What makes you feel old?

[DebbieTheCat]

Alexa just played Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’.

Justin Bieber now has a baby.

Oh my!
Where have the last 15 years gone?! 😳

@LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway
Your rant make me cackle! 😆

DH just said when you're doing your birthdate online and you nearly get RSI from the scrolling to find your birth year 😂

Oh my goodness, that is so true.

Seeing how old your baby photographs look
Finding the year on an online age thing
Seeing people much younger than me in the police or ambulance service etc
Being around adults who were born when I was at the same festivals and bars they now go to
Knowing my reproductive organs would struggle to make babies now, even though I still feel young. I have peers my age who want babies who thought they had all the time in the world

All of the above.

Plus making a cultural reference at work to something which once everyone would have known eg name of a famous person, but now most of the people in the room have blank faces and haven't heard of them.

I'm ok with that, though, because I haven't heard of some of the things THEY mention. 😆

This is why I honestly can't understand how large age gap relationships can work.

It's funny how your grandparents and your great aunts/uncles are the same generation, but "great aunt" always sounds much older to me than "grandma".

Maybe because great aunts in fiction are always ancient

I agree, but I think I subconsciously associate “great-aunt” with “great-grandmother”.

My moustache, beard and flabby skin

Other than that....I feel 16 at heart!!! Lol!!

Woman on the playground is 22. Her mother (the grandma obviously of these children) is 42.
I'm 50.
To me, she literally looks like a child and not someone old enough to have kids in primary. I realise it's me that's the old one! Her kids are in EYFS, mine in Year 6 but still.

Arthritis in my neck that plays up a lot when it's raining or damp

Everyone I have hired in recent years has been the exact same age - 25 - and sometimes I feel so many many chasms between us. It's quite lonely actually, when you are a leader and everyone around you is generations younger.

I'm 47. DS said something about the US twin towers fall being 'ancient history'. That made me stop and think a while!

I recently went to a European city to visit a friend, we stayed in touch but I hadn't visited since 2004, so 20 years ago. When saying goodbye I said 'let's make sure we don't wait another 20 years' and DS pipes up 'you guys will be pushing on for 70 then!!'. My brain can't process that the two time differences are the same.

When my 10 year old granddaughter tells me I am! (I'm 60). When I got my bus pass, senior Railcard, free eye test.
When I see other people on TV or real life that are my age, I think they look so old and then realise I must look like that too.

I listen to friends at work talk and they aren't even 30 yet. I'll be 50 in 3 years' time, when they're just turning 30.

I miss being 30, I wish I knew what I know now then I'd have done things differently.

My face first thing in the morning 🥺😭

The mirror 😱🥺

X post @Ilovepotato 🤣

I always thought I looked in reasonably good condition until I went to Italy and every time I got on a train, people would immediately offer me a seat

Totally agree with
What makes me chuffing angry though is adverts for 'over 55s' where they play fucking Glen Miller and Bill Haley music. People in their 50s and 60s now, grew up with Bowie, Prince, Madonna, The Police, Genesis, Adam and the Ants, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, George Micheal etc etc etc. And in their 20s and 30s (still young) they would have been listening to Spice Girls, Britney Spears, N-Sync, Girls Aloud, Rihanna, Beyonce, Destiny's Child etc etc etc.
@LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway

Most of the above!

plus some health issue & job hunting!!

but lighthearted!

watching 70's sitcoms & the actors that looked OLD when I was a kid, now looking like young married couples! 😂😂

My children's friends getting married and having babies.

Talking to colleagues about world events I remember clearly eg the fall of the Berlin wall, or the release of Nelson Mandela, or the Hillsborough disaster, and being able to describe the events leading up to them and the aftermath, then finding out said colleagues weren't even born.

That and coppers and doctors being young enough to be my children.

Wow. I would never have recognised him. I loved Just Good Friends.

Felt old a few years ago when I realised I was older than the Prime Minister.

Also when DD asked what a phone with the dial on it was.

I was chatting to a workman the other day, beard and tattoos, who mentioned he had a baby, then it turned out we were from the same town originally so we were seeing if we knew anyone in common. Turned out that his Mum was 39, his Dad was 40, and he was 21! I just couldn't compute! I'm 50 so even my six years younger brother would have been years ahead of his parents at school!
Made me feel sooooooo old!

My face. I always looked young for my age till I reached about 43 and I’ve suddenly aged 15 years in the space of three.