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Signs that you're getting old

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  • #272
    bobbyss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    obi604 wrote:
    Also feel old cause 25 years ago today - Faithless released ‘Insomnia’


    Who or what is Faithless?


  • #273
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Being dismayed, instead if overjoyed, when snow is forecast


  • #274
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Why has Cathy Beale not aged.


  • #275
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,911 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Why has Cathy Beale not aged.

    if you think that then your eyesight is going. another sign you are getting old.


  • #276
    dennyire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭dennyire


    walking the dog and afraid you might slip and fall on the frost or ice....and when you do fall needing to call out to someone to give you a hand to get back up


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  • #277
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    I used to bring two bottles into the shower.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #278
    Tea For Two
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭Tea For Two


    Buying something online and having to scroll down really far to get your birth year


  • #279
    PommieBast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,911 ✭✭✭PommieBast


    obi604 wrote: »
    The only thing I really want to watch on TV is the 9 o’clock news.
    You have a TV? ;):D


  • #280
    Oops!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭Oops!


    Patrick Kluivert's son Justin has just come on as a sub for RB Leipzig against Man United.... And scored.


  • #281
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    I used to be annoyed when people mixed me & my brother growing up.

    Now I never know which daughter is which for someone I know.


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  • #282
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Oops! wrote: »
    Patrick Kluivert's son Justin has just come on as a sub for RB Leipzig against Man United.... And scored.


    Alfe Inge Haaland's son has been scoring all year.


  • #283
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,760 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    When you have a special stick for stirring paint.

    ha Im laughing hrere as I only painted in the summer and came across a 1m long metal strip with holes in it perfect for stirring paint. So when the job was done I wiped it down and it went into storage with all the other painting gear so I now have my paint stirring stick for life


  • #284
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    When I am giving out to my kids I will often call them by the name of my younger sisters and as I have 4 sisters I will often reel all 4 names off before I eventually get to my child's name.


  • #285
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,233 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    When the young wans start calling you an auld perv instead of just perv.


  • #286
    joe40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭joe40


    All the young guards on the checkpoints. When did they start letting 16 year olds into templemore?


  • #287
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,849 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    My older brother mentioned this on WhatsApp. You know you are getting old when you are pottering about the house and you look at the toilet door and go, might as well do a leak while I'm out here so I don't have to afterwards. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #288
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I find my self more and more frequently having to look up the meaning of words being used, particularly online, less so in real life -but that's probably just because in real life i'm usually talking to equally decrepit old farts and they don't know those words exist either!


  • #289
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,021 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I find my self more and more frequently having to look up the meaning of words being used, particularly online, less so in real life -but that's probably just because in real life i'm usually talking to equally decrepit old farts and they don't know those words exist either!

    I'll bet you've had to look up loads of words when you were young. The sign of gritting old would be if you didn't want to know what the new words mean. Disconnecting from the world as it changes is the real peril of getting old, not the fact that the world changes. Give yourself credit for keeping up with the world as it changes,.


  • #290
    AnotherMe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭AnotherMe


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    When the young wans start calling you an auld perv instead of just perv.

    Being an old perv is good for you. Never give up - had the good fortune to have a relationship with a woman half my age - I'm in my 50s...It made me feel younger than I have for years - put a spring in my step and lead in my pencil.

    My knees still sound like rustling crisp packets, but I care about that a lot less now..


  • #291
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,719 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    At some point the people doing the things you want to do when you grow up become younger than you.


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  • #292
    KathleenGrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    AnotherMe wrote: »
    Being an old perv is good for you. Never give up - had the good fortune to have a relationship with a woman half my age - I'm in my 50s...It made me feel younger than I have for years - put a spring in my step and lead in my pencil.

    My knees still sound like rustling crisp packets, but I care about that a lot less now..

    Can identify with that. Had a relationship with a guy over 20 years younger than me. Thought it would make me feel sad and pathetic but I felt great. He was fun and lively, very attentive and loving, the sex was great.
    (Damn trying to figure if I shouldn't have finished with him now)


  • #293
    brisan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭brisan


    El Gato De Negocios wrote: »
    Deliberately getting seated tickets for a gig even though there are standing tickets available.

    Not balking at spending €30 on cheese from Avoca.

    Daydreaming about walking you're daughter down the aisle (she is 2 ffs).

    Deliberately going to a pub you know won't be busy or have music blaring.

    Going to the off licence and never buying the cheapest cans they have for sale.

    Going to a fancier restaurant and happily spending €200+ on food and wine.

    Taking an active interest in how your pension is performing.

    people should be doing that in their 20s
    TBF most of those in their 20s have never considered a pension unless its compulsory


  • #294
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭trashcan


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    My older brother mentioned this on WhatsApp. You know you are getting old when you are pottering about the house and you look at the toilet door and go, might as well do a leak while I'm out here so I don't have to afterwards. :)

    The wise man goes when he can, the foolish man waits until he needs to :P


  • #295
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Oh God, finished.

    Just collected a heated throw from Argos for the sofa. Jaysis it is brilliant. Sad isn't it.


  • #296
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Oh God, finished.

    Just collected a heated throw from Argos for the sofa. Jaysis it is brilliant. Sad isn't it.

    Yeah how sad am judging .....

    Who am I kidding ?? I MUST HAVE ONE!!!


  • #297
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    Yeah how sad am judging .....

    Who am I kidding ?? I MUST HAVE ONE!!!

    You will not regret it, seriously.

    But if I were younger one of those yokes would never have crossed my mind!


  • #298
    DBB
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭DBB


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    Yeah how sad am judging .....

    Who am I kidding ?? I MUST HAVE ONE!!!

    They're in Aldi from today... €39.33 :D
    They are cosyyyyy :o


  • #299
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    DBB wrote: »
    They're in Aldi from today... €39.33 :D
    They are cosyyyyy :o

    That's 20 quid less than I paid in Argos, grrrrrr.

    But I don't care, it was worth every cent anyway.

    There should be one for everyone in the audience!


  • #300
    PommieBast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,911 ✭✭✭PommieBast


    brisan wrote: »
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    people should be doing that in their 20s
    TBF most of those in their 20s have never considered a pension unless its compulsory
    Given what has happened to pensions in the last 2-3 decades most 20 year olds would be crazy to sign up to one voluntarily.


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  • #301
    brisan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭brisan


    PommieBast wrote: »
    Given what has happened to pensions in the last 2-3 decades most 20 year olds would be crazy to sign up to one voluntarily.

    Over a 40 year period a well run pension will always show rises well above inflation once it’s properly funded of course


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