The Oldies Thread

[peteblue]

Bloody hell.
That's some attendance record. I prided myself on a low absentee rate through sickness but nowhere near yours.
That opens up another debate don't you think? Oldies versus the young ones (are these now called millennialls ? ) on attitudes for being absent from work for the most menial ailments. Definitely judging by looking at were I work now, the 60 plus age group are a lot more resilient than the young bucks.

You know you're getting old when you repeat yourself.......

 

[tommytowne]

You know you're getting old when you repeat yourself.......

Or involuntarily actions such as hitting the post reply more than once

 

[PITA]

Naturally I'm tempting fate here, but I honestly don't think I have had flu.
Heavy colds and general uneasiness but nothing on the likes of aching joints and being confined to bed.
I tend to take vitamin supplements on a regular basis, and put my resistance down to that, and not working in an office type environment.

If you have the flu you know it. Only had it once and it wasn't pleasant.

 

[Eggs]

...it's weird that I still leave the last bit of tea at the bottom of my cup just as I did as a kid when a few leaves would get through the strainer.

 

[degsy]

...it's weird that I still leave the last bit of tea at the bottom of my cup just as I did as a kid when a few leaves would get through the strainer.

Oooooh, dead posh you with a tea strainer...mind you mrs degsy is just the same.

 

[Eggs]

Oooooh, dead posh you with a tea strainer...mind you mrs degsy is just the same.

..nah, we had very little Matey. I think the old tea strainer was fairly standard in the 60s.

 

[degsy]

..nah, we had very little Matey. I think the old tea strainer was fairly standard in the 60s.

OK I'll start;
Tea strainer? Luxury! all we had was...

 

[Eggs]

OK I'll start;
Tea strainer? Luxury! all we had was...

..a bucket of water to keep the milk bottles in.

 

[summerisle]

 

[gonetomorrow]

OK I'll start;
Tea strainer? Luxury! all we had was...

We had to get in a dinghy with holes in it, paddle all the way to Ceylon and pick the tea ourselves if we wanted a cuppa.

 

[Lickle eric]

10 number 6 and a box of matches for 18p.
If we was coppering up number 10,s were a penny cheaper.
If we was flush 20 black cat 33p.

 

[Eggs]

..cinemas in every other street. We had the Lytton in the next street and the Hippodrome at the top of the road.

 

[JammyP]

We had to get in a dinghy with holes in it, paddle all the way to Ceylon and pick the tea ourselves if we wanted a cuppa.

Cup? We had to drink out of paper bag, with hole in it...

 

[JammyP]

Cup? We had to drink out of paper bag, with hole in it...

Mind, that was posh for St Helens

 

[summerisle]

A bag of chips, 6d. I shudder.