Floppy Joe
It really came home to me the other day, when the Eric Prydz video failed to stir anything in my loin.
(gravy1235, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 18:29, Reply)

Sigh*
It could be the gray hair that my hair dresser keeps pointing out, or maybe it's the waymy bones creak in the morning or even better the fact that my hobbies have come to include knitting and cooking.
(La Chockita, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 18:25, Reply)

The Archers
Someone asked me the other day what was happening in The Archers.

I found I could give them a detailed run-down of all the main characters, their families and relationships; and what they’d all been up to over the last 6 months.

Help me.
(keef, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 10:29, Reply)

my boyfriend is 32. I am 20
And i dread the day I start to sound like him. Last night we went round to a friends house. and the first thing he said when he sat down was "oooh put the history channel on, I like that 'what the victorians did for us'
And when he then sat there glued to the screen and I sat there looking pissed off, he turned round and said "dont u find it facinating?!"
Er... not when we are out for the evening!
Also we are due to have a baby in may, and he is already starting to act like the cheapskate old dad that my dad turned into.
(woe kitten woe unto thee, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 10:16, Reply)

When your favourite bands get back together for a "reunion"
Pop WIll Eat Itself, Wonder Stuff, probably more :-/
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 10:01, Reply)

you
know you're getting old if you see an 18 yr old and her mother, and you think the mom looks hotter than the 18 yr old...
(radja, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 9:57, Reply)

Jeezuz
I've just read an article that Bob Gedlof's kids, Fifi, Peaches and Pixie are 21, 15, and 14.

Fucksocks.
(finbarr, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 9:55, Reply)

I just
had a chat with my workmates about the benefits of mandatory national service. Get some discipline into the youth.
(he who walks, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 9:53, Reply)

teenagers are cunts
the lot of them.

that is all.
(Mr. Partyhat, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 9:19, Reply)

Fucking Teenagers
When I see a group of teenagers approaching me, I get all tensed up and mentally prepare myself for a confrontation of some sort. Crazy old bat.
(Mabel DelTaco, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 9:16, Reply)

F.E.A.R.
you know you're getting old when you worry whether a prescribed medicine will be ok with a glass of wine.

yeah, like that stopped you back in the day....
(chives, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 9:10, Reply)

Everything is too loud
Also you'll be getting ready to go out somewhere and as soon as you step out of the door it seems far too cold and you start to think how ace it will be when you get back to bed later!

Starting to find it irritating how pretentious 13 and 15 year olds are.

Feeling sorry for chavs instead of pathalogically hating them.

Deciding that a cup of tea in the morning is not a choice, its a necessity.

Anyone else find that if you used to wake up and something hurt it was cause for concern but now it just gets added to the list?

That is all.
(Super Oaf Petit filous?, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 9:05, Reply)

When...
...men start growing more facial hair than a simple (crap) goatee.

...women start growing facial hair.
(minister of heresy, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 8:56, Reply)

...
stop taking drugs for fun...
...start taking drugs 'cos your doctor says you need to.
(cybo, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 8:40, Reply)

Wagon Wheels ARE smaller these days
that is all.

Oh! and I fucking hate teenagers
( Coprolite, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 8:36, Reply)

Nasal hair
Fucking annoyingly prolific growth rate. Fuckit.
( AntonSporz, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 8:35, Reply)

( shin0r, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 8:14, Reply)

Couple of years back I went to Reading Festival
for the day..... I had been several times in my youth. I had a terrible time! I hadn't heard of all but three bands, and the fact I had my seven stone wife on my shoulders for half an hour or so, meant that I couldn't walk upright for about a month afterwards.

I also like quiet nights in watching Discovery Channel with a glass of port, I have a shed and I enjoy pottering around the garden. I am 32.
(Pearly Pearl, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 8:12, Reply)

Someone at work said that...
...young people like to wear pink (both sexes).

I am definitely not young anymore!
(Eli-T, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 7:46, Reply)

I realised that I'm a real Aussie and I'm getting old
when I started going to bar-b-q's at friends houses every weekend instead of the pub and there were more offspring running around than adults...
(flash, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 7:38, Reply)

The fashions of my teens are now "retro"
I felt old when 80's fashion briefly came back recently as a retro sort of thing. I was there the first time.

Oh, and also, when some 'been around for 5 minutes' tosser records a cover of a song. I can remember the original, and the young 'uns I work with have no idea it exists.
( HairyCanary as Ann B. Davis as Alice, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 7:19, Reply)

old eh?
i have to pretend i'm still cool.
i am though...fo sho dawg.
mr burns haircut don't help none either.
(heatmiser, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 7:05, Reply)

Bloody Kids
I was at a David Bowie concert here in Edmonton as a first aid volunteer. My partner for the night was a young lady of about 23 or 24. I'm 35.

I spent some time telling her about The Bowie and His Greatness, but she hadn't really heard much of his stuff.

Eventually Bowie does a duet with his backing guitarist / singer of "Under Pressure" and of course my partner pipes up with "I know this one! It's that song by Vanilla Ice!".

I'm just glad it was dark in there, because the look I gave her...
(kiwanotree Meh, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 6:54, Reply)

In my day I wouldn't have bee arrested for saying "In my day I'd put you over my knee and spank you"
I'm old enough to have been loving all electronic music since wayback in the haze of the late '80s, thing is, now I always feel like I'm way too old in clubs... and queueing ...whats that all about?...I had to buy some decks (whauch appenrently I should have done back then)and have been known to have the odd "quiet" night in with them and me old fogey grumpy bastard mates.... I cling on to the fact I have less interest in punctuation than I have hair...and I can still hear the words
(upsideclown, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 6:54, Reply)

Age is a state of mind (and bone density)
ALl the usual stuff like semicolons, preferring nice quiet pubs where you can make out what people are saying, dismissing pop music as shite, not understanding what teenage fashion hopes to achieve and so on have been part of my life since I was fifteen and can hardly be considered signs of age. The only additional things I have encountered by twenty-eight are the ownership of a lawn-mower (though I didn't buy it myself) and concern over how long I'll be able to maintain long hair without it becoming futile. I don't mind being older than most of the young people around the place because they're all idiots concerned with nothing more than reading Heat, buying clothes and listening to deafening shitty "music" in chrome-and-glass not-proper-pubs...
( wingpig wish I'd known about liquify eighteen years ago, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 6:35, Reply)

I remember when geeks
were referred to as "Computer Whizz-Kids"
( Mystery_Bob, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 6:33, Reply)

While sitting on a bus
a Ciroen 2CV pulled up alongside us and two kids in front of me said, "Look at that funny old car!"

I am not quite as old as the Citroen 2CV btw.
( Mystery_Bob, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 6:32, Reply)

Damn, I'm turning into my father.
I knew my years were catching up to me when I opened the sunday comics and went straight to the Prince Valiant section.
( Felis Concolor, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 6:01, Reply)

Photographic evidence
Looking through photos of a recent boat trip, I said, "Who's that bald guy?" There was an embarrassed silence, then my friends tried to tell me it's a sign of virility.
(junglejim, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 5:50, Reply)

Fossilised!
I remember record players before they were called 'turntables' by scratching DJ's

I can't hear a bloody thing anymore, and cannot believe that people ask me things and I hear it as something completely different/innaccurate, much to their hilarity.

I can remember when a music artist did not require a million dollar video and a dozen synchronised dancers simulating various degrees of sexual acts. They could also sing live and it was good.

I don't bother staying up til midnight at New Year's anymore.

Eating too much rich food often results in nighttime trips to the lav to jettison cargo.

I am now unable to sleep in past 9am.

I read in bed at night, rather than shagg my man silly every night. I think he is relieved, he's one year older than me.

I own slippers.

Haven't hired a video in over 15 years. Cassette tapes are now almost redundant.

I keep moaning about how companies have changed their product recipes, because the Twisties I enjoyed as a child no longer taste the same.

I have been known to say "When I was your age..."

I am conscious of the workings of my body, whereas in my yoof I only cared if I broke a bone or something. Now I get stiff sitting still for too long. I get sore feet and my knee aches when rain is imminent.

I have some silver hairs appearing. I only wish they would get their act together and all turn overnight so that I am still young and hip enough in my own mind to relish the sensation of having silver white arse length hair before I hit 40.

I have discussed my bowel habits with my partner. Oh the shame....
( Shazzoir Old enough to know better young enough not to care, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 5:35, Reply)