When did you turn into a (real) dad

[vkurup]

New survey say Brit turn into a dad at 38... Top ten signs that you are a dad (sadly none are golf related)


Top ten signs you could be turning into your father:

1. Fall asleep in the front room

2. They have ‘a chair’

3. Dad dancing

4. Spend time in the shed

5. Making awful jokes that only they find funny

6. Don’t know any artists in the top 40

7. Spending longer on the toilet

8. Keeping an eye on the thermostat

9. Excited about appliance sales

10. Embarrassing younger members of the family or children and thinking it’s funny
How many can you tick off?

Original article here...http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...s-age-men-turn-into-their-father-9267069.html

 

[Captainron]

1. Fall asleep in the front room ✅

2. They have ‘a chair’

3. Dad dancing ✅

4. Spend time in the shed ✅

5. Making awful jokes that only they find funny ✅

6. Don’t know any artists in the top 40

7. Spending longer on the toilet ✅

8. Keeping an eye on the thermostat ✅

9. Excited about appliance sales

10. Embarrassing younger members of the family or children and thinking it’s funny ✅
How many can you tick off?

Being 37, means I only have a few months to 1) get myself a chair, 2) ignore all radio stations other than Radio 4 and 3) replace the fridge, freezer, Hoover, washer, telly and dryer.

 

[Hobbit]

8 out of 10 for me. I haven't had a shed and fridges don't excite me.

 

[Pin-seeker]

3 out of 10 for me,I've still got a few years to go.

 

[Crow]

Only 6 out of 10 for me, that's cheered me up!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

3 out of 10 for me,I've still got a few years to go.

Same for me and I'm a quadruple grandad.

 

[car.crash]

I'm a dad at 29

 

[Coatsy79]

Oh my, pretty much all of them, and I'm "only" 34 :rofl:

 

[Francisceo]

1 out if 10... phew

 

[CMAC]

whats the old saying.....

The day I realised my Dad was right, was the day my son starting saying I was wrong (something like that)

 

[Rooter]

All bar the chair, however I do have an 'end' to on of the sofas. Does that count?

 

[BFL]

9 out of 10 and im only 27 lol

 

[Foxholer]

You missed several others...

When you start telling your kids exactly the same words your Dad said to you!

When you get home from work and spend the next 4 hours taxi-ing

.....

 

[GreiginFife]

1. Fall asleep in the front room - Been doing that since I was 15...

2. They have ‘a chair’ - We don't have any chairs but I do have an ass-groove in the big sofa

3. Dad dancing - I still bounce about like I am at a rave

4. Spend time in the shed - Does an attic workshop count?

5. Making awful jokes that only they find funny - See no.1

6. Don’t know any artists in the top 40 - See no.1

7. Spending longer on the toilet - Nope

8. Keeping an eye on the thermostat - Nope

9. Excited about appliance sales - Nope

10. Embarrassing younger members of the family or children and thinking it’s funny - See no.1 (my niece hates me for it)
How many can you tick off?

 

[CMAC]

You missed several others...

When you start telling your kids exactly the same words your Dad said to you!

When you get home from work and spend the next 4 hours taxi-ing

.....

post #10

 

[Foxholer]

post #10

Along the same lines

It's the realisation halfway through the sentence that they are exactly the same words that's 'scary'. Laughing in the middle of a lecture rather destroys both party's concentration!

Cat Stevens's Father and Son is still relevant.

 

[drdel]

Can only tick number 2 ! _ at well over 65 I'm obviously on my way to my second childhood !

 

[wrighty1874]

Items 1,6 and 9 ticks for me.

 

[Alex1975]

I am 38 but only 2 of them at a push.

 

[Deleted member 17920]

I'm 39 and I can tick 2 and that's it. Embarrassing my lad regulary and I park my backside in the same part of the sofa.