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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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LoafofSellotape · 16/10/2024 00:44

User100000000000000000001 · 13/10/2024 09:31

My niece has just had a baby 😵
Am now a 'Great Auntie' which sounds ridiculously ancient so will obviously be dropping 'Great'.

I am also a great auntie 😱

FabulousPharmacyst · 16/10/2024 01:00

Dontlletmedownbruce · 13/10/2024 22:51

When your PM is younger than you.. very tricky in Ireland right now as Simon Harris is in his 30s.

Yep. The last one had the same birthday as me and the latest one is an infant several years younger.

Areolaborealis · 16/10/2024 01:16

Thinking about my school days and realising that I'm now older than the parents and teachers in the memory.

Having to seek advice from someone (lawyer, doctor, plumber) who hadn't even been born when I entered adulthood.

Areolaborealis · 16/10/2024 01:22

And also young people not understanding how old photography worked and believing images couldn't be manipulated pre photoshop.

Overtheatlantic · 16/10/2024 01:42

Asking for HRT.

sashh · 16/10/2024 05:04

DebbieTheCat · 13/10/2024 17:40

@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 😂

You can usually just type it in.

@FelixtheAardvark I'm about to turn 58, England have not won a world cup in my lifetime.

I have a mobility scooter. I call it 'Ned' and love it but it still makes me feel old.

OccultGnuNew · 16/10/2024 06:20

Two things have happened in the last couple of months to convince me I may be older than I think I am.

There was a big trip abroad for someone with a significant birthday and many friends and relatives were part of the group. I remember talking to the birthday boy's aunt who'd travelled to celebrate with him.

I was thinking to myself that she'd done really well at her age to travel all that way. Then realised she was actually only four years older than me.

I've also recently had a shower seat fitted in the bathroom. It's a very nice shower seat and in no way resembles the depressing plastic ones advertised in the newspaper ads. But still . . . it's a shower seat

TheFutureIs · 16/10/2024 07:19

When the kids at school arrive on non uniform days wearing what I wore as a teen.

Roundthemoon · 16/10/2024 15:16

When your doctor looks like a teenager

TigerRag · 16/10/2024 17:30

Roundthemoon · 16/10/2024 15:16

When your doctor looks like a teenager

We had a bus driver who looked far too young. Someone asked how old he was. He was 19.

JohnTheRevelator · 16/10/2024 17:59

My DGD has just turned 18. An adult! This HAS made me feel old

JohnTheRevelator · 16/10/2024 18:00

TigerRag · 16/10/2024 17:30

We had a bus driver who looked far too young. Someone asked how old he was. He was 19.

OMG a 19 year old bus driver?! Where I live,you have to be a minimum of 21 to drive a bus.

Roundthemoon · 16/10/2024 18:01

Seeing people I went to school with having teenage children.

Seeing my cousin having a teenage daughter. Wait wasn't my cousin 12, like just yesterday

JohnTheRevelator · 16/10/2024 18:07

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 13/10/2024 14:41

When teenagers hold doors open for me, and show me respect! BlushGrin

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.

These ad makers need to fuck off with that 1950s bollux. Many of the people they are advertising their product at weren't even born then FFS! Hmm

Also sick to fucking death of getting ads - online - for facelifts, teeth whitening, body sculpting, and botox. Shockingly, even though I am a 'relic' in my late 50s, I am happy with the way I look. This shit started as soon as I hit 50. (Mostly on Facebook!) Fucking 50!

See also: ads for walking frames, walking sticks, baths with doors, level access showers, funeral plans. direct cremations, and wills. The ads for all this started when I hit 50.

I am actually proper annoyed about it! 😆

I can imagine people in retirement homes listening to bit of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath nowadays. 😂😂😂

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