You know you're old when....

Stella Virgo

.feckin Betamax player wont work again......my Commodore Amiga is giving trouble too.........

Green farmer

You know your old when, You ask your kids if your still cool, and they give you a look that would cut you in half.

Rubecula

You are old when you best dance moves have the grandkids in hysterics

HeidiHeidi

Rubecula wrote: »

You are old when you best dance moves have the grandkids in hysterics

I'd have classed it as you know you're still young when you can bust some dance moves (never mind your best ones) at all :eek:

Oryx

You know youre old when you have lived long enough to see three different types of currency in this country.

Chucken

Rubecula

Chucken wrote: »

FORGET !!!!

I still have all four of them!:eek:

Jellybaby1

Not forgetting the 78's, LP's and EP's!

Steve

cactuspaw wrote: »

You know your getting old when you have to explain to the kids you work with what dial-up Internet was.

Try explaining what this was...

State of the art kid pacifier - we used to watch it for hours on end...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EfycbDhiw

muffler

You know you're old when you meet Old Goat at a beers night and he tells you he's younger than you :eek:











:P

Rubecula

AND I have one of these too

http://nurik.my3gb.com/02-02-2011/images/8-player-repair-tape-track-3.jpg

martinn123

You know you are old when, you used to think Alan Sugar, or Lord Sugar, was a genius for inventing the Computer, Amiga, was it , or Commodore, 64.

Now you realise he is an arsewhooole, and is only good for "reality TV"

OldGoat

muffler wrote: »

You know you're old when you meet Old Goat at a beers night and he tells you he's younger than you :eek:

I'm in disguise as an oulfella.

Steve wrote: »

Try explaining what this was...

I was so disappointed when I found the name username "zx81" was already being used and then abandoned just to the waste ground. Really should poke Admin about recycling old user names.

Rubecula

OldGoat wrote: »

I'm in disguise as an oulfella.


I was so disappointed when I found the name username "zx81" was already being used and then abandoned just to the waste ground. Really should poke Admin about recycling old user names.

If yopu do that I think I will miss OldGoat it is so apt

Eph1958

You know you're getting old when you find yerself waking up before the alarm clock goes off..........

LizzieJones

You know you're old when you have to explain what a reel-to-reel tape player/recorder is to a young one.

Rubecula

You know you are getting old when you wish your car had a cranking handle for when the battery goes flat.

martinn123

When...........what was the question again.

The Princess Bride

When you tell your teens to enjoy the disco, they roll their eyes and correct you.
"It's not called a disco these days- it's a niteclub."

K.Flyer

Oryx wrote: »

You know youre old when you have lived long enough to see three different types of currency in this country.

Oh Sh! T, I'm on my fourth,
Pounds-shillings-pence
Decimalisation -pounds- pence
Irish Punts
Euro.

You know your old when people start refering to run of the mill cars from when you were starting to drive as Vintage and Classic Cars.

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!

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:

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:

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.

LizzieJones

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

I had to ask my young one for help.

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!

roran

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

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

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:

roran

LizzieJones wrote: »

I hate it when they do that. LOL

Don't you just! :D:D