Getting Old.

[br d]

Today is the youngest you will ever be.

[Skyedriver]

motco said:

Wacky Racer said:

You know you're getting on when TV used to consist of Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben and The Woodentops on Black and White 12" telly.

You forgot Muffin the Mule...

Was lead to believe that was a sexual offence now.


Monday Picture Book (with Patricia Driscoll (Still alive at the age of 91))
Tuesday Andy Pandy (into that hamper Looby Loo)
Wenesday Bill & Ben (and weed)
Thursday Rag Tag & Bobtail
Friday The Woodentips

Picture Book was replaced by Tales from the Riverbank IIRC

[The Mad Monk]

motco said:

Wacky Racer said:

You know you're getting on when TV used to consist of Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben and The Woodentops on Black and White 12" telly.

You forgot Muffin the Mule...

I am old enough to remember when there wasn't TV.

[Wacky Racer]

motco said:

Wacky Racer said:

You know you're getting on when TV used to consist of Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben and The Woodentops on Black and White 12" telly.

You forgot Muffin the Mule...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spQY2FbCUtM

[Dogwatch]

Skyedriver said:

Was lead to believe that was a sexual offence now.

Only on Twitter (something I can manage without)

[RDMcG]

Of course we all get old.

Just depends on what you decide to do.. I am 71, can pretty much do what I always did. Still work, still drive interesting cars, still travel, collects wine, have new things happen. The latter is the most important. Life is about the future, not the past, The past is all done and al that nostalgia for the good old days is as silly as people who repine about air-cooled cars, manual shifts, the sixties and all the usual palaver.

It's not about being young again,thankfully. It is for me about having a good career at my age.

I get involved in companies who need some experience to build a better future and make the decisions and build the strategies necessary to do so. Therefore, having as view and and plan for the emerging technology of the next few years is critical. Finding the right talent, the right management and so on is part of the thing I do.

I still go to the track and drive sports cars. I always did. Very aware it will not be so forever, but will have no regrets. Of course things will deteriorate but so what?...all a very good run

[james-witton]

My age, my IQ and my waist size all seem to be rapidly converging.

[Fast and Spurious]

yellowjack said:

Hmmmmm? Have I mellowed with age?

I was strolling around Imber village this afternoon and got called a "Gormless Sod" by some ahole on a bicycle. He followed it up with "It's a road you idiot." My crime? I was walking on a road with no footways in a village only open on a few days a year that has NO public rights of way and NO residents. How the juddering fk was I supposed to avoid walking "on the road" when there were cars parked on both sides of the road and signs everywhere warning that I might be blown up by "unexploded military debris" if I left the carriageway. And how the juddering fk was I supposed to know that this bicycling spunk-trumpet was sneaking up behind me if he didn't even own a bell, let alone ring it?

Well he's only walking around with his teeth still in his head right now because my wife got a firm grip on me and physically intervened when I tried to chase him down. I was up for dragging him from his bike and punching him until he was unconscious. Then I planned to punch him some more, and maybe rip off his arms and stuff the soggy ends up his generously upholstered arse. So I suppose you could say I've mellowed a bit with age, on account of how a few years ago I'd not have allowed my wife to keep a grip on me...

To be fair it does sound like you were walking on the wrong side of the road.

[mikeiow]

RDMcG said:

Of course we all get old.

Just depends on what you decide to do.. I am 71, can pretty much do what I always did. Still work, still drive interesting cars, still travel, collects wine, have new things happen. The latter is the most important. Life is about the future, not the past, The past is all done and al that nostalgia for the good old days is as silly as people who repine about air-cooled cars, manual shifts, the sixties and all the usual palaver.

It's not about being young again,thankfully. It is for me about having a good career at my age.

I get involved in companies who need some experience to build a better future and make the decisions and build the strategies necessary to do so. Therefore, having as view and and plan for the emerging technology of the next few years is critical. Finding the right talent, the right management and so on is part of the thing I do.

I still go to the track and drive sports cars. I always did. Very aware it will not be so forever, but will have no regrets. Of course things will deteriorate but so what?...all a very good run

Sounds good for you!

For me....well, working in IT, I’ve noticed the majority of those over 50 (& a few under) cannot wait to get out & retire....less interested in the direction that is taking. But helping son learn Python for an interest (not that I ever wrote Python, but code structures don’t change massively!)

I’m more about drinking wine than collecting it, but it is great that you are still passing on your knowledge & experience to others.

Here....once I tripped over 50, I noticed far more twinges....so whilst I still hike a fair bit, cycle a tiny bit, play volleyball....I definitely feel my age physically more.
Mentally? Much less so.
Still have a purile sense of humour.....
Regarding others, I do try more now to put myself into the shoes of those call center workers, shop keepers & others (work Product Managers etc!) who I might previously have been “less tolerant” of when they bugger things up....

[yellowjack]

Fast and Spurious said:

yellowjack said:

Hmmmmm? Have I mellowed with age?

I was strolling around Imber village this afternoon and got called a "Gormless Sod" by some ahole on a bicycle. He followed it up with "It's a road you idiot." My crime? I was walking on a road with no footways in a village only open on a few days a year that has NO public rights of way and NO residents. How the juddering fk was I supposed to avoid walking "on the road" when there were cars parked on both sides of the road and signs everywhere warning that I might be blown up by "unexploded military debris" if I left the carriageway. And how the juddering fk was I supposed to know that this bicycling spunk-trumpet was sneaking up behind me if he didn't even own a bell, let alone ring it?

Well he's only walking around with his teeth still in his head right now because my wife got a firm grip on me and physically intervened when I tried to chase him down. I was up for dragging him from his bike and punching him until he was unconscious. Then I planned to punch him some more, and maybe rip off his arms and stuff the soggy ends up his generously upholstered arse. So I suppose you could say I've mellowed a bit with age, on account of how a few years ago I'd not have allowed my wife to keep a grip on me...

To be fair it does sound like you were walking on the wrong side of the road.

Jesus Titty-fking Christ! It's Imber Village. No one lives there, nor has anyone lived there since 1943. There is nowhere to walk except "the carriageway". The same carriageway all the MOD safety signs warn you not to leave, lest you explode from stepping on some long-lost 1940s artillery shell or mortar bomb. So naturally, cars don't get to park on the verges either. Meaning that, when it's busy like it was on Sunday, with cars parked on both sides, it effectively becomes a single lane road, and there are pedestrians walking over it's entire width. Because that's what Imber open days are about. Walking through a long-dead village. Not driving, or riding through it, but walking. Some visitors were wearing headsets with an audio guided tour on them, so even more reason for fat fetishists on bicycles to either get off and walk, pick their way carefully between the hundreds, possibly thousands of visitors, or just buy a FKING BELL and ring it when they're around people.

Because, contrary to what a lot of people believe, pedestrians have priority in rural areas where there are no footways, and the car (and more relevant in this case) the bicycle are not right-ier because they are mightier.

[The Mad Monk]

yellowjack said:

or just buy a BELL and ring it when they're around people.

Point out to the cyclist that the cycle should, by law, have a bell on it when the cycle was sold. It must have been removed, ask him why it was removed?

Legal stuff below:-

"Bikes at the point of sale have to be fitted with bells."

[yellowjack]

The Mad Monk said:

yellowjack said:

or just buy a BELL and ring it when they're around people.

Point out to the cyclist that the cycle should, by law, have a bell on it when the cycle was sold. It must have been removed, ask him why it was removed?

Legal stuff below:-

"Bikes at the point of sale have to be fitted with bells."

I'd love to have pointed out a multitude of things to this particular cyclist, but he rode away after making his comments. Just like ignorant drivers seem to do, dish the abuse and give you the benefit of their opinion/advice, then take off like a scalded cat before they can be engaged in any form of debate.

And I'm fully aware of the bells thing. Which annoys me beyond reason - when someone broke the bell on my bike when it was parked, I went to a bike shop and asked if they had any spare bells. They offered to sell me one, but i know damned well that there'll be a box out in the workshop full of bells, "dork discs", and wheel reflectors that were never fitted, or removed when the bikes were collected from the shop by their owners. I have a box full of spare reflectors collected over the years, but no spare bells. and a decent bell will cost upwards of £20, these £2.99 jobs are worse than useless, as they either don't ring properly or the sprung plastic lever/striker will snap after a couple of weeks because they're not up to snuff.

But that leads to another thing that annoys me as I get older. Bikes are sold with reflectors and bells, as per the law. Then the "cool kids" decide that such things are "not cool" and then ordinary folk seem to take leave of their senses and start removing these safety devices. It's all very well arguing that a wheel reflector does nothing for road safety, but really? Has this theory been tested? I'd rather presume that they're of some use at night, rather than listen to the "cool kids" and take a chance on removing them and then NOT being seen because I removed them...

[Badda]

yellowjack said:

Fast and Spurious said:

yellowjack said:

Hmmmmm? Have I mellowed with age?

I was strolling around Imber village this afternoon and got called a "Gormless Sod" by some ahole on a bicycle. He followed it up with "It's a road you idiot." My crime? I was walking on a road with no footways in a village only open on a few days a year that has NO public rights of way and NO residents. How the juddering fk was I supposed to avoid walking "on the road" when there were cars parked on both sides of the road and signs everywhere warning that I might be blown up by "unexploded military debris" if I left the carriageway. And how the juddering fk was I supposed to know that this bicycling spunk-trumpet was sneaking up behind me if he didn't even own a bell, let alone ring it?

Well he's only walking around with his teeth still in his head right now because my wife got a firm grip on me and physically intervened when I tried to chase him down. I was up for dragging him from his bike and punching him until he was unconscious. Then I planned to punch him some more, and maybe rip off his arms and stuff the soggy ends up his generously upholstered arse. So I suppose you could say I've mellowed a bit with age, on account of how a few years ago I'd not have allowed my wife to keep a grip on me...

To be fair it does sound like you were walking on the wrong side of the road.

Jesus Titty-fking Christ! It's Imber Village. No one lives there, nor has anyone lived there since 1943. There is nowhere to walk except "the carriageway". The same carriageway all the MOD safety signs warn you not to leave, lest you explode from stepping on some long-lost 1940s artillery shell or mortar bomb. So naturally, cars don't get to park on the verges either. Meaning that, when it's busy like it was on Sunday, with cars parked on both sides, it effectively becomes a single lane road, and there are pedestrians walking over it's entire width. Because that's what Imber open days are about. Walking through a long-dead village. Not driving, or riding through it, but walking. Some visitors were wearing headsets with an audio guided tour on them, so even more reason for fat fetishists on bicycles to either get off and walk, pick their way carefully between the hundreds, possibly thousands of visitors, or just buy a FKING BELL and ring it when they're around people.

Because, contrary to what a lot of people believe, pedestrians have priority in rural areas where there are no footways, and the car (and more relevant in this case) the bicycle are not right-ier because they are mightier.

Alright Highway Code.