Cottonseed Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 When your shooting buddy calls you for a days pigeon shooting and you have to say ,I will have to check the calender to see if I have any doctors or hospital appointments first . Harnser . God how I identify with that statement this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cottonseed Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Another member of the shift who is under 25 wondering how we coped with just 3 TV channels and not the 900 odd on sky we have now as he grew up with Sky. Also suddenly realising that your old enough to be the father of the 20 year old that has just joined your shift. You missed your cue to tell him we had 3 decent channels rather than another 897 channels full of ****! That's what real Oldies say! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun4860 Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 umm you need to switch progs fella....luv me sky news totty +1 then a quick burst of the lovely Susanah on beeb1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 When I think back at house prices, when I got married, bought me first house, a three bedroomed garden fronted terraced house, £5,100, you could get a decent second hand car now, for the same money, times defo have changed. But Im still fit, work outside, do my shooting, sort my dogs, and got grey hair, so there you go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxfordfowler Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Not long turned 55 - Oh ****. Where did it go?. Bu@@ered if I remember Where am I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the enigma Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 (edited) loads of things to be honest-grey pubes -lack of hair-more ear hair/nose hair.waking up for a pee at 3am ,worse hangovers I wasn't going to mention it,but seeing as you've brought it up.................. *** is that all about? I turned 37 at the weekend, it affected me more than I thought, seriously, it's (hopefully transiently) depressed me Yep, I know the feeling, turned 37 a couple of months ago. It's thoroughly depressing, when you meet up with mates and reminisce about all those memorable nights out, and then realise your talking about stuff that happened 20 years ago. +1 then a quick burst of the lovely Susanah on beeb1 Have to agree fella, Susanah is a honey. Edited September 6, 2012 by the enigma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 umm you need to switch progs fella....luv me sky news totty for me its facing up to the fact i will soon be a grandad and all above board i should mention, as in my son (a man) and his wife a (female lady) expecting a normally produced baby by having marital relations. I realise in this gender bender modern era that’s a bit old fashioned but TBH I am quite proud of them not a gay blessing nor cross dresser in the mix (as far as one can tell) Blummin miracle given the hereditary genetic predisposition and being from Suffolk 'n all that Congrats grandad! Getting old for me is seeing my GP more often since turning 40 than all the years before. As for the rest of it - I still feel 24 years old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixer1 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 The fact I can no longer balance on a skateboard, this however does not stop me attempting to navigate the driveway on my sons everytime he leaves it out, which usually leads to - "Christ all mighty! I've broken something" No more olly-kick flips for me.... :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krugerandsmith Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 I can still remember my Mom handing over the ration books at butchers. - - only two cars in our road and milk delivered by horse and cart - and two people in road taking the accumalators to Post Office for a charged one - if you know what I am talking about you are as old as me. Dave Dave. Happy memories ..... Happy memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 You know that the years have suddenly and fuinally caught up with you when you look at threads with links like this one: http://www.foxyhunters.co.uk/ and all you can think to yourself to yourself is:- "Good God, if they stand about like that for long they will catch a hell of a cold"! :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeto Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 What about the 'expanding waistline! :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosshair Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 I was always taught to respect my elders, now I have a job to find any older than me. If I had a birthday cake with all the candles I could turn the central heating off. But still work a seven day week, and everything still works ok, firing on all cylinders, no oil leaks, lights horn etc all working ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiffy Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 (edited) well im 41 now, soon to be 42. on the run up to my 40th i was the most miserable person anyone knew... and on the day i didnt leave the house! really really depressed about it. as for feeling old, tuesday evening i was talking to a guy a year older than me when a rather attractive young lady wandered up on a horse, he looked at her then at me and said thats when you feel old, her mother is our age.. with the thoughts going through my mind at the time i didnt know wether to feel old or perverted then theres the fact that the last year i have been to the hospital more than i have in the previous 40 put together Edited September 6, 2012 by kiffy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Clavata Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 About 5 years ago when I fell off my bike and, unlike when I was a kid, did not jump straight up and get back on it. In fact it took two people to lift me up from face down in the road. I did crazy stuff as a kid but never dislocated or broke any bones. The other week it dawned on me that I'm older than anyone playing in the English football Premier League. Four weeks ago I fell off my bike again, did jump straight back on but only managed a couple hundred metres before I stopped and had to call for help. Post surgery to fix the collar bone, I was nearly kept in over night through an inability to pee. I have subsequently realised that I no longer pee with anything like the back pressure I used to. The last time I had my eyes tested I was told I had better than 20:20 vision. Older friends told me your eyesight goes around 40. well it was 42 for me. I now understand the trouble my old man used to have when as a kid I used to shove a book under his nose and ask him what a word meant. I've not been able to do much for the last four weeks and have thought about many things. My conclusion is I'm a bonafide oldie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Hair where there wasn't any. No hair where there was. Needing to find my reading glasses to do the most simple tasks. Walking into rooms and forgetting why. Seeing my son cringe when I say things. I forget what else! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deny essex Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 46 creaky and got 5 grandkids ,cor blimey i was at a 25year street party for Q E 2 now shes had her diamond jubilee ,time to reach for the werthers originals I remember her corination street party I went to, just! In the rememberance frame , cod liver oil capsuals stuffed in my mouth in the morning ( burping the taste of fish all morning) A spone full of malt which helped take the taste of the cod tablet away . A small bottle of milk stuffed down your throat every day at school which you had to drink, used to make me throw up. All to help us keep healthy as granted by the gouverment of the day . Now my joints creak and groan when I can get them to move at all, I should have kept takeing the cod liver oil capsuals A long time and lotsa memories, more to come I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bi9johnny Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 i am 6 months off the big 50 and the wife has me organising my birthday bash and for some reason i have thought more of my age this last 6 month than i have ever..... strange as it seems but i have met more people recently from my past than i can count , we have resurrected a bike club having a school reunion and old work colleagues it is rather strange, hope to hell i dont meet up with the 3 ex misses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSPUK Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 A mate who is older than me bought it home to me the other month - He said I've just been to a funeral and now of all my family and friends "I am at head of queue" That is when you are old Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavman Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 (edited) anyone 9issing the bed yet? there is a certian smugness to slipping a naughty one in! Edited September 6, 2012 by pavman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougall Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 3 signs to watch for fellas; 1.you have to make a noise when you stand up/get out of a chair 2.you don't fall over you have a fall 3.you start a hand crank in the shower and then can't be bothered...........! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tad-blody Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 What was the question again ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretagentmole Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 You realise you are getting old when you start saying the sort of things your parents did.... Including the infamous "when you get to my age,,,,"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penfolio Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 The grey hairs and balding didn't faze me too much. The hair from the nose and ears didn't rock me. The ever expanding waistline I casually ignored. Looking at the Foxyhunters link above, I didn't want 'em to cover up to avoid getting a cold. But, when the doctor told me the other day that I've got early signs of Arthritis in my knee, there was no getting away from it, time is finally starting to get the better of me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yates Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 +1 then a quick burst of the lovely Susanah on beeb1 Totally agree about the gorgeous Suzanna. Sky news follow the Benny Hill formula- One fat middle aged man(Eammon Holmes) surrounded by gorgeous female co-presenters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfowler.250 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 In highly saddened by the fact that I'm 22. All downhill after your 21st Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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