I have just noticed tonight that my hands are starting to look old.

The wrinkles are tending to stay longer and, strangely they just look as if the skin on them is a bit loose.

I'm sat here thinking 'oooh, they look a bit like my mum's hands used to'.

What are the classic signs of getting older? Am I to worry??

First thing that hit me about getting old was not really being all that bothered about having to stay in , for some reason , on a Saturday night .I was about 37 at the time.
As a teenager or a ," young " man , staying in on Saturday night was a sort of social death . In fact , even at age 63 . I 'd still rather go out on Saturdays than any other night . I still feel a bit uneasy if I don't pop out for a drink on THAT night of the week . I keep hoping it's a sign of getting young again ! Some hopes !

It depends how you cope with it. Curling up on the sofa with my girlfriend and the cats watching a movie on a Saturday night aint a bad thing.

And your hands get wrinklier as you get wiser. Try having an indepth conversation with an average seventeen year old - it'll bring you up short when you realise just how raw they are. I began to lose my incredibly striking good looks ahem a few years ago now, but I'd never do a "Big" Tom Hanks swap. Unless I could date an older woman - which would get her arrested.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Fareast
In fact , even at age 63 QUOTE]

Never ! Ever! I'm only 2 + a bit.................

Originally posted by Deavon
What are the classic signs of getting older? Am I to worry??

Every year when i go on holiday i seem to burn a little patch of skin just below the hairline at the sides of my forehead.... it's almost as if that patch of skin has never seen sun before; as if there was something covering it last year...?

-PK-

Gimmesomepk - that is the sign of a receding hairline - not old age. Some blokes are bald by the time they are 20.

What was the question again?

You know you are getting old when ..... zzzzzzzz

Sorry - what? A question - what? Someone ... zzzzzzzzz

Sex - whats that then? When I was a lad ... zzzzzzzz


Hope that er .... whatever .... why was I typing ...

Dragon

1. When you no longer get up to go to the loo during the night. (you do it in bed instead)
2. looking for your purse/wallet, and find it in the fridge.
3. Buying a drink and by the time you get to your table there's
nothing left in the glass.(shaky hand syndrome)
4. When you start preaching to the younger generation,
" when I were a lad/ lass"
If you recognise some or all of these symptoms, then its time
to apply for your O.A.P bus pass and pension.
Must dash now (want to be first in the queue).
:hihi:

Are your hands wrinkly because you do loads of washing up/washing down and washing every other which way you can? I do that and my hands suffer enormously sometimes as I don't wear rubber gloves.

Lots of moisturiser - coat your hands with it and let your skin absorb it slowly while you watch tv or listen to music etc.

Also more lines = more life experiences - go and get your palm read while it's still legible!!!

Signs of getting old

Sounding like my Mum
Looking like my Mum
Wearing skirts that no longer show my undies when I bend down
Finding greying men attractive
Calling my kids every name but theirs
Having to Pluck out Grey Hairs (on my head only at the moment)
Not wanting to be on Top cos everything falls forward!!:gag: so you look like you're melting! :(

I realised about three years ago that I groan whenever I stand up or sit down; and I was 28 and in good health when I started doing this! :o

I'm quite sure it won't be long before I begin to dress exclusively in beige and grey, take up pipe smoking and upgrade my opinion on Dr Scholl shoes from 'nerdy' to 'comfy'. :D

K x

when i read the "25 years ago" bit in the green'un i am now reading about games i was at:|

Originally posted by dawny1
Signs of getting old:

Finding greying men attractive

That's nothing to do with getting old Dawny, I've been doing that for years! ;)

sounding like my dad
watching 'nostalgia music shows' and realising that's all my favourite music....

having to explain to the lasses bringing our food in between shows at last night's gig, just who BONO is.......

:o


:clap:

The sign of getting old is when you go into a pub and see the nostalgic photos on the wall of old time football teams and remember seeing at least three of the players in action.

Originally posted by Kristian
I realised about three years ago that I groan whenever I stand up or sit down; and I was 28 and in good health when I started doing this! :o

I'm 28 and I have realised that I do this as well.

Not always a groan but sometimes a sigh, but there's always something audible!

SIGNS OF GROWING OLDER

Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work.

The gleam in your eyes is from sun hitting your bifocals.

You feel like the night before, and you haven't been anywhere.

Your little black book contains only names ending in M.D.

Your children began to look middle aged.

You finally reach the top of the ladder, and find its leaning against the wrong wall.

Your mind makes contracts your body can't meet.

You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.

You look forward to a dull evening.

Your favorite part of the newspaper is "25 Years Ago Today."

You turn out the light for economic rather than romantic reasons.

You sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going.

You regret all those mistakes resisting temptation.

After painting the town red, you have to take a long rest before applying the second coat.

You just can't stand people who are intolerant.

You burn the midnight oil after 9:00 p.m.

You back goes out more than you do.

The little gray-haired lady you help across the street is your wife.

You have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet.

You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there.

not that these have anything to do with me just trying to help
you out;) :D

When you click onto History & Expats and you know exactly what their talking about:(

I just hit 30 and although I have been getting grey bits at my temples for the last 5 years I still have no wrinkles around the eyes and don't look a day over 27. Woo and yay!!!

I doubt I'll be able to say the same at 40 but for now, yay me! :D

I do however groan when I bend over or straighen up and it's not something I can control anymore. Just feels better to go 'oof' when I do something a little strenuous....like getting out of bed in the morning. :blush:

My knees are also starting to ache a bit but that's due to my new career and no longer doing the taekwondo to keep the muscle support up in my legs. Bugger! :roll:

Originally posted by Pauly
I just hit 30 and although I have been getting grey bits at my temples for the last 5 years I still have no wrinkles around the eyes and don't look a day over 27. Woo and yay!!!

I doubt I'll be able to say the same at 40 but for now, yay me! :D

I do however groan when I bend over or straighen up and it's not something I can control anymore. Just feels better to go 'oof' when I do something a little strenuous....like getting out of bed in the morning. :blush:

My knees are also starting to ache a bit but that's due to my new career and no longer doing the taekwondo to keep the muscle support up in my legs. Bugger! :roll:


30 years old and you've got aches and some grey hair Pauly, then you're in pretty bad shape, i didn't have any of that till i was i my 50s, and you SHOULDN"T have wrinkles at 30 either.

Well thanks for that, I feel SO much better. :cry:

Edit: Although on re-reading I see you're from the US of A. World centre for plastic surgery and hiding the signs of time. ;) I think I understand the reason behind your apparent youthful appearance. Heh!!! :hihi:

Originally posted by dawny1
Signs of getting old

Finding greying men attractive

Have you seen Pierce Brosnan lately?! :wow: He's gone very grey of late, and looks fabulous. But when does he ever NOT look fabulous, right?

Thank God he had the sense to leave the plastic surgery and botox for others and age gracefully. He looks wonderful.

:) Sierra

Originally posted by Kristian
I realised about three years ago that I groan whenever I stand up or sit down; and I was 28 and in good health when I started doing this! :o

Goodness, Kristian - you're too young for that! Get taking some cod-liver-oil tablets, man! :D

StarSparkle

PS Your new avatar - "American Gothic" slightly altered, I believe? - veeeeeery creepy! :help:

Originally posted by Pauly
Well thanks for that, I feel SO much better. :cry:

Edit: Although on re-reading I see you're from the US of A. World centre for plastic surgery and hiding the signs of time. ;) I think I understand the reason behind your apparent youthful appearance. Heh!!! :hihi:

Pauly, im a long way from 50 now, youthfull appearance long gone........... wish i had married a plastic surgeon now instead of a firefighter:hihi:

Thank God for all these posts !
I'm actually beginning to feel quite sprightly again after reading about the grey-haired , wheezing old crocks , under 40.
I've been smoking and drinking , non-stop [ as it were ! ] for 48 years and always eaten what I liked , which , believe me , has been a big variety , all over the world.
I've been in hospital once , [ for a fistula ] , still got no grey hairs and go out , "on the town " about twice a week , or more in the holidays ; still working and enjoying it .
So come on , you old creakers and ' Zimmerites ' , get smoking , get drinking , eat the lot , enjoy life and live to be a hundred .........well at least sixty-four ; I might get knocked down by a bus tomorrow . p***ed again !.

Originally posted by Fareast
Thank God for all these posts !
I'm actually beginning to feel quite sprightly again after reading about the grey-haired , wheezing old crocks , under 40.
I've been smoking and drinking , non-stop [ as it were ! ] for 48 years and always eaten what I liked , which , believe me , has been a big variety , all over the world.
I've been in hospital once , [ for a fistula ] , still got no grey hairs and go out , "on the town " about twice a week , or more in the holidays ; still working and enjoying it .
So come on , you old creakers and ' Zimmerites ' , get smoking , get drinking , eat the lot , enjoy life and live to be a hundred .........well at least sixty-four ; I might get knocked down by a bus tomorrow . p***ed again !.

You restore my faith in humanity :clap:

I am 42 next and I think the signs of getting older are:
Listening to Radio 2 and cringing at the crap on Radio 1 (which I grew up with)
Your 18 yr old covering his eyes and saying 'god, muuuuuum' when you are sunbathing in your bikini in the privacy of your own back garden.
Constantly working out the times between then and now and thinking god, where did all the years go.
Buying anti-wrinkle cream (we live in hope!)
Feeling really out of place in a night club.
Going ice skating thinking I was 17 again and falling breaking my hip!

The first time I realised that things were not as they once were was when I was in my late twenties. I slippe don the ice one day and literally sat there for a few sceonds wondering what the Hell had happened! :)

I'm currently 44 and because I've looked after myself better in recent years I probably feel better now than I did 10 years ago. I ache less, and the only thing that brasses me off a bit is that my hair's thinning.

What I DO notice is that sporting injuries I picked up in my teens are now starting to niggle me. I damaged a knee and an ankle playing rugby, and on damp cold mornings the ankle is a little stiff, and the knee has this weird habit of clicking sometimes!

George Orwell had a few comments about aging - "At age fifty, a man has the face he deserves" being one of them. Unfortunately these were the last words in his writer's notebook.

If you look in some of his novels he explores aging - 'Coming up for Air' and 1984 both have bits in about aging.

Joe

This is in connection to the thread but [ hopefully ? ] takes it a small step further.
I have an old friend , about the same age as me , mid-60's. We always have a ,"bevvy" when I'm back in S.Yorks. and we invariably get talking about old age , how time flies .......etc....
We always agree on one thing :--- the strange feeling we have , that we haven't REALLY grown up at all. We still feel like teenagers inside . I really am being serious . If we are in a pub and a man of about our age comes in , we always think , " Look at that old bloke ". We never think of ourselves as being like that .
I suppose we even kid ourselves when we look in the mirror. Actually , sometimes it gives me a bit of an inferiority complex , as I always imagine I'm , 'junior' to the people I'm with . I hope this doesn't sound absolutely potty ?
Does anyone else FEEL they are younger , mentally , than they really are ?

Originally posted by Fareast
[B
Does anyone else FEEL they are younger , mentally , than they really are ? [/B]

We all do. You don't have the monopoly on that.

Getting older is when:

Your friends compliment you on your alligator shoes ..and you're barefoot.
Going bra-less pulls all the wrinkles out of your face.
You are cautioned to slow down by the Doctor not the police.
"Getting lucky" means you find your car in the car park.
A sexy babe catches your eye and your pace-maker opens the garage door.
And finally An all-nighter means not having to get up for a wee!

Growing old is when your son and his mates ask you who The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were? :shocked:

Growing old is when you start to forget how old you actually are (my son pointed out to me earlier this year that I'm not, as I kept claiming, 58 - I'm actually 57!) :confused:

Growing old is when you begin to lose your marbles, and my son tells everyone he is going to put me in a home, and sooner rather than later! :hihi:

Anyway Deavon, just remember that none of us are actually growing old ...... we are still growing up! :thumbsup:

I thought I would reply to this one - just for a change -

A change - two shillings - what .... zzzzzzzzzzzzz

What? Oh! Yes - growing old - next sunday .... zzzzzzzzzz

Dunno - who? I never did ... oh! zzzzzzzzzzz

No answer. Can't remember the question .....

Dragon

One of the first signs is........sorry what was the question again?

Alzymer - aint that an indication of ... something

What? Hang on - you with the bad memory thingy ....

What was I saying?

When I was a lad, back in the good old days when .... zzzzzz

Dragon

Originally posted by stellstar
1. When you no longer get up to go to the loo during the night. (you do it in bed instead)
2. looking for your purse/wallet, and find it in the fridge.
3. Buying a drink and by the time you get to your table there's
nothing left in the glass.(shaky hand syndrome)
4. When you start preaching to the younger generation,
" when I were a lad/ lass"
If you recognise some or all of these symptoms, then its time
to apply for your O.A.P bus pass and pension.
Must dash now (want to be first in the queue).
:hihi: :clap: :clap: great!!! may i add turning the LOUD music down,telling every one you talk to your age,looking in the obituary column, feeling the cold more,hating bonfire night,glaring at babies crying on buses,walking four abreast in the market,having your own chair in the pub,your alarm clock is switched off and you go to bed at nine.

ive found myself doing some of these,but not the one regarding the market,:hihi:

Not needing to sleep in until noon on a Sunday, and thinking oo I might nip to the shops now whilst they're quiet.

Creaky knee snyndrome.

being irritated when small children cry constantly

Saving bits of tat (buttons, plugs from dead appliances) with the thoughts of "that may come in handy one day" running through your head.

realising your roots need doing every six weeks and its not to blend the outrageous colour you applied, its to hide the white bits coming through.

Once during the day you will say to someone, "kids today" or "I would never have done that" or "they have no respect"

:hihi:

Signs of getting old

I easily choke on my tea with a careless sip.
I can't keep on sleeping long, say over 10 hours.
Cuts in the skin take long time to heal.
I find myself choosing a vanilla or chocolate ice cream among the wide variety. :P

Originally posted by Deavon


What are the classic signs of getting older? Am I to worry?? My gran always told me that your "as old as you feel...."


Im 167 next march!

:D :P

Originally posted by stellstar
1. When you no longer get up to go to the loo during the night. (you do it in bed instead)
2. looking for your purse/wallet, and find it in the fridge.
3. Buying a drink and by the time you get to your table there's
nothing left in the glass.(shaky hand syndrome)
4. When you start preaching to the younger generation,
" when I were a lad/ lass"
If you recognise some or all of these symptoms, then its time
to apply for your O.A.P bus pass and pension.
Must dash now (want to be first in the queue).
:hihi: I do say to people on the Forum"When I was a Lass" and I do think it sounds very old fashioned,so Im going to stop doing it !:thumbsup:

Originally posted by Anj1364
I am 42 next and I think the signs of getting older are:
Listening to Radio 2 and cringing at the crap on Radio 1 (which I grew up with)


hear hear:)

I think I'm cracking up... Either that or my body is telling me off for too much pubbing and clubbing lol! :rolleyes:

I have to bend down at work to get in the fridge and when I get up, its usually followed by an "oooh" :rolleyes:

Looking at bits of girls on nights out and thinking "Oh my God - I would never wear anything like that" - feeling old and frumpy as my skirt reaches my mid-thigh :suspect:

Finding myself pottering around, doing little jobs and stuff that probably doesnt need doing at that precise moment, but getting on with it for the sake... (Rather like my Grandma) eeek

I'm only 19! :(

How do you what ...? Zzzzzzz

Sorry - could not resist it. I think you know you are getting old when you start thinking you are getting old. Stay young - think young. Think young - stay young.

I think I am 16 next year ;)

Dragon

I was listening to Hallam FM's top 10 at 10 and for once I actually could remember the year that the songs were released!!! I thought I'd have to be at least 25 to be able to do that lol!

My grandaughter aged 7 staring intently at her mother aged35.
M............"what are you staring at?"
GD.........."nothing"
M ....repeats question in raised voice
GD......"I'm just looking at your wrinkles"

THATS when you're getting old

I knew I was getting old when I saw my favorite childhood toys at an antiques and collectibles show.

Originally posted by Deavon

I'm sat here thinking 'oooh, they look a bit like my mum's hands used to'.

It's comments like this that led me to believe you were a female! :hihi:

Aches and pains in the joints, too old for loud music in bars, wrinkles, prefering a cup of tea and the tele to a night out, failing eyesight, taking notice of the tea-time adverts for bathknight and high seat chairs.

But how old should you be before you start to notice these things?

I mean I am only in my early thirties. Thing is, I have to get used to the fact that from here on in I will notice these gradual changes.

Originally posted by Anj1364
...I think the signs of getting older are:
Listening to Radio 2 and cringing at the crap on Radio 1 (which I grew up with)...


But all the dj's that were on Radio1 when you were a nipper are now on Radio2 anyway. So not much has changed really!

I still feel like I'm 20ish and I still get asked for ID everynow and then (I'm 32) but I can tell I'm getting older in some ways.. the odd wrinkle is starting to appear and my skin takes ages to recover from a scratch or cut. I get the odd grey hair but they get plucked out immediately!!!

I'm not suffering any aches and pains or creaky bits yet but I go to the gym alot so hopefully I'll keep those at bay a while longer - if I ever manage to get the will power together I'm going to get into yoga cos it seems to be rather good at keeping old age away!

It kind of dawned on me this year during freshers week as all the new students were partying up and down west street.. I thought about how it didn't seem that long it was since I was a fresher but it was 14 (FOURTEEN!!!) years ago. Suddenly I felt *really* old and like an onlooker.. wishing I could get in a time machine and do it all over again!!!

At 50+ it's doing a Sudoku puzzle whilst eating my breakfast before setting off to work at my part time job and justifying this puzzle routine as necessary to keep my brain cells active.

It's saying exactly what I like under the guise of well I can because I've turned 50 and my father was a funny b***er so what do you expect.

It's saving anything and everything because it will come in handy, especially wood which again I can justify with a comment of "Have you seen the price of wood?". Never mind that I cannot remember where I've put things, so end up having to buy again.

It's using phrases already noted on this thread. "Kids today; they don't build things to last these days; why do I need trainers or clothing with names on them; or I am not paying that much; or why shouldn't I go into Poundstretcher; no I am not throwing those trousers out - flares will come back into fashion; yes I do like classical music and what's wrong with me listening to the Mavericks?

It's refusing to accept several more pints - "because I'm on medication", when really sleeping through the night without a toilet break is the real reason. In fact its often drinking spirits because it's less fluid to contend with.

It's finding my slippers comfortable so much so that I end up gardening in them.

It's remembering playing football for the schools first eleven but recounting the tale (to anyone that would listen) in a way that suggested I was just missed by a football scout and therefore just failed to be a famous professional footballer.

It's realising that my arms will not reach as far around my back when in the shower.

It's trying to read small writing with my glasses on, then trying my wife's glasses, then trying no glasses at all and then just guessing what it says.

Going downhill and hurtling...................HELP!!!!

A sure sign, saying "I'm <insert age here> you know" in a slightly suprised tone of voice.

"I remember when this were all fields".

"In my day....."

"The Human Leauge were class, not like these new boy bands....."

K.

Originally posted by grandadtee
At 50+ it's doing a Sudoku puzzle whilst eating my breakfast before setting off to work at my part time job and justifying this puzzle routine as necessary to keep my brain cells active.



Hey grandadtee - you're not old at all! I too have started doing sodoku puzzles whilst eating my breakfast - just to keep my brain cells more active. Trouble is, it takes me until tea-time to finish them! :hihi:

You get a birthday card from Liz! :|