Author Topic: You know you're middle aged when  (Read 186666 times)

TheLurker

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1025 on: 24 October, 2019, 09:03:18 pm »
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Imagine having to find different ways of saying "oh that's nice dear"
With what has to pass for enthusiasm.
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Jaded

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1026 on: 24 October, 2019, 09:35:52 pm »
I first heard of quilting in the US, where it's a big thing (families have quilts). Of course, I initially assumed it was some kind of sex thing, like pegging or some such.

I believe that is quiltbagging.
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1027 on: 24 October, 2019, 09:42:43 pm »
Imagine having to find different ways of saying "oh that's nice dear"


With what has to pass for enthusiasm.

You mean you aren't being asked your opinion on the colour combinations or how to arrange the blocks into the quilt or which of the fabric to use as the binding.

Sometimes I am so glad to have moved out of my mothers house, dad is known not to have an artistic or athstetic bone in his body.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1028 on: 25 October, 2019, 07:24:41 am »
Imagine having to find different ways of saying "oh that's nice dear"


With what has to pass for enthusiasm.

You mean you aren't being asked your opinion on the colour combinations or how to arrange the blocks into the quilt or which of the fabric to use as the binding.

Sometimes I am so glad to have moved out of my mothers house, dad is known not to have an artistic or athstetic bone in his body.

No. I don't mean that AT ALL.

Tim Hall

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1029 on: 25 October, 2019, 10:17:18 am »
I'm sitting in the office. The radio is on, playing Anarchy in The UK, by that popular beat combo The Sex Pistols.

All of my colleagues were born after it came out.
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ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1030 on: 25 October, 2019, 10:19:47 am »
Yes, but they have Justin Bieber.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1031 on: 25 October, 2019, 10:21:42 am »
My research trainee has been alive for less time than I have been in this job

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1032 on: 25 October, 2019, 10:24:24 am »
Same here, one of the grads was born after I started here.

I'm only 43.
"Yes please" said Squirrel "biscuits are our favourite things."

LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1033 on: 25 October, 2019, 10:27:11 am »
A few years ago, I realised that the engineer sitting in the next desk over was young enough to be my daughter. She then went on maternity leave. I felt quite old after that...
Wheel meet again, don't know where, don't know when...

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1034 on: 25 October, 2019, 12:30:17 pm »
Some of my colleagues are younger than my beard.

ElyDave

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1035 on: 25 October, 2019, 12:38:24 pm »
you can have a discussion about tickets for Elton John and talk about the "original band", or debate the merits of Fleetwood Mac with or without Lindsay
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1036 on: 25 October, 2019, 12:51:47 pm »
Lindsey, surely ?
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Mr Larrington

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1037 on: 25 October, 2019, 01:03:49 pm »
Bloke on Farcebok.  Talking about Fleetwood Mac.  Had to have "Dog And Dustbin" explained to him :facepalm:
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1038 on: 25 October, 2019, 01:08:47 pm »
in answer to thread title.

...its midday, on a friday, and you are tucking into a healthy and nutritious pint, whilst slightly grumpily perusing one's online world, which is only possible with reading glasses.

My ass used to be beautiful. That it should come to this...

ElyDave

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1039 on: 25 October, 2019, 01:18:54 pm »
Lindsey, surely ?

Tryping is not my forty
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1040 on: 25 October, 2019, 01:43:37 pm »
I know nothing of Fleetwood Mac (other than one song) but I am now forced to acknowledge that I need those varifocal contacts or, alternatively, that I can operate my computer by squinting at it from the other side of the office, using a stick to bash letters out of the keyboard. Admittedly the latter might improve my spelling.

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1041 on: 25 October, 2019, 02:46:02 pm »
...When a bloke demonstrating a gadget on YouTube says "this is an amazingly flexible tool" and you think "aye, so's mine these days".
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

T42

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1042 on: 25 October, 2019, 04:09:22 pm »
I don't even know one song.  I thought they were a cross between Fisherman's Friends and a dodgy mortgage set-up.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Kim

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1043 on: 25 October, 2019, 04:21:08 pm »
I discovered them relatively recently.  They seem quite good, and come from the heady days of music that was recorded with dynamic range.

ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1044 on: 25 October, 2019, 04:22:49 pm »
They sound more than a bit Dad Rock. For those who find Dire Straits a bit racy.

andytheflyer

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1045 on: 25 October, 2019, 05:27:02 pm »
...When a bloke demonstrating a gadget on YouTube says "this is an amazingly flexible tool" and you think "aye, so's mine these days".
;D ;D ;D

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1046 on: 25 October, 2019, 05:34:24 pm »
I remember taking a Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits album on a school ski-trip in 1988.
"Yes please" said Squirrel "biscuits are our favourite things."

ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1047 on: 25 October, 2019, 05:40:02 pm »
I only read this thread to make me feel young(er).

The only thing floppy about me is my disk.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1048 on: 25 October, 2019, 06:12:07 pm »
All 3 1/2"

ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #1049 on: 25 October, 2019, 06:49:00 pm »
It's not the size, it's the capacity.