What makes you feel old?
Apr 28th 2009, 5:09 pm
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What makes you feel old?
I was just talking to one of the young guys at work when a Wham! song came on the radio. So I've started singing and said "oh I remember the days and wearing the Choose Life t shirt!"
He looked at me and said "what was Choose Life? A film or something?"
I said "Nooooooo you plank Choose Life - Wham - Club Tropicana - you do remember Club Tropicana surely, or at least heard it"
Blank look
"you know - Wham - George Michael, Andrew pretty guy, - Wham?????(obviously if I shout it the penny will drop)"
Ummmmmm - more blank looks
At which I gave up and wandered off muttering something about the youth of today.
But it got me thinking about things that my generation grew up with - and you take for granted cos all your mates are pretty much the same age and can relate to all these things from way back when - that younger generations have no clue about (still can't believe he had no idea about the choose life t shirts though
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He looked at me and said "what was Choose Life? A film or something?"
I said "Nooooooo you plank Choose Life - Wham - Club Tropicana - you do remember Club Tropicana surely, or at least heard it"
Blank look
"you know - Wham - George Michael, Andrew pretty guy, - Wham?????(obviously if I shout it the penny will drop)"
Ummmmmm - more blank looks
At which I gave up and wandered off muttering something about the youth of today.
But it got me thinking about things that my generation grew up with - and you take for granted cos all your mates are pretty much the same age and can relate to all these things from way back when - that younger generations have no clue about (still can't believe he had no idea about the choose life t shirts though
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Apr 28th 2009, 5:14 pm
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Re: What makes you feel old?
Haha.
I was getting my hair cut one day and one of the guys there who was about my age and the supervisor had Jack playing on the radio. The younger ones (like I'm old) were just laughing at him for playing an "Oldies" station.
I was getting my hair cut one day and one of the guys there who was about my age and the supervisor had Jack playing on the radio. The younger ones (like I'm old) were just laughing at him for playing an "Oldies" station.
Apr 28th 2009, 5:17 pm
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Re: What makes you feel old?
Oh, and last week I was out selling Girl Guide cookies with my oldest daughter and another girl in her group. The other girl, who is definitely a teenager, said "I can't be seen driving in your car. Its older than I am."
Apr 28th 2009, 5:23 pm
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Re: What makes you feel old?
When you work with someone who tells you they were born in 1990 
Apr 28th 2009, 5:25 pm
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Re: What makes you feel old?
Many things make me feel old.
Some examples are:
Some examples are:
- Not bouncing very well every time i crash my motorbike
- Creaking joints
- Looking at girls on a night out thinking "Do your parents know you're out and dressed like that?"
- Wondering "Since when do the police take on school kids" before realising they're full blown officers
- Turning 33
- Frowning at people wearing skinny jeans
- Catching myself when i start a sentence off with "In my day......"
Apr 28th 2009, 5:25 pm
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Apr 28th 2009, 5:27 pm
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Re: What makes you feel old?
i had a temp job in a call centre that mainly employed 17 to 22 year olds
we where talking about the will smith, hancock film when i said i'm not sure he's the right choice to play tony hancock in a film....... now i thought this was funny, but i was met with lots of blank faces and the need to explain who tony hancock was
we where talking about the will smith, hancock film when i said i'm not sure he's the right choice to play tony hancock in a film....... now i thought this was funny, but i was met with lots of blank faces and the need to explain who tony hancock was
Apr 28th 2009, 5:29 pm
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Re: What makes you feel old?
LOL at you all....
for me - my teenage daughter reminds me EVERY day - I think she makes a point of it
However - on the other hand, having an old wrinkly for a husband makes me feel positively youthful
(Edit to say: Don't tell him I said that lol)
for me - my teenage daughter reminds me EVERY day - I think she makes a point of it
However - on the other hand, having an old wrinkly for a husband makes me feel positively youthful
(Edit to say: Don't tell him I said that lol)
Apr 28th 2009, 5:38 pm
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Re: What makes you feel old?
Squated down the other day and I think I blew my knee out, damn it hurts if I try to squat.
Doctors at 3:00 this afternoon. 
Apr 28th 2009, 5:40 pm
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Apr 28th 2009, 5:42 pm
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Re: What makes you feel old?
i;m 49, and dont feel old,,just well used and abused, i remember wearing a condom so the gal didnt get pregnant not coz i was affraid of getting aids
mandys Wham, was our bay city rollers, which was another generations beetles...
mandys Wham, was our bay city rollers, which was another generations beetles...
Apr 28th 2009, 5:45 pm
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Apr 28th 2009, 6:10 pm
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Re: What makes you feel old?
Ok, I was going to write something on-topic and semi-witty there about how old I've been feeling recently. But the length of the grass has made me cranky, so I've now decided to put in 20 mins of "power fishing" down at middle river then watch the match.
I'm thinking 2-3 to barca. That's better... I don't feel so old or cranky any more
I'm thinking 2-3 to barca. That's better... I don't feel so old or cranky any more
Apr 28th 2009, 6:19 pm
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Re: What makes you feel old?
When the barber asks if you want your eyebrows trimming!
I hear you on the young police officer bit too I was out on the local road the other night and found a drunk lying in the side of the road head on the road way. I dragged him over off the road way (lucky because it was dark and anyone could have cut the corner crushed him.... second thoughts they probably wouldnt have been able too). He still didn't wake up so I called 911 I didnt want to pick him up and carry him home and be accused of mugging and god knows what else
The young RCMP lady constable was a cute (OMG I am now a dirty old man) ooo about 16 year old with her hair pulled back ballerina style.
Anyway besides thinking "cute", I was thinking "damn I feel old", especially when she asked my date of birth!
I hear you on the young police officer bit too I was out on the local road the other night and found a drunk lying in the side of the road head on the road way. I dragged him over off the road way (lucky because it was dark and anyone could have cut the corner crushed him.... second thoughts they probably wouldnt have been able too). He still didn't wake up so I called 911 I didnt want to pick him up and carry him home and be accused of mugging and god knows what else
The young RCMP lady constable was a cute (OMG I am now a dirty old man) ooo about 16 year old with her hair pulled back ballerina style. Anyway besides thinking "cute", I was thinking "damn I feel old", especially when she asked my date of birth!