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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
I have talked about reaching middle age and being in denial.... or reaching getting old without realising....
well.... thank you final leg!!! i have just had another of those moments....
Scott and Charlene's wedding in neighbours.... 30 years ago this week.....
and i still remember it, and suddenly by angry anderson....
so..... other sneeky signs you are getting old? |
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Going to U2 Joshua Tree tour at Wembley in 1987 - not the 2017 one...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have talked about reaching middle age and being in denial.... or reaching getting old without realising....
well.... thank you final leg!!! i have just had another of those moments....
Scott and Charlene's wedding in neighbours.... 30 years ago this week.....
and i still remember it, and suddenly by angry anderson....
so..... other sneeky signs you are getting old?"
Lead singer of rose tattoo.angry anderson |
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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago
in the suffolk countryside |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you realise Tainted Love by Soft Cell was released closer to the end of WWII than today ..  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I spent a full year in australia in the late 80s cant believe its that long ago |
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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago
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"I have talked about reaching middle age and being in denial.... or reaching getting old without realising....
well.... thank you final leg!!! i have just had another of those moments....
Scott and Charlene's wedding in neighbours.... 30 years ago this week.....
and i still remember it, and suddenly by angry anderson....
so..... other sneeky signs you are getting old?"
my third child moved out last week..3 down 1 to go..im like wha...when did that even become a possibility of happening and my two oldest kids, by the time i was their ages, id had them..wtf...apart from that im oblivious  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you come out of the shop after buying a coffee on your way to work in the morning, and bump into your son on his way home from a night out  |
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Wondering who's making those noises every time you stand up and then you realise it's you! |
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By *ddit...Man
over a year ago
Land of the giants... ;-) |
I will post in this type of thread.. |
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By *uxinteriorMan
over a year ago
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Still seeing all the original punk bands from late 70s early 80s and thinking where did all those years go! But I'm still going so can't be that bad!
Oh and wearing a ' where's captain Kirk ' T shirt and getting the who's captain kirk question!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Still seeing all the original punk bands from late 70s early 80s and thinking where did all those years go! But I'm still going so can't be that bad!
Oh and wearing a ' where's captain Kirk ' T shirt and getting the who's captain kirk question!! "
Spizenergi |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
We were discussing Spitting Image and Not the 9 O'clock News at work yesterday. Many of my workmates had no idea what we were on about. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"When you realise Tainted Love by Soft Cell was released closer to the end of WWII than today .. "
Someone follows Richard Osman on Twitter |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have talked about reaching middle age and being in denial.... or reaching getting old without realising....
well.... thank you final leg!!! i have just had another of those moments....
Scott and Charlene's wedding in neighbours.... 30 years ago this week.....
and i still remember it, and suddenly by angry anderson....
so..... other sneeky signs you are getting old?"
Ha, I got that too. It was the year I left school |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have talked about reaching middle age and being in denial.... or reaching getting old without realising....
well.... thank you final leg!!! i have just had another of those moments....
Scott and Charlene's wedding in neighbours.... 30 years ago this week.....
and i still remember it, and suddenly by angry anderson....
so..... other sneeky signs you are getting old?my third child moved out last week..3 down 1 to go..im like wha...when did that even become a possibility of happening and my two oldest kids, by the time i was their ages, id had them..wtf...apart from that im oblivious "
My youngest starts (and leaves home for) uni in September. Where the bugger bollocks did those years go?! |
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"Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so. "
But I know who they are and I'm not anywhere near that age |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The sudden shock from a young colleague when I said we didn't always wear seat belts. |
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"We were discussing Spitting Image and Not the 9 O'clock News at work yesterday. Many of my workmates had no idea what we were on about."
Again. I remember spitting image. Somethings not right here lol |
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"The sudden shock from a young colleague when I said we didn't always wear seat belts. "
How old are You! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so. "
I had to explain who the Dolly Dealers were on Play Your Cards Right ~ the 20 somethings looked at me like I was speaking in French! |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"The sudden shock from a young colleague when I said we didn't always wear seat belts. "
I scare my daughter by telling her about hard wired phones and three TV channels that ended with the National Anthem at midnight. |
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"Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so.
I had to explain who the Dolly Dealers were on Play Your Cards Right ~ the 20 somethings looked at me like I was speaking in French!"
The who? Haha |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so.
But I know who they are and I'm not anywhere near that age "
And there you go demonstrating my point. It's not who they are, it's a phrase from a milk advert many many years ago. And now, once again, I feel ancient - thanks! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you pass the reading glasses around the table in the Indian restaurant 'cos known of you can read the menu properly in the dim light... |
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"Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so.
But I know who they are and I'm not anywhere near that age
And there you go demonstrating my point. It's not who they are, it's a phrase from a milk advert many many years ago. And now, once again, I feel ancient - thanks! "
Yeah. Wasn't it the one where 2 Scouse kids say something like who are they..and the other goes exactly? |
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Remembering very well attending the Michael Jackson concert in the 1980s at Roundhay Park in Leeds....I was a lot younger |
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When it hits you that unless you prove to have exceptional longevity, you have almost certainly already lived more than half your life  |
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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago
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"When you realise Tainted Love by Soft Cell was released closer to the end of WWII than today .. "
That is actually mind blowing! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Does anybody else make that noise when you bend down to pick something up? Or is it just me |
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"Does anybody else make that noise when you bend down to pick something up? Or is it just me"
I do that though lol. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anybody else make that noise when you bend down to pick something up? Or is it just me"
I make that noise constantly!!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Found Enya tape the other day and first thing I thought about was playing it....for a split second wondered where the tape recorder was! |
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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so.
But I know who they are and I'm not anywhere near that age
And there you go demonstrating my point. It's not who they are, it's a phrase from a milk advert many many years ago. And now, once again, I feel ancient - thanks! "
should someone tell him the right answer to that question was "exactly!"....
I feel ya!!! |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"Found Enya tape the other day and first thing I thought about was playing it....for a split second wondered where the tape recorder was! "
I've still got one. 
Police, doctors, and teachers really do look young these days. |
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Making sure, that nowadays I wear my thick panty liners, just in case I laugh, sneeze or cough! |
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Nothing sneaky about my signs. There loud and clear |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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I don't feel like I'm getting anywhere near old reading this thread. Thanks everyone! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don't feel like I'm getting anywhere near old reading this thread. Thanks everyone! "
Bugger off then ya young git! |
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The Zepplin I saw wasn't made of lead. |
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Used to be worked with folk older than me, then it was ages with, then I was older.
Suddenly they weren't even born when I first started working! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs"
VHS! What about Betamax? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Look theres that haleys comet again,remember last time we saw it" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs
VHS! What about Betamax?"
My dads first one was beta cost £790,we were one of the first to have one if i can remember,ahhhh back in the day |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good. "
Your only a kid ms val |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs
VHS! What about Betamax?"
What about Philips? We had one of the first ever video recorders. It was shite. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good.
Your only a kid ms val"
Thanks Dash  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs
VHS! What about Betamax?
What about Philips? We had one of the first ever video recorders. It was shite."
Is that the one you could turn over like a small cassette and recored on both sides? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good.
Your only a kid ms val
Thanks Dash "
Mwhaaa |
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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs
VHS! What about Betamax?
What about Philips? We had one of the first ever video recorders. It was shite."
I see your philips..... and raise you a ferguson videostar...
the one where you had to slam down the top... not just feed it in! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs
VHS! What about Betamax?
What about Philips? We had one of the first ever video recorders. It was shite.
I see your philips..... and raise you a ferguson videostar...
the one where you had to slam down the top... not just feed it in! "
Thats a betamax isnt it fab? Top loader |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good. "
Hahaha that's a classic
I've had where you born in Victorian times. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i post in here but in total denial - |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs
VHS! What about Betamax?
What about Philips? We had one of the first ever video recorders. It was shite.
Is that the one you could turn over like a small cassette and recored on both sides?"
Allegedly. We never managed to get it to work. |
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"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good.
Hahaha that's a classic
I've had where you born in Victorian times. "
ive had was there a king on the throne when you where young |
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"When you realise Tainted Love by Soft Cell was released closer to the end of WWII than today ..
That is actually mind blowing! "
Love soft cell |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs
VHS! What about Betamax?
What about Philips? We had one of the first ever video recorders. It was shite.
I see your philips..... and raise you a ferguson videostar...
the one where you had to slam down the top... not just feed it in!
Thats a betamax isnt it fab? Top loader"
That indeed was a top loader. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good.
Hahaha that's a classic
I've had where you born in Victorian times. ive had was there a king on the throne when you where young"
i feel better now! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs
VHS! What about Betamax?
What about Philips? We had one of the first ever video recorders. It was shite.
Is that the one you could turn over like a small cassette and recored on both sides?
Allegedly. We never managed to get it to work."
You could never manage to turn over the cassette? |
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"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs
VHS! What about Betamax?
What about Philips? We had one of the first ever video recorders. It was shite.
I see your philips..... and raise you a ferguson videostar...
the one where you had to slam down the top... not just feed it in!
Thats a betamax isnt it fab? Top loader"
It was a betamax, we had that one at home and thought we were quite posh
They were still using them at my school when I left! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you try and explain about phone boxes, that you had to use a phone with a dial and calls cost either 2p or 5p x |
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By *aya_69Woman
over a year ago
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"Does anybody here still say"i taped that programme" instead of "recorded" like they do now?
Ahhh vhs
VHS! What about Betamax?
What about Philips? We had one of the first ever video recorders. It was shite.
Is that the one you could turn over like a small cassette and recored on both sides?"
I had a Philips 2000, yes taped both sides, was a good idea, took you bloody ages to find what you wanted to watch though |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have talked about reaching middle age and being in denial.... or reaching getting old without realising....
well.... thank you final leg!!! i have just had another of those moments....
Scott and Charlene's wedding in neighbours.... 30 years ago this week.....
and i still remember it, and suddenly by angry anderson....
so..... other sneeky signs you are getting old?my third child moved out last week..3 down 1 to go..im like wha...when did that even become a possibility of happening and my two oldest kids, by the time i was their ages, id had them..wtf...apart from that im oblivious
My youngest starts (and leaves home for) uni in September. Where the bugger bollocks did those years go?!"
When your youngest has just got a new dress for her MSc graduation.
When daughter number two was one of those "hero doctors" following the Manchester bombing.
When you think "how old? Really?" As your eldests birthday is approaching.
But then you realised that the previous week you shared a naked hot tub with someone 20+ yrs your junior....and you think "feck it...there's life in the old dog yet!" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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there are positives - they come and collect you in their car - take you out for a meal and pay and i get to have a drink -
this is why we have kids yes ??? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Going to an after show party of a band you loved as an early 20's person, excited about what an after show party could entail and then watching the aging rockers drinking tea with their grandkids round their ankles.
Wasn't quite what I had in mind, lol |
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"When you come out of the shop after buying a coffee on your way to work in the morning, and bump into your son on his way home from a night out "
he wasnt doing the walk of shame was he |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Does anybody else make that noise when you bend down to pick something up? Or is it just me"
I can't always bend down  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anybody else make that noise when you bend down to pick something up? Or is it just me
I can't always bend down "
PARP! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Your 10 yr old grand son says you look younger than you are and follows it up with "Except your hair, your hair looks old". |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anybody else make that noise when you bend down to pick something up? Or is it just me
I can't always bend down
PARP!"
ive been told i often grunt when im getting up off the sofa  |
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You have dry dreams and wet farts.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Being at a festival a few hours ago and jumping around singing along to a ton of songs belted out by a tribute band doing 80's and 90's ska and rock. And asking if my nephew enjoyed it... to which he replied yes, but he didn't know any of the tunes... he's 17...  Eurgh! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Look we all get old we all die its that simple but what u do in b.tween is that counts its not rocket science ?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Grey hair! Or worse a single grey hair in your eyebrows . Oh and when you can remember Margaret Thatcher being PM, shell suits and bum bags the height of fashion, Bross being top of the charts and the great storm of '87.  |
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I'm 55 and am only just having a voluntary midlife crisis |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm 55 and am only just having a voluntary midlife crisis "
same age - volunteering nothing here  |
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"I'm 55 and am only just having a voluntary midlife crisis
same age - volunteering nothing here "
I think we should take a vote on this missus  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so. "
Oh this....   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so.
Oh this.... "
Woah i live near accrington,its full of blackburn rovers fans.....scum |
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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago
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anyway.... back to the original post...
Scott and Charlene's wedding was 30 bloody years ago!!!!!! is it good bad or depressing i have fancied the same woman for 30 years... and how many bloody changes has she gone thru!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You open your mouth and your mum comes out x |
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"anyway.... back to the original post...
Scott and Charlene's wedding was 30 bloody years ago!!!!!! is it good bad or depressing i have fancied the same woman for 30 years... and how many bloody changes has she gone thru!!! "
Who the fuck are Scott & Charlene? 
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By *nne CallanWoman
over a year ago
Nothing to see here. Please move along. |
"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good.
Your only a kid ms val"
it was called oil of ulay when I first remember it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Have I had breakfast already?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Watching Wimbledon and the stars of yesterday are now commentators,looking at John Macanroe always makes me feel my age.I remember that gobby teenager lol . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you keep catching yourself saying "I'm too old for this shit!" in your best Danny Glover voice. |
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Stars on 45...
Watching Sophie Ellis Bexter arrive into the world on Blue Peter...
Being the coolest kid on the beach with a waterproof walkman, listening to a mix tape...
Paying £50 for cars that would now be worth £15,000.. |
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By *eesideMan
over a year ago
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Wen a arnt ses your not as young as you use to be and shood take it easy . I'm 29....... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Going to U2 Joshua Tree tour at Wembley in 1987 - not the 2017 one... "
Same |
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The look of horror on my daughter's face as we sat waiting for her husband to arrive with the car seat so she could go home with her baby when I said I carried her on my lap, in the front seat of her dad's Ford transit van, home from the hospital. |
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"The look of horror on my daughter's face as we sat waiting for her husband to arrive with the car seat so she could go home with her baby when I said I carried her on my lap, in the front seat of her dad's Ford transit van, home from the hospital. "
Different times |
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"The look of horror on my daughter's face as we sat waiting for her husband to arrive with the car seat so she could go home with her baby when I said I carried her on my lap, in the front seat of her dad's Ford transit van, home from the hospital.
Different times "
Don't I know it. I was 22, had a natural birth and they kept me in a week. She had a c-section, is 34 and was booted out after 24 hours.
I still can't believe she's 34!!! |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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When 19-20 year old colleagues at work recently asked what Cassette Tapes were??? |
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"The look of horror on my daughter's face as we sat waiting for her husband to arrive with the car seat so she could go home with her baby when I said I carried her on my lap, in the front seat of her dad's Ford transit van, home from the hospital.
Different times
Don't I know it. I was 22, had a natural birth and they kept me in a week. She had a c-section, is 34 and was booted out after 24 hours.
I still can't believe she's 34!!! "
Haha yup, they grow so fast, my eldest turns 18 soon, those years have flew past. |
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By *amesB66Man
over a year ago
St Peter Port |
Sitting by the 'phone table' in the hall to use it.
Originally we shared a party line with next door, so sometimes you would pick the phone up, the neighbours were using the line and you'd apologise and put the phone down! |
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By *nnejohnCouple
over a year ago
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When you realise that running water does make you want to pee.he er believed that!! |
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over a year ago
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Shut the fridge door,that's never 30 years ago,l used to hate that program as a kid...This week I found my first gray hair,so I'm now classing myself as old,l can't wait for a few weeks and it's all gray,bring on the white |
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Being asked what colour your hair used to be! |
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Bigger changes for the generation before us.
My dad tells of using slate and chalk at school, ploughing fields with horses or traction engines.
His dad was a successful farmer and had the first tractor in their county.
He also remembers his grandmother have two sets of carriages with matching horses, one set just for church on sunday.
The upsetting thing is he remembers his dad and other farmers buying Spitfires from the RAF, towing them to a scrap yard, taking the wheels off and selling the rest for scrap... |
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When I am telling a story and I say back in the day
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explaining to my boy what a cassette player and tape was for! |
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Barcelona Olympic was 25 years ago this summer. I remember when Barcelona was chosen to be Olympic city for 1992 and all the excitement. So crazy |
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over a year ago
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Without using the logical part of the mind you still think 1970 when someone says thirty years ago |
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when I still know the decimal currency song from early 70s |
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The advert 'shake and vac and put the freshness back'. I remember all the words so well. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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When you realise (as I just did) that over two thirds of your life were lived in a different century!! |
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When I keep having to say you're probably too young to remember that |
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By *olliPineCouple
over a year ago
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"When you come out of the shop after buying a coffee on your way to work in the morning, and bump into your son on his way home from a night out "
Sorry to laugh but laugh I did at this. Not happened to us just yet. |
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"Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so.
But I know who they are and I'm not anywhere near that age
And there you go demonstrating my point. It's not who they are, it's a phrase from a milk advert many many years ago. And now, once again, I feel ancient - thanks!
Yeah. Wasn't it the one where 2 Scouse kids say something like who are they..and the other goes exactly?"
"My dad says if I don't drink all my milk l only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley!"
"Accrington Stanley? Who are they?"
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That was a classic advert |
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over a year ago
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When your child starts scentences with 'in the olden days, did you.....' |
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over a year ago
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I remember the summer of 76 lol
and I was 21 then and an athlete
now I am 62 and overweight lol |
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over a year ago
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Probably would I go to bed and leave to daughter to turn everything off would she goes to bed, and then you've been asleep for ages and you hear her going to bed at 10 o'clock |
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By *yldstyleWoman
over a year ago
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There's a few things..
A single recurring grey eyebrow hair.
When my boys seem horrified that I had a childhood before the internet.
When I realise I've been divorced 8 years.
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By *ddit...Man
over a year ago
Land of the giants... ;-) |
I come from the days when social media was either graffiti. .. or a message in the window of the local shop..
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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago
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When sat in a training pitch in the office and realising the lasses in front of you are legally old enough to be your daughters and they look older than 18 |
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over a year ago
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Whats a ford anglia ,whats a ford cortina,they ask,whats an eight track .police cars when they were morris thousands .Outside toilet and tin bath . |
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Going to the odeon in birmingham to see 10cc .... and quite a few other bands...
Before the days of the arenas |
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"Having to explain the phrase "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?" to colleagues and wondering if they might actually be work experience kids whilst doing so. "
The band?? |
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over a year ago
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Mine was talking to a guy last weekend, who used to own the local bakery near my school, and how I used to eat like a king in there for 40p a day dinner money. Funny thing was he hadn't changed a bit in 30 years. |
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I feel I'm on a count down to death and the count down is getting faster and faster... |
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"Sitting by the 'phone table' in the hall to use it.
Originally we shared a party line with next door, so sometimes you would pick the phone up, the neighbours were using the line and you'd apologise and put the phone down!"
some people pay good money now for that service |
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over a year ago
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When one me little nuggets asks dad what is Woolworths when I tell him met his mum there.
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By *ddit...Man
over a year ago
Land of the giants... ;-) |
"Sitting by the 'phone table' in the hall to use it.
Originally we shared a party line with next door, so sometimes you would pick the phone up, the neighbours were using the line and you'd apologise and put the phone down!
some people pay good money now for that service "
I used to pick up the phone.. state my phone number.. which they knew because they called it.. and said.. who's speaking please..
How did you guys used to answer the landline? |
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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago
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When you can identify with many of the post on this thread.
When the stairs seem way steeper in the very morning than any other time of the day
When you get nostalgic feelings seeing a Mac SE or a Commodore 64.
Nice thread, cheered me up, I know now I'm not alone and the only one.
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When one remembers going to nightclubs before mobile phones were invented and using beer mats to write phone numbers of potential suitors on.
Also when men walked women home after a night out and were even lucky to get a kiss!
God how I miss those days when men were gentlemen.... |
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When you go to a museum and they have your childhood toys as an exhibit... |
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"Sitting by the 'phone table' in the hall to use it.
Originally we shared a party line with next door, so sometimes you would pick the phone up, the neighbours were using the line and you'd apologise and put the phone down!
some people pay good money now for that service
I used to pick up the phone.. state my phone number.. which they knew because they called it.. and said.. who's speaking please..
How did you guys used to answer the landline?"
i never had one at my childhood home - had a shared line in my first flat a few years after - just used to say hi |
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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago
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"I have talked about reaching middle age and being in denial.... or reaching getting old without realising....
well.... thank you final leg!!! i have just had another of those moments....
Scott and Charlene's wedding in neighbours.... 30 years ago this week.....
and i still remember it, and suddenly by angry anderson....
so..... other sneeky signs you are getting old?my third child moved out last week..3 down 1 to go..im like wha...when did that even become a possibility of happening and my two oldest kids, by the time i was their ages, id had them..wtf...apart from that im oblivious
My youngest starts (and leaves home for) uni in September. Where the bugger bollocks did those years go?!"
those three years go so fast..my second eldest has just graduated, didnt seem like a moment ago i was moving her into halls.. my third is only 16 but already hes got himself digs at his place of apprenticeship, wasnt expecting him to leave for another year or two.. not that im getting empty nest syndrome or anything, maybe the worst thing is im enjoying the peace and quiet |
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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago
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"Sitting by the 'phone table' in the hall to use it.
Originally we shared a party line with next door, so sometimes you would pick the phone up, the neighbours were using the line and you'd apologise and put the phone down!
some people pay good money now for that service
I used to pick up the phone.. state my phone number.. which they knew because they called it.. and said.. who's speaking please..
How did you guys used to answer the landline?"
it was three digits long, so it was the village and the three digits, wouldnt dream of giving out my name or anything |
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im posting in threads like this in denial of any age doodar |
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Not sure if this has been mentioned already?
When it rains over summer rather than get disappointed you are happy because it's going to be good for the garden. |
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over a year ago
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When you're talking to a smoker (we're both none smokers now BTW) colleague at work at they give you a look of disbelief when you tell then that ten Benson used to cost 74p. |
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I remember when a pint of milk cost 1p and my mum (god rest her soul) would send me to the corner shop for it. Also that corner shop had a half pence sweet drawer, 10 chews for half pence....I was very young at the time. |
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Having to sit down to put socks on was when I realised I'd passed my prime |
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Explaining to your youngest that 12" lp's are not a new thing |
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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago
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"Explaining to your youngest that 12" lp's are not a new thing "
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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago
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"Explaining to your youngest that 12" lp's are not a new thing "
or explaining to my niece that the song she likes isn't a new song done by hipsters and is in fact at least 20 years old...
my sister sat down my niece to watch the barry gibb glastonbury spot... she says she has not been the same since.... |
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When you start to notice the grim reaper hanging around different places you frequent n each time you see him he taps on his watch/hourglass while giving you a knowing nod with his hooded skull.
Pay attention though,if you notice The Police song,Every Breath You Take,playing in the background then you're most likely an actor in a movie montage and your imminent death is therefore unlikely.
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"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good. "
Was it still oil of ulay when you started using it?? |
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"When you start to notice the grim reaper hanging around different places you frequent n each time you see him he taps on his watch/hourglass while giving you a knowing nod with his hooded skull.
Pay attention though,if you notice The Police song,Every Breath You Take,playing in the background then you're most likely an actor in a movie montage and your imminent death is therefore unlikely.
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Have you considered Councelling? Lol. |
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"When you're talking to a smoker (we're both none smokers now BTW) colleague at work at they give you a look of disbelief when you tell then that ten Benson used to cost 74p."
Used to get sent to shop for 20 Kensitas pretty sure they were less than 50p a note from a parent was enough for shop to sell cigarettes to 7-8yr olds! |
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over a year ago
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We want to be togevva
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"Explaining to your youngest that 12" lp's are not a new thing
or explaining to my niece that the song she likes isn't a new song done by hipsters and is in fact at least 20 years old...
my sister sat down my niece to watch the barry gibb glastonbury spot... she says she has not been the same since...."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/26/glastonbury-barry-gibb-bee-gees-covers-twitter-joke
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"When you start to notice the grim reaper hanging around different places you frequent n each time you see him he taps on his watch/hourglass while giving you a knowing nod with his hooded skull.
Pay attention though,if you notice The Police song,Every Breath You Take,playing in the background then you're most likely an actor in a movie montage and your imminent death is therefore unlikely.
Have you considered Councelling? Lol. "
All the time...n I'd happily go if it weren't for the grim reaper hanging around outside the building,nodding at me as he taps his toe to the beat of Every Breath You Take! |
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"We want to be togevva
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I wannabe......a tree |
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over a year ago
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For me its when im looking after my 7 year old godson and if i have to tell him off i can hear my parents. Also the realisation that whatever your parents told you, they were actually right. |
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"When you pass the reading glasses around the table in the Indian restaurant 'cos known of you can read the menu properly in the dim light... "
I bought three strengths of reading glasses which I used to offer customers in a restaurant I ran.........25 years ago. |
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We'll see was the answer when we asked our parents for things, which meant no so we stopped asking. |
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"When you start to notice the grim reaper hanging around different places you frequent n each time you see him he taps on his watch/hourglass while giving you a knowing nod with his hooded skull.
Pay attention though,if you notice The Police song,Every Breath You Take,playing in the background then you're most likely an actor in a movie montage and your imminent death is therefore unlikely.
Have you considered Councelling? Lol.
All the time...n I'd happily go if it weren't for the grim reaper hanging around outside the building,nodding at me as he taps his toe to the beat of Every Breath You Take! "
I can recommend a good Councillor lol |
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The first sign comes on sooner than you think when you tune off from radio 1 to another station and then before you know it your on radio 2 (and the only boring bit was Jimmy young) and now your like oooooo Jeremy vine is on in a bit woohoo |
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"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good.
Was it still oil of ulay when you started using it?? "
no |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"Explaining to your youngest that 12" lp's are not a new thing "
Or explaining to youngsters what a cassette tape was and how a pencil or biro was useful with them!! |
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I can't slut drop , play the violin or tyrolene the house exterior ...... |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
When you used to go for a night out with a fiver which would cover your drinks for the night and now it just about covers a drink in some places!! |
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"When you pass the reading glasses around the table in the Indian restaurant 'cos known of you can read the menu properly in the dim light...
I bought three strengths of reading glasses which I used to offer customers in a restaurant I ran.........25 years ago. "
That's a really good idea,I'm forever forgetting mine. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"When you pass the reading glasses around the table in the Indian restaurant 'cos known of you can read the menu properly in the dim light...
I bought three strengths of reading glasses which I used to offer customers in a restaurant I ran.........25 years ago.
That's a really good idea,I'm forever forgetting mine."
Ditto to it being a good idea - as a bloke that doesn't always carry his glasses round with him (not having a handbag and that!! ) I'm forever sat squinting at menus or asking someone else to read them for me |
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Telling the kids we had to put 50p in the box to watch tv. Good old Radio Rentals!!
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"When you pass the reading glasses around the table in the Indian restaurant 'cos known of you can read the menu properly in the dim light...
I bought three strengths of reading glasses which I used to offer customers in a restaurant I ran.........25 years ago.
That's a really good idea,I'm forever forgetting mine.
Ditto to it being a good idea - as a bloke that doesn't always carry his glasses round with him (not having a handbag and that!! ) I'm forever sat squinting at menus or asking someone else to read them for me"
Yeah that's me or it's right under my nose so I can see it |
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When the latest trendy fashion is the fashion you wore in your teens.... |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"When you pass the reading glasses around the table in the Indian restaurant 'cos known of you can read the menu properly in the dim light...
I bought three strengths of reading glasses which I used to offer customers in a restaurant I ran.........25 years ago.
That's a really good idea,I'm forever forgetting mine.
Ditto to it being a good idea - as a bloke that doesn't always carry his glasses round with him (not having a handbag and that!! ) I'm forever sat squinting at menus or asking someone else to read them for me
Yeah that's me or it's right under my nose so I can see it "
Oh I'm the one doing the forever extending and retracting arms thing trying to get the menu into focus!! |
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Ditto to it being a good idea - as a bloke that doesn't always carry his glasses round with him (not having a handbag and that!! ) I'm forever sat squinting at menus or asking someone else to read them for me
Yeah that's me or it's right under my nose so I can see it
Oh I'm the one doing the forever extending and retracting arms thing trying to get the menu into focus!! "
Well I'm short sighted in one and long sighted in the other,so I just close one eye and look through the short sighted one |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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Ditto to it being a good idea - as a bloke that doesn't always carry his glasses round with him (not having a handbag and that!! ) I'm forever sat squinting at menus or asking someone else to read them for me
Yeah that's me or it's right under my nose so I can see it
Oh I'm the one doing the forever extending and retracting arms thing trying to get the menu into focus!!
Well I'm short sighted in one and long sighted in the other,so I just close one eye and look through the short sighted one "
That must be awkward when there's a specials board on the wall to contend with and the waiter thinks you're winking at him with each eye alternately!! |
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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago
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"When you start to notice the grim reaper hanging around different places you frequent n each time you see him he taps on his watch/hourglass while giving you a knowing nod with his hooded skull.
Pay attention though,if you notice The Police song,Every Breath You Take,playing in the background then you're most likely an actor in a movie montage and your imminent death is therefore unlikely.
Have you considered Councelling? Lol.
All the time...n I'd happily go if it weren't for the grim reaper hanging around outside the building,nodding at me as he taps his toe to the beat of Every Breath You Take! "
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"When you're talking to a smoker (we're both none smokers now BTW) colleague at work at they give you a look of disbelief when you tell then that ten Benson used to cost 74p."
Bensons used to be 50p for 20 when I was young and you could but 3 fags from the shop for 10p |
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over a year ago
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I can still convert £-s-d.
Drool when I see a Morris Minor.
Laughed my head off as a young kid listening to The Goons.
Pressing button B to get your 1p back.
Wearing Winkle Pickers.
Getting a hard on when I coughed but now have to knock shit out of it just to get a lousy semi.
Its pronounced Akkkkkrington Stanley in a scouse twang heavy emphasis on the k. |
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My Birth Certificate cancels out all the efforts.  |
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"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good.
Was it still oil of ulay when you started using it??
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Bugger! S'pose it wasn't a marathon either?? |
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"My eldest (7) asked me if the dinosaurs were around when i was born.
Oil of Olay is good but it's not that bloody good.
Was it still oil of ulay when you started using it??
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i still call it oil of ulay |
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