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do most people starting checking receipts? Am I missing something on them?
See also walking around b*llock naked in the changing rooms for far longer than necessary.
Were they checking the receipt to see how long you had paid for them to walk around naked?
😉 🙂
Top tip; pay in cash for that kind of service.
Dunno - but I'm 52 and realised I'd started walking with one hand behind my back at times! 🙂
Have been checking receipts for years - you’d be surprised how often they are wrong (or maybe not). But then I’m an accountant by trade so it kind of goes with the territory...
Not sure.... But at 52 I've been considering buying slippers this Winter. Slippers.
The amount of pairs my parents bought me growing up that I consistently refused to wear... Now I'm thinking of spending my own money on buying them!
the-muffin-man
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Dunno – but I’m 52 and realised I’d started walking with one hand behind my back at times! 🙂
What is it about being 52?!
I bought slipper this year. 40. In my defence its 10 degrees in my work room.
Definitely after the age when your ear, nose and eyebrow hair goes into overdrive and the age when you have to make a noise every time you stand up or sit down. Waaaay before you start getting interested in buying a coat to keep you warm when it's 20 degrees outside.
See also walking around b*llock naked in the changing rooms for far longer than necessary.
It depends. Any European heritage at all means this is from birth.
When going to the hair dresser and they ask if i want my eyebrows and ears trimmed. wtf! This was about 5 years ago now. Still not got over it.
When going to the hair dresser and they ask if i want my eyebrows and ears trimmed.
Wait till they don't bother asking.
do most people starting checking receipts? Am I missing something on them?
checking a supermarket reciept to see if everything is there, or checking all your receipts at end of month/week vs your bank account/credit card?
When going to the hair dresser
There's your problem right there. Barbers is where you should be going. Anything for the weekend sir?
Also what age for squeezing every loaf of bread on the supermarket shelf before deciding which one to buy?
Im nearly 43, noticed ear hair growing and just bought my first pair of slippers after a lifetime of refusing to wear any (chilblains are peeing me off)
I’ve been fighting the nose, ear and eyebrow growth since my mid 30’s! Will hair grow on my head though, will it buggery. Never checked a receipt or worn slippers though. 44 next year and already creak like an old barn door when standing up 😕
"oof" slips out occasionally getting up
which my 8-year old has now started copying and finds hilarious
I've been making the old man noises for a while, I always say it's "from injuries" and I've been told "yes, as are everyone elses".
Any European heritage at all means this is from birth.
Apart from the obvious bit about the UK still being part of Europe, this is definitely wrong in Spain - the younger lads at the gym are all careful to cover themselves up, those of us past 40 have stopped caring.
Haven't quite reached the stage of using the gym hairdryers to dry my nads yet, but getting there.
See also walking around b*llock naked in the changing rooms for far longer than necessary.
It depends. Any European heritage at all means this is from birth.
Oh, now you've got me thinking about my Danish friend Katinka, when we were students and shared a house and she would strip anywhere. I'M IN THE OFFICE, YOU INSENSITIVE FOOL!
I was in my 30s when I got my first attack of gout.. that was a bit sobering (and bloody sore!)
Just turned 40 and have been checking receipts for a while now! Guess it's a by-product of having an accountant for a dad and having worked in a bank for a bit too. Having banking apps and Google Pay on the phone make it easier but also habit-forming.
The hairdresser asking if I wanted my eyebrows/ears/nose trimmed started 5 years ago, the 'old man' groan as I get out of a chair started nearly 10 years ago (after breaking my back) and I've had slippers for the last 3 years.
Suppose I've got my first grey hair to look forward to still!
Oh, now you’ve got me thinking about my Danish friend Katinka, when we were students and shared a house and she would strip anywhere
My old student housemate Nikki used to do that. She just used to wander around the house in her underwear. She was from Essex though
At 50 I don't think I've ever checked a receipt in my life. I'm now getting very concerned about this and all the other things I'm going to start doing in 2 years time
55. Recently decided I wanted (actually wanted) some slippers. Spent ages scouring the net for a suitable pair- had them a few weeks and bloody love them. It gets worse, I’m considering getting an Oodie - tbf the rationale is to have the heating on less as my wife and I have been wfh since last March, but even so.
Had the unable to get into or out of a chair without grunting thing for years. Yesterday I bent down to pick something up off the kitchen floor and inadvertently emitted a grunt / shout / screech so loud I actually scared myself.
56 and put slippers on my Christmas list for the first time this year. Love them. Never checked a receipt though and not about to start any time soon. To be fair, my wife does though 🙂
“oof” slips out occasionally getting up
There's a little blue pill you can get for that. So I'm told.
What is it about being 52?!
About to "+1", then checks date...bollocks too late.
Oh, now you’ve got me thinking about my Danish friend Katinka, when we were students and shared a house and she would strip anywhere. I’M IN THE OFFICE, YOU INSENSITIVE FOOL!
Sounds like you'll be WFH later though 😀
I've been wearing slippers for years. MY Dad used to have a pathological dread of stepping on drowsy wasps, and I've always worn slippers as a result.
My wife however worries about my walking about stark bollock naked (except, of course, for my slippers)
42 year old proud slipper wearer here.
Had grey hairs since my 20s, fan of 'ooh ya bastid' type noises when getting up since my 30s, but my 40s have brought on the ear hair.
The occasional one just appears, proud in length at a perfect 90 degrees for easy extraction.
The question I have is about hairs growing on top of your ears, tell me I'm not alone in this? It seems a futile battle just now from the very top and forwards towards my sideburns/face, nothing on the back.
As for checking receipts - I was trained as an accountant from 16 so yep, never going to get away from that one.
Turkish barbers are what you need gentlemen. Destroy it with fire.
I checked my receipt when I turned 52 and it turned out I wasn't yet.
Being self employed I've always checked reciepts!
Can't get off the sofa without a groan at the grand old age of 38 though.
last time I went to a posh hairdressers the lovely young lady cut my hair and then without saying anything a small set of clippers appeared and she shaved my ears! "Did you have to do that?" I said "oh yes" was the reply
the age when you have to make a noise every time you stand up or sit down
It's not inevitable though. I'm 50 (at least for another month or so) and started getting the sit down stand up noises about 4 years ago. Thought it was the beginning of the end, then about two years they just stopped and haven't returned. I'm hoping it's a sign that I've defeated biology and am now ageing backwards, although I'm not looking forward to how that ends TBH.
Haven't owned slippers since I was about 8 and have no intention of doing so ever again, nose hair yes but thankfully my ears are still pretty bald, and what's a receipt?
Thought it was the beginning of the end, then about two years they just stopped and haven’t returned.
Prob gone a bit deaf, mate
I SAID YOU'VE PROBABLY GONE A BIT DEAF
NO, DEAF !!
ah, **** it
See also walking around b*llock naked in the changing rooms for far longer than necessary.
Played rugby from 7 to 32 so...
scaredypants
Prob gone a bit deaf, mate
I SAID YOU’VE PROBABLY GONE A BIT DEAF
NO, DEAF !!
ah, **** it
Eh? Speak up lad. I'm sure it was something proper witty...
This is a depressing thread. Tell us more about Nikki and Katinka.
This is a depressing thread. Tell us more about Nikki and Katinka.
If ever a thread were useless without....🤣
Aldi or Lidl, don't bother, they are always spot on. Morrisons. ALWAYS. I have never been charged the right amount there. Absolutely bloody hopeless they are. Spent more time at customer services than in the shop. They even managed to debit my account by the overcharge a second time rather than put it back on as a credit!
Welshfarmer - totally agree. We stopped shopping at Morrisons as we had exactly the same experience. Can't work out if it's intentional or just ineptness.
Where does the "going upstairs for something, forgetting what you went up there for, going back downstairs and then remembering so you go upstairs again" thing fit in?
(obvs Nikki and Katinka were not the reason for going upstairs)
When going to the hair dresser and they ask if i want my eyebrows and ears trimmed. wtf! This was about 5 years ago now. Still not got over it.
Had my now biannual hair cut just before Christmas and the barber asked me if I wanted my eyebrows shaving, I thought he was taking the piss so laughed it off saying yeah that’d be great, before I knew it he’d practically removed them.
Luckily my glasses hide most of where they used to be.
I started checking receipts when I noticed for some other reason that Morrisons had charged me .46p for a bottle of their own tonic when I knew it was labelled at .42p. I went to customer services & said, 'I know It's only 4p but have you seen the size of Ken Morrisons house compared to mine'?
(he lived In Myton Hall, about 5 miles away from me) I got my 4p back.
I got a pair of slippers for Christmas. Apparently, my old ones smelled of cat wee. Might have to up my quarterly foot-washing regimen.
Slippers are epic.
It's not a sign of old age just you finally admitted they're a great idea.
See also dressing gowns aka the lockdown coat. I've basically Been Arthur Dent for 9months now.
I'm 36.
59 3/4 here. Never had a pair of slippers on my feet. I am not that old
I think wandering round changing rooms naked must be linked to the amount of ball dangle that seems to accumulate with age...
As for slippers no thanks, Crocs for me but the wife asked for some 'nice' slippers for Christmas (she turned 50 in October), have you seen the price of Mahabi's!?! She got Gumbies in the end.
47 in two weeks.
Ears sprouting hair like tomatoes from a grow bag. All over. I hate the wind noise it causes out riding. Massive great ginger whiskers sprouting from my eyebrows like a cat and nose hair that grows faster than my beard. All in the last few years 3/4 years. Just WTF!
...and now Birkenstocks seems like a great idea for next summer. Slippers still seem superfluous to me though.