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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Twenty years after she started working as a tv presenter, your first thoughts whenever you see Gabby Logan are - it's Terry Yorath's daughter!
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    You can remember the Festival of Britain in 1951.

    I was taken as a nine year old and can remember being almost literally dragged there as it meant missing our home game against Manchester United. It seemed ridiculous at the time being taken to an exhibition when there was an important match at the Valley.

    As a matter of interest - I just googled it - we lost 2-1 in front of a crowd of nearly 32,000.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Blackheathen said:

    You can remember the Festival of Britain in 1951.

    I was taken as a nine year old and can remember being almost literally dragged there as it meant missing our home game against Manchester United. It seemed ridiculous at the time being taken to an exhibition when there was an important match at the Valley.

    As a matter of interest - I just googled it - we lost 2-1 in front of a crowd of nearly 32,000.

    @ElfsborgAddick was mascot that day at the age of 21.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    When you get the kids to open the childproof medicine bottles for you.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,010
    When you hear that Mark Kinsella who you didn't think was that much older than you, has a 17 year old daughter who's just won a gold at the Commonwealth games.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,031
    ricky_otto said:

    Blackheathen said:

    You can remember the Festival of Britain in 1951.

    I was taken as a nine year old and can remember being almost literally dragged there as it meant missing our home game against Manchester United. It seemed ridiculous at the time being taken to an exhibition when there was an important match at the Valley.

    As a matter of interest - I just googled it - we lost 2-1 in front of a crowd of nearly 32,000.

    @ElfsborgAddick was mascot that day at the age of 21.
    Now I do ball boy duties.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    ricky_otto said:

    Blackheathen said:

    You can remember the Festival of Britain in 1951.

    I was taken as a nine year old and can remember being almost literally dragged there as it meant missing our home game against Manchester United. It seemed ridiculous at the time being taken to an exhibition when there was an important match at the Valley.

    As a matter of interest - I just googled it - we lost 2-1 in front of a crowd of nearly 32,000.

    @ElfsborgAddick was mascot that day at the age of 21.
    Now I do ball boys duties.
    Easy Rolf
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,031
    cafcdave123 said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    ricky_otto said:

    Blackheathen said:

    You can remember the Festival of Britain in 1951.

    I was taken as a nine year old and can remember being almost literally dragged there as it meant missing our home game against Manchester United. It seemed ridiculous at the time being taken to an exhibition when there was an important match at the Valley.

    As a matter of interest - I just googled it - we lost 2-1 in front of a crowd of nearly 32,000.

    @ElfsborgAddick was mascot that day at the age of 21.
    Now I do ball boys duties.
    Easy Rolf
    Give me back my original post and I'll remove the flag!
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,595
    When you read the thread about the retro shirts and think that they’re not that old.
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    edited April 2018
    When Lindsay Buckingham quits Fleetwood Mac and is replaced by Neil Finn (Crowded House) and Mike Campbell (Heartbreakers)!
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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,031
    When a schoolkid gets up and offers you a seat on the tram.
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,960
    I toyed with putting this on the things that annoy you thread, but thought it was likely to be an age thing.

    Sourcing what appears to be a really good film on Sky, Netflix or terrestrial TV only to discover after 5, 10 or 20 minutes you've already seen it! Even though I can't remember what happened I seldom continue to watch it.
  • Holdkneebomb
    Holdkneebomb Posts: 1,262
    bolloxbolder said:

    I toyed with putting this on the things that annoy you thread, but thought it was likely to be an age thing.

    Sourcing what appears to be a really good film on Sky, Netflix or terrestrial TV only to discover after 5, 10 or 20 minutes you've already seen it! Even though I can't remember what happened I seldom continue to watch it.

    Sat through 20 minutes of an episode of keeping faith last week before either my wife or I realised it was the one we saw last week
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    You see Kylie nearing 50 and think how much she looks like Joanna Lumley.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,677
    You’re smart enough to own an iphone, smart enough to have a bus app. … and delighted that the the bus is ‘due’.

    Trouble is you’re not quick enough, and by the time you look up again the bus is just a red blur as it flashes past.

    (Yes this happened to me).
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Your GP wants to put you on statins because " you may have a cardio-vascular "event" within the next 10 years"
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,619
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

    Your GP wants to put you on statins because " you may have a cardio-vascular "event" within the next 10 years"

    You can’t be that old if he thinks you are going to live another 10 years...
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:

    You’re smart enough to own an iphone, smart enough to have a bus app. … and delighted that the the bus is ‘due’.

    Trouble is you’re not quick enough, and by the time you look up again the bus is just a red blur as it flashes past.

    (Yes this happened to me).

    Phone 'Dial a Ride' and complain ;)
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    You know you're getting old when 10 years doesn't seem like a long time!
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

    Your GP wants to put you on statins because " you may have a cardio-vascular "event" within the next 10 years"

    Mmmmm, interesting, I got a call from my doctor in the week saying the results from my recent blood test are in and he wants to see me to discuss putting me on statins.

    My BP is a little high and I take a daily pill to keep it under control but other than that I am as fit as a butchers dog.
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  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    edited April 2018
    cafc-west said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    When a schoolkid gets up and offers you a seat on the tram.

    This. Was standing on the train last night and eying up a 30 something 'girl' when she looked up and offered me her seat... didn't feel good.
    You know you're getting old when you call 30 somethings girls.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,595
    cafc-west said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    When a schoolkid gets up and offers you a seat on the tram.

    This. Was standing on the train last night and eying up a 30 something 'girl' when she looked up and offered me her seat... didn't feel good when I sniffed the seat before sitting on it
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    eaststandmike said:

    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

    Your GP wants to put you on statins because " you may have a cardio-vascular "event" within the next 10 years"

    Mmmmm, interesting, I got a call from my doctor in the week saying the results from my recent blood test are in and he wants to see me to discuss putting me on statins.

    My BP is a little high and I take a daily pill to keep it under control but other than that I am as fit as a butchers dog.
    I presume it means that your cholesterol count is high, Mike?

    I am in the same boat as you insofar as taking a daily tablet for blood pressure.
    Other than that I am in pretty good shape - weight normal, never smoked, drinking fairly moderate, good diet.
    My GP didn't even check my cholesterol!!!
    Apparently on the basis of blood pressure and age I rated at 18% on Q Scale (yeh, me neither).
    She told me that until recently NHS England recommended Statins if Qscore was over 20%, but now they have lowered to 10%.

    I really don't want to go down the statins route and told her so, but I am now supposed to be "thinking it over"
  • Morboe
    Morboe Posts: 74
    AddicksAddict said:

    ...you can't make it to the end of the Super Bowl.

    Falcons definitely couldn't
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,616
    When you've never heard of KSI or Logan Paul.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    guinnessaddick said:

    When you've never heard of KSI or Logan Paul.

    Who?
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    You wonder whether it's worth buying green bananas.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,616
    edited August 2018
    ross1 said:

    guinnessaddick said:

    When you've never heard of KSI or Logan Paul.

    Who?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45271254

    KSI and Logan Paul, YouTube stars with 37 million subscribers between them, will take their beef into the boxing ring on Saturday for a fight billed as "the biggest event in internet history".
  • Broadstairs_Red
    Broadstairs_Red Posts: 361
    hairs grow on your knob not just around it ...

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