Things that make you feel old...
Discussion
Going to be 40 in the autumn which obviously isn't very old but yesterday I sneezed while leaning to one side and have painfully pulled a muscle in my side...WTF? Is this the first sign of gradually increasing decrepitude?
Hangovers...I can get one after three pints sometimes these days
More and more of my chest hair is grey and my beard is starting to show too. All the weird patches that used to grow out gingerish are now grey.
Hangovers...I can get one after three pints sometimes these days
More and more of my chest hair is grey and my beard is starting to show too. All the weird patches that used to grow out gingerish are now grey.
Just looked at some of my old records up in the attic:
Cliff Richard singing Living Doll - and it's on a 78!
Jackie Wilson singing Reet Petite - and I got it when I was 7 years old!
Elvis singing "Can't Help Falling in Love" - first heard the song with my first date (we were both 11 years old!) at the pics to see Blue Hawaii.
And realising that I still have a copy of Now 8!
Cliff Richard singing Living Doll - and it's on a 78!
Jackie Wilson singing Reet Petite - and I got it when I was 7 years old!
Elvis singing "Can't Help Falling in Love" - first heard the song with my first date (we were both 11 years old!) at the pics to see Blue Hawaii.
And realising that I still have a copy of Now 8!
grumpyscot said:
Just looked at some of my old records up in the attic:
Cliff Richard singing Living Doll - and it's on a 78!
Jackie Wilson singing Reet Petite - and I got it when I was 7 years old!
Elvis singing "Can't Help Falling in Love" - first heard the song with my first date (we were both 11 years old!) at the pics to see Blue Hawaii.
And realising that I still have a copy of Now 8!
The fact that the Now series is in its 90's!Cliff Richard singing Living Doll - and it's on a 78!
Jackie Wilson singing Reet Petite - and I got it when I was 7 years old!
Elvis singing "Can't Help Falling in Love" - first heard the song with my first date (we were both 11 years old!) at the pics to see Blue Hawaii.
And realising that I still have a copy of Now 8!
XCP said:
Being recently told I need 2 hearing aids and will be requiring new knees soon.
Let me know how you get on with the knees, mine are keeping me awake all night with pain. A regular cod liver oil dose helps a bit but I'm fed up of waking in pain and having to get up and walk out/stretch them.On Sunday I pushed a full trolley along a pontoon in Haslar Marina. My friend was behind me pushing another full trolley.
Our trollies were filled with all the sailing stuff that I had accumulated since I started sailing in 1986. There were charts, tools and cutlery. There were also things that were related to young children. There was a child's fishing net.
We had already taken three trolley loads to the bins.
The boat is going up for sale because my left leg doesn't really work any more. I cannot walk on narrow pontoons. Haslar gave me a berth on a very wide pontoon when the leg problem started, but I now find that I cannot visit any other marinas. You always end up with a two foot wide "finger" berth. I haven't sailed the boat for three years.
My wife has been telling me to sell the boat for the last two years, but I haven't been able to face up to reality.
On Sunday I had to finally admit that I am getting old.
It wasn't nice.
Our trollies were filled with all the sailing stuff that I had accumulated since I started sailing in 1986. There were charts, tools and cutlery. There were also things that were related to young children. There was a child's fishing net.
We had already taken three trolley loads to the bins.
The boat is going up for sale because my left leg doesn't really work any more. I cannot walk on narrow pontoons. Haslar gave me a berth on a very wide pontoon when the leg problem started, but I now find that I cannot visit any other marinas. You always end up with a two foot wide "finger" berth. I haven't sailed the boat for three years.
My wife has been telling me to sell the boat for the last two years, but I haven't been able to face up to reality.
On Sunday I had to finally admit that I am getting old.
It wasn't nice.
TheExcession said:
XCP said:
Being recently told I need 2 hearing aids and will be requiring new knees soon.
Let me know how you get on with the knees, mine are keeping me awake all night with pain. A regular cod liver oil dose helps a bit but I'm fed up of waking in pain and having to get up and walk out/stretch them.Revisiting my old swimming days looking at the results of British swimming championships that are currently on at the moment. At my time from swimming was from around 1998-2008ish ( returned a couple times after ) so from the ages of 8 through to 18ish.
At swimming events it was regular to see d.o.b. always close to yours, people coming through obviously younger etc. When i was looking at the results earlier there were d.o.b coming in at late 90's into year 2000's, me thinking they seem quite young to be in top level.
Then it hit me they are the same ageish when i stopped, just under 10 years ago. I'm only 26 Ffs!
At swimming events it was regular to see d.o.b. always close to yours, people coming through obviously younger etc. When i was looking at the results earlier there were d.o.b coming in at late 90's into year 2000's, me thinking they seem quite young to be in top level.
Then it hit me they are the same ageish when i stopped, just under 10 years ago. I'm only 26 Ffs!
DrSteveBrule said:
25 years old.If I had been in the Military I would have been forced to retire over 5 years ago .
Thinking 52 or 02 plate cars are quite new .
Remembering a time when anything that did more than 120mph and 0-60 in less than 8 sec was like a supercar .I have a car that exceeds both very easily and it cost way less than a grand ..
My GP is young enough to be my son .
The expiry date on my driving licence is less than 10 years away .
Thinking 52 or 02 plate cars are quite new .
Remembering a time when anything that did more than 120mph and 0-60 in less than 8 sec was like a supercar .I have a car that exceeds both very easily and it cost way less than a grand ..
My GP is young enough to be my son .
The expiry date on my driving licence is less than 10 years away .
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