The middle aged thread

In other news, anyone had any success with “anti-snore” pillows?

I use Bose Sleepbuds to very good effect

^ a good tip for light sleepers in general

How comfy are they? Especially for people who sleep on their side? My wife puts earplugs in at night (light sleeper plus I snore) but she tends to sleep on her side.

Also is the noise cancelling function dependent on a mobile phone?

Weird thing is I had a pint of Gales HSB (unhip-as but my go to pint from student days) a week ago and it just tasted like glue. I think I’ve passed through the boozeopause.

@owl any recommendations?

Every one of you that can remember Clive Dunn singing Grandad on Top Of The Pops is older now than he was then.

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How old was he?

51 - he was born 1920, and had a hit with it in 1971.

I was two so I must only remember it from later repeats

This was more our era:

https://youtu.be/NuKOfhCEVVk

How comfy are they? Especially for people who sleep on their side? My wife puts earplugs in at night (light sleeper plus I snore) but she tends to sleep on her side.

Also is the noise cancelling function dependent on a mobile phone?

Sorry, missed this.

Super comfy in my big ears. Ivr heard very few complaints from other users.

Thy don't do noise cancelling, only masking and physical blocking. You don't miss NC. They can operate completely independently of a phone although you can't change the masking sound or alarm without a phone.

My Nana bought me it as a Christmas present, I was 13 and embarrassed.

How comfy are they? Especially for people who sleep on their side?

It took me a week or two to find the right size and method of wearing them. IME they can be painful for the first few nights if you get it wrong. As i sleep on my side on a fairly hard pillow i've found that using just one in the ear that is facing the sky is more than sufficient. Im a light sleeper and they've been a game changer for me but yes you do need to at least switch them on with your mobile. If you don't like phones near bedrooms the bluetooth will work from another location.

Sadly mine just stopped working but luckily i had 10 days left on my (standard) 2 year John Lewis warranty. Took a few weeks to get sent off and tested but i now have a brand new pair sat next to me waiting to be opened.

Wearing varifocal glasses when I am pissed.. ffs it’s like being on the ship of a deck during a storm, walking home.. plan ahead

I’ve conceded defeat and enlarged the font on my computer. Emails no longer fit on the screen but it does help my dyslexic eyes from jumping all over the place.

i found out that i had dyslexia in 2031

my client talk about his condition last year, wanted more graphics and less text in reports. It was a really interesting view from an engineer, talking to a bunch of architects..

Dyslexia Week 02 - 08 October 2023

I’ve conceded defeat and enlarged the font on my computer. Emails no longer fit on the screen but it does help my dyslexic eyes from jumping all over the place

I've just given up on using 2 x 27" 4k monitors and have switched to 1 x 43" 4k monitor in the hope that it will be a more useful setup for my middle aged eyes.

Not looking forward to the opticians visit tbh.

Is it a middle-aged thing to say how much I still miss rep on here?
So many posts I would rep and I realise now there are probably quite a few posters on here who haven’t got a clue what I’m on about.

No, that’s just you being a dinosaur

If you had been reminiscing about the loss of tags, that’s a different matter.

Would rep.

I often write out a comment to show my agreement with a point and then delete before posting as it’s not really adding anything to the conversation.

Tags though.. they were the glory days !

#pedant #pizzalover #youvebeenscobled

I'd rep you for that if I could.

Repeats of Crown Court from 1972 are on Talking Pictures.
‘Is it true you used abusive language and told him to piss off’?
‘Yes I did’
(Gasps from the Jury)
‘and do you think this is the kind of language a lady would use?’

‘and do you think this is the kind of language a lady would use?’

‘Fuck yeah’

Ha I thought we were the only people who watch Talking Pictures.

Last year someone gave my husband a Talking Pictures calendar for Christmas.

Just got my first pair of reading glasses...good old ageing.

Got a fancy frame, if I need glasses I may as well not hide the fact.

Clothing and glasses feels to me middle age is not so old that you don't care anymore about appearance at all, but also not so young you can get away with everything as some styles are now super ageing.

This was Spike Milligan's take on the subject in 1973 when he was still only 55:

"I walked along some forgotten shore.
Coming the other way
a smiling boy. . .
It was me.
'Who are you, old man?' he said.
I dare not tell him all I could say was
'Go back!' "

N.B. This is not exactly as the poet laid it out because the system here would not allow it. "a smiling boy. . ." should be indented so that it starts under the 'o' of 'other' in the line above. I'm sure Spike himself would have found some cutting comment on being disciplined by a machine!