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Signs that you're getting old

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    #542
    StevenToast
    Registered Users Posts: 3,377 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Ive started listening to Sunday Miscellany on RTE radio 1.....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #543
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    When you can remember the days when you could get 2 sandwiches out of a packet of tayto.


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    #544
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    You can remember when people used drown puppies and kittens :(


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    #545
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    the purple tin wrote: »
    You can remember when people used drown puppies and kittens :(

    I remember pulling a bag of puppy bones out of a local stream when I was about 10, I'll never forget it.

    Anyway my nose hairs have been getting a little out of control since going past 40 so I invested in a nose hair trimmer. Also when I looked in the mirror recently after coming out of the shower my reflection reminded me of Bang Bang Bart in The Simpsons :(


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    #546
    Kewreeuss
    Registered Users Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Kewreeuss


    neris wrote: »
    when the 9 oclock news is one of the mainstays of watching tv in the evening

    No, no. Never!!!:eek:


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    #547
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    When you no longer care about saying NO to people. YOU matter!

    Also stopping worrying about never being able to remember what you came into a room for. You will pass that way again.

    PS I am after all not GETTING old. I AM old. The getting has all been got.


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    #548
    mad m
    Registered Users Posts: 9,002 ✭✭✭mad m


    Ordered my reading glasses today ...


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    #549
    mad m
    Registered Users Posts: 9,002 ✭✭✭mad m


    the purple tin wrote: »
    You can remember when people used drown puppies and kittens :(

    Remember it well. I was 4 years old.<<snip>> It was the way it was in those days.

    Mod: Absolutely no need to be so graphic about animal cruelty.


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    #550
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Very few real teeth left, balding with grey beard, stuped spine, arthritic legs, leaky sphincter, yellow toenails, failing eyesight, shrunken willy, shortness of breath, nasal hair and forgetfulness.


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    #551
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,278 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    When you think to yourself:

    "Is that Garda old enough to work after 10pm at night? Child labour laws and all that."

    "Is that driver old enough to legally drive a bus?" (I think you have to b 21).

    "That nurse looks so young she looks like she should be wearing a school uniform - a primary school uniform."


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    #552
    Onaragatip
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭Onaragatip


    When you have to stop and think that 1995 was actually 26 years ago 🙄


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    #553
    YellowLead
    Registered Users Posts: 7,680 ✭✭✭YellowLead


    When you start half of your sentences with ‘back in my day’.....


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    #554
    wexandproud
    Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    when you post on another thread here about an old board game you have and it dawns on you that you bought it 46 years ago with you conformation money


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    #555
    Sharpyshoot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 452 ✭✭Sharpyshoot


    No Sunday morning coitus.


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    #556
    EddieN75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭EddieN75


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Very few real teeth left, balding with grey beard, stuped spine, arthritic legs, leaky sphincter, yellow toenails, failing eyesight, shrunken willy, shortness of breath, nasal hair and forgetfulness.

    Early 30s are rough


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    #557
    NSAman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭NSAman


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Very few real teeth left, balding with grey beard, stuped spine, arthritic legs, leaky sphincter, yellow toenails, failing eyesight, shrunken willy, shortness of breath, nasal hair and forgetfulness.

    Sounds like you would be a hottie at an ICA dance!


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    #558
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    :D

    ... me old spine.


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    #559
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Loving the small treasures of every day life as you know time is limited

    Loving folk while they still have you there.

    Seeing life as the treasure it is.


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    #560
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    mad m wrote: »
    Remember it well. I was 4 years old.<<snip>> It was the way it was in those days.

    And you let him?

    We caught a man trying to bury live kittens. He will never do that again. Trust me on that!

    Barbarians.

    Blocking you.


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    Mam of 4
    Registered Users Posts: 21,833 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Graces7 wrote: »
    And you let him?

    We caught a man trying to bury live kittens. He will never do that again. Trust me on that!

    Barbarians.

    Blocking you.

    Graces7 , in all honesty , how on earth would you expect a four year old child to take on their grandparent , and prevent him from doing what he did ?
    Unrealistic expectation imo .


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    #562
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,547 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    mad m wrote: »
    Remember it well. I was 4 years old.<<snip>> It was the way it was in those days.

    Cats in the river, babies in the septic tank. Ireland was a barbaric place, at times, back in the day.

    At least kids, for the most part, have more protection going for them these days.

    The tide is turning…



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    Samsgirl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    mad m wrote: »
    Remember it well. I was 4 years old.<<snip>> It was the way it was in those days.


    That's horrific and completely cruel.


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    #564
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Samsgirl wrote: »
    That's horrific and completely cruel.

    It mat be cruel but unfortunately that's the way it was back then. Cats and dogs weren't neutered, and the place would be overrun if people didn't control breeding.Your talking about a time when people where lucky if food was on table for their families.

    You also have to remember that's it only in recent times that animals have become 'pets'.

    In my grannies generation you wouldn't dream of letting a dog or cat into the home. They were kept to keep rats/mice away and for farming.

    Animals were not seen in same light as they are now.


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    #565
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,481 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    appledrop wrote: »
    It mat be cruel but unfortunately that's the way it was back then. Cats and dogs weren't neutered, and the place would be overrun if people didn't control breeding.Your talking about a time when people where lucky if food was on table for their families.

    You also have to remember that's it only in recent times that animals have become 'pets'.

    In my grannies generation you wouldn't dream of letting a dog or cat into the home. They were kept to keep rats/mice away and for farming.

    Animals were not seen in same light as they are now.

    Unfortunately I can attest to drowning kittens still being done within the past five years.

    Many still keep dogs exclusively outdoors but they are well cared for,
    thankfully.


    Back to topic: For me getting old is realising with surprise how much time has passed. When a reference is made to something in the 90s as if it was ages ago and you think "that's no length....oh #$€@ it's 30 years ago!"


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    #566
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Onaragatip wrote: »
    When you have to stop and think that 1995 was actually 26 years ago &#55357;&#56900;
    So weird to think that in just 3 years time Kurt Cobain will have been dead for 30 years :eek:

    Especially when you still see teenagers in Nirvana t-shirts now.


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    Pandiculation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Pandiculation


    My joints are starting to go in my 30s. Clicky knee, clicky foot, my hip hurts and my back is constantly causing big issues - hobbling around for the last few weeks.

    I now need to know where the heat patches, Volterol gel and all that stuff is.

    Absolute nightmare.


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    #568
    se25
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭se25


    Making involuntary noises after simple, everyday movements..tying shoelaces, getting up after kneeling down.


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    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Pandiculation wrote: »
    My joints are starting to go in my 30s. Clicky knee, clicky foot, my hip hurts and my back is constantly causing big issues - hobbling around for the last few weeks.

    I now need to know where the heat patches, Volterol gel and all that stuff is.

    Absolute nightmare.

    I'd get that checked out, that's not normal for your 30s.


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    #570
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    appledrop wrote: »
    It mat be cruel but unfortunately that's the way it was back then. Cats and dogs weren't neutered, and the place would be overrun if people didn't control breeding.Your talking about a time when people where lucky if food was on table for their families.

    You also have to remember that's it only in recent times that animals have become 'pets'.

    In my grannies generation you wouldn't dream of letting a dog or cat into the home. They were kept to keep rats/mice away and for farming.

    Animals were not seen in same light as they are now.
    I think it has more to do with urbanisation than changing economic conditions per se.

    Urbanisation has brought drastic changes to our lifestyles, and our relationships with animals and our community are a great example of that. I sound old in saying this, but the dog has replaced the neighbour, even the community, as a way in which we give our lives meaning.

    It's all part of an inward-looking, individualist way of living, which is probably inevitable when community is little more than a living arrangement between strangers.

    Many people in this forum were probably born prior to 1963, when – at least, in rural Ireland — land was very cheap and nobody needed planning permission – people lived where they wanted, around people they wanted to live beside. It had some advantages.


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    Pandiculation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Pandiculation


    appledrop wrote: »
    I'd get that checked out, that's not normal for your 30s.

    I went to the GP about the knee a year or so ago and I really didn’t get anywhere. Just sorta wrote it off as nothing of concern. It sort of clicks and snaps when I walk and sometimes it feels like it’s locked or it might just “slip” momentarily.

    He kinda vaguely looked at it (through my jeans).

    My back has gone weird on occasion to the point I couldn’t walk when I was away on a business trip. I went to a doc there and it was just put down to a strain or bulging disk and they just sent me away with anti inflammatoires which worked, to a degree and it went away.

    It was very freaky as I couldn’t get around anywhere and barely made it home.

    I kinda forgot about it for months then and I just got another bout of it now over the last few weeks. It’s going on for years though.

    I’ve had my back “go out” in my 20s a few rimes, to the point that I wouldn’t be able to get off the floor, but it will ease itself out, but I would end up being unable to even tie my shoelaces.

    My feet and knees just always “clicked”. I never really paid much attention to it tbh.

    Seems to be getting worse tho later in my 30s, but I would be typically “grand” most of the time.

    I sorta put it down to maybe my sedentary job or something. The lockdown has probably made that worse, but I think age is definitely adding to it.


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