To feel too old for MN

[usualsuspect]

Everyone seems so young on here these days.

Maybe it's time I shuffled off to Gransnet.

"Do you remember that pair out of 'it ain't half hot mum' having a song in the hit parade charts"

Oh yes. I used to watch it with my dad, who had been in India during the war. He played clarinet and sax and was in the RAF orchestra. He said a lot of his time in India was like IAHHM, especially the char wallah.

The YingTong song by The Goons anyone?

I imagine there are a multitude of reasons that IAAHM doesn't appear on Gold or anything.

I was more 'Funky Gibbon' Bun.

I'm reassured by this thread

I won't defect to Gransnet just yet.

I have to go and get the bus to work now.

I shall sit tutting at all the young students.

I remember being shocked when the Sex Pistols first hit the news. Now I love punk.

We went to an Everly Brothers reunion concert and were the youngest people there (apart from our DD). They were utterly fab though (even though Don got upset with the photographer who got too close)....

I like the fact that I am never the oldest on here and I am 62yrs! I have tried gransnet but I am not a gran and it is rather slow moving and boring, the people tend to be very sensible! You don't get people obsessed with carpets or who uses their toilets!
I get a bit put out when people ask what present you buy a 60 yr old, and you think 'we'll what are their hobbies, interests etc and why has it changed from when they were younger?'
I ran a half marathon in September and am doing another in March, I take consolation that many on here half my age can't do that and will never do it!
Don't go- there are plenty of us around. Whenever I have claimed to be much older than most someone has said that actually they are older.

Usual...I am currently MNing whilst wearing a fleecy blanket, bed socks and have a hot water bottle.
I am 41 and this is my idea of a good time.
Don't go.
Us old glimmers must stick together,
:)

I love it hear to read the comments from the 20 & 30 year olds about us 'older generation' - always amused when people are moaning about their MIL or DM 'who are really old' - ie: in their 50s.

Or the endless comments about being 'bored' if you are not in paid employment, do some of the youngsters have any idea that it is actually possible to be retired and live an exciting, busy & fulfilled life?

I fancied Kurt Russell in The Quest.

EmilyAlice - 'I am 64 ...and I can still hold my foot and get it past my ear with a straight knee (though it is getting harder with my left leg)...'

Wow! I don't think I've ever been able to do that in my entire life.

I'm 52 and like the sound of Hagsnet. My son is about to be 20. My daughter is 21. How did that happen? It seems like no time since I was wondering if they would ever stop wearing nappies.

I came from netmums another forum because i felt to old for there dont say it is all younguns here too Tbh i have not really noticed and i was chatting to a woman on here who is in her 60s and then spanother who is the same generation as my dd it doesn't really matter I think it is a great mix of people on here don't leave us usual

I love this thread. Am nodding along sagely to lots of it I love MN for its mix of ages, it does make me laugh when posters talk about anyone over about 35 as a completely different species.

london agree mine are 24 and 22, 14,and 13 it's ridiculous.

seems only yesterday I cried at Marc Boylen hitting a tree.

I can't remember marc boylen hitting a tree >>shuffles off to find the youngsters

adjusts thermal vest, slips on the damart slippers and nods sagely in agreement at proposal for MAMN (middle-aged mumsnet).

MrsJay bet you glide not shuffle.

osmands live concert Christmas TV 1974???! my dm allowed me and my sister to watch it in the back room even though we had relatives around and she considered it to be very rude. we wore her down.

relatives stayed in the front room.

does anyone have a back room/ front room anymore?

funny thing though I used to be a district nurse in a almost totally dominated Asian area and every lovely family had a back room/ best room. the patient and I would freeze in the beautiful front room that was not heated but kept immaculate for visitors. just an aside. old people do that.

Is it nearly Xmas ? Must be time for another Usual flounce thread...

Too old ? I find MN to be one of the most refreshingly non-ageist places ever. I am 48 and look/feel better than I did in my 20's. Honestly, it was the 1980's when I was in my 20's and I was a bloody moose, never stood up for myself, had no opinions of my own and didn't particularly enjoy it

Bring on middle age, I say ! (and I certainly don't fancy the alternative...)

< skips off in skinny jeans and woolly bobble hat >

I have a bit of a dogy back today so yes shuffle urm i didn't start school till 1975 but my mum loved the osmonds

MrsJay

I'm the real 'squeezed middle' over here.

Middled aged that is. I'm 44. My son is 4. My mum is 73.

Talk about young children and ageing parents. Only I'm an caging parent as well!

LineRunner Not only do I remember Starsky and Hutch; I went to university (or college as we call it here in the States) with Starsky. He (Paul Michael Glaser) was a few years ahead of me, but I served as wardrobe mistress for a play he was in during his senior year, and so got to help him dress. Good times.

::sees that usual has expressed her intent to stay and leaves again, reassured that all is well in the world::

Gawd, Tee, your 'vital statistics' are scarily similar to mine: DS4 aged 3, mum 72, dad 80, me 47. We live in different countries from each other.
Just reading that makes me want to have gin a lie-down in a darkened room....

So do we. And I also have Dad who is 78 and stepdad who is 80.

::Joins PD in her lie down::