You know you're getting old when..

[Dougella]

Originally Posted by Orwell20

Yeah, loss of hope. That’s really the essence of ageing. That and a creeping numbness - a sense that nothing really matters, that nothing is even real. When you are young, the world seems so intensely there. Everything is more vivid and intense - colours, sounds, etc. And everything you do seems to matter. The highs are higher (not that I had any highs) and the lows are lower (plenty of them). In my experience (don’t know if this is true for others), once you get into your late 30s and early 40s the world no longer seems so real. I find it hard to take anything seriously now. It’s like everything is a joke. I feel detached, numb, almost like I am watching a tedious movie that I have seen before.

I was considering therapy the other day, but then I thought “what’s the point...I am over 40 now. It’s not like things are going to get any better...it’s too late.” I really hate it when people trot out the old “it’s never too late” cliche. Truth is it often IS too late. It’s too late to be young and carefree and happy, too late to go away to university and spread my wings and all that, too late to start a young family and build a life with someone, etc.

Lots of men in particular build a life with someone and have children in their 40s, if you're in good health there's no reason not to. I also went to university with quite a few people who were 40 and older, obviously they didn't move away and have the university experience that people have when they're 18 but it was a big change for their lives and a move to a different career/phase of life.

[choirgirl]

I don't know man, I feel somewhat rejuvenated by fear of death myself.

[Mr. Nobody]

Watching Patrick Stewart creak about on Picard, delivering lines like he's just remembering them as he goes along,..

Makes me feel old, as I clearly recall watching Next Gen in the beginning when he was charging about like a spring chicken, full of vigour.

Doesn't seem like so long ago,...perhaps I've somehow warped forwards in time?

[Neil]

When you scare yourself when looking in the mirror, oooo ya f****r, not doing that for a wee while, and then when you eventually look at yourself again you’ve aged even more given the passage of time and the cycle repeats itself ad-nauseum.

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally Posted by Neil

The laughs I get from your posts give me reason to live! the part about collectively jumping into the planet’s core in an afternoon of protest was comedy gold.

Reminds me of a joke about a petty criminal who was caught by police and taken into an interview room,.. as he recounted tale after tale after tale about all the terrible things he had done, the officer stopped him and said, "hey, wait a minute son, you ain't confessin',...you're boasting!!"

If anyone actually did view life the way HH expects you to believe he does, he wouldn't even be able to post here,...but I'm glad he does,...

As you say, comedy gold,... it's very entertaining.

[Neil]

^I didn’t want to sound too callous but you know how we have a very dark sense of humour up here and that final paragraph hit my funny bone. You have a way with words HH and should consider writing creatively.

[Lone Dog]

When people in TV and films who used to look old to you, now look young.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Lone Dog

When people in TV and films who used to look old to you, now look young.

Or even worse than that, when you catch up and surpass in the ageing process people who used to look older than you. (If that is what you meant with the above then I apologise). I suppose you have to realise that these folks don’t have wear and tear jobs like the majority of us and do look after themselves as their appearance is an important part of their profession. It would be interesting to like see how fresh faced they’d look if they had to get up at 4:30 am every morning like I did before furlough.

[Dougella]

^ 4.30am isn't the morning it's the middle of the night!

[Neil]

^And all for the pleasure of a few pence above minimum wage! Not in Scotland the middle of summer; it’s broad daylight at that time! Our shift pattern tends to track sunrise so in the winter months I get a lie in........and get up at six! Obviously still dark then, Scotland goes to the other extreme, but we have to stay ahead of golf. If my work mates had their way they’d start earlier, greenkeepers are a different breed.

[Dougella]

^ Well I suppose if the sun is up then it counts. You should be paid more for getting up at those kinds of hours though! Golf? You look after a golf course?

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Dougella

^ Well I suppose if the sun is up then it counts. You should be paid more for getting up at those kinds of hours though! Golf? You look after a golf course?

Yes, and the adjacent SSSI (site of special scientific interest), an area of coastal cliff tops with interesting rock formations and vegetation communities. If I were better at my job I would seek employment in a nearby golf course which happens to be a non for profit trust and is the oldest and most famous golf course in the world.

[Dougella]

^ Sounds like a nice environment to work in! You don't work for Trump do you......?

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Dougella

^ Sounds like a nice environment to work in! You don't work for Trump do you......?

It is , just a pity about the pay. Thank god, no, it’s a different course further down the coast. But I have horror stories from within the industry of what his organisation did when constructing the course.

[newbs16]

When you wake up a four o'clock and check if you can get a online shopping delivery slot.

[anxiouslondoner]

^ I've got Asda turning up this afternoon. Possibly when I should be in a meeting though! (oops)
Can't seem to get another slot with them but the Co-op seem to have a few available when I looked, though they don't let you book ahead by much.

[Lone Dog]

When you outlive famous people, naming no names.

Getting a bit morbid now.

[Neil]

When you’re in the supermarket doing your weekly shop (that in itself is quite a grown up thing to do but isn’t what I’m getting at), and you hear a song you haven’t heard in twenty years.

[MattEvs]

You love tucking your clothes in.

[Content-Contentlessness]

When the fire for desire starts waning and content requires not a thing.

[gregarious_introvert]

When you find yourself cutting your toenails with wire cutters

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[Professor Willow]

When you're walking along a country lane and say "This road used to be wider when I was a kid".

[gregarious_introvert]

^ That reminds me of what everyone always says about Wagon Wheels!

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[Lone Dog]

^ Maybe you're getting old when you notice the shrinkflation. They shrink and yet the price remains 15 shillings or such sum.

[gregarious_introvert]

^ Shillings! That's when you know you're getting old (says the man who still converts every price into pre-decimal currency).

My father nearly exploded about what he saw as an unfair increase on the price of Mars Bars on the day we went decimal!

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[Lone Dog]

^ I thought it would amuse if I mentioned shillings. I think there are a few of us born pre-decimalisation on here. I remember the changeover day quite well, I was off school, so it was either hols or I was off sick. Feb 15th 1971. Funny the things you remember.

[Azalea]

Originally Posted by Lone Dog

^ I thought it would amuse if I mentioned shillings. I think there are a few of us born pre-decimalisation on here. I remember the changeover day quite well, I was off school, so it was either hols or I was off sick. Feb 15th 1971. Funny the things you remember.

I remember that too, I was quite upset because I loved threepenny bits and would no longer be able to have them.

[Marco]

Talking about 'shrinkage', I remember revisiting my old primary school on a 'doors open' day many years ago and being surprised at how small the classrooms were. It was quite comical in fact. The school has long gone now like so much else from my childhood when it comes to buildings and the local geography due to relentless urbanisation.

But when it comes to shrinking biscuits and confectionary, don't you think it's getting out of hand? I mean, it's no longer just a trick of a childhood memory. They really are shrinking - it's not just an age thing. For example Cadbury's Creme Eggs, one bite and they're gone, plus they don't taste good as they used to ( maybe that is an age thing). I guess this phenomenon is being justified on the grounds of combating obesity.

[Lone Dog]

Originally Posted by Azalea

I loved threepenny bits

Who doesn't?

[gregarious_introvert]

^ Do you mean coins, LD, or is that rhyming slang?

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