You know you're getting old when..

[choirgirl]

When your pop culture references are really out of date. I find myself wanting to quote Clueless and even Pulp Fiction. I just have to stop myself.

[gregarious_introvert]

^ Those references are a bit recent for me!

^^ That has nothing to do with age, I've recoiled in horror at my image all my life (I wouldn't allow my photograph to be taken as a child), although I didn't take my first selfie until I was 56, so I understand what you mean.

[Marco]

^^^I know what you mean! Somehow phone cameras seem to pick out and magnify every crease and fold on an ageing face to a far greater and crueller degree than any mirror.

[Mr. Nobody]

you have to take strong painkillers for something and then suddenly realise that it's only now that your body feels like it used to 20 years ago

[Percy]

Originally Posted by Kooky Monster

You have to employ a cushion if you plan on kneeling down for more than 3 minutes. Wrapping Xmas pressies on the floor ain't as easy as it used to be.

I can relate to this. Kneeling on the floor isn't what it used to be.

[Percy]

Originally Posted by Dougella

^ I don't think everyone feels that way, and I think your mindset has a lot to do with how your life is and how you feel as you get older.

I was miserable when I was 18, I knew nothing, I was scared and I had no idea how anything would ever get any better. Now at 35 (edit, I forgot I'm now 36. A sign of getting older is you don't know how old you are anymore lol) I feel happier than I ever did when I was younger! I know myself better, I have people in my life that I didn't know then and are a very positive influence.

I'm older than you (39), you're a whipper snapper compared to me.

[Dougella]

^ Atleast you can remember how old you are

[Percy]

^Senile dementure kicking in is it?

[Dougella]

^ It seems to be!

[choirgirl]

I keep forgetting how old I am too. I just know I'm the wrong side of 40!

[Percy]

You're older than me. I always assumed you were younger.

[choirgirl]

^^^That's because I got stunted.

[choirgirl]

^^^Yes. I still have tapes from my teenage years. (CDs were too expensive.) I got rid of a lot of stuff when we moved house but I have a box of cassette tapes. Just so I can look at it once every three years and remember ... what? I Some of them are worth a tenner on ebay though, so that's quite cool. I could sell them. I do periodically reduce things, but I am thinking of going full on razed earth with the stuff. Was putting it off until I moved out (along with ... nearly everything.)I'm never going to have a bourgeois lifestyle, surrounded my by accumulated stuff. So the answer to this ramble is ... I don't know.

[Dougella]

^ I have some tapes too and a Walkman. I figure it may be useful at some point

[choirgirl]

^I have nothing to play them on!

[Rocket Spud]

^ That's .... quite ...... well ... ..

[Rocket Spud]

Yes! It's a bloody shame.. !

[Azalea]

Originally Posted by Kooky Monster

When you make a cup of tea, bring it in the living room and go to put it on the table where a newly brewed cuppa is already sitting

Or let it go cold, open the microwave to warm it up and spot the last one you warmed up still sitting there.

[Dougella]

Originally Posted by choirgirl

^I have nothing to play them on!

I also have a stereo with a tape player in it. See this is why keeping things sometimes pays off

[choirgirl]

^I think consumerism is genuinely enjoyable when you're a child, or teen, or young adult but less so with age. Partly because you have stuff already. It's like - stuff, what else do you have to offer me, life? Very wise decision.

[Asymmetric Being]

Originally Posted by faceless crime

.....The more repulsive the unthinking consumerism of Christmas seems. Couple of friends were all upset this year since i only asked for things i could eat and drink as gifts and emphasized that i would rly appreciate not getting any 'surprise extras' (having a massive clearout atm plus I'm tired of accumulating stuff i dont need/want)

Now I have all this delicious booze and cheese and chocolate to try and i can recycle all the packaging
Doing this every year now, very sexy decision on my part.

I love getting foodie gifts, I don’t get them that often though so I like your idea for next year!

After the year we’ve all had I have felt uncomfortable about presents as I feel I should appreciate what I already have (and I do!). I felt much better getting smaller gifts for people. I put just as much thought into them though. Some were happy with that, others, I suspect, weren’t, but heyho!

[Dougella]

^ That sounds like a great present to me!


When you start to think your mother might be right about the benefits of thermal vests.

[Percy]

I got a microwavable minion for christmas, can't beat that for toasty warm.

[Percy]

Just thought i'd confuse the hell out of everyone

[MissKatie]

Phew I'm definitely struggling these days with stamina.
I'm as strong as I ever was but the days of me getting up early ready to jump into action are diminishing.

Lol I usually lay in bed whilst the alarm screams at me, lamenting how much my body aches í*¾í´£

[choirgirl]

I don't think I've ever been raring to go at 6 am! It tended to involve treating myself like a robot. I used to have terrible sleep problems so I associate that with being young.

[Dougella]

^ Me neither!

[Oopsupsideyerhead]

when you look like your grandad on facetime and in selfies

[choirgirl]

You accept that, unless you are a true lover of humanity and an all-round lovely person, you do have to be selfish in life. Deliberately, not accidentally. It's so hard and depressing, it takes some of the meaning out of life, but I suppose most people play mental games with themselves so they're comfortable with it. Such as the 'well, I'm not as bad as that person/group over there'. Well, I'm good at mental games so I should have gone with that. I realise most people accept this much earlier, but I'm a slow learner.

[limey123]

When working 12-hr shifts at night is killing you. You can't sleep normally (or at all) and you're developing multiple ailments to boot. Yet the 21-year-olds in your team seem to manage just fine on 4 hours sleep and lots of energy drinks...