You know you're getting old when...

donegal__road · 09-12-2013 01:57AM

when you mention the program The Waltons, and no-one knows what your talking about.

Mint Aero · 09-12-2013 02:01AM

MadsL wrote: »

*narrows eyes*

Join date Sept 2013 eh?

Right because you can't read boards unless you join :rolleyes:

Meangadh · 09-12-2013 02:05AM

When the students you taught are now teachers themselves.

When your students' parents are getting closer to your own age.

When your friends are more interested in tea parties than house parties.

Son Of A Vidic · 09-12-2013 02:10AM

osarusan wrote: »

You know you're getting old when...

You can't remember why you joined Boards.ie

humbert · 09-12-2013 03:46AM

Does remembering a time before the internet make you old yet? Not just dial-up but having to consult Encyclopaedia Britannica (and I don't mean on a CD but actually pulling out the index, finding the right volume and leafing through an actual book) if you wanted to know about something or someone.

Obligatory Ernie Cline reference.

Mint Aero · 09-12-2013 03:50AM

humbert wrote: »

Does remembering a time before the internet make you old yet? Not just dial-up but having to consult Encyclopaedia Britannica (and I don't mean on a CD but actually pulling out the index, finding the right volume and leafing through an actual book) if you wanted to know about something or someone.

Obligatory Ernie Cline reference.

I was still doing this in 2002 so not yet i'd say

K.Flyer · 09-12-2013 04:04AM

Your getting old when you clearly remember...

A pint was less than 50p.
A gallon of petrol was less than 80p.
You could drive down Grafton St.
The traffic on Dublin Quays went the other way.
Black and White TV with only 2 or 3 stations.
Reading through your kids school History Book and you remember when it happened.

Sunglasses Ron · 09-12-2013 12:15PM

K.Flyer wrote: »

Y.
Reading through your kids school History Book and you remember when it happened.

Question for the parents- do current school history books/ the LC course cover the likes of 9/11 and the start of the Iraq invasion? I'm trying hard to remember if even the end of the USSR was covered in my day (we definitely had Vietnam and the Cold War, but I can't recall if we actually finished the CW, and I don't think the textbooks covred the likes of the Good Friday Agreement, it was still just about current affairs by then). The current LC'ers are likely the first modern year who recall either barely or completely nothing about the biggest world event since WWII. It sill staggers me to imagine we could see something bigger in our current lifetime. Barring an asteroid strike, to me it just seems impossible.

OldGoat · 09-12-2013 12:19PM

Àhhhh bollix, I've forgotten what I was going to say.

Green Giant · 09-12-2013 12:21PM

songs I can remember being in the charts are being covered by current chart artists

football clubs are fielding teams with an average age younger than my own

Hoop66 · 09-12-2013 01:16PM

ROCKMAN wrote: »

When gravity and body parts become mortal enemies .....

I was going to say "when your balls hang down lower than your cóck", but yours is more sophisticated.

OldNotWIse · 09-12-2013 01:17PM

A night out on Saturday floors you for all of Sunday and Monday, and the depressive episode lasts until Tuesday.

dr strangelove · 09-12-2013 01:19PM

When the girl you went out with at school now has a four year old grand daughter.

Pumpkinseeds · 09-12-2013 02:51PM

When you can forecast cold/wet weather based on how your body aches. Winter is not my friend, then again neither is Summer.

Duggy747 · 09-12-2013 03:03PM

I fix computers and some young people, who are in college, have their birthday as part of their password.

It's bizarre when 1995 is in it, they weren't even born when I watched Demolition Man for the first time

therealme · 09-12-2013 03:06PM

When you can't do the annual 12 pubs because the hangover from Thursday night was still SO bad......damn old age :-(

keano_afc · 09-12-2013 03:14PM

When you bend over to pick something up and think "what else can I do while I'm down here"

[-0-] · 09-12-2013 03:20PM

You wake up at 6am on weekends.
You're in bed before the 9 o'clock news.
People start calling you sir.

unichick · 09-12-2013 03:23PM

Teddy Sheringham's son is doing the FA Cup draw with him and not a little boy anymore but quite a handsome young man!

17-12-2013 10:31AM

You hear Ian Dempsey wishing someone happy birthday and playing East 17's 'Stay Another Day' because it was no1 when she was born. Then he says she's 19

You know you're getting old when...

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