You know you've reached your forties when...

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Jan 17th 2011, 3:47 am

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Re: You know you've reached your forties when...

you completed high school higher grade maths without a calculator (see another thread) and can't understand why the lazy little shits of today need one.

Jan 17th 2011, 4:03 am

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Re: You know you've reached your forties when...

you did O levels not GCSEs

Jan 17th 2011, 4:42 am

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Re: You know you've reached your forties when...

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Originally Posted by Amazulu

you completed high school higher grade maths without a calculator (see another thread) and can't understand why the lazy little shits of today need one.

You did higher maths?

Wow

Jan 17th 2011, 5:04 am

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You did higher maths?

Wow

It was hard - maybe a calculator would have helped!

Jan 17th 2011, 6:08 am

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Re: You know you've reached your forties when...

I used a slide rule for my o-level maths!!!

Jan 17th 2011, 6:18 am

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Re: You know you've reached your forties when...

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Originally Posted by Hebe

The Husband Always Makes Tea Act 1971. S.4 makes it illegal for wives to make tea. It ALWAYS the husbands job. He needs taking back to the factory and re-programming. He needs to know his place

Am excited and alarmed by this HAMT Act. Where does one stand, legally, if husband drinks tea but refuses, point blank and consistently, to make me a cup of coffee. "It's more trouble than the satisfaction that comes from it" (quote.) I used to make his tea all the time, but now only do it when I feel truly obliged.

Jan 17th 2011, 6:26 am

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Re: You know you've reached your forties when...

Am I mr invisible?
Jeez I know I'm a newbie but I still exist, in a manner of speaking...

Jan 17th 2011, 6:29 am

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Originally Posted by harpodom

Am I mr invisible?
Jeez I know I'm a newbie but I still exist, in a manner of speaking...

I thought I heard something about numbers above the bubble of the kettle. Forgive me, my non coffee maker is an accountant and I hate numbers. Must be my old age. Forty-something.

Jan 17th 2011, 6:36 am

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Originally Posted by brissybee

I thought I heard something about numbers above the bubble of the kettle. Forgive me, my non coffee maker is an accountant and I hate numbers. Must be my old age. Forty-something.

You what?
I only understood about half of that...must be my age

Jan 17th 2011, 7:33 am

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Re: You know you've reached your forties when...

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Originally Posted by TiddlyPom

I am obviously in a different universe to all these cardigan wearing pipe smokers.

It's the marriage effect.

Jan 17th 2011, 6:05 pm

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Re: You know you've reached your forties when...

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Originally Posted by TiddlyPom

You know when people describe their life in Australia and you say to yourself 'I must live in a different Australia' because it's so not your experience at all...?

Well I'm 40 and none of this strikes a chord at all. I am obviously in a different universe to all these cardigan wearing pipe smokers.

Life just keeps getting better and better.

hear hear, well said

Jan 17th 2011, 6:55 pm

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Re: You know you've reached your forties when...

Quote:

Originally Posted by harpodom

the thought of 'doing it' is not as attractive as a nice cup of tea and a sit down

That's not being 40, that's being ready for the grim reaper

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amazulu

you completed high school higher grade maths without a calculator (see another thread) and can't understand why the lazy little shits of today need one.

too right, log tables and brain power when I were a lad :smile:

back on topic:

looking at an attractive young lady and thinking "I'd get arrested just for talking to her", instead of thinking "I'm in there".