You know you are getting old when:

[MissMittens]

Grace Jones is what Naomi Campbell wishes she was. The fact that I know who both of them are, makes me feel really old, lol!!!

While working on a Pulsar watch the other day while XM literally played a Grace Jones song, I started thinking about the James Bond movies and how many of them there have been and about all the different watches with gadgets Bond wore. I wondered how many watches there were, what they were, and what they all supposedly did. I didn't even realize that a Pulsar was in one of them until I googled it, or that Grace Jones was in a Bond movie.

With age comes great responsibility; and memory loss, lol!!!!

 

[GHT]

With age comes great responsibility; and memory loss, lol!!!!

With alcohol consumption comes cirrhosis. Bond has drunk heavily and consistently across six decades (109 drinking events; mean, 4.5 events per movie). His peak blood alcohol level was estimated to have been 0.36 g/dL, sufficient to kill people. He is classified as having severe alcohol use disorder, as he satisfied six of 11 DSM-5 criteria for this condition. Chronic risks for Bond include frequently drinking prior to fights, driving vehicles (including in chases), high stakes gambling, operating complex machinery or devices, contact with dangerous animals, extreme athletic performance, and sex with enemies, sometimes with guns or knives in the bed. Notable trends during the study period included a decline in using alcohol as a weapon (P = 0.023) and an increase in the number of alcohol products in his environment (for alcohol-related product placement: P < 0.001), but his martini consumption has been steady. Drinking by lead female characters and a random selection of 30 of his sexual partners was fairly stable over time, but also occasionally involved binges.

 

[MissMittens]

With alcohol consumption comes cirrhosis. Bond has drunk heavily and consistently across six decades (109 drinking events; mean, 4.5 events per movie). His peak blood alcohol level was estimated to have been 0.36 g/dL, sufficient to kill people. He is classified as having severe alcohol use disorder, as he satisfied six of 11 DSM-5 criteria for this condition. Chronic risks for Bond include frequently drinking prior to fights, driving vehicles (including in chases), high stakes gambling, operating complex machinery or devices, contact with dangerous animals, extreme athletic performance, and sex with enemies, sometimes with guns or knives in the bed. Notable trends during the study period included a decline in using alcohol as a weapon (P = 0.023) and an increase in the number of alcohol products in his environment (for alcohol-related product placement: P < 0.001), but his martini consumption has been steady. Drinking by lead female characters and a random selection of 30 of his sexual partners was fairly stable over time, but also occasionally involved binges.

LOL!!! The fact that someone calculated this is incredibly funny. Also, kinda sobering for sure.

For those interested, here's a list of all James Bond's watches

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

The link won't work for me. It goes to the watch site and immediately flicks off. Does it include Red Grant's watch in "From Russia, With Love"? That's the watch with the built-in garotte that Grant tried unsuccessfully to use on Bond, but which Bond used successfully on Grant instead.

 

[MissMittens]

The link won't work for me. It goes to the watch site and immediately flicks off. Does it include Red Grant's watch in "From Russia, With Love"? That's the watch with the built-in garotte that Grant tried unsuccessfully to use on Bond, but which Bond used successfully on Grant instead.

It only contains a listing of watches worn by the Bond character. Maybe there's a more inclusive site that lists them all?

 

[2jakes]

It only contains a listing of watches worn by the Bond character. Maybe there's a more inclusive site that lists them all?

When I first saw the first Bond (Dr. No,)
as a kid, I thought that was the neatest opening and afterwards bought a 45 rpm
of the music.

And I still don't believe it was Sean Connery in the opening sequence!

 

[Zombie_61]

When I first saw the first Bond (Dr. No,)
as a kid, I thought that was the neatest opening and afterwards bought a 45 rpm
of the music.

And I still don't believe it was Sean Connery in the opening sequence!

It wasn't. Connery didn't appear in the "camera through the gun barrel" shot in the titles sequence until Thunderball. In Dr. No it was stuntman Bob Simmons.

 

[2jakes]

It wasn't. Connery didn't appear in the "camera through the gun barrel" shot in the titles sequence until Thunderball. In Dr. No it was stuntman Bob Simmons.

After 40+ years since I first saw D. N.
Thanks for the clarification!

 

[Zombie_61]

Flannel has been mentioned here before, but as I've grown older and a bit more sensitive to cold weather I've really come to appreciate it and that cotton fabric that sweatshirts and hooded sweat jackets (I despise the term "hoodie") are made of. Comfortable, warm, great for layering, and...good grief I'm getting old.

 

[GHT]

Flannel has been mentioned here before, but as I've grown older and a bit more sensitive to cold weather I've really come to appreciate it and that cotton fabric that sweatshirts and hooded sweat jackets (I despise the term "hoodie") are made of. Comfortable, warm, great for layering, and...good grief I'm getting old.

What you are describing is known as: 'Cotton Fleece Fabric.' It's a luxuriously soft fabric with a deep pile for better insulation quality. A material that can be knitted or woven, but always incorporates the use of napping to create a fluffed surface. Because of its distinct insulation properties, Cotton Fleece Fabric is mostly used for seasonal wear.

 

[Zombie_61]

What you are describing is known as: 'Cotton Fleece Fabric.' It's a luxuriously soft fabric with a deep pile for better insulation quality. A material that can be knitted or woven, but always incorporates the use of napping to create a fluffed surface. Because of its distinct insulation properties, Cotton Fleece Fabric is mostly used for seasonal wear.

Yep, that's the stuff. But just to be clear, it's different from what has become commonly known as "fleece" in recent years (at least in my experience). A few years ago I bought a modern "fleece" shirt jacket because a) I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and b) it was very reasonably priced. Unlike the "cotton fleece fabric", the weave on this "fleece" is so loose that it allows any cool/cold breeze to pass right through and provides little to nothing in the way of insulation. It might work better if it had some form of inner lining, but as-is I found it to be rather ineffective.

 

[GHT]

In my teenage head I honestly never thought that I would be saying this, but: You know that you're getting old when you hear the 'F' word in almost everyday language, and truth be told, you really don't like it.

As a young man, the thought that I would be going to festivals in my 70's was off The Richter magnitude scale. After a wedding, a honeymoon and children, (we had them in that order back then,) you just disappeared, the only time you were seen at a social event was the company Christmas jolly, or a wedding reception. Socialising was definitely for the under 25's. To see four ladies, all over the age of retirement, enjoying themselves at a music festival? Never heard of such a thing, they are obviously of loose virtue.

 

[Trenchfriend]

@GHT
Wonderful, outstanding!

 

[tonyb]

I’ve been in bifocals for years now. Make that decades. Come to think of it, I’ve been wearing ’em nearly as long as I didn’t.
I’ll spare you a photo of my partial denture.

 

[tonyb]

Yep, that's the stuff. But just to be clear, it's different from what has become commonly known as "fleece" in recent years (at least in my experience). A few years ago I bought a modern "fleece" shirt jacket because a) I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and b) it was very reasonably priced. Unlike the "cotton fleece fabric", the weave on this "fleece" is so loose that it allows any cool/cold breeze to pass right through and provides little to nothing in the way of insulation. It might work better if it had some form of inner lining, but as-is I found it to be rather ineffective.

There’s this quite inexpensive stuff commonly called “fleece” which I understand is made from recycled plastic bottles. It makes for a good pet bed. That’s the verdict in this house, anyway.

 

[vitanola]

"You know you're getting old when..."
Your knee goes out more often than do you!

 

[dnjan]

for Aging NPR Listeners:

You may be getting old (and possibly hard of hearing) if you turn on your radio in the morning, tuned to the local National Public Radio (NPR) station, and hear that the program you are listening to is “Morning Emission”. You think that can’t be right, but then you hear that one of the sponsors is the Wood Johnson Foundation.

On Saturday morning you again turn on the radio, and this time the program is “Weakened Emission”. Only older people listen, you wonder? And on Sunday, the program is again “Weakened Emission”, and they have a word puzzle run by a guy named Shorts. The contestant, if they survive to the end, is awarded a “Weakened Emission Lapel Pin”. Not only do I not even want to think about what that lapel pin looks like - I can’t even think of the guts it would take to actually wear it.

Must be getting old . . .

 

[Fading Fast]

"You know you're getting old when..."
Your knee goes out more often than do you!

Or this variation on the theme: you're just going about your day when you feel something - a twitch, pop, pull, twinge, etc., in something - your knee, shoulder, back, elbow, etc. - and you wonder, is that nothing, or will I be in pain for days until whatever that is settles back down?

 

[3fingers]

for Aging NPR Listeners:

You may be getting old (and possibly hard of hearing) if you turn on your radio in the morning, tuned to the local National Public Radio (NPR) station, and hear that the program you are listening to is “Morning Emission”. You think that can’t be right, but then you hear that one of the sponsors is the Wood Johnson Foundation.

On Saturday morning you again turn on the radio, and this time the program is “Weakened Emission”. Only older people listen, you wonder? And on Sunday, the program is again “Weakened Emission”, and they have a word puzzle run by a guy named Shorts. The contestant, if they survive to the end, is awarded a “Weakened Emission Lapel Pin”. Not only do I not even want to think about what that lapel pin looks like - I can’t even think of the guts it would take to actually wear it.

Must be getting old . . .

This can't be right. My wife has said as I am aging my emissions have become stronger.

 

[LizzieMaine]

You're an aging NPR listener when you find yourself waiting impatiently for Goodman Ace's commentary to come on.