My "oldness" story is when I happen to realize the year someone was born and notice the sweater I'm wearing is older than they are. To be fair, I have several hooded sweatshirts with the year as part of a logo and these have lasted because I am sentimental about the event. It does make me chuckle a bit inside when I think of how old most items in my wardrobe are.
I have a couple of M&S nighties that my mother bought for me when we downsized in 1975.
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
Both are UK slang terms for underpants.
Which parts of the UK?
Well, not Scotland (smirks).
I'm familiar with both as a Southerner, so may be South terms?
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
Both are UK slang terms for underpants.
Just as well you said. I thought trolleys were roller skates.
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
Both are UK slang terms for underpants.
Which parts of the UK?
Well, not Scotland (smirks).
I'm familiar with both as a Southerner, so may be South terms?
Not the west country, where I grew up, nor Lincolnshire or N Wales, where my mum's parents hailed from, or Lancashire where Mrs Feet is from. Could be Yorkshire (though my sister and her family have lived there and I've never heard it used). My guess is west midlands, or NE England.
Probably Yorkshire - I spent my later formative years in Leeds. Would Grundies have been any more understood?
Down here not sure if only by, ahem, the older generations (have not heard it for a while) as Reg Grundy was a tv producer. Rhyming slang for undies. Where does your term come from?
A dusty memory stirs: I think I may have heard 'trolleys' once, though not recognised it as such, in an advert. Google suggests it was for Boddingtons c1990, and the relevant line was:
are your trolleys on't right way round
The actor voicing it, and presumably therefore the line, was Mancunian.
I never heard it living in rural W Yorks, so I wonder if it is specifically an urban phenomenon.
Talking to someone who is about to turn eighty years old and hearing them say, "Well, I guess I am now in the near end of life time, so I need to just prepare for it." I am eighty-six, and I know it is borrowed time, but I do not think much about that; I am just going through each day living the life.
Talking to someone who is about to turn eighty years old and hearing them say, "Well, I guess I am now in the near end of life time, so I need to just prepare for it." I am eighty-six, and I know it is borrowed time, but I do not think much about that; I am just going through each day living the life.
By contrast, when I turned 16 I thought "My God! I'm a quarter of the way to 64!"
Which was at the time the male retirement age (IIRC), the age my grandfather died at and Paul McCartney's placeholder for "old".
When you struggle - like, really struggle - to open jars and bottles the manufacturers (of the pills, bleach, whatever) have fitted with 'childproof' locks!
I spent the last four nights in a hotel which provided bottles of water in the rooms. Several of us had to keep asking reception staff to open them. One said, “ You aren’t the first to ask and you won’t be the last”.
I got on a bus and was dismayed to see that the only available seat was in the section for "honored citizens," so I would have to give it up if some geezer got on after me... then I realized I wouldn't...
My new driver's licence came this week. I know these photos are notorious for being less than appealing, but I look soo much older that I did in the previous one. I am putting that down to during lockdown us being able to re-use a photo taken within the last 5 years. So the photo on my previous licence was actually taken 10 years ago.
Pushed down the button to fix my breakfast toast. I heard it pop, and I went to get my toast. It was when I noticed the piece of bread lying on the counter.
I sometimes fill the kettle, and forget to turn it on, and return to it and fill my mug, and wonder why the tea leaves aren't expanding and the water isn't changing colour.
The partner of a friend of mine recently had surgery and my friend sent me a picture of her partner with the medical team, whose average age was clearly about 12.
Conversely, when I had a spot of bother with cancer, yea these many years ago, the surgical oncologist - not far behind my age, I think - asked me my age, and on being told said, "Only 66? You're getting the whole works!"
When you have to spend a few days in hospital with a chest infection and they put you in a "Vulnerable Persons Assessment Ward" which is code for geriatric.
I actually felt really offended! I'm only seventy bloody six!
When you have to spend a few days in hospital with a chest infection and they put you in a "Vulnerable Persons Assessment Ward" which is code for geriatric.
I actually felt really offended! I'm only seventy bloody six!
I'm afraid that loudly asserting one's age is the province of the under 20s and the elderly.
Counter space is at a premium in our kitchen, so we just use the broiler to make toast. (We’re likely moving to my late mother-in-law’s house in the coming months, so that may change.)
When you have to spend a few days in hospital with a chest infection and they put you in a "Vulnerable Persons Assessment Ward" which is code for geriatric.
I actually felt really offended! I'm only seventy bloody six!
I had a heart attack, followed by quadruple bypass surgery, the week after I turned 59. I lost track of the times nurses and doctors told me some version of “you’re young, so you’ll recover quickly.” I never could decide whether I should flattered at being told I was young just after turning 59 (yes I know, that is young for bypass patients), or whether I should be annoyed at being constantly reminded that I needed bypass surgery despite being young.
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I have a couple of M&S nighties that my mother bought for me when we downsized in 1975.
I'm thinner now than I was then!
I am proud to boast that my high school earrings still fit.
Both are UK slang terms for underpants.
Which parts of the UK?
Well, not Scotland (smirks).
I'm familiar with both as a Southerner, so may be South terms?
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Just as well you said. I thought trolleys were roller skates.
Not the west country, where I grew up, nor Lincolnshire or N Wales, where my mum's parents hailed from, or Lancashire where Mrs Feet is from. Could be Yorkshire (though my sister and her family have lived there and I've never heard it used). My guess is west midlands, or NE England.
Down here not sure if only by, ahem, the older generations (have not heard it for a while) as Reg Grundy was a tv producer. Rhyming slang for undies. Where does your term come from?
I am Midlands origin, parents from further North and now am in the South East, And none of them use Trolleys.
Maybe you are off yours?
The actor voicing it, and presumably therefore the line, was Mancunian.
I never heard it living in rural W Yorks, so I wonder if it is specifically an urban phenomenon.
By contrast, when I turned 16 I thought "My God! I'm a quarter of the way to 64!"
Which was at the time the male retirement age (IIRC), the age my grandfather died at and Paul McCartney's placeholder for "old".
I’m London born & bred and I’m familiar with the terms trollies and undercrackers
I know I’m getting old when I realise I used to say the same thing about middle age
Yes, that is hard. Went through it with my father and my mother. I know it will eventually be my turn.
We don't have a toaster.
I actually felt really offended! I'm only seventy bloody six!
I'm afraid that loudly asserting one's age is the province of the under 20s and the elderly.
How do you manage? Without a toaster I'd be like me mum was, scraping the burnt surface off the toast into the sink.
I concur - I used to take 2-3 slices of bread to make one slice of toast.
I had a heart attack, followed by quadruple bypass surgery, the week after I turned 59. I lost track of the times nurses and doctors told me some version of “you’re young, so you’ll recover quickly.” I never could decide whether I should flattered at being told I was young just after turning 59 (yes I know, that is young for bypass patients), or whether I should be annoyed at being constantly reminded that I needed bypass surgery despite being young.