How old is middle-aged?

[Guinness Boy]

I'm going to be 45 in 3 months' time, and I still dig through the rock, hip-hop, reggae and house/techno/DnB sections of record shops first and am far more likely to buy clothes in either of the Lanes (Laines) than M&S... I doubt I'm going to stop all that just because I have a birthday.

Excellent

I always wondered if you did. Seriously. Like a sort of chemical reaction leading you inexorably towards the Tony Bennett section

Right as I was saying 55+ is middle aged......

 

[Blackadder]

50-65 is now the middle aged band
65+ old age

As I'm 49. I would happily go along with that US.

Mind you I've always thought that 45 was the start of Middle age.

I do go along with the state of mind arguements though. I know some very stuffy young people and some older people who never grow up.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I am 48, so technically I am middle age.

In fact i was looking at a Diahatsu Jeep thing the other day thinking, " that would make an excellent Mid life crisis car", but then I remembered I promised myself an MX5 soft top

 

[Uncle C]

Right as I was saying 55+ is middle aged......

We'll Im 58 and seem to have gone straight from teenager to dirty old man.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

30 middle aged

Totally agree - 30 is just daft!

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I am 47 and viewed my 40th birthday as the time I turned middle-aged; there was no way I could call myself young any longer.

Having said that I am still as fit as I was in my 30s, there is no sign of the arrival of the maturity and wisdom I as expecting. The only change has been my hair being re-directed from my head to my ears, a reduced alcohol capacity, and an increased consumption of Gaviscon.

 

[Dave the OAP]

The only change has been my hair being re-directed from my head to my ears, a reduced alcohol capacity, and an increased consumption of Gaviscon.

I feel your pain brother


gaviscon is now my after dinner mints

 

[Blackadder]

I feel your pain brother*

* Committments?

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

If you knew when you were going to die, the answer would be easy. But since we don't you're all just guessing - some of you could be right, but if you die in the next couple of years, you've already well passed your middle aged years.

What a joyous topic .....

Personally, I've got the mental age of a 25 year old stuck in the body of a 46 year old.

Ho hum, I look at totty now as eye candy rather than pulling material. That must mean middle age?

 

[Gully]

No Shropshire, looking on totty as eye candy is not the onset of middle age but of realism...or so I keep telling myself...