Facts that make you feel a bit older

FearDark

FearDark wrote: »

Realising:

that the last time I actually used a floppy disk is over 13 years ago!

the last time I even saw a VHS video tape is over 10 years ago!

CD's are obsolete!

Recording mixtapes is something I havent done in 20 years

I still have a couple of vidoes marked "Don't tape over - ever" with fave films like Die Hard on it.

Don't know why I still keep them I know I'm never going to watch them

BBDBB

BBDBB wrote: »

seems like Ryan Giggs will still be playing in his 50's!

He already is no?

I'm closer to age 40 than I am to 21

Pumpkinseeds

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm closer to age 40 than I am to 21

39 is worse than 40. I thought I'd be fine about it but last year I got all nostalgic and weird about it. I turned 40 earlier this year and it wasn't too bad. I think it's the first milestone birthday that most people don't look forward to. Enjoy 38, cause 39 can be rough:D

moc moc a moc

IvySlayer wrote: »

The 90s was 2 decades ago

If they made a modern equivalent of "That '70s Show", it would be called "That '90s Show" and would be set in 1991.

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

http://www.ask.com/question/when-did-the-one-pound-coin-come-out

That's a foreign pound coin, genius :rolleyes: The Irish pound coin didn't exist until 1990.

Spook_ie

I remember when kilometers were miles and kilograms were pounds!

Cycling Dumbasses

Taking Viagra to help me piss standing up.

I remember colour TV starting (in the UK).

irishgeo

I remember the day Network 2 launched in 1988.

Femme_Fatale

Italia '90 was closer in time to the moon landing than today is to Italia '90.

IvaBigWun

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Italia '90 was closer in time to the moon landing than today is to Italia '90.

Booo!

Get out!

Allyall

I can't remember anything.

Santa Cruz

I remember when Twink was the best looking of Maxi Dick and Twink.

Allyall

Santa Cruz wrote: »

I remember when Twink was the best looking of Maxi Dick and Twink.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_OKvIS0Nk8

foxyboxer

Love Actually was released 10 years ago.

Allyall

foxyboxer wrote: »

Love Actually was released 10 years ago.

Googled it, still don't remember it.

de5p0i1er

oldyouth wrote: »

My former babysitter's daughter did her Junior Cert this year

My former babysitter's youngest daughter did her junior cert too. Her too older kids are old enough too drink.

LorMal

Mousewar wrote: »

2 things

When I get new students in my college and they're born in the mid-90s and yet are fully grown adults. Jeez, another few years and they'll have been born in the noughties.

Going into a club and instinctively reaching for my ID before realising that the days when I needed to prove I'm over 18 are long over.

That's not old. They ask me who I'm here to collect...

DazMarz

One that gets to me is that kids who were born in the year 2000 are in secondary school.

Or kids that are 18 were born circa 1995.

When I met some of my cousins from America during the summer, one of them was 15. For some strange reason, I was stunned when I realised he'd been born in 1998.

It's been 8 years since the last Star Wars film was released.

It's been 7 years since I sat the Leaving Cert... I still remember so much of it like it was just last summer. Fúck me...

Gee Bag

Its 21 years since we found out Bishop Eamonn Casey had a son. Seems pretty innocent now considering everything that came out about the clergy in the years after.

Femme_Fatale

DazMarz wrote: »

It's been 7 years since I sat the Leaving Cert... I still remember so much of it like it was just last summer. Fúck me...

Lucky you - 17 years for me! 2006 totally seems recent to me. Things get more and more like that the older you get.
1999 nearly 15 years ago... how?

P_1

joe stodge wrote: »

Stone cold steve Austin wrestled his last match ten years ago.

Undertaker v Mankind in Hell in the Cell had it's 15th anniversary a few weeks back

LorMal

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Lucky you - 17 years for me! 2006 totally seems recent to me. Things get more and more like that the older you get.
1999 nearly 15 years ago... how?

30 years ago for me....................ah sh1te, why did I click on this thread........

NIMAN

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm closer to age 40 than I am to 21

I'm closer to 68 than I am to 21.:eek:

bnt

The first album I bought was 90125 by Yes. Next week it will turn 30. :eek:

edit: a better discussion of the album's importance is here.

IvaBigWun

DazMarz wrote: »

One that gets to me is that kids who were born in the year 2000 are in secondary school.

Ssssh!

suicide_circus

my gf was born in the 90s

:D:D:D:D:D:D

jesus i'm knackered

Munstermad

I got pregnant at 19, bought house at 20, engaged on my 21st..... My 1st born will be 21 on New Years Day and lives at home....!!!! God I feel old!! And wiser!!!

Calibos

DazMarz wrote: »

One that gets to me is that kids who were born in the year 2000 are in secondary school.

Or kids that are 18 were born circa 1995.

When I met some of my cousins from America during the summer, one of them was 15. For some strange reason, I was stunned when I realised he'd been born in 1998.

It's been 8 years since the last Star Wars film was released.

It's been 7 years since I sat the Leaving Cert... I still remember so much of it like it was just last summer. Fúck me...

I had just done the leaving cert 8 years after the last star wars film was released. ie. the last star wars film I will acknowledge, Return of the Jedi. For me it barely feels like 8 years since ROTJ never mind 8 years since ROTS!!

22 years since the LC for me. 40yo in January. Feel, Act and most importantly Look like mid 20's. Yay Me! The credit must go to my parents for finding fine genetic specimens to reproduce with.

IvaBigWun

suicide_circus wrote: »

my gf was born in the 90s

:D:D:D:D:D:D

jesus i'm knackered

Durty.

ElvisChrist6

Cycling Dumbasses wrote: »

Taking Viagra to help me piss standing up.

That would just make it very difficult. I purposely avoided that joke too (you know what one)!

IvaBigWun

This is how Rudy from The Cosby Show looks now

http://img001.lazygirls.info/people/keshia_knight_pulliam/keshia_knight_pulliam_keisha021_cLpulxX.sized.jpg

Rubat

IvySlayer wrote: »

The 90s was 2 decades ago

Well, the early 90s so far. :o

IvaBigWun

That staying in on a Saturday night is actually a nice relief sometimes

whirlpool

IvaBigWun wrote: »

This is how Rudy from The Cosby Show looks now

http://img001.lazygirls.info/people/keshia_knight_pulliam/keshia_knight_pulliam_keisha021_cLpulxX.sized.jpg

Ah, stop.

Paddy Cow

You can go on a tv show and become a millionaire. I remember Where in The World in the late 80's. Everyone was still poor and you could win things like a hoover or washing machine.

we'llallhavetea

I've just over a year left in my 20's. fcuking depressing

Maximus Alexander

aya startin wha wrote: »

I've just over a year left in my 20's. fcuking depressing

I've just under two left and I know how you feel.

we'llallhavetea

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I've just under two left and I know how you feel.

I really think I might stick with 29 for awhile! imagine, 30! fcuking 30!!

IvaBigWun

Tamagotchi has been reinvented as an app!

IvaBigWun

Ginger Spice is 40.

In fairness though she looks 45.

languagenerd

I'm only 22 but a few weeks ago I was at a Taekwon-do event in another club and afterwards a group of the girls who have higher belts than me were discussing fake IDs - whether they'd get in to the pub or not - and how they're finding the first term of college... They looked at me like I was a dinosaur when I said what age I was :pac:

Also, whenever anyone refers to me as "the lady" when talking to their kids (which happens a lot cause I work in retail).

2005 was 8 years ago :O

The One Who Knocks

Oh dear god!

Littlehorny

Scott and Charlene got married on Neighbours 25 years ago!

IvaBigWun

River Phoenix died 20 years ago.

Capt'n Midnight

Wooden spoons can't be used by mothers to punish children anymore.

Munstermad

IvaBigWun wrote: »

River Phoenix died 20 years ago.

Ah here! am feeling prehistoric now... :eek:

rozeboosje

The fact that the newest cohort of people allowed to vote for the Dáil have not been in this country as long as I have.

Capt'n Midnight

Paddy Cow wrote: »

You can go on a tv show and become a millionaire. I remember Where in The World in the late 80's. Everyone was still poor and you could win things like a hoover or washing machine.

Stop the lights !


https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055103770

first prize was 1p ... that's right ... 1 single penny ... next prize was 3p and thereafter 5 p increments. Such largesse

As a very small child, in the early 70's, with only one channel to watch, Quicksilver was hard to miss, and even harder to watch. I used to be hypnotised by the light sequence, and it was always a shock when the contestant would splutter "Stop the lights Bunny! I know this one!".

Patser

Outkast's Hey Ya is 10 years old

Prodigy's No Good is just turning 20

EMF's Unbelievable is just 24.