To think someone born in 1968 is not ‘nearly 60’?? RUDE!!

[EvidentClyburn]

We left school and did our CSEs in 1984 - note no O Levels/A Levels or 6th Form - dear Mumsnetters

We came of age in 1986 - Hand of God - Mexico World Cup etc etc

Harold Wilson was PM when we were born

only CFs would call us ‘nearly’ ‘60’

@TroysMammy 9 years and 9 months exactly until I reach pension age!

i'm nearly 60..... i was born in 1961, i'm 64 this year, which is nearly 60 (just from the other end lol )

I was born in 1966 also left school in 1984 having done both O and A levels and yes definitely nearly 60 , doesn’t bother me .

And B&Q Wednesdays. 😂

The Iceland Discount is valid all day on Tuesday!! 🙂

There certainly were O and A levels at that time. I did my O levels in 1983 and A levels in 1985.

Not far off though. I'm 1962 and I'm 63 now. I still feel like a 20 year old and if I do say look pretty good too.

In schools where the majority took O levels the CSE exams were an insurance policy in case they failed, a top grade in CSE would be considered equal to an O level. This situation continued until the introduction of the GCSE exams in the late 1980s that were designed to combine the two.

Born 1969, as was DH, and we fully accept we are rapidly approaching 60. But misbehaving along the way as we still have teens at home.

By the rues of rounding numbers you are. I’m nearly fifty….about to turn 47 😩

Why would the fact that you came of age in 1986 mean you're not nearly sixty? What's Harold Wilson got to do with anything?

OP apart from being ridiculously fussy about 57/58 being described as nearly 60, you are just plain wrong about no O levels/ A levels/ sixth forms at that time. You may not have done any of those, but lots of your contemporaries did.

I’m a year younger than you and O Levels were the norm - the kids who were less academic (ie in the lower sets) did the CSEs.

I work with a woman in her sixties who has this attitude. Gets very offended at anyone who mentions her age. And I don't mean, mentions it in a nasty way. I mean, someone says "You're in your sixties, aren't you, X? You must remember ___" or says "X is 65" to someone else. No malice intended or ageism at play. Often the people saying it are the same age as her, though you'd never know it by her reaction.

It's very awkward. People feel like they've put their foot in it somehow by acknowledging this basic fact about her. As if the whole world is supposed to be taking part in a grand conspiracy to pretend she's forty five, and it's bad form of us all not to play along.

I, of course, have learned my lesson, and now pretend she's a being with no observable age, whose year of birth I couldn't fathom in my wildest imaginings. But I always feel bad for the people around her, who end up on the receiving end of her insecurity.

I was born in 68. I’m nearly 60.

Just cultural reference points - that’s all

Why didn’t you do O levels or A levels ? I mean it wasn’t compulsory, but most of my friends did.

I did both and I’m the same age, also have a Degree

I am also NOT nearly 60, and possibly never will be. That’s quite old after all.

Though I am too fat, which really pee’s me off.

Yes but no contemporaries I know did

I also would like to suggest that I’m 48… and I darned well will look it, if I could lose weight 🤣
Also annoyed by age comment at work.
Good god, I don’t wear slippers and have grey hair

( well I have roots today, but won’t tomorrow)

Born 66, having to reluctantly give up one activity as I can't keep up with younger parcipants, until this week I had been burying my head in the sand. I still think 90s was only a couple of years ago though. Fortunately I am generally healthy and active and it feels rather unreal that I'm older than my DGM when I lived with her as a small child.
I plan to grow older both reluctantly and not actually grow up..😉

Aging is a privilege.
Every birthday you are healthy and well is a privilege.
Not sweating the small stuff really helps.

At the OP - are you all right dear? Did you get your CSE maths? You are closer to 60 than 50 .......

Absolutely

A bit mean… and I mean that fairly kindly.
And I’m sure she must have.

She should be like the rest of us and go backwards in age

I think the trouble is, if you think of women in their 60’s when we were younger, they had grey permed hair and looked old in sensible shoes.

No one wants to look like this.

Although I don’t have Botox, I could do with it, and lots of my former school mates do, and none of them look nearly 60. More like 40+