Senior moments.

[Tarmacsurfer]

Reading a thread in "Dear Aunty..." got me pondering those moments that come along occasionally to make us realise that time is indeed passing and age is slowly creeping up. I don't mean being forgetful or woolly headed, I mean those moments when you look at yourself or your surroundings and you suddenly think "Bloody hell, I'm getting old".

This feeling happens to all of us, teenagers to nonagenarians alike experience that moment of world shift as we slip into the realm of the has been as opposed to the has it. So come on good folk of BCF, spill your stories.

My first tale of age related angst took place in a student union a few years back. It was something of a tradition for myself and a couple of mates to wander along to the freshers fair in order to point and laugh at the TA and watch the latest batch of innocent naifs as they acclimated to the new found freedoms of life away from parental supervision, this activity aided of course by the subsidised bar and cheap pool tables. The moment struck when Mark slapped my shoulder and pointed toward the bar whilst uttering the line "Now that's a tasty piece, in the jeans". All I could think was "She looks like a child". This realisation was quite earthshaking

The second was outside a body piercing studio whilst chatting to a young guy who was asking about a tattoo on my shoulder. He asked about it, first who had done it and then wanted to know when. After a moment of thought I worked out the year and told him. His eyes narrowed briefly in calculation and then he artlessly struck to my very core.

"It's ageing well, that tatt is older than I am"
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[pa_broon74]

Mmm...

I fear this is a thread which may be wildly over subscribed. For me it's technology. The majority of the youth fraternity think the older you get the more inept you become at any task involving 'technology'. I think it's partially true, but for the most part, from experience it's not that I don't know how, it's that I absolutely cannot be bothered with it.

Two examples. My dad was in hospital and had one of those patient telly things. You stick a card in it and get to watch TV/listen to the radio... Not the case, trying to get it registered was like trying to launch a fucking rocket. Phone some computer up then get put on hold, then get told by the computer you don't have to speak to a person, just follow the instructions only to find everything except what you want to do is covered by the automated system...

Which is an apt segway to the other thing that pisses me off that young people probably aren't phased by: computers on the telephone that refer to themselves in the first person!! Well fuck a duck! How did that happen??

I was speaking to a young person some time ago (I was in my mid-twenties at the time.) It transpired we lived in the same house (at different times... Ummm...) Anyway, that was fine except when I lived in the house he hadn't even been born.

Also, when kids call you 'mister'.


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[J0Al1]

It happens on a daily basis now that I have a child. They do and say all the things you did when you were a kid.

Aside that, just looking in the mirror most mornings does it for me.

I can still gate voult tho

[Dragonfly]

Your very profound these days Tarmacsurfer.

I feel to like this, I have friends who have age limits on girls like 26 is old enough for them. Makes me feel old or something Then teens these days, I dont get them. They talk weird, they write weird they write words with numbers in them and look at me like I am stupid because I cant read it. I feel like a grumpy old woman moaning about apparently cool things which I dont get, looking like a retard is not cool in my books.

Then all this music, I know in my day my mum roared at me for playing what was to her "not music just noise" now I hear bang bang chipmunk voice and speeded up old rave tunes which I liked once wreaking my head and all sounding the same. not impressed at all by that.

Then there are terms people even say here which maybe because I dont live in England I dont get that I have to ask what they are.

And things teens do like happy slapping and being general ass wipes no one done when I was young you would have got a proper kicking and been to afraid to call police after it, now you shout at one of them and your in a prison cell for child abuse.

Everything is messed up. I must be getting old. I hope I wont be as naive as my parents where when I was growing up as they had to clue of the things I was up to and would never have thought it either.
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[J0Al1]

You will be curtian twitching soon Dragonfly


What gets me is when people 10 years younger than me, start worrying about 'never meeting the right person'.
.... BAH!

[J0Al1]

PS Dragonfly: Prehaps Cyril has trimmed his eyebrows so he can see the screen more clearly.

[yen_powell]

The day last year when my 16 year old son came to stay with me. He's music mad, so I lent him my ancient record collection and an old 1970s HiFi system that'd been keeping me sane in the garage whilst working on my bikes.

He worked out how to get the record playing himself, then he asked me how to change to a different tracks on the album. I felt like Fred Flintstone lifting the record arm and moving it across to a different song.
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[pa_broon74]

I had a go on one of those console things, the game was Guitar Hero.

I used to be excellent on a binatone but that thing had the bare faced cheek to boo me off! How can a computer boo a human off, that's not how it should be at all.

I think we're perilously close to total subjugation by microchipped overlords. Serously, a console so sophisticated it actually becomes a threat to mankind!! Think about it, people 'play' war games on them all the time, what if they're just learning and waiting...


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[Annabella]

[Bubbs]

Only 26 but I have seriously noticed my body not recoveing as well as it used to after drinking too much. When I was 18-19 i never had a hangover, but now it just kills me. This also links to the whole drugs situation... The comedown now outweighs the goodtimes and therefore have not entered my body for 2yrs.

Also when going out on the town with my brother and his mates (19/20's) I find myself in bars that are rammed with no seating and issues with getting to the bar... i don't quite remember my mental switch to more comfortable establishments but when your presented with the crowded bars it stops becoming fun, no seating, sticky floors, loud music. No thanks... I just want conversation, nice food, good beer in a real glass, travel link to get back to my comfy house.

The fact that im now actively looking for things to make me healthier rather than stuff that makes me lazy. Remember thinking bran flakes and exercise etc was for losers, now look at lazy people and think they're missing out.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

A timely thread

I've only just got back from a bike ride, and for the first time since I bought it, I got a puncture. As I was sitting there trying to get the tyre off with the most useless tyre lever known to man, I chuckled to myself thinking about how I used two old spoons that lived in my dad's toolbox to get tyres off when I was a kid.

It then dawned on me that the last time I fixed a puncture on a bicycle was 30 years ago.
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[hellkat]

Nope.
Never had any.






(I've probably had so many, I've forgotten most of them - can't think of a single one)
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[hellkat]

*cries*

Okay, okay ... perhaps I did feel pathetically grateful when offered a helpful arm by an extremely annoying chirpy chappy whilst trying to get back home along my slippery street during all that ice and snow in mid December ...
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[Marmalade]

Oh god yes. my 16yo son comes to stay, last time he asked if we could go ice skating.
Yeah, why not i say. I can ice skate.

Then i realise i could, last time i went but that was when i was his age over 20 years ago

Still managed a couple of hours getting better, nearly crashing into and taking out other people and coming amazingly close to face planting myself on the ice but by some miracle stayed the right way up all the time

He wants a bike, i don't want him to have a bike.

I think there is a biker gene and he doesn't have it and i don't want to have to go identify a bag of mashed son thank you

Maybe i'll give him some lessons on something almost safe like a CG125 and see how i feel then.
Instructed too many non bikers how to bike and they are scary and instructors should be able to ban the dangerous ones for life at the point of the CBT
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[hellkat]

That's it, I'm not coming in this thread no more no way no how.




hellkat
growing old disgracefully
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[c_dug]

I think your right with that "biker gene" thing bramble, I have definetly found learning to ride easier * than some of my friends did, and i'm the only one who's dad rides/rode.

*once I got over the obsticle that was the clutch! I must have spent two weeks straight just stalling

c_dug
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[hellkat]

I was trying to find a gif of a thicko reading with his lips moving, for a post elsewhere about people who read the Daily Mirror.
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[trevoriv]

I realised recently that people who were born when i started secondary school are now old enough to drive
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[c_dug]

I used to regularly dislocate my right sholder and pull my arm around the back of my head as a bit of a party trick.

It hurts to do it now, it never used to .

Still by the sounds of some of these posts I really am a young'un

c_dug
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[hellkat]

[hellkat]

[Visitor Q]

Tutting at ped bois posing outside schools.

Being civil in clubs, rather then a raucous mess.

Staying in on Friday/Saturday nights

Turning down girls because they're too young
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