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Sh!t that makes you feel old.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Having a parent/teacher meeting with a past pupil’s child ... and saying the exact SAME thing about little Johnny. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,867 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    Saw a post on FB earlier, one of the guys in my year in school got engaged. Also one of my friends got married last year. Guess it's heading towards that stage of life now!.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    Got the news that I became a great-aunt a week ago (9th of November of all days). That's like being a granny!

    I mean, it was just bearable to be a (great :cool:) auntie, but a great-aunt?

    And the worst thing is that I feel the urge to show everyone a picture of the newborn, the usual crumply baby. In pre-great-aunt-times I used to roll my eyes when anybody wanted to show me a picture of a baby. They look all the same anyway.
    (Though not my great-niece, obviously ... :D)

    Gosh, what became of me ....:o


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    When your friends daughter,s start having children ,you are now old.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭tnegun


    Saw a post on FB earlier, one of the guys in my year in school got engaged. Also one of my friends got married last year. Guess it's heading towards that stage of life now!.
    The fact that this makes you feel old makes me feel ancient!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 21,489 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Was told to edit my CV to make it look like I'm not so old.
    Suggestion was to cut early career experience so like that, 16 years experience became 8 and a trade qualification and degree were removed like they never happened.
    Didn't think this would happen at 40.

    Granted I am looking at a specific role to gain experience and so ordinarily it would be someone in their 20's applying for it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,144 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    FB friend suggestions.. 18 yo women in tee shirts posing for a camera. Why are they a suggested friend? Because I'm friends with their parents. Fock off Facebook


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,020 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    i saw Westlife was on The Late Late on Friday and the sang flying without wings.
    When I was in Primary school they were about 19/20 and I remember saying to myself these guys are really old and grown up. I think some of them called for some charity thing.
    Now that they are 39/40 I don't think they are that old.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    watching a TV programme from your youth that you thought was great but now as an adult you realise it was cr@p

    for example yesterday i was watching TJ Hooker and my god the acting & script was so hammy it was almost laughable ...in fact the same could be said for most 80's TV shows

    Modern high standards in TV production really shows them up


  • Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭Realtine


    My niece is about to become a Grandmother!! WTF


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  • Registered Users Posts: 894 ✭✭✭angel eyes 2012


    Realtine wrote: »
    My niece is about to become a Grandmother!! WTF

    My niece is two years old, your post makes me feel young again!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    Realtine wrote: »
    My niece is about to become a Grandmother!! WTF

    Mr Crumble's aunt became a GREAT granny at 60. She's very into fashion and style and always looks well. She's 70 now and looks much younger. Nobody believes she's a great granny.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Being totally at ease starting a day with nothing set to do; no commitments... free as the proverbial bird.... and loving it!

    Old age? Great time of life..


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,204 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    As long as Tom Brady & Buffon are still playing- I am young.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,204 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    As Wilde said:

    "Youth is wasted on the young."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭171170


    Greta Thunderburger being taken seriously.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭AG041


    Watching early episodes of Friends and realising that the characters are years younger than I am now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Shady Grady


    JFK was assassinated 56 years ago. I was 5 years old then.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    JFK was assassinated 56 years ago. I was 5 years old then.

    You should worry! I was much much older than 5 when that happened! Not even a teenager even


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭griffin100


    When your mate is using the extra extra large font on his phone as he can't see it otherwise.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭AG041


    Snap I was really squinting at the computer screen yesterday and was thinking "Do I need glasses??"


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,033 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Gerry G wrote: »
    When I bend down to tie my shoelaces I wonder is there anything else I can do while I'm down there.


    When you can't remember what was posted 5 posts earlier!


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,033 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    JFK was assassinated 56 years ago. I was 5 years old then.

    Buying the paper and seeing the iconic photo of Ruby shooting Oswald on the front page.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭AG041


    When you can't remember what was posted 5 posts earlier!

    Just posting to give appreciation to your username


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Realising I know nobody on the Electric Picnic line up.

    Thinking young ones look ridiculous in their 'going out' gear.

    Needing to spend €70 every 6-8 weeks to keep the grays at bay.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,204 ✭✭✭partyguinness



    Needing to spend €70 every 6-8 weeks to keep the grays at bay.


    Pointless. Stop wasting your money.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Pointless. Stop wasting your money.

    I don't suit gray hair. It's not that funky silver colour that lots of people can pull off- it's white and wiry and makes me look like the cat lady from the Simpsons.


  • Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Realising I know nobody on the Electric Picnic line up.

    .

    I've had no idea who any of the bands are in the charts for the past 10 years anytime I've glanced at them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    When the youngest is watching a TV show and I can remember the mother in it as the child in a show from years ago.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    When you're watching a football match on tv with a couple of foreign clubs and the commentator says the name of a famous player from your youth......

    "Jaysus, is he still knocking around after all these years, he was a class act"

    Quick wikipedia of the club and the surname reveals the player is the 20 year old son of the guy you remember watching back in the day!


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