It's a bit weird being the same age as old people.
I hope you're resisting the temptation to wear a "hoody" ?
Went to a model Railway show last year, and was asked,, are you a concession? IE do you qualify for a pensioners ticket..
I went ... Oh yes I am, I'd been to a couple of other shows and forgotten...
Hmm...
...there's a few on here you have to make concessions for!
:doh:
Quote from: dannyboy on May 20, 2024, 12:35:00 PMIt's a bit weird being the same age as old people.
You mean you are that old ;)
Quote from: dannyboy on May 20, 2024, 12:35:00 PMIt's a bit weird being the same age as old people.
It's not just weird, it's downright inappropriate. Five years ago I was 30 and now I'm in my 60s. How did this happen?
PW (Or should that be OAPW?)
Quote from: Nbodger on May 20, 2024, 05:12:41 PMQuote from: dannyboy on May 20, 2024, 12:35:00 PMIt's a bit weird being the same age as old people.
You mean you are that old ;)
To be fair to David, he's not as old as most of his jokes... ;)
:laughabovepost: :P
Quote from: PLD on May 20, 2024, 10:01:09 PMQuote from: Nbodger on May 20, 2024, 05:12:41 PMQuote from: dannyboy on May 20, 2024, 12:35:00 PMIt's a bit weird being the same age as old people.
You mean you are that old ;)
To be fair to David, he's not as old as most of his jokes... ;)
Tutankhamun's not as old as most of David's jokes.
We live in a time when intelligent people are being silenced, so that stupid people won't be offended.
Oh Dannyboy, thank you; I thought everybody was being silenced.
How old is old? I'm 67 but I don't feel old, but I suspect there are many younger than me that do. It's down to mind and body and luck I think......
I had my only pensioners meal when I wasn't even 60, with my wife and friends who were all well under 60! I've only managed free bus travel since actually becoming a state pensioner.....must try harder!
Dave
I'm 75, but I admit to no more than late middle age...
The only thing that makes me feel old is when they say that things like Bridge over Troubled Water came out 55 years ago.
Cheers,
Chris
I joined my first railway society . Not long past... 49 years ago.
A couple of years ago people started asking me about the running of my sailing club, even committee members.. I've only been a member 44 years. I know members who were founders..in 1938 I did know and raced against founders of the original sailing club which was in 1910...
I used to say to a youngster trying to advise me on computers, I soldered a computer together before your parents were born, now I say it was before your grandparents were born... And was living in Bletchley Park before that ( just)
Being aged 90, I suspect I may be the oldest on the forum, I started N gauge when I retired from the RAF at age 40, so that's 50 years modelling N, my NGS number is 4 figures starting with a 2.
My first railway model however was a Hornby 0 gauge clockwork 0-4-0T for Christmas when I was about 4 or 5, followed a year later by a 3 rail Electric Hornby Flying Scotsman - not exactly true to scale the model was 4-4-2 not 4-6-2. No scenics just bare track on the floor. That lasted until I was about 15 then nothing until my sons had some Hornby Dublo for Christmas in the late 50s, they never showed much interest though.
Quote from: Papyrus on May 21, 2024, 05:08:52 PMThe only thing that makes me feel old is when they say that things like Bridge over Troubled Water came out 55 years ago.
I felt really old when, on the quiz programme 'Pointless', it was obvious some didn't recognise Chuck Berry from a picture of him :(
Ding-a-ling
I wouldn't recognise Chuck Berry either. That may very well make me quite a bit older than you Mick!
Webbo
I'll be 70 in 6 months and don't feel anywhere near that age even after having my left hip replaced 9 months ago.
However, yesterday I discovered that I no longer bounce!
We were walking to catch a train when I tripped over the tiniest little imperfection on the path landing heavily on my knee.
Today, I can hardly move. Grrrrr
Maybe this inability to bounce is indeed a sign of ageing :D ;)
Quote from: port perran on May 22, 2024, 12:45:26 PMI tripped over the tiniest little imperfection on the path landing heavily on my knee.
That'll teach you to move houses! ;)
(Hope you have settled in okay Martin).
If the tomato is a fruit, then ketchup is the jam.
"to do is to be" - Nietsche
"to be is to do" - Kant
"doo bee doo bee doo" - Sinatra
Quote from: port perran on May 22, 2024, 12:45:26 PMHowever, yesterday I discovered that I no longer bounce!
We were walking to catch a train when I tripped over the tiniest little imperfection on the path landing heavily on my knee.
Today, I can hardly move. Grrrrr
Maybe this inability to bounce is indeed a sign of ageing :D ;)
I find scoffing 'Trill' helps. Well, it worked on my budgie (which was not smuggled in any shape or form :no: )
In all the cine film of my Dad when I was a nipper, he's wearing a blazer.
I'm now the age he was in those films, and I have two blazers in the wardrobe. Oh, heck.....
Quote from: Foxhound on May 22, 2024, 01:16:04 PMIn all the cine film of my Dad when I was a nipper, he's wearing a blazer.
I'm now the age he was in those films, and I have two blazers in the wardrobe. Oh, heck.....
I feel your pain Bro! At 67 I grew a beard so I didn't see my father looking back at me each time I looked in the mirror!
Quote from: dannyboy on May 22, 2024, 12:58:41 PMIf the tomato is a fruit, then ketchup is the jam.
Does that make passata a smoothie too?
When you wait for a waiter, you become a waiter.
If a word is misspelled in a dictionary, how will we know?
If only David hadn't started this thread........................... :(
Quote from: dannyboy on May 31, 2024, 10:56:29 AMIf a word is misspelled in a dictionary, how will we know?
I believe an print run of Collins dictionary had to be recalled in the1970s because the word gullible had been spelt with three letters l.
Did someone mention dictionarys?
Why do shops put stickers on non-stick frying pans?
Quote from: dannyboy on June 01, 2024, 07:46:25 PMWhy do shops put stickers on non-stick frying pans?
More to the point,
how do they do it?
:smiley-laughing:
Can you increase the bounciness of a waterbed by using spring water?
As Charlie Drake said at The Battle of Little Big Horn "What am I doin' 'ere?"
Why is it that when we are looking for intelligent life, we always point our telescopes away from Earth...?
Quote from: dannyboy on June 28, 2024, 06:42:48 PMWhy is it that when we are looking for intelligent life, we always point our telescopes away from Earth...?
From Monty Python's The Meaning of Life;
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough....
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth!
Quote from: dannyboy on June 28, 2024, 06:42:48 PMWhy is it that when we are looking for intelligent life, we always point our telescopes away from Earth...?
Not all life on Earth is intelligent.....folk vote for people that encourage hatred and war with other folk.