Sh!t that makes you feel old.

banie01

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.

The only thing minidisc ever really seemed to take off for was for backing tracks for gigging musicians.
It was one of the most popular pieces of extra kit for that back in the day.

Had a Walkman version myself and just gave up on it.

LLewellen Farquarson

Not only remembering pre-smartphones
Remembering pre-internet
Remembering pre-PCs
Remembering pre-TVs

And finally, remembering pre-decimalisation.

Feck I'm old.

And on a recent holiday realising that it only takes 8 years for a generation gap. The people 8 years older and younger than me were definitely in different generations to me.

Nunu

‘Timofte against Bonner...’ Those 3 words that set up a wonderful event burnt into millions of brains.

TWENTY NINE years ago today?!

Pogue eile

Someone at work asked me a few weeks back what I was at for the weekend and I excitedly replied that I was going to a Smashing Pumpkins concert, there were 3 interns in the room and none of them had any idea who the Smashing Pumpkins were

Went to the gig and was appalled at the idea that there was a seating area in the arena and wondered to myself why on earth anyone would want to be seated at a Smashing Pumpkins concert, two hours later I was looking up at those same seats with such jealousy and regret!

jobless

Chemical brothers - hey boy hey girl..... 20 years old this month.. now i feel old

antodeco

So many comments about things in cars!

Im lucky in that my car didnt have rear seatbelts, up to about 3 years ago (I put them in myself). Manual wind windows on the front (hinge opening on the rear), manual choke, no radio, no cigarette lighter socket and 1 speed wipers!

ohnonotgmail

My niece looking at me like i had two heads when i told her we didn't have a phone in our house when we were kids. She wanted to know how we got on to the internet.

is_that_so

Being pleased that a song you thought was 25 years old is really only 22 years old!

Arne_Saknussem

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

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

I'm slightly younger than you.

A friend sent me a link to one of those Birthday Info sites on my birthday, it told me the time gap between the day of my birth and today is greater than the gap between the day of my birth and the day Hitler invaded Poland! :eek::eek:

ohnonotgmail

Arne_Saknussem wrote: »

I'm slightly younger than you.

A friend sent me a link to one of those Birthday Info sites on my birthday, it told me the time gap between the day of my birth and today is greater than the gap between the day of my birth and the day Hitler invaded Poland! :eek::eek:

whippersnapper. It wont be long before the gap between my date of birth and today is greater than the gap between my date of birth and the end of world war 1.

Tauriel

Bones cracking when you move from a sitting down position to standing.

bonzodog2

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

whippersnapper. It wont be long before the gap between my date of birth and today is greater than the gap between my date of birth and the end of world war 1.

Pfft.:D
The gap between my date of birth and today is greater than the gap between my date of birth and the birth of Mao Zedong, Aldous Huxley, Edward VIII, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Kruschchev

is_that_so

http://you.regettingold.com:eek:

BobMc

Your 2nd child graduating primary school from the same place you went yourself

is_that_so

BobMc wrote: »

Your 2nd child graduating primary school from the same place you went yourself

The fact that children graduate primary school! We just left!

Boom_Bap

When you enjoy a good sit down.

mcgucc22

Robbie Keane, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard etc becoming coaches and managers. I'm around the same age and it seems only like yesterday when these guys were bursting onto the scene as teenagers.

Boom_Bap

When clothes are purchased for practicality over style

bear1

When 1998 is the exact amount of time away as 2030...
sonic is over 20 years old

Tell me how

When those you match with on online dating have it written in their profile, "all my kids are over 18".
Or as happened, I matched with a 39 year old grandmother.

Not ready for that at 40!

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

mustang shelly wrote: »

Bones cracking when you move from a sitting down position to standing.

And those groaning/ shouting noises people make standing up. I always assumed they were basically deliberate. Nope, they just happen.

DublinWriter

When you finally 'get' the reason for slippers.

razorblunt

bear1 wrote: »

When 1998 is the exact amount of time away as 2030...
sonic is over 20 years old

Emmmm, 98 is further.

Pogue eile

bear1 wrote: »

When 1998 is the exact amount of time away as 2030...
sonic is over 20 years old

Try 2040!!

NOW you feel old

magic_murph

Collecting the pension and then spending it all on cough drops and Werthers original

victor8600

DublinWriter wrote: »

When you finally 'get' the reason for slippers.

The reason for slippers is the ability to walk on Lego pieces in a dark room without waking up kids

Boom_Bap

When you are thinking about the sand that you'll have to clean up before the trip to the beach has started.

bear1

razorblunt wrote: »

Emmmm, 98 is further.

Ara ****

"LLewellen

"LLewellen wrote:

And finally, remembering pre-decimalisation.

ha, this reminds me of my late dad.

To determine whether a price was good value, he'd first convert it into punts and then back into pre-decimal.

"9 pounds and 90 pence and thruppence for a burnt burger? Why you could hire a man for a week on that, in my day"

joeysoap

mcgucc22 wrote: »

Robbie Keane, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard etc becoming coaches and managers. I'm around the same age and it seems only like yesterday when these guys were bursting onto the scene as teenagers.

When you stood at first division matches. Having queued up for half an hour and paid at the turnstile.
When you remember Jimmy Greaves, Mick Channon, Martin Peters playing etc and thought anyone who remembered seeing Stanley Matthews, Nat Lofthouse, Jackie Carey playing etc must be very old.

Remembering the names of old stadiums doesn’t help, Ayrsome, Roker, Baseball Ground, Maine Road etc etc