We've had a thread about getting older before, but I couldn't find it. I know there were some very funny observations, like "you know you're getting older when you make a noise every time you bend down" (Andrea, I think, but couldn't swear to it).

I've always prided myself on my spelling and knowing a lot of useless cr@p and have consequently been good at quizzes, crosswords, etc. I've always thought I'd like to be on a quiz programme on the telly, particularly Countdown, but I realise now that I'm much slower than I used to be. I couldn't be on anything that meant being first on the buzzer, because I know I'd be beaten every time. I've also been picked up (by two people in particular who know who they floop but shall remain feeless) on several occasions for misspelling words, when I've usually been the picker and not the pickee!

What I have realised about myself, though, is that I am able to admit this and face up to the fact it's one of the hazzards of getting older.

Another is going grey which, by the way, I never shall.

and have consequently been good

Split infinitive :naughty:

I've found I'm becoming less tolerant.

Yet, conversely, more annoying. :glare:

I also find I am achieving more of my lifetime goals :wink_kiss

I also find I am achieving more of my lifetime goals :wink_kiss
Which are?

In answer to your thread question Pats - absolutely bloody not!!!

I'm going as disgracefully as I possibly can and am definitely a senile delinquent.

I've noticed I have trouble spelling simple words these days and also my fingers have a habit of typing a completely different word to the one in my brain :( I've read back messages that have odd words in that I'm sure I never typed!!!

Ah well, who cares, I shall carry on slapping on the hair-dye and make-up and kidding myself I can pass for 50 ;)

Which are?

Grumpy itolerance; b!tch suprema; pedantic old fart....

Grumpy itolerance; b!tch suprema; pedantic old fart....

Well done you - you are well on the way to achieving those goals.:wink2:

I'll take that as a compliment then :)

Coming as it does from the expert

:laugh:

I'll take that as a compliment then :)

Coming as it does from the expert

:laugh:

Steady on you.....grumpy - I'll accept, pedantic - I am practising, fart - i'll grudgingly take on board. Bitch - no arguing with, intolerant - only at certain times of month....


But OLD??? feckin OLD.....:wallbash:

Grumpy itolerance; b!tch suprema; pedantic old fart....

And your problem with this is.............?

You notice Buzz hasn't contributed. She has a problem with stiffness, you know.

Crit, you are disgraceful and I love you for it. :wink2:

Steady on you.....grumpy - I'll accept, pedantic - I am practising, fart - i'll grudgingly take on board. Bitch - no arguing with, intolerant - only at certain times of month....


But OLD??? feckin OLD.....:wallbash:

Yep! Looks like you qualify :wink2:

Yep! Looks like you qualify :wink2:

Great stuff. I didn't get many qualifications from school - it's nice to achieve something!

You achieved plenty in Dublin, lovey. At your age, that really IS an achievement.

You achieved plenty in Dublin, lovey. At your age, that really IS an achievement.
You promised me we would NEVER EVER discuss that again once we got off the plane...

And as an aside - my left knee stills gives me gip sometimes you know

...but worth it - such an interesting position on top of that barman

...but worth it - such an interesting position on top of that barman

BARMAN:shocking: :shocking:

He swore he was a millionare! The b a s t a r d

I promised nothing of the sort. Why would I deny myself such pleasure?

Edit: Woh, there. Barman? Builder, yes. Several of them. But Barman? Are you sure you're talking about our Barbara, Fee?

...brilliant cocktail though :wink2:

I believe Cat intervened just as he was serving up a Slow Comfortable blah blah blah!!!!

[QUOTE=Patsy]
Edit: Woh, there. Barman? Builder, yes. Several of them. But Barman? [QUOTE]

Oh my god...there were builders too:shocking:

Did they tell me they were millionares?:unsure:

...at which point he became shaken, not stirred

boom boom

It was Barbara who was shaken, Fee. Especially when she saw the photos. And, no, I won't share them. Not at any price.

Have I got your e-mail address?

I'll give you 3 euros and a satsuma?

PM me with the evidence - it can be our secret

After a drinking session that started at 1pm yesterday and finished at 1am this morning I can safely say that I am not growing old gracefully. I was doing OK - 'til we noticed that the cocktails were 2 for £4 :eek::thumbsup:

Rock and roll, Roberto! Who could resist at that price? Did you go through the colour spectrum? I would.

Nah - we couldn't be bothered with all that - we just drank. I think the whiskys that we had when we got home may have been a mistake tho' ............

I'm not growing old.

So there.

I'm not growing old.

So there.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Definiately not! :naughty: :wink_kiss :devil: :drinking:

Oh I love cheese... :laugh:

Oh and Frank said hi...

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

What?????? :ninja:

I feel old at the moment :mellow:

I suddenly have found that i cant drink anymore !!!! In the last 6 months, if i drink anything ... i get a migraine :( I have been having the odd tipple and suffering, but suddenly i have become the designated driver, and i hate having to watch everyone else falling over p*ssed when im stone cold sober.

Why am i getting headaches :bored: The other night my head was sooo bad after one glass of wine that i took 8 paracetamol, and nothing happened. They didnt help one iota.

Im doomed :mellow:

You will be if you keep taking paracetemol at that rate! They're no good for migraine anyway - get along to the doctor and tell him you think you are developing migraine and ask for one of the newer meds like Naramig. Now that saved my life!

http://www.migrainetrust.org/

I feel old at the moment :mellow:

I suddenly have found that i cant drink anymore !!!! In the last 6 months, if i drink anything ... i get a migraine :( I have been having the odd tipple and suffering, but suddenly i have become the designated driver, and i hate having to watch everyone else falling over p*ssed when im stone cold sober.

Why am i getting headaches :bored: The other night my head was sooo bad after one glass of wine that i took 8 paracetamol, and nothing happened. They didnt help one iota.

Im doomed :mellow:

Blimey Bonnie, be careful with the paracetamol. They can rot your liver if taken in excess, I believe.

I've been a migraine sufferer all my life so have never been able to enjoy a drink. Strangely, though, they seem to have diminished a lot now I'm older but I'm used to being the driver now so it doesn't bother me.

Thanks Fee - i will ask my doctor about them ... and Crit, i had read that paracetamol were dangerous - but i was desperate.

Its blummin annoying as i do enjoy a drinkie on weekends - and i feel like i havent had a drink all Xmas. I have tonnes of booze in, and i cant drink it.

I will book an apointment at the quacks and see what he says.

Sounds like it could even be an allergy, Bons. You poor thing. Of all the things to suddently become allergic too. Definitely get to the doctors as quickly as you can, poppet.

Am I growing older gracefully?

No I'm not!

I want to ... don't get me wrong, but deep deep down I can't.

I give not one jot if I go outside without make up on (although I would NEVER go to work without it). I don't care what is No. 1 in the charts, I don't care if my clothes are out of date (as long as they fit!) and I don't care how old I am ... I've never quite understood those who worry about their age ... worry about something you can do something about instead ... :bag:

We've had a thread about getting older before, but I couldn't find it. I know there were some very funny observations, like "you know you're getting older when you make a noise every time you bend down" (Andrea, I think, but couldn't swear to it).

pmsl!

this has had me rolling about in the aisles for minutes, absolutely minutes!

Andrea are you going to apologise?! :blush:

what's this 'gracefully' business then? :bag:

I also find I am achieving more of my lifetime goals :wink_kiss

Hi Fee

I love reading positive posts. It is fantastic you are achieving more of your lifetime goals.

Sad to read you feel you are becoming less tolerant though, does that mean you are quick tempered sometimes?

As I get older I have found myself holding back my tongue, but this is sometimes misjudged as being patient, tolerant, taking things easy to avoid confrontations. I practised this during the infuriating years of looking after my dad, who I recognised as having given me so much as a child and as a young adult - I suppose you could say I was being thoughtful and kind, dad was in his twilight years.

Maureen
Northern angel

Maureen

I feel old at the moment :mellow:

I suddenly have found that i cant drink anymore !!!! In the last 6 months, if i drink anything ... i get a migraine :( I have been having the odd tipple and suffering, but suddenly i have become the designated driver, and i hate having to watch everyone else falling over p*ssed when im stone cold sober.

Why am i getting headaches :bored: The other night my head was sooo bad after one glass of wine that i took 8 paracetamol, and nothing happened. They didnt help one iota.

Im doomed :mellow:

Hello Bonsai,

Fee is right, paracetamol is no good at all for migraines or headaches. In fact there only any good for getting your temperature down if you have one with a cold or mild flu virus, but even here there are better products that can be bought over the chemist counter. (Paracetamol was given to me when I had severe excema over 80% of my body in April 2000, along with a mood altering drug -to get my temperature down as I couldn't have any of the wraps. 10 days later my temperature had dropped for the treatments I was having, but I was still kept in for the full 4 weeks. Approximately 1 year after my dad had died my skin was clear, soft as a baby's bottom and I have had no further problems with it.)

However, if you have found that your headaches are increasing in density, becoming more frequent and take longer to go away - and as such you do not normally have them at the best of times. A visit to the doctor might not come in wrong.You could be suffering from some form of stress.

You have said that you feel that you can't have a drink anymore, and that you are pretty well ****ed off at this because you are the main driver now.This is obviously due to you having to stay alert in a smokey atmosphere whilst your friends all get happily drunk. Is it possible that you could try leaving the car at home and go out and enjoy your nights with your friends without it. If you could do this the added pressure of driving home the added problem of staying extremely alert and aware should lift itself.

The only other area to think about here, is to consider not mixing any of your drinks unless it is to have a small glass of water in between. A good meal before hand also alleviates the concentration and speed at which alcohol travels through your bloodstream.

I hope these problems alleviate themselves soon for you.

Maureen
Northern angel

We've had a thread about getting older before, but I couldn't find it. I know there were some very funny observations, like "you know you're getting older when you make a noise every time you bend down" (Andrea, I think, but couldn't swear to it).

Andrea are you going to apologise?!
Not guilty m'lud, I'm sure.:unsure:

OOOOh I am so pleased to be amongst so many positive rebels!

Like Fee I am also (surprisingly) finding that the dearest of my lifetime goals are finally being achieved, I think that this, in turn, has given me the confidence to address other things that I have not railed against before for fear of rocking the boat. God its so liberating!
In fact, its like a knock-on effect, the more I rebel and go for what I really want the more confidence I seem to get :)

I just feel like saying..... 'Kong My Whopper!'

and I just have :)

Go! you guys and gals!

M

I feel your pain... well, anyone who's feeling the advancing years pain, that is. I know I'm still young, but time just passes too bloody quickly. I can't remember the small things anymore, I'm sloppy with details, I'll start doing something and then forget what the hell I'm actually meant to be doing 5 minutes later... etc. The physical stuff worries me too, but not as much as the mental disintegration. At the moment, I feel like I'm at the age where I've finally grown into my face and my body, but the painful thing is the knowledge of how quickly it'll all go. Middle-aged women are generally invisible... and I know that's a double-edged thing- there's a positive in finally being able to wander around, wherever you like, in a very anonymous and casual way, but at the same time, this society with all its superficial obsessions and pressures to fight the inevitable rot of time... it's just so damn depressing. Shows like '10 years younger' actually make me physically nauseous. There seems to be an unwritten rule that unless you're a nubile sprite with a youthful, dewy glow, or at least making a damn good effort to appear that way, then as a woman you're somehow devalued, at best, or downright worthless.

And it's far, far different for men. Not the same pressures on them at all, and they actually look better as they age (the *******s!). But, hey, that's just one of the bitter pills of living in a media-saturated society. That media is powered by sex, and that sex fuel is young, attractive women. Older/losing your looks/just plain unattractive? Your currency at the bank of societal worth is seriously bust. Just one of the ugly things about the world we live in, I suppose.

And it's far, far different for men......... and they actually look better as they age

:shock:

Do we??

Cool!!!!:thumbsup:

No Rob.

Now stop getting excited or your prostrate will start playing up :kid:

Fee, you have such a lovely turn of the words......:naughty:

I am officially getting old, and feeling very depressed :(

I just went to brush my hair ready for washing it, and i saw something glint in the mirror. On closer inspection i had a grey hair :huh: Of course it got yanked out, followed by 5 minutes of inspection to see if i could see anymore.

:cry:

I am officially getting old, and feeling very depressed :(

I just went to brush my hair ready for washing it, and i saw something glint in the mirror. On closer inspection i had a grey hair :huh: Of course it got yanked out, followed by 5 minutes of inspection to see if i could see anymore.

:cry:

L'OREAL covered mine today Bons...because I'm worth it! heeeheee...I have genes to thank as my paternal side of the family have a tendancy to grey prematurely...:cry:

L'OREAL covered mine today Bons...because I'm worth it! heeeheee...I have genes to thank as my paternal side of the family have a tendancy to grey prematurely...:cry:

I have my hair highlighted - but i havent been able to get them done for about 5 months now, so i have MASSIVE roots showing. As soon as i saw the grey i knew i had to get that appointment booked :huh:

Grey hairs aren't that bad, are they?

I've found a few recently and I'm only 19!

Is this a really bad thing, should I be worried? :cry:

Grey hair looks very distinguished on a man Mars but not so good on women. So as you are of the male species I don't think you should be worried.

Oh good.

You watch, i'll be a Phillip Schofield lookalikey within the next year!

There are times I think I'll just let the grey take over and it lasts about half an inch then I cave in! I'd save a fortune on trips to the hairdressers, hair-dyes etc!

What we women put ourselves through eh?