The middle aged thread

Reading Glasses!
(and that ferrula, shudders, made my teenage years extremely painful)

the notion of contributing into a pension scheme

How old is middle-aged anyway? I would hate to think that I am middle-aged until I'm 45 at least.

Good luck trying to be 45 again. :)

you know you're middle aged when you have to lift your glasses to read print (but you won't yet admit to yourself that bi/vari-focals are necessary)

Last month... I had bifocal glasses made.

Fuck, it's time to choose a casket as well.

I tell kids to "keep that noise down" when they're listening to dubstep through the tiny speakers connected to their mobiles. Vile.

Dubstep at the best of times should always be kept down

What's Dubstep?

Pensioners' thread>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Some one asked recently on the forum about areas of London that "were (or were not can't remember) metal."

What was that all about?

Stonebridge is made of stone.

The nearest "metal area" is in Stavanger, Rogaland County, Norway.

Levi sta prest (early 70's polished cotton ones)

Admiring a pub's hanging baskets

Making your own cider/wine/tincture/liqueur.
Making cute little bottles of malt vinegar and olive oil.
Writing down your workmate's BBQ marinade recipe.
Giving up smoking, because of the medical for the health insurance, but smoking Partagas Corona cigars on Christmas.
Allowing your GP to put finger up your arse.

Taking your clothes off on the beach without breathing in. There's nothing to loose anymore when all the fit girls are your daughter's age anyway.

Telling your wife: "I will be in the shed if you need me".

Telling your wife: "I will be in the shed if you need me".

Looking at a shed catalogue, drooling

Thinking about a shed with a double window and a CAT5 socket.

Collecting buttons, screws, rubber bands, bolts and nuts just in case.

Tuning up a lawnmower.

Driving past a golf course and making a casual enquiry.

Putting on a hat on a cold day, because it's a sensible thing to do.


Knowing how to tune up your lawn mower, with some of those nuts and bolts and screws, in your shed.

Good 'ol' monkey boots

& those naff C&A parka coats with nylon fur.