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After a lunchtime game of Quake over the office computer network you get an e-mail off some little turd of an apprentice 22 years your junior informing that he “owns you”.
Time to stop playing with the kiddies I think… especially as they won’t let me win.
I knew I was getting old earlier this week when eating out and on noticing a pretty, 18yr old out dining with her mother thinking that I reckon her mum would be more fun in the sack 🙂
When the cute young girl serving you calls you "sir" 🙁
You know you're old when you have to do what I'm going to do now...
What's Quake?
Its Wolfenstein 3D for the modern man 🙂
When your kids schoolteachers start to look like jailbait
When you groan everytime you get off the sofa, and enjoy tending your tomatos and mowing the lawn
... never heard it called that before.tending your tomatos
I'm too old to do it anyway.
"Are you old enough to be a Policeman?"
When your mate is a grand dad, and he is younger than me 😕
When you start fancying fitties that were born in the nineties (and play netball)
[edit][b]EARLY[/b] nineties[/edit]
When you are old enough to be your boss's father - true in my case
When a third year BSc student announced to me the other week that I was in his mums class at school.
I don't feel that old, honest.
darcy, nice nonce-avoiding edit there....!
everyones talking about marridge! And frineds have to ask "permission" to go on hollidays.
you own a dressing gown
mums refer to you as "that man" when refering to while talking to their children
you get a hangover from 4 pints of lager
When the kids in the street call you Ma'm.....
I'm only 30 FFS!
When you get irritated that as opposed to describing something as tasty or delicious, something is observed as being "Like, well nice", or if a gloriously sunny day is described as being "Like, well nice", or if an evocotively new perfume is being worn, it's described as............
This is the general level of badinage here today.
You start a thread like this one 😉
Julian, that must be like well annoying, bro, you get me?
OK, just a few I have noticed recently:
When your daughter is embarrassed to dance with you.
When you have more hair growing out of your ears than on your head!
When the optician says next visit we will need to talk about varifocal lenses!
When it takes an hour on your bike just to warm up!
When people don't laugh any more when you say you have a allotment!
😉
I'm 'only' 32, but get to feel old every day at work by being surrounded by 16-18 year olds.
A's like well-vexed an' everythin'. It's like well random.
When you take your child to see your Mum in hospital. After years of being taken to visit various relatives every time we went back to the Valleys, it was quite surreal taking FB jnr to see Granny after her replacement hip op- especially as she lookled even more like my Nan when she was in hospital.
And she's now got some titanium before I have!
JamesM- have you asked that student what his birthday is to check dates!!
When you find yourself genuinely questioning whether the vet you saw last week is old enough to be qualified.
Oh and when you saw 4 police officers who all looked like said vet's younger brothers and sisters.
When you get dragged to a club by your mates (you'd rather be at home with a whisky, reading the paper) and when you get inside (having not being asked for ID unlike everyone else in the queue), it appears that the clientelle are all children.
...
(then you realise you're in 'Dukes Genesis' and they are in fact all children)
When you actually quite like an item from Marks and Spencer's Blue Harbour range.
When you still say "pardon" instead of "whaa?" when you've misheard something.
Marks and Spencer's - thankfully I am not that old...............yet 😉
But the Mrs is!
When you check out a girl you used to like at school's Friends Reunited page (just out of interest, like).
She's put a new pic up.
She looks like a ropey old hag.
(harsh, but fair)
you know your old when your gonna be a grandad a month after you 43rd birthday.... 😥
When you bend down to tie your laces and think what could I do now I'm down here?
'tis true. One of the main girls appearing in my year's Thomas the Tank Bank sent me a photograph last year.
She's gone from a figure of fantasy to a delaying technique.
when every time you drive past somewere you tell the same story over and over again or when you start saying "in my day..."
When the kids in the street call you Ma'm.....
Tinkerbelle where do you live?! Certainly not near me. I don't think I'd mind being old if the kids were that polite... (not saying you're old, btw)
passing some small kids one sunny day
'Mr, can you get our ball out of that tree"
when you have to make a noise as you get up/sit down
You have no idea what a nunchuk is, and neither do you care!!
You talk about all the things you did - rather than the things you want to do.
When the frequency you attend weddings decreases and the frequency of funerals you attend increases.
You go to a nightclub and realise you're dancing like your dad.
The kids you are talking to don't have a clue what a vinyl record is!
a girl at work yesterday pointed out that not only am i old enough to be her daughters father i'm now old enough to be said sprogs grandfather!
*orders sticks from www.oldcodgerswhoshouldbeeuthenased.com*
you get a hangover from 4 pints of lager
I've never had a hangover - but then I've not drunk 4 whole pints of lager in total to date 🙂
Someone at work who I think is 28 didnt know what a sloan ranger was today. The phrase didnt ring any bells at all.