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antonio
Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:45:02 AM

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You know that you're old when you hated teenagers drinking beers

You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen
TOOTS
Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 4:22:30 AM

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You know that you're old when: it's a Tuesday, it's your birthday, you're a grandma - you get one card from your mother with a cheque inside (bless her), one card from your partner of eleven years saying "To My Girlfriend" and two emails at work. Roll on tomorrow.......

There is no past tense to Love, either you always will or you never did. ....
sisikou
Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:50:47 AM

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Happy Birthday~17!!!!!Applause

You know that you're old when: you begin to fall asleep after 1 hour reading. The read-yawn interval becomes shorter and shorter!!

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
mahinhin
Posted: Thursday, July 14, 2011 3:45:18 AM

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You know you're getting old when you find it easy to get up early in the morning.

"There are three people in all of us: the one we want to be; the one we think we are; and the one we really are. The first two are familiar to us. The last one is a complete stranger." - La Boîte noire
IMcRout
Posted: Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:12:46 AM

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What was the topic of this thread again?

"Before I speak, I have something important to say."Groucho Marx
IdaGama
Posted: Thursday, September 01, 2011 9:55:41 PM

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You know you're getting old when you register on a new web site & to answer your age requires scrolling down, down, way down for your birth year. Boo hoo!

Hope -- and Cope.
boneyfriend
Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:53:21 PM

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You know you're getting old when in your exercise class, they have a session on how to get up when you fall. I had that today.
leonAzul
Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2011 7:08:37 PM

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I knew I was getting old when I finally admitted: "I, too, used to be young and jerky; now I'm not so young any more." Anxious

"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits." - Satchel Paige
MamaCat
Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2011 8:45:29 PM

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When you start saying "youth is wasted on the young".

We are not lost!
We are just not where we planned to be.
GabhSigenod
Posted: Sunday, November 13, 2011 9:11:14 AM

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Girls, you know you are getting old when the boys all look too young.
Boys, you know you are getting old when all the girls just look young.


Off to Singapore for a spell!
Hope1
Posted: Sunday, November 13, 2011 6:54:55 PM

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You know you are getting old when all your children collect Old Age Security. Told to me by a 92 year old. (he lived to be 100+)

Or - when you do not buy green bananas. ( an oldie but goodie)

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Bernard M. Baruch 1870-1965
HWNN1961
Posted: Sunday, November 13, 2011 7:49:55 PM

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You know you are getting old when you critique the young in terms eerily reminiscent of your own parents....



"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong". (Knight's Oath, Kingdom of Heaven)
jmacann
Posted: Sunday, November 13, 2011 8:08:12 PM
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You know you are getting old when you quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.
MamaCat
Posted: Sunday, November 13, 2011 11:50:01 PM

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You know you are getting old when your doctor looks younger than your grandchild.

We are not lost!
We are just not where we planned to be.
jeans&sneakers
Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 6:49:30 PM

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... when time flies really fast and you start thinking life's too short.

... when people expect you to be married at your age.

... when you're expected to be responsible and mature, and behaving like a child or a teenie bopper would raise an eyebrow or would make people >> Sick ... then screaming teenagers annoy you sometimes :p

... when you understand people a little bit more.


Ako ay ako, ikaw ay ikaw.
Mothman
Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:41:49 AM
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You know you are getting old when you need glasses to help you find your glasses.
tootsie
Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2011 8:37:51 PM

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Mothman wrote:
You know you are getting old when you need glasses to help you find your glasses.


Applause Applause Applause

and your spare pair are invariably on top of your head.......Whistle

Welcome to the forum !!







I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
tootsie
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:48:43 PM

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you know you're getting old when......

it's pointless wishing for your two front teeth

http://youtu.be/OT_LNdfWG6M







I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
IMcRout
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:00:47 PM

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Can't remember what I wanted to write.

"Before I speak, I have something important to say."Groucho Marx
ClubFavolosa
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:54:15 PM

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While walking to the refrigerator I forget whether I was going to get a Coke for my wife or a beer for myself. Even worse: I return with a glass of milk.

Give a man a fish you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime - Chinese proverb
srirr
Posted: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:00:17 AM

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You know you're getting old when people around you address your son as Uncle.



We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekanand
boneyfriend
Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2011 8:43:03 AM

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You happen to be in front of a mirror doing other things. You glance in the mirror and there is an old lady there.
tasamorena
Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2011 9:57:11 AM
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You know you're getting old when loud music starts to bother you.
pedro
Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:37:40 AM

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...and even older if you can't hear it for the tinnitus

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon" Suzanne Ertz
MTC
Posted: Friday, December 23, 2011 12:49:58 AM
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You know you are getting old when you are mistaken for Father Time at a costume party.
Jeech
Posted: Friday, December 23, 2011 5:05:14 AM

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Ezequiel Castelhano wrote:
. Your arms are almost too short to read the newspaper.
. Your ears are hairier than your head.
. You have a party and the neighbors don´t even realize it.
. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
. You carry an umbrella.
. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
. Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service.
. Happy hour is a nap.
. You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.


You beautifully raise the thread, quite "young way."

You realize you're getting old when everyone looks like a child, innocent or naughty.

*It's wonderful to know that all languages are Greek if not understood.*
jacobusmaximus
Posted: Friday, December 23, 2011 5:14:39 AM

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mahinhin wrote:
You know you're getting old when you find it easy to get up early in the morning.


But you know you're getting older still when you don't anymore.
Jeech
Posted: Saturday, December 24, 2011 7:40:57 PM

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I recall an old joke that's some slang but quite striking one...

An old woman tells her doctor: "doctor, I have some gastric problems. Though there's no smell and no sound but still I've been farting too much since I'm in your clinic."

Doctor consults her some medicines and suggests her to visit the next day.

The old lady comes with the same problem and tells angryly: "doctor, my gastic problem has increased, they now smell very bad.

Doctor: "Oh good, your nose is getting okey, and you need to treat your ears now."

(forgive me please )

*It's wonderful to know that all languages are Greek if not understood.*
srirr
Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 12:45:32 AM

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Old man to doctor: Doc, I have problem of forgetting the things.

Doctor: Since when you have this problem?

Old man: What problem?


We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekanand
Jeech
Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 5:00:00 AM

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You know you're getting older when you start ceasing on infurious jokes on you.

*It's wonderful to know that all languages are Greek if not understood.*
boneyfriend
Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 5:15:15 PM

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You know you are getting old when people who are just slightly tipsy irrirate you.
leonAzul
Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 5:38:34 PM

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You take the very next number at the baker's and you call that "getting lucky."
Pray

"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits." - Satchel Paige
GabhSigenod
Posted: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 9:00:34 AM

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You know you are getting old when you can't remember what this thread was all about.

Off to Singapore for a spell!
Jeech
Posted: Monday, January 09, 2012 9:13:02 AM

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According to my grandmother (to make us quiet when we would be injured and would start crying... back in the old, innocent, naughty times):

You know your getteng old when you get (another) wound.

*It's wonderful to know that all languages are Greek if not understood.*
ClubFavolosa
Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:53:44 AM

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When you quit Mark Zuckerberg's company.


Bill arrives at the pearly gates and sees three files tagged A, B and C. By chance he sees a friend from facebook.
He asks: "Am I in the right lane?" Answer: "That's what everybody asks, but don't worry, for you they're all right".

A stands for Assholes, the B means Bitches and Cheaters are supposed to join the long row C.


Give a man a fish you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime - Chinese proverb
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