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General Category => Everything Else => Topic started by: Master Ray on August 01, 2014, 06:06:48 PM
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You are flicking through Q magazine, you get to the live gig ads and there's a band you've never heard a single song by playing the great big arenas...
You haven't shaved in a week and your beard has more white than dark in it...
You get in touch a friend who is a little bit younger than you and he's just become a grandfather...
:o :( :'(
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When your youngest offspring turn 18 and become an adult, as my youngest lad will do on Sunday.
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That's nowt my oldest girl will be 28 this year Hey I started young ok
When you realize that you have been into nma for 30years lol
Or as Billy Connolly said when you find your first grey pube
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Funny you should say that, Pol... I have a bit of grey around the sides of my head, my beard is getting very grey and my chest hair is almost completely white...
... but my pubes are still a completely rich brown colour...
:o
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Thanks Ray, I will have that image in my head next time I see you ::)
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Thanks Ray, I will have that image in my head next time I see you ::)
Hey, give me your address, I could send you clippings... :o
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:-[ :-[ :-[
Now I know your a hedge trimmer
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:-[ :-[ :-[
Now I know your a hedge trimmer
;D ;D ;D ;D
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I realised I was getting old when my everything started hurting.
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You know you're getting old when you don't want to go to the pub if there's nowhere to sit down...
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i know i'm getting old when i realise i have some variant of each of these going on
i wonder could we find an nma themed home for the elderly........
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The other day I was out with my one year old daughter and I was asked if I was the father or grandfather!! I started late ;)
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The other day I was out with my one year old daughter and I was asked if I was the father or grandfather!! I started late ;)
The correct answer to that question is '**** off...' ;D
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When you are getting nearer and nearer to 30 but have not accomplished much. By 30 many others have families and careers instead and at least one meaningful relationship instead of crap jobs and a life alone.
I know that I probably seem young to many here but I don't want to be nearing 30 and not have accomplished much of anything.
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When you have to take painkillers to get you through an NMA gig. : :-[
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When you are getting nearer and nearer to 30 but have not accomplished much. By 30 many others have families and careers instead and at least one meaningful relationship instead of crap jobs and a life alone.
I know that I probably seem young to many here but I don't want to be nearing 30 and not have accomplished much of anything.
Aw, hun, chill out. I have a decade on you and I am in exactly the same position.
It's about the race, and what you do in the process, not just some imagined finish line.
Yes, I don't have children or a life partner or financial security... but I do have some great memories of stuff I did that so many of my 'settled' pals could never dream of having. I might have, one day, the things that they have... but they will never have the experiences that I have gone through!
You're not even 30 yet? Bloody hell! So many years in front of you to do exactly what the hell you want!!!
Get out there, kid, do what the hell you feel you want and **** anyone who tells you otherwise!!!
8)
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You start saying things like when i was younger,back in my day
You carve things from your youth be it sweets ,music, films etc
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when you know what ray means when he says "saw it in the pictures"
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when you know what ray means when he says "saw it in the pictures"
Um, say what now, mate? ???
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I've got new glasses today and they're varifocals.
OLD !
:o
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when you know what ray means when he says "saw it in the pictures"
Ignore my last post to you, Heno. I might have been slightly, ahem, 'refreshed' when I posted that.
You know when you're getting old when you see a band you like being referred to as 'veterans'... when you remember eagerly awaiting their debut album... :-\
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When Heno compares an image of two old men to me and M/Ray ;D
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Kermit says YAAAAAY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_w4oSCJIQk
:D
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i know when i read this thread and am familiar with every post.......
but thats OK
for now anyway
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Also just had to start wearing varifocals, at least my specs aren't hanging from a chain ;D ;D
just started a new job (heavy manual labour,track maintenance on railway) which involves working outside in all weathers and at all times of day and night.
Found out after having an enforced 4 year break (I did it for 20 years) I'm definitely not as young and mobile as I once was ;D
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When everything feels stiff apart from the bit you want to be!
For me it's when the optician said "it's time for varifocals". And when talking to someone about a programme you "taped" off the tele and they just look at you without an idea what you're on about. And when you started work the year your colleagues were born, I could go and on. And when you keep going on about something etc etc.
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just started a new job (heavy manual labour,track maintenance on railway) which involves working outside in all weathers and at all times of day and night.
Found out after having an enforced 4 year break (I did it for 20 years) I'm definitely not as young and mobile as I once was ;D
You know, it sounds just the same as what I've faced. I used to unload containers full of car and lorry tires. It was contract work so the faster you did it the better was the pay. There wasn't pallets at all and we had to unload it with hands and palletize the tires for the warehouse. There were two of us + at times someone with a forklift. If there wasn't a forklift nearby we had to bring a 6 meters long steel cage loaded with tires (weighting 900 kg's) with A hand forklift. The problem was that the hand forklift did not have forks long enough so my mate had to climb up the cage as adding more weight to 'this' side so that the other side rised from the ground - that we could get it to move! ;D
And few years ago I tried to get back to that job because the pay was quite good if ya unloaded 3-4 containers per day. This time I went unloading wine containers but I realised I'm not so mobile anymore. Well the pay wasn't that good with that firm either...
Sad thing is that it's not so easy to find new jobs when I'm getting older. Who would want to hire an ugly and bald old man who asks for a fair pay... ::)
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When you look at the gig guide in the paper and you've never heard of most of the people playing
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man, i need some testimonies about this varifocal lark
or should i get lasered?
anyway, you know you are getting old when the movie around the plot is better in the original than in the remakes
strange thing is, listening to bands on youtube from back in the day and the tunes and words are still with me. if they taught school through music then i have no doubt we would be all rocket scientists or the like
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Find a good surgeon and get lasered. The key is the surgeon, make sure it's the same person who does your consultation as who cuts you as who sees you afterwards. Ask them how many they've done, their re-work rate. I've had it done a couple of times and cannot stress more strongly that it is the surgeon and their protocols rather than the equipment.
Cheers
jc
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thanks
and the improvement?
why did you have to get it done a few times
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The first time resulted in me having astigmatism which was not correctable by glasses, I don't know the root cause but I am sure protocol had a major bearing on it. First surgeon worked from a prescription performed by my optician which could have been to any standard. The second one had his own staff do the eye test earlier the same day of the consultation, he even did a wavefront scan to double check just before going in to the operating theatre and again immediately after. The first surgeon was a very famous one and always on TV at the time, when I said that the result was sub optimal, he basically didn't want to know, very arrogant. With my second surgeon, his attitude was completely different and he actually listened to me. They were both in the same hospital the equipment was the same but their methods and attitude couldn't have been more different.
Given the above, it is of the utmost importance that you see the same person throughout and that they listen to you. I see so many conveyor belt laser shops where they get a visiting surgeon in to do a batch who then buggers off, that scares the willies off me.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
jc
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man, i need some testimonies about this varifocal lark
or should i get lasered?
anyway, you know you are getting old when the movie around the plot is better in the original than in the remakes
strange thing is, listening to bands on youtube from back in the day and the tunes and words are still with me. if they taught school through music then i have no doubt we would be all rocket scientists or the like
School of Rock!!! Anyhoo. I was always fascinated when old folks would tell you their age within a few minutes of talking to them. Ive started doing the same when younger work mates are inevitably fitter and faster...."Im 44. Im too old for this s**t" :( :o
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that aint old ya whipper snapper......i'm 48, i'm too old for this shit......
well i'm not really!
****, i'm 48
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Wow. Now that is old, grandpa ;D ;D
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Wow. Now that is old, grandpa ;D ;D
A friend of mine became a Gran at 30 years old. That is scary !
:o
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i'm 48, i'm too old for this shit......
well i'm not really!
****, i'm 48
;D ;D
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO3YmT2d-8k
;)
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brilliant once more ray
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when people start calling you "sir".
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when people start calling you "sir".
When not preceded by 'would you kindly leave the premises please' :-)
Cheers
jc
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when people start calling you "sir".
When not preceded by 'would you kindly leave the premises please' :-)
Cheers
jc
;D
Oh yes !
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Friday night - what to put on
Looking for Rammstein and finding Rare Earth
Tobacco Road, Born To Wonder, Get Ready (a live cd)
back to one of my roots of music
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When Heno compares an image of two old men to me and M/Ray ;D
Have to say that was awesome. ;D Great connection with a pic and a joke.
Although I have same kind of eyebrows as the "news reader" muppet has ???.
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when the title of this song can change to "too much, too long........"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxHcx7FO8nI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxHcx7FO8nI)
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when the title of this song can change to "too much, too long........"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxHcx7FO8nI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxHcx7FO8nI)
Ah, 2 Tone, Ska, whatever you wanna call it... that's PROPER dance music! :D
And here's how you properly dance to it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkOOCx8tT08
;)
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love it. for all their madness they had some cool songs
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Indeed. And you know you getting old if you can remember when 2 Tone was big in the early 80,s, the Harrington jacket, blue jeans and black shoes, the kicking Can can dance with "Bad Manners" I used to be into all that with my brother in the early 80,s, happy dayz. Probably the only time me and him agreed on music.
He never got NMA.
They say you can't pick your family ;D
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And wait til we're 20 years older. Theres not a chance in hell any of us will be dancing to Madness like we used to lol
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i think we need to close this thread for a while. make it a limited edition. to be open one month a year each year.
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You know you're getting old when conversations with pals your own age turns into 'duelling ailments'... :(
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You know you're getting old when conversations with pals your own age turns into 'duelling ailments'... :(
Like Lethal Weapon but with more Deep Heat?
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You know you're getting old when conversations with pals your own age turns into 'duelling ailments'... :(
Like Lethal Weapon but with more Deep Heat?
Drummyb, this might be you or me or certain others on this forum...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foUwtBRXY4I
'You can't beat the clock...'
:-[
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When you get a back ache or head ache because of not keeping yourself in a good condition. But it's sooo damn difficult to learn new habits, until there are some other serious symptoms and you're going to a doctor tens of times. Oh &)"# sake. :-X
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You wake with a hangover...
... and it's been a few days since you last drank...
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rusco. i think thats called putting off the inevitable in the hope that the niggle goes away. never does. isnt aging a ridiculous concept. like, we can engineering everything with all this gmo. why can;t we sign up for a body that lasts as long as our minds, after all its the mind that will shut down once its exhausted.
ray, i can honestly i never get a hangover - but since i haven't been drinking i have often woke in the morning and feel like i might have what would be described as a hangover - not good
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Driving out of town last Sunday morning and came to a police check-point stopping folk for drink driving etc as the local fiestas were on. To my surprise I got waved on and not told to stop...thinking about it later, it could have had something to do with driving a Renault Clio, teddy bear on the dashboard and my more grey than black beard. I've got old :'(
P.S. I don't drink and drive!
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That's only cool, Stompy13. I belong to the same family with a Renault and a grey beard. You're now a free man! ;)
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Perhaps I`m too young, perhaps I´m too old ..
My mother is a 60++ and often need some help (to visit a doctor and/or to check something in a hospital)
Two weeks ago we (without my help she did not know how to be there without a taxi (and without my help she had to pay the taxi - I was lazy and was a day off), were in an hospital and had to ask where to go and the rest, the doctor asked for more informations - and I answered, ok, no problems, I`ll send you a mail this afternoon -
no!! Send me a fax!!
A fax? Ok, all people 60++ have a fax, all their sons and daughters have a fax at home - are you crazy?
I`m young and old enough to send a fax via internet (and problems were solved) - but what would have happened to my mother without knowing how to do this?
Watching the world and the problems through the eyes of my mother (I try, perhaps I can see or understand only 50 % of the problems) - shiver, goosebumps
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when you won't listen to a new album by a band that you liked 30 odd years ago
how sad and old is that
i think it might be something more than age
****, i'm old and mad
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when you won't listen to a new album by a band that you liked 30 odd years ago
how sad and old is that
i think it might be something more than age
****, i'm old and mad
Believe it or not, I not listened to it yet either. I have had it since last Saturday. Stuck it on the Pod, but just have not got around to it yet. Have been really tired this week, and not yet been in the mood. No rush, I have it now for the rest of my life. How ever long or short that may be :-\
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lets just hope that we don't set you off on your floating funeral pyre recalling that the last album you listened to was a free one from u2
what a terrible way to .........
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When you need a after work / afternoon nap to get you through the day lol
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lets just hope that we don't set you off on your floating funeral pyre recalling that the last album you listened to was a free one from u2
what a terrible way to .........
Don't measure me up for wooden overcoat just yet Heno, I have now since given it a full listen
Love the first five tracks. Not sure about "Sunrise", but I will give it several more goes. Think the BVs are a bit dominating. Other than that, very impressive mini album :)
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Last year was the first time that I had to take a walking stick with me to an nma gig. :(
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Last year was the first time that I had to take a walking stick with me to an nma gig. :(
I last saw Shush in Warrington... you guys should chat. ;)
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When you need a after work / afternoon nap to get you through the day lol
lol....don't joke too much, its heading our way
and Last year was the first time that I had to take a walking stick with me to an nma gig. :(
the way my back is these days i can't stand for too long and can't walk too far. it will get better once it settles down but i would seriously contemplate bringing a stick with me. i've always worried about the security issues though
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Ah, I hear you talking about your backs. We should take care of them. I have the exact same problem. Twice nearly serious 2 week aches with my back in last half year with head- and muscle ache. At first I thought it's my lungs, but it's the back which is the real reason. You know what? I have to start sports and walking! :o
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The security didn't really look twice at me. They where small venues though.
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Thanks Rusco ;)
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You're having Sunday lunch with your Mum and she says 'wow, you're going really grey...'
It might be time to break out the Just For Men... apparently, it targets only the grey...
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oh no ray. i was driving my old man to the hospital the other day and he said i should colour out the grey bits in my beard. its like the only mature thing about me......
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I like the grey hairs in my beard. I suppose theres always a pube transplant in desperate times ;D
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Thought I'd reactivate this thread, I think it is relevant to so many of us...
Watched GREMLINS tonight, a film I love, remember seeing it in a fancy cinema in London when I was a skinny young fella...
Shit, it's THIRTY YEARS OLD!!! :-\
And GHOSTBUSTERS is about the same vintage...
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I'll answer that when I get old :D
See, I got lucky really, I got to restart the clock at 42 and I'm actually only 2 years old ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I'll answer that when I get old :D
See, I got lucky really, I got to restart the clock at 42 and I'm actually only 2 years old ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
You shouldn't be on the internet, it's past your bedtime.
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Ah but I have a liberal parent who doesn't have any routine or order :)
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...when you're the one saying that you can remember when large swathes of your local area were all fields.
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i'm feelin' that one hughie
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When today is your daughters 28th birthday.
I started young ok lol
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When you notice a key and your bunch of keys, and you haven't a clue what its for ???
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When you notice a key and your bunch of keys, and you haven't a clue what its for ???
Ha! I have about eight keys on my keyring and five of them, I have NO ******* idea what they're for!
If I figure them out, I suspect I might be able to burgle some houses!
;D
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When you think that fireworks are a dangerous waste of money then you remember the stunts you got up to when you were younger lol
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when you think "is it that long ago?"
worst part is when you realise that it is that long ago
and you smile for a moment
and then think "oh! ****!"
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I've faced some situations where a younger generation disagree with my views in the case I compare something how it was in 90's or in a start of 2000's. It's a bit strange feeling to being announced you're nostalgic about old things and against how things are done nowadays. I think my generation wasn't that much against older people.
There's something in that I don't like. At times it's just a normal thing to bring another level to discussion. After all it's part of thinking and making statements. ???
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Or when young kids say "back in the day" referring to something 5 years ago. You aint old enough to have a back in the day, junior!! ;D
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There's a fourth incarnation of 'Band Aid', doing yet another version of 'Do They Know It's Christmas'...
I saw the picture in the newspaper today and I truly, honestly, only recognised about 20% of them...
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one in five? man, you are much more up to date than i thought
i knew geldof once he opened his gob. big L could name lots of them that I had never heard or seen
that makes me happy though
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I only knew Harry from 1D lol
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i saw him, didn't know who he was, asked, was told, i said "who?", then got it. and then is said - i thought they were teen boy band and was told - "they were"
i am so glad in a way that pop doesn't register. i've enough baggage from when we were all overwhelmed by it in the golden age of music radio - late 70s, 80s and early 90s i reckon
now its a station for everything. and next apparently bands can buy air time that specifically targets areas whee their fans friends and family are more likely to hear their song
confirmation - we are getting older
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When you stand up from sitting on the floor or sit in a low car seat and your body lets out an involuntary groan :-[
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When you run into someone you went to school with (and you quite fancied, back then)... and you find out that she's now a grandmother....
Ooof, that's a kick in the nuts... :-[
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not good ray
if things had been different
you could've been the grandad
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I don't go out that often to concerts, mostly 'cause where I live there's lack of places that I'd fancy... But I went to see an RHCP cover band last summer. And just when I was in the middle of headbanging, jumping and yelling the lyrics I looked around myself and found out that 90% of the crowd I was among were my schoolmates' children...
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no harm
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On a vaguely related note... I'm dying to see the new Shaun The Sheep movie... I'm not being silly, LOVE those Aardman Animation flicks like Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run... and Shaun The Sheep is one of the funniest shows on TV, honestly... trailer for the movie here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6qLSo9RsaE
But I don't have kids... just HOW does a man of my age go to a childrens movie on his own without, lets face it, looking like some creepy kiddie-fiddler? :o
;D
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Thats simple. Buy some very thick NHS glasses, some Farah trousers held up with a piece of string and dont wash your hair for a few weeks. No-one will bat an eyelid.
Honest
;)
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Thats simple. Buy some very thick NHS glasses, some Farah trousers held up with a piece of string and dont wash your hair for a few weeks. No-one will bat an eyelid.
Honest
;)
Sir, quite possibly the finest response EVER on this Forum...
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when you have to scroll to much to find the year you were born on sites where they you have to provide you DOB
and when theres more available years after your DOB than before
depressed
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I don't have difficulties to remember when I was born but what's my age. Not long time ago I wasn't quite sure am I a year older or younger than I am. Hehe.
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Gave a 4 year old a book today and she tried to swipe the pages like on an IPad....
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Popped up to the Lad's room a while back to chat about something. He's listening to "The Bitter End" - Placebo. "Nice" I say, He says to me "Eh?" totally confused. "Placebo I say pointing at the speakers. "Oh" comes the reply "Just some old band on my mates playlist".
Old band ? ? ? They still feel like new young whippersnappers to me ! Frack - dear oh dear, where did the years go............................. ;D ;D
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Popped up to the Lad's room a while back to chat about something. He's listening to "The Bitter End" - Placebo. "Nice" I say, He says to me "Eh?" totally confused. "Placebo I say pointing at the speakers. "Oh" comes the reply "Just some old band on my mates playlist".
Old band ? ? ? They still feel like new young whippersnappers to me ! Frack - dear oh dear, where did the years go............................. ;D ;D
I remember eagerly awaiting their first album!
Great band.
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Gave a 4 year old a book today and she tried to swipe the pages like on an IPad....
brilliant
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when you walk past the diaper isle a little slower than you used to.
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.. when you get diagnosed with mild high blood pressure (ie, not terribly worrying, not enough to cause a stroke or anything) and the Doc sends you for blood tests... fine... and they take FIVE separate vials of blood after consulting a whole ream of paper!
Jeez, do I look like THAT much of a potential goner?
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On a vaguely related note... I'm dying to see the new Shaun The Sheep movie... I'm not being silly, LOVE those Aardman Animation flicks like Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run... and Shaun The Sheep is one of the funniest shows on TV, honestly... trailer for the movie here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6qLSo9RsaE
But I don't have kids... just HOW does a man of my age go to a childrens movie on his own without, lets face it, looking like some creepy kiddie-fiddler? :o
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Shaun the Sheep is bloody great. I go with my niece who is still at school. Her parents don't like animations, so ever since she was tiny we go together. I've seen em all. It's fantastic, I think the world of her and after a tough week at work, sitting together stuffing our faces with nachos (cheese dips obviously) and as much choc as we can carry alongside the biggest cokes you can buy in the cinema is f*****g brilliant!!
We are on soon to watch the Minion Movie next, I'm still perturbed that she went to see SpongeBob without me a month ago, but she has said she will get the DVD when it comes out and we will watch it together....outrageous going without me!!!!! :)
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Shaun The Sheep is, indeed, a hugely enjoyable movie... also looking forward to seeing MINIONS...
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SpongeBob rocks !
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Pingu is king !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.. when you get diagnosed with mild high blood pressure (ie, not terribly worrying, not enough to cause a stroke or anything) and the Doc sends you for blood tests... fine... and they take FIVE separate vials of blood after consulting a whole ream of paper!
Jeez, do I look like THAT much of a potential goner?
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Are there symptoms to high blood pressure, or did it show up in tests ?
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Shush, no more so that your blood pressure (which we talked about the other night). Just came up randomly after a related symptom that turned out to be an allergy thing.
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Only 5 vials Master Ray ? Pah ! Lightwieght.................
They take that much blood off me every few months by rights I should have none left. Come to think of it I'm that damn skinny where does it all come from? ;D
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Wearing a dastardly and muttley today awesome surely the uber gods of cartoons
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Wearing a dastardly and muttley today awesome surely the uber gods of cartoons
They're good , but the uber gods? Nooooo, that'd be Tom and Jerry !
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Personally, I'd say DANGER MOUSE tops them two :D
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Nah - gotta be Roobarb & Custard :)
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Cheers, Anna, googled R+C to remind myself and now I have that theme tune stuck in my head relentlessly...
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Hong Kong Phooey close second lol
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Hong Kong Phooey close second lol
Oh, he was fan-riffic!
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Hong Kong Phooey close second lol
Oh, he was fan-riffic!
And he was the Number 1 super guy, and quicker than the human eye ! Even though it was the cat who always actually dealt with everything !
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Personally, whenever i drive into a car park and see a sign saying 'Max Headroom' it reminds me of a blonde headed computer generated guy who was on the telly when i was younger.
My boys don't get it at all!
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Personally, whenever i drive into a car park and see a sign saying 'Max Headroom' it reminds me of a blonde headed computer generated guy who was on the telly when i was younger.
My boys don't get it at all!
;D
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give it five years and we'll have to change the thread title to "How do you know you're getting even older........"
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When it's nearly 9.30 on a summer night and you just want to go to bed but the younger you (who still talks to you in your head sometimes) is shouting 'but it's still light outside...'
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Or on another point when your daughter tells you a NMA High shirt is a good as a sleeping dress coz her parents was really guilty about her childhood she was listening too much to NMA :o bye the way our daughter is 15 years old not easy too deal with .... :o :o :o :o :o cheers witch
No 15 year old girl is ever easy to deal with!!!!!
Bless them.....
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Should be a joke ...Im sorry for that ....
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Should be a joke ...Im sorry for that ....
Thats how it was taken Witch
xx
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is forgetting things part of maturing?
like, i think with me it comes from apathy rather than memory deterioration
help
where are we?
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Maybe maturing or ageing.
Maybe self-protection.
Maybe the hard drive just gets full up.
Where are we? Haven't a clue.
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Ageing? Always.
Maturing? Not a fuckin' chance. ;)
Take it on the chin and a big f-you to anyone who puts us down for our passing years... those lines on our faces, we've earned them and earned them well via so many amazing times and so many friends that put those 'laughter lines' on our faces. And we still passionately follow our favourite band, decades in... can any kids nowadays hope that their favourites will be around in the 2030's, or even three years from now? I doubt it...
So, in short, I send my best wishes to all my great friends here on The Mission forum...
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Models where's Kate moss etc n the toy soldiers
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is forgetting things part of maturing?
Don't glam it up by calling it maturing. Aging is the slow decomposition of the body as it edges ever closer to the day it finally fails. "laughter lines", the skin gets wrinkly as the skin starts to weaken and thin. Just like your bone density decreases causing breaks when you have a fall whereas when you were young, you would have just got up and carried on. Eye sight fails as the eye balls decrease in size, joins turn to powder, teeth fall out, bits drop off
In case you were wondering, I am not enjoying the aging process. :( all of the above >:( but nothing has dropped off yet ;)
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Still recovering from Friday night. Wasn't even a big one; just a few jars...
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is forgetting things part of maturing?
Don't glam it up by calling it maturing. Aging is the slow decomposition of the body as it edges ever closer to the day it finally fails. "laughter lines", the skin gets wrinkly as the skin starts to weaken and thin. Just like your bone density decreases causing breaks when you have a fall whereas when you were young, you would have just got up and carried on. Eye sight fails as the eye balls decrease in size, joins turn to powder, teeth fall out, bits drop off
In case you were wondering, I am not enjoying the aging process. :( all of the above >:( but nothing has dropped off yet ;)
Oh Shush, sir, you are still a fine figure of a man! I'm sure your lovely lady wife will agree!
Put it like this, I wouldn't be brave enough to walk around an NMA gig with my shirt off nowadays... :D
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Im watching the Cure live on dvd ....our daughter came in our living room she asked me Mum what are you watching ? I told her ...her answer was Robert Smith looks very old so know I knew Im getting old I think
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Well they say love is blind.
Shirt off at an NMA gig - of coarse, where else. The great middle aged man sweaty moob swinging contest in the middle :D
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Well they say love is blind.
Shirt off at an NMA gig - of coarse, where else. The great middle aged man sweaty moob swinging contest in the middle :D
well that's an image... :o. Bring on the Xmas gig!
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Put me right off me dinner that lol
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Thought I'd bump this one...
... I always regarded myself as someone who kept on top of the UK music scene... even if the stuff I was hearing wasn't my cup of tea, I'd at least know roughly what they were all about...
Just looked at the forthcoming events at my nearest enormo-arena and there are ten acts listed there who not only can I not name a single song by them but I've never even heard their bloody names in the first place! And they're playing to over 15,000 people!?!?!
:o
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you know you are getting old when one of the few things you can always remember to take with you is the reading glasses you have that all of a sudden you cannot do without :'(
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With you on that one Shush. I think I will have to start using proper old lady chains for them too as I'm forever misplacing the blasted things >:(
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When you become proud to be a grumpy auld git lol
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When musicians that have been around since you were a teen pass away, it suddenly hits you that your time is getting shorter :-\
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So sad because its so true
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I dunno if id use the wordsad, Shush. More resigned to it I guess. Sobering.
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You are probably right Drummyb. There is little to be gained from being sad about our own mortality. That said, in relation to this topic and such, I think we would have to admit, every time you hear of singer or actor passing away, one you have known for most of your life, as well as being sad for the loss, its often the case you ask yourself - well, how long have I got left ? On both those points I was particularly struck by the death of Rik Mayall last year at just 56.
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WE'RE NOT TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUZWEKJGJU
:D
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When you would prefer to stay in and watch a DVD on New Years Eve. .
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When you would prefer to stay in and watch a DVD on New Years Eve. .
Been doing that for about 15 years, never liked NYE much! For me, it's a 'Twin Peaks' marathon and a Thai takeaway with a rather large JD at mid-night whilst I do my traditional thing of watching fireworks explode over the Cheshire plain whilst breaking the taboo of smoking with a SINGLE cigarette...
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Despite wearing contact lenses and glasses, dependant on what time of day it is, and subsequently having perfectly good vision, I've recently started to notice that I'm slightly struggling to read books that are an arms length (or less) away from me... it somewhat shits me up because my grandmother went blind... thinking that I might need bi-focal glasses... anyone else got experience of this stuff?
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Kind of. Got my eyes tested last year and the optician mentioned that as I got older I might struggle to focus on things close up and would need bi-focals eventually. My eyesight hasnt changed since I was 16. Sure enough within a few months I do and have to take my bins off. I guess its one of those things. Only happens with glasses though, not lenses.
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Was short sighted from the age of 16, but in the last couple of years now need reading glasses. Apparently your eye balls shrink as you get older. Your 40's being a turning point for this.My balls must have shrunk a bit.
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Now that sounds very bad. Mine have shrunk too, lol.
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Even worse in cold weather. Apparently. Poor Rusco ;D
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Think I've got the Top Trumps winner with this particular "little" competition ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Think I've got the Top Trumps winner with this particular "little" competition ;D ;D ;D ;D
Ha !
Love it !
Game over !
;D
ps. I wear varifocal glasses.
8)
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I'm still on the vanity kick , my mirror does lie through these myopic eyes , seriously there not that bad though last time I went to the opticians n tried on a pair , I was like wow are things meant to look like this.
Can't say I've noticed any difference on the testicles lol , maybe I'm being short sighted lol
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Cheers, guys, I've always had bad eyes but have been short sighted, always had fine near-vision with lenses. Bit worrying that I'm slightly struggling with things close up... :-\
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OK, new one... when you hear a new trendy expression (that 'da kids' are using all the time), use it in a perfectly innocent fashion and then subsequently find out what it actually means to 'da kids'....
In this case, it's 'Netflix and Chill'... I genuinely thought it meant "Hey, mate, my old friend of many years, let's hang out at mine for a bit with a few cans of beer, we'll watch a few episodes of 'Sons Of Anarchy' and relax in front of a perfectly respectable internet based TV service..., we'll 'Netflix and Chill'..."
Nope. Doesn't mean that nowadays, apparently. :-\
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Yes be careful who your inviting round to " Netflix and chill " Ray , you might get more than you expect lol
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Hope one of you two are going to explain what it means ?? ???
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Its basically the same as inviting someone your attracted to for a ' coffee ' or a 'drink'
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Oh I see. Do you want to come back to my place for a "netflix",, wink wink !!
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And so the world moves on .............. I had to go to something called "an Urban Dictionary" . Whatever happened to tea and cake ? :o
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I was wondering why, a couple of months ago, when the 19-year-old apprentice girl at work asked me what I was doing that evening, I said 'I dunno , just Netflix and chill, I suppose...' and she barely spoke to me after that... :-[
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Maybe she was disappointed not to get a invite lol
On the same theme it took me a while to work out what 420 meant, I will let you work it, think I would follow anna's advice
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Is it to do with "Sing a song of Sixpence" - four and twenty black birds baked in a pie ??
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Hope one of you two are going to explain what it means ?? ???
I think this is a good idea. Ray being sent out as a scout or agent to bring us all an explanation what these new things are that younger generation is talking so much about. Deal! ;)
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:-[
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Never would have got that 420 meaning ...........................
Maybe I did know once but too much 420 made me forget :D
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i started off skipping to the last page of this thread....already had to back-pedal to learn the meaning of "netflix and chill", still seeking an explanation of 420.. :-[
EDIT: cheated and googled it! ive smoked dope for 30 years and never come across that expression. feeling really old after this thread!
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Man, 30 years. I remember when I was young and used to make jokes with a friend of mine about old punks who'd taking for 35 years "this and that". ;)
Well, now it's perhaps not so far anymore with some of us. Barely alive after 40 years... :-// bugger.
I actually wasn't sure should I tell this either in "what pisses ye off", or "what makes you happy" so I wrote in "how do know you're getting old"! And here it goes: I've been 7 days without cigs now and three weeks without a single drop of any alcohol. Hooray or not. If someone asked me now what would I say to someone who'd complain whether to smoke and drink or not I'd say go for it and do it like it was your last day ever to do it! :-X
Yours, a shivering, staggering and anxious cave troll from shady wastelands. 8)
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Hope one of you two are going to explain what it means ?? ???
I think this is a good idea. Ray being sent out as a scout or agent to bring us all an explanation what these new things are that younger generation is talking so much about. Deal! ;)
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'Master Ray - getting into potentially embarrassing social situations so you don't have to!'
Oddly, I quite fancy the idea... could be a new thread... suggestions? What the heck, I have no shame anymore... ;)
Rusco, you 'shivering cave troll', you... I've started to realise that cleaning up your lifestyle might be a good idea, but not too much, eh? Keep the naughty stuff to weekends and bank holidays? Life's no fun if it's all about salads and mineral water! ;)
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I'm getting old. full stop. Why not enjoy it, as many past generations have.
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Whats to enjoy about getting old ? failing health, failing memory, less sex,less energy, edging ever closer to death :'(
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Another thing about getting old, catch a Cold and it wipes you out. Me and the missus are flued up at the mo'. Two snotty zombies flaked out on the settee. Remember when I was a lad, used to get colds all the time, you wiped your nose and just carried on. >:(
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Get better, you and Ange...
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Get the Flu jab.
:)
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Get the Flu jab.
:)
The Flu Jab is not a bad idea. I've heard horror stories about how it makes you feel dreadful, but I had it (got it for free thanks to my recent health problems) and didn't notice a single side effect...
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Re: vices and getting old: i started smoking when i was 10, smoked heavily from about 13 to 43, and two years ago i gave up "smoking" for "vaping". i LOVED smoking and didnt think i'd ever want to give up...till my son was born and suddenly i wasnt the most important thing in my life. not only was it my duty to try and stay alive for as long as possible to be a dad to him, i didnt want to set a bad example. it still took me 8 years and three good goes at quitting before i did it; and i know i couldnt have done it without e-cigs. i have no problem with being a nicotine addict, it's the hydrogen cyanide et al that i'm not so keen on. weirdest thing is i dont miss it...much!
@Rusco: stick with it- 7 days off the fags is good work! after 3 weeks i'd celebrate with a drink! lol
as for alchohol and other recreational drugs, if you havent discovered your own limits by middle-age, or you still cant control yourself, then you're probably already a fucked-up casualty.
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Hope to see post some stuff in the ecigs thread, maybe what your using or have, what liquids your into etc
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Re: vices and getting old: i started smoking when i was 10, smoked heavily from about 13 to 43, and two years ago i gave up "smoking" for "vaping". i LOVED smoking and didnt think i'd ever want to give up...till my son was born and suddenly i wasnt the most important thing in my life. not only was it my duty to try and stay alive for as long as possible to be a dad to him, i didnt want to set a bad example. it still took me 8 years and three good goes at quitting before i did it; and i know i couldnt have done it without e-cigs. i have no problem with being a nicotine addict, it's the hydrogen cyanide et al that i'm not so keen on. weirdest thing is i dont miss it...much!
@Rusco: stick with it- 7 days off the fags is good work! after 3 weeks i'd celebrate with a drink! lol
as for alchohol and other recreational drugs, if you havent discovered your own limits by middle-age, or you still cant control yourself, then you're probably already a fucked-up casualty.
Know exactly what you mean, dude... damn I used to hammer it, can't imagine how much I spent... nowadays I keep a strict five-beer rule except for VERY special occasions where I might have an extra pint or two... but when I do slip like that, I feel for for a day or two afterwards! And I almost never touch 'anything else'...
You're right, terrific things c-cigs are (wow, that sounded a bit Yoda!) but I suspect the coming years will see that the government, realising how effective they are and how they're losing the billions in ciggie revenue, will start slapping big-style taxation down on vaping...
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not to mention that cigarettes coveniently kill off an ever-older population at about the time they become of "no use" to society, ie past working age.
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Re: vices and getting old: i started smoking when i was 10, smoked heavily from about 13 to 43, and two years ago i gave up "smoking" for "vaping". i LOVED smoking and didnt think i'd ever want to give up...till my son was born and suddenly i wasnt the most important thing in my life. not only was it my duty to try and stay alive for as long as possible to be a dad to him, i didnt want to set a bad example. it still took me 8 years and three good goes at quitting before i did it; and i know i couldnt have done it without e-cigs. i have no problem with being a nicotine addict, it's the hydrogen cyanide et al that i'm not so keen on. weirdest thing is i dont miss it...much!
@Rusco: stick with it- 7 days off the fags is good work! after 3 weeks i'd celebrate with a drink! lol
as for alchohol and other recreational drugs, if you havent discovered your own limits by middle-age, or you still cant control yourself, then you're probably already a fucked-up casualty.
I can recognize so well that love for smoking. I have it. But now I also feel that same weird thing after only just 1 and half week after quitting. I realise I can be without it with actually quite easy efforts. (But that exactly was the reason why I last time also started to smoke again after having 8 months of pause 5 years ago - I'm a master at fooling me. But this time I could be prepared for that).
I don't know did you read my earlier messages but I had a continuous sinusitis last autumn and three antibiotic treatments. Now I'm fit, at last. I've also been appalled about my 42 year old friend who just started to smoke for a first time. He wanted to get thinner. Really!
And the booze part: I've just now realised in last couple of years my father (aged 72) has a problem with alcohol now as he's retired. That's another thing to be appalled. I don't want to go that same path. But the truth about Finns in general is that alcohol is a problem to 500 000 people here. (There are only 5 million population here). So it's as much as 1/10 part of the people. And of the 500 000 group there are 100 000 people of them carrying a certain gene that makes alcohol problematic:
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/outrageous-drunken-behavior-linked-genetic-mutation
To be fair, alcohol has a big part in traditions in Finland. I also could consume 15 beers, one bottle of wine and two glasses of spirit in one evening without "problems". ::) But now as I've seen where could it lead if I follow my father's footsteps - I don't want. And neither my wife. :)
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I can recognize that love for cigs , looking back I was fooling myself what's to love about them.
Give your mate a slap from me, what's he thinking about
Finland must have that Scottish gene lol, just wait to you start eating haggis and deep fried mars bars lol
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Finland must have that Scottish gene lol, just wait to you start eating haggis and deep fried mars bars lol
Lol, I've seen some articles the two nations that drink the most are you and us. ;D
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Finland must have that Scottish gene lol, just wait to you start eating haggis and deep fried mars bars lol
Lol, I've seen some articles the two nations that drink the most are you and us. ;D
interested by this and wondering whereabouts england comes (and ireland for that matter as i'm half-irish and that gene definitely exists in that blood) i looked it up and you'd be surprised. according to World Health Organisation Finland has 16th highest consumption per capita of alcohol worldwide. republic of ireland is 21st and UK doesnt roll in until 25th place; no individual figures for england and scotland.
shockingly 8 of the top 10 countries were formerly part of the eastern-bloc. 25 of the top 30 are european.
saying that, how accurate those figures are is debateable. whenever anyone official has ever asked me how much i drink i have always lied.
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Finland must have that Scottish gene lol, just wait to you start eating haggis and deep fried mars bars lol
Lol, I've seen some articles the two nations that drink the most are you and us. ;D
interested by this and wondering whereabouts england comes (and ireland for that matter as i'm half-irish and that gene definitely exists in that blood) i looked it up and you'd be surprised. according to World Health Organisation Finland has 16th highest consumption per capita of alcohol worldwide. republic of ireland is 21st and UK doesnt roll in until 25th place; no individual figures for england and scotland.
shockingly 8 of the top 10 countries were formerly part of the eastern-bloc. 25 of the top 30 are european.
saying that, how accurate those figures are is debateable. whenever anyone official has ever asked me how much i drink i have always lied.
There are sure difference according to sources. And how it's measured. :)
In 2012 Finns consumpted over 52 million litres of full alcohol. When it's divided to population it's 9,6 litres per person. Or 600 cans of 5% alcohol per person. (Fortunately, the amount has been dropping over the years though.) Here's my source, written in Finnish: http://www.mtv.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/artikkeli/tutkimus--nain-paljon-suomalainen-juo-vuodessa/3000482
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I always believed it was the Germans who were the top consumers ? - which you can largely put down to the fine quality of their beer ;)
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The more I read the investigations about drinking habits, the more I think Whizzer is correct about situations nowadays. Last year looks like Danish drank more than us. But we have the bloody gene. :-X
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OK... when you let out what you think is a perfectly harmless fart and get that tiny little squirt of hot rusty water...
sorry :-[
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OK... when you let out what you think is a perfectly harmless fart and get that tiny little squirt of hot rusty water...
sorry :-[
Hmm, I think I see what you mean. But ain't it so it could mean you've got a bullseye, doesn't it? :)
I admit I tend to shun about some things among mates at work. But that's just because they'll let me know I have only bad ideas. ::)
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When you make it to another birthday, its not a big one with a zero on the end that's next year, aye I will be 40 soon lol (aye right) hey I was 7 when I got into nma honestly.
A massive thanks for the card from Anna and Keren, its very much appreciated.
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Happy Birthday mate. I sent a card with a grand in it. Honest!!!
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Maybe it will be in the next post lol Thanks
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Happy birthday Pol :)
I clicked on your profile page and there is indeed a lovely slice of birthday cake for you.
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Happy Birthday Pol ;D Love from us both :-*
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Happy birthday from Funland.
;)
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Happy Birthday.
(http://happybirthdaycakepic.com/pic-preview/Pol/21/roses-birthday-cake-for-Pol.jpg)
:)
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It's your birthday, bro'? Kept that quiet.. as do I... ::)
Hope it was a good 'un.
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Happy Birthday Pol ,
I wish you all the best :)
The german version is
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag ;) ;
cheers witch
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Treat yourself to a deep fried Mars bar and a can of Iron Brew kidder ;)
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In Finnish it goes:
Hyvää Syntymäpäivää, Pol!
Ah, please no deep fried mars, it can't be safe! ;D
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Massive thanks for all the birthday wishes
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a tad late but many happy returns all the same. have a wicked day! 8)
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... when it's not even half past nine on a Saturday night and you're already thinking about going to bed... I mean, I've got a good book on the go and there's nothing on telly... :-\
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Aw,bless ya Ray - make sure you take some hot chocolate and a few biscuits up with you :D :-*
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Don't forget your pipe and slippers ray lol
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The twenty-something version of me is talking loudly in my head and currently weeping... :'(
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Ah, going to bed early is only wise thing to do. I should do it more often too. :)
I think I've heard there's a connection to a long age with people who sleep more than average 6-7 hours that working class normally do. ???
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The twenty-something version of me is talking loudly in my head and currently weeping... :'(
Wot? You can remember that far back into the mists of time ;D ;D ;D ;D
I think I've heard there's a connection to a long age with people who sleep more than average 6-7 hours that working class normally do. ???
In that case ........... "you can die before you get old but me I'm gonna live forever" :D :D :D :D
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Sharing reminiscences with an old buddy from The Dreaded Facebook about when we did our A-levels, way back when... and realising that this September will be our thirty year anniversary of those fun and innocent times... :o
Still, it's an excuse for a piss-up, eh? ;)
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When I look into a mirror I can see several signs of aging:
-wrinkles
-getting bald (there's a saucer sized round shape on a top of my funny nob)
-eartufts ;D
I've had a grey beard since 28 so I don't count it. But have to admit that too fast growing tufts in my ears are an increasing problem, lol. Maybe I should purchase a machine that you can trim them? I think I've seen them in films; extraordinary technology from Bond films...hehe.
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There are plenty of personal clippers on the market rusco , hairy ears , hairy nostrils and bushy eyebrows are a personal hate of mine. As for your bald napper I say embrace it, isn't Marshall the coolest looking member of nma ? lol
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Aye. the "uncle Albert" of the axe ..
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Bald head's just fine. I've had it for 14 years. :)
But I remember getting bald was a way challenging to my cousin. He lost nearly all of his hair from the top before reaching 30 and in the end of 90's he went on to some special surgical operation where surgeons installed totally new hair cells or what they're called (nucleus?) to his head. I never asked how much did it cost. Quite a lot, I assume. Later on there was a prospectus about the operation where they'd put photos of him as an example, like before/after the operation.
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Nowt wrong with a bald head at all - can be kinda sexy ......... especially with a cool guitar :D
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Aw, Marshall's cool on the stage!
But how sexy is that to headbang with hairy ears? ;D Pity I didn't choose guitar. Besides the synths I play drums and remember a funny issue on a punk festival 12 years ago when played with the Maniacs there. I was in drums and had a wig too. Well my sticks entangled with the wig while playing. ;D
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Aw, Marshall's cool on the stage!
But how sexy is that to headbang with hairy ears? ;D Pity I didn't choose guitar. Besides the synths I play drums and remember a funny issue on a punk festival 12 years ago when played with the Maniacs there. I was in drums and had a wig too. Well my sticks entangled with the wig while playing. ;D
You could comb the ear tufts out and dye them green. It worked for the Prodigy!!
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I realised I was getting old when my everything started hurting.
A co-worker once told me, "When you are 40 or over and you haven't got any aches and pains you must be dead dead".
I laughed at that - I am 47 now and have stopped laughing quite some time ago. :P I hate that smug expression on her face...
Seriously, though - while it's true that I do have my share of "ailments" I know that many people are a lot worse of - it's still ok.
I do get nervous, though, when I walk the dogs and someone comes up and says, "Oh, I often see your husband walk these dogs." Ummm...that's my 71-year old dad. ::) He doesn't look his age, though. ;)
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Having a meet with three old friends last night, all of whom are of equivalent age, and finding out I'm the only one with parents who are still alive... :'(
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My knee hurts. My back is stiff. My shoulder aches. None of these are alcohol induced...
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Your eye sight starts to fail so that when you look in the mirror, you cannot see how old you look :o
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Your eye sight starts to fail so that when you look in the mirror, you cannot see how old you look :o
if only that were true. i have lived happily for many years knowing i was ugly and not giving a shit.i actually didnt care if the whole world considered me ugly cuz i didnt as such. but looking old is much harder to handle as i have to admit i do. even the novelty of having psycho-looking gaps where my front teeth are missing has worn off. maybe now is the time for a full-facial tattoo lol.
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Sorry to hear that EMW-kid.
I still have all my own teeth :)
that said, four of them are in a pot in a cupboard :(
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When your wife buys you these for Christmas. (http://i.imgur.com/Yqr3ijX.gif)
Says she loves me though. :)
(http://i.imgur.com/65TI08um.jpg)
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Maybe the nma shop should sell slippers lol
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Sorry to hear that EMW-kid.
I still have all my own teeth :)
that said, four of them are in a pot in a cupboard :(
i've got most of my teeth too, though a fair few more than 4 are in the pot lol
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When your wife buys you these for Christmas. (http://i.imgur.com/Yqr3ijX.gif)
Says she loves me though. :)
(http://i.imgur.com/65TI08um.jpg)
Cool. Is the shirt one of the new items at the shop?
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T Shirts from 98. ;) just in good condition.
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When you kinda like this lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HTV7RkKyWFU
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When your feet and legs are sore from a two hour walk
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When your back/hips/legs are sore getting out of bed.
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When you just want to get home.......................
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I had my first tooth removed. I suspect its a downward slope from here and dentures will be popping out at some gig somewhere ;D
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Not a pleasant experience. Molar ? Make sure you keep the socket clean and food free. Nothing worse than a "dry socket" infection. :'(
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Pre-molar i think its called. Yeah. Currently swilling with salt water and cant eat on that side. Only supposed to eat soft foods too. Surprised at the length of healing time too. Its actually painless. Just inconvenient.
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Pre-molar i think its called. Yeah. Currently swilling with salt water and cant eat on that side. Only supposed to eat soft foods too. Surprised at the length of healing time too. Its actually painless. Just inconvenient.
Sounds like its healing OK. If you had a dry socket infection, you would know about it by now. It will close up and then be tender for quite a while. After around six months the bone will have grown over the vacant hole and you will not even notice it has gone.
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When you just want to get home.......................
Or another when you just get tired at 10:00 PM and rather go to sleep.
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When you feel like farting and you get a bit worried about the 'little squirt of rusty water' thing... :-\
Yup. I went there.
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Thanks for sharing MR :P There will be a rack with incontinence pads for men at your local chemist, perhaps you should don your Deerstalker and go investigate ;D
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Pampers for men lol
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Hey, it happens once in a blue moon, but once it happens it's always on your mind... ;D
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big pants!
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big pants!
Or possible dark-coloured ones... :D
Is this going to be my defining characteristic on this Forum now? :-\
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Brown trousers?
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You've only yourself to blame ray lol
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OK.... I'd never heard of 'Uber' before today but someone I was talking to mentioned it and I thought 'yeah, some hipster phone-apps thing that nobody has ever heard of...'
Available in 58 countries and 300 cities, apparently, and quite the thing among travellers.
Shit, when I'm in London, I still think that Oyster cards are a pretty neat idea.
:-[
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Is uber a taxi app or am I making a arse of myself lol
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Is uber a taxi app or am I making a arse of myself lol
Or is it an app regarding Rammstein somehow? Or Dead Kennedys? :)
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Ha! Apparently, it's something where you post your location and where you need to go to and anyone else who is on Uber and is going the same way will pick you up and take you to your destination...
Yup. Sounds completely safe.
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Watching the very funny 80's movie 'Blame It On Rio', where Michael Caine is a middle-aged man who has a fling with his best mates teenage daughter... I always thought he was SO old in that movie when I saw it as a teenager... and then realising he was four years younger than I am right now...
:-[
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I know it exactly right now coz tomorrow will be my bday I will get one year older ( 42 years old ) :)
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40s are better than 30s!
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Kate, an erstwhile colleague is 58 soon and swears that 50s are better than 40s.....as you say. we will see what life brings.
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Happy birthday when it comes witch
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Happy Birthday Witch
(http://images.edge-generalmills.com/65f83a65-65b0-4cc5-b858-de5616ba98d1.jpg)
from one witch to another
:-*
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Thank you very much Pol.
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Good evening Wessexy Witch ,
Thank you very much for your kind wishes it looks amazing awesome and great ;)
I wish you a very nice evening
Take good care
cheers witch
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Hi Witch... happy birthday.
These advancing years... **** it, we can take them!
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All these house hold names from the 80's dying is starting to make me feel old
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All these house hold names from the 80's dying is starting to make me feel old
'Starting...? ::)
;)
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Oof, Losing teeth. Had a back tooth crumble and collapse tonight, out of the blue, and it's in a place where I've lost several teeth in recent years.... feels a bit gummy there right now. :-[
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wwwooerrr !
I have dreams like that all the time and I hate it !
:(
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....when the Doctor is younger than yourself. :o
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When you now own TWO pairs of glasses... 'see-ers' and 'read-ers', as my Grandma once put it...
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When you suggest tea towels as desirable merch...
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You'll be asking for slippers next Sheena lol
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What, classic logo slippers - I would want a pair for X-mas :)
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(http://i.imgur.com/O3bTuwH.gif)
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What, classic logo slippers - I would want a pair for X-mas :)
Would go nicely with an NMA cardigan, in either beige or grey...
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What, classic logo slippers - I would want a pair for X-mas :)
Would go nicely with an NMA cardigan, in either beige or grey...
Wrong, just wrong ;D
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You'll be asking for slippers next Sheena lol
Ooh, now there's an idea...
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Went for a review of the tablets I've been on ever since my little health incident last year... was hoping for a reduction from my usual 'seven a day'...
Nope, now up to eight. Amitriptyline, join the family! You're have some laughs with your new friends, I'm sure.
I don't think my grandfather, in his 90's, was on that many pills... ::)
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Watch what your doing with those new pills, there dangerous those new ones
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We are born with no teeth. We die with no teeth.
.....It's the thing that comes between that is complicated
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What, classic logo slippers - I would want a pair for X-mas :)
Would go nicely with an NMA cardigan, in either beige or grey...
Surely you mean Green or Grey ?
:D
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Ditto Pol's Billy Connolly comment ;)
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When it's your daughters 30th birthday - help lol
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Pol, happy birthday to your not-so-little-one... ;)
Just thought of another one. When you qualify for a free flu jab... not because of my age, but because of that health incident last year...
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Yeah,i was wondering when i fel through a black hole because my baby was 18 last weekend,so I'm with you Pol.
And like MR I'm intitalled to free evrything because of my health disasters too !
:o
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When it's your daughters 30th birthday - help lol
About 30 years and 9 months too late for that ;D :-*
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Thanks for the support
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Welcome baby :-*
If it helps .................
Just spent a nice half hour or so on youtube going through old live vids - bloody hell but we (they) were young once :o :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8qPpJIESk
8)
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You know you're getting old when a cold snap makes your arthritic knees give you more jip than usual. I remember old blokes moaning about such things when I was a lad >:(
Also, it used to be said you know you are getting old when Policemen start to appear young to you. What about Politicians ? is it just me, or does anyone think to themselves when watching the news showing the H.P. "I'm older than most of that lot". The commons of coarse, not the Lords. Things aren't that bad yet ::)
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When you get your first plastic fiver n think wtf then again probably everyone thought that. Wonder when all our notes will be plastic, less than 10 years definitely ? I reckon the lowest coin will be a 5p about the same time. Cashless future ???
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When you on a birthday party of a good pal and everyone is talking about (preperation for close) retirement ...
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Wanted to post a song I`m listening now-I wanted to post this one
Part of the lyrics - It´s cold outside, it`s dark and it is raining, it`s cold (dark) outside, not that I`m complaining
But I can`t remember more (should be the voice of Eric Burdon) of the song/voice now
and goockle doesn`t help me >:(
Do I have I have "Alzheimer"?
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Perhaps it`s a live version of Tobacco Road I remember and mixed the lyrics, so I can`t find this special one :(
http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Eric_Burdon_%26_War:Tobacco_Road:_Tobacco_Road_/_I_Have_A_Dream_/_Tobacco_Road
Here is a link to a version I`m writing
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And this old song (and lyrics) stands for democracy and freedom and equal rights (not for selfkilling and other things in the name of "?"happening today)
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Visiting my 90 year old mum in a care home and the carer asks if I've come to see my sister :-[ :-[ :-[
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Ooof, Dilla, that's a bad one. Hope your mum is doing well.
On a similar note, a while back I was pushing my little niece on the swings at a local play park and someone with their own kid said 'aw, your granddaughter's so cute...'
FFS, I'd have been OK with 'daughter'! Only mid 40's which, yes, is 'technically' old enough to be a granddad, but the automatic assumption??? How clapped out do I actually look these days? Actually, you folks who have met me, better not answer that... :-[
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Nevermind ray , I actually have two grandchildren lol
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When you don't know exactly how many time you saw this band or this one, or say "I'd like to saw them !" but you did... in this case it's probably excess, not age...
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When you don't know exactly how many time you saw this band or this one, or say "I'd like to saw them !" but you did... in this case it's probably excess, not age...
I know what you mean. I really like the band Muse, but have never gotten around to seeing them live...
... but a friend of mine pointed out, a while back, that I actually did, as a support act in the 90's... apparently, I thought they were excellent. :-\
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When every bit of you aches after two days of painting and sanding. Mind you a 3 yr old that sleeps 6 hours a night doesnt help.
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Sanding really takes it out on your hands and arms, kinda similar to wall paper stripping
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when you can't remember the question you're replying to on the board.......... :-X
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I can't keep up with Xmas drinking... I'm so tired!
Where's me Horlicks?
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... when one of your Christmas presents was a blood pressure monitor... and that's from my 69-year-old Mum, who always has perfect blood pressure! Rub it in, why don't you, Mum? >:( ;D
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New one... needed new glasses (for when I'm not wearing contacts), first pair in many years, only got them because the old pair were falling apart, literally held together with sticky-tape... damn, those lenses were thick and that's WITH the thinner lens option!
Thinking of changing my username to 'Mr Magoo...' :-\
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I wondered why you were talking to a lampost for half hour in Nottingham. I was almost offended when you started calling it Drummy.
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Ah, Drummy please...! ;D
I think I maybe know another reason than aging for the loss of my hair. I haven't maybe got enough D-vitamin.
...
Ok I tried to be optimistic. :-[
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I wondered why you were talking to a lampost for half hour in Nottingham. I was almost offended when you started calling it Drummy.
Best conversation we ever had. ;)
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Survived another birthday, only a big one this time. Don't feel any different, straight on for the days ahead n that. Was looking forward to it as the last big birthday got my down.
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Ah, Drummy please...! ;D
I think I maybe know another reason than aging for the loss of my hair. I haven't maybe got enough D-vitamin.
...
Ok I tried to be optimistic. :-[
Baldness is a solar panel for a lovin machine :-)
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More glasses stuff - getting a chain for your reading glasses. Found a cool one with little skulls on it :D
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Survived another birthday, only a big one this time. Don't feel any different, straight on for the days ahead n that. Was looking forward to it as the last big birthday got my down.
Belated birthday wishes to you Pol. Congrats on reaching the big five-O. I am sure you downed many an Iron Bru :D
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Well I must be getting older because my everything STILL hurts.
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Thanks shush was hoping everyone would think it was 40 lol aye right. Actually had a couple of beers - non American of course lol but the tattoo was my present to myself - hey why not - I have this canny knack of giving myself exactly what I want. Unlike most things they have a lifetime guarantee
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Congrats happy belated b day too you :)
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Thanks witch
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New one. When you re-watch a 'teen movie' that you saw when you yourself were a teenager... and now you think the lead teen characters were utter dicks and you totally sympathise with the parents... ::)
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Those rebellious teenagers with their piercing's, tattoos and loud rock music. Oh wait lol. I blame that Marty mcfly that delorean would have broken down before it hit 88mph n isn't a bit weird that old man hanging around with him , anyone else thinking herbet family guy. Back to the future more like back to the wall with the old creep lol
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When being alone at home feels like luxury.
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When you start getting invited to things for 50 plus n of course your bowel screening kit (you don't want to know) lol
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When you have a massive sneeze and something in your side goes 'pop' and hurts for a couple of days...
Bloody hell, when did 'sneeze-related injuries' become a big thing?
:-[
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... when your back goes out more than you do... ;D
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When being alone at home feels like luxury.
Amen, brother!!
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I finally gave in and ordered reading glasses today. ;D I'm still ok when I'm not wearing my contact lenses - but since I now need stronger ones (I am short-sighted), reading IS an issue. 8)
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I finally gave in and ordered reading glasses today. ;D I'm still ok when I'm not wearing my contact lenses - but since I now need stronger ones (I am short-sighted), reading IS an issue. 8)
You and me both, sister, when I got my contacts in I can rarely read anything with small print... :-[
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When star wars was 40 years ago
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Star Wars? I think I saw it. Wasn't it not quite as good as Flash Gordon?
::)
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Aye it's a bit of a underground cult film
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....When the bloke who comes to mend the garage door is a little lad you're sure is still in the Junior school. I remember putting a plaster on his knees when he fell over in the playground like it was yesterday.
turns out he's nearly 24.
:-[
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you talk about Gary Lineker,Ian Rush or Maradona and tell your friends how awesome were the old adidas shirts of Liverpool or Newcastle Utd and the young lads around there who are Messi-Ronaldo generation,looks at you like you were born on middle ages. :D
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When you look over to the opposite side of the pub, see two old and utterly clapped-out buggers, both greying and overweight and shagged out by life, and you say to your drinking buddy 'Christ, look at them, that'll be us in twenty years time'...
And your drinking buddy says 'That's a mirror, mate...'
(OK, that didn't actually happen, it was a joke I heard, but I suspect it might happen sometime soon... :-\ )
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Im about a week late with this one. Predator is now 30 - still a kick arse movie
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movie
Is that something that is shown in those new fangled picture houses ? Seems awfully vulgar and common to me ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Yes they even come in colour n have sound these days, what next 3D cgi imax dolby surround sound whatever they are lol
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Im about a week late with this one. Predator is now 30 - still a kick arse movie
I'm sure this has been brought up before (just got back home from the pub!) but did I ever post 'Predator - The Musical'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlicWUDf5MM
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Too oldschool for social media ....I think :-[
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Too oldschool for social media ....I think :-[
That's a good thing :D
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Too oldschool for social media ....I think :-[
That's a good thing :D
I full-heartedly agree with this being a good thing! ;D
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Too oldschool for social media ....I think :-[
That's a good thing :D
I dont know Anna :-\ Facebook its not it easy to deal with my age ..... :-[
Hope you are doing fine ?
Thxs for your reply :)
I wish you a very nice eve :)
cheers witch
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Ah, I was in London a month ago, hanging out in Greenwich, and some cute 20-something girl came up to me, said 'alright, mate, can I ask you something?' or something like that. She was quite pretty so I did the automatic and deeply sad middle-aged male thing of sucking in my gut and puffing out my chest. Yeah, I know... ::)
She asked me where the toilets were (not what I was hoping for, quite frankly) and I told her whilst trying not to sound like Leslie Philips (Ding Dong)... and she responded with 'Cheers, Old Fella'...
Old Fella? :'(
Come to think of it, she wasn't all THAT pretty... ;)
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I got called old fella in Dublin at a club toilets. That was ten years ago. Thankfully I kept the stream straight and true despite nearly keeling over in shock.
I was always shocked in my late teens when mothers used to say to their kids "mind that man".....who me??? :o
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When after 4 nights of late nights alcohol and parties and weed in a hostel, i lose desire to do it tonight and get fed up with it tonight. Getting fed up with young people who go somewhere as interesting and deep in culture as Vietnam only to get fucked up and see nothing. I am 29 but some are 19-25 and they make me feel old.
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When after 4 nights of late nights alcohol and parties and weed in a hostel, i lose desire to do it tonight and get fed up with it tonight. Getting fed up with young people who go somewhere as interesting and deep in culture as Vietnam only to get fucked up and see nothing. I am 29 but some are 19-25 and they make me feel old.
If I tried that nowadays, I'd be dead. ;D
Know what you mean, though. Glad you're feeling better. To heck with them, get what you want out of your trip. And you are far from being old. ;)
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Four hours n I would be fcked up for days lol
Tea n a vape is my limits n my vape is only 3mg lol
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i drink a can of coke and i'm off my tits !
that's how bad it is for me !!
:D
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Cos I read these recent posts and think - Crikey that will be me soon :) :) :) :) :)
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Cos I read these recent posts and think - Crikey that will be me soon :) :) :) :) :)
;D ;D ;D
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For some weeks when I read or hear "Follow me" there was a snip of a song in my mind - some persons singing: Follow me, don`t follow me .., couldn`t remember the rest `til now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMan07pIhsw
R.E.M. - Orange Crush (and I was and still be a fan) :(
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I'll tell you:
-when you have to cut your hair so that it looks like it was intended to look like that after a haircut is ready.
(So you can "hide" all the blank and large spots on the top of your head where only desert winds blow - to other bald areas.)
-when they used to tell you tens, maybe limitless times "how do you look so much like some certain person".
(Nowadays you don't hear it anymore.) ;)
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Oh, bloody hell, Bilston Robin 2 was just over a year ago?
The immense and sudden passing of time is truly the scariest thing about getting old... :-[
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It's taken me over 4 hours to fill in an application form online.
Why can't people just adveritse a on on a postcard or just say that you can "pop in for a chat and we'll see how it goes" anymore.
Online applicatons that you have to constantly fanny about with because the format changes everytime you type or change font size/colour/stylee do my nut in.
Grrr.
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Aw heck, me Mum turns 70 tomorrow. I was OK with her being in her 60's, that doesn't seem too old for some reason... but 70? That's proper old... :-[
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My Mum is 90, has her own home, my sister and I are visiting her one or two times a week, help shopping or cleaning the rooms or help with other things that can`t be done by a phone call - so there might be a job for you for some more years ;)
Nice to read, that persons 60+ seem to be not too old (too old for ?) ;D
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Hanging out with an old buddy from the 90's... he's a couple of years younger than me... and he's now a grandfather... :-[
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Now I`ve given the new DEE "Risha" a second time to listen - I like it, but now I can`t remember one of the songs, nothing :(
First time I`ve heard the song "Winter", parts of the music and words were locked in my brain to be replayed "offline"
My brain and it`s cache for long time or very short memories - I don`t know how it works, has it`s own rules :(
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"..but don't ask me to remember.."
i realy tend to forget the things that i cannot forget (damn, another quote) but i don't really bother. i just forgot the birthday of my sons mother and i know that she will be pissed, but i also don't care about that. i must admit, somehow i feel free. of course it's a personal thing that's going on but i always felled (when you feel you should do it, not "pushed" or forced...you get the verb? to say: happy birthday. so now that's gone. done, done, straight on for the days ahead.
i feel old when i losse to my son playing video games. the young ones are so much faster, i cannot keep up.
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Still waiting to hear when i am finally going to get my two hips replaced...........since Wednesday i am in so much pain,trouble walking around my flat even with my walking frame (i am practically house bound now,can only get on to my roof space when my neighbor can help me )......never thought getting old would be like this. :(
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Dear Ghosttrain, that's very sad to hear that you're in pain.
I just hope for you that you have enough strenght to bear it and that this will soon go away.
Do you take pain killers? Did you ever think about or heard of the pain taking abilities of medical marijuhana? This could help you.
these are the first sites i found when i googled cannabis and pain:
https://mychronicrelief.com/cannabis-science/cannabinoids/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780323401968000565
if you're interested you should do your own research.
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Hi cthulhu,thanks for your kind words and thoughts. Yes i do take pain killers lots....Codeine, Tramadol and Naproxen,all heavy duty stuff .While these tablets work for most of the time i sometimes get flare ups / inflamation of the joints,this is when i really suffer.And yes i am aware of medicinal cannabis products,in fact i tried some a few years back when visiting friends abroad and yes it works.However here in Jersey the Government are talking about possibly making it available sometime in the future,but as with all these things the wheels move very slowly.I actually discussed it with my Doctor and he said '' I would'nt hold your breath'',he does'nt see it happening anytime soon.Even with countries starting to legalize recreational use of Cannabis that would never happen in Conservative Jersey.Things have changed a bit over here with police attitudes.Back in the seventies our Boys in Blue liked nothing more than to hassle and bust long haired,Pink Floyd listening,Frisbee throwing Beach Bums (including me ).......One day the World will wake up and see the light........ :)
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Just read in Vive Le Rock a review about a gig in Brockwell Park on 4 August 1984 featuring The Damned,Spear of Destiny and NMA.(My first NMA gig)I'd never heard of them until then and I was hooked.Then I worked out it was 34 years ago next month.The band(like a fine wine)get better with age.Me, (after sitting down for a breather after NMA's set on sunday)realised I can't watch all the bands at an all day festival on my feet.Old git ;D
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With you on that one, Dilla. Just not up to a full days worth of music these days, A main act and a support band, fine, maybe three bands if it's an especially good bill. I suppose the heat didn't help either... went to an all day festival with Madness last year in similar weather, many interesting acts playing, and I didn't show up until about six, just knew the heat would defeat me...
And, Ghosttrain, sorry to hear that your pains are so bad, I knew you had a few problems but I didn't realise it was that bad. Best of luck with it. ;)
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Cheers Master Ray,thanks for that.Last i heard i was due to have my operation(s) in July,have'nt heard anything yet..........
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The date on the 51st state video 27/10/86 , 2 days before my daughter was born
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I can't grow hair and beard related to work issues.After a long time,in my vacation I grew beard and saw that half of my beard turned white.It was strange to see myself like that.
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I can't grow hair and beard related to work issues.After a long time,in my vacation I grew beard and saw that half of my beard turned white.It was strange to see myself like that.
Been there, sir. I'm usually clean shaven but when I don't shave for a few days, my beard is now almost completely white... odd, seeing as the hair on my head only has some grey around the sides. Chest hair is now also snowy-white.
Oddly, my hair in, ahem, more intimate areas seems to be clinging to some semblance of youth, but I can't exactly display that in public in an effort to look younger... :-\
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Far too much information........................ :)
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Really? I'd had some photos ready to PM that you'd be...
(long pause...)
Oh damn. Wrong Forum.
:-[
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Oh guys... ;D ;D ;D
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wel to me, grey hair always was something i found cool and wouldn't mind if my hair turns grey. i think grey makes you more wise than old.
and thanks for the PM master ray, you really look young and like it's freezing outside?
;D
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wel to me, grey hair always was something i found cool and wouldn't mind if my hair turns grey. i think grey makes you more wise than old.
and thanks for the PM master ray, you really look young and like it's freezing outside?
;D
Well I'm grey and certainly not wise.Just got home from doing a car boot.While packing the car'I put 3 fishing rods on the roof,then forgot all about them and drove off.Realised 20 miles down the road.Definately losing it :D.Still, someone got lucky
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wel to me, grey hair always was something i found cool and wouldn't mind if my hair turns grey. i think grey makes you more wise than old.
and thanks for the PM master ray, you really look young and like it's freezing outside?
;D
;D
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When you finally bite the bullet and go for a eye test.
Yes I'm gonna be a specy fck lol apologies to other specy fcks lol .
Suppose it went well n I only found out what I already knew .
I would have to like the more expensive glasses tho .
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Welcome to the club. You have done well Pol to have lasted this long.I am told the eye balls start to shrink when people reach their early 40's.
What makes me feel old is being a user of Ibuleve for arthritic joints. Its not the years it the miles
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When you finally bite the bullet and go for a eye test.
Yes I'm gonna be a specy fck lol apologies to other specy fcks lol .
Suppose it went well n I only found out what I already knew .
I would have to like the more expensive glasses tho .
Contact lenses? Asda do them pretty cheap and they work just as well as the more expensive options.
Although I do use contact lenses and these days need back-up glasses to read small-print (although my reading glasses are just the ones that cost a couple of quid in your local pound shop...)
I guess, in Nottingham, Ill be looking for the Scottish fella who is partly shaven-headed / heavily tattooed bloke and partly Adrian Mole... ;)
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I don't fancy contacts , see how I get on with the glasses, just spent 150 quid on them so gotta give a fair try . I'll look more like a white morpheus lol. Yes they have level 2 tints , was tempted to go level 3 daredevil style lol . Really hard to pick a pair , went for the smallest lenses oval ish shape. Thought fck it if I'm wearing them I'm getting the pair I like most .
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Contacts dont adjust to small print, so my optician told me. Great for distance but as you get older, as Shush suggested, the muscles struggle. Hence I wear bi-focals most of the time. I think im getting to the stage where Im gonna have to stop wearing contacts as I really struggle with a pc when Im wearing them. I could have my eyes lasered but whats the point. Im nearly 50. 8)
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You can get verifocal contact lenses nower days
8)
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Bloody hell... 'Troublegum' by Therapy? (a rock / indie album that was a cornerstone of my listening habits during my youth) is now, officially, a quarter of a century old... :-[
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Bloody hell... 'Troublegum' by Therapy? (a rock / indie album that was a cornerstone of my listening habits during my youth) is now, officially, a quarter of a century old... :-[
Bloody hell. I bought that album. Only seems like a few weeks ago
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Realising you must be older than the 25 you always thought you were, when your son turned 25 on his birthday.
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When your usual gig-buddy (of about 30 years) gets in touch about forthcoming shows we're interested in seeing and says 'can we find a place with balcony seats? I'm struggling with stand-up gigs...'
And, much as you love the heat and excitement of being on the floor, near the band, you sort of agree...
:-[
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50 today. :o
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Happy birthday Michelle.
Cheers
jc
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Happy birthday, WW! I turn that age next year...
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Congrats Wezzy. :)
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Youngsters these days
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Youngsters these days
;D
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Happy birthday Michelle.
Cheers
jc
Thanks Jack.
:)
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Happy birthday, WW! I turn that age next year...
Cheers mate
:)
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Congrats Wezzy. :)
Hey !
Who dug you up !!!!
I haven't seen you around here for yonks.
Did you have an ASBO ?
:D ;D
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Only a self imposed ASBO. I show my face here now and then 8)
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When you go for a proper run at the gym for ten minutes and your legs ache for a day afterwards :-\
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Only a self imposed ASBO. I show my face here now and then 8)
Show yourself more often !
;)
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Only a self imposed ASBO. I show my face here now and then 8)
Show yourself more often !
;)
We could say that about so many old Forum friends... I still wonder what happened to Heno... :-\
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When i first started visiting this site i always remember a person called Stoney always posting stuff.........some if i remember rightly used to rankle with a few people NOT in the Idiotic Spacewind kind of way i must add ::).........
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When you have lots of T-shirts older than your boss :o :o
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30 years of the sega mega drive.
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30 years of the sega mega drive.
Woo hoo. Was the master system before or after it???
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Sega Mega Drive? Pah, you kids with your new-fangled technology! ZX Spectrum for me, you don't know gaming unless you've tried to play a game with a rubber keyboard that feels like dead flesh under your fingers and has sound that is just various shades of 'bleep'... oh, and it look several minutes of THIS before you could actually play the bloody game...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EfycbDhiw
;D
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Sega Mega Drive? Pah, you kids with your new-fangled technology! ZX Spectrum for me, you don't know gaming unless you've tried to play a game with a rubber keyboard that feels like dead flesh under your fingers and has sound that is just various shades of 'bleep'... oh, and it look several minutes of THIS before you could actually play the bloody game...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EfycbDhiw
;D
I had a Commodore 64. Games on tape. And it was all so modern and technological!!
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The C64? There was a bit of a schoolyard war between those who had a c64 and the (much cooler) Spectrum people during my schooldays.
I still carry that grudge so, I'm sorry, but we can no longer be friends.
;D
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If you're a fan of the 64 and all of the old stuff that was hit hot at the time, look up this guy and he'll make you one.
https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/
https://twitter.com/futurewas8bit?lang=en
:)
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Fyi the 8bit master system came before the 16bit mega drive. Was never into the early gaming pc's .
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I whiled many a night shift away playing on the mega drive when I was at work on Command and Conquer. Good times.
WW I never really had any hit games that I remember. In fact I cant remember any of the games I had.
No-one has mentioned Binatone!!!
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Still got my Binatone !
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Well, perhaps I'm not as old as I think I am when I have utterly no idea what Binatone is! ;D
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Here you go Ray. I remember my cousins had one of these in the 70s. It seemed like the most mindblowing technology back then ! ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhowLSxLhs4
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Well, perhaps I'm not as old as I think I am when I have utterly no idea what Binatone is! ;D
Thats cos you were playing with a spinning top and an old wooden puppet ;D
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Well, perhaps I'm not as old as I think I am when I have utterly no idea what Binatone is! ;D
Thats cos you were playing with a spinning top and an old wooden puppet ;D
Ha! I now recognise that fine game-playing console. I never had a Binatone but a friend of mine did. His version also had a gun attached where you could shoot a little square that darted all over the screen... impossible to play, you could never hit the square.
Never owned a wooden puppet but when I was VERY little I had a spinning top... my family had to throw it away because it frightened me. :-[
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When you realise that Thunder and Consolation was released 30 years ago today !!
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When you realise that Thunder and Consolation was released 30 years ago today !!
Blimey :o
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When you realise that Thunder and Consolation was released 30 years ago today !!
:o :o :o
Hey, who really needs to know these things???!!! ;) ;D
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Tonight I've done some excavations on old topics as it's been pretty quiet in the forum.. :)
I just turned 35 this week so I thought this topic was perfect! Not that 35 is old but... Anyway. I was working night shift on my birthday. During nights I also clean around - we finally got rid of the cola vending machine here, and the space under.... It's the small things that makes you feel like wait a second... I'm not very young anymore... Like, I was extatic that I had this new, virginal corner to mop also! ;D
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I know I`m old, but should that be the only reason to buy the new cd of Deep Purple (In Rock was the first lp I had, when I was young) ... ?
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I seem to remember some comedian saying something about the three stages of a mans life...
STAGE 1 - Oh, you wouldn't believe this girl I was with last night... it was incredible!
STAGE 2 - Oh, you wouldn't believe the restaurant I was at last night... damn, the fish was incredible!
STAGE 3 - Oh, I had the most incredible bowel movement last night...
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I seem to remember some comedian saying something about the three stages of a mans life...
STAGE 1 - Oh, you wouldn't believe this girl I was with last night... it was incredible!
STAGE 2 - Oh, you wouldn't believe the restaurant I was at last night... damn, the fish was incredible!
STAGE 3 - Oh, I had the most incredible bowel movement last night...
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I think it was Barry Cryer who said that he'd reached the age that, when he bent to tie his shoelaces he wondered what else he could do when he was down there.
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So many true words spoken in jest.. ;D...
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Creaky knees
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Creaky everything.......then you do have a problem............i know ... ::)....
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My elbows aren't functioning the way they should these days... :-[
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I could read the smallest print on any label in the supermarket. There was nothing I could not read.
This weekend I bought myself a pair of reading glasses. That hurt. It really did. Still does.
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Oh the joy to come when you forget to take your specs to the supermarket , and have to ask a complete stranger (as usually there are no staff to be found) to read label/sell by dates etc.for you.....in many cases someone older than yourself.. ::)....
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Having to be careful during gigs... Torn meniscus in both knees, too many pogos and moshpits over the years :'( Sometimes I forget, resulting in me walking with a crutch(es). Colleague: ''What happened??'' Me: ''Nah, concert... Totally worth it''.
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...and right now... Trying to clean up a bit before my colleague comes to switch the shift... Obviously I strecthed my stiff back and arms too much during the night, something's not quite right, getting horrific weird shoulder pains when trying to use my right hand. So, I'm wiping tables while groaning like Chewbacca.
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OK, this is a funny one... flicking through the TV channels this afternoon I came across 'Cocoon', remember that one? The 80's film about the elderly gentlemen who found a swimming pool that was the fountain of youth thanks to some aliens... not seen it in years. Good movie!
As I am wont to do, I subsequently looked the movie up on IMDb because, after watching a good film, I like to check out some interesting facts about same movie and here's one... Wilfred Brimley, one of the lead actors, was 50 when he appeared in this film.
Yup... I am now as old as one of the old farts in f**king 'Cocoon'... :-[
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50, a mere babe in arms... ;D.....
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Well I'm still young, just 35... But, lately I've started to worry because I'm getting older but I don't seem to grow up ;D Maybe it's because I was peaceful teenager - I didn't rebel and make trouble then so I think it's back-firing now :o
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Yup... I am now as old as one of the old farts in f**king 'Cocoon'... :-[
Least you weren’t watching Logan’s Run.
Cheers
jc
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OK, this is a funny one... flicking through the TV channels this afternoon I came across 'Cocoon', remember that one? The 80's film about the elderly gentlemen who found a swimming pool that was the fountain of youth thanks to some aliens... not seen it in years. Good movie!
As I am wont to do, I subsequently looked the movie up on IMDb because, after watching a good film, I like to check out some interesting facts about same movie and here's one... Wilfred Brimley, one of the lead actors, was 50 when he appeared in this film.
Yup... I am now as old as one of the old farts in f**king 'Cocoon'... :-[
Oh good lord - me too, thanks for that ;D
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Realising that there's only one man still left alive from the lineup of Motorhead I saw live (1990, Leeds Uni - Lemmy, Phil Taylor, Wurzel, and Phil Campbell at that time).