Signs that you're getting old

the purple tin

Even if I live to be 100, I will never take an interest in mowing. It is a pain in the hoop

Surreptitious

You see people that would be considered 'old' and they don't look that old to you. Then you see young people and they look really young. Then you try to work out where you fit into it all in the grand scheme of things.

Aglomerado

Be right back wrote: »

When your co-workers weren't born when you did the leaving cert!

Oh god. There was a postgrad intern from my old university working with us a couple of years ago. I told her I'd gone there too. 'What year did you graduate?', she asked. I replied '1998' to which she replied, 'I was born that year'.
It didn't matter in the end, we both skulled pints like undergrads at a work do that night.

Potential-Monke

I recently purchased a lumbar support cushion...

Doublebusy

For me it was when alot of the Premier league footballers i remember making their debuts started to retire in the last few years.. it strangely made me feel old

AlejGuzman68

When you see recent photos of your favorite rock stars/movie stars and see how old they become.And then get hit with the wtf moment,lol.

questionmark?

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

When you find yourself getting excited by the thoughts of the first grass cutting of the season.

You haven't got the first cut in yet?!?! My God, your not living. Two cuts in so far myself and also put out the hanging baskets.








I miss being young!!!!

questionmark?

monkeysnapper wrote: »

Mine was a few months ago when talking to a lad at work who is a man united fan and I asked him where he watched champions league final in 1999 and he kindly reminded me he wasn't even born ..

I felt a little sick reading that!


You punched him right?

riclad

When your favourite pop stars are from the 80s, or 90s,
You remember when top of the pops was on tv
When MTV just showed music videos not just reality TV shows
You remember when games were just released on catridge
You could rent games from xtravision
You remember black and white tvs
You used to rent out films on VHS tape
You remember pirate radio radio Dublin etc
before 2fm was on the air

Don't think that I've any signs of getting older, but some fecker keeps roaring when I have to bend over to pick something up.

AndrewJRenko

Seems to be amnesia. Some recent posts were same posts by same users they did 20 pages ago in this thread. Exactly like aul fellas telling the same stories and jokes over and over.

ohnonotgmail

I just hurt my back while coughing.

fryup

think i have to surrender to Father Time,

yesterday i did a few jobs in the garden and after half an hour i was spent:o physically shattered - never felt that way before it was a wake up call of sorts

and recently i'm beginning to feel mentally old as well - slow response to questions, not sharp, lazy attitudes creeping in - couldn't be arsed to do things

or maybe it's the lockdown

Potential-Monke

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I recently purchased a lumbar support cushion...

I selected the model of my new car based on the better lumbar support...

Purple Mountain

When you say something to your teenager and they cringe and you realise you cringed at those very same things your own mom said.

Barna77

Getting angry when the kids on my street run over my front garden

Serving Mr Wilson vibes ...

suicide_circus

questionmark? wrote: »

You haven't got the first cut in yet?!?! My God, your not living. Two cuts in so far myself and also put out the hanging baskets.








I miss being young!!!!

I saving the second cut for a few more weeks so i can go over it once and then lower the mower and give it another pass!

B.A._Baracus

Anyone remember the episode of Futurama 'Roswell That Ends Well" ?





The gang go back to 1947 Roswell by mistake and it leads to such amazing bits as Fry being his own grandpa and the ever amazing line from The Porfessor "ohhh, I am getting a lesson in time travel from Mr i am my own grandpa!"


Great funny episode wasnt it? :pac:
.... yeah it first aired in December 2001. It's 20 years old

Capt'n Midnight

Wallet Inspector

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Yup. That is sheer beauty.

New Home

*coughs*

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=115712052#post115712052

New Home

When you find your first grey eyebrow hair.

appledrop

When your at the coast where there is a sea breeze and your wrapped up in sensible clothes and your looking at younger people in tshirts and shorts thinking 'are they not cold'.

In fairness to me it was only 14 degrees!

jaxxx

When your balls are below your knees.

Batattackrat

When it takes an hour to function normal after waking up.

Go on the beer for the day on Friday and your not fully recovered till Thursday
.

Purple Mountain

You forget your own birthday

Pinch Flat

Watching top of the pops on bbc tonight from 1982. Realised most people in the bands and the audience are probably pensioners now.

dreamers75

Your job needs a laptop with windows 98 on it and the ability to use a serial cable.

you can do that

54and56

jaxxx wrote: »

When your balls are below your knees.

You mean when you take up yoga?

Liamario

When you're scratching your ear and find an extremely long hair coming out of it.

54and56

If AC/DC were the last band you saw in concert you're definitely getting old!!

Charlie19

Liamario wrote: »

When you're scratching your ear and find an extremely long hair coming out of it.

LoL that was the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title.

Pinch Flat

Liamario wrote: »

When you're scratching your ear and find an extremely long hair coming out of it.

A low point for me was when my barber asked if I'd like the hair on my ears trimmed a couple of years back

MAULBROOK

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

My barber asked if I wanted my eyebrows trimmed!

And ears

Purple Mountain

Purple Mountain wrote: »

You forget your own birthday

Or forget what age you are altogether. I have to do a mental calculation when answering the "age?" question on a form.

I used to think the saying 'age is just a number' was just a kind thing to say to an older person, but it really is pretty abstract now.

frosty123

You find yourself toe tapping to Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash and the like...something unthinkable in your youth (well my youth anyway)

Mothers are too old, daughters are too young! :D:D

FrankN1

The music is worse now than it was in your day

KaneToad

frosty123 wrote: »

You find yourself toe tapping to Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash and the like...something unthinkable in your youth (well my youth anyway)

I've been toe tapping to them since I was 13 - which wasn't that long ago either!

My parents were big fans.

YellowLead

Sunday rolls around and you are super happy about your trip to the garden centre, where you will spend a few hours, and buy stuff - like pots.thrilled with yourself.

Though tbf that might just be pandemic rather than age...

StevenToast

Ive started listening to Sunday Miscellany on RTE radio 1.....

Pauliedragon

When you can remember the days when you could get 2 sandwiches out of a packet of tayto.

the purple tin

You can remember when people used drown puppies and kittens

Sgt Hartman

the purple tin wrote: »

You can remember when people used drown puppies and kittens

I remember pulling a bag of puppy bones out of a local stream when I was about 10, I'll never forget it.

Anyway my nose hairs have been getting a little out of control since going past 40 so I invested in a nose hair trimmer. Also when I looked in the mirror recently after coming out of the shower my reflection reminded me of Bang Bang Bart in The Simpsons

Kewreeuss

neris wrote: »

when the 9 oclock news is one of the mainstays of watching tv in the evening

No, no. Never!!!:eek:

Graces7

When you no longer care about saying NO to people. YOU matter!

Also stopping worrying about never being able to remember what you came into a room for. You will pass that way again.

PS I am after all not GETTING old. I AM old. The getting has all been got.

mad m

Ordered my reading glasses today ...

mad m

the purple tin wrote: »

You can remember when people used drown puppies and kittens

Remember it well. I was 4 years old.<<snip>> It was the way it was in those days.

Mod: Absolutely no need to be so graphic about animal cruelty.

Hamsterchops

Very few real teeth left, balding with grey beard, stuped spine, arthritic legs, leaky sphincter, yellow toenails, failing eyesight, shrunken willy, shortness of breath, nasal hair and forgetfulness.

Victor

When you think to yourself:

"Is that Garda old enough to work after 10pm at night? Child labour laws and all that."

"Is that driver old enough to legally drive a bus?" (I think you have to b 21).

"That nurse looks so young she looks like she should be wearing a school uniform - a primary school uniform."