Right so where to begin, well I didn't think I was that old but......
SO I was travelling home the other night as my train came to a halt at Manchester Oxford Road and on the opposite platform was a group of young ladies no more than 4 years older than my daughter on a night out i am guessing and how do I put this..... what they were wearing can only be describe as rubber adult attire (The is a family forum after all), and the only thing I could think was:
WHO WOULD LET THEIR KIDS GO OUT LIKE THAT!
At the time I wouldn't be surprised if I tutted on getting home I even told the other half and her response was "shut up you old fart", and that's when it hit me! I have become the grumpy old man, going for young joyful and full of cheer it seems that is all behind me!
So young me RIP, the old man is here (and yes I was grumpy anyway so whats your point @Only Me (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=1328) @red_death (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=246) , you both know what my response in person is likely to be :smiley-laughing: )
Man, it just happens.
It's nothing to do with being old, its because you have a daughter and the future suddenly worried you. 8)
Quote from: Snowwolflair on October 15, 2018, 11:02:04 PM
It's nothing to do with being old, its because you have a daughter and the future suddenly worried you. 8)
She aint never going out like that lol, dont say thing like that to me :'(
I thought it was going to end with them laughing at you and shouting at you 'OI GRANDDAD!'....so I'm glad it had a happier ending!!! :D
Sorry, even if I wasn't also getting old (I am), the aforementioned outfit style and material has been forever ruined for me by one Mr Sutton @37058 (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=90) and his stag do photos :o :goggleeyes:
Skyline2uk
Quote from: acko22 on October 15, 2018, 11:11:38 PM
She aint never..............
Isn't that a double negative, which then turns into a positive?
So that means she WILL be allowed to go out in the aforementioned attire :D :D :D :D!!!
The other Day they were doing a piece on Local Radio about why men are giving School girls, Cat calls, wolf whistles,and harrassing them. One school girls asked why men are treating them Like sex objects.
When I drive past 3 secondary schools on the way home I'm wondering why the school uniformed girls are allowed to wear skirts that are what I describe as a wide belt... Some of the mothers outside the primary schools aren't much better.
When did I first feel old?
When on the way to a show, we could see the building, but an impossible one way system stopped us getting there. So we asked a policeman, He looked like he should still be at school... that was 30 years ago... I'm only 60... (it had to be thirty years ago to find a policeman!!)
In High Wycombe we have a grammar school and a girls High School at the top of Marlow hill Val and Me were taking some rubbish up to the tip and as we went past the girls were coming out of the gate , and the first thing they did was rolled their skirts up to what has been allready described as a wide belt .
Val looked at them and said to me that they do that and then wonder why the boys crowd round and wolf whistle and call out to them or worse ,even Val said boys are only human and if the goods are on display like that what do the girls expect ,we all know what happens sometimes and it's wrong BUT is there any need to encourage it like that and then cry afterwards.
Bob Tidbury
Your body ages..........your brain still says you are only 22 and handsome......:O))
Martyn
As a newcomer to the official Senior Citizen Club this month, I have long despaired about the way youngsters think and act, and can't help believing much is down to peer pressure/social media.
However, my mother (aged a young 85), has told us kids of her school days when skirts had to come below the knee in fear of dire punishment, yet as soon as they were off the school premises the girls used to put a tuck in the skirt such that it came above the knee.
Plus ca change, eh?
Quote from: acko22 on October 15, 2018, 10:34:23 PM
you both know what my response in person is likely to be :smiley-laughing: )
at a rough guess, might it include precision application of various types of high explosive :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: class37025 on October 16, 2018, 10:48:12 AM
Quote from: acko22 on October 15, 2018, 10:34:23 PM
you both know what my response in person is likely to be :smiley-laughing: )
at a rough guess, might it include precision application of various types of high explosive :smiley-laughing:
I think 'insertion' might be more worrying :worried:
Quote from: acko22 on October 15, 2018, 11:11:38 PM
She aint never going out like that
Hi
Good luck with that stance.
Cheers
Paul
For all you know they are borrowing their mums clothes. :goggleeyes:
Decades ago an aunt of mine who was a teacher used to refer to miniskirts (do you not remember them?) as pelmets.
Plus ca change....
Quote from: acko22 on October 15, 2018, 10:34:23 PM
I even told the other half and her response was "shut up you old fart"
I take it you have checked her half of the wardrobe ? you never know, you might be in fir a 'pleasant' surprise ;) :smiley-laughing:
Dunno what's up with all you youngsters, just wait to you really GET old - like past the big 80, bits of you don't work right. some even not at all, you can easily fall over without being drunk, you can't hear much, (that can be a blessing in disguise given the cacophony that passes for music these days) you get to go to more funerals than weddings, the only time you see your kids is when they want something etc etc.
I don't need to get to 80 to have bits of me fail to work or be constant pain. I don't have a problem with kids not visiting me,, I haven't got any... I have a slight increase in weddings to go to, nieces and nephews...not long before great nieces and nephews..
Quote from: Newportnobby on October 16, 2018, 10:31:50 AM
However, my mother (aged a young 85), has told us kids of her school days when skirts had to come below the knee in fear of dire punishment, yet as soon as they were off the school premises the girls used to put a tuck in the skirt such that it came above the knee.
Plus ca change, eh?
My mother, who would now be 98 if she was still alive, bless her heart, told me exactly the same story. There was also something to do with ties and blouse buttons...
As you say, plus ca change.
Quote from: class37025 on October 16, 2018, 10:48:12 AM
Quote from: acko22 on October 15, 2018, 10:34:23 PM
you both know what my response in person is likely to be :smiley-laughing: )
at a rough guess, might it include precision application of various types of high explosive :smiley-laughing:
Nah that's to obvious I was thinking an old school Ammo Boot (those who have worn them know how chunk they are) and a well aimed shot at the front or rear!! :goggleeyes:
Make them all wear WRAF skirts, the best contraceptive known to man ;D
Quote from: Bob Tidbury on October 16, 2018, 09:01:30 AM
In High Wycombe we have a girls High School at the top of Marlow hill Val and Me were taking some rubbish up to the tip and as we went past the girls were coming out of the gate , and the first thing they did was rolled their skirts up to what has been already described as a wide belt .
Bob Tidbury
Bob, I have a Granddaughter currently at The High School.
Quote from: PaulCheffus on October 16, 2018, 10:57:06 AM
Quote from: acko22 on October 15, 2018, 11:11:38 PM
She aint never going out like that
Hi
Good luck with that stance.
Cheers
Paul
Hear Hear, I often said that to her mother! Now it's her turn to agonise on how her daughter dresses.
Plus ca change....
Quote from: colpatben on October 17, 2018, 07:04:01 AM
Quote from: Bob Tidbury on October 16, 2018, 09:01:30 AM
In High Wycombe we have a girls High School at the top of Marlow hill Val and Me were taking some rubbish up to the tip and as we went past the girls were coming out of the gate , and the first thing they did was rolled their skirts up to what has been already described as a wide belt .
Bob Tidbury
Bob, I have a Granddaughter currently at The High School.
I think my mother went to that high school too (long enough ago that she recalls the journey to school involving steam locomotives).
Quote from: acko22 on October 15, 2018, 10:34:23 PM
Right so where to begin, well I didn't think I was that old but......
SO I was travelling home the other night as my train came to a halt at Manchester Oxford Road and on the opposite platform was a group of young ladies no more than 4 years older than my daughter on a night out i am guessing and how do I put this..... what they were wearing can only be describe as rubber adult attire (The is a family forum after all), and the only thing I could think was:
WHO WOULD LET THEIR KIDS GO OUT LIKE THAT!
At the time I wouldn't be surprised if I tutted on getting home I even told the other half and her response was "shut up you old fart", and that's when it hit me! I have become the grumpy old man, going for young joyful and full of cheer it seems that is all behind me!
So young me RIP, the old man is here (and yes I was grumpy anyway so whats your point @Only Me (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=1328) @red_death (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=246) , you both know what my response in person is likely to be :smiley-laughing: )
I know the thread is a month old so you have probably deleted them now but did you take any pictures? 8)
Quote from: Lawrence on October 16, 2018, 07:30:29 PM
Make them all wear WRAF skirts, the best contraceptive known to man ;D
Wrong, go in one more layer, WRAF drawers, enough to soften any mans resolve.
Bindair Dundat.
I could never understand why they had to be back in the WAAF block by, IIRC, 23:00...or it might have been 22:00,
after all, what could happen after 23:00 that couldn't happen before 23:00 :hmmm:
Quote from: Dorsetmike on November 17, 2018, 04:08:11 PM
Quote from: Lawrence on October 16, 2018, 07:30:29 PM
Make them all wear WRAF skirts, the best contraceptive known to man ;D
Wrong, go in one more layer, WRAF drawers, enough to soften any mans resolve.
Bindair Dundat.
drawers, cellular , WRAF, pairs, one :smiley-laughing:
So the girls had "shreddies" too?
Quote from: TrevL on November 17, 2018, 05:40:02 PM
So the girls had "shreddies" too?
You never actually found out? :goggleeyes: :goggleeyes: :goggleeyes:
Sadly not, not for want of trying though, I was once first prize in a "grimmy hunt"
:'(
The dog on the left is better looking than me.