You know your getting old when...

sam34

i was driving today and a young lad in a honda civic overtook me dangerously

in a manner scarily reminiscent of my 74 year old father, i tutted disapprovingly and said "look at that..is it any wonder they're killed on the roads"

worse again, i was alone in the car!

funnyname

IvySlayer wrote: »

What is with that? It's sooo annoying.

Everytime you sit it's either Ahhhhhhh or Ooohhhhh.

Are you Michael McIntyre?

stovelid

sam34 wrote: »

i was driving today and a young lad in a honda civic overtook me dangerously

Rhetorical segment of sentence in bold.

Goes without saying.

Stovelid (84)

ki

when you get up early on a Saturday, to make the most of the day!

I was up at 6:30 am myself....and I'm 27 too!

staker

You prefer an EGM over an AGM.

StormWarrior

When you used to follow all of your favourite bands around on tour, and jump into the mosh pit and crowd surf with glee. Now you go to one concert a year (and say concert instead of gig) and stand there tutting in annoyance at the crowd surfers and moshers, and wish that they would settle down and behave themselves.

When your political views become more violently right-wing every year, and you regularly write to your local MP to complain about, well, virtually everything.

When you see women wearing spaghetti-strap tops and short skirts in public, and women posing scnatily-clad on the covers of magazines and think, "Put some clothes on you brazen hussy!"

When you hear people talk about things like Razorlight and the Kaiser Chiefs, and wonder if they are political parties.

When you used to spend spare time watching Nickelodeon, now you watch the politics show and history channel.

When, for the past few years, you have bought only comfortable, practical clothes and shoes, not fashionable ones.

inforfun

When you see football players, you saw making their debut at age 17, as a pundit on tv.

bazmaiden

FearDark wrote: »

you know you're getting old when...

You and your teeth don't sleep together.

phill106

StormWarrior wrote: »

When the new music on MTV sounds like nothing but annoying noise, and you haven't bought a CD released within the past 10 years.

When you wonder when MTV stopped playing music videos!

gustavo

when you feel the need to correct people for mis-spelling "you're"

sam34

when you're watching porn and you think how comfy the bed looks

Smart Bug

sam34 wrote: »

when you're watching porn and you think how comfy the bed looks

Ooohhh, those curtains really match the drapes...

Daith

phill106 wrote: »

When you wonder when MTV stopped playing music videos!

When you start watching MTV Classic!

UpCork

You know you're old when, like me you get great pleasure out of sitting on the couch, working your way through Murder She Wrote boxsets. I am currently, at the age of 26 on Series 6

Standard Toaster

You wait anxiously for the 9 o'clock rte news because you find Anne Doyle more attractive then Sharon Ni Bheeaoooallaaaaiiinninoneonamachsacamall

StormWarrior

Daith wrote: »

When you start watching MTV Classic!

When you're watching MTV classic and you think, "how are these songs classic? Seems like only yesterday they were released."

StormWarrior

UpCork wrote: »

You know you're old when, like me you get great pleasure out of sitting on the couch, working your way through Murder She Wrote boxsets. I am currently, at the age of 26 on Series 6

My elderly mother and I have done this with all the 24 boxsets. Now we sit here of an evening whining, "there's nothing on Tv and no more 24, what shall we do?" and end up re-reading old copies of the Daily Mail for entertainment.

Duggy747

When the girl you're chatting up in the nite-club is just 16 :eek: (It's worse when you realise she didn't even exist when you were in the cinema watching Jurassic Park!!)

When you realise your Super Nintendo is nearly 20 years old.

When you see / hear something and realise you haven't seen / heard it since the last millenium!

StormWarrior

When you hear the youngsters chatting about Grand Theft Auto and suchlike, and realise that the only computer games you have ever played are Super Mario, Sonic and Commander Keen. (and you haven't played a computer game in 15 years.)

EL_Loco

I saw a list of these before, not sure how many got mentioned, I'll blast a few out for yis and some of me own (I did read up to page 3 then skipped ahead, I just don't have the time anymore, could be the first sign!)

You leave a nightclub early to "avoid the rush"
A person speaking to a child refers to you as "that man" e.g. "get out of that man's way Junior"
A girl in a night club pitches your age 5 years short, and still thinks you're old. (true story)
A friend's house is far more appealing than dragging yourself down the pub.
The Channel 4 news becomes interesting.
You understand what the budget means and aren't pissed off it's being shown instead of your favourite program.
Staff in shops call you "Sir"
One of the gang leaving moderately early isn't crucified for doing so.

I'll leave it at that.

StormWarrior

EL_Loco wrote: »

You leave a nightclub early to "avoid the rush"

Reminds me of the time my ex and I travelled a couple of hundred miles and forked out alot of money to see a concert, and despite enjoying it, about three quarters of the way through he insisted that we should leave to avoid being caught in the rush, even though there were only a couple of hundred people there, the "rush" wouldn't have taken more than a couple of minutes to get out of!

Fago!

You can't get your kids' names right on the first go.

Snowie

pikachucheeks wrote: »

When you rant and rave about the behaviour of anyone or groups of people younger than you... Possibly out of resentment!

the only person i rant about is my flat mate ive perfectly good reason to every one whos ever lived with him has more or less said the same thing :pac:
think wed all have learned at this stage, tho the silent treatment works amazingly well

starbelgrade

Standard Toaster wrote: »

You wait anxiously for the 9 o'clock rte news because you find Anne Doyle more attractive then Sharon Ni Bheeaoooallaaaaiiinninoneonamachsacamall

Nope - that's when you know that you need your eyesight tested.

Killer_banana

EL_Loco wrote: »

A friend's house is far more appealing than dragging yourself down the pub.
The Channel 4 news becomes interesting.

Both of those apply to me and I'm only eighteen! Well I only prefer a friend's house to the pub if there's alcohol in the house but still...

While I'm here I mgiht as well try think of one. Hmmmm...

When you're no longer excited by the sight of snow.

UpCork

Oh another one.

When you attend the 18th and 21st birthdays of people you remember going to visit in the hospital when they were born....seriously depressing

Deus Ex Machina

gustavo wrote: »

when you feel the need to correct people for mis-spelling "you're"

I am not old, and I am not a grammar nerd, but that drives me crazy. I was on a friends facebook page and I saw a post from her boyfriend: your beautiful. I lost an enormous amount of respect for her on the spot. To be precise I am more concerned, and I suspect it is this which you refer to, with people using your in place of you're and vice versa.

Hazys

Duggy747 wrote: »

When the girl you're chatting up in the nite-club is just 16 :eek: (It's worse when you realise she didn't even exist when you were in the cinema watching Jurassic Park!!)

Are you sure you didnt just go out on Junior Cert night?

sam34

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

I am not old, and I am not a grammar nerd, but that drives me crazy. I was on a friends facebook page and I saw a post from her boyfriend: your beautiful. I lost an enormous amount of respect for her on the spot. To be precise I am more concerned, and I suspect it is this which you refer to, with people using your in place of you're and vice versa.

surely if you were going to lose respect for anyone it should be her boyfriend, not your friend. the grammatical mistake was his, not hers.

InTheTrees

...when you realise you're old enough to be her father...

:eek: