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#663
10th February 2020, 19:43
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Re: You know you're getting old when..
^ You're a young man to me, limey
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#665
10th February 2020, 22:05
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^ Younger than I am!
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#666
10th February 2020, 22:24
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^ I'm guessing probs so. But perhaps by less than you think: both my sis and myself look considerably younger than our real age. My gf does even better, though, she was alcohol-carded a few months back, and she's 46 in a few days!
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#667
10th February 2020, 22:26
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Re: You know you're getting old when..
When the 90s seem recent.
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#668
11th February 2020, 19:10
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The 90s finally seem like a while ago, but the 2000s seem very recent. As in, surely they've just happened, haven't they? I think of anything post early 2000s as 'after my time'.
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#669
11th February 2020, 20:07
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What I find weird is..dealing with people at work, seeing people on TV...they all start to look/sound 12. There was a time I remember being the youngster, we have an apprentice at work whos 17..part of me feels were quite similar, the reality is I'm just about old enough to be his dad, he probably thinks I'm an old fart just like the rest of the actual old farts at work!
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#670
11th February 2020, 20:10
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^He will think that! I don't think I felt old until I was realistically old enough to be a teen's mum, not in biological terms but in sociological terms.
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#672
18th February 2020, 21:18
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What makes me feel old is reading this thread and realising how young the people who think they're getting old are! I'm old enough now to be a great grandfather (although I never will be) and for the record, anything after the 1960s are after my time (ok, that's a slight exaggeration, "my time" hasn't ended yet).
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#675
18th February 2020, 23:44
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^ When will that happen? I dread things like that!
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#676
19th February 2020, 01:32
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 I did put it on and have no clue who some of the people were though,which would be seen as an `old` thing by anyone `young` I assume. Ah,sod 'em 
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#677
19th February 2020, 15:25
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^^^^Sorry GV, I need to stop going on about how old I am! I find it annoying when a 23 year old starts telling me how old they are because they're going to be 25 in a little over a year. Keep it to the other 20-somethings please!
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#678
19th February 2020, 15:48
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Last year, I saw a poster in a hostel in Thailand which read "You don't stop having fun when you get old, you get old when you stop having fun" and I know we shouldn't live our lives according to glib clichés on fridge magnets and stuff like that, but it did strike a chord. @Mo & girlinterrupted: I have to admit that I have never watched the Brits (although I do remember the fall-out of the Fox/Fleetwood debacle), but I do remember them being established. I also remember that the NME instigated its own awards, the Brats, because the Brits was too pro-establishment. I've just seen the list of nominations, winners and performers from last night and that aspect does seem to be getting better (apart from Springsteen being nominated for best international male), although I wasn't aware that Foals had done anything outstanding last year, so was quite surprised to see that they'd won best group. I don't like awards ceremonies of any kind (at least, those which involve people who already receive lucrative reward for what they do - people being given awards for charity work or similar, that's a different thing entirely) but if these things exist, then it's better when they raise awareness of up-and-coming young artistes rather than the established ones - and finally the Brits seem to moving in that direction. I must be out of touch though, because until I saw that she'd won best female international artist, I hadn't realised that Billie Eilish was American!
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#679
19th February 2020, 16:17
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I'm already seeing some signs, especially this time of year: stiff and clicking fingers, cricks in neck and general neck stiffness, aching knees, aches in the pelvic area, etc. Worst is my back, it's still hurting from playing pool over a month ago! I'm really annoyed as I love the game and was planning on joining a local league. Combine all the above with my current bladder woes and spreading grey/white hairs and suddenly I'm feeling my age.
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#680
19th February 2020, 16:18
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I'm not yet 30 so I'm probably not supposed to be in this thread, but lately I've sometimes found myself thinking "****ing kids" when teenagers are walking while staring at their phones and getting in my way or riding past on their bikes doing wheelies.
I don't watch the Brit Awards because I find awards ceremonies quite boring, but I do like quite a few of this year's nominees (FKA Twigs, Lana Del Rey, Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Michael Kiwanuka, Mahalia, Charli XCX and Tyler, the Creator). I think a lot of (actually probably even most) people give up on music when they're in their teens or early 20s, then spend the rest of their lives listening to the same limited selection of bands/artists on repeat. That's probably why an event like the Brits can make some people feel the passage of time. There's equally good music released every year though and a continuous stream of new things to enjoy and get excited about (not just the stuff represented at the Brits). Most people seem to convince themselves "It's not as good as it used to be" purely because they listen to music for nostalgia purposes and new music doesn't remind them of their youth. I don't understand why people like Tom Jones, Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart were there though. Surely 99% of the viewers haven't even heard of them.
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#681
19th February 2020, 16:23
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Do women still throw their knickers at Tom Jones?!
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#684
19th February 2020, 16:45
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^^^^ I agree that there is a lot of good new music around these days, probably more than ever before - and artistes are having longer careers than ever before too (I mean, The Who and The Rolling Stones are still around!) so there is something for everyone. I am always amazed, when I go to festivals, that the young bands are managing to sound so fresh and establish an identity when so much has gone before - I mean, I know from The Sound Of Music that there are only seven notes! I do deliberately seek out festivals which showcase up and coming artists (Glastonbury has always been good for that, although I haven't managed to get a ticket now since 2011 - every year, a million people are online trying to buy 190.000 tickets; this year, I did get through to the part where all I had to do was make my payment and then the bloody site crashed - I hate See Tickets!). I have to admit that I don't feel the emotional connection to new bands that I used to, at least not very often - I think the last bands / artists that struck a real chord with me were London Grammar and Jack Garrett) but I do appreciate and admire what they do and enjoy listening to them at some level - I think every generation needs its own music and I think those who are in their teens and twenties now have a massive array of good music at their disposal, plus since probably the 1990s, we have been experiencing a cross-genre fusion which means that people are being exposed to different kinds of music, whereas when I was a teenager, people pretty much chose a genre (with me it was heavy metal and prog rock) and stuck with that - of course, my own tastes have widened considerably since then.
As for the Ronnie Wood / Rod Stewart thing, I believe there was a Faces reunion? I know they did a mini-festival about a decade ago (I was otherwise engaged) but there are people around for whom that would be something special; I think people know Tom Jones (he has a bit of resurgence in recent years) from being a judge on some talent show, I think it's called The Voice or something like that (talent shows aren't my thing either). @limey, I do have the white hair (I don't know when it went grey, I shaved off my waist-length hair for charity when I was 40 and kept it shaved until I was 50, so it was sometime during that decade) and I had back pains for a few days while I was in Montenegro earlier this month, so perhaps time is catching up with me! I get the odd crack in my knees (I used to crack my knuckles quite a lot, but think this may have been anxiety-related as I seem to have stopped doing it) but it's normal for gasses to build up in joints, so I don't really think of that as a sign of ageing (maybe I'm wrong). Maybe you can still join that pool league? Perhaps you need to swing your hips a bit as a warm-up before bending over the table?
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#685
19th February 2020, 16:48
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#686
20th February 2020, 00:04
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Oh yeah, I forgot about some of the awful old days of the Brits. I don't mind some of the music but some of it is very samey and some of it is a bit....  of the times - self absorbed? a kind of reflection of the social media culture we live in. Not sure really what I mean to be honest, I can't quite put my finger on it but I just find some of it a bit annoying. I truly am turning into an old fart!
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#687
24th February 2020, 17:28
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You start to feel afraid of the future. And you start to worry about being old. I have never been happy, but I never really thought about, or worried about, the future either. Now I do. My neighbour cleans for old people, and she has told me horror stories of how some of them live. One 86-year-old, totally alone in a bungalow, had had diahorrea. When my neighbour arrived, it was everywhere, and this old woman had had to live with the smell for three days, with no one to clean her up or help. That’s the reality of growing old without children to care for you. I have also heard horror stories about what some carers can be like (though I’m sure many are lovely and kind). My neighbour stopped taking chocolate and other treats for her mum because the cleaners and carers would steal it.
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#688
24th February 2020, 19:30
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yep, Jimmy. did she have kids, or just none nearby
when you start saying "yeah I saw him on TV xx years ago" or "yeah I remember that happening xx years ago" when xx is more than 10. or a number. "yeah I saw Gordon Ramsey on TV 10 years ago on HIGNFY (have I got news), he didn't swear then" editited.
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#689
24th February 2020, 21:45
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The reality is, even if you do have children, there's no guarantee you will be cared for by them into your old age. My grandad is in a care home now in the dementia wing. He had too many falls and was no longer mobile enough to live independently.
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#690
25th February 2020, 00:39
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As has been said here before, having children certainly isn't a guarantee of escaping a rather miserable and lonely old age. Sorry to be so depressing 
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