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You know you're old when....

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  • #52
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    You know you are old when you read a blog, and the owner of the blog has posted a photo of a charity shop find, thus:

    "Hey look at the cool vintage kitchen scales I picked up in the charity shop for two quid...thanks Oxfam!"

    And you are looking at the identical kitchen scales on your kitchen counter as you start baking. Cripes! :(


  • #53
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,780 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I had a very disturbing experience like that JB a couple of years ago when I went into a local museum somewhere and they had displays of households from various ages, and they had items and furniture from the 50s and 60s that seemed like only yesterday to me! I was very put out to find my own experiences in a museum :eek:


  • #54
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    I had a very disturbing experience like that JB a couple of years ago when I went into a local museum somewhere and they had displays of households from various ages, and they had items and furniture from the 50s and 60s that seemed like only yesterday to me! I was very put out to find my own experiences in a museum :eek:

    But those big heavy armchairs ..... don't they look comfortable? I could fall asleep in one of them so easy:rolleyes:


  • #55
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Whenever I see a 'vintage' scene, say a kitchen or living room from the 1930's, such as this one:

    http://www.ultraswank.net/interior/a-british-1930s-time-capsule-in-full-swing/

    I immediately come over all warm and fuzzy. The other decades leave me cold. I wasn't even a twinkle in the 30's. I was born in the 50's so I can't figure it out.


  • #56
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    You have trouble opening a bloody orange juice bottle. :mad:

    I had to ask my young one for help. :(


  • #57
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    As I just found out, you know you are getting a tad past it when you take the new computer back because you can't switch the fecking thing on properly and some irritating squeaky voice keeps telling you to select your language choice for two bloody hours without shutting up! Then it ups the ante by telling you in a loud clear (but still squeaky) voice what keys you are hitting........

    The girl in the shop looked at me like I was senile!


  • #58
    roran
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭roran


    ...when your son takes charge and tells you "take it easy dad...I'll do that..."


  • #59
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    roran wrote: »
    ...when your son takes charge and tells you "take it easy dad...I'll do that..."

    I hate it when they do that. LOL


  • #60
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    roran wrote: »
    ...when your son takes charge and tells you "take it easy dad...I'll do that..."

    And he's only five! :eek:


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  • #61
    roran
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭roran


    LizzieJones wrote: »
    I hate it when they do that. LOL

    Don't you just! :D:D:D


  • #62
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Whenever I see a 'vintage' scene, say a kitchen or living room from the 1930's, such as this one:

    http://www.ultraswank.net/interior/a-british-1930s-time-capsule-in-full-swing/

    I immediately come over all warm and fuzzy. The other decades leave me cold. I wasn't even a twinkle in the 30's. I was born in the 50's so I can't figure it out.

    It looks like my granny's house! (I'm also a child of the 50s, my granny is long gone, but it's not a warm fuzzy feeling for me - the scratchy feel of the chairs on my bare legs, the not-being-allowed to run around, the grouchy grandfather...but granny was a lovely warm person. Just old at a relatively young age.)


  • #63
    brinty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,333 ✭✭✭brinty


    When you're watching a GAA match and see a young fella and say jesus his oul fella was some player back in the day.
    Happened me last year watching jack mccaffrey for the dubs..
    i was only 32 at the time


  • #64
    Eph1958
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Eph1958


    You know you're gettin' old if............ you can remember going to the cinema and there were TWO films showing.


  • #65
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    Eph1958 wrote: »
    You know you're gettin' old if............ you can remember going to the cinema and there were TWO films showing.

    I can remember going to the cinema and there was ONE film showing. :)


  • #66
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I remember going to the cinema for the afternoon matinee


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  • #67
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    ......when someone stands by with a fire extinguisher when they light your birthday candles.

    ......when your arms are too short to read the paper.

    ......when you see the latest female celebrity airhead and think "wow, I bet her mother is amazing".

    ......when you take the lift, just to hear good music.

    ......when you realize that some of the buttons on your 501's have been open all day......but you don't care.


  • #68
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    ............when you realize that some of the buttons on your 501's have been open all day......but you don't care.

    Dinosaur!


  • #69
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    ......when you realize that some of the buttons on your 501's have been open all day......but you don't care.
    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Dinosaur!

    Buttons are....safer! (It's a man thing.)

    And, on a related theme, you know you're old when you "go commando" by accident. Now, THAT, in combination with the above, might cause some concern.

    What time is it? Why am I still up? Where am I?


  • #70
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Buttons are....safer! (It's a man thing.)

    And, on a related theme, you know you're old when you "go commando" by accident. Now, THAT, in combination with the above, might cause some concern.

    What time is it? Why am I still up? Where am I?

    Nothing at all is safe with a memory like that! :D


  • #71
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Buttons are....safer! (It's a man thing.)

    [/SIZE]

    I learned that at a very early age :eek::eek::eek:


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  • #72
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Buttons are....safer! (It's a man thing.)
    Rubecula wrote: »
    I learned that at a very early age :eek::eek::eek:

    Yes, me too! Never was a great singer but, thanks to YKK and my ukulele, I can still do a passable Tiny Tim impression.


  • #73
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I learned to imitate the sound of a cat in a mangle


  • #74
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I learned to imitate the sound of a cat in a mangle

    So..............you ARE a closet bagpipe apologist after all! RagginsnagglinandotherMuttleynoises.

    You know how, with age, you lose the ability to hear higher frequencies? How old do you have to be to not hear bagpipes anymore?

    Ohhhhh Gawwwd! I've just remembered: The Glasgow games start soon and I'll bet that, as we speak, there are hoards of cat-stranglers all over Scotland working themselves up to deliver the mother of all cacophonies for the opening ceremony. Thank Heaven for "MUTE".


  • #75
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I am not seriously into bagpipes, and as Sean Connery himself said "Sure and it takes a real Irishman to play thre pipes" (In the film The Longest Day, as he heard a Scottish piper approaching)


  • #76
    roran
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭roran


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I am not seriously into bagpipes, and as Sean Connery himself said "Sure and it takes a real Irishman to play thre pipes" (In the film The Longest Day, as he heard a Scottish piper approaching)


    Maybe I'm straying off a bit here, but thought this might be of interest, especially the Jew's Harp....
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3UIkJN7r9Q

    Apologies to all but I like it :) Hope you do too.


  • #77
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Not for me roran, but hey, knock yourself out!

    That's one heck of a fireplace though, innit?


  • #78
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Meanwhile, back on topic, asking someone to play a game of backgammon and they whip out the phone while asking what app I wish to use.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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