Signs that you're getting old

monseiur · 03-12-2020 5:11pm

When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night !

Piriz · 03-12-2020 5:11pm

yep when I see footage of the 80s 90s 00s I think they were simpler times.. now I worry about the state of the planet

lertsnim · 03-12-2020 5:18pm

Still suffering with a hangover from Saturday.

messrs · 03-12-2020 5:25pm

Having a conversation in work last week about going on holidays back in the day and bringing travellers cheques and two girls at the lunch table asked what they were as they had never even heard of them

Simon201 · 03-12-2020 5:27pm

When you go for run and 5 minutes in your watch prompts ‘do you want to record a leisurely stroll’

olestoepoke · 03-12-2020 5:36pm

When bending down to tie your shoelaces you look around to see if there's anything else to be done whilst you're there.

Alejandro68 · 03-12-2020 6:22pm

Forgetting the simple things, like pocketing your housekeys before leaving the house. And lately, my hands seize up in pain doing tasks I have always before done with ease.

corner of hells · 03-12-2020 6:28pm

Thank God , I am not alone with aches and pains.

I discovered, I'm fairly good at gardening and D.I.Y. too.

Purple Mountain · 03-12-2020 6:30pm

Calling DVDs "videos" in front of your bemused teenager.

thebronze14 · 03-12-2020 7:24pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Calling DVDs "videos" in front of your bemused teenager.

Even DVD's would probably bemuse them at this stage!

AllForIt · 03-12-2020 7:26pm

You criticize the fashion of young people today. You'd be right but still.

ollaetta · 03-12-2020 8:15pm

When you drop something and wonder if you really need it anyway before the effort of bending down.

Arghus · 03-12-2020 8:44pm

When you know what a tracker mortgage is.

Leg End Reject · 03-12-2020 8:49pm

When parts of your body start to steadily make their way towards your knees.

ELM327 · 03-12-2020 8:55pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

used to be a hard rock fan , now i only listen to Lyric FM while driving

Marty in the morning is my breakfast choice on the dial

Same but with newstalk.
I've also moved away musically from death metal to more country music.

Oh and my beard and hair is going grey!

Girly Gal · 03-12-2020 10:25pm

Roots 2020 wrote: »

You're constantly looking back nostalgically at the past. Deaths of people like Maradona or Jonah Lomu hurt more than they should. It feels like a bit of your prime has gone with them.

Agree with this, it really does feel like a little bit of you has gone forever with them. Also checking the ages of the oldest players still playing in EPL, CL, world cups etc, to see if I'm younger than any of them and delighted to find out Buffon was born a few weeks before me.

Halenvaneddie · 03-12-2020 10:27pm

Not having to pull the belly off yourself everyday

Gruffalux · 03-12-2020 10:38pm

For me it is being much more conscious of potentially slippy ground. It's getting silly. I used to stride comfortably across every kind of muddy and stoney ground and now I move much more carefully for fear I end up on my arse.

Also my dentist looks like a child.

roroliam · 03-12-2020 10:45pm

When your sh** smells like your olfellas.

riclad · 03-12-2020 10:52pm

Your favourite songs are on classic hits radio.
Young people's fashion looks strange. Staff in a shop say sir to you.
You don't understand some of the slang in pop songs. you have given up trying to keep up with new music
You look forward to staying in and watching the late late show instead of recording it
You have to ask a young person how to use an app or get some device working
Your favourite pop group has released a greatest hits collection
If you have have a fine pints it takes longer to get over a hangover

jester77 · 03-12-2020 10:56pm

Britney turned 39 yesterday

beauf · 03-12-2020 11:16pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Calling DVDs "videos" in front of your bemused teenager.

What's a DVD...

Purple Mountain · 03-12-2020 11:20pm

Seeing the kids you used to babysit marry while you're still single!

03-12-2020 11:22pm

Taking 5 minutes to get out of a chair and hearing numerous clicking sounds as your body continues it's decay.

And hair on the end of my nose, ****ing father's hairy genes

03-12-2020 11:53pm

When you sigh contentedly as you sit down in a nice armchair with a nice cup of tea and put your feet up, but then the moment loses it's everyday magic when you notice the skirting boards need a good dusting.

When you start dusting skirting boards.

storker · 03-12-2020 11:57pm

Sam Hain wrote: »

Also us poor men seem to spender longer on the toilet seat and less time in the barbers seat year on year.

I've just thought of a way to strike a balance...

KungPao · 03-12-2020 11:58pm

The other night, I had a great time. On the sofa, a few beers, a few tunes (from the '90s and before, of course) while looking up the best attic insulation options on the World Wide Web.

What a night it was. I learnt a lot!

04-12-2020 12:00am

Cabletiesfix wrote: »

Never even hearing of the most streamed artist in Ireland on spotify this year. I don't think I've ever heard his name mentioned. I must be completely and utterly out of the loop

I used to monitor network traffic on a corporate network and developed a script to translate the infohash of a torrent to the filename. One day, loads of traffic, rang my boss, "Someone is seeding something by an artist called.. Adele?"

My boss's response: you don't listen to modern music anymore, do you?

mad m · 04-12-2020 12:01am

I miss getting a stiffy for no reason, before I get up from the seat on a bus....

Drinking sleepy tea before bedtime....:rolleyes:

KungPao · 04-12-2020 12:03am

Deleted User wrote: »

I used to monitor network traffic on a corporate network and developed a script to translate the infohash of a torrent to the filename. One day, loads of traffic, rang my boss, "Someone is seeding something by an artist called.. Adele?"

My boss's response: you don't listen to modern music anymore, do you?

People were torrenting in work?

begbysback · 04-12-2020 12:06am

Hyperbollix wrote: »

I used to watch football and play computer games in my spare time and pay little attention to news or current affairs. Over the course of my 30's, that's now completely the opposite.

You now play football and watch computer games?

04-12-2020 12:07am

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Seeing the kids you used to babysit marry while yiure still single!

My Ma: I met Ailbhe in the shop she was asking about you.
Me: my last memory of her was her putting a can of coke in the microwave because it was too cold when she was about 9. Is she in secondary school now?
My Ma: she's a primary school teacher.

Feck.

alias no.9 · 04-12-2020 12:10am

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

My barber asked if I wanted my eyebrows trimmed!

What about the ears?

04-12-2020 12:10am

KungPao wrote: »

People were torrenting in work?

Yes and it was allowed because one of our products was shared via torrent openly.

Part of my job was to check were the seeding our products or Naughty Nurses 3, or Adele's first album.

And some people seeded much worse stuff than that. Cue some awkward conversations.

con747 · 04-12-2020 12:10am

Having to lean forwards to see if your laces are tied when standing.

Sardonicat · 04-12-2020 12:11am

When you have grey hair instead of grey hairs

alias no.9 · 04-12-2020 12:13am

kieran. wrote: »

Definition of getting old, when you are filling your date of birth in an online form and you have to scroll your mouse wheel more than twice to get to your birth year!!

Knowing what a mouse is in a world of touch screens

Strumms · 04-12-2020 12:14am

Andrewf20 wrote: »

Leaving a gig early to "beat the rush".

When you look to get a ticket for a gig.... and no matter who is playing and where... you want a seat. Where before you loved the idea of being front and center, standing, better atmosphere, view, craic and sound now it’s a seat nearer the bar, and the jacks that tickles your fancy....

04-12-2020 12:15am

Sardonicat wrote: »

When you have grey hair instead of grey hairs

I got my hair cut back in September and was looking down as he did my neck and all this grey hair was gathering around my feet and i thought "they must be cutting some auld fellas hair beside me", sneaked a look to the left and realized it was mine!

04-12-2020 12:17am

Strumms wrote: »

When you look to get a ticket for a gig.... and no matter who is playing and where... you want a seat. Where before you loved the idea of being front and center, standing, better atmosphere, view, craic and sound now it’s a seat nearer the bar, and the jacks that tickles your fancy....

I was always like that to be honest.

Sardonicat · 04-12-2020 12:19am

Women will understand the significance of this one.

When you are in the radiology department going through the questionnaire and the radiographer asks "When was your last, oh sorry, do you still have periods?' That one really hit home.

Wichita Lineman · 04-12-2020 12:23am

When all the great movies you know are from earlier than 2000.

FrKurtFahrt · 04-12-2020 12:24am

My son got married this time last year - insisting that all 'the wedding party' wear tuxedos, and that they would NOT be hired, but the whole whack!. What could i do? I now own a tuxedo. I grumbled to my daughter ... 'when de fuq am i going to wear a fuquing tuxedo again???'... 'You'll look well at the wake'. I both laughed... and suddenly worried about my age.

SineadSpears · 04-12-2020 12:28am

When your kids teachers are all younger than you & you've to go to parent teacher meetings

alias no.9 · 04-12-2020 12:30am

Wichita Lineman wrote: »

When all the great movies you know are from earlier than 2000.

When you use the cultural reference

Man, I'm too old for this ****

and have to explain its origins

The Northern Lights · 04-12-2020 12:31am

Two things for me; I notice myself griping alot about youngsters being a bit smart ass, forgetting that my peers and I probably weren't too much different when we were their age. Also, I can remember as far back as 1984.

trashcan · 04-12-2020 12:32am

Hyperbollix wrote: »

I used to watch football and play computer games in my spare time and pay little attention to news or current affairs. Over the course of my 30's, that's now completely the opposite.

He’s in his thirties and thinks he’s old:eek:

trashcan · 04-12-2020 12:36am

Deleted User wrote: »

I got my hair cut back in September and was looking down as he did my neck and all this grey hair was gathering around my feet and i thought "they must be cutting some auld fellas hair beside me", sneaked a look to the left and realized it was mine!

And then the barber asks “will I do the eyebrows as well ?”

Sardonicat · 04-12-2020 12:37am

trashcan wrote: »

He’s in his thirties and thinks he’s old:eek:

I did and I bet you did too. What fools we were.

You're still young, thirty somethings!

trashcan · 04-12-2020 12:38am

storker wrote: »

I've just thought of a way to strike a balance...

I hope it’s get your hair cut on the toilet, not the other alternative :P

Signs that you're getting old

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