Post by angel2 on Oct 26, 2005 19:58:40 GMT
SYMPTOMS OF BEING OVER 25
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.
11. You start to worry about your parents' health.
12. You complain that ecstasy's "not as pure as it used to
be coz you know that if you have some it will take about
48 hours to recover and anyway, you might look a bit of
an idiot.
13. Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything
you want to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid.
14. You don't get funny looks when you buy a Disney video or
a Wallace and Gromit bubble bath, as the sales assistant
assumes they are for your child.
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 p**sing 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?
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.
11. You start to worry about your parents' health.
12. You complain that ecstasy's "not as pure as it used to
be coz you know that if you have some it will take about
48 hours to recover and anyway, you might look a bit of
an idiot.
13. Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything
you want to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid.
14. You don't get funny looks when you buy a Disney video or
a Wallace and Gromit bubble bath, as the sales assistant
assumes they are for your child.
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 p**sing 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?