h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Remembering playing whip and Top and hopscoth in the street.

and eating "jeelie peices" in between which your mum threw to you from the window of the kitchen.

How about 'Tuppeny Rush' or does that just apply to old Yella bellies.

targeted junk mail for stenna stair lifts, continance pads and SAGA insurance...

come on i'm 40 for goodness sake!!!

I'm 40... I feel old when, as I'm lusting after the latest partially dressed babe on "Top of the Pops", I realise that the majority of computers in my house were obsolete before she was born...

Glad your life has just begun - Young Man

Being with your kids at the pool - hearing them talking about "oldies" to their friends then realising they are talking about you.

Chatting to the girl washing my hair in the hairdresser and slowly coming to realise that she clearly regards me as ancient.

I feel guilty lusting after the nubile young lovelies on Top of the Pops as I'm old enough to be their dad.

I feel guilty lusting after the nubile young lovelies on Top of the Pops as I'm old enough to be their dad.

Realising that it probably too late to implement my plan of becoming a lusted-after nubile young lovely on top of the pops

Lusting after Pan's People for the second time around

When my conscience echo's my unconscious brain and I get a feeling of missing some information from somewhere (normally when I just wake up)

-- DoctorMO --

wandering into the kitchen/bedroom/lounge/infact any room and realising:

1) i have no idea why i'm here
2) i have no idea how i got there
3) find myself making tea to cover up points (1) and (2)

For the junior oldies 40 to 50
When you start thinking about a pension

For those who think they're old (50 to 60)
Ask your father

For oldies 60 to 70
When your looking towards you free TV License

For the real oldies 70+
When you remember logerithms as a quick way to a solution

I'm only 28! Still feel a bit old before my time now and again - like when the aforementionned hairdresser explains to me slowly and patiently what text messaging is as I must look too old to have a handle on the technology

Nice one Ancient Brit.

'though as a "junior oldie" Ican still remember using logerithms at school

What replaced logerithems?

-- DoctorMO --

Electronic calculators.

Now you don't need books with tables and slide rules.
And you don't know what you are doing any more.

Watching 15-1, and therefore, the ad breaks.

I am a target market