You know you're getting old when.. - Page 19

humphrey · #**541** 27th June 2018, 21:08

^ I can remember No1, my sister got it for Christmas.

Dougella · #**542** 2nd July 2018, 00:06

^ You can't be 81?!

Austere_Lemur · #**543** 7th July 2018, 00:47

I turned 27 just two weeks ago. The day itself was a nightmare; I live on my own currently in a big house that is owned by my Mum, but she is off abroad earning money. Meanwhile my only skills are being a waste of space, a lazy so-and-so, and yeah that's pretty much my qualifications. We moved to Norway a few years back because a lot of family is here, and in Norway it's customary to put the Norwegian flag out on occasions like birthdays and the 17th of May (Independence Day in Norway). This year I was just gonna sod the whole thing. Honestly I had a much happier time the day after my birthday. I don't know why it's even a thing when you become this age. It's not, I guess. I just suppose it would have been nice to have family around - even though everyone pretty much hates me. Yeah... I'm just the freak show of the family. It's another year, and for me all I ever wish for each year is that it'll be my last.

Sphinx · #**544** 7th July 2018, 23:10

When you start referring to people in their 20's as "the young people"

Azalea · #**545** 14th July 2018, 15:00

You get a letter from the doc about osteoporosis.

Rocket Spud · #**546** 14th July 2018, 22:29

You intimately know people who experienced the summer of '76

newbs16 · #**547** 15th July 2018, 08:42

That I keep waking up around 8 o'clock on a Saturday and Sunday, what is wrong with me.

Indigo_ · #**548** 15th July 2018, 09:40

^ I've been the same recently. Think it's how bright it is outside too

Azalea · #**549** 15th July 2018, 10:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rocket Spud

You intimately know people who experienced the summer of '76

I remember it well

Mo34 · #**550** 15th July 2018, 10:08

I wish I could manage 8! My average lately is 5.30

Think I need some black out curtains in my bedroom, lol

Azalea · #**551** 15th July 2018, 10:21

My problem is my son getting up at 5 for work, he's 22 and has finally started to get himself up for the last year but as soon as his door opens I'm awake and cant get back to sleep

Chocobear Paws · #**552** 27th July 2018, 16:15

When you suddenly need double the amount of coffee you did before to wake up in the morning.

When hangovers last two or three days.

When you're a zombie making idiotic mistakes at work over and over just because you got two hours less sleep than you need.

When you find your first grey pube.

When you start thinking everything was just better in the 80s/90s.

When a cup of tea and a bar of chocolate is infinitely more appealing than having sex.

When mostly everything that people under the age of about 21 say irritates the shit out of you.

When you become genuinely interested in Antiques Roadshow and going antiquing at the weekend.

When jazz and classical becomes the only music you can stick, everything else just grates and sounds dumb.

choirgirl · #**553** 27th July 2018, 18:35

Mm, I really need to move out of my dad's house before I find my first grey pube.

Chocobear Paws · #**554** 27th July 2018, 18:57

^

Vienna · #**555** 28th July 2018, 20:11

When you can't remember how old others are, and worse , when you forget how old you are....this happened to me recently

Professor Willow · #**556** 13th August 2018, 12:36

You try to sit cross legged (like school assembly) and your hips feel like they will pop out of joint!

Pink*Lady · #**557** 13th August 2018, 22:19

Hairs grow on your face, nipples and belly button.
Your eyebrows grow wild more regularly.
Your toenails are harder to cut.

Silent Ninja · #**558** 14th August 2018, 12:13

When you're on your second day off work because you've put your back out.

Franz of Franzylvania · #**559** 14th August 2018, 17:52

You oversleep because you stayed up too late shopping for fancy stamps.

José Raúl Capablanca · #**560** 17th August 2018, 16:30

Is complaining a thing you do when you old ? I never used to complain , but i***8217;ve written about four ***8216;strongly worded emails***8217; in the last month .

Dougella · #**561** 18th August 2018, 15:23

^ The 'strongly worded email' thing is definitely something that comes with age

choirgirl · #**562** 12th September 2018, 16:11

At last! A celebrity has died and I don't know who they were!

Dougella · #**563** 12th September 2018, 17:33

^ Is it the young rapper? I hadn't heard of him either.

choirgirl · #**564** 12th September 2018, 19:31

OH no, some old actress, at 99. Sorry, I don't know who the young rapper is either.

Dougella · #**565** 12th September 2018, 19:40

^ Oh, well then that's two people you haven't heard of lol

newbs16 · #**566** 12th September 2018, 19:49

You are yawning your head off at 19.50.

Toxic · #**567** 12th September 2018, 22:11

^ I'm already at that point

In my 20's I'd eventually try and get something sorted

Now I just tank up on painkillers and accept this is about it

It's all a bit grim this getting old malarkey.

Copernicium · #**568** 13th September 2018, 13:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chocobear Paws

When mostly everything that people under the age of about 21 say irritates the shit out of you.

I can sympathise with this but would modify it slightly to about 80-90% of what people under the age of 21 say. There is always the 10% that is interesting or entertaining.

I was listening to a group of teenage girls on the train at the weekend. This was the conversation.

Girl A: "I love jam."
Girl B: "I hate jam.".
Girl C: "I love jam and I love peanut butter and I love marmite."
Girl D: "Jam is rank."
Girls A and D:"Noooo."
Girl E: "Oh My God."
Girl B: "Why are we talking about jam?"
All the girls then giggled like mad for about 20 seconds.

In case you were wondering, this fits into the 10-20% that doesn't irritate me.

Sisyphus · #**569** 13th September 2018, 20:30

.. you know who Sir Andrew Dilnot is.

choirgirl · #**570** 16th September 2018, 00:06

Another one I've not heard of bites the dust! I feel young again.

Not really, I still feel like a grumpy, boring middle-aged person. Who is still treated as a teenager in some ways, which is REALLY confusing, because if I was a teenager now I'd have grown up in a different time with different experiences and expectations and the internet. But hopefully that will soon end. 20 years ago really does feel like a long time ago and like yesterday at the same time. Getting older is weird.