Author Topic: You know you're middle aged when  (Read 186329 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #875 on: 22 April, 2019, 11:10:32 am »
I'm sure I came in here for something, but I can't remember what it was now.


Oh, they're on my head.

Over 10 years ago, I got in a panic about losing a small child in Legoland.
He was on my shoulders...
"What the utter re!" as the young ones say.
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essexian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #876 on: 23 April, 2019, 09:54:59 am »
You know you're middle aged when..... you get quite upset at being sold "seniors rate" at the football AGAIN!

That's four times this season.  :facepalm:

CommuteTooFar

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #877 on: 26 April, 2019, 05:13:10 pm »
I'm sure I came in here for something, but I can't remember what it was now.


Oh, they're on my head.

Your underpants ?

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #878 on: 27 April, 2019, 08:14:23 am »
You suspect you lost karma points somewhere by having to use Google to find out who Craig David is/was.
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nicknack

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #879 on: 27 April, 2019, 10:22:38 am »
 
You suspect you lost karma points somewhere by having to use Google to find out who Craig David is/was.
:thumbsup:
No idea.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #880 on: 27 April, 2019, 11:18:43 am »
I thought Dave Craigid was the product of middle aged people continuing to spend money on recorded music, pretending they were teenagers. But with matured bad taste.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #881 on: 27 April, 2019, 06:02:42 pm »
...you shop at Debenhams. Or when you don't shop at Debenhams.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/27/memo-to-debenhams-stop-reminding-customers-they-are-middle-aged

(I'm sure that in practice reading the Guardian online is far more middle aged than shopping at Debenhams... )
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ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #882 on: 29 April, 2019, 09:38:45 am »
I know who Craig David is, though I've never knowingly listened to a Craig David song. That said, I'm so familiar with the concept of Craig David, I fear I'd recognize it as originating from the man himself.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #883 on: 29 April, 2019, 09:55:08 am »
I'm sure I came in here for something, but I can't remember what it was now.


Oh, they're on my head.

Your underpants ?

Happens all the time.

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #884 on: 29 April, 2019, 04:44:39 pm »
When you can remember what was referred to by the slogan "Grab yourself a fistful of big red power!"
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #885 on: 12 May, 2019, 12:22:36 pm »
When you learn that Vyvyan/Eddie Hitler is moving to Albert Square.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48220537
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hellymedic

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #886 on: 12 May, 2019, 01:34:42 pm »
A Facebook friend posts 60th birthday pics of her dad showing wonderful happy family group, including 8 grandchildren and you realise he's nearly  year your junior.

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #887 on: 12 May, 2019, 04:53:13 pm »
Friends send you an invitation to their golden wedding celebrations and you got married in the same year.
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Mrs Pingu

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #888 on: 12 May, 2019, 05:09:57 pm »
When you learn that Vyvyan/Eddie Hitler is moving to Albert Square.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48220537
Good grief.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #889 on: 24 May, 2019, 09:44:14 pm »
One of your mates turns up at the pub with a broken foot in plaster caused by a bizarre bee keeping accident (dropped one of the frames on it and it landed on edge). Does anyone under 40 keep bees ?
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #890 on: 24 May, 2019, 10:44:07 pm »


Does anyone under 40 keep bees ?

Not deliberately.

Tim Hall

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #891 on: 24 May, 2019, 10:47:00 pm »


Does anyone under 40 keep bees ?

Not deliberately.
We kept bees at school.Mr Edmondson, the head teacher, was bee wrangler in chief and over 40, but his willing assistants were 11.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #892 on: 21 June, 2019, 03:45:48 pm »
In conversation with two colleagues (in their mod-thirties), neither has heard of Cream, or Jack Bruce or Ginger Baker...
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #893 on: 21 June, 2019, 06:33:55 pm »
In conversation with two colleagues (in their mod-thirties), neither has heard of Cream, or Jack Bruce or Ginger Baker...
Aye and the reverse holds.  When they talk about musicans (that's not music, it's a bloody racket) you've never heard of.
 The last time I was even vaguely in touch with current trends was when Nirvana were a thing and I only knew about them because my younger colleagues keep blethering about them.  I couldn't name a single one of their tunes.
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ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #894 on: 21 June, 2019, 09:58:24 pm »
In conversation with two colleagues (in their mod-thirties), neither has heard of Cream, or Jack Bruce or Ginger Baker...

Me neither, and I'm in my forties. You must have been born in the late Jurassic.

Currently listening to Zola Jesus, I have latent symptoms of late-teen gothery – reminds of the time my wife a photo of me in my Robert Smith phase – a stratosphere-scraping black-purple forest atop my head supported only by spray cans of industrial polymer, all I remember is being absolutely terrified of rain, even the slightest drizzle could have been catastrophic – anyway she laughed for two entire weeks.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #895 on: 22 June, 2019, 09:14:41 am »
Then my tenuous claim to fame of knowing the son of the former drummer of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers will cut no ice?
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caerau

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #896 on: 22 June, 2019, 09:51:54 am »
I've heard of Ken Bruce ;)


When you try and talk about comedy with your junior colleagues and are stonewalled by them never having heard of Pete and Dud.
I did at least manage to get them to work out who Pete was as they'd at least seen Blackadder, I failed with Dudley Moore.  Is it normal to feel sorry for them as a result?


Having watched Graham Norton last night I'm left wondering what middle-age is defined as these days as Tom Hanks admitted to 'middle age' at the age of 62.  Does that really count as middle aged these days?*




*This may be the wrong forum to say this.... forgive me, I am still a whippersnapper at 48 ;)
It's a reverse Elvis thing.

caerau

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #897 on: 22 June, 2019, 09:54:48 am »
When you learn that Vyvyan/Eddie Hitler is moving to Albert Square.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48220537


He's a little lost without 'Wik'. he was in Holby City/Casualty (are these actually different these days?) for some time a while back.  besides Eastenders has never been the same since I realised the vicar in it is Vila from Blake's Seven
It's a reverse Elvis thing.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #898 on: 22 June, 2019, 03:41:56 pm »
I've heard of Ken Bruce ;)


When you try and talk about comedy with your junior colleagues and are stonewalled by them never having heard of Pete and Dud.
I did at least manage to get them to work out who Pete was as they'd at least seen Blackadder, I failed with Dudley Moore.  Is it normal to feel sorry for them as a result?


Having watched Graham Norton last night I'm left wondering what middle-age is defined as these days as Tom Hanks admitted to 'middle age' at the age of 62.  Does that really count as middle aged these days?*




*This may be the wrong forum to say this.... forgive me, I am still a whippersnapper at 48 ;)
Well I've vaguely heard of Jack Bruce, also of Lenny Bruce but had to google Ken Bruce. Hmm, you may be a whippersnapper but if you're listening to Radio 2, that's the definition of middle aged!
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caerau

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #899 on: 22 June, 2019, 06:51:04 pm »
I said I'd heard of him, not that I listened to him  :P O:-)
It's a reverse Elvis thing.