You know you’re getting older when……

[61653 HTAFC]

I feel one sign of getting old is when you realise you've hit the limit of your brain's capacity to absorb new music. There's probably about six songs I've enjoyed and remembered from the last twenty years!

 

[dangie]

I feel one sign of getting old is when you realise you've hit the limit of your brain's capacity to absorb new music. There's probably about six songs I've enjoyed and remembered from the last twenty years!

Nothing to do with brain capacity, modern music is generally cr*p……

Ok, maybe it isn’t all cr*p but for a 72 year old who was brought up on the Beatles & Rolling Stones, then graduated to Bon Jovi, Def Leppard etc it appears that way to me

 

[52290]

You know you are getting old when -like me - you need Viagra. !

You know you are getting even older when you couldn't care less whether you need Viagra or not!

 

[birchesgreen]

I feel one sign of getting old is when you realise you've hit the limit of your brain's capacity to absorb new music. There's probably about six songs I've enjoyed and remembered from the last twenty years!

The older i get the more modern music i listen to. I think i have been possessed with the spirit of John Peel.

 

[duncanp]

You know you are getting even older when you couldn't care less whether you need Viagra or not!

..to put it another way, in the words of the record The Oldest Swinger In Town by Fred Wedlock issued in 1981:-

"..it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night..."

 

[AM9]

..to put it another way, in the words of the record The Oldest Swinger In Town by Fred Wedlock issued in 1981:-

"..it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night..."

Ah, you beat me to it. The words of that song sum up the whole oldie thing really.

On a similar thread, there's Capstick Comes Home, which has the flavour of characters like Harry Enfield/Paul Whitehouses' Old Gits where every whinge has the echo of "we used to have ...". Even without the Yorkshire accent, it can be so self- satisfying in a negative way to be able to refer to things that younger people don't even know existed, let alone understand.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The older i get the more modern music i listen to. I think i have been possessed with the spirit of John Peel.

Didn't know that you were an advocate of foxhunting..Does your "View Haloo" awaken the dead?

 

[birchesgreen]

Didn't know that you were an advocate of foxhunting..Does your "View Haloo" awaken the dead?

No idea what you are talking about (as usual).

 

[D6130]

No idea what you are talking about (as usual).

A well-known (in Cumbria!) Cumbrian folk song about a legendary nineteenth century fox-hunt master in the Northern Lake District.

'D'ye ken John Peel?.....'

 

[birchesgreen]

A well-known (in Cumbria!) Cumbrian folk song about a legendary nineteenth century fox-hunt master in the Northern Lake District.

'D'ye ken John Peel?.....'

Fair enough, but i was referring to the DJ.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

No idea what you are talking about (as usual).

When you were young, at school music lessons, were you never taught the song that ran.....
"D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so gay
D'ye ken John Peel at the break of day
D'ye ken John when he's far, far away
With his hounds and his horn in the morning"

 

[D6130]

Fair enough, but i was referring to the DJ.

I'm sure that @Xenophon PCDGS realised that. It was merely an attempt at gentle associational humour on his part!

 

[yorksrob]

Fair enough, but i was referring to the DJ.

Factoid alert:

I believe the late DJ named himself after the character in the aforementioned folk song.

 

[Gloster]

Factoid alert:

I believe the late DJ named himself after the character in the aforementioned folk song.

John Ravenscroft thought that his name might be a bit long for a DJ. Due to some family story about a connection to John Peel, that is the name he chose.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

John Ravenscroft thought that his name might be a bit long for a DJ. Due to some family story about a connection to John Peel, that is the name he chose.

Of course, he could have looked at other folk songs and chose the name "John Barleycorn".

(A song that I sang many times in my folk-singing days)

 

[yorksrob]

Of course, he could have looked at other folk songs and chose the name "John Barleycorn".

(A song that I sang many times in my folk-singing days)

Doesn't John Barleycorn come to a sticky end though !

 

[Ashley Hill]

Doesn't John Barleycorn come to a sticky end though !

The pub of that name in Goring has,it has closed. Shame

 

[yorksrob]

The pub of that name in Goring has,it has closed. Shame

I never like to see a good pub close

 

[birchesgreen]

Of course, he could have looked at other folk songs and chose the name "John Barleycorn".

(A song that I sang many times in my folk-singing days)

I once performed the John Barleycorn pagan ritual with pouring some beer into the veg plot in my garden. Didn't really work though.

 

[Peter Sarf]

In my local Tesco and Sainsbury the staff are normally stacking shelves and will only come over if you clearly have no intention of using the self service machines which in Tesco are card only.

Yep. I stand there looking as hopeless as I can. The better half hates me doing that !. Irony is one time in a Sainsburys local she was coerced into using the self service tills (which really are beyond her) and was buying a bottle of wine. The assistant was under the appropriate age to approve the purchase and said there was no one on hand to do it for her. So I asked - "shall I nick it then ?".

When you are thinking you are walking quite fast on a footpath and others, including young children, overtake you.

As a 6ft 2in person with long limbs it is a real shock when some one overtakes me. Young wipersnappers !.

I feel one sign of getting old is when you realise you've hit the limit of your brain's capacity to absorb new music. There's probably about six songs I've enjoyed and remembered from the last twenty years!

There is no new music. Its mainly all bad peotry.

I once performed the John Barleycorn pagan ritual with pouring some beer into the veg plot in my garden. Didn't really work though.

You know you are getting older when the thought of wasting beer in favour of vegetables occurs to you !.

Very unhealthy attitude.

 

[birchesgreen]

You know you are getting older when the thought of wasting beer in favour of vegetables occurs to you !.

Very unhealthy attitude.

Its fine, it was from a can of Budweiser my brother-in-law left behind after a visit. No way i am going to drink that swill, perfect for the veg.

 

[Cross City]

I feel one sign of getting old is when you realise you've hit the limit of your brain's capacity to absorb new music. There's probably about six songs I've enjoyed and remembered from the last twenty years!

Nothing to do with brain capacity, modern music is generally cr*p……

There is no new music. Its mainly all bad peotry.

With the advent of music streaming services, having millions of songs of every conceivable genre at your finger tips, your inability to find modern music that you like says infinitely more about yourself that it does about the quality of music nowadays.

 

[birchesgreen]

With the advent of music streaming services, having millions of songs of every conceivable genre at your finger tips, your inability to find modern music that you like says infinitely more about yourself that it does about the quality of music nowadays.

Yes the only problem i find is there is too much great new music around. I need more ears.

 

[Cross City]

Yes the only problem i find is there is too much great new music around. I need more ears.

Quite. I don't know what genres you're in to but for me, rock and metal is stronger now that it has been in 20+ years. There is plenty of excellent and exciting music being put out my talented young bands in this country and all over the world.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Its fine, it was from a can of Budweiser my brother-in-law left behind after a visit. No way i am going to drink that swill, perfect for the veg.

Well done sir. I have had left over Fosters that I added to my slug traps - it got a few but there are so many slugs and snails !.

With the advent of music streaming services, having millions of songs of every conceivable genre at your finger tips, your inability to find modern music that you like says infinitely more about yourself that it does about the quality of music nowadays.

Probably true that us older folks are clinging on to radio rather than go getting what we want online. On the radio the DJs were obviously sometimes hammering a particular song at us. Now we are older we possibly are not keeping up with the latest tastes.

 

[Pinza-C55]

If you remember the days when trying to phone any national or local government department wouldn't involve being put onto an answering machine for 30 minutes while it desperately tried to get you use an app and played cheesey music before you gave up and put the phone down.

 

[duncanp]

If you remember the days when trying to phone any national or local government department wouldn't involve being put onto an answering machine for 30 minutes while it desperately tried to get you use an app and played cheesey music before you gave up and put the phone down.

..or in the case of HMRC, being cut off before you get the chance to give up and put the phone down.

 

[Pinza-C55]

..or in the case of HMRC, being cut off before you get the chance to give up and put the phone down.

It was actually HMRC I was trying to phone ! When I try to phone my council I usually get through to someone with crying kids or memorably a lady who had a fire alarm go off in her kitchen. Another one I phoned during a covid lockdown sounded as though he had been drinking and boasted "Well, you've got through to the expert this time !".

 

[duncanp]

It was actually HMRC I was trying to phone ! When I try to phone my council I usually get through to someone with crying kids or memorably a lady who had a fire alarm go off in her kitchen. Another one I phoned during a covid lockdown sounded as though he had been drinking and boasted "Well, you've got through to the expert this time !".

I recall phoning someone once who asked if she could call me back because it was looking like rain and she needed to get her washing off the line.

Shirking Working from home may suit some employers and employees, but unless there is proper supervision it just leads to a decline in the standards of customer service.

 

[317 forever]

Those of us who remember the first May Day Holiday are in a minority.