| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 8:55:13 AM | Twice this week have been reminded that I'm clocking up some years on this fine planet. At the beginning of the week I was talking to my younger cousin about us all living in our grandparents house when I was very small. I was reminising about playing on the coal bunker. At 34 she had no idea what a coal bunker was.
Second was a lovely young lady who messaged me on here. We were discussing body types & i remarked that I often get likened to a space hopper (both in shape & colour). Again this lady had never heard of them.
Anything in your life make you feel your age or that you're collecting birthdays at an alarming rate ??
Gordon G | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 9:00:21 AM | | Yes there bloooody well is............A few of the lads on my old team were only around 25 years old and they used to call me ''grandad''. Lick my loo loos I am only 39!!!!!!! | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 9:03:22 AM | well not wanting to state the obviouse but every b-day i just know am older
but just the change in seasons make me know am getting older
and last but not least the language of kids today make me know am older cool | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 9:18:50 AM | I aint even going to touch this one. lmao well maybe just a little bit.
You kids have a lot more to come trust me. lol
I remember the street parties after the second world war.
We used to talk to POW.s at a camp near where we lived too.
Sweet rationing as well, I almost lost my life in the Navy when a submarine I was due to go out on, in 1953 blew up and went down in Portland Harbour. Curiosty!! where you born then? lol
OK thats as far as I am taking this. lol | |
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M~O~B
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Joined: 12/24/2006
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 9:24:43 AM | when you roll your boggies rather then pick and flick! or wipe them under the setee!!
i pick my nose on the toilet!!
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 9:37:42 AM | God I'm only 29 and know what both a coal bunker and space hopper are!
Well the things that remind me I'm getting older is my mates, when they invite me over, theyre all paired up and thinking of family planning, and I'm still single!
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 9:42:31 AM | | i go round switchin off the lights after my kids...jesus! my dad used to get on my nerves when he did that! and i actually turn over to watch the news at 10!!!! whats all that about, it just kinda crept up on me! | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 9:43:32 AM | | Listening to the "guess the year" hour on the radio sure reminds me of my age. You can recall memories associated with the music so vivid and clear. Then you realise it was over twenty years ago. Damn, don't time fly eh | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 9:43:58 AM | My sister and my friends are whinging that they are all 30 this year, whereas I turn 32. As I keep reminding them, they have all been lucky and are married with children - I don't have either of those things yet and I'm 2 years older lol
I'll have a vodka with you Firey  | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 10:19:13 AM | The main thing that reminds me that I'm getting older, is the fact that it is only a matter of time before my fillings stop holding what's left of my back teeth together.
Memories from when I was a kid, that rub in my age are :- Mangles, Spangles, Omo, Twizzle, 6d worth of chips, chalk and slateboards at school, Izal, playing 'fox and hounds' round the streets, and loads more. | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 10:30:43 AM | | i remember in the late 70's/early 80's at college we said things were 'min' good, or 'min' bad and sometimes 'min' big; we called each other joey or joey deacon;backies or luggies were a lift on a mate's bike; gopping, meant awful; gumby, meant you were really untrendy and i was called that a lot. i still wear my hair in side flicks, as well. | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 10:31:00 AM | TV in black and white, all two channels. 
Sheffield Wednesday winning FA cup on colour TV (invited audience in TV shop) 
William Hartnel as Dr Who 
Ms Blackman as Emma Peel 
Ms Lumley as Puuurrrrdy 
Could go on but reaching for the now.
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 10:34:06 AM | | How i know im getting older is that it takes me twice as long to get over the night before!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 10:38:28 AM |
Anything in your life make you feel your age or that you're collecting birthdays at an alarming rate ??
A 19 year old female work colleague, saying "I mean i look younger than 19, but you look your age, about 30 maybe a bit older".
Or my son promising to push me in my wheelchair in a few years when i'm really old! | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 11:37:30 AM | Never mind all the negative things....All these things make me feel my age and I love it....peace and quiet when I want it, MY kind of music when I want it, no constantly handing out money to the kids, eat if I want, dont eat if I cant be bothered.
Nothing out of place, its still where you left it. You can take off for the weekend and dont have to plan anything....you dont have to do Christmas dinner...you go to the kids houses. You can ring them up and ask advise LOL. You dont have to keep giving them taxis everywhere, you no longer worry what time they will roll in and will they be drunk,will they be ok. Your mortgage is almost paid your debts are minimal....yeh....I love being this age, Ive looked forward to it for many years and its fun, because "This is my time now"  | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 11:56:10 AM | SUMMARY OF LIFE
GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:
1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptise cats.
2) When your Mum is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.
3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.
4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food.
6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.
10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap
GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED:
1) Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree.
2) Wrinkles don't hurt.
3) Families are like fudge...mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
5) Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fibre, not the toy.
GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD
1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.
3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
4) You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
5) It's frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
6) Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.
P.S. What's a coal bunker? lol | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 12:23:09 PM | I think remembering how much cheaper things were and then telling my kids makes me feel really old
like when buses were 2p and so was the phone box, they look at me like I am the crypt keeper | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 12:29:42 PM | when i started to like drinking bitter and cant make it to closing time in a club..
speaking of which | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 12:40:18 PM | Laura, you just made my night!!!
Bloody hilarious and Oh!! so true.
And the gentleman who said it takes all night to do what used to last all night - PMSL.
Ah at least at this age we have the capacity (and probably good reason!) to laugh at ourselves. | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 12:47:50 PM | when you cant control your wind and dont know when your going to pop. It just pops out as you stand up..............................
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 12:48:24 PM | Remembering.............
Red phone boxes
Spangles
Opal Fruits
Candlewick bedspreads
Only 3 channels on the television
Worzel Gummidge
Valerie Singleton on Blue Peter
Muffin the Mule
Shillings and sixpences
Saturday morning at the pictures
Youth Clubs
Life before Nike
Kipper ties
Wing collar shirts
Gary Glitter before he was a peodophile
When learning in class was mandatory
Vinyl records
£1 notes
Christmas centering around the nativity
Arctic Roll
Toffo's
Bob a Job week
Multi Coloured Swap Shop
Tiswas and the Phantom Flan Flinger
Dick Emery
Peters and Lee
Remembering where you were when you heard Elvis had died
When you remember that foreign holiday were for the rich
But you really know your getting old when you sound just like your mother whilst yelling at the kids | |
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CHOOZY
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Joined: 1/13/2007
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 12:53:46 PM | | When I was younger and had long hair they used to call me Farah (Fawcett), when I had short hair they called me Livvy (Newton John) now they call me Pauline (Fowler) OUCH !!! | |
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Joined: 10/30/2006
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 1:03:29 PM | when youve been out clubbing and cant walk for 3 days afterwards..
When you start falling asleep in the afternoon and miss neighbours on TV!! | |
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| A sign your getting older ??
Posted: 1/19/2007 1:11:06 PM | I'm only 29, never thought i was getting old until my youngest daughter said my boobs hang when i'm not wearing a bra! OMG! I still don't think they are that bad, But then i started looking a lil closer in the mirror and i have 7 (i counted, i know pitiful), grey hair! At 29 i have grey hair! 
Caught myself the other night yawning when i was out dancing with friends at our favorite watering hole...and it was only 11pm!
We all grow old..just some gracefully and some not so gracefully, some except it and some refuse to except it, what ever floats your boat is fine with me. Personally i'm gonna go with I'm growing wiser.....lol | |
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