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Things that make you feel old

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  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Singing to myself 🎵I'm Back, Back in the New York Groove🎵 yesterday whilst doing Park Run. No idea why, but Hello, they recorded it way back......... in 1975 😱 
  • paulg1947
    paulg1947 Posts: 224
    Planning your journeys via public toilets.
    And when all of your friends ,smell of piss
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,454
    My son turning 13 today
  • paulg1947
    paulg1947 Posts: 224
    Sadly there is a few-: 1) Falling asleep as soon as I sit down after dinner every weekday (about 8 pm) 2) Asking if we can turn the TV up as I cant hear the bloody thing 3) Having to record Match of the Day on Skybox as 10:30 is toooo late 4) What's an I-Pad? 5) Enjoying Strictly Come Dancing!! 6) Beer belly wont budge no matter what I do!! 7) Being bought anti-ageing cream by Mrs RM!! 8) Increasing flatulence 9) Watching a film I've seen before and not knowing it until the end!! 10) and finally.................oh shit I've forgotten what it was!!
    When you havn't the faintest idea what an 'ap' is --No seriously And a Q code -- And you think that Logie Baird's T V transmitter was about 2 meters long, and not too much, before you were born ,And now everyone (exept me) has one, in the palm of their hand--Awe-- dont get me started
  • kafka
    kafka Posts: 2,368
    swordfish said:
    Singing to myself 🎵I'm Back, Back in the New York Groove🎵 yesterday whilst doing Park Run. No idea why, but Hello, they recorded it way back......... in 1975 😱 
    Thanks. Now you've got me doing it.
  • paulg1947
    paulg1947 Posts: 224
    Oggy Red said:
    What's gaviscon?
    It was called milk of magnesia in your day
    lol That was that vile tasting stuff from the blue bottle, put on a teaspoon and you had to swallow, each time you tried to get off school pretending you had tummy ache.
    I remember that white suff ,in a blue bottle. Now i REALY feel old--- Talking of blue stuff. Does any one remember the little blue sache of salt, that was in the bottom of the Smiths Potato Crisps? Even the 'grease proof' paper bag, before plastic was invented
  • paulg1947
    paulg1947 Posts: 224
    richie8 said:
    Seeing the Facebook page pictures of my old workplace reunion (which I missed) and wondering who all those fat bald old men were!!!!
    And they probably all used Brylcream
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,960
    paulg1947 said:
    Oggy Red said:
    What's gaviscon?
    It was called milk of magnesia in your day
    lol That was that vile tasting stuff from the blue bottle, put on a teaspoon and you had to swallow, each time you tried to get off school pretending you had tummy ache.
    I remember that white suff ,in a blue bottle. Now i REALY feel old--- Talking of blue stuff. Does any one remember the little blue sache of salt, that was in the bottom of the Smiths Potato Crisps? Even the 'grease proof' paper bag, before plastic was invented
    Funny. Me and.the wife was talking about the “white stuff in a blue bottle’ as I said strawberry Actimol had that chalky taste to it, could we remember the name of it. Then suddenly at 1 am when we were asleep. She’s seats up and yells out milo of magnesia. We couldn’t got back to sleep.
  • paulg1947
    paulg1947 Posts: 224
    Looking at the sad sympathetic face ,of the check out chick at the chemist, as you hand her your pack of Molicare Maxi Plus
  • paulg1947
    paulg1947 Posts: 224
    ross1 said:
    When you're filling in an online form and they have one of those drop down boxes for your year of birth - 1953 is a long, long way down now!
    You get to yours before I get to mine :smiley:
    I usually put the mouse on auto Go to the kitchen and make a cup of tea,Get back, and the dates are still falling
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,790
    When, apart from watching your son play cricket, you don't go out and avoid every social event possible for six months since New Year's Eve bar one because you just do not feel up to it - and catch Covid, as I did three weeks ago, on that one night out! 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,790
    edited July 2022
    paulg1947 said:
    Oggy Red said:
    What's gaviscon?
    It was called milk of magnesia in your day
    lol That was that vile tasting stuff from the blue bottle, put on a teaspoon and you had to swallow, each time you tried to get off school pretending you had tummy ache.
    I remember that white suff ,in a blue bottle. Now i REALY feel old--- Talking of blue stuff. Does any one remember the little blue sache of salt, that was in the bottom of the Smiths Potato Crisps? Even the 'grease proof' paper bag, before plastic was invented
    Walkers still produce them.

    image 1 of Walkers Salt  Shake Crisps 6X24g
  • paulg1947
    paulg1947 Posts: 224
     There was an iconic T V ad  That any smart arse,would use at Charlton,years ago, when they wern't playing too good .He/they would shout MAKESON, from up the back of the East terrace, to break the silence of apathy. Always got a larf .and i dont think Makeson Stout has been around for at least 50 years
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    edited July 2022
    kafka said:
    swordfish said:
    Singing to myself 🎵I'm Back, Back in the New York Groove🎵 yesterday whilst doing Park Run. No idea why, but Hello, they recorded it way back......... in 1975 😱 
    Thanks. Now you've got me doing it.
    Sorry, it's hard to shift isn't it? I can empathize with tinnitus sufferers. Cillit Bang perhaps? 😎
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,790
    Will be 50 years next year since this came out:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCblmgWUC3c
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Will be 50 years next year since this came out:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCblmgWUC3c
    its 30 years this year since the remake came out 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qyfZNvD2CU
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    My son turning 13 today
    That is nothing, my eldest is 57 at the end of the month, how do you think I feel?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    paulg1947 said:
     There was an iconic T V ad  That any smart arse,would use at Charlton,years ago, when they wern't playing too good .He/they would shout MAKESON, from up the back of the East terrace, to break the silence of apathy. Always got a larf .and i dont think Makeson Stout has been around for at least 50 years
    You can still get hold of Mackeson*. I know because I bought some for a beer tasting day a few years back. It's very weak, but surprisingly tasty. The big trouble is that at £3.65 for four 330ml cans of beer at a mere 2.8%, you'd need a king's ransom to get slightly tipsy, let alone pie-eyed (now there's a phrase you don't hear any more).


    *Hmmm, spell check just changed it to Jackson
  • Women in their 40s and 50s in shops/hotels/restaurants who speak to you in a soppy voice, saying things like "you alright there, sweetheart".

    1) You are not my sweetheart
    2) I am not 95
    3) You're no spring chicken yourself
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Watching the one show last night and Omar was a guest talking about his latest acting role in Eastenders and realising his song ‘there’s nothing like this’ was 31 years ago.
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  • I take shower gel and a flannel into the cubicle for a post swim shower. 

    Once in there I normally put the flannel on my head whilst opening the gel.  The other day I opened the gel, forgot the flannel was on my head and walked back to the locker with my 'scullcap' flannel on display.  Anyone watching might have thought I'd changed my religion - talking of which - if things get much worse and I forget my trunks .... oh jeez, let's not go there. 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,485
    I take shower gel and a flannel into the cubicle for a post swim shower. 

    Once in there I normally put the flannel on my head whilst opening the gel.  The other day I opened the gel, forgot the flannel was on my head and walked back to the locker with my 'scullcap' flannel on display.  Anyone watching might have thought I'd changed my religion - talking of which - if things get much worse and I forget my trunks .... oh jeez, let's not go there. 
    What religion wear flannels on their heads then, Raitho?
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Writing my date of birth. 
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    ross1 said:
    My son turning 13 today
    That is nothing, my eldest is 57 at the end of the month, how do you think I feel?
    I was going to say my eldest has is 30, but I actually feel much better about that now My youngest is 2 and a half, so she balances it out (sort of).
  • Writing my date of birth. 
    Scrolling down online to reach my year of birth
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Watching the one show last night and Omar was a guest talking about his latest acting role in Eastenders and realising his song ‘there’s nothing like this’ was 31 years ago.
    Loved that song 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    Watching the one show last night and Omar was a guest talking about his latest acting role in Eastenders and realising his song ‘there’s nothing like this’ was 31 years ago.
    That’s a great song. He sat at the table next to us at Ronnie Scott’s a few years ago. Had a quick chat, he was a nice guy. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Gribbo said:
    I take shower gel and a flannel into the cubicle for a post swim shower. 

    Once in there I normally put the flannel on my head whilst opening the gel.  The other day I opened the gel, forgot the flannel was on my head and walked back to the locker with my 'scullcap' flannel on display.  Anyone watching might have thought I'd changed my religion - talking of which - if things get much worse and I forget my trunks .... oh jeez, let's not go there. 
    What religion wear flannels on their heads then, Raitho?
    Muslin.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    Patchouli 
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    Funny enough, my face and gut! Strange that.