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You know you're getting old when.

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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    One of the children after reading yesterday.


    “If you die, will someone else bring the Reading dogs to school, because we love seeing them” 

  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    Christ, I've just bought myself a lawn scarifier and a new sprinkler for the hose rather than use the 20 year old cast off hand me downs I've had from the parents.

    Aaarrrrrgggghhhh, I'm properly middle aged now!
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,223
    edited May 2023
    If you were really old you would post pictures of them.

    There again being old would you know how to?
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,846
    goes off to google lawn scarifier
  • Valley Ant
    Valley Ant Posts: 465
    You know you're getting old when you aren't asked to provide proof that you are over 60 years old on entry to the Rare Breeds Centre
  • James86
    James86 Posts: 329
    JohnBoyUK said:
    Christ, I've just bought myself a lawn scarifier and a new sprinkler for the hose rather than use the 20 year old cast off hand me downs I've had from the parents.

    Aaarrrrrgggghhhh, I'm properly middle aged now!
    TBF I’m 36 and have been googling Lawn Scarifiers. My lawn is terrible. Doesn’t say much for me 😂
  • Holdkneebomb
    Holdkneebomb Posts: 1,262
    James86 said:
    JohnBoyUK said:
    Christ, I've just bought myself a lawn scarifier and a new sprinkler for the hose rather than use the 20 year old cast off hand me downs I've had from the parents.

    Aaarrrrrgggghhhh, I'm properly middle aged now!
    TBF I’m 36 and have been googling Lawn Scarifiers. My lawn is terrible. Doesn’t say much for me 😂
    You’re reading this thread and you’re only 36
  • Holdkneebomb
    Holdkneebomb Posts: 1,262
    You have a freezing cold nose for 10 months of the year
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    ross1 said:
    You're looking at a 240 year old watercolour painting of an old Woolwich scene with your Mum and realise she has been around for nearly 100 years of that timespan!

    Sandby documented a lot of London in the 1780s. This one of Charlton too. 


    Wow. Amazing to think - that could quite possibly be the East Terrace and the people are on where the pitch is now.
    Far more Horse Shit on it these days. 
    Those were the days, going out after the horses of traders went by with a shovel and a bucket, to collect horse shit for my dads rhubarb. Needless to say, a long time after this picture was painted 🤣
    For the rhubarb or the roses.
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    I'm wondering how I made it into my seventies without a toaster that I could control with my phone...




    And technology is rapidly getting the better of me.
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  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,958
    limeygent said:
    I'm wondering how I made it into my seventies without a toaster that I could control with my phone...




    And technology is rapidly getting the better of me.
    As a 70th birthday present I bought us a coffee maker that can controlled by my mobile, read the instructions but still can’t find out how you can get the cup under without getting up out the chair to go into the kitchen? (no you can’t put it under during the day as it rinses itself prior to making a lovely cup of coffee.)
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    limeygent said:
    I'm wondering how I made it into my seventies without a toaster that I could control with my phone...




    And technology is rapidly getting the better of me.
    As a 70th birthday present I bought us a coffee maker that can controlled by my mobile, read the instructions but still can’t find out how you can get the cup under without getting up out the chair to go into the kitchen? (no you can’t put it under during the day as it rinses itself prior to making a lovely cup of coffee.)
    You bought “us”, so you’re married? I think all us male old gits know the answer to that and would have bought HER a kettle 😉
  • limeygent said:
    I'm wondering how I made it into my seventies without a toaster that I could control with my phone...




    And technology is rapidly getting the better of me.
    As a 70th birthday present I bought us a coffee maker that can controlled by my mobile, read the instructions but still can’t find out how you can get the cup under without getting up out the chair to go into the kitchen? (no you can’t put it under during the day as it rinses itself prior to making a lovely cup of coffee.)
    Ring the wife?
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    After constantly making age related comments @Redmidland threw down the gauntlet, why the f*** @DaveStorry had to get involved though. ;) 
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  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,223
    How did the judges score it?
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,206
    … discussing swollen legs and ankles, and non elasticated socks  🥸
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    I just cant communicate with younger generation......
    This morning I posted a video of Bowyer bounding around our lounge after a fly............
    Hence her comment and my polite reply. ;)
    Is that's what's described on here as a "Whooshing Moment"


  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,304
    His sweet baffled look reminds me of the Charlton defence the last few years, when dealing with a long ball
  • You apply for your first bus pass...
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    His sweet baffled look reminds me of the Charlton defence the last few years, when dealing with a long ball
    Gormless is the word! 😉
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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    Trying to swat a fly flitting across the Computor screen before realising its the cursor on the screen as I move the mouse in time to music playing in the house!
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,007
    Girl in my office (she's 23) has never heard of Oasis (the band, not the drink).
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,304
    Girl in my office (she's 23) has never heard of Oasis (the band, not the drink).
    You sure she didnt say Maybe?
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    Girl in my office (she's 23) has never heard of Oasis (the band, not the drink).
    You sure she didnt say Maybe?
    Definitely!
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    Girl in my office (she's 23) has never heard of Oasis (the band, not the drink).

    It’s the reverse of this. https://youtu.be/vr7g_JJw_wk
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,885
    Girl in my office (she's 23) has never heard of Oasis (the band, not the drink).
    There’s a drink called Oasis ??😉
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    It's 25 years since I took my children to that legendary play off final at Wembley and now they are all in their thirties or forties.
  • Holdkneebomb
    Holdkneebomb Posts: 1,262
    Even the women in your group now fart in public
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    When there's an R I P thread in your honour.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    You know your getting old when 🤔

    It's gone 🤦‍♂️