Getting Old
Well, I've always had a profound interest in gardening...since I was 5...so that's not it.

It's the aforementioned facts that it takes a day (or so) for a hangover to go away, and when I bend over to tie shoelaces, or I get out of my car, I make bunches of noises. You are NOT allowed to make these noises until you're 35, at least.

Mostly, what makes me feel old and distressed is living in America, with the government we have right now, and the standard of living I'm "supposed" to have at my age. Affluenza. Keeping up with the Joneses, and I don't even try because it's useless and stupid. I'm serious. April
(April, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 6:15, Reply)

19 years old
and i'm a fulltime busdriver living in my own place

the average age people guess me to be is "late twenties early thirties"

goddamnit! at this rate i'll be going through a midlife crisis at 21!
(Craig can be found racing buses in manchester, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 6:05, Reply)

I was in Mallorca last week,
I was having a drink and attempting to dance with young attractive ladies. Suddenly one of the girls grabbed my shoulders and turned me round to dance with her mother.
( Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sat 30 Oct 2004, 4:32, Reply)

Plomien,
And you used to get a free bazooka with it! Remember?
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 3:51, Reply)

Not so much getting old
as being perceived as old. A kid I babysat for asked if I knew what a Gameboy was.
(Outatime, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 1:51, Reply)

I recently turned 30...
Almost overnight, many things have changed:
1) Suddenly and inexplicably, I'm really into DIY. Not only do I actually own some tools now, I even know how to use them!
2) I no longer go the gym to work on my biceps - I go there because I worry about heart disease and an expanding waistline.
3) I have a bad back
4) I favour slip-on shoes over lace-ups, because bending over to tie laces is a right kerfuffle.
5) I am thinking about going to yoga or pilates and no longer consider these things solely for 'women and gays'.
6) I recently had to buy one of those nasal clipper machines because a jungle has started sprouting out of my nose. AAAAAGH!
( Biffins Bridge, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 1:36, Reply)

When i start to sound more & more like my mother
eeeeek!
(up_and_down, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 1:28, Reply)

Your friends get married...
and you envy them.
(The TPOL, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 1:13, Reply)

or maybe you drive by the high school
and instead of thinking "i wonder if she'd go out with me?"

you think "i wonder if i'd get caught...?"

;)
(HalfwayHebrew, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 20:26, Reply)

when you drive by the high school
and you dont think "look at how short her skirt is!"

but instead think "look at how short her skirt is!"
(HalfwayHebrew, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 20:25, Reply)

the girls around me
none of them want to date anymore, they all want to get married and have kids.
(HalfwayHebrew, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 20:20, Reply)

well
less things are illegal now.
(HalfwayHebrew, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 20:19, Reply)

Sleepy
Know im getting on a bit as i can't get enough sleep. Im only 17, but when i get home after an 8 hour day at 6 o clock, i could actually go to sleep there and then on my couch! Used to be able to stay up playing nintendo for 8 hours, then go and have a kick about, then go to school all the next week without feeling anything. Now i always need exactly 10 hrs or more to feel "fulfilled"! Jesus!
(nickanytime, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 20:00, Reply)

I personally
don't think it's a sign of age if you don't like or know what is in the charts. It's a sign of not being an eight year old girl. I hate the charts and everything to do with it and i'm only 16. (ironically i'm a music student and musician, but then ageain the sho-llocks they feed kids these days is not music only sound).
( Brown cow, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 19:55, Reply)

Im only 17
and already i have started feeling those terrible feelings of getting old. I smile and reminiss (need to learn how to spell that word)when i think back to those late great TV programmes....Thomas The Tank Engine, Postman pat, Thunderbirds, Rainbow, Adams Family in black and white.....apparently half of those are still going.

Also remembering when Spice Girls were top of the charts and beign able to sing their songs perfectly without reading the lyrics sheet...
(Gorbee, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 19:41, Reply)

Baldness
My niece now calls me 'Uncle Slaphead' or, if she's being affectionate, 'Unkie Slaps'. Brilliant.
(GTed, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 19:33, Reply)

Musix
When you hear that top house 'choon' you still consider the epitome of cool and realise it is 12 years old and would have been the equivalent of Showaddywaddy being played in clubs when you started going out.
(Bob Elvis, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 19:31, Reply)

Kids
tv is fucking shite - all the cartoons are a half hour advert for some crap toys that your children will lose interest in 3 days after buying it for the ungrateful little shits. I used to love cartoons - not anymore though.
Discovery channel - love it!. Mastermind and Universty Challenge - compulsive Monday evening viewing.
The charts - what a pile of rancid goat smegma! In any given year since about 1990, there have chart-toppers that consist of playing an old classic slowly, and mumbling some "words" over the top. Very fucking talented I'm sure. Pop Idol - televised karaoke. Big Brother - the unemployed watching the unemployable. I know I'm getting old - I'd have to start defying known laws of physics otherwise. I'm a bit of a grammar and spelling pedant, even though I've never had the rules of grammar adequately explained to me. I crave tea rather than THC. I have actually ordered coffee in a bar even if I'm not driving. I don't yet own slippers, but it's probably not long now. I hate all soap operas - then again, I always have, so that's no indicator.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 19:26, Reply)

still young (16, nearly)
but was out in the car with my dad. Went past 2 girls wearing very short skirts, and he said "Look at them, they'll catch their deaths like that"
now THAT is a sign of oldness, surely
(. . . . ., Fri 29 Oct 2004, 19:10, Reply)

You know you're getting old......
When you make that old geezer groaning noise when you bend over to pick something up. It's totally involuntary, I hate that!
(arsebiscuit, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 19:05, Reply)

Evidence? You want evidence?
That's easy, I just look in the mirror.

Grey hair, wrinkles, false teeth
Yep, I'm old!!!
( faithy, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 19:05, Reply)

pick up the Beano
from the shelf in the newsagent and look at the price of 75p and realise you used to read it when it was 10p (or less), and that 75p was a lot of money when you were younger.....
( Plomien is Polish for flame, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 19:01, Reply)

When you hear that people your age
haven't fallen over, but "have had a fall"

I used to hear it for older relatives, "you're nan's alright, but she's had a bit of a fall". Now I hear people saying it about me!
( Mr Peet, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 18:59, Reply)

The fact that where i work
I see lots of new female staff members and then realise that 2 years ago they were all jailbait!!
Whats even more scary is i then realise they are younger than my kid sister!!
( Plomien is Polish for flame, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 18:57, Reply)

When...
you tell a workmate the sad news about John Peel and they reply "Who?"

Honestly, where's your sense of history?
(Attica, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 18:55, Reply)

Isn't Radio 1 crap these days?
Radio 2 is much better.
( Bagpuss, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 18:48, Reply)

I'm only 19....
I've never heard of any of these 'bands' that are in the 'charts'. In fact not since a brief stint of interest when I was about 15 have I ever heard of any of them. I listen to Classic FM all the time.

No-one has heard of most of the films in my DVD collection, since they pre-date 2000.

I go to Lancaster Uni, but have never been to the Carlton or Sugarhouse (yes, if you know what I'm talking about, it is true).

I think young people suck, even though some of them are older than me.
(R-T-C Got arbitrage profits?, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 18:42, Reply)

I'd violently assault someone,
if it got me a working tumble drier.
(goat thinks you're shit, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 18:33, Reply)

TV tips to indicate that you're getting on a bit
"Top of the pops - make some noise" - Why?
Stuff being sold for "one seven nine nine" when they mean one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine pounds
You recognise stuff turning up on auction shows
Josh Barkers voice has broken on "My parents are aliens"
You've got socks older than most of the cast of Hollyoaks
You wonder how the BBC can advertise every other BBC tv and radio programme, then charge us £100 each for a licence because they "don't do advertising"
Or is it just me?
(sandman0733, Fri 29 Oct 2004, 18:29, Reply)