OMG, am mortified/horrified and shocked...........

Pubic hair disappears? I never knew this.
Without waxing?

Oh I remember in my late 20s a couple of young boys shouting " hoy misses chuck us our ball " I literally turned round looking for my mum .
Couldn't possibly have been me being shouted at .
Ahh to be that young .
Good value geraniums. Enjoy them

A couple of years ago we were sorting out some paperwork using a solicitor and my sister asked out of curiosity ‘is the solicitor young?’. I replied ‘Not at all, she’s in her 40s, I think.’ ‘You mean like me?’ replied my very stylish and young sister.

What on earth was I thinking?? I am 39 myself. What made me think I’m going to turn into an old lady in a few years?

They really shouldn't call u that.ageism and actually its not old.its not young either.it sounds jokey but how we talk about ourselves defines and limits us

They really shouldn't call u that.ageism

what is age? what is old?? i myself am 57, 58 next month but i feel exactly as i did at 22, no different, music comes on and i want to sing and dance like i did way back when, but to me its yesterday. when will i feel my age, not today thats for sure, tomorrow i doubt, maybe this year or the next or then again perhaps never.

I love the combination of your name and the last line, indicating if he WAS talking shite, there’ll be a violent, ice hockey-style knockabout at the garden centre car park.

Talking to your cat has nothing to do with age!

I had my first cat when I was about seven or eight, I adored him and I talked to him all the time. I have always spoken to any pets I have had, it seems rude not to! I talk to the local cat who does a late night patrol on my street, I see him when I am locking up, always ask him how he is. I am old, but talking to cats did not arrive with a certain birthday, I just like to chat to them, they listen you know...

thanks for clearing up that lyric!
I always sang "fineful friended friend", with great conviction

Are violas a mistake? Display table was crowded with VERY old people when I bought them.

An elderly man recommended violas to me when I was in the garden centre today. He was spending a long time (with his wife) choosing very carefully. As he looked particularly knowledgeable about violas, he reassured me that frost won't kill violas and they are hardy plants so I rejoiced in the wisdom that age brings and my hanging basket is now filled with violas and he better not have been talking shite

Arrr I remember starting university at 18 and being horrified that a really old person ( 21 year old) was on my corridor.
My grandmother in her 80"s would talk about the old lady (90"s) down the road.

Basically anyone a bit older is always old.

I don't consider being in my 60s "advanced age". Given that many people get to their 90s/100s I have a way to go yet.

As for equating being old with wisdom 😂

Yes, you're old. Big deal. So am I and I love it.

Being referred to as "old" is simply a reflection of your advanced age.

It's up to you whether you equate being old with wisdom and confidence, or otherwise.

My sister is ten years older than me - when my friend & I were 11, and she was 21 & newly divorced, we spent a long time telling her she was too old to go out or have a boyfriend.😂

You’re so wrong. And speak for yourself.

I was fifty last birthday. When I started posting on Mumsnet, I was early 30s. I'm... not quite sure what happened, because it all feels really recent, those ttc days. Yet my eldest is 16 any day now, and my baby is 10.

I am well into middle age, and somehow the last 20 years have gone like they were just a couple. Yet my 20s seemed to take forever, and my teens decades.

It's very strange, the way we experience time.

we had a power cut last year, longish one
being 'old & vulnerable' at 60+ made me a priority apparently - if it got the power back on sooner, didn't care :)
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How young are these young neighbours? Do they even identify as young?Perhaps they do not confirm to the ideals of youth and you could join a geranium appreciation society together! Is there a term for people who would prefer not to be defined by their age, like the gender fluid? A movement of people who want to enjoy their merlin app, wear tena lady under the latest fashions, watch emmerdale whilst tik-toking and be in bed by 8. Could be the next big thing!

I was interviewing this week and a young whippersnapper used the phrase "someone of your generation probably won't be familiar with..."
I'm 37 (3/4)

best app on my phone!

I'm 36...maybe 37.

Advantage of being post menopausal is no more shaving/waxing etc legs, underarms or bikini line.

I'm many years post menopausal, and while I can get away with shaving my underarms only now and again, my leg hair is no less than it ever was.

When I was 60, in covid times, I booked a flu vaccination and the surgery asked if I needed a ride (I don't drive). I almost yelled down the phone - No, I can walk, I'm young!!!! It wasn't until after I hung up the phone that I realised that no, I'm not actually young - but neither am I old.

63 is only "old" to young people OP. People in their 70s aren't old in my opinion, I might concede to being old when I get to 80.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, better than most of the stuff that's around these days, will people still be singing current songs in 50 odd years time. I'm 62 and I would describe it as approaching late middle age. Keep talking to cats, they are better conversationalists than most people and if you talk to yourself you are always guaranteed of the right answer.

Advantage of being post menopausal is no more shaving/waxing etc legs, underarms or bikini line.

A 85 year old women who has just joined a group I run, was getting a lift from me. She says “when I first met you I thought you were old and grey, but you’re not very grey at all”…. I’m 60.

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