Author Topic: You know you're middle aged when  (Read 186049 times)

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #600 on: 19 March, 2018, 03:43:03 pm »
When you remember what you were doing when George VI died.

Jings yes. Our headmaster came in to the classroom to tell us.The same man had previously given me the belt for talking during lunch, which was at our desks.
King George VI gave you the belt? Blimey. (sure it wasn't the order of The Garter?)
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JennyB

  • Old enough to know better
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #601 on: 19 March, 2018, 08:01:50 pm »
I must be more than past middle age. Today would have been my grandmother's 120th birthday.
She's no longer with us but I'm a little less than half of that.

Middle age: when half your friends are dead.
Jennifer - Walker of hills

ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #602 on: 19 March, 2018, 09:18:38 pm »
I must be more than past middle age. Today would have been my grandmother's 120th birthday.
She's no longer with us but I'm a little less than half of that.

Middle age: when half your friends are dead.

I think that's being Median Aged.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #603 on: 19 March, 2018, 09:26:41 pm »
I become an official OAP next month. Can I still claim to be middle-aged?

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #604 on: 19 March, 2018, 09:27:13 pm »
I must be more than past middle age. Today would have been my grandmother's 120th birthday.
She's no longer with us but I'm a little less than half of that.

Middle age: when half your friends are dead.

I think that's being Median Aged.
When you find yourself becoming pedantic about mathematical terminology....

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #605 on: 19 March, 2018, 09:42:54 pm »
I must be more than past middle age. Today would have been my grandmother's 120th birthday.
She's no longer with us but I'm a little less than half of that.

Middle age: when half your friends are dead.

I think that's being Median Aged.
When you find yourself becoming pedantic about mathematical terminology....

That was pre-puberty for me.
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hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #606 on: 19 March, 2018, 11:05:33 pm »
I must be more than past middle age. Today would have been my grandmother's 120th birthday.
She's no longer with us but I'm a little less than half of that.

Middle age: when half your friends are dead.

Five years ago, my MOTHER complained I was going to too many funerals. Bob Kynaston, Dave Lewis and John Snuggs died within a few days of each other  :'(

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #607 on: 20 March, 2018, 09:47:19 am »
I must be more than past middle age. Today would have been my grandmother's 120th birthday.
She's no longer with us but I'm a little less than half of that.

Middle age: when half your friends are dead.

I think that's being Median Aged.
40.0 apparently, its highest ever figure, having risen from 33.9 in 1974.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

andytheflyer

  • Andytheex-flyer.....
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #608 on: 28 March, 2018, 07:50:56 am »
I bought some double sided sticky foam pads to stick electronic bits into my model aeroplanes.  I know I did because eBay says so.  So I must have.

I recall using a few, but not many. I don't recall where I put the packet when I'd done that.  I do know that it's not where I used to put the previous packet until that ran out.

I've bought another packet.  Presumably the part-used packet will turn up today, at about the same time as the postman.

This never used to happen to me 20 years ago.......


EDIT: The postie brought the second batch of sticky pads, purchased from the original supplier, loose in a plain envelope. The first batch did not show up at the same time.

In hunting for the first batch, I was looking for some sort of proprietary packaging, but I now suspect that I probably re-packaged the pads into a packet/bag/box of my own choosing.  Which is going to make it even harder to find them. 

Is my brain really fading that fast? Is there any hope.......?

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #609 on: 28 March, 2018, 08:36:57 am »
Hmmmm - SAGA and retirement communities.

Having the 'not PiL' living locally now in a retirement community, planning his SAGA cruise in April and insuring his car through SAGA, all I can say is that middle age is for the relatively well off.   None of the above represents anything like good value for money imo and I shall endeavour to remain stubbornly NOT OLD!!!

Bah effing humbug!!!   :hand:

Torslanda

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #610 on: 28 March, 2018, 09:04:24 am »
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional!

Did I read somewhere that the SAGA lot tend to have something of a ribald and uninhibited time on cruises? Along with all kinds of interesting infections...?

Maybe it's all a gummint plot to kill off the oldies who've done equity release so they can piss it up for another 10 years before popping off and leaving their descendants to discover that their inheritance is now the property of an insurance company... [STOP IT! - Ed]
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #611 on: 28 March, 2018, 09:36:05 am »
To be honest I'd not begrudge the old boy a bit of a ribald excess but the insurance company will be disappointed - he's not done any ER.   :D

Oscar's dad

  • aka Septimus Fitzwilliam Beauregard Partridge
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #612 on: 28 March, 2018, 09:38:22 am »
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional!

True that is.

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #613 on: 28 March, 2018, 09:56:07 am »
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional!

True that is.

Not according to Mrs T42, she's always telling me to grow up*.

* lie. She just says "well, it's your decision" with one of those looks.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Beardy

  • Shedist
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #614 on: 28 March, 2018, 10:14:03 am »
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional!

True that is.

Not according to Mrs T42, she's always telling me to grow up*.

* lie. She just says "well, it's your decision" with one of those looks.
Thats a trap, that is.
For every complex problem in the world, there is a simple and easily understood solution that’s wrong.

Mr Larrington

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #615 on: 28 March, 2018, 11:11:59 am »
SAGA = Send All Grannies Away.  Trufax.
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andytheflyer

  • Andytheex-flyer.....
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #616 on: 28 March, 2018, 11:18:20 am »
There used to be a Sand And Gravel Association...  Never could understand why the aggregate industry was into older people's holidays.....


T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #617 on: 28 March, 2018, 01:35:46 pm »
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional!

True that is.

Not according to Mrs T42, she's always telling me to grow up*.

* lie. She just says "well, it's your decision" with one of those looks.
Thats a trap, that is.

Reminiscent of those adverts there used to be on the front page of The Times where Col. Onceover-Litely would announce that he would no longer be responsible for his wife's debts.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Guy

  • Retired
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #618 on: 29 March, 2018, 09:09:51 am »
... you get really really really enthusiastic about buying a new pair of slippers.
"The Opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject"  Marcus Aurelius

Giraffe

  • I brake for Giraffes
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #619 on: 30 March, 2018, 09:12:12 am »
You need Viagra just to get your hopes up!
2x4: thick plank; 4x4: 2 of 'em.

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #620 on: 30 March, 2018, 09:19:00 am »
Heh. What was that one again? "When you're young you're afraid she'll say no. When you're older you're afraid she'll say yes."
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #621 on: 30 March, 2018, 12:58:11 pm »
Paging Jaques...
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Beardy

  • Shedist
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #622 on: 30 March, 2018, 02:38:44 pm »
When you pause while climbing a very steep hill1, doubled over due to a hernia spasm, and a chap just getting something out of his car offers to give you a lift, even though you’ve told him you’ve only got 50m to go2. And is quite insistant.

1. We’re holidaying in Ilfracombe. Our lodgings is quite a way up the hill. Dr Beardy (Mrs) likes to walk into town3

2. Vertically as well as horizontally. Did I say it’s a steep hill

3. Which is at the bottom of the hill
For every complex problem in the world, there is a simple and easily understood solution that’s wrong.

Beardy

  • Shedist
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #623 on: 02 April, 2018, 10:46:30 am »
When you think that putting Radio 2 on is a good idea. It didn’t last though, so I think I’m safe for a bit longer.
For every complex problem in the world, there is a simple and easily understood solution that’s wrong.

TheLurker

  • Goes well with magnolia.
Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #624 on: 02 April, 2018, 04:31:17 pm »
When you think that putting Radio 2 on is a good idea. It didn’t last though, so I think I’m safe for a bit longer.
Or when you hear Radio 2 and it's playing something by "The Clash" and it doesn't strike you as odd.

In other thoughts.  When you wake up and the first thought that flits through your mind is that you can't remember the last time you saw a television set with horizontal and vertical hold controls.



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