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Earlier on it was beers 'o' clock in work and a bunch of us were sitting around the table when one of the 'older' lads pointed out that one of the junior staff had hair like Val Killmer from Top Gun...but the joke didn't go down that well, because none of the junior staff knew who Val Kilmer was.

When you see your reflection in the corner of your eye and think it's your dad's.

Try talking about buying pints for less than 2 bob (and no I wasn't old enough at the time)

"Am I so out of touch? No...it's the kids who are wrong"

I got a bit of "f-ck I'm getting old" shock when I saw a recent picture of the little girl from Jurassic Park...

When you start to view stairs in a suspicious and wary manner.

Jeff the Bear wrote:Earlier on it was beers 'o' clock in work and a bunch of us were sitting around the table when one of the 'older' lads pointed out that one of the junior staff had hair like Val Killmer from Top Gun...but the joke didn't go down that well, because none of the junior staff knew who Val Kilmer was.

I'm old as dirt, yet the gag would have face-planted for me since I studiously avoided ever watching Top Gun.

"Withnail and who?"

Sitting in the barbers chair is sobering...

When I got talking to a new girl at work and realised she was the daughter of one of my girlfriends from when I was at school.

For me, it was when I started making grunts of Herculean effort if I have to bend down or get up or reach for the tv remote

I went training last night.

No tackling but I'm still sore as fúck

When the barber after finishing your cut holds up the mirror in tactfully strategic manner to avoid you viewing your ozone hole size bald patch on the back of your head.

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Beat me to it Bayern

Bayern wrote:Sitting in the barbers chair is sobering...

Shitting in it is worse. According to a friend.

Seneca of the Night wrote:I was watching that Haunting of Hill House show the other night and I was having trouble following the plot until I realised there were flashbacks going on in the programme - it kept moving back 26 years into the childhood of the adult characters. So waaayyyy back . . . to 1992.

One interesting aspect that I could see the producers were having trouble with was how to clearly represent the time shifts, as so little has really changed. Not so long ago you just went back to a 50s diner and everyone looked like Ralph Malph. They had to play alot with the film tone, but it still wasn't very distinctive.

Anyone, that's old.

I was thinking that myself. Imagine the difference between 1950 and 1975 ,,, huge. There would be no mistaking a plot set in those timelines. Compared to 1993 and 2018 ... meh. There's not no difference, but it's no where close to what it has been in the past.

When you have to sit down to put your shoes on

I decided to grow a beard.

It's silver. My beard is silver.

Mog The Almighty wrote:

Seneca of the Night wrote:I was watching that Haunting of Hill House show the other night and I was having trouble following the plot until I realised there were flashbacks going on in the programme - it kept moving back 26 years into the childhood of the adult characters. So waaayyyy back . . . to 1992.

One interesting aspect that I could see the producers were having trouble with was how to clearly represent the time shifts, as so little has really changed. Not so long ago you just went back to a 50s diner and everyone looked like Ralph Malph. They had to play alot with the film tone, but it still wasn't very distinctive.

Anyone, that's old.

I was thinking that myself. Imagine the difference between 1950 and 1975 ,,, huge. There would be no mistaking a plot set in those timelines. Compared to 1993 and 2018 ... meh. There's not no difference, but it's no where close to what it has been in the past.

Huge difference.

Broadband and smartphones are probably bigger tecnological jumps than anything between 1950 and 1975.

I'm in my late 30's. All my closest friends are either bald, balding and have graying hair.

No gray hairs nor receding hairline for me.

All your favourite music is played on "classic" or "nostalgia" radio stations and you grumble that "the original was better" as some autotuned witch who feels compelled to swoop through the register like a toddler shaking a Floyd Rose tremelo rather than hold a note is massacring the music of your youth.

I call the lineouts for my team and we have a move where it is thown short to me at 1 in the lineout. As it is a "funny one" the call for this a comedian. Couple of years ago I called Morecombe and Wise, feinted going back turned ready for the short one to watch the ball sail over my head to 4 in the linout. Our hooker was 19 and never heard of Morecombe and Wise! Stick to Jimmy Carr and Michael Mcintyre now

The 15 minutes of everything clicking when you wake up. And oh god my knees!

Getting prescribed varifocals

MungoMan wrote:

Jeff the Bear wrote:Earlier on it was beers 'o' clock in work and a bunch of us were sitting around the table when one of the 'older' lads pointed out that one of the junior staff had hair like Val Killmer from Top Gun...but the joke didn't go down that well, because none of the junior staff knew who Val Kilmer was.

I'm old as dirt, yet the gag would have face-planted for me since I studiously avoided ever watching Top Gun.

It's more the genuine shock that a pop culture reference I naturally assumed would be understood by all, wasn't...I suppose that is one of the definitions of getting old, when there is a distinct break in the pop culture knowledge from one generation to the next generations.

(Just to flesh it out, I'm only 34/35 in a few days, and I know Val Kilmer as (one of the) Batman, and was, for a time, one of the big Hollywood actors. But, tbf, he hasn't done anything since the 90's, so if you grew up in the 00's, it's not unreasonable that you wouldn't know who the fudge he was)

When you find yourself reasoning that the problem with this modern music is there aren’t any good tunes any more. There aren’t though are there?

Jeff the Bear wrote:

MungoMan wrote:

Jeff the Bear wrote:Earlier on it was beers 'o' clock in work and a bunch of us were sitting around the table when one of the 'older' lads pointed out that one of the junior staff had hair like Val Killmer from Top Gun...but the joke didn't go down that well, because none of the junior staff knew who Val Kilmer was.

I'm old as dirt, yet the gag would have face-planted for me since I studiously avoided ever watching Top Gun.

It's more the genuine shock that a pop culture reference I naturally assumed would be understood by all, wasn't...I suppose that is one of the definitions of getting old, when there is a distinct break in the pop culture knowledge from one generation to the next generations.

(Just to flesh it out, I'm only 34/35 in a few days, and I know Val Kilmer as (one of the) Batman, and was, for a time, one of the big Hollywood actors. But, tbf, he hasn't done anything since the 90's, so if you grew up in the 00's, it's not unreasonable that you wouldn't know who the fudge he was)

To make you feel a bit better (and me), the kids that play in the 2nds side with me, all took the piss out of one of their friends when he admitted he hadn't seen top gun, so there's still some young'uns out there that might get it.

The Native wrote:I'm in my late 30's. All my closest friends are either bald, balding and have graying hair.

No gray hairs nor receding hairline for me.

You should get a blood test, maybe you're suffering from low testosterone.

I reckon that if women were not a thing, every man would either shave his head or just let it grow into a huge tangled mess. Because let's be honest, the only reason that any man gives two knobs-of-sheep-shit what his hair looks like is because they want to look good for women. It's not because they want to look good for their mates, or because they love doing their hair. No man would give a f-ck what his hair looked like if women didn't exist. And the dumb thing about it all is that women really don't give a shit anyway. I mean some women do care, and some love guys with shaved heads, so it balances out. Most don't care either way.

I started receding at about 25 and shaved my head immediately, and I've never cared. I think it looks cool shaved bald anyway, it looks masculine and it's also extremely convenient. Even if I had a full head of hair I'd still just buzz cut it every week.

Inch high hogs eye wrote:When you find yourself reasoning that the problem with this modern music is there aren’t any good tunes any more. There aren’t though are there?

There's some. But a lot of R'n'B and especially rap music is seriously shit house, mass-commercialised crap.

backrow wrote:For me, it was when I started making grunts of Herculean effort if I have to bend down or get up or reach for the tv remote

Sitting in a sofa and struggling to get up. Cutting toenails or putting on socks. We need to come up with some inventions to fix these problems. We need tall furniture. There is a market for it. Putting blocks under the sofa works as a temporary fix.

Frank's Sign

backrow wrote:For me, it was when I started making grunts of Herculean effort if I have to bend down or get up or reach for the tv remote

Tape a picture of Sue Carpenter on the remote, you'd soon get up then...<phnarr phnarr>.

Mog The Almighty wrote:

The Native wrote:I'm in my late 30's. All my closest friends are either bald, balding and have graying hair.

No gray hairs nor receding hairline for me.

You should get a blood test, maybe you're suffering from low testosterone.

I reckon that if women were not a thing, every man would either shave his head or just let it grow into a huge tangled mess. Because let's be honest, the only reason that any man gives two knobs-of-sheep-shit what his hair looks like is because they want to look good for women. It's not because they want to look good for their mates, or because they love doing their hair. No man would give a f-ck what his hair looked like if women didn't exist. And the dumb thing about it all is that women really don't give a shit anyway. I mean some women do care, and some love guys with shaved heads, so it balances out. Most don't care either way.

I started receding at about 25 and shaved my head immediately, and I've never cared. I think it looks cool shaved bald anyway, it looks masculine and it's also extremely convenient. Even if I had a full head of hair I'd still just buzz cut it every week.

Who are you trying to convince?

The Man Without Fear wrote:All your favourite music is played on "classic" or "nostalgia" radio stations and you grumble that "the original was better" as some autotuned witch who feels compelled to swoop through the register like a toddler shaking a Floyd Rose tremelo rather than hold a note is massacring the music of your youth.

See also Gym music. There was no need to speed up 2Unlimited's "No Limit" by half a beat. Or stick a bass beat on Cloudbusting. That said, it's infinitely preferable to the other stuff they play.

In my mates garden the other day and he marked and measured and marked a large plank with a pencil, then said while we were having a coffee I will have to cover that plank or lose those angles I marked due to rain.
He put on the Munster match and we talked of using a plastic bag or tarp and brainstormed a bit.
Later on we realised all we had to do was flip the plank over.

Brazil wrote:

The Man Without Fear wrote:All your favourite music is played on "classic" or "nostalgia" radio stations and you grumble that "the original was better" as some autotuned witch who feels compelled to swoop through the register like a toddler shaking a Floyd Rose tremelo rather than hold a note is massacring the music of your youth.

See also Gym music. There was no need to speed up 2Unlimited's "No Limit" by half a beat. Or stick a bass beat on Cloudbusting. That said, it's infinitely preferable to the other stuff they play.

I thought every gym has been playing the same 'mix tape' for the last fifteen years?

sorCrer wrote:

backrow wrote:For me, it was when I started making grunts of Herculean effort if I have to bend down or get up or reach for the tv remote

Tape a picture of Sue Carpenter on the remote, you'd soon get up then...<phnarr phnarr>.

who is that, Grandad ?

The Native wrote:

Mog The Almighty wrote:

The Native wrote:I'm in my late 30's. All my closest friends are either bald, balding and have graying hair.

No gray hairs nor receding hairline for me.

You should get a blood test, maybe you're suffering from low testosterone.

I reckon that if women were not a thing, every man would either shave his head or just let it grow into a huge tangled mess. Because let's be honest, the only reason that any man gives two knobs-of-sheep-shit what his hair looks like is because they want to look good for women. It's not because they want to look good for their mates, or because they love doing their hair. No man would give a f-ck what his hair looked like if women didn't exist. And the dumb thing about it all is that women really don't give a shit anyway. I mean some women do care, and some love guys with shaved heads, so it balances out. Most don't care either way.

I started receding at about 25 and shaved my head immediately, and I've never cared. I think it looks cool shaved bald anyway, it looks masculine and it's also extremely convenient. Even if I had a full head of hair I'd still just buzz cut it every week.

Who are you trying to convince?

About what? That women don't care if your head is shaved or that men only give a shit about their hair because of women?

If it's the second thing ... well, maybe you care about your hair because you want to look good for your mates. I don't think that's the case for most men.

If it's the first thing, then I'm a zillion percent sure that for the vast majority of women, there's about a hundred things more important in a man than his hair, and some women really like a man with a shaved head.

Mog The Almighty wrote:

Inch high hogs eye wrote:When you find yourself reasoning that the problem with this modern music is there aren’t any good tunes any more. There aren’t though are there?

There's some. But a lot of R'n'B and especially rap music is seriously shit house, mass-commercialised crap.

Jeez you are old. “R’n’B” doesn’t really exist anymore, in the contemporary soul music sense. No one would refer to it as that.

As for rap music, very little commercially successful music has ever been “good” regardless of the genre. Any casual perusal of the music charts from any decade will show that. However I would rather listen to the music that’s currently successful that you could broadly classify as “rap” than currently successful music that you could broadly classify as “pop” or “country” or “rock”. And of course at the fringes of all these genres, and where they intersect, it’s possible to find good music.

Edit: Hmmm, it’s seems R&B DOES still exist according to my wife’s billboard playlist. Now I feel old

You are never old, always just the right age for today. Twee remark alert.

naki wrote:

Mog The Almighty wrote:

Inch high hogs eye wrote:When you find yourself reasoning that the problem with this modern music is there aren’t any good tunes any more. There aren’t though are there?

There's some. But a lot of R'n'B and especially rap music is seriously shit house, mass-commercialised crap.

Jeez you are old. “R’n’B” doesn’t really exist anymore, in the contemporary soul music sense. No one would refer to it as that.

As for rap music, very little commercially successful music has ever been “good” regardless of the genre. Any casual perusal of the music charts from any decade will show that. However I would rather listen to the music that’s currently successful that you could broadly classify as “rap” than currently successful music that you could broadly classify as “pop” or “country” or “rock”. And of course at the fringes of all these genres, and where they intersect, it’s possible to find good music.

Back in the day that Black Eyed Peas and Beastie Boys and Sublime put out good "rap". These days it's just total shit. Whatever they call it. "Hip Hop", R'n"B, "rap" whatever. It all sounds the same, is massively over-produced and relies more on that character and image to sell it rather than the music.

Also I have to disagree, "successful" modern country and rock absolutely kills whatever-you-call-it these days. Whatever you call it is that music that is mainly Black American "music" that is filmed usually on a boat or in front of an expensive sports car, singing about how rich you are and how all the "bitches" and "hoes" love you. What a fall from the heights of BB King, Coltrane, Miles Davis, etc. So sad.

Gregory Porter is keeping the flame burning though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvgmA7nfX3A