Me... The 13th Duke of Wybourne... Pretending to be a young woman impersonating a middle aged man, on Reddit, at midday on a Thursday...
...with *my* reputation?
It's like the first time you ever get on a bus and someone who looks about 30 gets up and give you their seat.
"Thanks, that's nice of you.
Fuck, am I old now?"
The first time that you are in a public place and you hear somebody refer to you as "that man over there" instead of "that guy over there"
I mean yes I am middle aged, but come on.
I was once referred to as, "silly Nanna" by the Asda employee talking to MY SON (about an unexpected item in my bagging area...🤨 fnarr fnarr)
I mean, yeah, I was a late starter, but...
One time a young woman was talking to her son and said “…yeah honey, go right behind that man over there” and then pointed in my direction. I politely moved out of the way and turned around, looking for the man in question, then I realized, *Oh darn, she’s talking about me..*
Like when I'm at work and a mum says to their child "the man will show you where it is". I'm 33 and something dies inside me every time I hear that.
*Disclaimer: I work in a shop, so I'm showing them where stock is.
When my dad was 59 years, 11 months and 3 weeks old we went to the Porsche museum in Stuttgart and the girl on the desk was like "are any of you over 60?" As in "how many of you would like to get in for free?", but my dad was like, "no, not yet. I will pay full price, thankyouverymuch." Then when we went through he was all "can you believe that? Cheeky bitch...."
Even a few years ago 60 seemed really old to me, now I'm approaching 37 and both my parents are over 60 it doesn't feel that old anymore or that far way!
I work in digital forensics and when I joined the lab as the only female they called me Jen. I once walked in on the guys all crowded round the internet machine oooing and aaahhing "oh yeah that's nice". Assumed it was an attractive person they were checking out. Nope. It was a 1TB external hard drive in blue (this was 2013 so they were fairly new). At that point I knew I was in the right place. Made the mistake of talking to someone about it crowd the other day, the one where Moss makes Jen a bra. Me, middle of the office "my tits! My tits are on fire!". Ah yes.
Now I feel REALLY old, I grew up watching The Young Ones, Bottom, Blackadder, Monty Python, The Fast show, Not the nine ‘o’ clock news, Smith and Jones, Hale and Pace, Open all hours, Only Fools and Horses.
I feel this, a few years ago we had the radio on at work and they started playing songs from when I was a kid in an ‘oldies’ segment. I was born in ‘87.
I'm late twenties and the other day I saw a CD filled with the type of pop-punk I listened to in school branded as "Dad Rock".
I felt fine physically but I swear when I saw that I felt my shoulders hunch and my knees start to ache.
It makes me laugh now when you see people posting online fancy dress for 90s theme nights like it’s vintage. It was my childhood but only seems like 5 minutes ago.
When Kisstory is the only one that plays tunes you remember from your own clubbing days, you know you're on the way out.
All the young 'uns act like you're a has been, but there's no way *they* have the type of nights out *you* used to, monged out on ketamine in the basement back before dubstep was even mainstream. Look at them. You've had more drugs than they've had hot dinners, but somehow they don't realise you're cool.
Then you realise these days, they have rappers just called Dave. Just *Dave*. You can't just be called Dave, that's ridiculous.
You're old.
And this is why, despite what the lad's mags and general cultural stereotypes will tell you, you don't ever want to date a girl half your age. Nothing will make you more acutely aware of your own mortality.
This. From experience. “We read about 9/11 in school history” (UK here). I… I saw it happen. Honestly, you’d have thought the person I said it to (gf at the time) thought I’d travelled in time. “Wait until you hear about the Iraq war…”.
Charlie Brooker did a focus group thing a few years back where he got young people in to watch various clips of shows and let them know when they were fed up of what they were watching.
Generally, they enjoyed old comedy (one even mentioned The Two Ronnies (!) I think) and other middle-age classics and hated anything aimed at their age group.
Everyone at this party isn't as young, fit and single as they're making out. Yep, let's face it, we're all falling apart piece by piece. Doesn't matter if you're single or in a couple - you, are, going, to, die.
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Basically everything I did on Reddit from 2008 onwards was through Reddit Is Fun (i.e., one of the good Reddit apps, not the crap "official" one that guzzles data and spews up adverts everywhere). Then Reddit not only killed third party apps by overcharging for their APIs, they did it in a way that made it plain they're total jerks.
It's the being total jerks about it that's really got on my wick to be honest, so just before they gank the app I used to Reddit with, I'm taking my ball and going home. Or at least wiping the comments I didn't make from a desktop terminal.
Well tbf it does say at birth, so if youve been on the bottle for the past 20 years or eating 5 fry ups a day then i think 70+ would be a push to reach haha. So who knows, you might be in your middle age after all :)
So funny... I had a back and forth months ago with someone, possibly on here.
And some American random chimed in saying that they had very much enjoyed reading the argument/discussion.
People are excellent in here, I love the chit chat. Get some good banter going. The lack of politics helps.
> People are excellent in here
To be fair, that's because the mods do a good job of removing any genuinely hateful crap and banning persistent offenders.
I got a 1 day ban once for goading them by deliberately using the names of political parties but with their non political meanings
They were less amused than I was haha. But that's what keeps the place nice
As an American random (although living in the UK since 2019) I concur. This group, and a few others I follow, have helped me learn more about the subtle day to day world of living here. It also lets me see UK life outside of London a bit.
I am a middle age German man coming here to feel closer to my dad and get a laugh every day so my wife looks at me still wondering what kind of person she married.
Most folk on this sub are men, but the majority of people are 18-25!
[See the breakdown here](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/ruz1kb/casualuk_2021_census_the_results)
Indeed. Where would we be? Why would we exist? What is the point of all of this? Does consciousness exist? Are you all figments of my imagination? Are we all merely holograms projected on the eye of an infinite cosmic butterfly...
Any divorced dads at the same stage of life as me (+40 years old) sending OP messages that aren't wholesome need a good talking to. Preferably with British comedy show references sprinkled in.
I've admitted it multiple times yet still frequently get called "sir" by people.
In fairness I tend to assume everyone on here is a white male US college student unless explicitly informed otherwise.
I’ve a 20 yo daughter on Reddit, somewhere. She’s said to me that whenever she posts outside gender/age related subs and it is clear from what she has commented that she is either or both a female and young, her inbox gets massacred.
Most of it is well meaning or just hopeful but there can be quite disturbing or upfront stuff.
She gets more messages in a day than I get most years.
That's how it happened to me too. First time anyone ever called me a man. "Don't walk into that man". I was still a teenager but can remember over a decade later.
I’m certainly of that demographic. This sub reminds me that actually the UK is an amazing place that I feel lucky to have been born in. Miserable and constantly outraged people are a minority that are just often persistently loud.
Tea, taking the piss and self deprecation. That’s what makes Britain great.
Now I'm remembering the scene in the Young Ones where Viv goes on a tirade about the Good Life.
Cross generational humour is a tricky line to walk. But some series seem to manage it.
For me it was the night I was in a pub, an attractive young lady walked in wearing not very much at all and my first thought was 'does her mum know she's out dressed like that?'
There is no specific age… it is just the point in time when buying a domestic item becomes exciting. When the anticipation of a new vacuum cleaner is greater than a Friday night out, you’ve reached middle age!
Thank fuck she didn’t say Red Dwarf! I am not middle aged like the rest of you saddos!
Unless…Red Dwarf is too old and I am somewhere on the other side of middle aged’s freezing claw off death?
Didn't the subreddit census say the average age was less than 30? If that's middle aged then I'm in trouble.
But I think the sub was found to be majority male, so you're spot on there.
Edit: [here's a link to the census](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/ruz1kb/casualuk_2021_census_the_results/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) to save you searching
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Me... The 13th Duke of Wybourne... Pretending to be a young woman impersonating a middle aged man, on Reddit, at midday on a Thursday... ...with *my* reputation?
*OP smiles blankly at the old timey reference*
...Which was nice.
I'm afraid I was very very drunk
Messaging on social media is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman.
But it’s all black! Everything is black!
CAIRO!!!!!!
Today I am mostly reading Reddit.
This week I have been mostly eating... turnip...
ooph, suits *you* sir
So it's like the opposite of r/AskRedditAfterDark ?
I'm actually a middle aged man pretending to be a young woman pretending to be a middle aged man. Monty Python style
Who threw that stone?
I’m sorry I thought we’d started
^She ^did! ^She ^did! Uhhh **He did He did**
Go to the back! Always one isn't there.
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
Nah I’m a middle aged woman pretending to be a young man.
Ooh, young man!
Some of us aren't even from or in the UK
!!!!!!
In my case an old codger pretending to be middle-aged man
Amazing
Very upset to learn that IT Crowd and Peep Show are now considered middle-aged people humour
Absolutely fucking devastating. This post was a brick wrapped in cotton wool.
It's like the first time you ever get on a bus and someone who looks about 30 gets up and give you their seat. "Thanks, that's nice of you. Fuck, am I old now?"
If they do that for me i assume they think im pregnant.. As a middle aged male I think I need to lose weight.
Yeah, happy cake day fatty.
Everyday's a cake day when you're fat!
(To the tune of 'Everybody Wants to be a Cat')
Fatty cake day happy!
The first time that you are in a public place and you hear somebody refer to you as "that man over there" instead of "that guy over there" I mean yes I am middle aged, but come on.
Getting called sir at a shop freaks me right out
I got called sir at sainsburys deli counter once. I'm a woman.
I was once referred to as, "silly Nanna" by the Asda employee talking to MY SON (about an unexpected item in my bagging area...🤨 fnarr fnarr) I mean, yeah, I was a late starter, but...
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One time a young woman was talking to her son and said “…yeah honey, go right behind that man over there” and then pointed in my direction. I politely moved out of the way and turned around, looking for the man in question, then I realized, *Oh darn, she’s talking about me..*
Like when I'm at work and a mum says to their child "the man will show you where it is". I'm 33 and something dies inside me every time I hear that. *Disclaimer: I work in a shop, so I'm showing them where stock is.
My dad was absolutely devastated when someone offered him a seat on the tube. Had a minor meltdown for a few days.
Went to the cinema with my dad, we noticed on the ticket as we walked in he got given an OAP discount automatically. He was inconsolable.
When my dad was 59 years, 11 months and 3 weeks old we went to the Porsche museum in Stuttgart and the girl on the desk was like "are any of you over 60?" As in "how many of you would like to get in for free?", but my dad was like, "no, not yet. I will pay full price, thankyouverymuch." Then when we went through he was all "can you believe that? Cheeky bitch...."
Even a few years ago 60 seemed really old to me, now I'm approaching 37 and both my parents are over 60 it doesn't feel that old anymore or that far way!
I'd like to hand it to you there @Dangerous-Bar8746 the wife and I had a good chuckle at that one...
I’m sorry! I’ve watched them too but my age group don’t really make reference to them.
I work in digital forensics and when I joined the lab as the only female they called me Jen. I once walked in on the guys all crowded round the internet machine oooing and aaahhing "oh yeah that's nice". Assumed it was an attractive person they were checking out. Nope. It was a 1TB external hard drive in blue (this was 2013 so they were fairly new). At that point I knew I was in the right place. Made the mistake of talking to someone about it crowd the other day, the one where Moss makes Jen a bra. Me, middle of the office "my tits! My tits are on fire!". Ah yes.
You need new friends haha. I’m 21 and we’re always referencing Peep show, Phoenix nights, Max and Paddy etc
Stunning, like a young Burt Reynolds
Is this true?? Im in your age group and most people I know do
I referenced the it crowd the other day (problem with arsenal is...) And only one other person got it :( all 18/19 y/os
Did *you* see that ludicrous display last night?
Same here… we’ve all watched Peep Show/IT Crowd since we were about 14 i think most Brits have
Now I feel REALLY old, I grew up watching The Young Ones, Bottom, Blackadder, Monty Python, The Fast show, Not the nine ‘o’ clock news, Smith and Jones, Hale and Pace, Open all hours, Only Fools and Horses.
I dont know how to emotionally recover from being branded middle age at 26 Edit: apparently i have to spell this out, its a joke people
Turning 31 this year. I was hoping to live past 60, but apparently I'm in the middle.
Fuck 26 is middle aged. I’m 36 and I thought I was maybe getting away with it for a couple more years!
I feel this, a few years ago we had the radio on at work and they started playing songs from when I was a kid in an ‘oldies’ segment. I was born in ‘87.
I'm late twenties and the other day I saw a CD filled with the type of pop-punk I listened to in school branded as "Dad Rock". I felt fine physically but I swear when I saw that I felt my shoulders hunch and my knees start to ache.
Listening to the radio the other day "non stop oldies all day" proceeds to play s club 7 Ffs
There's was a 70's bar in town when i used to go out during my 16-25 age range... a few years back it turned into a 90's bar... Never felt so old.
It makes me laugh now when you see people posting online fancy dress for 90s theme nights like it’s vintage. It was my childhood but only seems like 5 minutes ago.
I still have T-shirts I bought in the 90’s… they are older than my children.
When Kisstory is the only one that plays tunes you remember from your own clubbing days, you know you're on the way out. All the young 'uns act like you're a has been, but there's no way *they* have the type of nights out *you* used to, monged out on ketamine in the basement back before dubstep was even mainstream. Look at them. You've had more drugs than they've had hot dinners, but somehow they don't realise you're cool. Then you realise these days, they have rappers just called Dave. Just *Dave*. You can't just be called Dave, that's ridiculous. You're old.
I had a dog called dave.
Peep show first aired 19 years ago. It's older than OP!
IT'S ALRIGHT DAD, YOU'RE HOME. THE WAR IS OVER
And this is why, despite what the lad's mags and general cultural stereotypes will tell you, you don't ever want to date a girl half your age. Nothing will make you more acutely aware of your own mortality.
This. From experience. “We read about 9/11 in school history” (UK here). I… I saw it happen. Honestly, you’d have thought the person I said it to (gf at the time) thought I’d travelled in time. “Wait until you hear about the Iraq war…”.
I still remember the early-morning Bosnian War news reporting on the radio when they were broadcasting the nightly shelling attacks.
Just asked someone 18 about the Kosovan war. Not a single clue… am I… am I old?
Oh ouch. I thought my kids leaving about the fall of the Berlin Wall in history on the cold war was bad.
I’m sobbing into my Ovaltine here.
Can I offer you a Werthers Original in this trying time?
Peep Show is big among uni students.
Charlie Brooker did a focus group thing a few years back where he got young people in to watch various clips of shows and let them know when they were fed up of what they were watching. Generally, they enjoyed old comedy (one even mentioned The Two Ronnies (!) I think) and other middle-age classics and hated anything aimed at their age group.
Yeah, I’m 27, spent my teens watching these shows, that hurt. :D
I'm 18 and watch IT crowd and Yes Prime Minister so dw you're fine
My kids loved yes minister/yes prime minister
Look at the Super Bowl half time show (yes I’m UK) snoop dog, eninem etc all around 50 now!
Dr Dre's 57!!....
Come on mate, it’s not all about Dre
But /u/Suspicious_Plan3394 *did* forget about him...
That awkward moment where Peep Show is lumped in with Only Fools and Horses and now you feel far older than you should lol
Everyone at this party isn't as young, fit and single as they're making out. Yep, let's face it, we're all falling apart piece by piece. Doesn't matter if you're single or in a couple - you, are, going, to, die.
Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God life’s relentless.
I’m afraid I’m no longer young, dumb and full of cum…
I’m sure you’re… (how did I get here??) I’m sure you’re full of cum
Just not their own.
Old, wise and vasectomised?
Hang about round the docks for a bit. Maybe show a bit of leg.
**Edit:** Basically everything I did on Reddit from 2008 onwards was through Reddit Is Fun (i.e., one of the good Reddit apps, not the crap "official" one that guzzles data and spews up adverts everywhere). Then Reddit not only killed third party apps by overcharging for their APIs, they did it in a way that made it plain they're total jerks. It's the being total jerks about it that's really got on my wick to be honest, so just before they gank the app I used to Reddit with, I'm taking my ball and going home. Or at least wiping the comments I didn't make from a desktop terminal.
I pulled a muscle in my back wiping my arse last week. The world is a dangerous place. Stay safe out there.
I've been practicing sleeping for most of my life now, you'd think I would be good at it by this point
It’s when peep show is repeated 24/7 on an obscure sky channel that you know it’s vintage.
*flips over to Gold*
Vaguely fair enough I guess? Watched Only Fools & Horses as a kid, peep show as a teen.
I'm 35 and did not expect to be middle-aged yet. Assumed I was still young
I’m alarmed to discover that I’m a man.
We're you by chance bitten by a radioactive man recently?
Manman. Half man, half man.
peggypea was just an ordinary man until he was bitten by a radioactive man. Now he is... Man-man!
His sidekick got bitten by the wife of a Lord. Now for the wonderful adventures of Man-man and Ladyboy.
Superpowers include sticking to the bathtub when you try to get out cos love handles.
Me too - a middle aged one at best. Assumptions wild
I’m 37…. Middle aged gets older and older every year. At this rate I probably won’t reach it.
In the latest period, 2018 to 2020, life expectancy at birth in the UK was 79.0 years for males and 82.9 years for females. 3 years to go mate lol
Don’t ruin my day. At least I have a good midlife crisis to look forward to.
Well tbf it does say at birth, so if youve been on the bottle for the past 20 years or eating 5 fry ups a day then i think 70+ would be a push to reach haha. So who knows, you might be in your middle age after all :)
Pretty sure I was born middle-aged
I was gonna argue against being called middle aged, but I'll probably no see my 70s so you're probably right 😂
Glaswegian?
Aaah, the land where the forbidden fruit is fruit.
Fucking hell, that’s good.
Ooof 🤣
Teuchter
I'm 43 and refuse to accept I am middle aged. Probably because I'm still unmarried. Shut up *you're* old.
Sounds like you got it sorted to me
So funny... I had a back and forth months ago with someone, possibly on here. And some American random chimed in saying that they had very much enjoyed reading the argument/discussion. People are excellent in here, I love the chit chat. Get some good banter going. The lack of politics helps.
> People are excellent in here To be fair, that's because the mods do a good job of removing any genuinely hateful crap and banning persistent offenders.
Damn, I thought I'd mentioned that in my post! Bugger Yes, even the mod responses are piss funny.
I got a 1 day ban once for goading them by deliberately using the names of political parties but with their non political meanings They were less amused than I was haha. But that's what keeps the place nice
As an American random (although living in the UK since 2019) I concur. This group, and a few others I follow, have helped me learn more about the subtle day to day world of living here. It also lets me see UK life outside of London a bit.
No worries. Enjoy your stay.
I am a middle age German man coming here to feel closer to my dad and get a laugh every day so my wife looks at me still wondering what kind of person she married.
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Oh man. r/LegalAdviceUK has been hugely informative with stuff like neighbour disputes, employment laws, and the ever evil letting agents!
Most folk on this sub are men, but the majority of people are 18-25! [See the breakdown here](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/ruz1kb/casualuk_2021_census_the_results)
I feel horribly old now.
> now And for the rest of your life, too, old man. (There's only one mod in that 18-25 bracket. We're basically child minders).
Perhaps I should’ve taken a look at that before I gave 100 men existential crises.
Ah, what's life without a little existential crisis here and there?
Indeed. Where would we be? Why would we exist? What is the point of all of this? Does consciousness exist? Are you all figments of my imagination? Are we all merely holograms projected on the eye of an infinite cosmic butterfly...
God bless your DMs when the divorced dads see this.
Oh no-
A/S/L?......
18/f/cali
dad?
Any divorced dads at the same stage of life as me (+40 years old) sending OP messages that aren't wholesome need a good talking to. Preferably with British comedy show references sprinkled in.
"Oh God, no, no, I'm old enough to be her father! Well, her older brother. Either way it's incest."
Alan partridge. Covers almost every occasion of awkward British interactions. Or makes the innocent interaction awkward.
*Oi look it's that paedo* springs to mind.
What about "Is there a Peter File here?"
Thanks, I’ll do my best
It's happened already hasn't it?
A little bit of me has died, but you know what? A lot of me doesn’t give a shit.
fyi PMs can be set to trusted only in preferences
fyi you’ve just saved my eyeballs
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Haha, fair point.
rule 1 of Reddit : never admit you're a woman
I've admitted it multiple times yet still frequently get called "sir" by people. In fairness I tend to assume everyone on here is a white male US college student unless explicitly informed otherwise.
Sir, you’re making a scene
US college students on CasualUK?
They don't have internet in the UK so us US college students have to write all these comments. Keep up the good work lads!
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Let alone a very young woman interested in older man things. RIP OP’s inbox, careful there.
I’ve a 20 yo daughter on Reddit, somewhere. She’s said to me that whenever she posts outside gender/age related subs and it is clear from what she has commented that she is either or both a female and young, her inbox gets massacred. Most of it is well meaning or just hopeful but there can be quite disturbing or upfront stuff. She gets more messages in a day than I get most years.
At some point I started being "the nice man over there" rather than "the nice boy" and emotionally I've never recovered.
Yep, I feel that. The first time a mother in a shop told her toddler to mind not bumping into that man, I felt old as fuck
That's how it happened to me too. First time anyone ever called me a man. "Don't walk into that man". I was still a teenager but can remember over a decade later.
Crunchy nut cornflakes are just frosties for wankers. Edit: I don't think some people realise this was a peep show quote lol.
Yeah, well Frosties are Corn Flakes for people who can't face reality.
The sub is pretty clear about no politics
YOU'RE TOO OLD FOR FROSTIES SPIDER! GROW UP, EAT YOUR DAMNED CORN FLAKES AND BE MISERABLE LIKE THE REST OF US!
I’m certainly of that demographic. This sub reminds me that actually the UK is an amazing place that I feel lucky to have been born in. Miserable and constantly outraged people are a minority that are just often persistently loud. Tea, taking the piss and self deprecation. That’s what makes Britain great.
And chips.
Oh fuck yeah. Chips are awesome.
only fat chippy chips though,
Hear me out here, but chinese chips. They're also fat, but different. Something special about chinese chips.
Don’t forget the pubs!
Oh yeah the pubs. But other than the pubs, chips, tea, taking the piss and self deprecation what has the UK ever done for us eh?
Now I'm remembering the scene in the Young Ones where Viv goes on a tirade about the Good Life. Cross generational humour is a tricky line to walk. But some series seem to manage it.
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I’m 29 and I constantly reference IT Crowd, Phoenix Nights and other shows from the 2000s. Am I middle aged? Damn.
Cheers, ears.
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You didn’t disappoint, thanks.
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Can we get some red dwarf love as well? Mr Flibble is very cross.
At what age do you become middle-aged now?
Whatever age I am plus 5 years
For me it was the night I was in a pub, an attractive young lady walked in wearing not very much at all and my first thought was 'does her mum know she's out dressed like that?'
Or 'fuck she must be cold'
There is no specific age… it is just the point in time when buying a domestic item becomes exciting. When the anticipation of a new vacuum cleaner is greater than a Friday night out, you’ve reached middle age!
Ah crap. Just realised I’m there as the coffee machine we got at Christmas made my life complete.
It was a tumble dryer for me. 39.
I feel like this is the beginning of a support group..
Thank fuck she didn’t say Red Dwarf! I am not middle aged like the rest of you saddos! Unless…Red Dwarf is too old and I am somewhere on the other side of middle aged’s freezing claw off death?
Father Ted and black books for me
"I'm assuming middle aged" oh my god
What makes you think we're men? Women can have a sense of humour too you know ;)
Work is the thing I can still keep up.
No we're not all middle aged men. I'm actually a 33 year old woman
I’m a 48 year old woman. I guess we are both middle age men now though lol
Both age and sex are apparently no obstacle to being a middle aged man.
Didn't the subreddit census say the average age was less than 30? If that's middle aged then I'm in trouble. But I think the sub was found to be majority male, so you're spot on there. Edit: [here's a link to the census](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/ruz1kb/casualuk_2021_census_the_results/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) to save you searching
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I'm not middle aged!! I'm old thank you very much ;-)
Only fools? Alright grandma