Middle Age/old Age.

[Sipowicz]

At what age does "middle age" end and "old age" begin?

[Sqad]

Why do you want to know Sipowicz?

What difference does it make?

The modern generation is not interested in the "old ones"..."wrinklies" and as one present generation ABer posted:

"What does he know about sex, he is 80+?"

It matters not a jot when or even if old age starts.

[Mags22]

It's all in the mind,at 74 I don't feel old/elderly, ok,I don't act like a teenager,or dress like one, but at times I still think of things as I did then, giggle at what amuses me, and am still learning new things. I think back to when I was a teenager and how older people dressed and looked 'elderly' at 40, because it was expected of them , I think my generation began rebelling ,in a good way, and from the 1960s have evolved into the people we are now

[Hopkirk]

You know you are middle aged when you can't understand what the young uns see in that music they listen to.

[Old_Geezer]

If the average life expectancy is around 75 then surely we need to divide by 3 to get the limits for youth, middle, and old ? So 0 - 25 is young, 25 - 50 middle, 50 - 75 is old, and beyond 75 is borrowed time.

[Hopkirk]

Hang on Old Geez, I come out as old on your new system!

You are probably on borrowed time if your avatar is realistic.

[Sipowicz]

Sqad, it was this article that got me thinking. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2683206/Worried-youre-old-inked-Dont-youre-31-Cut-points-towering-heels-tattoos-baseball-caps-goatees-revealed.html
It doesn't make any difference at all. I was just curious what other people thought.
I am 58, I retired at 55 (ill-health). Technically I am a "pensioner", but not I think an "old age pensioner".
I think the government have got it about right, 65 seems about right to me.

[Old_Geezer]

I just worry a lot Hoppy.

[Tilly2]

What do you worry about OG? What might be living in that beard of yours?

[Daffy6543]

I sort of started referring to myself as middle aged when I hit 40.

[pixie373]

It may be due to the people i work with, but i consider 80 young, 85 middle-aged and 90 plus, elderly.

[Old_Geezer]

Naw, the menagerie is fine thanks Till.

It's more where my next tinny of Tennents Super is coming from. Or I'd settle for a White Lightning.