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Signs that you're getting old

Mad_maxx

used to be a hard rock fan , now i only listen to Lyric FM while driving

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Tony EH

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

My barber asked if I wanted my eyebrows trimmed!

Just wait til they start asking about your ear hair.

El Gato De Negocios

Tony EH wrote: »

Just wait til they start asking about your ear hair.

Tbf, I've been getting my brows trimmed since my 20s cos they are facking monstrous.

obi604

The only thing I really want to watch on TV is the 9 o’clock news.

Kylta

When most if the people you went to school with and most of your neighbours are in the graveyard

Humberto Salazar

Tony EH wrote: »

Just wait til they start asking about your ear hair.

To the Turkish barbers with you, they'll sort that, but keep calm with their method.

Tony EH

El Gato De Negocios wrote: »

Tbf, I've been getting my brows trimmed since my 20s cos they are facking monstrous.

*Actually, there's another sign that you're getting older - knowing who that guy is.

[Deleted User]

My ear hair situation has gone to the dogs.

Tony EH

Humberto Salazar wrote: »

To the Turkish barbers with you, they'll sort that, but keep calm with their method.

I've seen it done. :eek:

Ger Roe

When you ask two 6th classes of school kids, if they like christmas trifle .... and none of them know what it is (happened yesterday and I feel so old now).

Humberto Salazar

When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night... Used to laugh at that one. No longer.

Humberto Salazar

Tony EH wrote: »

I've seen it done. :eek:

I always look for a fire extinguisher in the place before I agree...

Bassfish

I can't get out of a chair without making a noise!

CelticRambler

Thanks lads (and lasses, if it doesn't offend anyone to imply that there might be a gender difference

) - although calendar-age-wise, I'm up there with the best of ye, you've convinced me that I can't be as old as my random aches and irrational ear-hair might have me believe! :pac:

El Gato De Negocios

Tony EH wrote: »

*Actually, there's another sign that you're getting older - knowing who that guy is.

If I didn't keep em trimmed they would likely be like that tbf.

Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna?

obi604

Humberto Salazar wrote: »

When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night... Used to laugh at that one. No longer.

Never heard this one. What’s an example.

Wibbs

When you ask the question "Signs that you're getting old ". No 25 year old even considers it.

El_Duderino 09

I think a lot of it is summed up on how you view young people. When you start resenting young people for doing things differently. Seeing young people of today’s acts of youthful rebellion as meaningless but thinking your own generation’s rebellious actions were fierce clever altogether. Small examples are fashion and clothes. See the recent reaction to the WAP song.

Also thinking young people today are inferior to young people of your own generation - weak willed, lack discipline, too concerned with appearance, don’t appreciate how easy they have it etc.

It just means you don’t understand the difficulties young people face today and are disconnected from young people. That’s a real sign of getting old.

obi604

Also feel old cause 25 years ago today - Faithless released ‘Insomnia’

freshpopcorn

When your somewhere and a woman says to her kids leave the man alone/stop hassling the man.

Wibbs

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Also thinking young people today are inferior to young people of your own generation - weak willed, lack discipline, too concerned with appearance, don’t appreciate how easy they have it etc.

It just means you don’t understand the difficulties young people face today and are disconnected from young people. That’s a real sign of getting old.

+1000 and the same generational stuff that's been in play for all of human history. Old farts in Ancient Greece, Rome, China etc were complaining about the dissolute youth using exactly same points you noted above. That they were "weak willed, lack discipline, too concerned with appearance, don’t appreciate how easy they have it etc".

EG Socrates: "The youths love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” (I love the image of gobbling up dainties.

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Horace at least threw some shade at his own generation, though still thought it was better before: “Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

Brain plasticity decreases with age, triply so if left to its own lazy devices, so new things and new ideas are loud and uncomfortable noises, so nostalgia becomes a comfort and nostalgia always lies to itself.

So for me nostalgia is about the biggest sign you're getting old in mind at least. The young are living the lives you and in turn they will be nostalgic about.

BrianD3

I'm mid forties and pleased that I'm not experiencing many of these signs of getting old. Have grey pubes and beard but can empathise and have a conversation with someone half my age and not feel or be perceived (I hope) as a complete dinosaur.

Being single helps IMO, I've seen a few men develop a much older attitude once they got married and had children, settling into a comfortable yet hectic domestic existence of changing nappies, IKEA, watching soap operas and tut tutting about the youth of today.

Lifting weights is a great way to look and feel young. This is something that a lot of people do in their youth but stop by middle age when it is important to keep at it. If you stick at it you can keep improving well into middle age. "Build your muscles as your body decays". I had to take a break from my lifting for many weeks for family reasons and it definitely affected my mood. Deadlifted 240 kg on my first day back, over three times bodyweight which pleased me a lot.

Sam Quentin

Yes keeping active, plenty of water, a decent diet, apple and banana a day... Keep away from the booze. Should alleviate/hold back the ageing process.

Hyperbollix

When you go into the barber and instead of asking you what kind of cut you want, he just says "Tidy up.... yeah?"

mad m

I remember when my daughter needed her shoe laces tied. I knelt down and she says ( I think she was 4 or 5 at time) “ Daddy you have a hole on top of your head”. It was the monkeys arse that was beginning to appear.

whisky_galore

You make a noise when you sit down or get up.

whisky_galore

BrianD3 wrote: »

Being single helps IMO, I've seen a few men develop a much older attitude once they got married and had children, settling into a comfortable yet hectic domestic existence of changing nappies, IKEA, watching soap operas and tut tutting about the youth of

Can't understand lads "afraid" of their OH, to be home on time or refusing to spend time with mates as if she's standing outside the doorway, rolling pin in hand like an Andy Capp strip.

Oops!

whisky_galore wrote: »

Can't understand lads "afraid" of their OH, to be home on time or refusing to spend time with mates as if she's standing outside the doorway, rolling pin in hand like an Andy Capp strip.

Seen a few friends settle into this mode... Not a chance i'd live like that myself. Completely under the thumb, she's the boss and that's it....

I wouldn't tell my OH what to do and she wouldn't do the same either. We are a team but we both have our own interests, hobbies and friends aswell.

Say Your Number

I remember when it was announced Qatar would host the 2022 World Cup, ten years ago that it seemed like a lifetime away, now it doesn't seem that far away at all.

Capt'n Midnight

beauf wrote: »

What's a DVD...

You know those round mirrors with the hole in the centre ?

matchthis

Hyperbollix wrote: »

When you go into the barber and instead of asking you what kind of cut you want, he just says "Tidy up.... yeah?"

And he starts flipping the mirror around at the end to show your bald patch progress