Old people are going away!

[darren]

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Tell you what is disappearing though. Oldies in flat caps. You still see the odd one, usually in silohuette through the back window of a car being driven at 20mph, but overall they are on the way out. What has gone are old women wearing those funny turban hats.

my dad still wears one of them caps.

[Austin Maxi]

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I keep thinking it's Tuesday.

I'm 38, you know.

[Trickyvee]

Re: Old people are going away!

Tell you what is disappearing though. Oldies in flat caps. You still see the odd one, usually in silohuette through the back window of a car being driven at 20mph, but overall they are on the way out. What has gone are old women wearing those funny turban hats.

[darren]

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I say that now lol

oh no tricky.
your becoming an oldie in your thirties.

but where i live there is a big amount of old people 60 plus i mean.
and they are living longer.
by the time we are sixty our parents will be eighty odd,and we will both be talking the same language.

[darren]

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I popped into Lidl,s yesterday,there was 2 ladies,2 gents probably in their 70,s,had trolleys they had blocked off a section where I wanted to go.Had to go round another route,they were so busy gassing,that is so annoying,this is not the first time.Many a time when I have been in Tesco in the past,old folk have stopped right on the spot,when they encounter someone else they haven,t seen in yonks that,s it then half an hour of,oh how is so and so,moaning about hospitals,bills prices etcthey talk so loud so the rest of us has to hear their moans

in a decade or two we will be them moaning about bills and saying things like back in my day etc..
my granny always said to come and let your granny give you a kiss.
gassing you mean nattering amethyst.

[Trickyvee]

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All you hear from old people the week after Xmas is "Ooooh did you have a nice xmas? and the reply is always "ooh y know...quiet" they never have a good one or a bad one just...quiet.

I say that now lol

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All you hear from old people the week after Xmas is "Ooooh did you have a nice xmas? and the reply is always "ooh y know...quiet" they never have a good one or a bad one just...quiet.
They never say fall over either they always say tumbled

[Trickyvee]

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I have real respect for old people because I know inside they don't feel old. They're exactly the same as me just 40-50 years further down the line, so I make an efforrt not to treat them differently to anyone else. That means disliking some of them too though.

I can't wait to be old. I know I'll be the same as I am now in my head (if I'm lucky) and I'm going wind everyone up barging to the front of queues with my stick and being a nuisance. Everybody lets you get away with it then because you're 'old'. It's what I want to do now but I can't!

[stockportyears]

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Scarily, I am now 2 months older than the leader of the Labour Party.

[amethyst]

Re: Old people are going away!

I popped into Lidl,s yesterday,there was 2 ladies,2 gents probably in their 70,s,had trolleys they had blocked off a section where I wanted to go.Had to go round another route,they were so busy gassing,that is so annoying,this is not the first time.Many a time when I have been in Tesco in the past,old folk have stopped right on the spot,when they encounter someone else they haven,t seen in yonks that,s it then half an hour of,oh how is so and so,moaning about hospitals,bills prices etcthey talk so loud so the rest of us has to hear their moans

[Flash Gordon]

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When I think of old people talking I think of old-school race cars. The old bats whitter on eagerly about who's broken their hip, got cancer and died, like the longer you can keep it off, the more charged with piety is your holy smugness.
But when you meet a proper old timer, you're blessed.

[Marine Boy]

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...As a youngster, you always had the impression all "oldies" spoke in that slow, comedic way

And called everyone "deary"

[sixtyten]

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What happened to "old people voices'??
my Dad still sounds the same as he always did and he's in his 70's.
As a youngster, you always had the impression all "oldies" spoke it that slow, comedic way

[amethyst]

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Mentioning tweed last night I watched an old episode of Mr Bean,the one where he is shopping in the Alders sale,he goes on the escalator his expression when he gets to the top.
You just cannot miss that old tweed jacket

There are a lot of nice old folk about,but then you get the ones who don,t stop moaning!

[Flash Gordon]

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Tweed's coming back in, so I've heard.
If there's no old peeps, then how come everytime I go into a shop I have to wait ten minutes for the cashier to check some dithering duffers lottery tickets?!!
It's true, getting older doesn't mean inevitable dullitude.
I hope that when I get old I'm just like Barry Crier(sp?). He wrote for Kenny Everret and must be 70 ish, but he still embrases new talent and new things.
I pray that as I get older I will never think I know it all, and will always treat each new day as a fresh new dawn