Signs that you are getting on a bit.

edited September 2011 in Chit chat
When you start calling regular journies a run. You are getting on. I only ever hear or read this term from people over the age of 35.

I.e. the School Run, the Oxford to Cambridge run, the supermarket run.

FFS, you'r not running your driving.
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  • fogfog
    edited September 2011
    Signs that you are getting on 8 bit

    bad jokes count ?
  • edited September 2011
    fog wrote: »
    Signs that you are getting on 8 bit

    bad jokes count ?

    :lol: groan
  • zx1zx1
    edited September 2011
    You start to watch Countdown or Last of the summer wine
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • edited September 2011
    When 2 glasses of wine do you in.
  • edited September 2011
    zx1 wrote: »
    You start to watch Countdown

    your on countdown
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  • edited September 2011
    When you lift heavy things you start talking semi nonsense to yourself in a semi or mock northern accent

    "EErrruugh up (*bend down) come on my old son (*grab and begin to lift), yuurp urp hup eehhup mi chubby (*lift up past your knees then fudumph on to the table) there we go"
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  • RNDRND
    edited September 2011
    When you find yourself nodding off in the middle of the evening.
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  • edited September 2011
    fogartylee wrote: »
    your on countdown

    You're critical of other people's grammar.:lol::lol:
  • edited September 2011
    murtceps wrote: »
    You're critical of other people's grammar.:lol::lol:

    Its peoples' fool. :lol:
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  • edited September 2011
    When you realise the Internet Era has been twice as long as the Speccy one arguably was.

    There's not a lot that makes me feel old, to be honest... but AltaVista closing down (after seventeen years in operation!) came the closest.
  • edited September 2011
    Danforth wrote: »
    When you realise the Internet Era has been twice as long as the Speccy one arguably was.

    There's not a lot that makes me feel old, to be honest... but AltaVista closing down (after seventeen years in operation!) came the closest.

    Yeah I used to use Altavista as my primary search engine. I remember when I first used Google in 1998. At the time I would still use Altavista regularly, but slowly and increasingly so used Google untill I stoped using Altavista all together.

    If they'd have played their cards right they could have been in Google's position now.
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  • zx1zx1
    edited September 2011
    You go onto gaming websites and talk about old computers from the 80's:smile:
    *gets coat*
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  • edited September 2011
    Danforth wrote: »
    When you realise the Internet Era has been twice as long as the Speccy one arguably was.

    There's not a lot that makes me feel old, to be honest... but AltaVista closing down (after seventeen years in operation!) came the closest.

    cor I remember that....blimey I am old :-(
  • edited September 2011
    I do find myself needing to visit the toilet more often.

    Not to wee though, I just really like it in there.
  • edited September 2011
    I remember back around 1993 at uni, logging into the mainframe one morning and a "www" directory had appeared in the root directory for the first time.

    I was thinking, I know what that means - it's the "World Wide Web". Can't believe they've jumped on that bandwagon, surely it's just a passing fad and a waste of precious disk space! :D
  • edited September 2011
    I was thinking, I know what that means - it's the "World Wide Web". Can't believe they've jumped on that bandwagon, surely it's just a passing fad and a waste of precious disk space! :D

    Surely not, how un-insightful. I'd have seen it and though wow, what possibilities will they (or can I) invent to make use of this. However, I suppose I can see why in the context of your job or organisations goals you might have thought that.
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  • edited September 2011
    fashionable clothes start looking stupid
  • edited September 2011
    mile wrote: »
    fashionable clothes start looking stupid

    That also depends on whether what you believe to be fashionable actually is. This is another related problem that comes with the onset of age, typically during the nerrinch phase.
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  • fogfog
    edited September 2011
    mile wrote: »
    fashionable clothes start looking stupid

    in a lot of cases buying a belt / pulling up their jeans would fix that..
  • edited September 2011
    fog wrote: »
    in a lot of cases buying a belt / pulling up their jeans would fix that..

    FAIL!
    armpit-high-pants.jpg
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  • edited September 2011
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Its peoples' fool. :lol:
    incorrect. people is already a plural, so the apostrophe goes before the s.

    sorry about that old chap. :p
  • fogfog
    edited September 2011
    blame cowell for that one ;) :)
  • fogfog
    edited September 2011
    def chris wrote: »
    incorrect. people is already a plural, so the apostrophe goes before the s.

    sorry about that old chap. :p

    run everyone it's a grammar pedant ! :)

    a lot of things are wrong e.g. you can use words like... errm .. video's and videos' (I guess)
  • edited September 2011
    There's lots of signs of getting old that I've undergone, such as:



    - losing your hair,

    - needing glasses,

    - never running just for the fun of it. When you're younger you run up upward escalators as you are bored by their slow speed, if you have to climb a lot of stairs then you run up them 'just because', you sometimes run to places even though it has no discernable advantage to walking. But when you get older you don't have the energy that is so boundless when you're younger,

    - hating many young people, so much so that talking to a pretty, but braindead, late-teenager/twenty-something is painful and not worth any potential result,

    - having to pull nostril hair (Only done a couple so far, and thankfully no sign of ear hair :roll:),

    - having to sleep every night,

    - putting on weight, even though you eat (probably) the same as you did when you were younger. Of course back then you (a) needed more calories as you were growing, and (b) even when you stopped growing you had a young person's metabolism, unlike the middle-aged every-bloody-calorie-now-goes-towards-making-body-fat metabolism that mother nature, in her infinite gitness decided to curse me with.
  • edited September 2011
    def chris wrote: »
    incorrect. people is already a plural, so the apostrophe goes before the s.

    sorry about that old chap. :p

    Congratulations you passed the Scottie_UK patent 'old codger' test. You are now officially an old codger.

    I knew laying a double negative grammar trap would wheedle out someone. :lol
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  • edited September 2011
    ewgf wrote: »
    There's lots of signs of getting old that I've undergone, such as:



    - losing your hair,

    - needing glasses,

    - never running just for the fun of it. When you're younger you run up upward escalators as you are bored by their slow speed, if you have to climb a lot of stairs then you run up them 'just because', you sometimes run to places even though it has no discernable advantage to walking. But when you get older you don't have the energy that is so boundless when you're younger,

    - hating many young people, so much so that talking to a pretty, but braindead, late-teenager/twenty-something is painful and not worth any potential result,

    - having to pull nostril hair (Only done a couple so far, and thankfully no sign of ear hair :roll:),

    - having to sleep every night,

    - putting on weight, even though you eat (probably) the same as you did when you were younger. Of course back then you (a) needed more calories as you were growing, and (b) even when you stopped growing you had a young person's metabolism, unlike the middle-aged every-bloody-calorie-now-goes-towards-making-body-fat metabolism that mother nature, in her infinite gitness decided to curse me with.

    On that note I now have a few stray eyebrow hairs that get a bit long and need trimming from time to time.
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  • edited September 2011
    ewgf wrote: »
    There's lots of signs of getting old that I've undergone, such as:



    - losing your hair,

    Not happened to me yet - I have less because I shave it lol
    - needing glasses,

    Had contact lenses since I was 16!!
    - never running just for the fun of it. When you're younger you run up upward escalators as you are bored by their slow speed, if you have to climb a lot of stairs then you run up them 'just because', you sometimes run to places even though it has no discernable advantage to walking. But when you get older you don't have the energy that is so boundless when you're younger,

    I sold my car a few years ago & walk anywhere under 5 miles - and live in a dip so everywhere is uphill! In that time I have lost weight & am a lot fitter.
    - hating many young people, so much so that talking to a pretty, but braindead, late-teenager/twenty-something is painful and not worth any potential result,

    My GF is a 20-something lol
    - having to pull nostril hair (Only done a couple so far, and thankfully no sign of ear hair :roll:),

    yes to the nose hair!
    - having to sleep every night,

    It's nearly 3am and I am replying to posts lol
    - putting on weight, even though you eat (probably) the same as you did when you were younger. Of course back then you (a) needed more calories as you were growing, and (b) even when you stopped growing you had a young person's metabolism, unlike the middle-aged every-bloody-calorie-now-goes-towards-making-body-fat metabolism that mother nature, in her infinite gitness decided to curse me with.

    See previous comment about walking :)

    Feeling old is when you gf tells you her favourite band is Take That & realising that she was a teenager 1st time round and you are 11yrs older than her lol (on the plus side, there are other exercises to be done to help with the weight control!)
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  • edited September 2011
    I just heard 'Little White Bum' by the Barron Knights.... now THAT made me feel old.
  • edited September 2011
    When you eat a whole pizza (that one for 2-3 people) and need a digestive pill...
  • edited September 2011
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Surely not, how un-insightful. I'd have seen it and though wow, what possibilities will they (or can I) invent to make use of this. However, I suppose I can see why in the context of your job or organisations goals you might have thought that.

    Indeed. :D Well, I tend to get stuck in my ways and it takes me a while to warm to new ideas. I only just got a mobile phone for the first time last month!

    Initially in the early '90s, I'd heard about "the web" but didn't really know what it was capable of. Back in those days computing was pretty much all based around site-local apps and downloading stuff via FTP etc.. At the time, the web layer just seemed like an uneccesary overhead on top of the files I wanted to get to. I was much happer just to go straight in to FTP.

    Of course when I eventually started using the Mosaic browser which supported images and tables etc.. I knew then that it was becoming really useful. :D
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