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I was considering a 9mm to the head, except that I have had 13 concussions so far.
Hey Paul, 50 isn't as bad as some make it out to be!
I consider reaching 50 to qualify me for the "Mean Bastard" club and a milestone in it's own right.
I've been put to the test with my share of lacerations and contusions over the years and if that weren't enough, just a few months after my 50th birthday, I was put to the ultimate test in that head-on wreck. The old carcass was battered but I've made it back to a semi-motive state. This in itself proves you can't put a mean bastard down easily!
As far as skulls go, the jury is still out on whether I have a solid, high-grade German head-bone or if it's simply the Scottish ancestry being stubborn again. In either case, I doubt a 9mm or even a .45 would do any damage to my head...perhaps an MG151/20 or a Mk108 would do the trick?
Bottom line, we're glad you're here and I look foreward to your "I will be 60 years old soon" thread
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It also occurred to me that I took this picture about 3 hours before that head-on wreck back in 2013...I know it's not a pickelhaub like yours, but thought you might get a kick out of the Prussian Uhlan helmet and if I had died in that wreck, it would have been the last photograph taken of me while I was alive.
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The best advice ever!!Ah 50's not so bad old chap, it was at this age that I teamed up with Hilary and it's been a score of great years ever since. True I've had my share of ups and downs and there are a few bits of me missing from the inside, but I'm a happy man with an expectation of have many more years of fun.
So Paul me old mate, keep up the salt, enjoy the drink. Hell man, your almost 50, so now is the time to start living and enjoying life to the full as best you can. So while your drooling over that salted porridge of a morning, switch to a bacon butty, there so much tastier, and when no one is looking, drop a slug of whisky in your coffee.