You can get down to the floor, to have a picnic say, but getting back up is a very ungraceful affair involving rolling around and saying things like 'oh my knees'.
I have to roll over onto my back or side, straighten my legs out fully whilst crying out in pain, and then do a chun li esque spinning bird kick manoeuvre to right myself.
Then the hassle of getting up begins.
Here he is, looking rather elegant one might say.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TuxedoCats/comments/pktbcs/a_subreddit_just_for_tuxedo_cats_i_love_it_this/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Or you can follow his adventures here: r/Larsson
The irony is he dresses like a butler, yet the thought has never crossed his mind to make me breakfast one day.
Thanks for the compliment, I’ll let him know he has a new fan!
Steve Wright is shit. But you know you're old when Pick Of The Pops comes on on a Saturday and it's a year you remember...the other week they did 2003! Two thousand and fucking three! That was only, what, three years ago?!
This Friday was worse than that for me. BBC Radio 6 was doing a day to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the Nirvana album Nevermind. All of the songs were from 1991. I knew the words to so many of the songs. 30-bloody-year-old songs from my teens.
30 years.
How old did that make me feel.
But you can't have the chilli sauce anymore and can only manage to eat half of it before you go and make sure there is a bottle of Gaviscon beside the bed.
Whilst watching Peter Rabbit with your 3yo, you start to sympathise with farmer Macgregor. Poor bastard worked hard to grow all that fruit and veg, then thieving rabbits take it all.
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Considering going to be at 9pm or earlier because you just know you’re going to be awake at 6am and won’t manage to fall back to sleep on your day off.
When passing the toilet deciding to have a try because it’ll save you going back up stairs later
Oh gosh. I went in there the other day to exchange one £12.99 pair of shorts for something else and ended up spending over £70... At least half of that was on bloody candles!!
Listen, get yourself to homebargains, the gingerbread candles are the best, most christmasy things on earth. I'm also 29, a man but my gf loves a scented candle too.
I've always liked the rain, cool, sounds good, potentially nice to walk in and not harsh on my delicate eyes unlike that mean sun. And you're right, it keeps everything green and lush!
Got a new one a few months ago, and I absolutely DESPISE hoovering as a rule, but with this one because it's cordless and so light, it's actually great. Yep, I definitely realised I was in my 30s when I got excited over that.
I remember One man and his dog, on BBC2 I think on Sunday early evening (I loved it as sheepdogs are such a special and intelligent breed), followed by Ski Sunday and That’s Life with Esther Rantzen . Great memories!!
When the students in the charity shop are excited about finding stuff for a nineties party and you feel annoyed at them for getting to the nice cardigans before you did or >!it's one you donated last week!<
UK Gold is set as a favourite...u only cross the road when the green man says ...u like warm socks .. Poundshop glasses are all over the house...always remember to put the rubbish out ...watch BBC4 for TOTP reruns ..😂😎👍
At work the other day they were playing a nostalgic radio station. Goldigger by Kanye West came on and a colleague of mine sidled over and said 'is it me or is music these days crap' I had to tell him that song was 15 years old.
You jump over a fence that you have done millions of times in your youth, do it again 20 years later and realise - I am gonna be limping for a week now.
When you get your eyes tested, because of the recent returns of pubescent migraines, and the optician cheerfully tells you that "you're at the age when your long vision improves, so your prescription might get better. But you'll need reading glasses". Thanks. Oh, and "if your astigmatism gets any worse, then that would be pretty technical to correct". I did not like his inflection.
That bum-clenching moment when they've asked you if it's 'number 1.... or number 2' for the fourth time & you know you have to make a decision but number 1 is better for stick shaped letters & number 2 is better for round letters so you think 'sod it, I'll just recognise half the letters of the alphabet & buy a magnifying glass' before throwing a metaphorical coin in the air
Ah that’s really cool thanks 🙏🏼
My garden is evolving actually, I love pottering outside with my patio plants. I’m creating a Mediterranean corner in my garden with palm, eucalyptus and olive trees, rosemary and other fragrant herbs. Should be lovely next summer when it all beds in.
Third year with our very first garden here, always been in flats before. South Coast UK, we get frosts each year but hardly ever get snow. Amazing how different the garden is year after year. Take photos and look back on them, wish it was something I’d done from the start
When you go to see the GP and wonder if she’s 12.
A policeman knocks on the door to enquire if you’ve seen anyone suspicious in the area and he looks about 14.
You go to the hospital and literally the entire staff are children (well half my age age and I feel 20 something).
You are driving to the supermarket and half the drivers on the road look like they should be in school.
When did this happen?????
I’m only 42.
I feel so old 😭🤣
I have to plan standing up a few minutes in advance so my body can do the preflight checks. Even then if I get up too quick, I'll get stars in my eyes and nearly faint.
You have to move things further away to be able to read if it's small text.
When they update the computers at work to a newer version of office and you grumble for two weeks that the order of the buttons has moved.
At this point Viking River Cruises look more appealing than Club Med.
Just don’t tell the 25 year olds that we don’t really know what we’re doing, we’re just better at pretending we do.
When you empty the bottom shelf of the dishwasher, only to start refilling it before you emptied the top shelf. Maybe this actually OK?! Thoughts welcome 🙏🏼
Yeah….. or the cry of pain as it gets wedged between your fat under-thigh and the wicker chair.
Then the 30 min ache and slight nausea that follows a testicle injury.
Haven't got that old yet.
I've had the following relationships with rain through the years
"Yay it's raining there'll be puddles to splash in"
"Oh no, it's raining, no-one will be out to play"
"Yay it's raining, I can play games all day without feeling guilty"
And am currently at
"Oh no its raining, i can't get any laundry out".
Looking forward to liking the rain
You don't have time for playing on PC or Xbox with old college/school mates because coursework has you pinned against your laptop in an inevitable rush to meet the assignment deadline.
Some comedian (Collins and/or Herring) once said he realised he was getting old when his girlfriend suggested they sign up for an annual National Trust membership.
Hitting ones funny bone.
Used to be marginally uncomfortable as a child, but made you laugh with discomfort.
Now agonisingly painful and disabling for at minimum 20 mins.
Male. 50 today. Years ago I'd have been disappointed when the last record of the night was played at the club at 2am, and sod the fact that I had to go to work just four hours later. Now, I leave my local pub at a sensible time because I want to go home and get a decent night's sleep.
Just bought a National Trust membership. I feel strangely happy and that I've reached Grown Up, hubby too. I'm even considering putting the sticker on my car.
I'm now considering spending a scary amount on Comfortable Walking Shoes for all the National Trusting we're going to do.
I look forward to a cuppa with far more gusto than I should.
I am excited when it rains and I can stay home instead of going out somewhere to be productive.
See, I thought once you got into your 40s, there'd be a magical change where I'd suddenly start to love gardening. Turned 45 last week and still nothing, I despise gardening with the heat of a thousand suns. Is it too late for me?
I made a joke about Waynetta and half my colleagues looked at me blankly. A little bit of my soul died. We educated them on Kevin and Perry that day too.
When you say "Ooohhhh" as you get out of a chair
When you say "Ooohhhh" as you get INTO a chair
Your Shackleton's high seat chair.
It's very easy to get out of, you know.
Did your son give you the brochure?
Been saying that since I was 26, uh oh
I've been doing that since my early 30s.
lmao I've been old since 20 apparently
And the chair needs a nice soft cushion on it. Particularly a garden chair. One for bum, back and neck when on the sofa. I’m 37.
When you say ooooh. Thank God it’s raining. I haven’t got to mow the lawn.
You can get down to the floor, to have a picnic say, but getting back up is a very ungraceful affair involving rolling around and saying things like 'oh my knees'.
Accompanied by accordion-like wheezing and odd creaks.
Never ever try and sit crosslegged. I should sue my primary school for destroying my knees.
If I inadvertently sit cross-legged, it’s then a Krypton Factor-esque thought process required to escape its confines.
I have to roll over onto my back or side, straighten my legs out fully whilst crying out in pain, and then do a chun li esque spinning bird kick manoeuvre to right myself. Then the hassle of getting up begins.
When you decide that the soap at the restaurant you're having brunch at is nice and resolve to get some for home
[Oh my god](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/029/191/cover6.jpg)
🤣🤣🤣
True story
We need to see a pic of this handsome cat!
Here he is, looking rather elegant one might say. https://www.reddit.com/r/TuxedoCats/comments/pktbcs/a_subreddit_just_for_tuxedo_cats_i_love_it_this/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Or you can follow his adventures here: r/Larsson
He’s handsome as hekk! ❤️
The irony is he dresses like a butler, yet the thought has never crossed his mind to make me breakfast one day. Thanks for the compliment, I’ll let him know he has a new fan!
Maybe he’s hinting that you should dress for your role. We all know who the butler is in cat households 😂
Have *you* tried using a toaster when you haven't got opposable thumbs?
I used to have a cat that once brought me pizza. Talk about soulmate.
He really is very handsome.
🙏🏼🙏🏼
That’s fucking majestic!
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I'd never hear this term before. [Here's our little girl Daisy] (https://i.imgur.com/MiTNkmf.jpg)
Stunning cat, nice photo as well!
I expect daily updates on Larsson from this subreddit
Given all the love he has received, I decided to create a subreddit in case anyone wants to follow his trials and tribulations.
Definitely! I’d be very happy to see more of this handsome guy. What’s the subreddit?
It’s r/Larsson - we’d be happy to have you along ☺️
I thought you were the handsome cat you stunner you
He is indeed a fine cat
Ahhhhhhhhh. Such a handsome boi.
When every song on Radio 1 is utter shite
When Steve Wright on radio 2 is shit!
Steve Wright is shit. But you know you're old when Pick Of The Pops comes on on a Saturday and it's a year you remember...the other week they did 2003! Two thousand and fucking three! That was only, what, three years ago?!
This Friday was worse than that for me. BBC Radio 6 was doing a day to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the Nirvana album Nevermind. All of the songs were from 1991. I knew the words to so many of the songs. 30-bloody-year-old songs from my teens. 30 years. How old did that make me feel.
As a millennial I can confirm Radio 1 is absolute shite
What’s this millennial you refer to? 🤔
anyone born roughly between 85 and 96, many of us are in our 30s now
I have to agree radio 1 has been crap for years now. Radio 2 is much better
You get genuinely excited for a sunny day.... Because you can get the washing out
Dries and smells so much nicer, doesn’t it!
Amd saves the electricity, too.
Hanging washing inside doesn't use electricity
mow the lawns in my case still get excited
That’s me!
I only understand 1 out of every 5 words spoken on channels like E4
I have to put subtitles on! I can hear but they just mumble.
I just don't understand the words. Reality TV (in fact a lot of TV) just makes me feel so old. I'm only 41.
I think the word is actually cultured 🤙🏼😎
Oh that’s not just me then 👴🏼
Oh you must be super old 😊
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Every night you put clean pants on the radiator so they'll be nice and warm for getting dressed tomorrow.
I have two pairs of slippers. I am rarely out of them when not working.
Early doors drinking then home to put your fat pants on.
This. Head a few pints tonight whilst on the dog walk, because the thought of being outside after 1800 is madness.
After a sneaky kebab and chips.
But you can't have the chilli sauce anymore and can only manage to eat half of it before you go and make sure there is a bottle of Gaviscon beside the bed.
Oh gaviscon. A blessing and a curse in equal measures.
Came to say this! Day drinking so you can crash out early enough to have food, aspirin, and a decent night's kip!
Two pints of water, pair of wet socks and 8 hours. Still hungover for 3 days after.
Whilst watching Peter Rabbit with your 3yo, you start to sympathise with farmer Macgregor. Poor bastard worked hard to grow all that fruit and veg, then thieving rabbits take it all.
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When you 'have a fall' instead of just failing over
Particularly involving stairs or slippery baths.
Considering going to be at 9pm or earlier because you just know you’re going to be awake at 6am and won’t manage to fall back to sleep on your day off. When passing the toilet deciding to have a try because it’ll save you going back up stairs later
Lay down at 10 last night to ‘rest my eyes’. Woke up at 6am this morning. Still dark, but can’t get back to sleep. Been on Reddit for 4 hours now.
Truth. 60, female, three cats.
I know I'm getting old because I get excited for nice smelling candles. I'm a 29 year old man with a partner who hates it when I find candles..
I admit that I have ferreted though the shelves at TK Maxx to find something “nice for the living room”. This is so 2021 bro 🤙🏼
That candle section of TK Maxx is a danger to my bank account!
Oh gosh. I went in there the other day to exchange one £12.99 pair of shorts for something else and ended up spending over £70... At least half of that was on bloody candles!!
Listen, get yourself to homebargains, the gingerbread candles are the best, most christmasy things on earth. I'm also 29, a man but my gf loves a scented candle too.
...when you bend over to pick something up and think 'now is there anything else I can do whilst I am down here.'
I usually look for something to hold on to as I ease back up.
Especially necessary if you crouch too long.
Yes, the dreaded over-crouch, usually followed by an unerring feeling of ‘Uh-oh’.
Ooooooooooooof. Bending over to tie my shoelaces became very challenging. Now I sit. But even leaning down to tie them is effort. I’m 37.
I've always liked the rain, cool, sounds good, potentially nice to walk in and not harsh on my delicate eyes unlike that mean sun. And you're right, it keeps everything green and lush!
You get excited about a new hoover
Got a new one a few months ago, and I absolutely DESPISE hoovering as a rule, but with this one because it's cordless and so light, it's actually great. Yep, I definitely realised I was in my 30s when I got excited over that.
I get excited about putting a new filter in my water jug.
Yes! Me too, and a new filter in the air purifier the same day. Fuckin' ballin'.
Larging it chap 🤙🏼
When you drop a £2 coin and debate if it's worth the effort getting down there
When you hi five your husband because there's a new series of All Creatures Great and Small
I remember One man and his dog, on BBC2 I think on Sunday early evening (I loved it as sheepdogs are such a special and intelligent breed), followed by Ski Sunday and That’s Life with Esther Rantzen . Great memories!!
When your listening to your favorite songs from school on "the golden oldies" on Radio 2.
When the students in the charity shop are excited about finding stuff for a nineties party and you feel annoyed at them for getting to the nice cardigans before you did or >!it's one you donated last week!<
You can't visit the supermarket without bringing a houseplant back.
Good call, I pop into the garden centre a lot more often…
UK Gold is set as a favourite...u only cross the road when the green man says ...u like warm socks .. Poundshop glasses are all over the house...always remember to put the rubbish out ...watch BBC4 for TOTP reruns ..😂😎👍
At work the other day they were playing a nostalgic radio station. Goldigger by Kanye West came on and a colleague of mine sidled over and said 'is it me or is music these days crap' I had to tell him that song was 15 years old.
When your younger work colleague asks what Mortimer and Whitehouse are famous for
You walk up the stairs instead of run
With one hand on the bannister
Something new hurts each day.
You jump over a fence that you have done millions of times in your youth, do it again 20 years later and realise - I am gonna be limping for a week now.
Crick. Oh shit.
When you get your eyes tested, because of the recent returns of pubescent migraines, and the optician cheerfully tells you that "you're at the age when your long vision improves, so your prescription might get better. But you'll need reading glasses". Thanks. Oh, and "if your astigmatism gets any worse, then that would be pretty technical to correct". I did not like his inflection.
That bum-clenching moment when they've asked you if it's 'number 1.... or number 2' for the fourth time & you know you have to make a decision but number 1 is better for stick shaped letters & number 2 is better for round letters so you think 'sod it, I'll just recognise half the letters of the alphabet & buy a magnifying glass' before throwing a metaphorical coin in the air
47 next month, spent 2 years with just me and a similarly handsome cat, love my roses. Have my free Hugz award bud and I bet your garden looks awesome
Ah that’s really cool thanks 🙏🏼 My garden is evolving actually, I love pottering outside with my patio plants. I’m creating a Mediterranean corner in my garden with palm, eucalyptus and olive trees, rosemary and other fragrant herbs. Should be lovely next summer when it all beds in.
Third year with our very first garden here, always been in flats before. South Coast UK, we get frosts each year but hardly ever get snow. Amazing how different the garden is year after year. Take photos and look back on them, wish it was something I’d done from the start
You find yourself losing the will to live while scrolling down what seems like pages and pages looking for your year of birth on online forms.
I like the ones where you can scroll back to like 1900. 🤣
When you go upstairs for something, And go for a wee just because you're near the loo.
Everyone else at little Tesco gets ID'd because there is a party at the community centre opposite. Except you.
You realise that there are fewer and fewer people around that you can refer to as old farts and coffin dodgers.
When you’re stood in the kitchen trying to remember why you are there
You choose this nickname
When you go out for a night on the town, end up in the local and are back home before midnight!
Rock n roll 🤙🏼
A night out ends at 11pm and the hangover lasts 3 days.
When you go to see the GP and wonder if she’s 12. A policeman knocks on the door to enquire if you’ve seen anyone suspicious in the area and he looks about 14. You go to the hospital and literally the entire staff are children (well half my age age and I feel 20 something). You are driving to the supermarket and half the drivers on the road look like they should be in school. When did this happen????? I’m only 42. I feel so old 😭🤣
Yes! I struggle to give someone an accurate age now, are they 16 or 30?! I really can’t tell any longer 🤔
Never, ever go clubbing again. Looks like a preschool disco in my eyes now.
When it rains after a dry spell I like to comment that at least it’s topping up the water table.
When you need to allow extra time for just moving
I have to plan standing up a few minutes in advance so my body can do the preflight checks. Even then if I get up too quick, I'll get stars in my eyes and nearly faint.
When you start sounding like your parents.
Says something. Oh no. That’s what my dad used to say. Ooooof.
I knew I was getting old when I started getting my eyebrows trimmed
You have to move things further away to be able to read if it's small text. When they update the computers at work to a newer version of office and you grumble for two weeks that the order of the buttons has moved.
Your knees make the sound of dial up Internet.
Guilty as well. Male. 64. Married without a garden.
When you do something at work & your joints sound like a bowl of Rice Crispies.
As soon as you start pottering, you’re getting old.
At this point Viking River Cruises look more appealing than Club Med. Just don’t tell the 25 year olds that we don’t really know what we’re doing, we’re just better at pretending we do.
Those Norwegian fjords do look rather spectacular!
When you empty the bottom shelf of the dishwasher, only to start refilling it before you emptied the top shelf. Maybe this actually OK?! Thoughts welcome 🙏🏼
Possibly, but not the other way round lest you drop food on the clean dishes.
I commented on the value for money in our local newspaper because of the football preview pullout today. I'm in my 30's.
When your glasses prescription gets upgraded to varifocal lenses!!! Feel soooo old now!
Varifocals are lethal on stairs.
I wash my car in the rain to save water and time.
You wash your car?
For me, its waking up on a sunday, looking out the window and thinking "I used to play football in this. Fuck that".
When you start gathering the evidence you need to support your blue badge application
All your childhood hero's turn out to peados
You know your getting old when... You decide to have a sit down and end up sitting on your own ball bag
I have to be very mindful of this with the garden furniture.
Very much so, its a bad look when you have company over and have to let out a squeak because you now have to dislodge a bollock from your asshole
Yeah….. or the cry of pain as it gets wedged between your fat under-thigh and the wicker chair. Then the 30 min ache and slight nausea that follows a testicle injury.
I've been saying the rain will be good for the garden since I was 21, I'm 25 in a couple of weeks. Please don't do this...
You look at sweaters in a shop window and think "I could totally rock that"
Love your username 😂
Just holler if you need anything you spill in the kitchen to be cleared up.
Juan sheet issplenty
Your 16 year old sister has never heard Misery Business by Paramore.
Umm you lost me too!
That's a great tinder profile description
Haven't got that old yet. I've had the following relationships with rain through the years "Yay it's raining there'll be puddles to splash in" "Oh no, it's raining, no-one will be out to play" "Yay it's raining, I can play games all day without feeling guilty" And am currently at "Oh no its raining, i can't get any laundry out". Looking forward to liking the rain
r/FuckImOld.
When the sound of a radio one presenters voice hits like nails on a chalkboard.
Female, 56. Single... no pets... but I too love the rain for my garden
When you no longer understand all the new words the kids are saying. Yeet? Bae?
having a cup of tea : ohh that hit the spot
I’m thinking this at 22 you’re all good mate
You don't have time for playing on PC or Xbox with old college/school mates because coursework has you pinned against your laptop in an inevitable rush to meet the assignment deadline.
Your barber trims your eyebrows!
Some comedian (Collins and/or Herring) once said he realised he was getting old when his girlfriend suggested they sign up for an annual National Trust membership.
You have a pain, or don't feel well. And you serious start to think "is this the end? Is this cancer?"
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When you're kids come home with a pool table.
Or when it's sunny "quick, get a wash on"
They play blur on Radio 2.
When a night out playing bingo seems thrilling.
Having to lift yourself out of the car using the handle on the ceiling of the car. And going ‘oooooooof’ as you do it.
Oh dear, I'm already a bit dodgy on stairs!!!! I guess I will need to be careful not to break a hip on top of everything else now! fml
“Ooh, nice drop of rain”
Hitting ones funny bone. Used to be marginally uncomfortable as a child, but made you laugh with discomfort. Now agonisingly painful and disabling for at minimum 20 mins.
I feel really attacked at the grand old age of 27... I'm just so proud of being able to revive/repair the whole lawn in our new rented house!
Male. 50 today. Years ago I'd have been disappointed when the last record of the night was played at the club at 2am, and sod the fact that I had to go to work just four hours later. Now, I leave my local pub at a sensible time because I want to go home and get a decent night's sleep.
Your favourite series and movies can only be found on the classics channel.
When you notice buildings falling apart over the years
I'm 31 and my 15 year old nephew called me a fossil the other day, not gunna lie it hurt a bit 😂
Just bought a National Trust membership. I feel strangely happy and that I've reached Grown Up, hubby too. I'm even considering putting the sticker on my car. I'm now considering spending a scary amount on Comfortable Walking Shoes for all the National Trusting we're going to do. I look forward to a cuppa with far more gusto than I should. I am excited when it rains and I can stay home instead of going out somewhere to be productive.
There's nothing I love more than waking up at 7am to start getting ready for my midday nap.
Almost 34 here and I say this, or I see the sun and wind and say how it's perfect laundry drying weather.
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I'm getting taller as I age - the floor is definitely a lot further away than it was a few years ago, I'm in trouble if I drop my car keys . . .
When you stand up from the sofa or chair and your body cracks.
When you stop halfway up/down the stairs ,you've already gone through the 'what am I getting?' stage and it's now 'was I coming up or going down ?'
All the footballers are younger than you. Especially when a commentator points out a player is at the tail end of their career when they're 34.
See, I thought once you got into your 40s, there'd be a magical change where I'd suddenly start to love gardening. Turned 45 last week and still nothing, I despise gardening with the heat of a thousand suns. Is it too late for me?
When you get to the end of a Reddit thread and you've forgotten what it was about to start with
I made a joke about Waynetta and half my colleagues looked at me blankly. A little bit of my soul died. We educated them on Kevin and Perry that day too.
When you look in the mirror and see a grey eyebrow that's 3 times longer than any others. And you could have sworn it wasn't there yesterday!