Wherever you are, if you're fifty or over, this is the thread for you. If you're sixty or over and shopped at Austins, the Ivy Shop etc. etc. this is the place to share your thoughts. Our American friends are more than welcome, of course, to tell us all about their favourite shopping destinations, jazz clubs, eateries etc.
Officially another eight years before old gitdom - you just made my day!
This is an outrage.
It's discriminatory and should be removed immediately.
You're far too young to play, you Sheffield scamp!
Old gits start at 60!
Truthfully, it is intended more for those over 60.
I've been going on 80 since I turned 11. Can I join?
You sure can. You fit the profile neatly. Welcome aboard and start making the tea.
At age 50, I find enjoyment in the combo of an ice cold martini and killer spliff. Old and uptight ain't going to cut it for me. Nonetheless I take "old git" (and "old fart") to be a term of pride. Screw the young and the feckless (most of 'em at any rate), literally and figuratively. Old age and treachery will overcome youth and agility.
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I shall be coming round checking your bus-passes quite shortly, gentlemen.
I've just come into this thread... Now, if I can just remember why I came in the first place...
Has anyone seen my glasses?
They're on your head, grandfather!
Nice picture of Philip Larkin wearing a duffle coat in September's 'Jazz Journal'.
Larkin could serve as our mascot. As could Kingsley Amis.
Just think of the "Last of the Summer Wine", thankfully killed off by the BBC this summer.
If you want to find hundreds of old gits in one place, go to UKIP's annual conference in Torquay next weekend. Sadly, Basil Fawlty's hotel was demolished several years ago.
I'll take a Junior Membership in The Old Git Club based on complete sympathy with its purpose, but I'm not qualified or ready for a full one yet.
Where's Walter Matthau? Where's George Burns?
At last! - a thread to which I am eligible to contribute without having to weave words that attempt to conceal my burgeoning disdain for those trailing in my wake.
I'm OK mixing it with 50+. Personally, I found my fifties to be the most productive and rewarding years of my professional and domestic life. Do others share that view?
Now in my 60s, I have time to catch up on all those things cast aside for later. Later has arrived.
I love the idea that this forum is like a virtual Gentleman's Club. Somewhere to retire to at the end of a busy day. Settle back in a deep, old, leather chair, sip at a vintage brandy...
And talk a complete load of bollocks...
Even the dragon laffed at that one, Mr. F!
Gentlemen, just when exactly does that "mid life crisis" happen? I'm turning 44 next week.
Is this it?