What will we be like when we're old?

The Song Thrush

Ever wonder what our generation will be like when we're OAPs? (by our our generation I'm aiming at 18-30 year olds.)

Will we be complaining about young people of the future? Will Countdown be the highlight of the day? Will tea and biscuits be the most comforting thing? Will we be going to mass 3 times a day? Will modern music just sound like noise? Repeating phrases such as "In my day we were lucky if we got broadband speeds of over 4mb/s!"? Will bingo be just about the best thing ever? Will our eternal dilemma be trying to figure out where the "on" button on our robotic nurses is?

What do you think life as an old-timer will be like?

monkeyfudge

But modern music DOES sound like noise!

OTliddy

Physically, I will be skinny, wrinkly and bald with whisps of grey. I will also probably also be wearing glasses because I use the net too much.
I will probably be perpetually campaigning for old music, not because the modern music wont be good, but because they will probably not even know who Radiohead, Strokes etc are, and that will infuriate me. Hopefully I will still be fun-loving and never turn down a game of football with the kids. I will probably never stop talking about Wayne Rooney and that he would beat any player today.

Reaver772

Fun stuff, pretending to be deaf so people have to shout, cleaning out the old ear wax with the car keys while sitting in the pub, paying for things in the shop by slowly putting coins down on the counter one at a time and counting loudly, farting in public as loud as a fog horn and then blaming it on the dog.

Ruu_Old

"TURN DOWN THAT RACKET" tbh

Pigman II

Ruu wrote:

"TURN DOWN THAT RACKET" tbh

There was a doc made about John Peel once with a title not to dissimilar to that.

So I'm going to be like John Peel (i.e. still more with it than the grandkids!)

Sleepy

"They don't make Guinness like they used to..."

Juan Pablo

Gathered around the piano on Christmas morning with the grandchildren singing IceCubes "Today was a Good Day" and other such golden oldies.

BoozyBabe

The Song Thrush wrote:

Will Countdown be the highlight of the day? Will tea and biscuits be the most comforting thing? Will we be going to mass 3 times a day? Will bingo be just about the best thing ever? Will our eternal dilemma be trying to figure out where the "on" button on our robotic nurses is?

No, we won't have time for any of that cos we'll all still be working to keep our roof over our heads, still paying off our massive mortgages on houses we bought when the housing market went crazy, working to pay the electricity, gas, water, etc, etc bills that a pension just won't cover & to feed ourselves.

I think the future's bleak for us as OAP's!!

R0ot

amm.... tired?

skywalker

The Song Thrush wrote:

"In my day we were lucky if we got broadband speeds of over 4mb/s!"

Ha. Brilliant. Id imagine Ill be a fun active grandad, Id like to think so anyway.

carbonkid

Ill probably have a serious case of that OAB...yea i pee alot now it is

Merrick

Ha, I'm going to be the most curmudgeonly old lady that ever there was!

Sifo

BoozyBabe wrote:

No, we won't have time for any of that cos we'll all still be working to keep our roof over our heads, still paying off our massive mortgages on houses we bought when the housing market went crazy, working to pay the electricity, gas, water, etc, etc bills that a pension just won't cover & to feed ourselves.

I think the future's bleak for us as OAP's!!

unless we leave here!! i really don't understand why more people don't.... i don't plan to buy a house here...

xzanti

Id imagine ill be regretting my 2 tatoos and hoping my grandkids don't find out about stuff I did in my youth

jsr

BoozyBabe wrote:

No, we won't have time for any of that cos we'll all still be working to keep our roof over our heads, still paying off our massive mortgages on houses we bought when the housing market went crazy, working to pay the electricity, gas, water, etc, etc bills that a pension just won't cover & to feed ourselves.

I think the future's bleak for us as OAP's!!

:eek:
You are just full of cheer today. But yeah I'll have to concur with you on this one.

My God the oil will have run out..............we will freeze in the dark!!! I'll be old and cold:(

Duiske

Ahhhh....I can hear it now......:rolleyes:

Q..."Grandad, can you help me with a history question ?"

A..."Sure kid, what is it ?"

Q..."What year did President Adams change our National Anthem to "A Nation Once Again" ?

connundrum

I'll finally be at a stage where I'm comfortable with adult nappies... and I'll probably abuse this feature of old aged-ness

Apart from that I'll be... grumpy :mad:

Angels

I definitely won't be going to mass 3 times a day i don't even go once a week. Ill be praying in my own way.

Ill look all wrinkly & stuff same height at this stage i've given up hope on growing much more ill probably shrink even smaller. Oh no god please no.

Actually i don't want to think about it cause im enjoying life too much now !!

scojones

I'll be livin it up in my huge mansion with aload of lovely young lithuanian's who'll do whatever I want.... Like place my bets for me, and pour me the perfect pint of Guinness from my in-house bar. Booyah.

MorningStar

Things many people don't realise is that many many things change when you get older.
1) Your taste buds like everything esle begin to fade so food doesn't taste the same.

2) It hurts to be old. Your joints hurt and you can't move as much

3) Things look different as your eyes age not just bad eyesight but thigs look a bit yellower and you probably have cataracks too.

4) Hearing fading only does certain ranges so music does sound like noise as you miss bits.

5) You feel useless as you don't feel like you contribute. A big issue for many people acear orintated.

6) Death, people die and you know more of the dead sort than living. Young people die on you and you are surpised and hurt by it.

IN case you are wondering my gran told me this when I asked her recently. She told me not to worry as it will happen anyway. She compared it to a child asking me what it is like to be 30 and comparing their pleasures with what I like now. I don't hate girls and want to eat cheap sweets like I did as a child and I simply couldn't understand that at that age as I can't figure out being 90 now. Don't worry about it as you can't stop it.

[Jackass]

I'll be old and fat but with a full head of white hair, decent hearing and good eyesight.

I'll probably suffer from aurthrites (sp) in my knees and toes...and i'll be dead at the age of 78.

Shortly before I die, I will bear my first child with my sixth wife, sunita, a 18yr old blonde tanned stunner who's only really with me for my millions....but you've got to ask yourself one question...Do I really give a fu*k?

And people say money can't buy happiness...well it sure as hell helps!

Sifo

Sifo wrote:

unless we leave here!! i really don't understand why more people don't.... i don't plan to buy a house here...

Me neither.

And I plan to be dead before I'm old :rolleyes:

**Timbuk2**

I will take my pony (or bus #219) to Tír na nÓg and never age

and get high broadband speeds

funk-you

I'll be sitting on my rocking chair on the portch whittling a piece of wood and swigging from a XXX jug playing the banjo occasionally and shaking my fist at those damn kids.

Every so often the wife will come out to give me a fresh apple pie but i'll give out telling her she knows that it'll give me gas and she's really trying to top me off to get my collection of old crap i keep in the shed and will never throw out.

When the grandkids visit i'll regail them with tales of my adventures at sea and tell them they have no respect nowadays.

i'll wink occasionally at my sons wife and glance menacingly at my daughters husband who is a waster that throws money away on crap i could have knocked together/fixed in the shed in five minutes with my tools ive owned since 'ought-four.

He's one of them girly blokes anyway, i think he might be one of those gheys and he's just trying to get my daughters money because she's making millions at this kabala they're all at nowadays. I think its something to do with teh computers.

-Funk

MorningStar

Sifo wrote:

unless we leave here!! i really don't understand why more people don't.... i don't plan to buy a house here...

Some people have friends and family here. What are you doing here now if you don't want to be?
There is of course some people feel the country that paid for their education should get something back but that's probably a crazy idea

Wolf

Thruth is im only 26 and I already come out with things like "In my day I never would have, got away with, tele was better, talked to adults like that etc."

Truth is I find that world isn't as good as it used to be and the kids these days, I mean seriously. In the UK kids are getting paid 30 sterling a week to stay in school!!! Bloodly joke if you ask me, and another thing.... rant ramble winge!

film_gonzo

Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend once.

Y'know the way our grandparents sing the songs of their youth, our parents- the songs of theirs etc. I wonder will we be the same?

50 years in the future, sitting in my wheelchair wearing only a string vest and singing with whatever power is left in my lungs, "I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts" or "I'm horny, horny, horny, horny, so horny, horny, horny, horny". It's gonna be a scary time for all concerned.

fits

MorningStar wrote:

Things many people don't realise is that many many things change when you get older.
IN case you are wondering my gran told me this when I asked her recently. She told me not to worry as it will happen anyway. She compared it to a child asking me what it is like to be 30 and comparing their pleasures with what I like now. I don't hate girls and want to eat cheap sweets like I did as a child and I simply couldn't understand that at that age as I can't figure out being 90 now. Don't worry about it as you can't stop it.

Your gran sounds like a wise old lady. Sometimes I wish I could have a conversation like that with my dad (who is almost as old)