You are exempt for being awesome.

Coming up to 30.

Pros: Own my own company, about to own my own property, Still young enough to go on a night out with people in their early 20s and my music selection gets them going (not home).

Cons: I'm always tired man. Cunting paperwork! Hangovers are REAL! Popular music is shit, even the popular stuff in side genres is shit.
Women I used to wank over are getting ropey. Jesus Christ Lil Kim what happened to your face!?!

We are an aging forum.

Guesses at the medium forum age?

median, whippersnapper

36 and don't look a day over 12.  I've just been added to a fucking steering committee for this VR thingy, me and a school head and 2 PVCs (all profs obviously) and a VP and CEO and some other bloke.  What the fuck.  Old Skwerz making the Big Decisions™ and breaking out cigars with the heavy hitters.

Actually it'll be really dull in all likelihood.

I was promised that I'd be complaining that the music kids listen to would be just noise by the time I was pushing 40. It's all pussy bullshit.

Skerret wrote:

median, whippersnapper

36 and don't look a day over 12.  I've just been added to a fucking steering committee for this VR thingy, me and a school head and 2 PVCs (all profs obviously) and a VP and CEO and some other bloke.  What the fuck.  Old Skwerz making the Big Decisions™ and breaking out cigars with the heavy hitters.

Actually it'll be really dull in all likelihood.

And yet you don't play games. SHEESH.

You would be correct.

Tempy wrote:

Without Petey around I guess I'm fairly close to youngest these days

State your age.

No, g is from a time before jokes.

AJ wrote:

What are PVCs? I'm currently imagining Skez working with a couple of shiny dommes.

Vice Chancellors? No idea what the P might stand for. Provost? Perky? Pernicious?

Being surrounded by ten beavers (my phone put that rather than teenagers) every day has me feeling equal parts elderly and youthful. My default mode for dealing with them is a Brooker/Dee hybrid.

I just turned 36 fwiw. Or mid twenties, as I like to view these things in hexadecimal.

50 in April.

Re young 'uns. I quite like teenagers etc. It's pre-teen I don't like for some reason. I've come to realise I've never really liked children apart from my own.

Music. Some contemporary stuff is fine but mainstream is dreadful on the whole. I don't believe it's due to any lack of talent - problem is with the industry. But it's probably been always like that.

Don't like digital content. As convenient as it is I still like physical media. The downward slide of the album is a source of sadness for me too.

TV? Sad to see the US now with the rep for the superior product - and splendid content it is at times. The BBC? Ah dear. Still great in many ways but is now forced to play games for figures and is in the race to the bottom.

No film stars any more either. As bad as the Hollywood machine was in the so-called golden era with it's hold over the actors, we did have generations of proper film stars. We get great actors now but they aren't really stars.

And as for film? We are now in the age of the movie - a rollercoaster ride of special effects and exposition for mouth breathers. Fucking awful. I enjoy big daft films and CGI-fests but not all the time. I'm fed up being disappointed in the cinema. Again - no lack of talent - just risk-avoiding productions made to sell plastic figures. So many missed opportunities.

Premier league - a preening bunch of peacocks in a money making machine that is now sadly mistaken by the population as a reflection of the national game which only stokes the fires of disappointment every time there is an international competition. The balance has shifted too far to player focus. It needed to move as players were paid a pittance once upon a time and it's a short career - but it's got out of hand. The players are bigger, faster and stronger and that's great but the problem is the system in which they exist - again - that is the problem.

Entertainment as a product sold by a business. Necessary but the focus is way off.

A time was when a few international players in a team added a bit of welcome spice. Now the managers aren't even British.

Rap music? Fuck me. No doubt the poetry is well penned, and the phrasing requires skill. But it's a dirge and it hurts my ears. 

Too many stand-up comedians on TV now.

I miss video game arcades.

Mars bars are a shadow of what they were, as are Club biscuits.

Getting older has actually been pretty awesome actually. I sit in the atypical camp though as I've never married or had children and don't have a nine-to-five job. Sure, I definitely pee more often and I have to look after my elderly mother, but these things are a small price to pay for all the advantages.
I'm happier in myself than I've ever been, I have a decent disposable income, I have a hell of a lot of free time, a job that I love, and several days a week I'm blessed with being able to get up when I feel like it and go to bed when I want to rather than have to.
None of the things that bothered me in my younger years matter to me any more and I largely enjoy life. I'm old enough to realise that most of life's troubles don't amount to a hill of beans and still young enough to enjoy anything that genuinely interests me. I have no regrets and just take life as it comes.

it's all good really

g.man

Yeah like G's but with a less personal bent