Micky Flanagan - Miserable at Fifty REACTION

[@DavidCalvert-mh9sy]

I'm in my 70s, although inside I feel 36. It's the outside that is letting me down. The worst part is when I look in the mirror and see my grandfather staring back at me. So savour every moment of each decade as it comes.

[@StickyBud9395]

Hear Hear , they go past too fast .

[@markborder906]

I find when I get out of chairs I’m making the same noises my grandfather used to make. It’s worrying.

[@terrywright7470]

Hey Mark. You are lucky. I am almost 90, and God only knows what noises I make when I get up out of my chair, as I cannot hear a bloody thing. mind you when I read some of the stuff that our political leaders say, I regard it as a blessing. Keep going and enjoy life.@@markborder906

[@michaelwalls4346]

It's so great to meet Americans who get "our" British humour and love it too. So wonderful.

[@sharonsnail2954]

I'm 76 now and worked until I was 71. Since then my body has started to fall apart but the brain still functions pretty well. I lived in London and, as I remember it, walked to and from school from about 6 years old. My mum seemed more concerned that I wasn't there for meals than anything else.

[@TeddyBen]

70's entertainers in the UK seemed to all have a penchant for youngchildren ( it came out years later when most were dead). The song he was singing was from an advertisement about lemonade.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

I hadn't seen this one so thanks guys. I'm in my early 30s and remember spending every afternoon playing on the street with my mates playing touch rugby, cricket or just riding out bikes down to the creek. This was the suburbs of Brisbane, never see kids doing the same anymore. The only thing close to "trouble" that we got up to was taking some off cuts of timber and the occasional intact plywood from houses under construction to build jumps for our bikes. But that was rarely and the builders never cared! We all had the same rule, go home when the street lights turned on.

[@usernamesreprise4068]

Im in the horrible position of waking up each morning and realising my body is now sixty seven summers old...but apparently no one told my brain - IT still feels it is in its early twenties (but with forty years more common sense and vastly more experienced at life !)....... mirrors are confusing though - I look into them and think who the HELL is THAT old fart ?? !

[@victordevonshire807]

You got lucky. I've never grown up and have no common sense at all. 🤠. It gets hard growing up to see all your friends suddenly disappear. Lost another the other day. 🙏 Be kind and love each other. 👍❤

[@drwhatson]

The middle classes have NO idea what it was like growing up in a working class household - even though I never heard my parents or relatives swear (other than the occasional "bloody", which even Prince Phillip wasn't averse to uttering.) Punishments were harsh and painful, not least at school, but once outside, the sheer freedom we enjoyed for having risky adventures was immeasurable. How we even survived it all is another story...

[@donaldduck2139]

tell ya what, I was 40 25 years ago, seems like 10 years ago, I can remember being 40 and thinking 60 was a long way off...was wrong....😅

[@sugarynugs]

you old fart ❤

[@donaldduck2139]

@@sugarynugs 😅

[@michealjones9863]

Time is relative !! Summers went on forever and 30 minutes of Sunday mass was an eternity as a child! Now at 45 before you’ve noticed summer is over your up the attic dragging out the xmas tree.

[@donaldduck2139]

@@michealjones9863 we're lucky enough to have Christmas over the summer months where I am...but yeah, am pretty sure Mick Jagger needs to add a new verse or two to 'time is on my side' or change the title. . .

[@Trmtsociety]

​@@donaldduck2139Christmas in the summer is terrible lol

[@jrswinhoe58]

The Lemonade bloke advert was a popular advert with Elvis Costello's Dad playing the bloke

[@angelavara4097]

I turned 66 in April and I retired from work and I love it.

[@andrewroberts8772]

The R Whites lemonade advert was what he was talking about from the 80s

[@jjcustard6378]

I'm mid 50s and we took our granddaughter to the beach yesterday and I don't know who was more exhausted, her or us, its so nice to be able to hand them back at the end of the day

[@AutoAlligator]

I'm not 50 and I'm exhausted for you x

[@alfiefletcher7513]

I'm in my late twenties now. My boyhood as it were was back in the 2000s and I remember growing up my mum would only let me play outside in the street we lived on so I usually just cycled around on my bike. In the winter my mum used to say when the streetlamps turn on you come straight back in this house. In summer time she would shout for me to come back in when she decided it was time for me to come back in. I used to think she was trying to spoil my fun as a kid but now I know it is because she just wanted me to be safe and I grew up on a rough council estate so she didn't want to take any chances of me getting hurt. I was only allowed to start venturing out beyond my own street when I reached my adolescent years. I think the world has always been dangerous it is just the case of over time it has become increasingly so and each generation has had their own dangers and challenges to overcome or avert one way or another when they were growing up.

[@rickthompson437]

You’ll be pleased to know that the fantastic Micky Flanagan has appeared on WILTY !😂

[@Paul_Allaker8450]

I'm 50 in October, and I've never really been bothered about my age or how much time I have left....however, since staring 50 in the face I've really become aware of my mortality, the real truth that there's less in front of me than there is behind me, has caused me moments of mild panic...😳 I try real hard not to be a miserable moaning 'old' man, but my BS radar is of the scale so I find myself being that miserable middle aged man, life just grinds me down!😂😂, but I do try and keep it in check. Love your channel, keep doing what you're doing. Mickey Flannagan is a gem. 👊🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@derekbland5253]

I'm 62 and travelling the world bit by bit. Did 35 nights in SW US last year and doing 35 nights again this year.

[@diane9656]

It was funny, that the entertainers from the 70's went over your heads and the guy coming down to get a drink in the middle of the night, it was a tv ad about lemonade. Im a londoner, so i got it ha. Glad you enjoy the wonderful Mickey Flanagan

[@55tranquility]

As an 80s kid in the holidays we would go out on our bikes all day - and only come home for dinner! Everyone did, no mobile’s we would take our kayaks out on the river unsupervised- great times. My parents told me that when I was a baby and they took us to the beach, when they wanted to go swimming they would just ask a random family to keep an eye on me while they went in the sea!! Different times. My mum told me that my grandfather joined the navy at 16 and his first posting was out to Japan where they cleared up dead bodies after the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima- at 16. Never once heard the guy moan, or be miserable or complain - it makes you think.

[@sdkezjarran5206]

I use to dread hitting 50 but now at 52 I`m happy as anything, get told I look in my early 40s (Blush) And you metioned grandkids,,, I`m a Single dad of 7 kids (16,19,21, 28,29,31 and 32) although only 3 at home now the older 4 have flown the coop and given me 6 Grandkids.. Life begins at 50 So dont panic.

[@michaelwilkinson3296]

Hey Nick & Jodi . Im nearly 60 , so grew up in the 70s . Me & my friends went to the Army & Navy shop where you could bye old military clothing . we each got American tank crew trousers & a Tee shirt each for about 50 p out of our pocket money & would be gone all day . For lunch we would find a chippy & get a bag of chips each out of pocket money , Chips came wrapped in News Paper then , plenty salt & vinigar , eat the chips , All the salt & viniger woluld be at the bottom of the news paper , drink that , oh heaven those were the days , drink our cans of pop , carry on what we were doing until it started to get dark & go home . Hope you both enjoyed your trip to the UK ? Did you to watch any TV ? On the Buses , the One Show or The Great British Bake Off Kind Regards Peas & Gravy

[@forhealth5730]

The lemonade guy in the middle of the night was an advert here. He was singing the song he sang 😂

[@cherryblossom3046]

Well, N & J, I am a very happy, UNMISERABLE 71year old world traveller! Kids grown, with their own kids, going through the whole parenting bit with my best wishes, with me thinking that I am very glad I am NOT at that stage of my life any more! Love/d my kids but a great deal of work as all parenting is! 😂😂😂

[@diannegooding8733]

Top trumps I am 75! It worries me that I do not feel elderly but then I try to do something simple! I’m old!

[@marklinford145]

Cells begin to die off in our late 30s so we all are at the start of dying stage at this time. Fun times 😅

[@markellis796]

I am around the same age as Mickey and grew up not for from him in West Ham, you talk about the relevance of freedom and risk compared to today and I can give one example; my Dad went through the blitz, and as a teenager like Mikeys Dad was evacuated to Kent, saw doodlebugs come overhead (unmanned jet propelled German bombs). In the seventies he was a tanker driver delivering acid, nitric, hydrochloric etc and used to take me and my brother and sister out with him on deliveries, no seat belts and him chain smoking, we even went into oil refineries where dad made us hide in the footwell with a coat over us - saying "they don't like kids in here", it was great fun. But that was then and this is now. As Churchill said "if you compare the past with the present you will lose sight of the future".

[@natmanprime4295]

that was a treat, it was a new one!!

[@seanriley199]

In the future Nick will be telling stories about how he was on death's door and he STILL travelled Europe lol

[@Jodi_BoringReviews]

😂

[@AutoAlligator]

Love it! :D x

[@syph92]

I'm 51 with 6 grandchildren so probably grumpy if you ask the kids but i still feel 19

[@terryodell9803]

You don't look 40 "you might of done once" 😂

[@beverleybrown5365]

40s are OK, 50 a little depressed, joints starting to tell you not to do so much, 60 too nackered to enjoy the freedom😭🤣😂

[@georgethakur]

There's a saying in Russian: Life only begins at 40. Everything up to that point is research and preparation.

[@scotty20040]

Micky is from the same part of London as me, use to see his dad out and about a lot but never met him.

[@alfiefletcher7513]

Just re-watching this reaction, as I have with many others you both have done! That's how much I love your videos! Micky is right about the whole swearing thing. I grew up around adults who swore like sailors and heard the c word at a really young age but I never swore myself! I only started swearing once I got into my teen years in high school because that is how my friends and I spoke when we got to that age. I don't get the whole swear jar thing that a lot of parents do with their kids because at the end of the day, you can hear something and choose not to say it yourself.

[@QuentinRichardson-supersnail]

I'm 66. Mentally I'm still 29 but physically… leaves a lot to be desired. 40 was a wicked good year for me.

[@koshtie]

Hii Guy's great video as always, May i suggest Billy Connolly (Don't Drink The Water In Ibiza) it's a good one, ATB Wayne UK.............

[@jrswinhoe58]

65 in November with two years to retirement and yes things bother you ,basically people moving slowly and get in your way

[@fazorator]

I wish you got the man with the lemonade joke , It was an old T.V advert.

[@shelleyjackson8793]

You’re mere youngsters! I turn 60 this year, I have two grandchildren and I have no idea how it happened!

[@shaun-hoppy]

"you don't stop having fun because you are old, you are old because you stop having fun" Am 52 and I climb cliffs and craggs with a record player, i video my favourite music being played in beautiful places, moors, forests (and up trees) and even underground in a 400 year old mine, I've never let age stop me

[@andrewb2475]

I think there's been one big change, when I was a kid we'd play in the street, we'd race go karts on the road outside the house, but my Town has so much traffic flowing through it only a moron would let there kids play out alone................. they might get kidnapped or run over by a car!

[@vallanceellis7569]

Your right pure Genius.Watched him for years.

[@kirtanuum]

5:27 "70's entertainers":- Jimmy Saville.

[@lorrynortheastguy4787]

I came across this video by chance but instantly thought if you two ever went to a party that dressed up as stars, she could nail Trinity 100% from the matrix with dark glasses and a skin tight suit on

[@tonyjefferson3502]

we are far more protective of kids nowadays as we have less; used to have 9-12 so you could lose a few, when you only have one, that one becomes more important

[@welshgit]

I'm 53, and I'm exactly the same as I was when I was 25.

[@petesmart1983]

40 in 2 months , was a mess in my 20s , being older and a bit nore mature my life is amazing so im more looking forward to getting older, and watching my daughter grow up

[@grabtharshammer]

Jodie is correct, Technology has had a big effect on the way parents behave. Not only with being more aware and the speed of News (and not so news) stories. Another major difference though is the parents addiction to the technology. Like Nick said, watching the TV and so engrossed whilst your child is being kidnapped. My grandparents were lucky if they had a Radio, they most likely knew everything that was going on outside. My Parents were in their thirties before they got their first TV and back then there were only two Channels in the UK and NO Daytime TV. Parents were more aware because they were also outside, or not so engrossed that they ignored things. It has got worse, even since my generation became parents and it IS getting worse with each generation - Caveat: IN GENERAL- Obviously it is not true in every situation. Nick is also correct to assume that it is not just something new and that crap happened back then also. Last night I was watching a YT video on "old murder cases". Vera Page, a 10 year old girl who was abducted, assaulted and murdered in 1931. The murderer got away with it due to all the evidence being only circumstantial (he most likely did it and would have been caught using the methods available today), but it has always happened. There is a story from the Dark or Middle Ages of an Innkeeper assulting three young boys and drowning them in a Beer barrel. The perversion of the "naked" Ape has always been a thing. It happened and even I was partly aware of it as a child. Sensationalism in news journalism has just made us more aware

[@grabtharshammer]

In fact, whilst I was watching this video, and engrossed in writing my comment, I have had no idea what is going on in the street outside my window.

[@mathewcooper8327]

It's like austin powers molly molly molly 😂

[@tonybennett9964]

I've just watch your vid with Cliff Richard he always had the suspicion about his love life ,but I remember him with Sue Barker and before that Olvia NewtonJohn although they were both with the same Record company. At 79 going on 80 don't worry about 40or 50 it don't change

[@mikerayland]

I'm 73 and love it I get away with loads of stuff.....

[@Simon-lw4uc]

I always watch your reactions it's enjoyable! And also you guys are a really nice couple 👍👍

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Everybody these days goes on about suffering PTSD or trauma just because they were surprised or shocked. It's ridiculous, real PTSD is debilitating and trauma life altering, just being surprised or shocked is neither of those things... It REALLY bugs me that people claim very real mental disorders just to be a victim of something... There are people who have gone to war, had their friends die in their arms, and some people claim PTSD just watching a glorified and romanticised film about it. That's the modern younger generation... As a child I use to disappear on my bike for hours, ride to the next town or city, I remember a group of us rode to see a cathedral we were out all day, no issue, this was early secondary school age. We would go out walking for hours hang out at an old well that we would step over - in a game of chicken, in winter it would freeze and we would play who falls in as you walked across it... Parents have become overly cautious, being aware of danger is one thing, but seeing it everywhere and changing your life because of it creates frightened, timid, overly cautious adults in later life, and the cumulative effect of that is a population of frightened, well armed (in the USA), nervous reactionary victim driven people... Welcome to the world of today...

[@bhurzumii4315]

I joined the Army at 18, just in time to finish training then deploy on Granby. Over the course of the next 22 years, I witnessed humanity at it's very worst and endured pretty serious hardship. I have several friends with ptsd, _real_ ptsd, and it really boils my piss when some people claim to suffer from it after spilling their latte or missing a T.V. show. I'm just thankful that I came away relatively unscathed although I am quite misanthropic.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

​@@bhurzumii4315My friend misanthropic doesn't come close when your surrounded by namby-pamby victim claiming radical left-wing ideologues that just want someone else to give them everything in the name of their hardship, when the worst they have to deal with is a broken fingernail or the cost of petrol today... They really don't know what hardship is, they've never gone hungry, never felt real fear or terror, never faced imminent destruction. They live a cloistered life embraced in government swaddling which they then complain about endlessly, as if their life isn't so heavily protected. Life has become so easy, so free from the real rigours of starvation and war that they're looking for things to complain about and judge as unfit. It's strange how stealing valour is frowned upon but steal someone state of mind, claim to have suffered like someone else, as if you've been through what they've been through seems to be encouraged. You can't pretend you've lost your leg, why is it encouraged to claim you've lost the ability remain mentally healthy? Loosing a pet is NOT as traumatising as loosing a friend in combat, hearing a story is NEVER as traumatising as actually living it. Mental illness is not claimed it's diagnosed by professionals and you have therapy and work towards mental health, you don't suddenly forget it and not mention it or deal with it again until your in competition with your other victim claiming fake traumatised friends, or worse publicly claiming it on KZbin videos, as they so blatantly and blasé do...

[@BoringReviews]

Yes. I agree

[@Isleofskye]

@@BoringReviews Good Reaction,as usual,and the reason Micky said "beware of 1970's Entertainers" on the streets,is that it has been discovered,more like UNcovered that many Male Entertainers abused their position and have been sent to prison for liaisons with "minors" when they were at the peak of their fame. The creepy"Secret Lemonade Drinker" was a popular,advert for "R.Whites" Lemonade shown from 1973.

[@grabtharshammer]

@@BoringReviews Shame he had to make it political

[@misolgit69]

the Chase is a prime time quiz show contestants against professional quizzers if you can find it online you might enjoy it

[@ChrisHale-i3s]

Love your Micky reactions have you looked at Micheal McIntyre he’s brilliant as well

[@nowhere982]

I'm 11months off 70😱 still wear levis, t shirts and boots. Not a girly girl, still listen to rock still think I'm 20, age is just a number

[@marie-christinescutt7888]

He's a real cockney as in South London on the other side of the river Thames

[@jonbolton3376]

Your discussion on ageing reminded me of a Dave Allen stand up bit, you might want to watch, where he discusses the ageing process.

[@ptb2008]

Christ he is only 40!

[@batman51]

I'm 50 + 50%. Don't know what happened to 50, 60 or 70. But that's the advantage, you don't remember!

[@aaronmicalowe]

On a serious note, when I see how many people have died in Ukraine, on both sides, I have a new appreciation for how proud people were just for surviving. None of them knew if they were going to see the next day. And they want us to appreciate just how tough it was to bring us here. Fair play. 🤷‍♂

[@dorianwylie9000]

Lads and ladies 😂😂 i love the content and i like that you're so down to earth and keep it real....hope all is great with you both and life in general for you and you're family im 36 and i have a feeling a mid life crises is coming when i hit 40 hahaha, love from republic of ireland and uk 👍👍

[@annother3350]

You're right to be worried. In America 400,000-800,000 children go missing every year never to be found!!!! Let that sink in...

[@JackRabbit002]

Yeah I'm 35 and still I'll say die at 50 Live fast die young huh in the words of MIA Lol I was an old man at 17 though! Your reactions are cool though!

[@raibeart1955]

If you haven’t yet heard of JETHRO give him a go. He’s is no longer with us but is a classic comedian. ‘Three eggs in the safe “ might be a good start. All the best Rab

[@stevenredmond7455]

24hr news has changed the world. Internet has you talking to people who you’d never have seen, let alone converse with. With that the bad people let’s say have bigger areas now to scope for victims. More people, less police (more camera’s) which are normally faulty.

[@lisadowsett6836]

50 is fine as long as you have your health and your loved ones :)

[@davidburnett93]

My fifties have been funny, I find myself referring to 28 year old co workers as kids

[@footballpicks1851]

I don’t think the world is more dangerous it’s just we see bad negative news stories 24/7 on social media so bad things are more in the forefront of our minds. And like you said if anything bad happens on your watch you would never forgive yourself and it would ruin the rest of your life knowing that happened because of you.

[@petesmart1983]

Sadly social media is horrible and so many are getting brainwashed especially during COVID were people sat watching social media all day taking in conspiracys etc

[@richardsiddon610]

60 in a couple of months..How did that happen?😂

[@johnfrancismaglinchey4192]

As you get older you can sit back and watch the play,,,,, I’m almost Seventy,,, and I don’t have a moment,,mind you I live in central LONDON ,, you’re never classified as anything other than an individual when you’re cramped in with a lot of other people

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

i am 60 and i aint done yet , i am still craving for knowledge it is all about your mindset .

[@philipevans1027]

Today and yesterday the same, but media information as changed and awareness of what goes on in the world . But micky Flanagan awesome

[@juliamaitland7160]

The one thing I will say is that the older you get the quicker the time goes

[@glennamyhotspur]

Belated birthday wishes... I'm 57.

[@DeanoEssex]

The sad thing is when you hit 50 you become the same age as old people 🙂

[@kallumleader9110]

I think the older gen are CAST IRON, different breed to us, everyone complains these days 🙆‍♂

[@paulbromley6687]

More cars on the road is the worst thing, There have always been local known weirdos to beware of, but now the weirdos have cars and can travel further afield, so now kids have to be careful of the cars and the odd weirdos who may be out there too. I felt invulnerable as a kid growing up but now I realise I was just lucky not to come a cropper.

[@sugarynugs]

i stopped counting my bday at 30. when you hit 50 its all down hill.

[@nickbelezbubjones6528]

I've just turned 60 😭🤣

[@AutoAlligator]

I had a whole conversation with a woman in Greggs who had the longest hair poking out of her nose...I really wanted to take a picture but she was lovely so...I'm telling you lot lol x As for swearing...I still can't swear in front of my parents and my dad was a soldier so its literally every other word in any sentence he says but I still cant lol :D I am in my 40s lol!

[@stevenmontgomery8117]

If you like Micky you should try Lee Evans

[@simonkirk3067]

There is no excuse for wobbly warts in the UK...It's free to get it removed on the NHS.

[@Pomdownuder]

"BACK IN MY DAY" "You don't know you're born" "You call that music?" Oh my god I'm my grandfather

[@paddydunne814]

I’m eighty now, and feel old😢

[@ritahamblin1043]

Life begins at 50. Life begins my friend gran kids you give back. You want get out of your comfort zone,. And take a look at only fools and horses (uncle Albert).

[@ethelmini]

His grandad's story wasn't so fanciful. There are records of such things happening. Unlikely a plane will have turned around for a schoolkid, but they did strafe civilians and drop bombs on random targets.

[@facts9538]

It's just a case of there is more people. more people equals more bad things happen. Plus we have the Internet so we now see every bad thing that happens in the world daily, where as our parents only really knew what was happening in their towns.

[@davidjack9217]

By the way 'times have GOT worse' not 'times have GOTTEN worse'. Sorry but as a 73 year old I have the right to be 'correct' (sometimes when my wife allows it) 😉. Children are ALWAYS your children, but being able to hand back the grandkids is a small advantage. Being the 'Bank of MUM and DAD' works sometimes as well. Being in better health now from when I was 44 does make 'free healthcare' invaluable. Needless to say I am NOT in the USA, or I would probably be dead by now - just my view of US support for their general population.

[@carlhartwell7978]

9:43 The Four Yorkshiremen. There are many versions few of them bad. But here's my pick for you! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5aaqIBmhqhogqc&pp=ygUVVGhlIEZvdXIgWW9ya3NoaXJlbWVu

[@johnking3877]

I'm 65 lol

[@caucasianbulldog6057]

People are starting businesses in their 70's and getting married and having babies, if the wives are younger, in their 70's.

[@handsolo1209]

You were wise to avoid Manchester. Nick would have fallen in love with me and Chris Woakes would have become jealous.

[@steevenfrost]

Parents are just more paranoid. Risk is to be avoided these days.How do kids learn about danger?

[@janefaulkner3749]

What till your Half a Century old and then some....

[@eastlondona.m.w2886]

Makes me laugh Americans trying too understand a cockney comedian from East London most of them jokes went straight over there heads they didn't have a clue what he was talking about😂

[@CHRISANDREOU4199]

Has he got a Black Power t-shirt on? He must live in a very white part of AMERICA

[@AntonyInnes]

Check out Greg Davies

[@paulbromley6687]

When you hit Sixty beware you become so irrelevant to anyone under Forty

[@andrewhodgkins2292]

Talk to the wart....

[@garybarnett583]

I thought he was too minted to take the train. 🤔