The realisation you're getting old

[Chris S]

Kylie having hits in five decades.
https://news.sky.com/story/kylie-be...op-album-chart-five-decades-in-a-row-12132099

 

[GetFatty]

Kylie having hits in five decades.
https://news.sky.com/story/kylie-be...op-album-chart-five-decades-in-a-row-12132099

She’s my twin but no matter how often I invite her she never shows up to our birthday. I thought for our 50th she might but another no show

 

[GetFatty]

When the doctor said “At your age, deep tissue injuries will take 6-8 weeks to heal”

 

[byegad]

It's a real shame that the original thread from a couple of years ago eventually descended into these tiny nuggets / examples of what people think makes them old.

It was originally a beautiful story with pathos and whimsy woven into it, a tree growing up and growing old before the OP had a chance to realise that he was part of that tree, and vice versa.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When you start telling those complaining about new housing that they are living in new housing. Then you realise their houses are now twenty years old.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You remember when climate change was called the greenhouse effect back in the 70s.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When you do 16 miles on the 'retro' MTB because it's filthy out, as it has no suspension to clean, and feel like you've done 50 miles, had a fight with Mike Tyson, and fought off 6 sabre tooth tigers.

Gosh isn't modern suspension nice !

When you don’t ride a retro mtn bike but ride one actually built in the 1980s.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Forgetting the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re.’

Days of your 😆

 

[cookiemonster]

When you watch a slasher movie, where annoying teenagers are getting wiped out, and you're on the side of the slasher.

 

[cookiemonster]

When the doctor said “At your age, deep tissue injuries will take 6-8 weeks to heal”

One reason why I had to quit Muay Thai a few years back.

 

[Chris S]

Gillian Anderson playing Margaret Thatcher.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You qualify for the first rounds of the Covid Vaccines.

 

[Archie_tect]

You remember Margaret Thatcher saying the lines Gillian Anderson recites.

 

[tyred]

You look at a bicycle with a cotter pin and think it is something new.

This is a true story about an old friend of the family. For whatever reason he always had a great love of Morris Motors and can tell you at great length about all the many Oxfords, Minors and Marinas he has owned. He even had one of the special Marinas in that horrible green colour to celebrate sixty years of Morris.

In the late 1990s when his last Morris Ital was getting a bit very rusty and unable to find another one he jumped sides and bought a late model Austin Maestro. Shortly after getting it he was talking a local mechanic and telling him all about and he told him it was one of the these new, modern front wheel drive models to which the mechanic pointed out that BMC had been building them like that for about forty years

With the demise of Rover, he was forced to go Japanese and buy a Mitsubishi for his most recent car

 

[Gunk]

You remember Margaret Thatcher saying the lines Gillian Anderson recites.

Very true!