Evidence that you're getting oldYouthful as I am, I realised yesterday that I no-longer know, or care, who is #1 in the charts. Furthermore, it takes all day to get rid of a hangover and I now seem to have a profound interest in gardening. Worst is that I now use words like 'furthermore'.
What makes you think that you are getting old?
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chthonic, Thu 28 Oct 2004, 13:01)
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When you have to keep changingthe 'slang' words you use, because no one knows what you're talking about.
For example, back in the day we used to say 'cacker' (or 'gypo', or 'pikey'). None of this 'chav' nonsense - pah, the word was years from being conceived!
Also, I feel old when I hear kids talking in ridiculous 'jive' talk. I was at a bus stop recently and overheard a 'youth' asking another 'youth', "do you wanna step with me?"
Ah, that's nice I thought - they just want to have a bit of a dance to pass the time!
I then realised he was enquiring whether his acquaintance was 'spoiling for a rumble or not'! Ah, how it tickled me!
Edit: oh and 'putting' everything 'in' inverted 'commas'...
(, Thu 28 Oct 2004, 16:37, Reply)
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