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You are talking about cars from your youth and the office youngster has no idea what an invalid carriage was when you described an old car as 'invalid carriage blue'.

another office youngster has never used a 'proper circular dial' phone.

they ask 'do CD's count' when you talk about the first record you bought.

their idea of retro is a 90s night

*mumbles and shuffles*


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 7:48 am
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... when Radio 1's "Golden Hour" is 2001.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 7:56 am
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You ask a policeman if his mum knows hes not at school. 😳


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 7:57 am
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When you go into Next, look round and think that all the clothes look a bit young for you

You have to explain the whole Joey Deacon thing to someone in the office


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 8:01 am
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You start repeating yourself.

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/howwhen-does-middle-aged-start ]Exhibit 1, your honour.[/url]

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/so-what-is-middle-aged#post-2204998 ]Exhibit 2, your honour.[/url]


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 8:07 am
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Tony Blackburns 1st pirate radio station on a boat 😆


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 8:42 am
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You know your getting older when there is a pause in your answer when someone asks how old you are.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 8:43 am
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When you have to scroll right down on website forms to find your year of birth.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 9:17 am
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The "1" preset on your radios is Planet Rock, not Radio 1
😳


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 9:22 am
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When you get sent a text & you have to get your daughter to decipher it 😉


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 9:27 am
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You start repeating yourself.

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/howwhen-does-middle-aged-start ]Exhibit 1, your honour.[/url]

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/so-what-is-middle-aged#post-2204998 ]Exhibit 2, your honour. [/url]


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 9:30 am
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When you remember the last "you know you are getting old when...." post like it was yesterday


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 9:49 am
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When you get a letter letting you know what your various pension options are for retiring next year


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 9:50 am
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You think you're looking cool driving along the hight street and you catch a glimps of your reflection in a shop window and for a split second think it's your dad.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 10:03 am
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When you make an involuntary groan when getting up out of a chair/bed, bending over, straightening up having bent over, reaching for something thats up high/low.

When you are unable to get up off the floor unaided by furniture/another person.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 10:11 am
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Flashy +1 & Radio 2 is preset 2

Doh doh doh


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 10:11 am
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you smell of piss and they put you in a home.otherwise enjoy......


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 10:34 am
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You are reading magazines that advertise books on dementia, oh, that's this month's MBR! what is that all about anyway?!


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 6:07 pm
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You start repeating yourself.

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/howwhen-does-middle-aged-start ]Exhibit 1, your honour.[/url]

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/so-what-is-middle-aged#post-2204998 ]Exhibit 2, your honour.[/url]


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 6:10 pm
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My dad visited me last week, wearing the same coloured jeans as me, tan belt and same shade of polo shirt. He told me he just dresses young, but I felt old.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 6:23 pm
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When you phone someone up at work to ask if they are free to discuss something, before asking them the same question in the style of Mr Humphries from Are You Being Served.

Then when it's perfectly obvious that they have no idea what you are on about, you try and improve the situation by doing a bad impression of Windsor Davies saying "Lovely Boy".

And this was all by about quarter past nine this morning. It was a long day.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 6:25 pm
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when you used to listen to radio luxembourg under the bed sheets so your mum could hear


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 6:27 pm
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Your mum under there with you?


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 6:31 pm
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frikkin shonk


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 6:31 pm
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When bits of you start to rot and smell like they going to fall off, like your feet 🙁


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 6:33 pm
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You realise how long you've been driving...


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 6:38 pm
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You remember old pound notes, not just the last ones. And curly wurlys were bigger.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 10:28 pm
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You're watching Top of the Pops on BBC4 from 1976 and thinking 1976 was a pretty good year for pop music.

I was born in 1980


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 11:19 pm
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You know you're getting old when you think Billy there's a youngster.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 11:21 pm
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😆


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 11:22 pm
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When the cars and motorbikes you used to own are being sold as 'vintage' for big money.

You can remember the sun not setting on the British Empire.


 
Posted : 01/07/2011 10:08 am
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When the mountain bikes you used to own are being sold as 'vintage' for big money

🙁


 
Posted : 01/07/2011 10:10 am
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the 18 year old in sales asks "whos paul weller?"

yep radio 2 preset here aswell.... i actually put on radio 1 yesterday and some loud rap music was on there i actually winced and flicked it back to radio 2


 
Posted : 01/07/2011 11:42 am
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You have a packet of boiled sweets/mint humbugs in the car, and it seems perfectly acceptable.


 
Posted : 01/07/2011 11:44 am

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