Signs you're getting old

Ash.J.Williams

mishkalucy wrote: »

I never got to watch "Blue Peter" as the "Man of the house" came in from work and you then lost all telly rights.

Also does anyone remember "Fortycoats" and "Wanderly Wagon"????

i do indeed ....trippy stuff!!!

Now that you mention it....and man of the house taking over the tv was normal....and recently i felt old when my da changed the channel from a cartoon my neice was watching to horse racing.....and my niece turned around and said..."why did you do that??....i was watching that....turn it back"

that would never happen in my day!!!

shopaholic01

mishkalucy wrote: »

I never got to watch "Blue Peter" as the "Man of the house" came in from work and you then lost all telly rights.

Also does anyone remember "Fortycoats" and "Wanderly Wagon"????

Loved those and HRPufinstuf:D

milltown

If a porno movie has a hairy fanny in it, it's in the fetish section.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

milltown wrote: »

If a porno movie has a hairy fanny in it, it's in the fetish section.

where it should be, with the foot fanciers and scat lovers

milltown

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

where it should be, with the foot fanciers and scat lovers

Just making the point that when I was a lad, any time a pair of panties was removed in a movie or a magazine, it looked like a burst mattress.

I missed a meeting somewhere along the way.

AngryBollix

I lost my hard on half way through a squirt porn movie last night.

That didnt happen when I was 17

Elmer Blooker

I can remember when the FA Cup Final was a huge occasion, all day in front of the telly - watching the teams arrive (in appalling suits) etc
Now it means sweet FA (sorry)

Luxie

riclad wrote: »

IF you can remember when music cds first came out, and going to xtravision and renting out games on cartridge ,eg snes games ,you are over 40.

I remember all of this and am not yet forty.

AngryBollix

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

I can remember when the FA Cup Final was a huge occasion, all day in front of the telly - watching the teams arrive (in appalling suits) etc
Now it means sweet FA (sorry)

And that was the time when the only European cup games shown on TV were the ones involving british clubs and the final itself

efb

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

I can remember when the FA Cup Final was a huge occasion, all day in front of the telly - watching the teams arrive (in appalling suits) etc
Now it means sweet FA (sorry)

That's nothing to do with you getting older, just the FA cup isn't rated anymore

The King of Moo

Having to scroll down to enter your year of birth on a drop down menu on a website.

LaminatorSGL

You actively listen to the obituaries on the drive home from work.

ash23

When stuff you used to wear comes back into fashion.

I was out at the weekend and first I complained that the music was too loud. Then I complained about the crowds and lack of seats.
Then the next morning my daughter asked for hi-tops. She decribed them and I said "oh, runner-boots?".
Cue some eye rolling and cringing from her with a "gaaawd mom, no! Runner-boots!? Gawd. They're called hi-tops"

I'm 29 by the way.


Nothing like kids to make you feel prehistoric!

Sudsy86

ash23 wrote: »

When stuff you used to wear comes back into fashion.

I was out at the weekend and first I complained that the music was too loud. Then I complained about the crowds and lack of seats.
Then the next morning my daughter asked for hi-tops. She decribed them and I said "oh, runner-boots?".
Cue some eye rolling and cringing from her with a "gaaawd mom, no! Runner-boots!? Gawd. They're called hi-tops"

I'm 29 by the way.


Nothing like kids to make you feel prehistoric!

Don't be 2 worried untill the day she ask's to have her hair permed or the Mullet comes back into fashion...HAHA

Sudsy86

You know your getting old when they remake movies that you saw in the cinema when you where a kid.

I.E. Footloose etc

Sudsy86

You know your old if you remember films like the exorsist being scary...

Elmer Blooker

AngryBollix wrote: »

And that was the time when the only European cup games shown on TV were the ones involving british clubs and the final itself

Don't forget English clubs were banned from Europe for five years (I think) after the 1985 Heysel disaster so live football like the Cup Final was a real treat. BBC and ITV would both show it, that wouldn't happen now.

Sudsy86

Sudsy86 wrote: »

You know your getting old when they remake movies that you saw in the cinema when you where a kid.

I.E. Footloose etc

You know you're old when you remember watching the news in the cinema before the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-vJARftrk

midlandsmissus

Saying that I much prefer pubs to clubs to a 23 year old (I'm late twenties), and them going in horror 'God that's a really old person thing to say'.

Only going out the one night at the weekend because you need the rest to recover.

Thinking everyone in nightclubs is so young these days and you want to go somewhere with seats where you can hear your friends!

People you used to babysit being on senior sports teams/out in nightclubs.

Guards are now young whippersnappers that were years below you in school.

Thinking girls will catch their death in nightclubs.

Feeling maternal to young acts on X Factor/similiar shows. 'Sure they're only babies, getting all that rejection!'

Anyone else love getting older though, you're so much calmer and less worried about what other people think!

midlandsmissus

Oh and something exciting happened for me the other day where I came into some money and I celebrated by getting...... a really good washing powder. No word of a lie! I'm not even embarassed about it - domestic bliss Haha.

maiden

When you dye your hair it actually comes out the colour on the box, because you are dying gray hairs

dr.fuzzenstein

When you piss like a horse and sh*t like a steer every morning on the dot at 8.
But you don't get up till 9.

Smidge

thank you Dr Fuzzenstein for opening THAT door for me;)
When you sneeze and the smallest bit of wee comes out:o:o:o

Smidge

A sign you are really getting old
A part of one of my upper back teeth has just crumbled off, I kid you not
Now I'm gonna have to see some dentist who is young enough to be my son

midlandsmissus

mishkalucy wrote: »

A sign you are really getting old
A part of one of my upper back teeth has just crumbled off, I kid you not
Now I'm gonna have to see some dentist who is young enough to be my son

Never getting asked for I.D. any more. Worse - getting to a club where there is a group of people slowly being searched for I.D.s and the bouncer looks over them at you and waves you through. :D

midlandsmissus

Some good ones I read - lol!

11. You sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going.
12. Your knees buckle, and your belt won't.
14. You're 17 around the neck, 42 around the waist, and 95 around the golf course.
15. Your back goes out more than you do.
17. Your Pacemaker makes the garage doors go up when you see a pretty girl.
18. The little old gray haired lady you helped across the street is your wife.
19. You sink your teeth into a steak, and they stay there.

Smidge

19. You sink your teeth into a steak, and they stay there.[/QUOTE]

Eh just happened to me, minus the feckin steak:(

dr.fuzzenstein

mishkalucy wrote: »

19. You sink your teeth into a steak, and they stay there.

Eh just happened to me, minus the feckin steak:([/QUOTE]

20: You look forward to a nice bowl of soup and maybe some mashed veg.

Smidge

20: You look forward to a nice bowl of soup and maybe some mashed veg.

Through a straw at the rate I'm going:o

dr.fuzzenstein

mishkalucy wrote: »

20: You look forward to a nice bowl of soup and maybe some mashed veg.

Through a straw at the rate I'm going:o

You need these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzw6nRnaQG0

Smidge

Thats what I had to begin with.

rosehip

Few years ago, one winter, tried to make conversation with a neighbour's granddaughter, 8, asked about school, ran out of things to say and told her i always loved when the heating and electricity went in winter so we could go home and she looked straight up at me and said "oh, did they have electricity when you were in school?"...... I was still in my thirties

Thought i was going through early menopause, only to look it up and
discover i'm too old for "early"!!!

Ordering young teenage fellas who work in shops to just come here and help me with bags/ kids/ the car and them just meekly obeying..... i remember my mother doing that and i used to be mortified!

rainbowtrout

Asking my leaving cert class if any of them were planning to go to UCG next year and being met with blank looks and the question 'What's UCG?':eek: