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You know you're getting old when... 1. You leave clubs before the end to "beat the rush". 2. You get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than going clubbing. 3. You stop dreaming of becoming a professional footballer and start dreaming of having a son who might instead. 4. Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the property section. 5. You prefer Later with Jools Holland to Top of the Pops. 6. All of a sudden, Tony Blair is not 46, he's only 46. 7. Before going out anywhere, you ask what the parking is like. 8. Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them because they'll be all right for the garden. 9. You buy your first ever T-shirt without anything written on it. 10. Instead of laughing at the innovations catalogue that falls out of the newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving properties of a plastic winter cover for your garden bench and an electronic mole repellent for the lawn. Not to mention the plastic man for the car to deter would-be thieves. 13. Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything you want to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid. 15. Pop music all starts to sound crap. 16. You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they don't have any pictures on the menus and anyway, they do a really nice half-bottle of house white. 17. You become powerless to resist the lure of self-assembly furniture. 18. You always have enough milk in. 19. To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to go clubbing, you instead frequent really loud tapas restaurants and franchise pubs with wacky names in the mistaken belief that you have not turned into your parents. 20. While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4's Time Team with Tony Robinson and you get drawn in. 21. The benefits of a pension scheme become clear. 22. You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from B&Q. 23. You wish you had a shed. 24. You have a shed. 25. You actually find yourself saying "They don't make 'em like that anymore" and "I remember when there were only 3 TV channels" and "Of course, in my day...." 26. Radio 2 play more songs you know than Radio 1 and Jeremy Vine has some really interesting guests on. 27. Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the bus, you tut at schoolchildren whose diction is poor. 28. When sitting outside a pub you become envious of their hanging baskets. 29. You make an effort to be in and out of the curry house by 11. 30. You find yourself saying "is it cold in here or is it just me?" |
Another one of those lists that some old git will moan about - lighten up grandad.
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ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Nemesis 20,312 posts
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Registered 20 years ago/worries about #5
realises he's right.
/stops worrying.
#20. There from the beginning man. Like my Mad Mike jumper? Woohoo! Thars some lovely dirt down 'ere Tohnee -
Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoSomeone can't count!!!
Oh and put me down for 5, 9, 13 (what does that have to do with being old! More like being a bloke) 15, and a 24.
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Killerbee 5,249 posts
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Registered 20 years agossuellid wrote:
You know you're getting old when...
2. You get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than going clubbing.
Oooh yeah!
Mmmm... gravy and roast potatoes...
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Nemesis 20,312 posts
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Registered 20 years agoCrunchy roast spuds mind.
with some beef.
yorkshire puds
bit of the ol' horseradish
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blacklight 83 posts
Registered 18 years agossuellid wrote:
15. Pop music all starts to sound crap.
i thought that from when i was 6
off to play iris (which is bubble gum goth )
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Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoWhy do we have to have so many threads that make me hungry? This and the pizza thread! What next, a thread on curry? HHHhmmmmm currryy....
/drools
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Nemesis 20,312 posts
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Registered 20 years agoMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPut me down for:
4. That's just living in London and having a masochistic streak.
5. Anyone over the age of 14 thinks that!
8. And I don't even have a garden!
9. Anything written on your tshirt is out of date by the time you get it home.
13. Anything less than 100 quid is bound to be rubbish (see the 'Cube outsells PS2 in US' thread)
14. Yeah, definitely number 14.
16. Except it's their red, not their white, stoopid.
17. That's half of the fun, isn't it?
18. Every time we have less than a pint left, every person in the house goes out independently and buys a 4 litre monster. D'oh!
23. I wish I had a garden.
28. I swear they cheat. I can't get my windowbox to look like that.
Edit: Whoops! Didn't mean to leave that quote of the entire original post in.
Edited by mal at 16:48:54 09-10-2003 -
st3ph3n 2,833 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI'm 22, and worryingly I agree with about half of these. Perhaps because Night Clubs are the worst places on earth, and I like expensive things. -
quantumsheep 3,129 posts
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Registered 20 years agomy life is officially over...
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Shivoa 6,314 posts
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Registered 20 years agoGetting old at 20 (I'd say yes to most). That's a bad sign, right? -
Khab 6,583 posts
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Registered 20 years agoNot for me, who's 24 and was worrying since I had 'bout 7 of 'em. .gif)
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sheepfish 1,168 posts
Registered 19 years agoOMG I just cooked and ate roast dinner and have no intention of going clubbing anytime in the near future. -
Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI got about 10 I think... not too bad surely? -
BartonFink 35,268 posts
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#5 Most definately
#8 Eh, doesn't everyone
#9 What's wrong with plain t-shirts
#13 You could sing it if you had a tune.
#15 Pop has always been crap
#18 Yup, the little son needs his own cow he drinks that much milk.
#20 It only happened twice, damnit /sobs
#21 They certainly do
#23,#24 I have a shed
#28 Their handing baskets have nothing on mine /bastards
#30 But it is cold in here
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FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agossuellid wrote:
5. You prefer Later with Jools Holland to Top of the Pops.
15. Pop music all starts to sound crap.
Err.. no. That's just having taste.
25. You actually find yourself saying "They don't make 'em like that
anymore" and "I remember when there were only 3 TV channels" and "Of
course, in my day...."
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Alastair 24,828 posts
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Registered 20 years agoOr even "You know you'll fit in on the EG forum when...." -
FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agost3ph3n wrote:
I'm 22, and worryingly I agree with about half of these. Perhaps because Night Clubs are the worst places on earth, and I like expensive things.
I never got into the "clubbin'" scene. I had some mates and exs who dragged me along to them and for a while I thought I might actually have been enjoying those trance parties. But then I realised, no, they're all shite. I've been a gig man my entire life. Fuck clubbing. As a wise man once said, "Hang the DJ". -
Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoFWB wrote:
The Smiths?
As a wise man once said, "Hang the DJ".
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BartonFink 35,268 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYup it was The Smiths but what was the name of the track?
Remember as a purile teenager going up to the DJ at the local teenage dishco and getting them to play this just to piss them off. He was absolutely useless. -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agoFWB wrote:
I never got into the "clubbin'" scene. I had some mates and exs who dragged me along to them and for a while I thought I might actually have been enjoying those trance parties. But then I realised, no, they're all shite. I've been a gig man my entire life. Fuck clubbing. As a wise man once said, "Hang the DJ".
I hate modern commercial clubbing but when it all started out it was rather wonderful, really friendly crowds everywhere and great huge warehouse parties and parties in fields. Then it went utter shite with more commercial clubs, djs, and a load of tossers turning up etc.
Last club I used to go to was 'The End' which has the best sound system I've ever heard in a club. They used to have Rephlex DJ evenings with Aphex Twin, Bogdan and a load of other musicans doing live sets and some djing. Wonderful. -
BartonFink 35,268 posts
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Registered 20 years agoKinda lost touch with the clubbing scene about 3 years ago when we found out the missus was pregnant. /sniff
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FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoTwas Panic. Great song. Great lyrics.
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quantumsheep 3,129 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI'm 33 next month. I mentioned to my mates that we should go down the Electric Ballroom in Camden for old times sake. They looked kinda horrified. -
You can tick me off against all of those except 5 and 26. Not that I prefer Jools Holland to TOTP, I hate them both with a vengeance.
In fact, you could have ticked me off against all of those ten years ago. Shit, fifteen years ago.
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What happened to 11 & 12 anyway? -
Actually I think we need to rename this list from "you know you're getting old when..." to "you know you're an adult when..." -
I used to love clubbing when I was a student, back in the early days of House & hip-hop, God that was fun, but sadly I never really got around to it after leaving uni.
Er, wasn't the song actually called 'Hang the DJ'?
/check iPod
No, it was 'Panic' wasn't it? -
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