi fr 😭😭😭 #yk? yeah #i don’t like it and if you did. just no sweetie. no. #CAN WE USE A REAALLLLLL ROCK SONG PLEASE #DFA has so many BANGERS MY PLAYOFF VIDEOS HIT FOR A REASON #AND THEY ARE LOCAL BOIS #IT NEEDS TO SHLAP #IT NEEDS TO MAKE THE MIDDLE AGED MEN DRUNK OFF 10 BEERS GET HIMSELF RISK HIMSELF GETTING KICKED OUT YK? #LIKE FUCK THE OTHER TEAM UP VIBEZ #leafs lb #toronto maple leafs

[themanwhowouldbefruit]

damn i really haven't seen a doctor in 9 years. america is crazy.

#i thought it was like 6 years. idk. maybe i should put this off for 1 more year because i know they are going to make my life hell but at #at least a full decade would be funny #sorry when i was on my parents health insurance my mom would freak out when things cost money. because we were broke #and my dad who is an obsessive controlling hypochondriac would burn so much money going to the doctors for dumb shit. and i was just like. #it's fine i wont go the doctor because my dad who dosent work is already bleeding us dry. anyway i didnt really have acar back then anyways #and lived in the middle of nowhere so no buses or anything and then once i got onto cheap low income health insurance at age 23 because my #mom couldnt afford to pay for me on her health insurance anymore well. then covid hit and we werent supposed to go to the doctors anymore.

[angelsdean]

sometimes u just gotta listen to the paul simon radio on spotify and be like. i am a middle aged dad

#today's gender: middle aged dad #this is not MY dad but it's somebody's dad #my dad listens to metal #well. he listens to everything actually. he's very musically diverse. but i'd say like 80s heavy metal is his *thing* #anyways. when hall and oates rich girl comes on the paul simon radio i am absolutely transported to childhood #bc my mom would play their greatest hits cd on loop in the car every day for months until she'd swap it out for our queen 3 disc hits #i used to sing rich girl while gazing out the window on my way to and from school and imagine the meanest rich girls in my class lmao #vic.txt

[jonahmagnus]

"only art where he looks old tho. not a believer of smooth-faced chil." ?? so you like a character but not how he is in canon? why don't you all go make ocs instead. this is so mysterious to me.

???? Babe...... I dont like smooth-faced Chilchuck because he looks like a child.

#Are you okay......... #anon #hatemail #Also you are on the OLD MAN IS A LESBAIN BLOG why sre you following the OLD MAN IS A LESBAIN BLOG if you dont like. #ME MAKING SHIT UP ABOUT CHARACTERS I LIKE??? Honestly go hit tha bricks. #Im attracted to middle aged Chilchuck (aka when hes drawn his age) because I think old man sexy. hope that helps 🙏 #ALSO THIS WAS SENT HOURS AFTER I POSTED IT?????????? #babe... baby.... are you okay? hey... its okay...... send this on main next time so I can help you okay? okay ♡