Sh!t that makes you feel old.

Capt'n Midnight

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Remembering when you had to use a manual choke..

And some people would use it while overtaking.


And the story of the house wife whose car used to guzzle down petrol.

Mechanics checked it out loads of times and couldn't find any problem so eventually one of them asked to go on test drive with her.

She got into the car pulls out the choke, and hangs the handbag from it.

Clareman

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Jesasus, Keanu is almost ready to be in the Expendables

I just went on a Wikipedia wander there and noticed that Ewan McGregor is 48, I had a pint with him in Sixmilebridge when he was filming a movie here when he was starting out, that was over 25 years ago.

I better go put the Bovril on I guess

Clareman

Clareman wrote: »

I just went on a Wikipedia wander there and noticed that Ewan McGregor is 48, I had a pint with him in Sixmilebridge when he was filming a movie here when he was starting out, that was over 25 years ago.

I better go put the Bovril on I guess

22 or so years ago, not too bad I suppose.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Serpent%27s_Kiss#Locations

jcorr

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

, shouting as a form of communicating over distance, 'COME IN FOR YOUR DINNER' is a thing of the past now..

Not with my Dad. He's still doing it! And I'm 36!

Ol' Donie

I remember the first time, while getting my hair cut, I looked down and thought "how am I covered in someone else's grey hair?"

Bobblehats

Getting a haircut before I remembered to dye my hair.

Gimme A Pound

Just saw a "Do you remember?" post on Facebook now about those mp3 players when you were growing up. :rolleyes:

Clareman

Clareman wrote: »

She's 6. She can't understand that there was no internet when I was younger, but at least I had YouTube and NetFlix, didn't have the heart to tell her that I was older than both combined

I was just chatting about this tonight with some friends over pints, how we were the last generation that will ever have lived on a planet without instant connectedness.

I was born in the late 1980s and even as a child, I remember one neighbour who had no electricity or running water. Some of our neighbours had no telephones either, and would walk into the house to make a phone call and leave 20p on the phone table. (Remember phone tables, the ones with the little cushioned seats that you could sit on?)

Most of us here are probably very lucky that we got to experience childhood without the glare of social media. There will probably never be another generation like that again.

freshpopcorn

I met somebody once and they couldn't believe that cars hand manual wind down windows. Even tough new cars still have them.

freshpopcorn

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I met somebody once and they couldn't believe that cars hand manual wind down windows. Even tough new cars still have them.

Cars are great markers of change. Remember when most cars didn't even have safety belts in the back? And the front belts weren't even wound, just loose, dangling and of very doubtful benefit.

And those rubber wires that hung from the back of cars and bobbed along on the road? Apparently they were to do with car sickness, or static electricity? I'm not sure, but that's another thing that's gone.

*Adjusts pince-nez and looks wistful*

branie2

the grey in my beard

JustAThought

When you take for.granted that if the only ulstairs toilet is occupied in your parents hkuse that you will use the outdoor one. Yes - outdoor toilets are still a thing for some people.

When you put the kids on a horse & trap trip around town and buzz off for a coffee to wait for them to retuen and then think perhaps giving your choldren to a total stranger for an hoir or so around the city xwntre os not the modern way of doing things (kidnap/abduction /child welfare)

When you stop to meet & talk with a schoolfriend and eventually realise that the lanky teenager hanging around isnt lost and looking for you to stop talking to ask for directions but is in fact their child.

Discussing the milennium with aomeone born in 2003.

Doctors getting MUCH younger and gardai being young, cheeky and looking like teenagers.

De Bhál

I heard on the radio the other day that the footballer Fernando Torres is retiring.
Made me feel old.

JustAThought

Kids who haave no idea who U2 are.

banie01

Having so many tablets to take that you end up needing pill organizers!
I'm not even bloody 40 yet!

freshpopcorn

I remember going to friends Birthday's and five of us were in the back seat and we passed Garda Checkpoints and they just waved us through and I'm nearly thirty.
If this happened Today they'd have a field day on Twitter.

Dtp1979

To realise mrs. Doubtfire is 26 years old

Gimme A Pound

banie01 wrote: »

Having so many tablets to take that you end up needing pill organizers!
I'm not even bloody 40 yet!

Put the bread next to the toaster! :pac:

Dtp1979

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

When you ask your wife does she want to go out to the pictures and you're delighted when she says no, let's watch one on TV instead

The fact that you call it the pictures.......

Richard Hillman

I was walking through Golden Discs a couple of weeks ago and seen 90s compilations under a Father's Days Gifts signs.

I still associate 70s music for fathers.

Lackadaisical

Birthdays

Richard Hillman

Richard Hillman wrote: »

I was walking through Golden Discs a couple of weeks ago.. .

That was the first giveaway

parttimeadult

The music I was into back when I was into clubbing is now considered oldskool.

Irish Guitarist

I was one year old when Elvis died. Now I'm a year older than he was at the time of his death.

banie01

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

Put the bread next to the toaster! :pac:

But it's the only exercise I get!
I'm just glad my protestant wife doesn't keep it in the press :pac:

Feisar

I'm 35, we had a young wan staying with us for a while, she's a student, just her general way of going on was so far removed from what I was like as a student.

The Irish Simpsons Fans Memes page.

Billie Eilish

I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you! - Ironic given point Nr 2 there.

Feisar

soiseztomabel wrote: »

A new temp started at work, she casually asked me how old I was and when I replied she said....

“Oh my god, you’re older than my ma”

I’m 36 btw

Her mum having a child at 15 shouldn't make you feel old!

Suckler

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

Just saw a "Do you remember?" post on Facebook now about those mp3 players when you were growing up. :rolleyes:

I remember a lad giving away his CD's as mini-disc was going to revolutionise music. Cars would come with mini disc players instead of CD players etc. etc. He spent a fortune on the stuff at the time.

namenotavailablE

* Having to tick a different box for my age category on surveys.
* Being permitted to pay a greater percentage of my income into a pension.
* Losing the competitive urge of yesteryear.
* Middle age spread.
* Finding myself in conversation with colleagues along the lines of how "the youth of today" do stuff so wrong to the way "we" had to do it.
* Wanting to be mortgage free and able to retire.

Meh. Feeling grumpy and it's barely 9am...

Feisar

Suckler wrote: »

I remember a lad giving away his CD's as mini-disc was going to revolutionise music. Cars would come with mini disc players instead of CD players etc. etc. He spent a fortune on the stuff at the time.

I've a Sony HIFI with a mini-disc player