What Makes You Feel Old?

Itwasntme. · 29-06-2013 09:05AM

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

I feel old because It's 7.14am on a Saturday morning and I'm not up because I was out on the lash last night and am in the horrors.I'm up because I had to pump some breast milk before my boobs exploded. Times - they have changed!

You had the baby! Congratulations

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Ted_YNWA · 29-06-2013 09:17AM

Hangovers lasting more than one day.. Last heavy-ish weekend session, I was still feeling the effects until Thursday.

Listening to the top 30 charts & have no idea who half the bands/artists are.

The Sunday bedtime music ended 12 years ago :eek:

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

chughes · 29-06-2013 09:26AM

I realised I was getting old when I knew none of the songs on newly released Now albums.

I think I started to lose it after Now 20.

washiskin · 29-06-2013 09:35AM

I can't bear any of the music in the Top 20 - but which Top 20? There's so bloody many of them now!!

Every time I go into a particular eatery on Dame St I always feel like Methuselah

I watched "The Sting" last week - and realised it was FORTY YEARS OLD!!!! :eek:

Worse still - I even feel ancient when I go to a Chic concert! :mad:

MurdyWurdy · 29-06-2013 10:43AM

Itwasntme. wrote: »

You had the baby! Congratulations .

Thanks

he's a feeding machine!

Poochie05 · 29-06-2013 10:50AM

My hairdresser talking about her mother's 46th birthday coming up next week!

donutheadhomer · 29-06-2013 11:10AM

When you're meeting your wife in a pub after work and the doorman asks if you're collecting your daughter

Pumpkinseeds · 29-06-2013 11:15AM

Last year in the run up to my 40th birthday made me feel old and neurotic, once I got it over with in January it wasn't so bad.

Turning off Glastonbury last night because it was crap.

When most of the bands you listened to in the 80/90's are either dead or have split up.

The fact that MTV is so bad that it's been replaced as my background noise of choice by Time team.

When your body needs more and more maintenance and won't let you away with things that you could do easily in your 20's.

My mum turning 60 last year.

My Dad and 'little' Brother will be 60 and 40 respectively on the same day nxt year. I remember my Dad being 27. That's gonna be freaking expensive.

Feeling grumpy a lot of the time, grumpy and achey. I sometimes think every injury that you ever did as a child starts to come back to haunt you from your 30's onwards.

quickbeam · 29-06-2013 11:33AM

I read recently that Italia '90 was closer to the first Moon Landing than it is to now. Now, THAT made me feel old since Italia '90 was only the other year and the Moon Landing is ancient history.

donegal_road · 29-06-2013 11:35AM

Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'Relax' is 30 years old

daddyorchips · 29-06-2013 11:39AM

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

Whats life like in your late thirties, early forties? Is it worth even living?

better than shagging your sister I assume

Zen65 · 29-06-2013 11:39AM

fergiesfolly wrote: »

So AH'ers. What makes you feel old and why?

I consider myself young at heart, and I try to keep active through my karate training. I'm in good health generally but my body does occasionally remind me that it's no longer at its peak. Apart from that:

I have children in college, with full driving licences.
My full head of hair is a distant memory.
I was married before most of my karate students were born
I remember life before PC's and the internet, before remote-control for the TV existed, before DVDs and I was there for the VHS vs Betamax debate
My childhood memories of TV programmes are in black-and-white
I no longer relish the idea of a late night out. If I'm not heading home by midnight I feel stressed.
Bits of me ache, especially joints, and my GP does not consider it worth trying to fix anymore
I've been around long enough that I'm financially secure (hey, not everything about ageing is bad)
I meet men and women in their 20's and realise I was in college with one or other of their parents. Killer!
I was saddened when The Beatles broke up, and when Elvis died.
In meetings, I am no longer the youngest attendee. Nine out of ten times I'm the oldest.
I remember long, hot summers in Ireland. I remember being sunburned by the time Wimbledon started in June.
I remember the first time ABBA appeared on Irish television, during the Eurovision Song Contest previews, which were screened in the two weekends before the actual contest, every year.
I watched Dana win the Eurovision Song Contest. I thought she was lovely ((Zen cringes))
I remember Noel's 'Swap Shop' fondly.
I remember three changes in Irish currency
I remember when RTE & BBC did not operate 24 hours a day
I watched the first moon landing live

Pumpkinseeds · 29-06-2013 11:40AM

donegal_road wrote: »

Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'Relax' is 30 years old

Remember when that song cause outrage and was considered very risqué? Oh how the times have changed.

krudler · 29-06-2013 11:41AM

Movies ages make me feel old, lets run down a few.

Jurassic Park- 20 years
The Shawshank Redemption- 19 years
Star Wars-35 years
The Matrix-14 years
Anchorman-10 years
Men In black-15 years
Finding Nemo-10 years
Lord of The Rings-12 years
Harry Potter-12 years

If they remade Back To The Future now and still sent Marty 30 years into the past he'd arrive in...1983.

Zen65 · 29-06-2013 11:42AM

donegal_road wrote: »

Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'Relax' is 30 years old

Aw hell that's a kick in the teeth! I remember being in college when that was released.

Z

THall04 · 29-06-2013 11:45AM

krudler wrote: »

If they remade Back To The Future now and still sent Marty 30 years into the past he'd arrive in...1983.

On the plus side , we've less than 2 years to go before we get them feckin hoverboards!

Mint Sauce · 29-06-2013 11:46AM

oldyouth wrote: »

When you see your former babysitter with her teenage children

Going back to my post. When your going for pints, with the adult kids of your baby sitter, that you too babysat.

Ruudi_Mentari · 29-06-2013 11:46AM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Turning off Glastonbury last night because it was crap.

should have stuck around, headlining was a massive Pedobear flag!

Stones tonight. Not so crap

daddyorchips · 29-06-2013 11:48AM

My little girl makes me feel old but its a good old

Meangadh · 29-06-2013 11:52AM

Realising that students starting in secondary school this September were born in 2001.

When I meet parents at parent teacher meetings who are around my own age.

Mint Sauce · 29-06-2013 11:53AM

Saturday mornings. When it was all about getting up to watch Kids TV and Alive and Kicking, Saint and Greavie, Football Italia, and Grandstand covering everysport imaginable.

Now you enjoy watching Saturday Morning Kitchen, and your just trying to find some sport thats not on sky (today is the exception with Le Tour and Wimbledon on).

daithi1970 · 29-06-2013 11:54AM

..I work in a hospital -seeing the new crop of interns every July makes me feel very old indeed...

cuana · 29-06-2013 12:25PM

Funerals! I've been to far to many losing people that I loved so much & always been in my minds eye as young, vibrant people

fergiesfolly · 29-06-2013 12:28PM

When you start looking at your pension scheme options and take serious consideration over them, as opposed to the quick scan you used to make.

fergiesfolly · 29-06-2013 12:33PM

Just saw a boxset for Buffy the Vampire Slayer on amazon and realised it ended 10 years ago.... holy bejasus!

Daveysil15 · 29-06-2013 12:42PM

When approaching women in niteclubs and been called an auld perv, instead of just perv. That's when I realised.

KingOfFairview · 29-06-2013 12:44PM

Stairway to heaven is closer to WW2 than now

honeybear · 29-06-2013 12:46PM

When you are paying online with your credit card and you have to scroll down (very far!) for your year of birth!

starlit · 29-06-2013 12:59PM

My stlye of clothes some are a bit more grown up for going out not too collegey stuff unless casual wear.

Daveysil15 · 29-06-2013 01:08PM

honeybear wrote: »

When you are paying online with your credit card and you have to scroll down (very far!) for your year of birth!

Or filling out your profile on a dating website.

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