You Know You're Getting Old When........ (3 Viewers)

[Deleted member 5849]

No it wasn't. The mean figure was artificially skewed by much higher infant mortality.

Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too

There is a common misperception that long life spans in humans are very recent, and that no one in the past lived much beyond their 30s before now. This is not true. There is physical evidence that plenty of people in the past lived long lives — just as long as some people do today. Anthropology...

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It was a joke...

 

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[Kneeza]

Actually can remember when for a time there was only 3 channels available as ITV were on strike for what felt like aeons.

I remember when there were just two channels. BBC and ITV.

 

[dutchman]

I remember when there were just two channels. BBC and ITV.

Lucky to have two!

Where I lived we only had BBC, had to go round to a friend's house to watch ITV.

 

[Sick Boy]

30s would have been old age then though, not middle age

Middle age starts at 55 these days - doesn't it?!

 

[ovduk78]

Middle age starts at 55 these days - doesn't it?!

Average age in UK for men is 78 & women is 82 so surely it is closer to 40?

 

[Sick Boy]

Average age in UK for men is 78 & women is 82 so surely it is closer to 40?

Nah it’s definitely nearer to 55.
(I turn 39 this year).

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Nah it’s definitely nearer to 55.
(I turn 39 this year).

Youngster(!)

 

[ovduk78]

Nah it’s definitely nearer to 55.
(I turn 39 this year).

So you are officially middle aged this year

Edit: Don't you live in Italy? If you do then it is next year as the life expectancy for a man is 80!

 

[skybluetony176]

Middle age starts at 55 these days - doesn't it?!

That means I have another midlife crisis to go through.

 

[OffenhamSkyBlue]

So you are officially middle aged this year

Edit: Don't you live in Italy? If you do then it is next year as the life expectancy for a man is 80!

If he was to identify as a woman (82.34 years average), does that give him an extra year??

 

[Terry_dactyl]

That means I have another midlife crisis to go through.

I reckon I’m on my third or fourth.

 

[Kneeza]

Lucky to have two!

Where I lived we only had BBC, had to go round to a friend's house to watch ITV.

You were lucky!
In my day we had to kidnap people and call them friends...

 

[Houchens Head]

Almost as old as Houchen's Head.

Oi!!

 

[thekidfromstrettoncamp]

National Health Service turns 75 and you were just walking around when Aneurin Bevan started it and now your one of its biggest customers.