Author Topic: You know you're middle aged when (Read 176414 times)

Basil · « **Reply #25 on:** 20 January, 2015, 10:24:02 pm »

Quote from: PaulF on 20 January, 2015, 10:20:01 pm

Quote from: Basil on 20 January, 2015, 07:55:32 pm
*thinks back*

I remember Middle Aged.

No Basil, you mean Middle Ages!

GIT!

madcow · « **Reply #26 on:** 21 January, 2015, 08:54:21 am »

Quote from: Gasman on 20 January, 2015, 06:14:03 pm

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.

When you find yourself listening to Smooth FM. You don't even have to like it ,just the act of listening to it ages you by 10 years at least.

Worse still, you tune in to Classic FM and they ( ex Radio 1 jocks ) are on there and then on BBC local radio's shared network programmes after 8 p.m doing phone ins for pensioners .
Mark Forrest who started on Radio Tees (cutting edge commercial radio-not) has been on the lot.
Alan Partridge is alive and well.

spindrift · « **Reply #27 on:** 21 January, 2015, 08:59:06 am »

Laura Dern plays Reese Witherspoon's mum in Wild. Good grief. I've got a coat that's older than the new Polish girl on CBBC. Good grief. I keep thinking 1995 was ten years ago, gah.

Torslanda · « **Reply #28 on:** 21 January, 2015, 09:02:17 am »

You're getting the children ready for school and wondering what the holy fuck is Phineas & Pherb is all about . . .

. . . then you realise you turned into your father.

hatler · « **Reply #29 on:** 21 January, 2015, 09:13:39 am »

^ ^ ^
Spot on.

IanDG · « **Reply #30 on:** 21 January, 2015, 09:18:30 am »

Quote from: torslanda on 21 January, 2015, 09:02:17 am

You're getting the children ready for school and wondering what the holy fuck is Phineas & Pherb is all about . . .

. . . then you realise you turned into your father.

Your kids have all left school!

Basil · « **Reply #31 on:** 21 January, 2015, 09:20:21 am »

Quote from: IanG on 21 January, 2015, 09:18:30 am

Quote from: torslanda on 21 January, 2015, 09:02:17 am
You're getting the children ready for school and wondering what the holy fuck is Phineas & Pherb is all about . . .

. . . then you realise you turned into your father.

Your kids have all left school!

Your kids have left school,
they've left Uni,
they've left home.

Then they start bloody coming back again!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #32 on:** 21 January, 2015, 10:24:58 am »

Phineas and Pherb is actually one of my favourite kids' TV programmes.

I've no idea what this says about me.

IanDG · « **Reply #33 on:** 21 January, 2015, 10:37:53 am »

Quote from: Basil on 21 January, 2015, 09:20:21 am

Quote from: IanG on 21 January, 2015, 09:18:30 am
Quote from: torslanda on 21 January, 2015, 09:02:17 am
You're getting the children ready for school and wondering what the holy fuck is Phineas & Pherb is all about . . .

. . . then you realise you turned into your father.

Your kids have all left school!

Your kids have left school,
they've left Uni,
they've left home.

Then they start bloody coming back again!

That's 'old age' Basil

Basil · « **Reply #34 on:** 21 January, 2015, 12:01:05 pm »

Oh yeah!

matthew · « **Reply #35 on:** 21 January, 2015, 12:35:59 pm »

Quote from: IanG on 21 January, 2015, 10:37:53 am

Quote from: Basil on 21 January, 2015, 09:20:21 am
Quote from: IanG on 21 January, 2015, 09:18:30 am
Quote from: torslanda on 21 January, 2015, 09:02:17 am
You're getting the children ready for school and wondering what the holy fuck is Phineas & Pherb is all about . . .

. . . then you realise you turned into your father.

Your kids have all left school!

Your kids have left school,
they've left Uni,
they've left home.

Then they start bloody coming back again!

That's 'old age' Basil

No that's when the kids finally get round to leaving again.

Therefore my parents are finally in old age.

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #36 on:** 21 January, 2015, 01:29:32 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly 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.

Recently I have noticed I'm doing this alot.

Quote from: hairyhippy on 20 January, 2015, 05:23:06 pm

You wander around the house turning all the lights off.

This too!

Quote from: Basil 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.

Yep, oh Lordy

Quote from: IanG on 20 January, 2015, 10:23:05 pm

You start to.................can't remember what I was going to say

Oh for pity's sake

Never mind. Much life left in this older dog ... I hope

fuzzy · « **Reply #37 on:** 21 January, 2015, 02:02:37 pm »

Grey pubes.

Torslanda · « **Reply #38 on:** 21 January, 2015, 02:30:20 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 21 January, 2015, 02:02:37 pm

Grey pubes.

Really pisses you off in a burger . . .

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #39 on:** 21 January, 2015, 03:58:47 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 21 January, 2015, 02:02:37 pm

Grey pubes.

In fact the whole hair thing. Loosing hair in some places and gaining it elsewhere, normally in unwelcome areas.

I'm clinging to the hope that this phenomena has nothing to do with middle age but more to do with a hitherto unknown second stage of puberty. Perhaps my voice will break again, I'll sound like Barry White and suddenly become irresistible to womens.

T42 · « **Reply #40 on:** 21 January, 2015, 04:40:59 pm »

You notice that your max rate of climb on the last Audax you did was the same as your average on the same ride ten years ago.

Canardly · « **Reply #41 on:** 21 January, 2015, 04:55:37 pm »

When your ears start sprouting hair.

fuzzy · « **Reply #42 on:** 21 January, 2015, 05:00:23 pm »

your favourite music from your youth spring back into popularity.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #43 on:** 21 January, 2015, 06:05:32 pm »

Quote from: spindrift on 21 January, 2015, 08:59:06 am

Laura Dern plays Reese Witherspoon's mum in Wild. Good grief. I've got a coat that's older than the new Polish girl on CBBC. Good grief. I keep thinking 1995 was ten years ago, gah.

I had cause to channel The Finn from William Gibson's Sprawl,Trilogy while in in the Gulag.

"This jumper is older than you¹ are so when I talk you listen!"

1: Trufax: jumper born 1990, Miss Skank born 1992.

Trull · « **Reply #44 on:** 21 January, 2015, 07:41:33 pm »

When you think that starting a movie at 8.30pm is chancing it...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #45 on:** 21 January, 2015, 07:47:43 pm »

Quote from: Gasman on 20 January, 2015, 06:14:03 pm

Quote from: JonJo on 08 January, 2015, 04:10:05 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.

Recursion! See OP.

T42 · « **Reply #46 on:** 21 January, 2015, 10:11:39 pm »

You discover that a film you thought recent has been remade twice since you first saw it.

Guy · « **Reply #47 on:** 17 February, 2015, 10:03:34 am »

When you discover a website dedicated to Airfix and nearly two hours of the working day disappear in a couple of seconds.

http://www.vintage-airfix.com/

TheLurker · « **Reply #48 on:** 17 February, 2015, 07:57:47 pm »

Quote from: Guy on 17 February, 2015, 10:03:34 am

When you discover a website dedicated to Airfix and nearly two hours of the working day disappear in a couple of seconds.

http://www.vintage-airfix.com/

Or... you walk past a model shop that has a MKI Hurricane 1/72 kit on special offer and instead of carrying on straight past you walk in and buy it. Despite the fact you haven't built up a kit since nineteen seventy umph, you can no longer focus at the short distances necessary for fine work and you have a noticable tremor - wtf did _that_ come from? - when gluing small parts in place. Then again p'raps it's second childhood?

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #49 on:** 17 February, 2015, 08:45:09 pm »

As a kid I didn't do Airfix very often. But in my late teens, for some reason, I did a few kits. I found liquid glue, as opposed to the stuff in a tube, was a revelation.