Signs that you're getting old

xper · 19-06-2021 10:51AM

is_that_so wrote: »

Being told you look good for your age!

No longer being told you look good for your age!

Doublebusy · 19-06-2021 10:58AM

I had to break into a fast sprint yesterday. Something went down in chinatown. I actually sorted out the issue. BUT that sprint had me thinking - i felt my knee about to go "old football injury".. My chest is a bit sore "from smoking".. My hamstrings are a bit tender.. Honestly feeling my age after yesterday's 4/5 minute sprint

SimonTemplar · 19-06-2021 10:59AM

Thinking about the passage of time using movies is sometimes bewildering.

For example the difference between now and Ridley Scott's Gladiator is the same as the difference between Gladiator and Ridley Scott's Alien.

I would still consider Gladiator to be a fairly modern movie and yet at the time it was released Alien seemed like an old classic from a totally different era.

Sgt Hartman · 19-06-2021 11:10AM

I find myself losing interest in alcohol since I got older. I just feel tired and queasy now after a few beers while before I'd get a nice relaxing buzz from them.

BrianD3 · 19-06-2021 11:21AM

StevenToast wrote: »

Realising that the Kennedy Assassination is alot closer to Italia '90 than Italia '90 is to todays date.......

In my head during Italia '90, JFK would have been Ancient History!!!

Ergo....italia '90 is ancient history now to most young people today.....

Here's something to cheer you up...not. Italia 90 dead players - and since video was made we can add Alan McLoughlin and Maradona at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Sqz5vDqzo

Bobblehats · 19-06-2021 11:45AM

BrianD3 wrote: »

Here's something to cheer you up...not. Italia 90 dead players - and since video was made we can add Alan McLoughlin and Maradona at least.

Leo Clijsters? He was actually Kim Clijsters father so his legacy is intact in the sports

babi-hrse · 19-06-2021 12:20PM

When your arguing about medication with your spouse

babi-hrse · 19-06-2021 12:37PM

SnuggyBear wrote: »

I worked with a 65 year old guy. Ran circles around the 20 year old guys. What a legend he was. They don't make them like they used to.

I was on a job and this grey haired lad who was a builder is put him at about 60 went I can't bend down to show you where it is but it's down there see I have just had my knees replaced.
10 minutes later I watched him one armed step up on the first rung and hop over a cow gate in one movement and landed on both feet.
I didn't want him to turn around and watch 33 year old me climbing each rung and climbing down the other side.
Age is only a number it's what you do with your body that counts.

Kewreeuss · 19-06-2021 01:45PM

Already, if you talk about combined phone and fax machines that used rolls of thermal (thermic) paper .....oh how quaint.
Then if you mention what was before the fax, the TELEX!!!, total incomprehension. It was only about 35 years ago

New Home · 19-06-2021 02:37PM

A couple of years back I was browsing in Oxfam and this chap walked in and asked the girl behind the counter would they take a hi-fi. Then he called it a stereo, to help her. Nothing. The silence was deafening, the puzzled look on her face made it clear she was wondering whether they were spare parts for an alien spaceship.

Ger Roe · 19-06-2021 03:01PM

babi-hrse wrote: »

When your arguing about medication with your spouse

When you only know what day it is, by the tablets left in your preloaded dispenser.

Iscreamkone · 19-06-2021 03:51PM

When you think playing golf is plenty exercise.

cj maxx · 20-06-2021 05:51PM

When you eat your dinner and need a sleep after it

Thespoofer · 20-06-2021 06:04PM

After a few beers at home you want a cup of tea.

mr_edge_to_you · 20-06-2021 06:06PM

Yesterday I noticed myself drying the recycling waste that I had just washed.

riclad · 20-06-2021 07:13PM

One of your children is engaged, or one is married .you recycle all the bottles
if you buy wine.
you buy a newspaper every sunday.
you listen to rte 1 radio
you watch tv news everyday
You spend 100s of euros on gym gear or a hitech bike
your mortgage is 10 years old at least
you can remember a time when anyone working could afford to buy a house
you remember a time when emigration was a problem

Thespoofer · 20-06-2021 08:04PM

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

Yesterday I noticed myself drying the recycling waste that I had just washed.

BuboBubo · 20-06-2021 08:20PM

My knees are making weird popping noises. No pain, just weird acoustics.

The falling apart years have begun.

Aglomerado · 20-06-2021 11:28PM

BuboBubo wrote: »

My knees are making weird popping noises. No pain, just weird acoustics.

The falling apart years have begun.

Had that the other night. Nothing like a bit of crepitus to remind you you're getting on.

That said I climbed 3 peaks of the Galtees this morning with some people who were maybe 25 years older than me, if I am like them when I am older I will be happy.

Strumms · 20-06-2021 11:35PM

When you are contemplating as I was this evening doing 30 minutes on my exercise bike after fûcking around on boards... but getting too comfy here and not lamenting the 30 minutes of exercise but lamenting the having to get up to walk to the bike... !

AndrewJRenko · 20-06-2021 11:49PM

ednwireland wrote: »

varifocal contact lenses are great for covering that up

Did they take much getting used to? Any down sides?

madmaggie · 20-06-2021 11:58PM

Gout. How on earth could a young wan like me have gout. That doctor is raving. ��

Beware of the varifocals, I fell down the stairs using them. I went back to bifocals.

riclad · 21-06-2021 12:05AM

Some company's still use telex as its more secure , it works on a standard phone line
and it can be stored like a receipt
Hackers can't erase a printed telex message.

Greentopia · 22-06-2021 02:05AM

Grey hairs starting but I quite like them.

Needing more potent skincare actives to fight the wrinkles.

Still very flexible according to my physio but have a shoulder injury that's taking months to heal, whereas years ago it would be fine by now.:(

Wibbs · 22-06-2021 07:52AM

I was watching a very good documentary called "Crime of the century"* and in the back of my head I was thinking the 20th...

*about the US pharmaceutical industry and how it peddled opiates with bought political help that killed hundreds of thousands. Well worth a watch.

ohnonotgmail · 22-06-2021 08:27AM

when your drug of choice becomes ibuprofen

Pherekydes · 22-06-2021 08:51AM

You know you're old when the woman you're married to has been a granny since 1997.

Or when you have to stop for a pee when driving for any length over 1 hour.

Pherekydes · 22-06-2021 09:01AM

Oh damn! I just remembered it's my eldest's 37th birthday today! :eek:

Better get a card!

Kewreeuss · 22-06-2021 10:25AM

When badly written headlines in the paper pisses you off, e.g. Ruthless Belgium beat Finland to make it three wins from three.
Andwhen you have to read them a few times before they make sense. Sorry, no examples of those ones.

sporina · 22-06-2021 10:56AM

prob said before but having to get up in the middle of the night to use the facilities

Signs that you're getting old

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