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I saw a Capri 2.8 injection on my way into work this morning and got to thinking about the Capri I had as my first car. Then I remembered that it's 26 YEARS since the Capri went out of production. Crivens I suddenly felt old.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 8:29 am
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The fact that my arms are no longer long enough for reading small print on stuff


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 8:32 am
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My back. 🙁


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 8:34 am
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That I know next to nothing about any music that has been released in the last 6 years (and have no interest in finding out).

That it is possible for someone born in 1994 to legally purchase alcohol.

I have to make some sort of noise when I stand up...


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 8:35 am
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Acheing. Somehwere always hurts.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 8:35 am
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My daughter starts big school after the school holidays.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 8:36 am
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As above the aching. Some part is always stiff and needs loosening up in a morning (behave, I don't mean that).


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 8:37 am
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Went paintballing on Saturday My thighs are still aching today 🙁


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 8:38 am
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Films make me feel old. I saw a clip for 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' the other day. I vividly remember adoring it as a 7 year old and then It dawned on me just how long ago that film was released and subsequently how I'm getting old(er).


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 8:40 am
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Peter Sagan

Cycling past Newcastle University during Freshers Week.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 8:42 am
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When someone on here said whoever the rider is enough respect (it was Martin Ashton!!!)

Also going to uni with 18-21 year olds all day makes you feel kinda past it.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:02 am
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Wouldn't really say I feel old. Memories of past times and experiences are what make us who we are today.
The folk saying they are too old to ride infront of kids in the bmx thread sadden me. It's not their age stopping them it's their lack of confidence and overly high levels of self conciousness which should in actual fact be less of a problem with age and life experience IMO


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:12 am
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The fact that me listening to The Clash is to my children what my mum listening to Bill Hailey was to me.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:19 am
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"I have to make some sort of noise when I stand up..."

Truely the definition of getting old ... lol


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:21 am
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turning 40.
Today.
Balls...


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:22 am
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I've noticed that age is beginning to make me feel old... 😐

Welcome to the world of "planning ahead" and "pacing yourself"!


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:28 am
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I saw a Capri 2.8 injection

I dreamt of owning a 'Professionals' style 3.0S - that makes me older. 😥


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:29 am
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doing a running race (length of football pitch) with scouts, came 8th out of 12. 12 year old daughter beat me by about 20m - and I do do a bit of running

I am 47 3/4 though


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:41 am
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The advert for the re-release of Paul Simon - Graceland after 25 yrs...

Remembering that I graduated over a decade ago...

A colleague at my last place telling us he'd never owned a cassette walkman...


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:51 am
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Last weekend, helping my teenage daughter (finally!) clear her room of old toys, story books, dressing-up clothes etc etc.

It can get quite dusty by those recycling bins...


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:53 am
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[i]A colleague at my last place telling us he'd never owned a cassette walkman[/i]

My 10 year old doesn't even know what a cassette is.

My 15 year old, when he first found my record collection was dead impressed that there was music on both sides but less impressed that it was 20 minutes tops per side.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:53 am
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Bruises. Never used to get them at all, now they last for WEEKS!


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 9:55 am
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im not "that" old but when the young lady behind the bar rejected my photocard driving licence as a fake because it didnt look much like hers(no holograms etc) i realised id been driving for 10 years i felt a bit old then.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 10:00 am
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When you're filling in some sort of on-line form and your date of birth is required, and you have to scroll right down the drop down box to find the year you were born.


 
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Bruises. Never used to get them at all, now they last for WEEKS!

That's something worth getting checked out. Bruising that takies ages to go can be signs of other problems like diabetes, anaemia etc.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 10:05 am
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[i] diabetes, anaemia etc.[/i]

Pretty positive it's age and not those! (Thanks for the concern though 😉 )

[i] i realised id been driving for 10 years[/i]
Not since the early 80s then?!


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 10:09 am
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I dreamt of owning a 'Professionals' style 3.0S - that makes me older.

I'll raise you a Consul GT from the Sweeney

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Posted : 18/07/2012 10:10 am
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I owned a 3000E Capri when they were still making them 🙁

Was a right pimpmobile in Met Blue & white vinyl roof 😀


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 10:14 am
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Helping the 16 year old lad next door fix his bike then hearing him tell his mates as he walked off 'he's quite cool (me) for someone twice as old as us, he's got loads of ancient computer games megadrives and stuff were games are on cartridges and cassettes"


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 10:18 am
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Ro5ey,

The trouble is, I bet I'm one of the younger contributors to this thread.

I'm 27 😕


 
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Posted : 18/07/2012 10:27 am
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I broke up a fight between two school kids on the way into work this morning. that made me feel very old. I'm 30... 🙁


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 10:30 am
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Taking my daughter to a roller disco for the first time, thinking its been 26 years since I last went to one 😉


 
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Teaching kids to drive who's date of birth is 1995!!


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 10:32 am
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My son graduating.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 10:37 am
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When you're filling in some sort of on-line form and your date of birth is required, and you have to scroll right down the drop down box to find the year you were born.

When you're filling in some sort of on-line form and your date of birth is required, and you have to scroll right down the drop down box to find the year you were born, and you think "what kind of bloody retarded method is this for entering four digits?"


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 10:50 am
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The fact that me listening to The Clash is to my children what my mum listening to Bill Hailey was to me.

That really puts it in perspective for me....

and Ive just worked out the years gap is actually greater from now to the clash, than clash to bill hailey


 
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That really puts it in perspective for me....

and Ive just worked out the years gap is actually greater from now to the clash, than clash to bill hailey

Nice! I just emailed this to my Clash-loving colleagues (whilst trying not to think of when Appetite For Destruction came out)


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 12:19 pm
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Meeting people now in the RN who weren't born when I joined up.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 12:27 pm
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This:

Friday 7th December 2012 FROM THE JAM
~ In The City - [b]35[/b]th Anniversary Tour ~
Plus Special Guests
Doors 8.00pm £20.00

35 years!
(Not that I'd go and see old shite)


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 12:55 pm
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franciscobegbie happy birthday and congrats for joining the over 40's club. Does anybody else realy ache when they get up in the morning and hobble downstairs to make a cuppa.


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 12:58 pm
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facebook
twitter
and dubstep
none of which i understand


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 1:16 pm
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[i]Ive just worked out the years gap is actually greater from now to the clash, than clash to bill hailey[/i]

*weeps gently for his lost youth*


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 1:20 pm
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Something that makes me feel old and grumpy is seeing this kind of shit in front of me at every bloody gig
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WATCH THE BAND YOU STUPID FEKKERS!


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 1:33 pm
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Two things have hit home hard this year:-

1) During recruitment, I'm seeing CVs from graduates who were born the same year I left school

2) I'm closer to 50 than 20


 
Posted : 18/07/2012 1:38 pm
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