You know you’re getting older when……

[Busaholic]

They sell it in Home Bargains. About 7ish%. Problem is it doesn't taste like Guinness.

To some of us, that would be a bonus.

 

[Ashley Hill]

They sell it in Home Bargains. About 7ish%. Problem is it doesn't taste like Guinness.

It is Guinness but tastes better than traditional Guinness. It’s brewed under licence but using different ingredients.

 

[dangie]

It is Guinness but tastes better than traditional Guinness. It’s brewed under licence but using different ingredients.

So it isn't really Guinness

 

[Peter Mugridge]

So it isn't really Guinness

My Goodness!!!

 

[Ashley Hill]

So it isn't really Guinness

It’s still branded Guinness though but brewed under license.

 

[davetheguard]

So it isn't really Guinness

You know you're getting older when.......
........you're set in your ways.

Other stouts & porters are available. London Black is wonderful.

 

[dangie]

......Other stouts & porters are available. London Black is wonderful.

London Black is excellent. My local micro pub sells it. I've got a London Black baseball cap.

 

[D6130]

London Black is excellent. My local micro pub sells it. I've got a London Black baseball cap.

You know you're getting older when you start wearing beer-branded baseball caps!;

 

[Ashley Hill]

You know you're getting older when you start wearing beer-branded baseball caps!;

I had a Guinness one when I was in my 20s.

 

[dangie]

You know you're getting older when you start wearing beer-branded baseball caps!;

Last night I wore my Austrian ‘Zillertal Bier’ baseball cap

 

[Ashley Hill]

I wear a flat cap these days.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When you feel that your Harris Tweed hat is better than a baseball cap.

 

[52290]

London Black is excellent. My local micro pub sells it. I've got a London Black baseball cap.

Thwaites were brewing a cask-conditioned "Irish Stout" for St Patrick's day this year. It was much better than Guinness.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Thwaites were brewing a cask-conditioned "Irish Stout" for St Patrick's day this year. It was much better than Guinness.

Most cask conditioned stout is better than Guinness.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Most cask conditioned stout is better than Guinness.

There, corrected it for you.

Seriously it is a matter of taste. And I knew a few Irish folk who avoided Guiness in the UK as it was brewed in Park Royal.

 

[dangie]

….. And I knew a few Irish folk who avoided Guiness in the UK as it was brewed in Park Royal.

I’m guessing that’s because in Ireland they tend not to serve the ice-cold tasteless Guinness many pubs in the UK dish up.

 

[Peter Sarf]

I’m guessing that’s because in Ireland they tend not to serve the ice-cold tasteless Guinness many pubs in the UK dish up.

Could be - I notice how cold and fizzy Fosters is. Cannot even swallow it !.

 

[nw1]

When there are two famous people of a particular name on Wikipedia and the politician of that name is almost a quarter of a century younger than the dance DJ of the same name.

(Points for the name if you can guess...)

 

[swt_passenger]

When there are two famous people of a particular name on Wikipedia and the politician of that name is almost a quarter of a century younger than the dance DJ of the same name.

(Points for the name if you can guess...)

What’s a ‘dance DJ’ - for those of us who are too old to know the difference…

 

[Benters]

You get roped into the Midland Counties 12 Stage Road Relays at Sutton Park, Birmingham because your running club is short on numbers. I was the oldest in our men's team by a country mile (I'm 61). Boy, was I glad to finish, having last competed there nearly eight years ago.
At least we got a complete team and all finished. Just awaiting the results now...

 

[dangie]

You get roped into the Midland Counties 12 Stage Road Relays at Sutton Park, Birmingham because your running club is short on numbers. I was the oldest in our men's team by a country mile (I'm 61). Boy, was I glad to finish, having last competed there nearly eight years ago.
At least we got a complete team and all finished. Just awaiting the results now...

This reminded me of my running ‘career’. I took part in the UK National Cross Country Championships in 1992. I was just an average club runner. Compared to you I was a youngster at just 41

My lasting memory is being lapped by the winner Eamonn Martin

 

[nw1]

What’s a ‘dance DJ’ - for those of us who are too old to know the difference…

DJ who makes dance tracks by mixing and sampling other records, essentially.

 

[4COR]

You get roped into the Midland Counties 12 Stage Road Relays at Sutton Park, Birmingham because your running club is short on numbers. I was the oldest in our men's team by a country mile (I'm 61). Boy, was I glad to finish, having last competed there nearly eight years ago.
At least we got a complete team and all finished. Just awaiting the results now...

Ah, see, I think I've managed to naff up my knee just digging the allotment at the weekend - suspect I have a meniscus injury that I've suddenly made a hundred times worse than it was already. And that's even before I think about running (and I used to run a lot!) - definitely getting old (not even reached midway in 40s yet..).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

You really know that you are getting old when your walk through the shopping precinct has become such a slow trudge that you are convinced that the pigeons are overtaking you...

 

[Pinza-C55]

If you remember when listening to Radio 2 was usually an indication that you were over 45 and wore a cardigan and slippers.

 

[32475]

If you remember when listening to Radio 2 was usually an indication that you were over 45 and wore a cardigan and slippers.

When the playlist was one guaranteed to hear the likes of Matt Munro and Val Doonican

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When everyone wishes you a happy 79th birthday.

 

[mac]

When everyone wishes you a happy 79th birthday.

And you're only 39

 

[Typhoon]

When the playlist was one guaranteed to hear the likes of Matt Munro and Val Doonican

Oh, come on. That was my dad and he died over half a century ago!

I'm sure I'm not the only pensioner who has discovered that there are all sorts of artists or bands that never really registered from our working years and think 'I want more'.
(I suppose having to endure Val Doonican in the rocking chair on a Saturday was acceptable for being allowed to watch Top of The Pops on a Thursday, even if the likes of Munro and Doonican might crop up there too).

 

[dangie]

When the playlist was one guaranteed to hear the likes of Matt Munro and Val Doonican

I’m sure that in 50/60+ years time, youngsters will cringe at the music their grandparents used to listen to.