You know you feel old when....

Some one in work tells you that they were born in 19xx and you remember that was the first year that you had the vote!
Plus the fact there is less than 10 years to retirement.

What makes you feel odd, apart from arthritis!!

Magellan Murphy

When your husband has erection problems and wants to buy a mini.

Who were the Beatles??? I cringe when I hear that!

JupiterKid

The fact that I graduated from college almost 20 years ago and new uni students wouldn't even have been born then.

Magellan Murphy

Magellan Murphy wrote: »

When your husband has erection problems and wants to buy a mini.

I remember when girls wore those! (Santa's little helpers)

whoopsadoodles

Grand stretch in the evenings.

JupiterKid

JupiterKid wrote: »

The fact that I graduated from college almost 20 years ago and new uni students wouldn't even have been born then.

It can be worse, My new manager wasn't even born when I started work!

Cortina_MK_IV

Someone on here a while ago posting about remembering watching a DVD in secondary. We had an overhead projector!

deco nate

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Some one in work tells you that they were born in 19xx and you remember that was the first year that you had the vote!
Plus the fact there is less than 10 years to retirement.

What makes you feel odd, apart from arthritis!!

Posters writing Backwards and upside down jokes that weren't even funny in the 30s...

DEFTLEFTHAND

When you have kids who were born in 2000 running rings around you in hurling training.

When I was their age an older fella would give ya a dig in the bollocks with the butt of the hurl if you were skinning him. No longer tolerated these days in our club sadly.

Grayson

Someone (younger) said to me last year that their Dad had great music when he was in college. Stuff like Pearl Jam and Nirvana. Their friend said "Who?".

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

When i can barely put my socks on

Who that pinball wizard!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKbUm8GrbM

whoopsadoodles

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Someone on here a while ago posting about remembering watching a DVD in secondary. We had an overhead projector!

Acetates

whoopsadoodles

Grayson wrote: »

Someone (younger) said to me last year that their Dad had great music when he was in college. Stuff like Pearl Jam and Nirvana. Their friend said "Who?".

Maybe he said "The Who"

Cortina_MK_IV

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

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Remembers driving a Cortina MkII, until someone ran into the back of it :mad: and it became a Ford Concertina II!

Steve

Remembering going to see films like ET / Raiders / Ghostbusters / Aliens and then realising they are now 35 years old... :eek:

Say Your Number

When you've seen this thread for the thousandth feckin' time

sabat

When the football managers start looking younger than you. I'm talking about people like Eddie Howe and Pochettino even though they're both older than me.

Steve

Say Your Number wrote: »

When you've seen this thread for the thousandth feckin' time

Someone has to educate the younglings..

JackieChang

I thought i was getting old but after reading the replies to this thread I feel very young. I got a bit of a boost now after that.

Grayson

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

Maybe he said "The Who"

One can only hope. It's weird to think the music I listened to in college is now in the same classification as the music my parents listened to. ie. old.

If you want to feel old look at property prices and remember what they were like the first time you paid attention to them. I had a landlord when I was in college in 95 who sold the house we were in. He'd bought it two years earlier for 30k and was selling it for 37k. I remember him saying "This can't last, I'm selling whilst the prices are still high".

RayM

Say Your Number wrote: »

When you've seen this thread for the thousandth feckin' time

I used to laugh at people who posted in threads like this.

I'm not laughing now (mainly because it causes bladder leakage)

Winterlong

When you are older than Justin Beibers mother.
And older that Stiflers mom was in the movie.

D0NNELLY

Courtney Cox is older than Blanch from the Golden Girls was when it first aired.

blade1

The first sign is when the guards look very young.
They were doing a routine stop on a Halloween night a couple of years ago.
When I pulled up and saw how young they looked, I was tempted to say " bit late to be out trick or treating lads" but thought I better not.

Wibbs

When I see films made the year I was born it looks like another world. And in many ways it was. The Beatles were still a band, Elvis was still skinny and man hadn't made it to the moon but was on the way. Growing up in the 70's the "future" also felt more futuristic for some reason. Post modernist thinking hadn't crept in yet.

Littlehorny

When i mentioned in work that Bros were having a comeback tour and the younger people had to look them up because they hadn't a clue who they were.
They then had great crack looking up people like Adam Ant and other pop stars from the 80's saying things like "me mother goes on about them".

Mister Vain

When people ask me if I'm married or have any kids instead of asking me if I have a mot.

lazybones32

I don't feel old or see myself as old. I can't listen to the younger wans in the pub though....talking ****e. I wonder was I as annoying then? Probably was and probably still am.

Beasty

Wibbs wrote: »

The Beatles were still a band

The Beatles only became the Beatles during the year in which I was born (I even pre-date Coronation Street:o)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

When Reeling in the Years features 1985 and you say.. 'that's not old'... then realise it was over 30 years ago.

When your grandchildren ask you what a Blackboard was.

Cortina_MK_IV

You get flagged down by a guard and you realise you have a leather jacket back home in the wardrobe older than him.

Sam Kade

When you look in the mirror and see an auld man staring back at you

Ineedaname

When people years behind you in school are now married with kids

Sam Kade

When everyone calls children kids :mad:

Grayson

I was chatting to a guy in a pub. I asked where he was from and I said I knew someone from there. Long story short my ex taught him in primary school.

Conall Cernach

LexieOnRale wrote: »

When i can barely put my socks on

I find the trick is to have a wee break in between socks and contemplate just where you went wrong with your life before tackling the second sock. Same goes for shoes.

Stigura

LexieOnRale wrote: »

When i can barely put my socks on

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I find the trick is to have a wee break in between socks and contemplate just where you went wrong with your life before tackling the second sock. Same goes for shoes.

So agreed with Lexie, when I read it, last night. Conall's response is sheer f**king poetry though!


For me, another thing is sleeping on a futon. Lovely, firm place to sleep. But, f**k me; When ye wake up and ye arse is just inches from the floor, and ye need to get upright ....?!


Oh and, another thing; At what stage did we all suddenly start going " Mnphh! ", every time we bent down to pick something up off the floor

monkeysnapper

You know you're old when you go to school reunion and you stop at door and go to turn around because you think you just walked into a old folks bingo night .

sjb25

When all the "cool" songs are now on mtv classics

Donal55

....you drink cocoa and wear pyjamas.

dev100

Magellan Murphy wrote:

When your husband has erection problems and wants to buy a mini.

Which is worse ?

drunkmonkey

When your daughters best friend wants a mini or she'll tell the wife you don't really have an erection problem.

Gwynplaine

When doing the leaving cert was more than half my lifetime ago. 35 now (1998).

duchalla

My godson rang me yesterday to tell me his wife is expecting a baby, made me feel old, despite me being only 12 years older than him!

DoozerT6

When you're reading about celebrities adolescent/young adult kids in the newspapers (who's dating who etc) and remember their parents before the kid was even born! And you remember that same child when they were just that - a child!

I'll also echo the post someone made earlier about seeing people who were years and years younger than you in school who are now married with kids.

pauliebdub

Working with people who were born in 1994, which doesn't seem like a very long time ago.

Being more sensitive to noise, loud music etc on a night out which wouldn't have bothered me 10 or 15 years ago.

Cortina_MK_IV

Gwynplaine wrote: »

When doing the leaving cert was more than half my lifetime ago. 35 now (1998).

I shouldn't be reading this thread. My leaving was 1978... I didn't get a cert, I just left.

cloloco

When a brill song comes on the radio and your singing/dancing along and you realise its 'old skool' hour on the radio

When you find yourself saying 'there was no internet in my day and no google, we had to go to the library to look in an encylopedia'.

When you start dressing like an aul wan and you like it too.

Your house starts looking like your mother in laws.

When your children want to know what it was like 'back in the day'.

People no longer ask you are you having more kids and when your sweating they assume your going through the change.

Four Phucs Ache

When your 5 year old explosion of pink and glitter walks into the room and requests :

Here Mr ...delete some of that cake memory on my tablet so I can download princess makeover 2



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