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You know you're middle aged when
« on: 08 January, 2015, 03:46:43 pm »
You find yourself thinking "what a splendid evening" when it consists of a half decent bottle of wine and a rather lengthy article in the London Review of Books examining the effect of Latin on European intellectual life ....
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: You know your middle aged when
« Reply #1 on: 08 January, 2015, 03:52:03 pm »
You make groaning or huffing noises when bending down to pick something up, or getting up from the floor.
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Re: You know your middle aged when
« Reply #2 on: 08 January, 2015, 03:53:40 pm »
Middle aged or middle class ???

Re: You know your middle aged when
« Reply #3 on: 08 January, 2015, 04:10:05 pm »
You become enough of a pedant to start correcting grammar on internet forums.

'You know you're middle aged when'
Hear all, see all, say nowt

Re: You know your middle aged when
« Reply #4 on: 08 January, 2015, 04:14:30 pm »
You become enough of a pedant to start correcting grammar on internet forums.

'You know you're middle aged when'

Fixed that for you :)
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: You know your middle aged when
« Reply #5 on: 08 January, 2015, 04:16:26 pm »
Middle aged or middle class ???

because working class people only read the Sun and drink cans of larger ?
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

essexian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #6 on: 08 January, 2015, 04:50:47 pm »
You have no idea what music is in the charts anymore.....10 years ago I could name just about every song!

Oh and instead of going to see punk bands play.... you now prefer the ballet (and can actually afford the tickets to do so... but not the expensive ones of course!)

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #7 on: 08 January, 2015, 04:54:15 pm »
Your Mum forgets your birthday.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #8 on: 08 January, 2015, 04:54:58 pm »
You know what was in the Magic Wadding.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #9 on: 08 January, 2015, 05:05:36 pm »
The GP starts using the phrase "women your age".

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #10 on: 08 January, 2015, 05:09:08 pm »
The GP starts using the phrase "women your age".
And "normal wear and tear."
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #11 on: 08 January, 2015, 05:33:35 pm »
You have no idea what music is in the charts anymore.....10 years ago I could name just about every song!

There isn't any music in the charts anymore.
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #12 on: 08 January, 2015, 06:01:35 pm »
10 years?  I stopped listening to the Hit Parade, as I think it was called then, around 1979.

While it is still legitimate to point at a "musician" on the Anbaric Distascope and say "It's too loud and you can't hear the words" you can no longer ask "Is that a boy or a girl?" without being sneered at or advised to go to Specsavers.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #13 on: 20 January, 2015, 05:23:06 pm »
You wander around the house turning all the lights off.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #14 on: 20 January, 2015, 06:14:03 pm »
You become enough of a pedant to start correcting grammar on internet forums.

Fora, surely?

Alternatively, as happened a few years ago, the weird and wacky Radio 1 afternoon DJ of your youth turns up on Radio 2 presenting the All Time Easy Listening Top 40.
Ah, well, The Code is more what you'd call goidloines than actual roolz!

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #15 on: 20 January, 2015, 07:34:04 pm »
You enter a Sportive

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #16 on: 20 January, 2015, 07:55:32 pm »
*thinks back*

I remember Middle Aged.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #17 on: 20 January, 2015, 08:47:23 pm »
... Your Mum complains you are attending too many funerals...

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #18 on: 20 January, 2015, 09:46:46 pm »
I'll confess I'm not looking forward to being middle-aged.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #19 on: 20 January, 2015, 09:49:00 pm »
That's true!  ;) ;D

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #20 on: 20 January, 2015, 10:06:38 pm »
Don't worry.  It can't be that bad.  I hardly remember it.   ???
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #21 on: 20 January, 2015, 10:17:24 pm »
You get up at about 3:50 am
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #22 on: 20 January, 2015, 10:20:01 pm »
*thinks back*

I remember Middle Aged.

No Basil, you mean Middle Ages! ;)

Basil

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #23 on: 20 January, 2015, 10:22:07 pm »
When you eat meat, there is more remaining stuck between your teeth and your receding gums than you have actually managed to swallow.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #24 on: 20 January, 2015, 10:23:05 pm »
You start to.................can't remember what I was going to say ???