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SYMPTOMS OF BEING OVER 30

1. You leave clubs before the end to "beat the rush".

2. You get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than going clubbing.

3. You stop dreaming of becoming a professional footballer and start dreaming of having a son who might instead.

4. Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the property section.

5. You prefer Later with Jools Holland to Top of the Pops.

6. All of a sudden, Tony Blair is not 46, he's only 46.

7. Before going out anywhere, you ask what the parking is like.

8. Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them because they'll be all right for the garden.

9. You buy your first ever T-shirt without anything written on it.

10. Instead of laughing at the innovations catalogue that falls out of the newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving properties of a plastic winter cover for your garden bench and an electronic mole repellent for the lawn. Not to mention the plastic man for the car to deter would-be thieves.

13. Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything you want to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid.

15. Pop music all starts to sound crap.

16. You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they don't have any pictures on the menus and anyway, they do a really nice half-bottle of house white.

17. You become powerless to resist the lure of self-assembly furniture.

18. You always have enough milk in.

19. To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to go clubbing, you instead frequent really loud tapas restaurants and franchise pubs with wacky names in the mistaken belief that you have not turned into your parents.

20. While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4's Time Team with Tony Robinson. You get drawn in.

21. The benefits of a pension scheme become clear.

22. You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from B&Q.

23. You wish you had a shed.

24. You have a shed.

25. You actually find yourself saying "They don't make 'em like that anymore" and "I remember when there were only 3 TV channels" and "Of course, in my day...."

26. Radio 2 play more songs you know than Radio 1 and Jimmy Young has some really interesting guests on.

27. Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the bus, you tut at schoolchildren whose diction is poor.

28. When sitting outside a pub you become envious of their hanging baskets.

29. You make an effort to be in and out of the curry house by 11.

30. You come face to face with your own mortality for the first time, and the indestructibility of the 20s gives way to a realisation that you are but passing through this life and if you don't settle down soon and have kids you'll have no-one to look after you when you're old and frail and incontinent and you can't go on pissing your life up against a wall forever and think of how many brain cells you're destroying every time a swift half turns into 10 pints, and look at that, a full set of stainless steel saucepans for 99 quid, they cost as much as 35 each if you buy them separately, and you get a milk pan thrown in, ...

31. You find yourself saying "is it cold in here or is it just me?"

justyn_thyme
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97. You realize you have more neckties than fingers. 98. You have a favorite shoe polish. 99. You mow the lawn counter clockwise to put spice into your life. 100. You consider ironing a form of meditation. 101. You realize that life is passing you by, but you're not sure from which direction.
justyn_thyme
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102. You're not sure if your arms are too short or you need eyeglasses.
Karl Wiggins
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My wife pointed this one out: 103) With every single TV drama you watch, you insist on saying, "What's he been in. Look, he's been in something." She replies, "Oh, shut up, will you? I'm trying to watch this." "No look, he's been in something else." "It's Cold Feet, all right? He was in Cold Feet." "Cold Feet? Oh yeah, Cold Feet. He's that stupid looking one. That's right, look." "Will you shut Up!!!"
Rachel
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104) You no longer believe the hype - instead of going out and buying stuff you see advertised on TV you start saying "Why would I need a deoderant that moisturises my armpits?"
gail
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32 You remember going travelling before e-mail existed. 33 You find you can hold a relatively coherent conversation on different types of mortgages. 34 You worry more about your parents than they do about you. 35 You are convinced that the packet sizes of your favourite snacks have diminished considerably over the years. 36 You try to avoid parties when you suspect the sleeping arrangements involve the floor. If you do go, you check out the local B & Bs.
Clive
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37 You have to bend down twice to pick something up off the floor.. 38 You start going to garden centers on a sunday 39 You start doing some Christmas shopping in January 40 You think about getting a motor bike again
faithless
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41 you find lists of age-specific behaviours really funny xxx
Hox
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98 and 103. brilliant!!
Paulgreco
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Sad to say, I was doing 103 from the age of about nine!
Jay
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42 You buy a spare hand so you can reach up and not bend down. 43 You buy a walking stick to help you along. 44 You need glasses because you can't see. 45 You need subbtitles on tv because you cant hear. 46 You have to hold on to something or sit down to put legs into underwear or trousers incase you topple over.
Rachel
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47. When a toilet roll is finished you replace it with a new one on the holder, rather than stacking it on the top 48. You can't walk past a radiator without feeling to see if it's on. 49. When you invite people for dinner you actually cook, and actually eat before midnight 50. You have at least 2 Jamie Oliver cook books 51. You pay your TV license by direct debit 52. You no longer know the plot of Neighbours but can explain Casualty in minute detail 53. You now eat museli for breakfast rather than left over takeaway curry 54. In restaurants, when the bill comes, you no longer discuss "doing a runner" 55. The walk to the pub takes ten minutes longer - many estate agents on the way 56. You get up before the archers omnibus on a sunday 57. You listen to radio 2 58. You have to plan your summer holidays around all the weddings and thirtieth birthday parties 59. You know at least one person who's been in The Priory (and not on it.) 60. You start buying Kitchen Towels (and a holder)
markbrown
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Oh my god. I'm only twenty five. It's health reasons, honest. I'm not getting old, just need to be careful.... I'm in a real crisis now. Do I stop worrying about tidying up? Or do I accept my fate and go with it? Maybe I was born thirty, which may explain the odd gait my mother had....
alan ingram
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61. You start compiling long winded lists on behavior traits that seperate you from the under thirties. 62. You enter a room to do something and then forget why you're there. 63. Your typing looks weird because miss out words. 64. You find Ceefax more interesting than the actual tv program 65. Your younger relatives have started to avoid you. 66. Women that look your Mothers friend are actually younger than you.
Karl Wiggins
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67) You notice a school kid smoking a cigarette and find yourself amazed that they're unaware of how utterly ridiculous they look. 68) You mow the lawn on the first Sunday of spring. 69) You suggest attacking the garage and taking all the winter's accumulation of crap down to the dump. 70) You don't actually do it, of course. That's for over 40's.
Karl Wiggins
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Me too. "Look, that bloke was in Thunderbirds, wasn't he? You remember! It's him! Look."
Jay
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Liana have just read your post, sorry darling to have to tell you so is the rest of it "very true" you just haven't come to it yet. Just a thought to help you and others on your merry way technology being what it is by that time I'm sure their will be a few more diffrent aid's on the market to help you cope. Live!! now!! and pay later but never say you wern't warned!! CHEER'S EVERYONE...
Paulgreco
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71) You ring the council to (and later go out yourself on midnight raids to) remove the goal the kids have assembled outside your house (because "it attracts bad elements and litter" and "the ball hits the cars"). 72) You do the mathematics concerning what you've made on your house so far, in front of EVERYONE, each time painfully aware of what a dick you sound. 73) When seeing kids off doing things like hanging off the chains of a shop-front shelter, you use phrases like "Ya little hooligan!" Not that I have any personal experience of these. *ahem*
Karl Wiggins
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105) In a moment of enlightenment (or perhaps dread) you find yourself wondering if you didn't once sleep with a fat little woman on the cast of Coronation Street when you were both eighteen and on holiday in Bournemouth.
neil_the_auditor
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74) You think Victor Meldrew was perfectly reasonable 75) The Daily Mail starts to make sense 76) You're out for the day and thirsty, so you find a teashop rather than a pub 77) You fancy someone under 25 and call yourself a pervert 78) You read the "Club 18-30" brochure and cross all their resorts off your holiday list 79) When you go out for the evening, your first choice of clothes are the most comfortable 80) When you have to do something technical you ask your kids to do it for you 81) You buy cars which have good safety features 82) You watch wildlife on your holiday
Rachel
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Oh Mr. Cook, what have you done. I thought I was dealing with the impending big 3 oh fairly well but since reading your post I have spent the whole day analysing very worrying behaviour... 83) You no longer write your phone number on the back of peoples' hands in biro - you give them a business card 84) your freezer is no longer the keeper of vodka and fish fingers - it contains tupperware leftovers and frozen peas 85) Your friends start driving Saabs 86) You buy an iron and clothes that need ironing 87) You find yourself saying, wonderingly, "Whatever did we do without the internet" 88) Your friends' kids start asking: "Whatever did you do before the internet" 89) You realise that you're too old to go on Pop Idol (that one hurt!) 90) You get fianced - AGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! (not financed, fianced - to get married)
Paulgreco
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83 and 85 sound more like "turning middle class" than "turning 30"! As for 42 to 46!!! Well, I think we're talking a bit beyond the thirties usually, but I'm still sh.it-scared.
Rachel
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PG: 85 Yes - 83, well is more convenient. I'm I wrong in thinking you're also a newly 30'd person????
Rachel
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Oh, and just for Paul - 91) Snogging becomes an adulterous offence - when not with partner - or maybe with.....
Paulgreco
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Crowned the big three 0 only June of 2002. 91 - Nah, you're getting confused, that's turning thirteen! And I'd just like to make it clear I haven't done any snogging or anything else whilst with my current belle (of two years), but I wouldn't see it as a major issue if I found out SHE had done it.
Karl Wiggins
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92) When 18-year-olds say, "When I was in the war ....." you think of your grandfather.
Jay
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Sh.it-scared were words used and yes!! you all should be. as very few of us gets to escape. A few Great Quotes to ponder on. Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Inside every older person is a younger person--wondering what the hell happened. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Old age ain't no place for sissies. +++++++++++++++++++++ Sent to you by one who's all ready brought the tee-shirt and knows through other's more elderly than herself their's worse to come before you can buy the jeans to match. So, Sh.it - scared very atp words indeed...
Liana
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Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. Thats wonderful Jay.... very true.
Hox
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93. The phone rings on a Saturday night, and you hope it isn't for you. 94. You go out for a curry with your mates and end up, arguing whether Bosch or Black and Decker make better drills. 95. When you go into the Chemist and ask for a packet of *cough* razor blades, you really want razor blades, and you really have a cough.
Tony Cook
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These are brilliant! Keep them coming! Once we have the final list (if ever a final list can be attained!) then we will put them into one document, add the abctales.com link and start to send them around to all our contacts in our email address books saying how they were written, where they came from and inviting people to add their own. Long live creativity! Please would you do the same! In order to get the email from us in its proper form please write to mark brown at: mail@abctales.com and he will send you the email to be sent on. This is called viral marketing and can be very effective - we just set the ball rolling and hope that it rolls on for ever. If we have a link back to a page for additions to the list then we get people discovering ABCtales.com - and that helps all the way round!
Rachel
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93) You start finding news readers attractive
gail
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answer to 94 - I think you'll find it's Bosch... made me laugh that one, so true.
Mohammed Said a...
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96. you belatedly realise you have spent too long in a Ba'arth party. which is imperialist propaganda. my fingers are pruney due to a skin condition. tomorrow, you will be seeing the foreign hairs obliterated from our plugholes. there are no taps in our ba'arth.
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