What makes you feel old?

[Mr Angry]

I just gave my son a hard time about having grey hairs, then I realised that makes me really, really old.

Not a win.

What makes you feel old?

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Apart from my hairline…

a preference for am radio in the car..

hating the music the kids listen to..

low tolerance for people in my way..

the enjoyment of mowing a lawn and stuffing about in the garden..

And… eating rye bread… the true appreciation for a great sh*t in your late 40’s is something to behold…

 

[bileduct]

My knees.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Everything about the first 10 mins after getting out of bed.

 

[Mr Angry]

Young lady at the shopping centre, selling charity.

Very pretty, me so old, sad face.

Some young man will enjoy.

 

[Nealo 12]

Remembering how old I was when my team last won a Premiership !

 

[Twizzle]

Remembering how old I was when my team last won a Premiership !

Lucky you're not an Eels fan

 

[Mr Angry]

I always feel younger when I think of @Willow he is older than trees, born 1096, then @Twizzle not born, came from an egg.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

I always feel younger when I think of @Willow he is older than trees, born 1096, then @Twizzle not born, came from an egg.

I feel old when I wake up at 5.30am on a weekend….
Why oh why…

 

[The Rosco]

I feel old when I wake up at 5.30am on a weekend….
Why oh why…

Why ?
More than likely, the 3 times you had to get up to piss messed up your sleep.
If you didn't have to get up 3 times . . . what the hell did you expect ? you'd be bustin by now.

 

[Willie Ray]

visiting yet another old mate laid up in hospital with a ute load of ailments....
once it was weddings and twenty firsts....now it's hospital visits and funerals.

 

[Generalzod]

Watching my daughter organise a wedding, knowing i have to pay for it...
Also watching Predator and knowing I watched it 34 years ago.

 

[Willie Ray]

Watching my daughter organise a wedding, knowing i have to pay for it...
Also watching Predator and knowing I watched it 34 years ago.

34 years ago....wow....love that movie.

 

[horrie hastings]

The bottom shelves at work, my knees just can't spring up and down like they used to.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Realising some of my fave albums and movies are all lining up for 30 or 40 birthdays this year (or in next couple of years).


Turning 45 and realising being 15 was 30 years ago and Melissa Tkultz is 50. Or Kurt Cobain’s kid is older now than Kurt was when he died.

I repeat myself. I don’t like beer anymore.

Or as a kid there were two Germanys, the Berlin Wall and Russkies.

All my favourite MAD artists are dead except the Fold In guy Al Jaffee (100 this year) or Sergio Aragone

That no one remembers Dean Lukin or Martin Vinnicombe or Lucozade.

Biscuits or muesli bars aren't what they used to be.

That Dean Jones is dead.

I often repeat myself.

I don’t have the patience to deal with parents of kids I coach.

Remember obscure one hit wonders and dates they hit the ARIA Charts but can’t remember my keys or the names of stupid parents of kids I coach.

I whinge about everything.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Realising some of my fave albums and movies are all lining up for 30 or 40 birthdays this year (or in next couple of years).


Turning 45 and realising being 15 was 30 years ago and Melissa Tkultz is 50. Or Kurt Cobain’s kid is older now than Kurt was when he died.

I repeat myself. I don’t like beer anymore.

Or as a kid there were two Germanys, the Berlin Wall and Russkies.

All my favourite MAD artists are dead except the Fold In guy Al Jaffee (100 this year) or Sergio Aragone

That no one remembers Dean Lukin or Martin Vinnicombe or Lucozade.

Biscuits or muesli bars aren't what they used to be.

That Dean Jones is dead.

I often repeat myself.

I don’t have the patience to deal with parents of kids I coach.

Remember obscure one hit wonders and dates they hit the ARIA Charts but can’t remember my keys or the names of stupid parents of kids I coach.

I whinge about everything.

Mate a “great list” there…. I remember Lukin n Vinnicombe…the “two Germany’s”, also the USSR.. Yugoslavia…

I was actually thinking of many Aussie names of the past the other day, big names in my childhood but where are they now…

Athletes like…

Jon Sieben
Deek
Steve Moneghetti
Tracy Wickham
Debbie Flintoff-King

Celebrities like..

Rebekah Elmologlou
Sofie Formica
Penny Cook
Bruce Samazan
Matthew Krok (the little fat kid…)
Anne Fulwood
Jim Waley

then some of those who’ve sadly passed away

Darrell Eastlake
Richie Benaud
Graham Kennedy
Don Lane
Ricky May
Yep… Dean Jones…
Malcolm Marshall
Tony Greig

Yep I feel old that all these and hundreds of others were big names when I was a kid. A long long time ago..

 

[The Mad Hatter]

My wife and I spent half an hour explaining Ashes and Kangaroo tours to my older son the other night. Before big contracts, 5 star hotels and nutritionalists and resting. Pre 1995 and professionalism in Australian sport.
Of sitting up to watch Wimbledon or test matches and not qualifying for soccer world cups.

 

[DeeJ]

My hair - or lack there of, a complete disconnect with the younger generation, struggling to stay up to 11pm.

 

[soc123_au]

Reading this thread and silently nodding my head as I read each post.

 

[horrie hastings]

One of the casuals at work who was my manager once years ago in another shop, he was talking about Fox showing highlights of when Kevin Walters and Alfie Langer playing and i mentioned to him how you tube have had lots of older games put up now and seeing he was a Souths supporter i mentioned a game that was on there between Easts and Souths at the Sports Ground in 1982 which i remember being at and when i watched it again it was exactly how i remembered it being live, he said to me that was the year he was born, i seem to forget there is about a 20 year age gap between him and me even though he has seemed to be around the company for years.