Author Topic: You know you're middle aged when  (Read 185747 times)

tonycollinet

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #750 on: 03 December, 2018, 06:19:38 am »
When what is in your brain to say

"We never did get that greenhouse this year"

And what (nearly) comes out:

"We never did get that wing mirror this year"

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #751 on: 03 December, 2018, 10:06:47 pm »
People of reasonably (?) advanced years come out with stuff like this https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=11510.msg2347668#msg2347668

Middle aged? that made me feel old.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #752 on: 04 December, 2018, 02:27:04 pm »
You really cant remember if you bought that set of pliers to put in the toolbox your filling for Pcolbeck junior for when he leaves home after Christmas and if you did buy them where the hell you put them.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

hellymedic

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #753 on: 31 December, 2018, 08:46:13 pm »
'Little' Jimmy Osmond, several years your junior, is treated for a stroke.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46721950

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #754 on: 01 January, 2019, 02:37:07 pm »
When you can't be arsed watching the New Year's fireworks.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

hellymedic

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #755 on: 01 January, 2019, 02:53:54 pm »
When you go can't be arsed watching the New Year's fireworks.

Our neighbours' pyrotechnics were such that I only needed to turn my head slightly...

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #756 on: 01 January, 2019, 04:08:01 pm »
Yeah, we had the usual Bierut impressions going on up & down the street. We got up at midnight to keep the dogs company until it died down, but they weren't really worried to start with, since there were no municipal whizzbangs: they're usually so powerful that you feel the shockwave in your ribcage.

Lots of firework débris on my ride today, including the blown-off door of someone's mailbox. There are some dumb sods around.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

lou boutin

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #757 on: 01 January, 2019, 06:15:40 pm »
Ditto.  I sat in bed watching them after a bit of a snooze

lou boutin

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #758 on: 01 January, 2019, 06:19:37 pm »
You realise that you have socks older than the undergrads that you meet on a daily basis around work and your work tea towel is older than most of then people that you share an office with (tea towel was a hideous engagement gift in 1988 that was kept at the back of the draw and never used. It was pulled out and taken to work rather than throwing it away.)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #759 on: 01 January, 2019, 06:20:13 pm »
Yeah, we had the usual Bierut impressions going on up & down the street.
I don't know why anyone would want to do impressions of the 1950s president of communist Poland!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolesław_Bierut
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

yorkie

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #760 on: 01 January, 2019, 06:28:20 pm »
Yeah, we had the usual Bierut impressions going on up & down the street.
You know you're middle aged when loud firework displays going on all night are compared to Beirut!  ;) ;) :-*


That said, what's the modern equivalent? Sana'a? Mogadishu?
Born to ride my bike, forced to work! ;)

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hellymedic

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #761 on: 01 January, 2019, 06:44:51 pm »
Homs?

Giraffe

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #762 on: 02 January, 2019, 08:36:31 am »
You realise that you have socks older than the undergrads that you meet on a daily basis around work and your work tea towel is older than most of then people that you share an office with (tea towel was a hideous engagement gift in 1988 that was kept at the back of the draw and never used. It was pulled out and taken to work rather than throwing it away.)
Youngster - I still have tea towels that my mother bought in the '70s. They are getting a bit worn but are still thicker and more absorbent than the modern ones.
2x4: thick plank; 4x4: 2 of 'em.

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #763 on: 02 January, 2019, 09:25:49 am »
Yeah, we had the usual Bierut impressions going on up & down the street.
You know you're middle aged when loud firework displays going on all night are compared to Beirut!  ;) ;) :-*


That said, what's the modern equivalent? Sana'a? Mogadishu?

AFAIK Bierut's the only one that became idiom. There were only three shots in Dealy Plaza and 'Harvest Music Festival' would be in bad taste.

Yeah, we had the usual Bierut impressions going on up & down the street.
I don't know why anyone would want to do impressions of the 1950s president of communist Poland!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolesław_Bierut

Apparently somebody did and got shot for his pains.

(did a bit of an FTFY there - old link fooled by the ł )
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #764 on: 02 January, 2019, 09:55:01 am »
'Little' Jimmy Osmond, several years your junior, is treated for a stroke.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46721950

AND you discover somewhere along the way you have forgiven him for THAT single. OK, maybe not.

yorkie

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #765 on: 02 January, 2019, 03:56:31 pm »
Yeah, we had the usual Bierut impressions going on up & down the street.
You know you're middle aged when loud firework displays going on all night are compared to Beirut!  ;) ;) :-*


That said, what's the modern equivalent? Sana'a? Mogadishu?

AFAIK Bierut's the only one that became idiom.
Troo dat!
Must admit to thinking "Golly gosh** Sounds like Beirut out there!!" as 2018 swung sideways with tyres burning into 2019, accompanied by enough airborne ordinance to fight a reasonably accurate re-enactment of the 6 Day War!
I suppose that makes me middle-aged as well!!


** May actually have sounded more like "Clucking Bell" to be truthful!  ;)
Born to ride my bike, forced to work! ;)

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British Cycling Regional A Circuit Commissaire
Cycling Attendant, York Sport Village Cycle Circuit and Velodrome

hellymedic

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Re: You know you're more than middle aged when
« Reply #766 on: 07 January, 2019, 01:14:57 pm »
Today's email...

Quote
Dear All,
It is with great sadness that I forward a message from [Mrs year mate] .
**** passed away peacefully in hospital on 3rd January from aspiration pneumonia as a complication of his dementia. She is clearly shocked but is well supported by friends and family . She requested that I share the news with all of his medical school colleagues .
With best wishes to you all

Art is long, life is short.

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #767 on: 07 January, 2019, 01:22:52 pm »
Aye. I remember my father being remarkably cast down by the first natural death among his 1930s cycling gang.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

hellymedic

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #768 on: 07 January, 2019, 01:57:13 pm »
Several contemporaries have died.

Cancer is 'natural' and sad.

Dementia...

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #769 on: 07 January, 2019, 04:15:07 pm »
My father had vascular dementia when he died: lifelong smoker, turned diabetic at about the same age as I did, died at 73. Showed first signs about 5 years before, was largely 'elsewhere' for the last couple.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

hellymedic

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #770 on: 07 January, 2019, 04:43:25 pm »
I believe my colleague was a Professor of Public Health and a non-smoker in his early 60s.

Basil

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #771 on: 10 January, 2019, 10:41:34 pm »
You know you're beyond middle aged when (do we need a separate thread for this?) you receive a letter from the DVLA inviting you to reapply for your driving licence.
Surely you don't need to do that until you're 70?
Oh. Hang on.
Bugger.   :facepalm:
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

JennyB

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Re: You know you're more than middle aged when
« Reply #772 on: 11 January, 2019, 10:46:57 am »
Today's email...

Quote
Dear All,
It is with great sadness that I forward a message from [Mrs year mate] .
**** passed away peacefully in hospital on 3rd January from aspiration pneumonia as a complication of his dementia. She is clearly shocked but is well supported by friends and family . She requested that I share the news with all of his medical school colleagues .
With best wishes to you all

Art is long, life is short.

You know you're middle-aged when half your friends are dead. Fortunately, there's  a cure for that - make more friends.
Jennifer - Walker of hills

lou boutin

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #773 on: 11 January, 2019, 06:49:50 pm »
You know you are middle aged when it's your birthday and this time next year you will be changing the first number as well as the second.

Kim

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #774 on: 11 January, 2019, 07:54:48 pm »
On that reckoning, lou, middle age comes round time and time again; in fact, every 10 years!

Middle age is when you start counting in hexadecimal to try to reduce that...