Old school humour

It's dying a death.

When walking back from the football a few weeks ago, I saw a small chap walking the other way walking his dog.

I was with a group of people of ages ranging from mid-twenties to mid-forties, so when I muttered under my breath "Looks like he's walking his horse", I was met with laughter.

If I'd said that to a younger crowd, I'd have been lucky to have achieved a chuckle.

The truth of the matter is that what was once funny twenty years ago to most people is no longer funny to most.

Is this an evolution of humour, or are we working in reverse toward gutter humour and expanding toward the world of carry-on film laughter?

Old lady perfume

What do women see in it? I walked past a woman smelling of it this morning, and it just reminds me of mouldy lavender.

What's wrong with a fragrance that's slightly more up-to-date?

Perhaps this isn't a smell that old people spray themselves with. Maybe when you get past the menopause, you instantly start emitting it.

Old women try to mask it with stronger fragrances, but the old lady smell keeps coming out.

As they get older, the smell fades, and is replaced by the smell of old mothballs.

That's it, I've concluded. It's not their fault, they just smell weird.