How old do you have to be before you have to tell everyone how old you are?

[Mad Doug Biker]

Don't forget those who've been on the yawningly dull middle-class jolly, ie gap year - "of course when I was in India/Tibet/vietfugginnam/etc..."

Ask if they have ever been to Clichestan and see what they say (although be prepared to run)!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I dont care about my age or birthdays at all. I have to do the maths in my head or ask Mrs SBIB. (46-just asked)

I'm fine for memory generally, age and birthdays are a total blind spot tho.


You know you're old when they start saying how many years young you are.

 

[roadrash]

50 in august, mrs roadrash is still waiting for me to grow up , not gonna happen anytime soon

 

[vernon]

I never thought I'd see Thirty, never imagined I'd get to Forty and now that Fifty is a dim and dusty memory I'm still shocked, how the heck did I get to be this old. And for all those just about to get there types that say Fifty is the new Forty...................It Ain't, believe you me.

A neighbour of mine, now sadly deceased, used to moan incessantly about his bad back, knee joints and imminent death. His response to my, "But Martin you're only seventy"
was: "But seventy is the new ninety"

I miss his wit and alternative and subversive spin on the world.

 

[Brandane]

I'm too young to be able to tell you. Only recently stopped adding on the fractions of years when someone asked me my age!

Seven years later and I'm now 60 you know. Got my free bus pass!

This "similar threads" facility can be interesting.

Vernon's post above 😢.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Holy thread resurrection Batman!

I'm now 70.

 

[biggs682]

I don't feel old enough to comment on this thread

 

[bikingdad90]

I just wonder at what stage you stop trying to look and act older so you can buy fags and booze as a teenager and when you actually try to make yourself look younger...

The most degrading moment is when your 31 and 11/12th and get asked for ID when buying some booze. Haven’t been asked for years and didn’t have my ID so had to do the embarrassing walk of shame away. They are only doing their job and understand the personal liability attached etc.

 

[Saluki]

I dont care about my age or birthdays at all. I have to do the maths in my head or ask Mrs SBIB. (46-just asked)

I'm fine for memory generally, age and birthdays are a total blind spot tho.


You know you're old when they start saying how many years young you are.

I really don’t like the whole ‘76 years young’ thing. For some reason it sets all my teeth on edge. ‘Oh look at Mr Smith, he’s 85 years young’ in that patronising tone. I find myself thinking ’oh look at that must be Karen the carer, marvellous isn’t she, only 225lbs thin’.

I might be a cow.
For the record, 58, rocking it with a side order of moody menopausal cow-baggery.

 

[iandg]

I seem to remember it being 18 when visiting pubs

 

[Oldhippy]

I really don’t like the whole ‘76 years young’ thing. For some reason it sets all my teeth on edge. ‘Oh look at Mr Smith, he’s 85 years young’ in that patronising tone. I find myself thinking ’oh look at that must be Karen the carer, marvellous isn’t she, only 225lbs thin’.

I might be a cow.
For the record, 58, rocking it with a side order of moody menopausal cow-baggery.

Annoys the c*ap out of me too.

 

[Andy_R]

Old enough to know better. Young enough to still try.

 

[derrick]

Still playing at 70. Latest toy.

 

[winjim]

Still playing at 70. Latest toy.
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An ironing board? Is that what playing involves at 70?

 

[byegad]

In connection with this, at some point you get to add on the extra year, as in: 'I'm 72 (next birthday, {unsaid}) you know!

I'm 15 in my head, but my body, especially my knees, says something very different.