The Lemon Fool

Leothebear wrote:When doctors look like school kids....

88V8 wrote:I had an HMV wind-up portable gramophone and a pile of 78s. I still listen to 20s/30s jazz, alas no longer have the gram

Charlottesquare wrote:

nimnarb wrote:When you get up or down and let out a loud one. Obvious it's you and can't make an excuse apart from a curry joke. Most embarrassing. Not so much if it's a quiet one, as imaginary clouds of the stuff formulate somewhere, and it's[*] positively lethal. but you simply wish the person who is gagging to bits a pleasant day and move abruptly leaving them thinking they just stumbled on a sewer pit.

Also so much easier to have a hot bath these days and have some good scissors to cut those ripper like toenails off that are harder than cement, so a good soaking is invaluable. Trouble is, stomach so huge can hardly get there without ripping one's stomach muscles and then after some contortion you manage to get the right angle, scream in agony, as you have forgotten that you can't see, and cut half your foot off, which results in you banging your head at the end of the bath and knocking yourself out.

Can sort this if you have a shower over your bath- when you start a very long shower in it put in plug, as you shower your feet soak, at end of shower get out and use edge of bath to raise foot and cut your toenails.

tjh290633 wrote:

Charlottesquare wrote:
Can sort this if you have a shower over your bath- when you start a very long shower in it put in plug, as you shower your feet soak, at end of shower get out and use edge of bath to raise foot and cut your toenails.

That assumes that you can step over the side of the bath and can cut your own toenails.

My chiropodist has steady custom from we of the older generation.

TJH

Charlottesquare wrote:

tjh290633 wrote:That assumes that you can step over the side of the bath and can cut your own toenails.

My chiropodist has steady custom from we of the older generation.

TJH

I dread that coming, my feet are ticklish.

moorfield wrote:When your next boss is younger than you, is a bit of a career wake up call. That happened to me in my mid 40s.

Lootman wrote:Biggest annoyance about getting old? Having to get up during the night to pee.

tjh290633 wrote:

That assumes that you can step over the side of the bath and can cut your own toenails.

scotia wrote:

tjh290633 wrote:

That assumes that you can step over the side of the bath and can cut your own toenails.

Still cutting our own toenails, but we have had the bath/shower removed and replaced by a spacious walk in-out shower.
A friend chose a side-opening bath, but discovered that it was unpleasant sitting in it, getting chilled, while waiting for it to drain.

panamagold wrote:You will know you are old when, disembarking from your place of slumber or your comfy chair, the utterances you make are the same as the ones you used to emit whilst having sex.

scotia wrote:I realised I was getting old when I received a "50 year Member" badge from my professional institute, then I received a State Pension letter indicating that I would be receiving a 25p per week addition shortly - from my 80th birthday. Clearly we oldies are well looked after

monabri wrote:I was 'disgruntled' when I received a letter from SAGA....at 50 years of age. What are they trying to do...catch 'em young?

kempiejon wrote:My memory of Saga, it was the magazine of the over 50s.

bungeejumper wrote:

kempiejon wrote:My memory of Saga, it was the magazine of the over 50s.

The old Saggers, my former mother in law used to call them, back in the days when they were primarily in the holiday business. Said it all, really.