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  • When you get in the car and scroll through the music on your phone and settle for The Best of Andy Williams! 
    Never done this before in my life!
  • When climbing into your trousers is hazardous.
  • When you think you can remember Charlton bearing the spanners, but you’re not too sure.
  • When you see these old people, then find out they're ten years younger than you are.
  • When you get in the car and scroll through the music on your phone and settle for The Best of Andy Williams! 
    Never done this before in my life!
    I'll never be THAT old!
  • When you haven’t a clue which light bulbs to buy and when you have it’s come to £25.for light bulbs 🤨

    And not only are the fucking things not bright enough, they last about 3 hours before needing replacing.
  • When names from the past that you'd expect to have forgotten pop into your head.

    We had a quiz last night. One of the answers was Troy McClure,  but for some reason the name in my head was Troy Tate. I don't even know anyone with that name, so I googled it. It turns out he was in Teardrop Explodes and Fashion (both bands I like). Never knew I knew of him.
  • When you suddenly realise that millennium night was 20 years ago... and then you worry that you might not have finished doing all the apologies you need to!
  • Watching Jools last night I casually enquired if the performer was Ragamuffin man.  My son said, 'Do you mean Rag 'n' bone man?'.  'Yeah, that 'im' I said.  'No it ain't,' replied my son.  Turned out he was some other random big geezer.

    Sometimes when I speak I hear my dear departed dad's voice.
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  • You find episodes of Count Arthur Strong funny.
  • When you watch Six episodes of Mortimer and Whitehead gone fishing back to back, with obligatory Tea and Hobnobs. 
  • The delivery driver carries two boxes with relative ease and I struggle to lift one.
  • T_C_E said:
    Out walking with my dogs 3 Females of the species standing chatting on the foot path. "Excuse me Ladies, may I get past" with that the reply came back "Ladies, cheeky git" Is Ladies no longer a PC term? Confused old bloke.... @DaveMehmet response is not required. ;)

    In the Anchor pre match, and some bloke was lord mayoring in front of the Barmaid, his mate told him to watch his language in front of a lady, to which the she replyed "I ain't no lady",

  • When the typeface is too small and you take your specs off thinking they are your distance glasses and realise they are your reading glasses 
  • Is she still a would ya?
  • You have a quick Google to see what Holly Willoughby's mum looks like.
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  • When you literally have no idea what even other Lifers are talking about any more:

    Gender Reveals - ffs get over yourselves, you're having a baby, stop acting as if you're the first to ever do it...  
    Period parties.

  • edited January 2020
    You’re annoyed when you score 1 in the Pointless final having switched from an answer that turns out to be pointless.
  • Not _quite_ so bad, because it was secondary, but a kid I taught was elected as an MP in 2017.
  • aliwibble said:
    Not _quite_ so bad, because it was secondary, but a kid I taught was elected as an MP in 2017.
    did that make you proud or question your teaching?  
  • Given I only taught her for a year, I don't think I can claim any responsibility, and I highly doubt anything she learnt in GCSE Science had any bearing on that particular career path. :-)
  • aliwibble said:
    Given I only taught her for a year, I don't think I can claim any responsibility, and I highly doubt anything she learnt in GCSE Science had any bearing on that particular career path. :-)
    You might want to question your influence as a teacher, depending which party she stood for  :)
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