# For Women: You know you're getting old when... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081 "2012-08-10T14:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/41 "2012-08-12T19:18:43Z")
We here call them ‘bingo wings’. (Raises arm, waves it wildly when declaring "bingo!’) ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/42 "2012-08-12T19:56:16Z")
LOL – I have to tell my aunts that next time I visit them at BINGO! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/43 "2012-08-12T23:13:27Z")
You can draw a straight line between your nipples and your navel. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/44 "2012-08-13T01:54:01Z")
For me, it was when I began to look at every pair of shoes that I buy more for comfort than fashion. ---
**Author:** ![wonder9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c57346/32.png) [@wonder9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder9)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/45 "2012-08-15T15:28:11Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > She then called up an image of who she and the other hairdressers were aching for at the moment: Tatum somebody-or-other. She showed me the image and I thought he looked like a greasy thugpunk. Gotta disagree with ya there. I’m assuming she was talking about Channing Tatum and HE IS FANTASTIC! Incredibly hot, great dancer, pretty good actor (funny, too). Yeah, I’m with your hairdresser. I had no idea who the guy you were talking about was. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/46 "2012-08-15T15:49:37Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Ooh, that reminds me. I was at the hairdresser’s a couple of weeks ago, and asked if she had caught the series _Sherlock_. She hadn’t, so I called up an image of Benedict Cumberbatch on my iPhone, thinking she might think he was hot too. She looked and said, “Oh, yeah, I know about him - my mom thinks he’s good-looking.” Hairdresser is about 35. > > She then called up an image of who she and the other hairdressers were aching for at the moment: Tatum somebody-or-other. She showed me the image and I thought he looked like a greasy thugpunk. > > Sigh. And here I thought Cumberbatch was the young woman’s heartthrob of the moment. Apparently he only appeals to us crones. I’m 36, and I adore him. I think she’s crazy. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/47 "2012-08-15T17:56:41Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > … We won’t talk about my memory… Why? Forgot what you were going to say? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/48 "2012-08-15T18:04:38Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I’m 36, and I adore him. I think she’s crazy. I’m 23 and I’m pretty sure if Benedict Cumberbatch winked at me, my pants would undo themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/49 "2012-08-15T18:25:48Z")
> [@missred](#): > > For me, it was when I began to look at every pair of shoes that I buy more for comfort than fashion. Yes! Daughter ran off with my nice heeled boots saying, “Mom, you don’t even wear heels any more.” .._.sniffs._.. ---
**Author:** ![Parenchyma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Parenchyma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parenchyma)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/50 "2012-08-15T21:32:45Z")
This gif of [Sherlock taking his scarf off](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzcxa2LBVo1qbw649.gif) (with optimal display of curls, cheekbones, and neck) was on the office computer of the place I worked last week. All middle-aged women, and whenever there wasn’t an invoice on the screen, we enjoyed the eye candy. Although they originally found it posted on a college girl’s tumblr. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/51 "2012-08-15T23:16:22Z")
> [@Parenchyma](#): > > This gif of [Sherlock taking his scarf off](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzcxa2LBVo1qbw649.gif) (with optimal display of curls, cheekbones, and neck) was on the office computer of the place I worked last week. All middle-aged women, and whenever there wasn’t an invoice on the screen, we enjoyed the eye candy. > > Although they originally found it posted on a college girl’s tumblr. Oh, my. ::gulp:: ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/52 "2012-08-15T23:22:25Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I’m 23 and I’m pretty sure if Benedict Cumberbatch winked at me, my pants would undo themselves. There’s a real person named Benedict Cumberbatch?? \ What were his parents _thinking_? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/53 "2012-08-15T23:23:30Z")
_She said that Time is unfair To a woman her age Now that Wisdom has come Everything else fades._ ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/54 "2012-08-16T00:06:11Z")
> [@Parenchyma](#): > > This gif of [Sherlock taking his scarf off](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzcxa2LBVo1qbw649.gif) (with optimal display of curls, cheekbones, and neck) was on the office computer of the place I worked last week. All middle-aged women, and whenever there wasn’t an invoice on the screen, we enjoyed the eye candy. > > Although they originally found it posted on a college girl’s tumblr. I dunno. He looks kinda young to me. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/55 "2012-08-16T05:04:37Z")
I think he looks rather ODD. Never mind, good news is that he’s in a huff with Britain and thinks of moving to the U.S.A. 🙂 > [@](#): > > Cumberbatch said that sniping about his background and “all the posh-bashing that goes on” frustrated him. > “It’s all so predictable. So domestic, so dumb. It makes me think I want to go to America,” he added. > **['Posh baiting' may drive Benedict Cumberbatch to the US](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9473337/Posh-baiting-may-drive-Benedict-Cumberbatch-to-the-US.html)** > > Benedict Cumberbatch, the actor best-known for playing Sherlock Holmes, has hinted that he might move to America to escape being portrayed as a 'moaning, rich, public school b------' who complains about getting “posh” roles. ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/56 "2012-08-16T09:58:13Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > There’s a real person named Benedict Cumberbatch?? \ What were his parents _thinking_? Wasn’t it Bill Bryson who said he met a Brit named Bertram Pantyshield? ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/57 "2012-08-16T14:27:11Z")
Stop!! LOL Which book is that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/58 "2012-08-16T19:27:25Z")
Just stopping in to say I am 50 years old today, and I feel great! Skipped work, took a walk in the woods, and the Brithday Fairy just brought me another glass of wine. I feel younger than I have in years. Maybe it is the relief and surprise at having made it to this age. Hope this post doesn’t count as thread-shitting. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081/59 "2012-08-16T19:29:01Z")
Happy 50th Birthday Mrs. Cake! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-women-you-know-youre-getting-old-when/631081.md?page=2)