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Subject: It's true I tells ya!
PARTS OF THIS MAY NOT MAKE MUCH SENSE TO THOSE OUTSIDE THE UK.
You Know You Are Getting Old When..........
1. You leave clubs before the end to "beat the rush".
2. You get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than goingclubbing.
3. You stop dreaming of becoming a professional footballer and start dreaming of having a son who might instead.
4. Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the property section.
5. You prefer Later with Jools Holland to Top of the Pops.
6. All of a sudden, Tony Blair is not 46, he's only 46.
7. Before going out anywhere, you ask what the parking is like.
8. Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them because they'll be all right for the garden.
9. You buy your first ever T-shirt without anything written on it.
10. Instead of laughing at the innovations catalogue that falls out of the newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving properties of a plastic winter cover for your garden bench and an electronic mole repellent for the lawn. Not to mention the plastic man for the car to deter would-be thieves.
11. You start to worry about your parents' health.
12. You complain that ecstasy's "not as pure as it used to be coz you know that if you have some it will take about 48 hours to recover and anyway, you might look a bit of an idiot.
13. Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything you want to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid.
14. You don't get funny looks when you buy a Disney video or a Wallace and Gromit bubble bath, as the sales assistant assumes they are for your child (or grandchild!).
15. Pop music all starts to sound crap. (I spotted this about thirty years ago!)
16. You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they don't have any pictures on the menus and anyway, they do a really nice half-bottle of house white.
17. You become powerless to resist the lure of self-assembly furniture.
18. You always have enough milk in.
19. To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to go clubbing, you instead frequent really loud tapas restaurants and franchise pubs with wacky names in the mistaken belief that you have not turned into your parents.
20. While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4's Time Team with Tony Robinson. You get drawn in.
21. The benefits of a pension scheme become clear.
22. You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from B&Q.
23. You wish you had a shed.
24. You have a shed.
25. You actually find yourself saying "They don't make 'em like that anymore" and "I remember when there were only 3 TV channels" and "Of course, in my day...."
26. Radio 2 play more songs you know than Radio 1 - and they get some really interesting guests on.
27. Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the bus, you tut at school children whose diction is poor.
28. When sitting outside a pub you become envious of their hanging baskets.
29. You make an effort to be in and out of the curry house by 11.
30. You come face to face with your own mortality for the first time, and the indestructibility of the 20s gives way to a realisation that you are but passing through this life and if you don't settle down soon and have kids you'll have no-one to look after you when you're old and frail and incontinent and you can't go on p**sing your life up against a wall forever
and think of how many brain cells you're destroying every time a swift half turns into 10 pints, and look at that, a full set of stainless steel saucepans for 99 quid, they cost as much as 35 each if you buy them separately, and you get a milk pan thrown in, ...
31. You find yourself saying "is it cold in here or is it just me?"
Subject: Re: It's true I tells ya!
Quoting:
You leave clubs before the end to "beat the rush".
You buy your first ever T-shirt without anything written on it.
Pop music all starts to sound crap. (I spotted this about thirty years ago!)
While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4's Time Team with Tony Robinson. You get drawn in.
You actually find yourself saying "They don't make 'em like that anymore" and "I remember when there were only 3 TV channels" and "Of course, in my day...."
You find yourself saying "is it cold in here or is it just me?"
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I have done/been found guilty of these traits. I don't really care for Archeology but 'Time Team' can be quite compelling. I think it's the enthusiasm on everybody's faces - it just tickles me.
Subject: Re: It's true I tells ya!
judging by this i'm not getting old, I AM old.
Subject: Re: It's true I tells ya!
Although I am guilty of many 'old' things (in particular finding pubs where the music isn't too loud and we can sit down) I do not class myself as old yet. I am using the Victoria Wood definition of old which is when you pass the Scholl sandal display in Boots the Chemist and think 'hmm they look nice and comfy' I haven't done that yet!
Subject: Re: It's true I tells ya!
I have
Subject: Re: It's true I tells ya!
Quoting:
I have
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Oh dear there is no hope for you at all boris. ;)
Maybe in two years time I'll feel like that too?
Subject: Re: It's true I tells ya!
Quoting:
Oh dear there is no hope for you at all boris. ;)
Maybe in two years time I'll feel like that too?
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I not only looked, I bought
Subject: Re: It's true I tells ya!
Oh dear :-/
That said I do wear Kays Springers sandals because they are comfy. I thought they looked quite trendy until a secretary at work showed me her pair. She's due to retire next year! At least hers weren't the brightish orange pair like I've got but a more subdued brown.
Subject: Re: It's true I tells ya!
Quoting:
PARTS OF THIS MAY NOT MAKE MUCH SENSE TO THOSE OUTSIDE THE UK.
You Know You Are Getting Old When..........
1. You leave clubs before the end to "beat the rush".
2. You get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than goingclubbing.
3. You stop dreaming of becoming a professional footballer and start dreaming of having a son who might instead.
4. Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the property section.
5. You prefer Later with Jools Holland to Top of the Pops.
6. All of a sudden, Tony Blair is not 46, he's only 46.
7. Before going out anywhere, you ask what the parking is like.
8. Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them because they'll be all right for the garden.
9. You buy your first ever T-shirt without anything written on it.
10. Instead of laughing at the innovations catalogue that falls out of the newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving properties of a plastic winter cover for your garden bench and an electronic mole repellent for the lawn. Not to mention the plastic man for the car to deter would-be thieves.
11. You start to worry about your parents' health.
12. You complain that ecstasy's "not as pure as it used to be coz you know that if you have some it will take about 48 hours to recover and anyway, you might look a bit of an idiot.
13. Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything you want to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid.
14. You don't get funny looks when you buy a Disney video or a Wallace and Gromit bubble bath, as the sales assistant assumes they are for your child (or grandchild!).
15. Pop music all starts to sound crap. (I spotted this about thirty years ago!)
16. You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they don't have any pictures on the menus and anyway, they do a really nice half-bottle of house white.
17. You become powerless to resist the lure of self-assembly furniture.
18. You always have enough milk in.
19. To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to go clubbing, you instead frequent really loud tapas restaurants and franchise pubs with wacky names in the mistaken belief that you have not turned into your parents.
20. While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4's Time Team with Tony Robinson. You get drawn in.
21. The benefits of a pension scheme become clear.
22. You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from B&Q.
23. You wish you had a shed.
24. You have a shed.
25. You actually find yourself saying "They don't make 'em like that anymore" and "I remember when there were only 3 TV channels" and "Of course, in my day...."
26. Radio 2 play more songs you know than Radio 1 - and they get some really interesting guests on.
27. Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the bus, you tut at school children whose diction is poor.
28. When sitting outside a pub you become envious of their hanging baskets.
29. You make an effort to be in and out of the curry house by 11.
30. You come face to face with your own mortality for the first time, and the indestructibility of the 20s gives way to a realisation that you are but passing through this life and if you don't settle down soon and have kids you'll have no-one to look after you when you're old and frail and incontinent and you can't go on p**sing your life up against a wall forever
and think of how many brain cells you're destroying every time a swift half turns into 10 pints, and look at that, a full set of stainless steel saucepans for 99 quid, they cost as much as 35 each if you buy them separately, and you get a milk pan thrown in, ...
31. You find yourself saying "is it cold in here or is it just me?"
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'm getting OLD! I'm only 10........!!!