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What makes you feel old?

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DebbieTheCat · 13/10/2024 09:28

Alexa just played Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’.

Justin Bieber now has a baby.

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

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Mademetoxic · 13/10/2024 23:07

The now current high school kids were born after I sat my GCSEs and left school...

mychilddeservesaneducation · 13/10/2024 23:24

I recently started a new job. As part of the recruitment process, we had to attend a selection day and bring along our GCSE English and Maths certificates as it was necessary to have C grades or above to be considered for any job in the company. My GCSE certificates were issued before most of the other attendees were even born Blush.

Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:25

Sore back.
Can't lose weight as easily.

Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:27

mychilddeservesaneducation · 13/10/2024 23:24

I recently started a new job. As part of the recruitment process, we had to attend a selection day and bring along our GCSE English and Maths certificates as it was necessary to have C grades or above to be considered for any job in the company. My GCSE certificates were issued before most of the other attendees were even born Blush.

I can never understand why jobs in England look for GCSE certificates. You do them when you are a young teenager.

I've lived in Ireland.

Jobs there will only ever ask to look at your degree certificate, if anything.

They never ask about school results.

I was shocked when I moved to England , and jobs wanted to know about my school results.

LadyWiddiothethird · 13/10/2024 23:29

Being a Great Grandmother and realising my cheeky eldest child is a Grandfather!

Rubia3 · 13/10/2024 23:42

Involuntarily groaning when I stand up from a sitting position! I have to stop this (I’m 62 and reasonably fit: climbed 3 mountains this year and walk around 6 km most days).

cariadlet · 14/10/2024 00:27

I felt old when a new teacher started at my school and I realised that I had taught her when she was in Reception.

Roundthemoon · 14/10/2024 00:29

Seeing someone I used to babysit now playing for a football league team

ChristmasInTheDistance · 14/10/2024 00:34

The “little boy” I used to look after turns 51 next week…😱😱😱

MidnightMeltdown · 14/10/2024 01:27

When someone in their early 20s told me that I remind them of their mum. I'm only late 30s!

SunriseMonsters · 14/10/2024 01:31

I must have got on the wrong mailing list somehow because I'm in my late 30s and I keep getting junk mail (but addressed to me personally) suggesting various care homes to which I could move. I am the only adult in the household.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 14/10/2024 08:20

Devilsmommy · 13/10/2024 14:49

I never would have guessed🤭

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Devilsmommy · 14/10/2024 08:26

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 14/10/2024 08:20

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Genuinely loved your rant because it's so bloody right 😅

Crushed23 · 14/10/2024 09:22

MidnightMeltdown · 14/10/2024 01:27

When someone in their early 20s told me that I remind them of their mum. I'm only late 30s!

I got called a 'MILF' by someone in their early 20s. I'm 35... 😐

To that age group, people in their mid to late 30s are ancient. 😢

Roundthemoon · 14/10/2024 09:25

Crushed23 · 14/10/2024 09:22

I got called a 'MILF' by someone in their early 20s. I'm 35... 😐

To that age group, people in their mid to late 30s are ancient. 😢

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I can never understand why young people think that they won't get old themselves.

They seem to think that people stay eternally young.

I go to a group with people between 20- 40.

I'm 35. The 20 somethings are obsessed with age and always ask how old everyone is. When I said I was 35, one of the them physically recoiled away. I did say to him "30s is young!"

I'm not being told I was only by people.

I remember turning 30, and a man told me i was old then.

No I'm now I feel.

Crushed23 · 14/10/2024 09:35

@Roundthemoon To be fair, I was exactly the same in my 20s! I was obsessed with age and thought my 2 year age gap with my then boyfriend was huge and was worried about people judging me for having a 'toy boy'! Looking back, it was a completely batshit way to think, and as I've got older age is less and less of an issue. (I actually had a fling with a 21 year-old a few months ago when I was 34.)

Roundthemoon · 14/10/2024 10:06

Yeah young people have a strange view of age.

I remember when I was 18 thinking that anyone over 20 was old and anyone over 30 was absolutely ancient

I suppose because they have less experience of the world.

They can be very rude and offensive to older people though.

For example if I go to a group, the younger people always ask how old everyone is, and then they shun the older people like we are garbage

Compash · 14/10/2024 10:15

Roundthemoon · 14/10/2024 10:06

Yeah young people have a strange view of age.

I remember when I was 18 thinking that anyone over 20 was old and anyone over 30 was absolutely ancient

I suppose because they have less experience of the world.

They can be very rude and offensive to older people though.

For example if I go to a group, the younger people always ask how old everyone is, and then they shun the older people like we are garbage

I remember being aghast, when I was in my 20s, at how middle-aged women 'let themselves go'... I had no appreciation of what the ageing process actually was, I thought it was something you could avoid with the 'right attitude and a bit of effort'... ha ha ha, what an ignorant embryo I was! 🙈

Mind you, when I encounter snitty youngies like that, @Roundthemoon , I can usually put a rocket up them...

What they don't realise is that we have been the age we are now, so we have that intel on them, and thus greater cunning and power.

Compash · 14/10/2024 10:20

Anyway, people were talking about Paul Nicholas earlier, and for me it's watching something like The Real Marigold Hotel and realising I'm not far off the age of the 'geriatrics' they're sending on these trips...

Also reading about contemporaries falling to the frailties and conditions of old age... 😢

Compash · 14/10/2024 10:30

Sorry, 'we have been the age THEY are now'...

(age-related mind fart!) 😄

JudyJulie · 14/10/2024 10:33

Kurt Cobain and Tony Hawk are now grandfathers - to the same child!

Craftyroom · 14/10/2024 10:40

These days, Mumsnet.

I joined at the beginning, when I was in my forties. It all felt very relevant to my life then, and it was wonderful.

Nowadays, not so much when so many posters say they feel old in their 30's and 40's - that makes me feel old. Well, I suppose I am old but I only really started to feel old since I was widowed after caring for my beloved DH for several years through an awful terminal illness.

I have lost nearly two stone so I suddenly look old as well.

Make the most of being young while you're in your 30s, 40s and 50s - you are still fabulous. The years pass so quickly yet I still feel the same as I approach 70, yet the mirror (and society) declares otherwise.

Crushed23 · 14/10/2024 10:50

I remember being aghast, when I was in my 20s, at how middle-aged women 'let themselves go'... I had no appreciation of what the ageing process actually was, I thought it was something you could avoid with the 'right attitude and a bit of effort'... ha ha ha, what an ignorant embryo I was! 🙈

This will only get worse because there are far more middle aged women on TV these days (I struggle to think of a presenter on the BBC who is under 40). And as these women are in the public eye they naturally haven't let themselves go and have the body of a 25 year-old etc. So all the youngsters will be thinking 'it's obviously possible to stay thin and look young when you're 50, so why has she gone and let herself go?!'

Bristolnewcomer · 14/10/2024 11:01

Yes it's interesting, I remember having a job where I was one of the oldest aged 20 - a colleague was about 25 and the general view was that he was completely past it and frankly a bit weird for doing the job. Then when I was about 24 a friend at another job turned 30 and I remember thinking "Poor Gemma, it's all over for her now".

Hence I now do my best never to mention my age to any colleagues in their teens or early twenties! I do think once you get past about 25 you realise that actually most adults are kind of similar and not "elderly".

NorthernSoul55 · 14/10/2024 11:18

The other day, we were talking about not having a TV and I said we had gone out and bought one on the day of Live Aid.
'What's Live Aid?'...
Surely it was only a few years ago??