Author Topic: You know you're middle aged when (Read 189563 times)

Canardly · « **Reply #1175 on:** 18 September, 2021, 09:29:08 pm »

I have been accused of making noises getting up and down when camping. Is there such a thing as camping knee pads?

T42 · « **Reply #1176 on:** 19 September, 2021, 10:58:36 am »

To deaden the creak?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1177 on:** 07 December, 2021, 10:18:01 am »

Zoe Williams is most definitely not middle aged. Oh no, no, no.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/07/i-am-not-yet-50-so-why-does-everyone-keep-calling-me-middle-aged

orienteer · « **Reply #1178 on:** 07 December, 2021, 11:21:34 am »

I didn't admit to being middle aged until 50, and nearly three decades later I'm not yet considering myself old

hatler · « **Reply #1179 on:** 07 December, 2021, 11:57:14 am »

I didn't admit to being 50 until I was about 55.

tom_e · « **Reply #1180 on:** 07 December, 2021, 12:05:41 pm »

I remember having that discussion with my parents as a teenager, with obvious directions of disagreement. Compromised that middle age had to have begun by the time you reach half-way through a typical lifespan. So 40+. I'm not hypocritical enough to change that assessment just coz I got there!

Kim · « **Reply #1181 on:** 07 December, 2021, 12:21:58 pm »

Quite. Also back pain, and not getting harassed in the street by random young men.

andrewc · « **Reply #1182 on:** 07 December, 2021, 12:37:17 pm »

...the soloists start looking younger. I saw Anastasia Kobekina play a couple of weeks ago (Shostakovich) & thought she looked about 17, my friends agreed. She's actually 27.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ripK5pwZobY

Basil · « **Reply #1183 on:** 07 December, 2021, 12:57:14 pm »

I seem to have completely missed middle aged. I went straight from fit and cheerful to very old and grumpy almost overnight.

andytheflyer · « **Reply #1184 on:** 07 December, 2021, 01:17:18 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 07 December, 2021, 12:57:14 pm

I seem to have completely missed middle aged. I went straight from fit and cheerful to very old and grumpy almost overnight.

That's a relief. Thought it was just me....

Polar Bear · « **Reply #1185 on:** 07 December, 2021, 01:28:01 pm »

A quick Google seems to suggest that it can start as early as age 35 and linger until at least age 65. I'm of the opinion that it's a construct of mindset and perception which has no real value in it's meaning which some folk take incredibly seriously yet others are completely nonplussed about.

Me? Meh. I haven't started to go grey yet so why worry. 😉

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1186 on:** 07 December, 2021, 02:23:13 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 07 December, 2021, 12:37:17 pm

...the soloists start looking younger. I saw Anastasia Kobekina play a couple of weeks ago (Shostakovich) & thought she looked about 17, my friends agreed. She's actually 27.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ripK5pwZobY

And the police of course. On which topic, a weekend or two ago I was in Manchester, where amongst other things I visited my cousin, whose partner has been an hossifer of the Greater Manchester Police for 27 years. She pointed out it's not just an illusion, the police really are younger; there are plenty of old police (she has the very same birthday as me, fwiw) but only the young ones are out beating the streets and patrolling, cos you need to be young, fit and (at times) fast and strong for that. Also to cope with the shifts. She's been in CID for the last I don't know how many years and no longer does shifts.

De Sisti · « **Reply #1187 on:** 07 December, 2021, 04:15:05 pm »

When you qualify for free prescriptions. At our local pharmacy I am no longer asked if I have
to pay for mine.

Kim · « **Reply #1188 on:** 07 December, 2021, 04:21:07 pm »

Quote from: De Sisti on 07 December, 2021, 04:15:05 pm

When you qualify for free prescriptions.

Objection: Middle age is Shirley the period during which you specifically don't qualify for things like that. See also: Railcards.

De Sisti · « **Reply #1189 on:** 07 December, 2021, 04:24:26 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 07 December, 2021, 04:21:07 pm

Quote from: De Sisti on 07 December, 2021, 04:15:05 pm
When you qualify for free prescriptions.

Objection: Middle age is Shirley the period during which you specifically don't qualify for things like that. See also: Railcards.

I'm middle-aged, not an OAP. Oh, wait, I'm getting a work's pension!

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1190 on:** 07 December, 2021, 04:29:08 pm »

Is middle age the bit between juvenile and senile? Just plain Nile, I suppose.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1191 on:** 07 December, 2021, 04:31:42 pm »

My daughter was pontificating 40. Which she is - for another month or so. "It's a real watershed. It's when you start to go to your friends' parents' funerals." Which she did a few weeks ago.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1192 on:** 07 December, 2021, 05:31:19 pm »

Quote from: De Sisti on 07 December, 2021, 04:15:05 pm

When you qualify for free prescriptions. At our local pharmacy I am no longer asked if I have
to pay for mine.

Just live in Scotland.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #1193 on:** 07 December, 2021, 05:34:52 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 07 December, 2021, 05:31:19 pm

Quote from: De Sisti on 07 December, 2021, 04:15:05 pm
When you qualify for free prescriptions. At our local pharmacy I am no longer asked if I have
to pay for mine.
Just live in Scotland.

Or Wales, or Northern Ireland...anywhere other than England, really.

De Sisti · « **Reply #1194 on:** 07 December, 2021, 08:23:27 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 07 December, 2021, 05:31:19 pm

Quote from: De Sisti on 07 December, 2021, 04:15:05 pm
When you qualify for free prescriptions. At our local pharmacy I am no longer asked if I have
to pay for mine.
Just live in Scotland.

I remember when prescriptions were 20p (back in 1979) when I worked for the
Prescription Pricing Authority; Processing Division 11.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1195 on:** 08 December, 2021, 06:24:27 pm »

I've bitten the bullet and bought a dressing gown.
(Mainly because I feel rather exposed in the kitchen in the morning at kitty breakfast time. Not used to having windows that can be overlooked.)

ElyDave · « **Reply #1196 on:** 08 December, 2021, 08:44:44 pm »

I has a dressing gown, I don't think it's done anything other than hang on the back of the bedroom door for the last 4-5 years

The Family Cyclist · « **Reply #1197 on:** 08 December, 2021, 08:47:16 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 08 December, 2021, 06:24:27 pm

I've bitten the bullet and bought a dressing gown.
(Mainly because I feel rather exposed in the kitchen in the morning at kitty breakfast time. Not used to having windows that can be overlooked.)

Sorry but dressing gowns aren't at all middle age, I not even eligible for a booster yet and love my dressing gown (it may be worth mentioning I live in a pretty cold house)

ian · « **Reply #1198 on:** 08 December, 2021, 08:59:38 pm »

When you have cats that regard humans as mobile trees that are daring to be climbed, dressing gowns are useful.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #1199 on:** 08 December, 2021, 09:05:08 pm »

When the new agey rebel leader woman from the first Star Wars film starts to look vaguely attractive.