Question for the older (30+) posters

[*Gullsworth*]

Music tastes have mellowed, gone grey..........wrinkled up a bit, ................the old fella's shrunk to nine inches

BUT STILL HATE PALARSE AND PIMPEY AS MUCH NOW AS WHEN I WAS A KID........................

 

[Gully]

My musical tastes are pretty much the same, as long as it sounds good to me I like it, proper music played by musicians with instruments, none of that synthesised rubbish. I think that I can thank John Peel (RIP) for the fact that my musical tastes have continued to advance, his idea was to listen to as much music as you can as often as possible and don't reject something because it initially sounds a bit odd.

I have started to go a bit grey around the edges, side-burns, chest hair and only one or two mixed in with my barnet. My food tastes have remained pretty much the same, I don't drink alcohol anymore, after kicking the arse out of it in my 20's/30's. I am now far more physically active than I was at the age of 20 and probably in a far better physical shape, although I have slowed up a bit.

I am now reflecting on the fact that 40 is the new 30 and looking back and realising how good my 30's were, with the optimism that my 40's will be more of the same.

 

[Yorkie]

My music tastes haven't changed that much although in each decade I find something that I really like and so add to the collection of favourites.

Foodwise I still like the same things but have a hiatus hernia so use a lot more gaviscon than is normal to keep the pain down.

Drink - I've always liked cider and wine (not together) although I drink more red wine now whereas I only used to drink white.

Men - two long term marriages(21 years and now 13 years and always faithful).

 

[Tazman]

The only difference for me is that i now "Think before i speak" which is what my parents were always telling me! Still have same music/food tastes. I find it very weird that at 32 (33 in about 2 weeks, don't forget!) i still think and feel like i did when i was 18. I also tend to laugh at myself more. I just don't look like i did when i was 18! Shame!
Has anyone else gained confidence as they've grown older, i always thought at 18 i was bursting with confidence, now i know different!

 

[dougdeep]

32? You look older.

 

[Yorkie]

The only difference for me is that i now "Think before i speak" which is what my parents were always telling me! Still have same music/food tastes. I find it very weird that at 32 (33 in about 2 weeks, don't forget!) i still think and feel like i did when i was 18. I also tend to laugh at myself more. I just don't look like i did when i was 18! Shame!
Has anyone else gained confidence as they've grown older, i always thought at 18 i was bursting with confidence, now i know different!

A bit.
Btw at 57 you still feel 18 inside.

 

[Tazman]

32? You look older.

Morning Doug!

 

[Gully]

Tazman, at 18 your confidence is based purely on cockiness and the inane belief that you are always right, at 40 it is based on experience to know when you are right and the knowledge to admit when you are not.

 

[Dave the OAP]

My taste in food has changed. Being brought up in a Yorkshire home our food was very samey.....until I met Mrs DTG I had never drunk wine or eaten cheese!!!

Nowadays I eat almost anything

Music has not really changed, although with singing in an Oratorio Choir I now appreciate music that before I would have shied away from....Opera I am still not that keen on although I do sing one or two arias

 

[A Melbourne Albion Supporter]

I find I don't buy music as much anymore (i would buy 10 Cds a week), there hasn't really been a band in ages that i've just said wow that is better than when i first heard the stone roses, suede, b-52's or the like. Having a mortage slows that down i suppose.

Discovering a creative side through photography has happened in the last few years, but maybe having the cash to spend on it helped.

I stick to beers i like more, appreciate wine and like experimenting with food styles.

Still support and want to travel.

 

[Gwylan]

Some interesting views, I'm glad I asked it now.

I wasn't really talking about physical appearance - I take it for granted that people would have got greyer/shed hair/piled on the kilos.

But no-one's mentioned books, the one thing that's really changed for me, do people on NSC not read or do they still read what they did at 18?

 

[Yorkie]

Some interesting views, I'm glad I asked it now.

I wasn't really talking about physical appearance - I take it for granted that people would have got greyer/shed hair/piled on the kilos.

But no-one's mentioned books, the one thing that's really changed for me, do people on NSC not read or do they still read what they did at 18?

I do read but mainly novels. The content hasn't changed that much. Historical and romantic.

The biggest difference is the internet, of course.

 

[Hunting 784561]

I used to read loads of books when I was a kid, but now tend to do most of my reading on t'internet.

I'm fitter and stronger now than when I was 18, which is a surprise at 44.

My food tastes have got simpler as Ive got older, I much prefer a decent cheese sandwich, to fancy pretencious crap.

Musically Im re-discovering stuff from the pre punk era I wouldn't have been seen dead listening to in 1979, but which turned out to be good music after all.

 

[pasty]

do they still read what they did at 18?

Nah - Razzle/Penthouse/AsianBabes make me go all peculiar nowadays

 

[Goodfella]

I'm 47, my musical tastes havn't really changed that much, i love music, therefore listen to almost anything, I actually find myself swapping albums with my kids, and not many can do that.

 

[Beach Hut]

Used to get very worried at work when things go wrong but what I have no control over now I never worry about - far less stressful.

Music much the same as 20 years ago.

Life - very good quality life IMHO.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Musically Im re-discovering stuff from the pre punk era I wouldn't have been seen dead listening to in 1979, but which turned out to be good music after all.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Amazing how much we believed when 13. Saying that music wise I still like some of what I liked in the past but find that the music itself is linked to other eras of my life so play little of it nowadays except on the odd occasions of sentamental reminisinces. I've also found that I go off bands after a certain amount of time, much as I loved New Order in the 1980s I've bought nothing since Republic. Possibly because I like something fresh and exciting rather than a weary retread of past glories.

I find music reasonably interesting at the moment just because they're picking up influences from bands I liked at that age, though I do draw the line at some who just pinch wholescale, The Editors being the worst culprits.

Like Gully I've near enough stopped drinking and never felt better. I get a better high after cycling 20 miles over the Downs than I do being out on the piss. Consequently, I'm far fitter at 39 than I was 10 or even 20 years ago. I stopped playing football at 27 then started again 5 years ago and sure as hell want to continue doing so until I'm physically unable to.

Once you realise that life's just a game, that it isn't worth trying to make yourself into something you're clearly not, that nobody gives a damn anyhow, then things are far easier to deal with.

 

[Dave the OAP]

following on from, my comments earlier, the older I get the more I ( and I know this is going to sound wrong to some of you) but I dont really give a toss about Falmer really. If it happens then obviously great and it will be excellent for the younger generation to see us in a brand spanking new home, however, I really cant get that arsed about football as I used to.

If the ground ever gets built, I will be in my 50's by then.

We have discovered travellinmg recently ( easyjet, Ryan Air BA weekend breaks etc) and in some way football gets in the way of things like that. I used to book holidays around the football season....no more.

I have also discovered the oval ball game and am in the enviable position that Mrs DTG is keen on it, so we can go together. She wouldnt dream of going to watch Brighton at the moment, therefore it is something we can do together...the older you get, you must do things together. As a great man once said, you are a long time dead!!!

 

[Yorkie]

following on from, my comments earlier, the older I get the more I ( and I know this is going to sound wrong to some of you) but I dont really give a toss about Falmer really. If it happens then obviously great and it will be excellent for the younger generation to see us in a brand spanking new home, however, I really cant get that arsed about football as I used to.

If the ground ever gets built, I will be in my 50's by then.

We have discovered travellinmg recently ( easyjet, Ryan Air BA weekend breaks etc) and in some way football gets in the way of things like that. I used to book holidays around the football season....no more.

I have also discovered the oval ball game and am in the enviable position that Mrs DTG is keen on it, so we can go together. She wouldnt dream of going to watch Brighton at the moment, therefore it is something we can do together...the older you get, you must do things together. As a great man once said, you are a long time dead!!!

I'm the opposite. I missed out on a lot being exiled and having to bring up a family on very little money so now making up for it.
I shall be looking forward to getting my OAP concession in Aug 2008 at Falmer as that is my 60th birthday.

 

[NMH]

My musical taste has broadened, and my investigation of the blues roots of British rock has seen my record collection swell by about 500 more albums.

Personally, I think I'm sort-of a rarity in that I've never brushed aside new artists just to revere the 'good old days of music' because there are so many great bands still coming up. This has meant that I've kept buying more music as it's released, and kept playing the older stuff too.

There are only the occasional things, that I used to listen to, that I might find trite, or to have aged badly.