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What's a lot of sayings to have for a 40 year old?

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  • 07-04-2017 12:06am
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    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭


    A the saying goes, don't count your chickens before they hatch.

    Chickens and hatching eggs aside I'm coming up on forty and would like a ball park figure of how many sayings I should have.

    I know it will differ a lot with depending on profession, age, marital status, family, mortgage or rent and your location in the country but let's try to get an average to ease my worried mind.

    I haven't totalled up all my sayings yet but I've definitely over 30. Is one saying per year lived enough?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    deja vu


  • Registered Users Posts: 35,759 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    not sue cow


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,035 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    He who laughs last, laughs last.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Maewyn Succat


    Esel wrote: »
    He who laughs last, laughs last.

    He who laughs last thinks slowest :-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,547 ✭✭✭worded


    Esel wrote: »
    He who laughs last, laughs last.

    Didn't get the joke


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,547 ✭✭✭worded


    It's one thing to be an eejit and to know it

    But to be a Fcukin eejit and not to know it .....


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,547 ✭✭✭worded


    Is the the glass half full or half empty ?

    Neither - the glass is 50% too big, Get a smaller glass


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    worded wrote: »
    Is the the glass half full or half empty ?

    Neither - the glass is 50% too big, Get a smaller glass

    Or drink straight from the carton, also saves on the washing up


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,547 ✭✭✭worded


    As you get older the birds are still flying by ....

    But they get more difficult to shoot down

    Don't procrastinate

    > Some wise advice from an old friend


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    worded wrote: »
    As you get older the birds are still flying by ....

    But they get more difficult to shoot down

    Don't procrastinate

    > Some wise advice from an old friend

    All well and good as long as your not living in a post apocalyptic world there'll probably be no birds


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Commotion Ocean




  • Registered Users Posts: 4,547 ✭✭✭worded


    Good tip

    Don't keep light bulbs in your back pocket


  • Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭howdoyouknow


    So far I'm none the wiser as to how many sayings a 40 year old should have.

    Nobody's answered my question and instead they've provided more sayings.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Always have enough in your pocket to buy two pints of plain. You will be grand.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,691 ✭✭✭buried


    Most of the 40 year olds I encounter have only one saying - "Do you remember"

    But they will vary it up like this -

    "Dyyaa remember?"
    "Do you remember that?"
    "Do you remember them??"
    "Do ya though??"
    "Do you remember that? Do ya"
    "You'd tell me if you'd remember it wouldn't ya?"
    "DYYYYAAA Membbbbaaaaaaaa??"
    "Do you remember it though"

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users Posts: 28,395 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    1 is too many. I used to work in a pub back when I was in secondary school and there was nothing more annoying than the f*ckers with one saying or story that they'd shoehorn into every conversation every night.

    'Are ya working hard, or hardly working?'

    F*ck off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    So far I'm none the wiser as to how many sayings a 40 year old should have.

    Nobody's answered my question and instead they've provided more sayings.



    Answering your question would involve speculation.

    NEIN speculation NEIN! Zer vill noooo speculation.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭snowflaker


    worded wrote: »
    Is the the glass half full or half empty ?

    Neither - the glass is 50% too big, Get a smaller glass

    Is it not 100% too big? (i.e. twice as large as required)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭bmwguy


    Not 40 yet but I heard a good one today from Al Porter on Today FM talking about a sexually unattractive person

    I'd rather get up on a Monday


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,035 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    He'd get up on a rolling doughnut.

    Not your ornery onager



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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,369 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Life begins at 40 sayings.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,035 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Whiskey when you're sick makes you well,
    Whiskey makes you sick when you're well.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users Posts: 22,035 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    There's not much interest in this thread...

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users Posts: 22,035 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Save, saw, sax

    The old saws are the best, so they say...

    OP has hidden talents.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Struggling to think of one.

    What's worse than a cardboard box?


  • Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭howdoyouknow


    Esel wrote:
    There's not much interest in this thread...


    I think you'll find more interest in the savings for 40 year old thread.


  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,069 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    You should have at least many by now. And a large penis. Keep trying OP. Hugs


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    I know it will differ a lot with depending on profession, age, marital status, family, mortgage or rent and your location in the country but let's try to get an average to ease my worried mind.

    As you have provided absolutely no relevant facts it is impossible to even provide a ballpark figure.
    I haven't totalled up all my sayings yet but I've definitely over 30. Is one saying per year lived enough?

    Despite the vagueness of your question test assured €30 will not get you far, but I think you knew that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭Philipx


    42.

    If you're over forty you'll understand..


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 896 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fuzzytrooper


    Philipx wrote: »
    42.

    If you're over forty you'll understand..

    How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man.


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