You know when you're getting old when.....

rlw

When you are sitting in a fetching blue gown in the cardiac unit it your local hospital.

RocknRollDave

EricTheWeary said:

Yesterday I was driving and a Dire Straits song was on the radio and I didn't turn it off. 

Worse still, it wasn't because you were enjoying the music, it's just that you can't work these new fangled car radios like the kids can, dagnamit...

Cirrus

I get these little moments of perspective every now and then, I'll be 32 this year. Everything's relative so older people will scoff at these and younger people won't appreciate what they mean to me.

The recent ones;

I was born 40 years after the end of World War 2. 40 years isn't very long in the grand scheme of things. My dad was born 7 years after the end of the war. When he was born, there were still people alive who fought in the Boer War. According to Wikipedia, there was still someone alive who had fought in the American Civil War.

To have been 18 in 1945 you'd be 90 this year - soon WW2 will have slipped entirely from living memory. In 10 years time we'll be talking about the last few people alive who actually fought in that conflict, in the same way that 10 years ago we were talking about the same for the first world war - Harry Patch etc.

The '90s are as long ago now as the '60s were when I was born. 1991 saw u2's Achtung Baby, Nirvana's Nevermind, RHCP's BSSM, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains records... They're going to be 26 years old this year. 26 years before 1991 was was 1965. So by the end of this year there will be a greater span of time between the present day and those early '90s records than between those records and The Beatles' Rubber Soul.

I'm part of the last generation that will remember the world before mobile phones and the mass proliferation of the internet which I believe has altered society and the way we live our lives fundamentally. I remember a time when you kept your friends' phone numbers in a book, and knew some off by heart. When to socialize and be part of a group you had to plan ahead and make a physical effort to go outside and be in the presence of people. When to buy something you had to go to a shop that sold it, barring the occasional phone catalogue. When if you wanted to find out about something you had to go to the library or hope that it was in the single volume encyclopedia on the shelf at home.

People younger than me will probably be unable to comprehend a world where you don't have all the information and communication potential you could ever need at your fingertips 24 hours a day.

AliGorie

breakstuff said:

Apologies upfront.Monday morning downer alert.



The wife and I were watching a something on BBC4 the other night when Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana came on along with the date it was released when a horrifying thought occurred to me.Twenty five years ago I was a young,vibrant twenty one year old.In the blink of an eye I'm suddenly forty six.The horrifying part is when you add a further twenty five years on I'll be seventy one.Now that's when you know you're getting old,and a lot faster than you'd wish.

I've graduated to preferring this version -



for myself - when when someone (in the front row) offers me they're clip on guitar tuner and I ask "what, do you want me to time myself ?"

jellyroll

Your birthday is closer to the FIRST World War than it is to today.

Bridgehouse

jellyroll said:

Your birthday is closer to the FIRST World War than it is to today.

Ah, I'm fine then. My birthday is on Wednesday this week.

jellyroll

Bridgehouse said:

jellyroll said:

Your birthday is closer to the FIRST World War than it is to today.

Ah, I'm fine then. My birthday is on Wednesday this week.

I couldn't think of a concise way of saying it accurately, but you get my drift......

Bridgehouse

jellyroll said:

Bridgehouse said:

jellyroll said:

Your birthday is closer to the FIRST World War than it is to today.

Ah, I'm fine then. My birthday is on Wednesday this week.

I couldn't think of a concise way of saying it accurately, but you get my drift......

Of course, I was just pulling your leg

jellyroll

Bridgehouse said:

jellyroll said:

Bridgehouse said:

jellyroll said:

Your birthday is closer to the FIRST World War than it is to today.

Ah, I'm fine then. My birthday is on Wednesday this week.

I couldn't think of a concise way of saying it accurately, but you get my drift......

Of course, I was just pulling your leg

Ah. That's a relief. I thought it was gout.

EricTheWeary

RocknRollDave said:

EricTheWeary said:

Yesterday I was driving and a Dire Straits song was on the radio and I didn't turn it off. 

Worse still, it wasn't because you were enjoying the music, it's just that you can't work these new fangled car radios like the kids can, dagnamit...

As I have to drive with the car clock an hour wrong six months of the year that's not far from the truth. 

fields5069

...you die of natural causes.

proggy

When you keep a special stick in the cupboard for stirring paint.

breakstuff

breakstuff said:

And then you get excited when you realise they've put an extra sachet in.

Two days in a row!!!!!!


Ave it!!!

Alnico

.......when you see a picture of Axl Rose now.

bodhi

...when you've grown hair in places where in your younger days you didn't have those places.

breakstuff

breakstuff said:

breakstuff said:

And then you get excited when you realise they've put an extra sachet in.

Two days in a row!!!!!!


Ave it!!!

Have decided I've no longer any need for a second one so I've decided to let it go.Brand new and in great condition but would probably benefit from a new pot.

Will trade.

Pm me for deets.

https://imgur.com/NK1lrQf

Oh,and before anyone asks,weight is around half a gram.

keithf

you refer to your knees as good and bad as apposed to right and left.

maltingsaudio

You are told Star Wars is 40 years old! 

Ravenous

You know when you're getting old when.....

You just can't find the time to argue with flat earthers any more.

mike_l

When what was once 6 inches and a wrinkle is now 6 wrinkles and an inch.......


What you could once do all night now takes all night to do..........