You know you are getting old when.....

blue5000

I was at a couple of vintage rallies over the summer and I always like looking at the displays of old tools up on boards, you know the brass name plates, hammers and rusty saws etc. Anyway thinking about it afterwards I now know what a lot of the old tools were for, or even remember using some of them, and I'm beginning to think I'm approaching middle age.

So what is it that makes you think you are getting on in years?

Is it the patterns on the inside of the windows made by frost before we all had central heating?

Or perhaps you remember the first round bales?

PS the 5000 hit 50 last week so maybe I'm getting nostalgic.;)

Miname

blue5000 wrote: »

I was at a couple of vintage rallies over the summer and I always like looking at the displays of old tools up on boards, you know the brass name plates, hammers and rusty saws etc. Anyway thinking about it afterwards I now know what a lot of the old tools were for, or even remember using some of them, and I'm beginning to think I'm approaching middle age.

So what is it that makes you think you are getting on in years?

Is it the patterns on the inside of the windows made by frost before we all had central heating?

Or perhaps you remember the first round bales?

PS the 5000 hit 50 last week so maybe I'm getting nostalgic.;)

It's the groan I make when I bend down and how I appreciate a couple of hours in a mart more than going out on a Saturday night. And I'm a fair bit off fifty.

Bullocks

When you have to bring a box of screws or small things under the light or outside in the sun to see what you're looking for properly!

Dunedin

When you think a young lad of 16 is too young to be driving a tractor on the road

patsy_mccabe

When you go down to the shed and then spend 5 minutes standing there trying to remember what you went there for. Happened me on Saturday.:D

farawaygrass

When you are getting up at 6 am at the weekends instead of going to bed. A big one for me-I've started listening to radio 1 more because the other stations play crap new music and talk nonsense!

kerryjack

When you clip hairs from your ears and your nose and theres more hair on the ground than when you cut your hair from the too of your head

moll3

I have to sit at the edge of the bed now to put on my socks

Mac Taylor

When your youngest now refers to you as the auld man. When you look through the dob's of the Galway team and don't mind that none of them are your age but your old enough to be their father:D

Base price

When your nephew arrives to show off his brand new car and you haven't a clue what half the buttons/controls are for.

Milked out

When u get called up to go to a junior c match and you end up marking a lad 15 yrs younger than u..... can take a bit of solace in one of the full forwards being 10 yrs older than me tho

Brown Podzol

I bend down to tie my boot laces and I say to myself is there anything else I can do while I'm down here.

danjoe

You know your getting old when you have more toes than teeth

Jb1989

Milked out wrote: »

When u get called up to go to a junior c match and you end up marking a lad 15 yrs younger than u..... can take a bit of solace in one of the full forwards being 10 yrs older than me tho

That's a difference of 25 years... On a junior team,,,,,

whelan2

one of the kids asked me a while ago had cars been invented by 1988

_Brian

blue5000 wrote: »

I was at a couple of vintage rallies over the summer and I always like looking at the displays of old tools up on boards, you know the brass name plates, hammers and rusty saws etc. Anyway thinking about it afterwards I now know what a lot of the old tools were for, or even remember using some of them, and I'm beginning to think I'm approaching middle age.

So what is it that makes you think you are getting on in years?

Is it the patterns on the inside of the windows made by frost before we all had central heating?

Or perhaps you remember the first round bales?

PS the 5000 hit 50 last week so maybe I'm getting nostalgic.;)

First round bales ??
I remember making cocks of hay, twisting hay ropes to tie them down. Drawing them in to make a big rick of hay in the haggard. Have a photo somewhere of the first year we made square bales, some excitement.

Bleating Lamb

_Brian wrote: »

First round bales ??
I remember making cocks of hay, twisting hay ropes to tie them down. Drawing them in to make a big rick of hay in the haggard. Have a photo somewhere of the first year we made square bales, some excitement.

What about in a 'wet year' when you would make 'laps' to try and get hay saved,now they were a pain in hole.

Czhornet

_Brian wrote: »

First round bales ??
I remember making cocks of hay, twisting hay ropes to tie them down. Drawing them in to make a big rick of hay in the haggard. Have a photo somewhere of the first year we made square bales, some excitement.

I remember seeing the first round baler being pulled by "a big four wheel drive" tractor!!!

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

one of the kids asked me a while ago had cars been invented by 1988

Yea.
My 7yo keeps asking me questions about "the olden days"

trixi2011

When you start reading cvs of potential worksers and see the date of birth some of them in the late 90s.

Count Mondego

The last time I was at the barber he asked me "will I give the eyebrows a trim?" I said yes :-(

manjou

working out what handles on gates and fences are for ie opening them rather than crossing them

visatorro

trixi2011 wrote: »

When you start reading cvs of potential worksers and see the date of birth some of them in the late 90s.

jesus yeah when young people don't remember italia 90. im not exactly over the hill but I remember the country goin mad.

blue5000

visatorro wrote: »

jesus yeah when young people don't remember italia 90. im not exactly over the hill but I remember the country goin mad.

It gets worse, heard a mature student complaining about fellow students not remembering 9/11.

C0N0R

trixi2011 wrote: »

When you start reading cvs of potential worksers and see the date of birth some of them in the late 90s.

It's worse when your chatting a young one up and she born in the mid-late nineties

lakill Farm

blue5000 wrote: »

It gets worse, heard a mature student complaining about fellow students not remembering 9/11.

I started college the day after 9/11. Was just outside Mullingar on the road to Dublin when the reports of the first plane hit.

Jb1989

...when it takes all night..to do..what you used to do all night

Sam Kade

Jb1989 wrote: »

...when it takes all night..to do..what you used to do all night

When you remember the bards

Reggie.

When new recruits come in and you wonder if their mammy knows they've joined up

Sam Kade

Count Mondego wrote: »

The last time I was at the barber he asked me "will I give the eyebrows a trim?" I said yes :-(

The first time I was asked that it was an Iranian barber he asked trim eyebrow, I was going to say you might as well trim both of them while you're at it

Sam Kade

_Brian wrote: »

First round bales ??
I remember making cocks of hay, twisting hay ropes to tie them down. Drawing them in to make a big rick of hay in the haggard. Have a photo somewhere of the first year we made square bales, some excitement.

The hay rope is a sugan. The hay was put into grass cocks before the wynds were made. You could save perfect hay in dodgy weather with that system.

mf240

When its takes three days to recover from a feed of drink.

kowtow

Sam Kade wrote: »

When you remember the bards

I ran into them recently (long story) after a gap of 25 years and Diarmuid told me that he finally felt old when he saw himself on the cover of Ireland's own.

He got up on the stage and said that generally nowadays there were more people in the band than in the audience...

patsy_mccabe

You remember when;
- Taytos were 5p
- a pint of Guinness was £1.50
- DDT was great for killing lice
- you milked a cow for the house
- you 'trammed hay'
- Kilkenny were the third best hurling county in Leinster (1996)
- you had good clothes just for going to mass
- you thought everyone wanted to be Irish
- duffle coats
- a knife from the cutlery drawer made a good screwdriver

Kovu

You have a stick kept aside specifically for stirring paint.....

(I'm referencing Dad here, I'm still a young'un)

Base price

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

You remember when;
- Taytos were 5p
- a pint of Guinness was £1.50
- DDT was great for killing lice
- you milked a cow for the house
- you 'trammed hay'
- Kilkenny were the third best hurling county in Leinster (1996)
- you had good clothes just for going to mass
- you thought everyone wanted to be Irish
- a knife from the cutlery drawer made a good screwdriver

When patsy remembers that a packet of Tayto was 5p and you remember them at 3p :eek:

jimini0

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

You remember when;
- Taytos were 5p
- a pint of Guinness was £1.50
- DDT was great for killing lice
- you milked a cow for the house
- you 'trammed hay'
- Kilkenny were the third best hurling county in Leinster (1996)
- you had good clothes just for going to mass
- you thought everyone wanted to be Irish
- a knife from the cutlery drawer made a good screwdriver

A knife from the cutlery drawer STILL makes a good screwdriver.

kerryjack

When you drank cold tea from a red lemoade bottle in the hay meddow i didnt drink tea sinse

blue5000

mf240 wrote: »

When its takes three days to recover from a feed of drink.

I think I remember what you are talking about:o

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

You remember when;
- Taytos were 5p
- a pint of Guinness was £1.50
- DDT was great for killing lice
- you milked a cow for the house
- you 'trammed hay'
- Kilkenny were the third best hurling county in Leinster (1996)
- you had good clothes just for going to mass
- you thought everyone wanted to be Irish
- a knife from the cutlery drawer made a good screwdriver

I remember going to Scotland on a school trip, and we drank like fish, 5 pints of bitter for a fiver sterling:pac:

Jb1989

Base price wrote: »

When patsy remembers that a packet of Tayto was 5p and you remember them at 3p :eek:

I'm a baby, I remember bars of 'chomp' at 12p. Sticky buggers

Sam Kade

Base price wrote: »

When patsy remembers that a packet of Tayto was 5p and you remember them at 3p :eek:

Were tayto's even around back then all I remember were perri crisps for 2p a packet.

Kovu

Jb1989 wrote: »

I'm a baby, I remember bars of 'chomp' at 12p. Sticky buggers

God I hated those. The 5p Smiley bars were the way to go.

I vaguely remember Italia 90, wasn't too interested in it at the time. I reckon I'll be able to fill this thread tomorrow after spending the day at college with a rake of 17/18 yr olds

whelan2

Sam Kade wrote: »

Were tayto's even around back then all I remember were perri crisps for 2p a packet.

remember sam spudz crisps, trigger bars and fizzle sticks

White Clover

Does anyone remember ' master of the universe ' caramel bars from the late eighties ?
They were yum !

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

remember sam spudz crisps, trigger bars and fizzle sticks

Can get all them in mullingar

whelan2

White Clover wrote: »

Does anyone remember ' master of the universe ' caramel bars from the late eighties ?
They were yum !

brothers were mad into motu, brother even took adam as his confirmation name:)

Base price

Sam Kade wrote: »

Were tayto's even around back then all I remember were perri crisps for 2p a packet.

I never liked Perri crisps.

Kevhog1988

when cars had no seatbelts in the back lol.
Using a bale elevator.
phone boxes.
When i went on "holidays" to my cousins in my fathers home village (10 mile away).

Base price

Here is one from the past and a treat on a Sunday afternoon when/if you got pocket money.

White Clover

whelan2 wrote: »

brothers were mad into motu, brother even took adam as his confirmation name:)

I haven't a clue what they were about ! Was too young ;-)
Remember the taste though. Can they be got anywhere ?

_Brian

I remember when we milked 20 cows, sold calves as weanlings, there was enough profit to keep a family and repay the bank with interest rates at 19%