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You get excited when your bins get emptied 🤣 your turn

Smug it up

I like that shall be using that from now on <shuffles off to think up conversation scenarios where I can use smug it up and hope one remembers>

Turning the sound up all the time because you can't hear what anyone is saying especially with some of the TV dramas then when a bloody advert comes on it's so loud it frightens the cat and you have to turn it back down quickly.

Oh my god, why are dramas like that? There was an awful version of Emma, where I couldn't hear the dialogue, but the music was loud and intrusive.

You start to look like your mother and you catch yourself saying some of the things to your kids that your mother used to say to you!

Are these released yet?????

No, 12 weeks before for those that pay monthly subscription for delivery.

I know all about Pedants' Corner but that wasn't part of answering the OP's question. Never mind. Do continue making cock ups. They're the things that are tedious. It just takes a moment to learn to use the correct your/you're.

Turning the radio down in the car when doing a tricky bit of parking / difficult junction etc

It just takes a moment to learn to use the correct your/you're

Actually, if someone is not blessed with perfect facility in language, whatever the reason - be it poor education, dyslexia, less natural ability - then, no, it does not take 'just a moment' to become faultless.

However, it literally takes no time whatsoever not to be a dick to ignore someone's small error when they have communicated perfectly well what mean.

Excellent use of subjunctive. Penultimate word missing - but we knew what you meant.

We now use subtitles and a lower volume - neither of us are hard of hearing, but fuck me the power blasting of adverts or the increase of volume for action scenes drives me potty. It also has the effect of not bothering the dog when every fucking advert has a doorbell or dog barking in it.

Sneaking out of parties to go home.

I drove to Tesco to get my favourite pair of washing up gloves 😪😂

BBC is the absolute worst for straining to hear dialogue in drama, the Marriage one on at the moment is really annoying, that horrible music/talking thing they suddenly burst out with nearly made me jump out of the chair, it was so flipping loud!

I do use subtitles sometimes but I think I'll have to use them more often now. 🙁

You now dress for comfort rather than fashion

I must have been old since I was born!

Subtitles are the best thing ever.
I can't follow any drama now without them on

Getting excited about Amazon orders of household goods 😑

Having a favourite brand of bin bag.

When Olivia Newton John died I was thinking about when I went to see Grease in the cinema aged about 9/10. The 1950’s seemed so long ago, it was a different world. But if we say it was set in 1956 and I watched it in 1978..that’s 22 years. So that’s the equivalent of my son watching a film now..set in 2000. How can the year 2000 be his 1950’s!!! I feel very old.

I was 12 when Grease came out
It did feel as though it was set a very long time ago in the dim and distant past! It wasn't that long really

Aposterhasnoname I did that yesterday (but I AM old at 63)

Several times at work I have had to explain to new (young) colleagues how to use a normal/traditional telephone.

I also had to explain to my 18 year old daughter how to write an address on an envelope. She had literally never done that before.

Buying envelopes and stamps etc is a bit alien to people under 25 isn't it?
It's all ' I'll text them or send the card via moon pig ' or an e card etc
To think I sent postcards to people when I went on holiday , nobody does this now I bet!

To be told when you go for an eye exam that you are losing sight because of your age...
When you go to the dentist and are told that gums recced with age anyway...
Surely I'm not that old! sobs (49 this year.)