You know you're middle aged when

[Cudzoziemiec]

Seems like a good time to repost this thread: https://twitter.com/davidWhill14/status/959712290269429760

That is fascinating.  Thanks

1981 was a very long time ago. Only four years after having "No Compassion" was noteworthy enough for a Talking Heads song. Though perhaps it's even the other way round; now "compassion is a virtue" and in 1981 it was normal? Or perhaps it's just Jim Bowen or his producers! But "Strike It Rich" shows it's not a one-way movement.

[TheLurker]

You remember all too clearly how incredibly wealthy you felt when an uncle or an aunt gave you a half-crown or, wonder of wonders, a 10/- note and then you realise how very, very little such sums will buy nowadays.

[andytheflyer]

You remember all too clearly how incredibly wealthy you felt when an uncle or an aunt gave you a half-crown or, wonder of wonders, a 10/- note and then you realise how very, very little such sums will buy nowadays.

I recall that the first pint I bought, in my local rugby club bar after a game (and I was about 16 at the time!), was 2/6. Or 4 pints for 10 bob - not that I ever bought 4 pints.......  My dad would have had something to say about that. 

(Goes off to finish nacelle fettling - just a couple more cut-outs and screw fittings to go........)

[Beardy]

(Goes off to finish nacelle fettling - just a couple more cut-outs and screw fittings to go........)

Remember to cut on the right side of the line.

[andytheflyer]

(Goes off to finish nacelle fettling - just a couple more cut-outs and screw fittings to go........)

Remember to cut on the right side of the line.

It's a twin and I did one nacelle yesterday, so now I have a template and all the dimensions! But ...................

[Giraffe]

You remember all too clearly how incredibly wealthy you felt when an uncle or an aunt gave you a half-crown or, wonder of wonders, a 10/- note and then you realise how very, very little such sums will buy nowadays.

I recall that the first pint I bought, in my local rugby club bar after a game (and I was about 16 at the time!), was 2/6. Or 4 pints for 10 bob - not that I ever bought 4 pints.......  My dad would have had something to say about that. 

(Goes off to finish nacelle fettling - just a couple more cut-outs and screw fittings to go........)

My first pint was 1/3 in a sort of hotel place. I was 14 at the time, but 6' 4" and also my dad had been a local licencee, so I was OK. That was for mild - bitter was a bit more.

Mind, I'd been drinking since the age of 4. The cellar of an off-licence is fun for kiddies. I think it stunted my growth.

[robgul]

... and a follow-on from beer at half-a-crown a pint (I think the first beer I bought was a half for  11d at a pub in Kent) - but a different liquid . ..  when I first had a car you could get 4 gallons of petrol for £1.00 (it was actually a whisker over 4 gallons as it was 4/10d per gallon (that was May 1965)

Rob

[T42]

When you remember what you were doing when George VI died.

(Everyone was telling everyone else the news in hushed voices. I was with my mum in Donegall Square and I had a new whistle in the shape of a locomotive, which succumbed to my deciduous incisors before we reached the bus-stop on Chichester St. I wasn't allowed to blow it, anyway.)

[Poacher]

The met office issues a Yellow Snow Warning and your first thought is of Frank Zappa.

[Jaded]

...every time. Without fail.

[ElyDave]

I don't know the frank Zappa reference, but my immediate thought was "don't eat it!"

[essexian]

When you remember what you were doing when George VI died.

I don't quite remember that far back but always thought that my Grand Father looked just like the late King..... well... you never know what the Edward VII was doing in Hackney in early 1905 do you.....

[Jaded]

I don't know the frank Zappa reference, but my immediate thought was "don't eat it!"

https://youtu.be/TLIppgE45wM?t=1m56s

[spesh]

The met office issues a Yellow Snow Warning and your first thought is of Frank Zappa.

 

[Kim]

I don't know the frank Zappa reference, but my immediate thought was "don't eat it!"

https://youtu.be/TLIppgE45wM?t=1m56s

Gosh, I've learned a thing.  I thought it was just general good advice.

[T42]

When you remember what you were doing when George VI died.

I don't quite remember that far back but always thought that my Grand Father looked just like the late King..... well... you never know what the Edward VII was doing in Hackney in early 1905 do you.....

Something to do with floating a battleship, wasn't it?

[Croft]

...you see someone in the street with an outstretched arm taking a photo with their phone and you think the polite thing to do is to walk past behind them.

[T42]

Whence the sport of selfie-bombing.

[hbunnet]

When you remember what you were doing when George VI died.

Jings yes. Our headmaster came in to the classroom to tell us.The same man had previously given me the belt for talking during lunch, which was at our desks.

[Kim]

I don't wish to be disrespectful to King George VI's contenmporaries but I wonder at what point you realise that you are getting beyond middle age.

I've been wondering that for the last page or so...

[arabella]

I could mention the word 'menopause'.
It's been appearing in the graun a lot recently.

[hellymedic]

I could mention the word 'menopause'.
It's been appearing in the graun a lot recently.

Given that this is not a new phenomenon, I would postulate that a large tranche of journalists must be experiencing menopause simultaneously.

ETA I see some ITV bird is suggesting 'M' badges for menopausal women...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43429713

[T42]

I don't wish to be disrespectful to King George VI's contenmporaries but I wonder at what point you realise that you are getting beyond middle age.

When the view of the daisies includes altogether too many roots.

[hellymedic]

I must be more than past middle age. Today would have been my grandmother's 120th birthday.
She's no longer with us but I'm a little less than half of that.

[De Sisti]

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