You know you're an auld bugger when...

[Taryn Tailz]

When you read a thread title like this and feel an instant sense of warmth, belonging and solidarity.

Is this the bit where you all say you are 38-40 and I realise I am more than a decade in front?

No, this is the bit where I annoy everybody on the thread by saying i'm 24.

[Grugz]

I've caught myself twice now telling my lass "you look with your eyes not with your hands" in shops

What if it's a shop that sells braille books?

touché!   

[Grugz]

Is this the bit where you all say you are 38-40 and I realise I am more than a decade in front?

44, here.

You put your back out just walking in to the kitchen.

i once put my back out wiping on the toilet. i literally cried while i finished the job and somehow pulled up my pants before calling for help. and i was at home, too. true british grit that!!!

can relate to both of those examples!!!  hope you feel better soon ,but if not get it checked out as I was suffering for months before we discovered I have a prolapsed disk

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Heh. I feel old when I see young people with Kurt Cobain t-shirts and realise it's the same as when people my age used to wear Jim Morrison ones.

Snap.

You didn't miss much, Jayzus.

Stevie caught them at the Thebarton Theatre* in January 1992 &, quite frankly,  the band clearly really did not want to be there.

*when he bought his ticket they were scheduled for the rather much smaller backroom at the Old Lion Hotel in North Adelaide. Then Nevermind dropped in September...

[DaveGYNWA]

....when you clearly remember seeing Nirvana play at the SFX Hall in Dublin 1992, but can't find any reference to it happening and it turns out to be the Point that they played instead. How the feck has my brain confused the SFX and the Point?

[TordelBack]

I'm amazed to learn that the Point even existed in 1992, but google informs me it opened in 1988.  Eh?

Nirvana and the Stone Roses will forever be bands that people just 1-3 years younger than me liked with a fervour I've never understood. 

[JayzusB.Christ]

I saw the aforementioned Cure there in about 90 or 91. It most definitely existed: it was an ugly, dingy kip but it was all I knew.
As for the Stone Roses; I resisted them at first, hanging on for dear life to my gothy Curehead ways, but later realised I was only a country bumpkin who was missing out on some of the best music of that generation.

Back on topic though,  I love a lot of repetitive electronic music. But dubstep? Jesus wept. What is it? What does it want of me? Make it go away.

As I type, a young chap has just walked past in rolled up slacks, no socks and slip on patent shoes. I know him, he's a very nice fellow , but I mean, really.

(I'm joking, of course, I know it's him that looks cool while I'm a sad old man who doesn't understand.)

[TordelBack]

As I type, a young chap has just walked past in rolled up slacks, no socks and slip on patent shoes. I know him, he's a very nice fellow , but I mean, really.

(I'm joking, of course, I know it's him that looks cool while I'm a sad old man who doesn't understand.)

A wetsuit would be the only sensible sartorial choice for today. And it's always cool to be sensible, right kids?

[JayzusB.Christ]

Well, everyone seemed to love that young Kick-Your-Arse fellow in his wetsuit in that film.

[The Legendary Shark]

Thunderball?

[JayzusB.Christ]

Flattery will get you nowhere, Sharky.

[The Legendary Shark]

In that case - I got nothing

[Mardroid]

Is this the bit where you all say you are 38-40 and I realise I am more than a decade in front?

44, here.

You put your back out just walking in to the kitchen.

i once put my back out wiping on the toilet. i literally cried while i finished the job and somehow pulled up my pants before calling for help. and i was at home, too. true british grit that!!!

My back went when I was just bending down gently to hand over a register to a lecturer at the college where I work. (This was a year or two ago.) I didn't shout out or make much noise at all, but I could not straighten properly and IT HURT. I didn't say anything, and if the bunch of students I was in front of noticed, they didn't remark either.

My colleague noticed when I walked back to my desk. I believe her phrase was: "What happened? You're walking like you've got a rod stuck up your arse!"

I remember sitting back in the office chair (thankfully it's a NICE office chair with a bendy bit that fits the contours of your lower back) and gradually bending back..... Ow..ow...ow... Aaaaah. Blessed relief.

Thankfully I got over it quickly (i was fine after a few minutes) but it just goes to show how it can catch you. i've bent over in more extreme ways since then and my back was okay, but it makes you realise you should be careful with your posture. Not that I am.

[The Legendary Shark]

I have noticed a general accumulation of twinges, aches and throbs. I twanged my elbow (my good one, too!) on a roof rafter months ago and it's still not right.

[Mardroid]

I have noticed a general accumulation of twinges, aches and throbs. I twanged my elbow (my good one, too!) on a roof rafter months ago and it's still not right.

Maybe you should get it checked.

Mind you, I'm one to talk.