What things do you do unknownst to yourself that make you feel old?

Littlehorny · 10-02-2012 09:53AM

I sit in front of the telly and moan about every programme and every gob****e thats on it. Have the wife driven mad at this stage with my ranting about talent shows, reality shows, soaps, ads and don,t get me started on the shows that are about Jordan, Katona and that cack about shows where the spanners are supposed to be living real lives (Essex,Geordie,Tallifornia etc). Jesus my blood boiling now and i havent even gone to work yet!

HalloweenJack · 10-02-2012 09:55AM

bluewolf wrote: »

how do you know how long i used to sleep??:eek:

On a day when I had nothing to do, 8-10 hours.

10-02-2012 09:59AM

HalloweenJack wrote: »

On a day when I had nothing to do, 8-10 hours.

...?

link_2007 · 10-02-2012 10:10AM

There were two girls on the luas beside me this morning having a chat in faux American accents.

"Like,... Oh my god, I just sooooo can't believe she, like, said that to you".

"I know like.... Does she not realise how, like, stressful it is to, you know, tag EVERYBODY in every picture on Facebook"

"I know right? It's just so, oh my god, so stressful to have to do that. She thinks she's like so, 'girl next door' but she soooooo isn't".

"I know right? She is such a bitch. Do you want to go and grab a coffee or, you know something else when we get off?"

I found myself wishing for simpler times when your only worry on the way to school on a Friday morning was if you'd get homework for the weekend and that you'd hopefully a bit of a shift after school.

School chat these days sounds so complicated.

mikemac1 · 10-02-2012 10:15AM

When the mammy rings you on a Sunday evening for a chat
And you've already gone to bed

You call everyone love.
The women behind the checkout you say "and a bag please love" "ah thanks love"

Dyr · 10-02-2012 10:15AM

Recently found myself exclaiming "ahfordeluvvinhonourajaysis" in moments of exasperation. Called some kid a bowsie in an non ironic manner. Watched the 9 o'clock news.

Dyr · 10-02-2012 10:21AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

When you say to yourself:

'What the hell is that youngfella doing in a Garda uniform?... '

Watched the ould prime ministers on sky news questions there a while back and thought "jesus, when did the front benches get so young" god be with the days of tebbit, hattersley, hurd et al. Bitter ould bollixes

kfallon · 10-02-2012 10:21AM

Say "I dunno" in that ould lad way when someone recounts a tale of woe performed by some young hoodlums!

Mr Benevolent · 10-02-2012 11:21AM

seanybiker wrote: »

nobody making me a finger puppet haha

Talk to kfallon, he'll sort you out.

Luxie · 10-02-2012 11:34AM

Bambi wrote: »

Recently found myself exclaiming "ahfordeluvvinhonourajaysis" in moments of exasperation. Called some kid a bowsie in an non ironic manner. Watched the 9 o'clock news.

Yeah, I've taken to saying 'Mother of God' a lot.

I'll get worried when I move onto 'Jesus, Mary & Joseph'.

deman · 10-02-2012 11:43AM

Adding "when I was your age" to a conversation.

Complaining about the crap music of today.

Listening to BBC Radio 2.

Complain about fast drivers.

Watching what I eat.

Watching what I drink.

Wearing glasses for reading.

Generally just complaining and watching.

Plazaman · 10-02-2012 11:48AM

Was genuinely thinking of buying Bovril the other day to make before I go to bed

A couple of nights last week I would have loved a hot water bottle too.....

dark crystal · 10-02-2012 12:20PM

Moaning about the music my teenage daughter listens to. I don't mean to sound like a fuddy duddy, but the chart music in the 80's was so much better (so I keep telling her).

This also applies to the music videos she watches. I find myself tut-tutting about the scantily clad likes of Rihanna and Lady GaGa, forgetting of course that I was a huge fan of Madonna back when I was her age

wrmwit · 10-02-2012 12:24PM

I listen to the wireless and read the broadsheets while eating my oven cooked porridge! I'm only 30!

mikemac1 · 10-02-2012 12:27PM

Young ones today bitching about computer games

I remember SNES games costing fifty punts, not far off seventy euro.
A lot of money at the time

And you, yes you complaining about loading times on your playstation?
I remember tapes on the Commodore and it took ten minutes or so to load a game

BraziliaNZ · 10-02-2012 12:29PM

Stupid thread. Age is but a state of mind, it really annoys me when people go on about age. I don't really feel any different to when I was a teenager.

AskMyChocolate · 10-02-2012 12:36PM

seanybiker wrote: »

That's after walking 14humdered miles with nothing on your feet but the dirt from the milking parlour. God be with the days. Young people these days have it so easy.
Sure didn't I go to castrate the bull when I was 4 and he kicked me bollox off, left him keep his. Can't be two unics walking the fields.

Aye, what we wouldn't have given to be terrorised by a bull!

We had to hide behind mushroom, and god knew whether it were poisonous or not.

We had to send someone out to lick it.

Dravokivich · 10-02-2012 01:41PM

I say Aye and T'is a lot and have recently taken to walking with an invisible zimmer frame every so often.

John Doe1 · 10-02-2012 02:04PM

When i piss myself in public:)

shantolog · 10-02-2012 02:18PM

John Doe1 wrote: »

When i piss myself in public:)

Sure I've been doin that since I was a baby:D

Seeing my niece's friend at a nightclub...man that was awkward the next morning...

John Doe1 · 10-02-2012 02:24PM

shantolog wrote: »

Sure I've been doin that since I was a baby:D

Seeing my niece's friend at a nightclub...man that was awkward the next morning...

the next morning? you dirty dog:p

AskMyChocolate · 10-02-2012 07:52PM

seanybiker wrote: »

Hahaha I do that the odd time.
I mainly do it with the paper but I also shake the paper to get it into "standing" mode so I can read it properly.

I also noticed I'm starting to know more people in the death pages than in the court pages. Wtf like. I'm gonna have nobody to call if a group of Indians decide to attack my house and make my leg into the bottom of a totem pole

I also feel bad if a new user comes in here and gets slagged. Damn you empathy damn you to hell

*shakes paper, and looks over the top of it, yet under eyebrows*

At TOTP; "Is that a man or a woman?"

"It's a man, Dad."

*eyebrows towards heaven, back to newspaper*:pac:

AskMyChocolate · 10-02-2012 09:18PM

seanybiker wrote: »

That's after walking 14humdered miles with nothing on your feet but the dirt from the milking parlour. God be with the days. Young people these days have it so easy.
Sure didn't I go to castrate the bull when I was 4 and he kicked me bollox off, left him keep his. Can't be two unics walking the fields.

Aye, uphill, both ways.

Dirt from the milking parlour? Oooh milking parlour! Well, lah-de-fcuking daa! We got tuppence a week for licking the cows, morn 'til night, aye, and when we were finished, I tells ya, we were proud, proud of our tenderising capabilities, not like t' young folk today.

No tenderiserers they. Spoilt bloody rotten.

AskMyChocolate · 10-02-2012 09:36PM

seanybiker wrote: »

That's after walking 14humdered miles with nothing on your feet but the dirt from the milking parlour. God be with the days. Young people these days have it so easy.
Sure didn't I go to castrate the bull when I was 4 and he kicked me bollox off, left him keep his. Can't be two unics walking the fields.

What our bull wouldn't have given to have bollix! He had to sell them to a travelling sheep in order to feed the young'uns.

Aye, that's sacrifice, and don't you forget it!

itac · 10-02-2012 09:52PM

deman wrote: »

Adding "when I was your age" to a conversation.

Complaining about the crap music of today.

Listening to BBC Radio 2.

Complain about fast(er) drivers.

Watching what I eat.

Watching what I drink.

Wearing glasses for reading.

Generally just complaining and watching.

It's like a glasses-wearing-but-slightly-slower-driving version of me!
I occasionally teach Transition Years, as well as college students....have made far too many oap-type references and mistakes, the one that got the most laughs was when I referred to COD as Call of Demand....:o

sunflower27 · 10-02-2012 09:59PM

Saw a group of schoolgirls today wearing socks and thought for God's sake would you not put some tights on.... it's freezing!

I don't normally take any notice of teenagers - they are so annoying I think I mentally block them out when I see groups of them.

(so yeah, that's another one).

bbam · 10-02-2012 10:02PM

I've noticed myself making a groaning noise when getting up from a low sofa or chair... bloody annoying

AskMyChocolate · 10-02-2012 10:05PM

brummytom wrote: »

Mom said I've started making 'old man noises' when I sit down/get up.

I'm 18

Serves you right for buying an accordion. :pac:

Btw, when did you turn eighteen? Happy birthday young man.

\quiet aside "Still no ride?"

\"Naaah"

AskMyChocolate · 10-02-2012 10:16PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

When you say to yourself:

'What the hell is that youngfella doing in a Garda uniform?... '

And then circumvent any possibilty that he might be able to do his job,by wrapping your arm around him, in a paternal way, as you explain to him that,"It used to be all fields down there".

Dravokivich · 10-02-2012 10:18PM

Choco,

I'd say not being able to multi quote will be 1 for ya.

:P

What things do you do unknownst to yourself that make you feel old?

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