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Signs you're getting old

  • 05-04-2012 08:27AM
    #1
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    Wife was doing the Tesco online shop last night, asked it I wanted beer for Good Friday, I said "I'm not bothered, I'd sooner cosy up & watch the golf".

    How soon can I expect to start forgetting where I am & start wetting myself, can't be long now, I'm not even 40 !!!!.

    Regale me with tales of when you knew you were getting old.


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  • #2
    Dylan Spoiled Paprika
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Dylan Spoiled Paprika


    Not wanting to drink on one particular day means you're getting old?

    no


  • #3
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    Wife was doing the Tesco online shop last night, asked it I wanted beer for Good Friday, I said "I'm not bothered, I'd sooner cosy up & watch the golf".

    How soon can I expect to start forgetting where I am & start wetting myself, can't be long now, I'm not even 40 !!!!.

    Regale me with tales of when you knew you were getting old.

    Jumping 4 foot off a wall and putting my knee out


  • #4
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Aches and pains that no longer go away like they used to.


  • #5
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Not wanting to drink on one particular day means you're getting old?

    no

    Good Friday was/is the big house party day for many, good memories.


  • #6
    Flancrest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭Flancrest


    Letting out a slight groan when you have to stand up when sitting in a comfortable chair


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  • #7
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    when you keep a stick in the garage purely for the purpose of stirring paint

    /nostalgia , boardsies who were around these parts a few years ago will know what I mean /nostalgia


  • #8
    splashthecash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭splashthecash


    When I need to ask my little sister what is the "cool" way to tie my shoelaces


  • #9
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    When you have patches on the elbows of your cardigan.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    Good Friday was/is the big house party day for many, good memories.
    Were you in prison? :pac:

    Looking at the nostalgia thread and seeing stuff you got for your children there!


  • #11
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,710 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    When hair stops to grow from the top of your head and starts to grow from your nose and ears, thats when your getting old.
    When the hair coming from your nose and ears turns grey, thats when you are old.


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  • #12
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Giving out that the younger people today have too much stuff and have it too easy, that it was much harder in your day!


  • #13
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    You actively 'enjoy' watching the Antiques Roadshow.

    And you purposely intend to watch the News.


  • #14
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Some signs of getting old.

    When your nephews and nieces refer you to as uncle and the old man as grandad.

    When you can no longer hear high pitched bat calls at night.

    Your motorcycle insurance becomes very affordable even on a high powered sports bike.

    Cops look considerably younger and don't ask you for your insurance details if they stop you at a random tax check.


  • #15
    Corkblowin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭Corkblowin


    Spent some time in hospital recently - nice nurse was carrying out some test & making conversation i mentioned I'd never had this done before.

    For the first time I heard someone say to me 'at your age we need to check these things' *gulp*


  • #16
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Hangovers last 4 days.


  • #17
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    When you say things like; "the evenings are getting a great stretch altogether". Also, you start checking the deaths section of the Indo to see if anyone you know has died.


  • #18
    Angeles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭Angeles


    I find myself lately making these *groaning* sounds when getting up or sitting down..
    like... aaaaaaaayeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.


  • #19
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    You moan about the price of sweets and crisps

    Barman charged me one euro recently for a bag of crisps recently

    Whaaa? Taytos will always be 12p to me. Now that's some serious inflation, over six times the price

    And what are Kings Crisps? Where are my Taytos gone?


  • #20
    bernard0368
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭bernard0368


    When you see a mother and her teenage daughter and think the moms alright.


  • #21
    AeoNGriM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭AeoNGriM


    When you stand up after being crouched and you do that 'Euuurrrgggggghhhhhhh' thing your Dad does.

    Having to hold something at arms length and squint at it to read what it says.


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  • #22
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I was in the travel agency lately and there where brochures about over 50,s holidays................and I was reading them.


  • #23
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    You smell of piss


  • #24
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    I have developed a fondness for whiskey. Not in the "Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaahaaaaaa its alcohol!!! GET IT DOWN YA AND LETS GO DANCIN'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Way but in the "Wee nip savoured in a proper glass of an evening whilst watching the current affairs in me slippers' way. Never liked the stuff but would drink it regardless. Now i can appreciate the cask flavours and such bollix:rolleyes:


  • #25
    Susie_Q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Susie_Q


    When you refer to the younger generation as "the youth" - and you mean it.


  • #26
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    You say the exams are dumbed down these days

    Project Maths, ha


  • #27
    Funkfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    When your 'join date' is 2002


  • #28
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    when you take up an interest in gardening and esp when you find yourself watching gardeners world


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When you find yourself going to more funerals than weddings & christenings.
    When the funerals are mainly of people in your age group, then you know you're really old!


  • #30
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    when you remember the last three times this subject has had dedicated threads.


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  • #31
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    when yor birthday card says happy 32nd birthday!!!


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