When the world was fawning over Gangnam Style and that dumb TV programme where people choose dates just by looking at naked bodies (and the fact that it's even on mainstream TV), although I don't know if that's a sign of age or just realisation of the amount of degeneracy today.
When did you realise you were officially old?
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It's not happened yet, I'll let you know when it does
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When I walked to my toilet and somehow pulled a muscle in my leg and I'm "only" 40.
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When I was about 11 and I started disapproving of generally everything that other people liked.
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wow if your feeling it in your 30's your going to be dead by your 60th ... my 30's was the fittest time in my life .. 40's started to slide ..at 55 hips and back ache ..but still able to do a 50 hr week 10 hr days on my feet .. but looking forward to retirement ..lol 8 yrs to go
when I stated getting hairs coming from my ear lobes... like WTF?
I think I was around 36
fine walking, running, cycling , Don't feel I have the same balance I used too though, I feel top heavy like one of those "weebles wobble but they don't fall over" gone wrong (not fat)
Really cautious if it's slippery outside etc.
I think I was around 36
my calves cramp up crazy easy when I wake up in the mornings, I can do it my self just tensing the muscle too hard stretching lol...
fine walking, running, cycling , Don't feel I have the same balance I used too though, I feel top heavy like one of those "weebles wobble but they don't fall over" gone wrong (not fat)
Really cautious if it's slippery outside etc.
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I think there were two things work related that made me aware of being more old than young.
- When I realised there was more of my career behind me than ahead of me.
- People starting seeing value in things I just took for granted as common sense or something everyone must know. Turns out it was experience from having lived longer and seen more than they have and that is a thing that can't be taught in a text book or a Udemy course.
wow if your feeling it in your 30's your going to be dead by your 60th ... my 30's was the fittest time in my life .. 40's started to slide ..at 55 hips and back ache ..but still able to do a 50 hr week 10 hr days on my feet .. but looking forward to retirement ..lol 8 yrs to go
shouldnt have been fittest in your 30`s, you probably just tried harder in your 30`s. As i tried to say in my post if someone who is getting on feels best when older then they didnt take advantage of their youth.
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Looking for my glasses not realising I was wearing them and everything was in focus!
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Well they're always talking about their mentality. Physically, I doubt they feel 20!
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Addendum - Nothing makes you older than threads like this, where people less than half your own age are whining about being "old"...!!!
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When I realised a significant number of my favourite pop songs are older now than when I was hearing them new compared to songs from the 1960s.
In the last ~18 months I've gone from chasing unicorn fitness targets on the bike to deparately trying to hold onto the fitness I have, rapidly thinking I'm never going to get close to those targets again.
In the last ~18 months I've gone from chasing unicorn fitness targets on the bike to deparately trying to hold onto the fitness I have, rapidly thinking I'm never going to get close to those targets again.
I think it was in my early fifties, I was sitting in my taxi reading the paper, on the rank at London Bridge station, when I realised that if I wanted the words to be in focus, I would either need longer arms or reading glasses.
Another indication was when a bunch of the family came to our place one Boxing Day evening.
I said, “Alexa, play Bob Seger, “Hollywood Nights”, and the under thirty nephews and nieces looked aghast.
Another indication was when a bunch of the family came to our place one Boxing Day evening.
I said, “Alexa, play Bob Seger, “Hollywood Nights”, and the under thirty nephews and nieces looked aghast.
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I'm only 31 but there are days when I feel stupidly old.
A lot of my work involves cross referencing employee national insurance numbers with employee pay information. When I see people born in 2003 getting paid a salary, I feel very old.
Since having kids, time is just passing far too quickly. They really do grow up far too quickly and I already wish she'd just stay as she is for a bit longer.
A lot of my work involves cross referencing employee national insurance numbers with employee pay information. When I see people born in 2003 getting paid a salary, I feel very old.
Since having kids, time is just passing far too quickly. They really do grow up far too quickly and I already wish she'd just stay as she is for a bit longer.
That's a good one.
Me listening to some Nirvana / Tupac / Oasis now is the equivalent of someone in the mid 90s sat listening to the Rolling Stones or Beatles!
When I could no longer eat what I liked and stay slim. When hairs started growing in odd places. When I started getting skin tags.
Aches in general. Knees swelling up if I hit them wrong (normally playing paintball).
Mid thirties I guess.
Aches in general. Knees swelling up if I hit them wrong (normally playing paintball).
Mid thirties I guess.
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I was never a fan of either, myself, but ISTR The Beatles being quite popular among young Oasis fans in the 90s, for some reason... Similar styles, perhaps?
I would have guessed puberty!!
Loads of these.
Realising I was born closer to WW2 than present day.
When my barber first offered to 'tidy up' my eyebrows. And didn't even ask before running the clippers over the tops of my ears.
But the main physical one - I play football once a week. It was when I got to the point where everything had only just stopped hurting from the previous game in time for the next one.
Realising I was born closer to WW2 than present day.
When my barber first offered to 'tidy up' my eyebrows. And didn't even ask before running the clippers over the tops of my ears.
But the main physical one - I play football once a week. It was when I got to the point where everything had only just stopped hurting from the previous game in time for the next one.