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Grumpy Old Men


Alan Medic

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The kids have grown up. They now have opinions. Your time is your own. You're not sure what to do with it. You've watched too much football. Is that you?


Has aging made you grumpier or just more enlightened to the shallowness that surrounds you?


If I knew the answer I wouldn't ask.

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Sittin' in the morning sun

I'll be sittin' when the evening comes

Watching the ships roll in

Then I watch them roll away again, yeah


I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay

Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh

I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay

Wastin' time


Whistle.........


It's getting older that keeps Me young...


Foxy

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  • 6 months later...

I'm noticing a few of my aquaintances of a certain 50+ age are


Grumpier


Wearing the same clothes


Saying the same stuff everytime I see them


Personally, i've started buying Trials & Motocross news & have bought some DM type shoes again


What any of this means, I don't know

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we are now free to travel. which broadens the mind. apparently. If you are our age (mid 60's) then you must realise, from henceforth, we are left behind. My missus complains that our daughters use the 'Muuuuuuum salutation as a means of describing idiocy. If they knew the half of what we,singly and together 'got up to' before they were born, they would have a hard job believing it. Lucky for them we will never ever tell them.
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addendum: in 2 parts

a) if I had my wits about me at the time and knew then what I know now etc I would never have agreed to a 'family' Christmas when my wife's parents would descend and reduce my wife to tears within the hour and

b) watch grumpy old men/women at Christmason youtube to know you are not alone.

stay strong y'all tis only once a year

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holloway Wrote:

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> People who have prolonged conversations in

> corridors and on stair cases drive me up the wall.

> Also do not get me started on those who walk along

> whilst paying more attention to their phones than

> what's in front of them.


***Agree***

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holloway Wrote:

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> People who have prolonged conversations in

> corridors and on stair cases drive me up the wall.

> Also do not get me started on those who walk along

> whilst paying more attention to their phones than

> what's in front of them.


The guy/girl who says nothing all bus journey but as the door

opens to get out strikes up a conversation with a long

lost mate whilst everyone waits to move on :)

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Great, a thread for me.


Why does everyone (including older people) walk round looking at a screen. Why can't I go to gigs any more (and this will soon include the theatre) as so many people video the whole event, or worse spend their time texting or tweeting their views, or even worse play that candy thingy game.


Why has the anticompetitive Apple corporation got so many of us by the short and curlies. Why hasn't the might of the US legal system / antitrust system taken them on when they are brave enough to take on Fifa.


Why have we made Britain, in particular London, a safe haven for money laundering, in particularly in property.


Where have all the good pubs gone, and why do you lot drink expensive fizzy beer because it is 'craft'


Me, I'd rather spend my time moaning on this forum. None of these points above are for debate, just humour me!


Happy New Year.

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  • 2 weeks later...

malumbu Wrote:

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> Where have all the good pubs gone, and why do you

> lot drink expensive fizzy beer because it is

> 'craft'


Don't ever fecking lump me in with 'you lot' especially when it comes to beer.

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