You know you're getting on a bit when...

[Punctilio]

When you think the man apearing on Pointless wearing shorts
has never been educated in what is inappropriate.

[Roofless Toothless]

When you watch Pointless.

[Punctilio]

Roofless Toothless said:

When you watch Pointless.

In mitigation Konnie Huq was at the computer.

[Sticks.]

Punctilio said:

Roofless Toothless said:

When you watch Pointless.

In mitigation Konnie Huq was at the computer.

When you 've no idea who Konnie Huq is.

[lord trumpton]

When the BBC World Service is your Radio Station of choice

[DickyC]

Sticks. said:

Punctilio said:

Roofless Toothless said:

When you watch Pointless.

In mitigation Konnie Huq was at the computer.

When you 've no idea who Konnie Huq is.

But fear it might be rhyming slang.

[Earthdweller]

When you’re at work, sitting on a bus with a load of colleagues and you realise that you were in the job when none of them were even born

[DickyC]

...you remember Matey Bubble Bath as a powder.

[glenrobbo]

EmailAddress said:

Jesus.

Here Grandad, I got you a seat by the window.

When you remember back to the times when your (galvanised tin) bath was taken down on a Saturday evening from the hook on the side of the shed, brought indoors and placed on the stone-flagged floor in front of the kitchen range, and filled with water from the big pans heated thereon, and when it was your turn, you stripped off, got in, and you scrubbed yourself with the communal flannel, a loofah and a big bar of yellow Sunlight soap, and Mum rinsed your head with an enamel tin jugful of tepid water.

Also, laboriously filling the buckets with water from the cast iron handpump across the yard.
And lighting the gas wall-lights with a small wax taper or thin wooden spill, taking great care not to touch the very fragile and brittle gas mantle.

Edited by glenrobbo on Sunday 12th March 11:29

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

When you remember back to the times when your (galvanised tin) bath was taken down on a Saturday evening from the hook on the side of the shed, brought indoors and placed on the stone-flagged floor in front of the kitchen range, and filled with water from the big pans heated thereon, and when it was your turn, you stripped off, got in, and you scrubbed yourself with the communal flannel, a loofah and a big bar of yellow Sunlight soap, and Mum rinsed your head with an enamel tin jugful of tepid water.

Also, laboriously filling the buckets with water from the cast iron handpump across the yard.
And lighting the gas wall-lights with a small wax taper or thin wooden spill, taking great care not to touch the very fragile and brittle gas mantle.

The gas mantle thing is interesting. In the majority of period dramas where gas street lights are featured, the lights have naked flames not a mantle. Looks wrong to me.

[Cliftonite]

glenrobbo said:

When you remember back to the times when your (galvanised tin) bath was taken down on a Saturday evening from the hook on the side of the shed, brought indoors and placed on the stone-flagged floor in front of the kitchen range, and filled with water from the big pans heated thereon, and when it was your turn, you stripped off, got in, and you scrubbed yourself with the communal flannel, a loofah and a big bar of yellow Sunlight soap, and Mum rinsed your head with an enamel tin jugful of tepid water.

Also, laboriously filling the buckets with water from the cast iron handpump across the yard.
And lighting the gas wall-lights with a small wax taper or thin wooden spill, taking great care not to touch the very fragile and brittle gas mantle.

Edited by glenrobbo on Sunday 12th March 11:29

You're my long-lost brother AICMFP.

[glenrobbo]

DickyC said:

The gas mantle thing is interesting. In the majority of period dramas where gas street lights are featured, the lights have naked flames not a mantle. Looks wrong to me.

The gas mantle is/was a woven linen(?) fine mesh that was pliable and flexible when first removed from its' packet and was fitted over the special flanges of the gaslight and tightened with drawstrings.
When lit, the mantle would become incandescent, giving off a very bright white light.
It then also became extremely brittle, and would crumble at the slightest touch.
Usually it was protected by a glass or metal gauze shield.

I don't know when this modern technology superceded the old flickering flame, but it was a revolutionary step forward in lighting the way to the future.
They used similar mantles in the Tilly Lamps iirc.

Those were the days my friend.
You could even make distinct animal-shaped shadows on the lime-washed walls of the living room using your hands, by way of entertainment of an evening. Great fun!
And Granny could see what she was knitting/crocheting/darning, as Grandad wove his corn dollies and smoked his Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.

[glenrobbo]

Cliftonite said:

You're my long-lost brother AICMFP.

I remember my excitement on the day I saw my first ever bus.

I nearly fell off my hobby-horse!

[CopperBolt]

Pit Pony said:

Monkeylegend said:

CopperBolt said:

You get a clean break once a year, if you're lucky.

Once in a lifetime for me, and I will forever be thankful to that solicitor.

I have no idea. What does it mean ?

When you've completed your morning constitutional and present the first folded piece of paper to carry out the necessary it comes away "drawing an ace" i.e. no "markings". So rare that you have to try again with another piece just to be sure.
Well, you did ask.

[tiw75]

when you stop 'falling over' & it's now 'having a fall'

[king arthur]

I take my new glasses off from time to time to give them a clean.

But, now I can't actually see what I'm doing so I just end up making them worse.

I'm just not used to these age related issues, how do other people manage it? Does it get any better?

[Pitre]

tiw75 said:

when you stop 'falling over' & it's now 'having a fall'

When youngsters laugh after you fall over, you're young.

When youngsters are concerned after you fall over, you're old.

[Nimby]

glenrobbo said:

When you remember back to the times when your (galvanised tin) bath was taken down on a Saturday evening from the hook on the side of the shed, brought indoors and placed on the stone-flagged floor in front of the kitchen range, and filled with water from the big pans heated thereon...

Our hot water came from a gas Ascot heater.

[Nimby]

EmailAddress said:

Nimby said:

Our hot water came from a gas Ascot heater.

Was your Mum a Dinner Lady at the Cricket Club.

I think you're confusing an Ascot heater - a common 1960's domestic appliance - with something like a Burco boiler for tea/coffee catering.
Must be your age ...

Edited by Nimby on Tuesday 14th March 09:24

[TheJimi]

Cliftonite said:

glenrobbo said:

When you remember back to the times when your (galvanised tin) bath was taken down on a Saturday evening from the hook on the side of the shed, brought indoors and placed on the stone-flagged floor in front of the kitchen range, and filled with water from the big pans heated thereon, and when it was your turn, you stripped off, got in, and you scrubbed yourself with the communal flannel, a loofah and a big bar of yellow Sunlight soap, and Mum rinsed your head with an enamel tin jugful of tepid water.

Also, laboriously filling the buckets with water from the cast iron handpump across the yard.
And lighting the gas wall-lights with a small wax taper or thin wooden spill, taking great care not to touch the very fragile and brittle gas mantle.

Edited by glenrobbo on Sunday 12th March 11:29

You're my long-lost brother AICMFP.

When you use AICMFP