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Signs that you're getting old

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    #152
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,910 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Comic Book Guy wrote: »
    My barber asked if I wanted my eyebrows trimmed!

    Just wait til they start asking about your ear hair.


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    #153
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 6,640 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Just wait til they start asking about your ear hair.

    Tbf, I've been getting my brows trimmed since my 20s cos they are facking monstrous.


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    #154
    obi604
    Registered Users Posts: 5,467 ✭✭✭obi604


    The only thing I really want to watch on TV is the 9 o’clock news.


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    #155
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    When most if the people you went to school with and most of your neighbours are in the graveyard


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    #156
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Just wait til they start asking about your ear hair.

    To the Turkish barbers with you, they'll sort that, but keep calm with their method. :)


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    #157
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,910 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    El Gato De Negocios wrote: »
    Tbf, I've been getting my brows trimmed since my 20s cos they are facking monstrous.

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    *Actually, there's another sign that you're getting older - knowing who that guy is.


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    #158
    [Deleted User]
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    My ear hair situation has gone to the dogs.


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    #159
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,910 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Humberto Salazar wrote: »
    To the Turkish barbers with you, they'll sort that, but keep calm with their method. :)

    I've seen it done. :eek:


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    #160
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    When you ask two 6th classes of school kids, if they like christmas trifle .... and none of them know what it is (happened yesterday and I feel so old now).


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    #161
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night... Used to laugh at that one. No longer.


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    #162
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    Tony EH wrote: »
    I've seen it done. :eek:

    I always look for a fire extinguisher in the place before I agree...


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    #163
    Bassfish
    Registered Users Posts: 903 ✭✭✭Bassfish


    I can't get out of a chair without making a noise!


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    #164
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,695 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    Thanks lads (and lasses, if it doesn't offend anyone to imply that there might be a gender difference :p ) - although calendar-age-wise, I'm up there with the best of ye, you've convinced me that I can't be as old as my random aches and irrational ear-hair might have me believe! :pac:


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    #165
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 6,640 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Untitled-1.jpg

    *Actually, there's another sign that you're getting older - knowing who that guy is.

    If I didn't keep em trimmed they would likely be like that tbf.

    Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna?


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    #166
    obi604
    Registered Users Posts: 5,467 ✭✭✭obi604


    Humberto Salazar wrote: »
    When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night... Used to laugh at that one. No longer.


    Never heard this one. What’s an example.


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    #167
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    When you ask the question "Signs that you're getting old ". No 25 year old even considers it.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #168
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,948 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    I think a lot of it is summed up on how you view young people. When you start resenting young people for doing things differently. Seeing young people of today’s acts of youthful rebellion as meaningless but thinking your own generation’s rebellious actions were fierce clever altogether. Small examples are fashion and clothes. See the recent reaction to the WAP song.

    Also thinking young people today are inferior to young people of your own generation - weak willed, lack discipline, too concerned with appearance, don’t appreciate how easy they have it etc.

    It just means you don’t understand the difficulties young people face today and are disconnected from young people. That’s a real sign of getting old.


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    #169
    obi604
    Registered Users Posts: 5,467 ✭✭✭obi604


    Also feel old cause 25 years ago today - Faithless released ‘Insomnia’


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    #170
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,185 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    When your somewhere and a woman says to her kids leave the man alone/stop hassling the man.


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    #171
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    Also thinking young people today are inferior to young people of your own generation - weak willed, lack discipline, too concerned with appearance, don’t appreciate how easy they have it etc.

    It just means you don’t understand the difficulties young people face today and are disconnected from young people. That’s a real sign of getting old.
    +1000 and the same generational stuff that's been in play for all of human history. Old farts in Ancient Greece, Rome, China etc were complaining about the dissolute youth using exactly same points you noted above. That they were "weak willed, lack discipline, too concerned with appearance, don’t appreciate how easy they have it etc".

    EG Socrates: "The youths love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” (I love the image of gobbling up dainties. :D )

    Horace at least threw some shade at his own generation, though still thought it was better before: “Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

    Brain plasticity decreases with age, triply so if left to its own lazy devices, so new things and new ideas are loud and uncomfortable noises, so nostalgia becomes a comfort and nostalgia always lies to itself.

    So for me nostalgia is about the biggest sign you're getting old in mind at least. The young are living the lives you and in turn they will be nostalgic about.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #172
    BrianD3
    Registered Users Posts: 8,277 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    I'm mid forties and pleased that I'm not experiencing many of these signs of getting old. Have grey pubes and beard but can empathise and have a conversation with someone half my age and not feel or be perceived (I hope) as a complete dinosaur.

    Being single helps IMO, I've seen a few men develop a much older attitude once they got married and had children, settling into a comfortable yet hectic domestic existence of changing nappies, IKEA, watching soap operas and tut tutting about the youth of today.

    Lifting weights is a great way to look and feel young. This is something that a lot of people do in their youth but stop by middle age when it is important to keep at it. If you stick at it you can keep improving well into middle age. "Build your muscles as your body decays". I had to take a break from my lifting for many weeks for family reasons and it definitely affected my mood. Deadlifted 240 kg on my first day back, over three times bodyweight which pleased me a lot.


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    #173
    Sam Quentin
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    Yes keeping active, plenty of water, a decent diet, apple and banana a day... Keep away from the booze. Should alleviate/hold back the ageing process.


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    #174
    Hyperbollix
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    When you go into the barber and instead of asking you what kind of cut you want, he just says "Tidy up.... yeah?"


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    #175
    mad m
    Registered Users Posts: 9,001 ✭✭✭mad m


    I remember when my daughter needed her shoe laces tied. I knelt down and she says ( I think she was 4 or 5 at time) “ Daddy you have a hole on top of your head”. It was the monkeys arse that was beginning to appear.


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    #176
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,742 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    You make a noise when you sit down or get up.


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    #177
    whisky_galore
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    BrianD3 wrote: »

    Being single helps IMO, I've seen a few men develop a much older attitude once they got married and had children, settling into a comfortable yet hectic domestic existence of changing nappies, IKEA, watching soap operas and tut tutting about the youth of

    Can't understand lads "afraid" of their OH, to be home on time or refusing to spend time with mates as if she's standing outside the doorway, rolling pin in hand like an Andy Capp strip.


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    #178
    Oops!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Oops!


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Can't understand lads "afraid" of their OH, to be home on time or refusing to spend time with mates as if she's standing outside the doorway, rolling pin in hand like an Andy Capp strip.

    Seen a few friends settle into this mode... Not a chance i'd live like that myself. Completely under the thumb, she's the boss and that's it....

    I wouldn't tell my OH what to do and she wouldn't do the same either. We are a team but we both have our own interests, hobbies and friends aswell.


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    #179
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,775 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    I remember when it was announced Qatar would host the 2022 World Cup, ten years ago that it seemed like a lifetime away, now it doesn't seem that far away at all.


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    #180
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    beauf wrote: »
    What's a DVD...
    You know those round mirrors with the hole in the centre ?


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    #181
    matchthis
    Registered Users Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭matchthis


    Hyperbollix wrote: »
    When you go into the barber and instead of asking you what kind of cut you want, he just says "Tidy up.... yeah?"

    And he starts flipping the mirror around at the end to show your bald patch progress


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