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Count Zero


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SYMPTOMS OF BEING OVER 25



1. You leave clubs before the end to "beat the rush". (worse still you
    don't go to the clubs)

2. You get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than going
    clubbing the night before.

3. You stop dreaming of becoming a professional footballer /    basketball player and start dreaming of having a son who might instead.

4. Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the property
    section.

5. All of a sudden, middle aged people are not 46, they are only 46.

6. Before going out anywhere, you ask whether there is anywhere to
park.


7. Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them
    because they'll be alright for the DIY or in the garden.

8. You buy T-shirts without anything written on them.

9. Instead of laughing at the innovations catalogue that falls out of
    the newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving
    properties of most of the things that are in it.

10. You start to worry about your parents' health.

11. You have more disposable income, but everything you want or need to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid.

12. You don't get funny looks when you buy a Disneyvideo or a Wallace
    And Gromit bubble bath, as the sales assistant assumes they are for your children.

13. Pop music all starts to sound the same.

14. You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they do a really
    nice half-bottle of house red.

15. You always have enough milk in.

16. To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to go
    clubbing, you instead frequent trendy bars and restaurants in the
    mistaken belief that you have not turned into your parents.

17. While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4's Time
    Team with TonyRobinson. You get drawn in. Grand Designs also appeals.

18. The benefits of a pension scheme become clear.

19. You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from B&Q.

20. You wish you had a shed.

21. You have a shed. (shedie is ahead of the game here then)

22. You actually find yourself saying "They don't make 'em like that
    anymore" and "I remember when there were only 4 TV channels" and
"Not in my day...."

23. Radio 2 play more songs you know than Radio 1 - and Jeremy Vine has some really interesting guests on.

24. Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the bus,
    You tut at rowdy school children.

25. When sitting outside a pub you admire their hanging baskets.

26. You find yourself saying "is it cold in here or is it just me"

27. You understand the above and forward it to your fellow aging
    friends.

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Forwarded to my 28-year old daughter. . .



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Salmon


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Quite a few here are true for me!

Good one, Count. Although I've read this a few times before.

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Count Zero


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a friend of mine added:

28) you start eating muslei instead of coco pops as you worry about your bowel movements....


lol sonme of them defiantely apply to me, number 6 espcially.

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Don't worry Count, if you ever start wishing you had a shed, don't hesistate to drop me a pm...I can tell you where to get some great bargains

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i would drop you a pm, but taking into consideration your general response time it'd be quiker to send the request by carrier pigeon.

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How many of these would u say apply to you ? surely not no 25....that sounds more like sympton of being over 50 !

Worryingly, there's a fair few that apply to me !

you could also add....(29) You realise you haven't slept rough for over 4 years

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Yep, it's all true - except that for me they didn't apply till i was over 30 (i obviously didn't get out much as a youngster), and except for clubbing, as i only started going to clubs when i was 34, when i suddenly discovered how to move on the dancefloor without looking like a complete idiot. 2 years later i stopped again when i realised that i preferred putting my feet up with a cup of coffee to jostling at a bar trying to get some watered-down beer. 



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Alarmingly true. I turn 29 next month and most of those definitely apply to me.

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Have to admit I laughed at all this and then realised that quite a few now really do apply to me. I'm 40.

Oh well. Never mind.

p.s. For me it hit home when suddenly I no longer knew the acts in the top 40 and they all sounded awfull. The teenage life had finally gone.

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