I’m trying to put together a guide to aging.

Can you put these events in age order?

Feel old going into a nightclub
Someone calls you “sir” or “ma’am”
Dislocate jaw yawning in bed
First serious back pain
A teenager stands to let you sit
First time policemen look young
-
Mid-life crisis
Worst birthday ever
Feel dizzy jumping down half a metre
First arthritis
Young people fail to recognise the name of your first programming language
You have been known to say “my first computer …”
Reading glasses
Shingles
You realise that you are older than some antiques on “antiques roadshow”
First sciatica
Finally able to blame mental mistakes on age
You realise that you’ll probably never run again
You first realise that history has passed during your lifespan
Fear of never having sex again
Start giving away music/book/video collection
Need to ask your daughter to explain sex to you
-
You have a cyst
Hearing aid
First operation for something other than accident, tonsils or appendix
Knee or hip replacement
Dentures
First pneumonia
First stroke

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

Arts said:

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

Aren’t you the one always telling your kids not to link things? You were hip to it all along…

furious said:

Arts said:

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

Aren’t you the one always telling your kids not to lick things? You were hip to it all along…

Fixed…

furious said:

furious said:

Arts said:

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

Aren’t you the one always telling your kids not to lick things? You were hip to it all along…

Fixed…

There’s a TV show called Connections which does nothing but linking.

Arts said:

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

ROFL, I grabbed that and was about to past it into the Guide to Aging thread to be really smart and clever and everything before realising it wasn’t in chat.

furious said:

furious said:

Arts said:

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

Aren’t you the one always telling your kids not to lick things? You were hip to it all along…

Fixed…

I’m really a 14 yr old boy

plenty cheer to be got from that list, a few I recognize

got my first minor sciatica probably hints of it last year, notice it more recently (lady’s had it for many years)

my balance decline started way back, reluctance to climb things, extra caution, though probably way way back it was having children (the lady gave birth, I helped raise them, to clarify), losing the sense of invincibility, you start looking out for young kids all the time, that goes on for decades, perhaps forever, long as your own heart beats perhaps

subject back, spine, vertebrae, mine’s mostly worn out from doing a lot, of course there would have been injuries along the way, lots of minor ones right back to early childhood, but it’s mostly worn out. It talks to me a lot my back does, says take it easy

of sex, fear of last sex, that is fairly much what drives it universally, from when the drive starts, related breeding opportunities, ancestors didn’t escape that, why you and I are here, sex drives do what they do because you die eventually, and you don’t know when that might be, securing offspring is nearest immortality you might get (ignoring culture for a moment, your good work being remembered say). There was a time you could enjoy some eternal life in heaven, but interest in that has faded I see

gravity is the biggest indicator of getting old, from personal experience, gravitational anomalies that visit me in the mornings particularly as I get out of bed, but get up from anything really, some mornings gravity is twice what it normally is, that’s the maximum i’ve ever experienced

it’s only been the last five years maybe that I noticed gravity varies, that it’s not so constant

oh tummy fat, keeping that off, that’s a job, and of course I like eating, can’t and don’t push myself as hard physically so don’t burn off the energy, it tends to get stored there very easily

Arts said:

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

Adults are never going to be cool regardless how well they speak the lingo so I am not really concerned in this case.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

Adults are never going to be cool regardless how well they speak the lingo so I am not really concerned in this case.

New language for every group of teenagers anyway.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

Adults are never going to be cool regardless how well they speak the lingo so I am not really concerned in this case.

lame

actually our students are plenty prepared to identify cool adult role models of theirs

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

Adults are never going to be cool regardless how well they speak the lingo so I am not really concerned in this case.

it’s not about being cool, you don’t have to be cool to do some basic research into a trend… it’s about have authenticity.. if adults don’t make an effort to understand, it reinforces the stereotype that they will NEVER understand teenagers… this closes communication barriers completely.

Arts said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

schools getting Tik Tok ‘trends’ wrong… being made a laughing stock

just got an email form the kids high schools saying they are aware of the “licking” phenomenon. It’s not the ‘licking’ phenomenon, it’s catching a lick, or simply a lick… and it’s stealing without getting caught.

FFS. how are these people supposed to relate to the students if they don’t even get the terminology right?

Adults are never going to be cool regardless how well they speak the lingo so I am not really concerned in this case.

it’s not about being cool, you don’t have to be cool to do some basic research into a trend… it’s about have authenticity.. if adults don’t make an effort to understand, it reinforces the stereotype that they will NEVER understand teenagers… this closes communication barriers completely.

What ! Is saying “cool” still “cool”? That’s Hippie summer of love 1967 vintage.

Who wants to understand teenagers? So long as I understand life, the universe and everything then that’s enough for me. (Just day before yesterday I disinterred my copy of the book that explains everything).

mollwollfumble said:

Arts said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Adults are never going to be cool regardless how well they speak the lingo so I am not really concerned in this case.

it’s not about being cool, you don’t have to be cool to do some basic research into a trend… it’s about have authenticity.. if adults don’t make an effort to understand, it reinforces the stereotype that they will NEVER understand teenagers… this closes communication barriers completely.

What ! Is saying “cool” still “cool”? That’s Hippie summer of love 1967 vintage.

Who wants to understand teenagers? So long as I understand life, the universe and everything then that’s enough for me. (Just day before yesterday I disinterred my copy of the book that explains everything).

They said kewl when they were nerds.

mollwollfumble said:

Arts said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Adults are never going to be cool regardless how well they speak the lingo so I am not really concerned in this case.

it’s not about being cool, you don’t have to be cool to do some basic research into a trend… it’s about have authenticity.. if adults don’t make an effort to understand, it reinforces the stereotype that they will NEVER understand teenagers… this closes communication barriers completely.

What ! Is saying “cool” still “cool”? That’s Hippie summer of love 1967 vintage.

Who wants to understand teenagers? So long as I understand life, the universe and everything then that’s enough for me. (Just day before yesterday I disinterred my copy of the book that explains everything).

how can you understand “everything” if you don’t understand teenagers?

Tik Tik is pretty much a digital pay attention to me for existing, same old crap just technized

Cymek said:

Tik Tik is pretty much a digital pay attention to me for existing, same old crap just technized

It’s Tic Tac :)

It’s Tok Sik

dv said:

It’s Tok Sik

ChrispenEvan said:

mollwollfumble said:

Arts said:

it’s not about being cool, you don’t have to be cool to do some basic research into a trend… it’s about have authenticity.. if adults don’t make an effort to understand, it reinforces the stereotype that they will NEVER understand teenagers… this closes communication barriers completely.

What ! Is saying “cool” still “cool”? That’s Hippie summer of love 1967 vintage.

Who wants to understand teenagers? So long as I understand life, the universe and everything then that’s enough for me. (Just day before yesterday I disinterred my copy of the book that explains everything).

how can you understand “everything” if you don’t understand teenagers?

Teenagers are a form of life, so if you understand life, you understand them.

Speedy said:

dv said:

It’s Tok Sik

Is that Kirk’s dik-dik?

Speedy said:

dv said:

It’s Tok Sik

dik dik

Speedy said:

Cymek said:

Tik Tik is pretty much a digital pay attention to me for existing, same old crap just technized

It’s Tic Tac :)

It didn’t help I spelt it wrong

Bubblecar said:

Speedy said:

dv said:

It’s Tok Sik

Is that Kirk’s dik-dik?

mollwollfumble said:

I’m trying to put together a guide to aging.

Can you put these events in age order?

Feel old going into a nightclub
Someone calls you “sir” or “ma’am”
Dislocate jaw yawning in bed
First serious back pain
A teenager stands to let you sit
First time policemen look young
-
Mid-life crisis
Worst birthday ever
Feel dizzy jumping down half a metre
First arthritis
Young people fail to recognise the name of your first programming language
You have been known to say “my first computer …”
Reading glasses
Shingles
You realise that you are older than some antiques on “antiques roadshow”
First sciatica
Finally able to blame mental mistakes on age
You realise that you’ll probably never run again
You first realise that history has passed during your lifespan
Fear of never having sex again
Start giving away music/book/video collection
Need to ask your daughter to explain sex to you
-
You have a cyst
Hearing aid
First operation for something other than accident, tonsils or appendix
Knee or hip replacement
Dentures
First pneumonia
First stroke

OK, I had first had pneumonia as a complication of measles, when I was 8. So as Mr buffy tells me…you have always been old. (And Mr buffy tells me he had pneumonia at 18 months). So perhaps that one doesn’t belong anywhere on your list really.

dv said:

Bubblecar said:

Speedy said:

Is that Kirk’s dik-dik?

Clearly their starship Captains aren’t chosen for their knowledge of spaaace.

buffy said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m trying to put together a guide to aging.

Can you put these events in age order?

Feel old going into a nightclub
Someone calls you “sir” or “ma’am”
Dislocate jaw yawning in bed
First serious back pain
A teenager stands to let you sit
First time policemen look young
-
Mid-life crisis
Worst birthday ever
Feel dizzy jumping down half a metre
First arthritis
Young people fail to recognise the name of your first programming language
You have been known to say “my first computer …”
Reading glasses
Shingles
You realise that you are older than some antiques on “antiques roadshow”
First sciatica
Finally able to blame mental mistakes on age
You realise that you’ll probably never run again
You first realise that history has passed during your lifespan
Fear of never having sex again
Start giving away music/book/video collection
Need to ask your daughter to explain sex to you
-
You have a cyst
Hearing aid
First operation for something other than accident, tonsils or appendix
Knee or hip replacement
Dentures
First pneumonia
First stroke

OK, I had first had pneumonia as a complication of measles, when I was 8. So as Mr buffy tells me…you have always been old. (And Mr buffy tells me he had pneumonia at 18 months). So perhaps that one doesn’t belong anywhere on your list really.

This is why infants get a pneumonia vaccination these days…

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

Bubblecar said:

Is that Kirk’s dik-dik?

Clearly their starship Captains aren’t chosen for their knowledge of spaaace.

Bubblecar
I’m
Kirk
I have
sexy time
with alien
ladies

poikilotherm said:

buffy said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m trying to put together a guide to aging.

Can you put these events in age order?

Feel old going into a nightclub
Someone calls you “sir” or “ma’am”
Dislocate jaw yawning in bed
First serious back pain
A teenager stands to let you sit
First time policemen look young
-
Mid-life crisis
Worst birthday ever
Feel dizzy jumping down half a metre
First arthritis
Young people fail to recognise the name of your first programming language
You have been known to say “my first computer …”
Reading glasses
Shingles
You realise that you are older than some antiques on “antiques roadshow”
First sciatica
Finally able to blame mental mistakes on age
You realise that you’ll probably never run again
You first realise that history has passed during your lifespan
Fear of never having sex again
Start giving away music/book/video collection
Need to ask your daughter to explain sex to you
-
You have a cyst
Hearing aid
First operation for something other than accident, tonsils or appendix
Knee or hip replacement
Dentures
First pneumonia
First stroke

OK, I had first had pneumonia as a complication of measles, when I was 8. So as Mr buffy tells me…you have always been old. (And Mr buffy tells me he had pneumonia at 18 months). So perhaps that one doesn’t belong anywhere on your list really.

This is why infants get a pneumonia vaccination these days…

Can they still get into night clubs without one?

buffy said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m trying to put together a guide to aging.

Can you put these events in age order?

Feel old going into a nightclub
Someone calls you “sir” or “ma’am”
Dislocate jaw yawning in bed
First serious back pain
A teenager stands to let you sit
First time policemen look young
-
Mid-life crisis
Worst birthday ever
Feel dizzy jumping down half a metre
First arthritis
Young people fail to recognise the name of your first programming language
You have been known to say “my first computer …”
Reading glasses
Shingles
You realise that you are older than some antiques on “antiques roadshow”
First sciatica
Finally able to blame mental mistakes on age
You realise that you’ll probably never run again
You first realise that history has passed during your lifespan
Fear of never having sex again
Start giving away music/book/video collection
Need to ask your daughter to explain sex to you
-
You have a cyst
Hearing aid
First operation for something other than accident, tonsils or appendix
Knee or hip replacement
Dentures
First pneumonia
First stroke

OK, I had first had pneumonia as a complication of measles, when I was 8. So as Mr buffy tells me…you have always been old. (And Mr buffy tells me he had pneumonia at 18 months). So perhaps that one doesn’t belong anywhere on your list really.

Yes. There are a number of others as well.

>Feel old going into a nightclub

I’d say I’m long past that stage and well into the “Can’t think of any reason to enter a nightclub” era.

Bubblecar said:

>Feel old going into a nightclub

I’d say I’m long past that stage and well into the “Can’t think of any reason to enter a nightclub” era.

It has been almost fifty years since I even entered one.

poikilotherm said:

buffy said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m trying to put together a guide to aging.

Can you put these events in age order?

Feel old going into a nightclub
Someone calls you “sir” or “ma’am”
Dislocate jaw yawning in bed
First serious back pain
A teenager stands to let you sit
First time policemen look young
-
Mid-life crisis
Worst birthday ever
Feel dizzy jumping down half a metre
First arthritis
Young people fail to recognise the name of your first programming language
You have been known to say “my first computer …”
Reading glasses
Shingles
You realise that you are older than some antiques on “antiques roadshow”
First sciatica
Finally able to blame mental mistakes on age
You realise that you’ll probably never run again
You first realise that history has passed during your lifespan
Fear of never having sex again
Start giving away music/book/video collection
Need to ask your daughter to explain sex to you
-
You have a cyst
Hearing aid
First operation for something other than accident, tonsils or appendix
Knee or hip replacement
Dentures
First pneumonia
First stroke

OK, I had first had pneumonia as a complication of measles, when I was 8. So as Mr buffy tells me…you have always been old. (And Mr buffy tells me he had pneumonia at 18 months). So perhaps that one doesn’t belong anywhere on your list really.

This is why infants get a pneumonia vaccination these days…

Yeah, but we are old. We actually had the childhood viral diseases, sink or swim.

:)

I remember the first time someone called me sir, I asked a colleague, “do I look old?”
“Not so much that, it is that you must be a good customer”.

What’s white but can come in any colour?

Captain Kirk.

While talking aging, heard this conversation tonight.

TV: “I lost my air pods in the locker room”
Mrs m: “That are they? A type of shoe?”

.
Hello In There

by John Prine r.i.p. covid19 7/4/2020

Ogmog said:

.
Hello In There

by John Prine r.i.p. covid19 7/4/2020

:( Yes.

I do like Bette Midler’s version of this too.

Ogmog said:

.
Hello In There

by John Prine r.i.p. covid19 7/4/2020

watched that, cheers

sarahs mum said:

Ogmog said:

.
Hello In There

by John Prine r.i.p. covid19 7/4/2020

:( Yes.

I do like Bette Midler’s version of this too.

Thank You :)
I’d never heard Bette’s version

Ogmog said:

sarahs mum said:

Ogmog said:

.
Hello In There

by John Prine r.i.p. covid19 7/4/2020

:( Yes.

I do like Bette Midler’s version of this too.

Thank You :)
I’d never heard Bette’s version

Honestly, I don’t much rate either version…

It’s lonely over here.

furious said:

Ogmog said:

sarahs mum said:

:( Yes.

I do like Bette Midler’s version of this too.

Thank You :)
I’d never heard Bette’s version

Honestly, I don’t much rate either version…

I must admit to not have heard either version. Neither do much for me I’ll admit.

mollwollfumble said:

I’m trying to put together a guide to aging.

Can you put these events in age order?

Feel old going into a nightclub
Someone calls you “sir” or “ma’am”
<snip>
</snip>

the 1st time they didn’t “card me” (ask for proof of age) in a bottle shop :) /:

and when a youngster offers up their seat… I just shut up and sit down.

• the 1st time they didn’t “card me” (ask for proof of age) in a bottle shop

Go to the NT, they card everyone, all the time…

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When I Get To Heaven (: o

JP

John always was a character. ( ;

sibeen said:

furious said:

Ogmog said:

Thank You :)
I’d never heard Bette’s version

Honestly, I don’t much rate either version…

I must admit to not have heard either version. Neither do much for me I’ll admit.

Laff It Up, kid

sarahs mum said:

It’s lonely over here.

It is lonely everywhere.