Sh!t that makes you feel old.

Thespoofer · 11-07-2019 5:34pm

My job.

Millionaire only not · 11-07-2019 8:25pm

Listening to joe Duffy and Marian Finunician on radio 1 and actually being interested

Rubberchikken · 11-07-2019 8:26pm

Millionaire only not wrote: »

Listening to joe Duffy and Marian Finunician on radio 1 and actually being interested

this hasnt happened yet so im already feeling younger!

jimbobaloobob · 11-07-2019 8:42pm

Crock Rock wrote: »

There's a college girl doing work experience in our work. She's 18 and in between her first and second year, she has a good head on her shoulders and asked around for experience for free, my manager kindly let her come in for a few months.

We were all talking at the table at lunch and the conversation took a few turns, one of them to Punts and the other to 9/11 and one of them the turn of the Millenium. She raised her eyebrows a during the conversation like we were talking Chinese.

I never copped that she was born in 2001 !!!
When I think of an 18-year-old I am still thinking of someone born in the early 90's (I was born in 1991).

Fucking shit I feel old.

I get ya there, was watching the Tour de France earlier and they mentioned one of the riders was born in 1996 then i feel old when i realise i did my leaving cert in 1996

lbc2019 · 11-07-2019 10:26pm

My 17 year old niece didn't know who Brendan Grace was!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 11-07-2019 10:39pm

Reading what has others here feeling old, leaves me feeling ancient. Luckily, I don't think about it too often.

WW2 was still going strong when I was born.

Cushtie · 11-07-2019 10:46pm

Millionaire only not wrote: »

Listening to joe Duffy and Marian Finunician on radio 1 and actually being interested

When you have the car radio on Rte Radio 1 most of the time. And you will give 2fm the odd whirl but definately not Spin fm. The jingles make my head hurt!

I remember driving with my Dad when I was young and he would have Radio 1 on. I swore that would never be me.... Guess what??

0lddog · 11-07-2019 10:52pm

J Mysterio wrote: »

When you go to the doctor with an ailment and they tell you its 'wear and tear'.

Basically, 'this is your life now, you are partly broken'.

Ha Ha !

I've had the no time wasting version of that :

"Its common in old people" :mad:

ohnonotgmail · 11-07-2019 11:02pm

Cushtie wrote: »

When you have the car radio on Rte Radio 1 most of the time. And you will give 2fm the odd whirl but definately not Spin fm. The jingles make my head hurt!

I remember driving with my Dad when I was young and he would have Radio 1 on. I swore that would never be me.... Guess what??

I'm a LyricFM man now

Ken. · 11-07-2019 11:18pm

<---Newstalk cause music radio is just the same 20 or so songs on a loop with idiots talking between the songs.

ohnonotgmail · 11-07-2019 11:24pm

J Mysterio wrote: »

When you go to the doctor with an ailment and they tell you its 'wear and tear'.

Basically, 'this is your life now, you are partly broken'.

a consultant told me a new (to me) variant of this the other day. She said "this is your new baseline". basically "this is good as you can hope it to be from now on. Forget the how good things were before, this is the new ****ty you"

griffin100 · 11-07-2019 11:34pm

The fact I now consider corduroy an acceptable fabric to wear. When the fcuk did that happen?

Millionaire only not · 11-07-2019 11:41pm

When I found the skinny leather black tie and bright blue jacket in a wardrobe at my parents house frm my Miami vice crocket/tubbs days
I can see a lot asking wtf is crocket/ tubbs��

Millionaire only not · 11-07-2019 11:45pm

When I bought the sports car in my forty’s ,alas the car is getting old and I’m on the change out of 50 - lol
Did I do all the rest- dam right I did - lol

dubstarr · 12-07-2019 12:02am

When you cough and you wee yourself

jimbobaloobob · 12-07-2019 12:05am

dubstarr wrote: »

When you cough and you wee yourself

Get on the cough bottle

cobweb · 12-07-2019 12:10am

When talking music with my workmates and discussing gigs they were going to and gigs id love to go to they looked at me smiled in a sympathetic manner tilted their head and remarked, Oh you know who Picture This is.

The awwwwwwww at the beginning of the sentence was silent. I suddenly realised I could be the parent of the 25 year old I was talking to. Im 46 and had been listening to the cd in the car on the way to work that morning

jimbobaloobob · 12-07-2019 12:13am

Cobweb your mention of cd player in the car even seems old.

In saying that ive only a cassette player.

I gave a lift to a work colleague who wanted to plug in their usb!

bubbles o hara · 12-07-2019 12:15am

I bought new shoes today, and I didn't care about the style...I chose them because they were comfortable.

cobweb · 12-07-2019 12:19am

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

Cobweb your mention of cd player in the car even seems old.

QUOTE]

Had kids in car today and had to explain what a cd was before bluetoothing spotify from my phone to car. 2 of them ha and never seen a cd.

love my cds and my vinyl and spotify,

ampleforth · 12-07-2019 12:19am

Comhra wrote: »

Taking a load of my CDs into the charity shop.

Going to the charity shop and buying them for 50c each...and thinking it's a fantastic deal.

ampleforth · 12-07-2019 12:21am

cobweb wrote: »

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

Cobweb your mention of cd player in the car even seems old.

QUOTE]

Had kids in car today and had to explain what a cd was before bluetoothing spotify from my phone to car. 2 of them ha and never seen a cd.

love my cds and my vinyl and spotify,

Damn, I still have a load of cassettes from the 90s...

the-island-man · 12-07-2019 12:21am

Looking at a girl in her 20's and thinking about what your 1 year old daughter will be like at that age and hoping she gets through life ok.

jimbobaloobob · 12-07-2019 12:21am

will they do ya for all occasions bubbles.

When you sing along to the songs on the Ronan Collins show you know youve aged.:o

jimbobaloobob · 12-07-2019 12:22am

ampleforth wrote: »

cobweb wrote: »

Damn, I still have a load of cassettes from the 90s...

I only found a box earlier with cassettes ive been putting a few on in the last hour, interesting recordings off the radio.

10pennymixup · 12-07-2019 12:44am

suicide_circus wrote: »

a child today would have absolutely no idea what this is

Does anyone remember threading them with a needle concertinaed cap to cap, totally wrapping them in cellotape and leaving a scraped of sulphur fuse then lighting them and waiting for the big bang.

The Provo's had nothing on us

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

Yesterday i was trying to get our 11 year old off his ps4, and he says its not fair, just because you had no xbix or ps4 when you were my age.

I say we had better, we had the nes and the megadrive

Meh, pong was just as good to those that knew no better

Carry · 12-07-2019 12:59am

Was chatting with my neighbour (same age as I) recently and stopped mid-sentence and asked her suddenly confused, did I tell you that already? She said, I don't know, did you?
Definitely old biddy territory :mad:

The other day I was digging up some old family photos and found one of my niece as a cute toddler. Later I contacted my brother and asked him, how is Carry's niece doing at school? He said, she just moved in with her boyfriend - she's 20 by now

And he told me that my nephew's wife (he is old enough to have a wife?) is expecting a baby.

Graces7 · 12-07-2019 7:01am

actually I am starting to rather enjoy it; as someone said to me, we are old enough to be part of history...

12-07-2019 9:26am

10pennymixup wrote: »

Does anyone remember threading them with a needle concertinaed cap to cap, totally wrapping them in cellotape and leaving a scraped of sulphur fuse then lighting them and waiting for the big bang.

The Provo's had nothing on us

Meh, pong was just as good to those that knew no better

We did exactly as you describe-except used a 3 match horizontal fuse attached to the banger-so one match lights then the next and the 3rd match ignites the banger- (friendly matches back then so you could struck off a wall etc and then throw them)- except, one day, selotape stuck to my finger after I lit the fuse-Damn it was sore

The J Stands for Jay · 12-07-2019 1:01pm

lbc2019 wrote: »

My 17 year old niece didn't know who Brendan Grace was!

Was he in Father Ted?

bottlebrush · 12-07-2019 6:49pm

bubbles o hara wrote: »

I bought new shoes today, and I didn't care about the style...I chose them because they were comfortable.

I buy slip on shoes and sandals with velcro on the straps as anything with laces and buckles is hard work. (as Brendan grace used to say you know you're getting old when you bend down to tie your laces and you're wondering is there anything else you can do when you're down there!)

also when I buy a new watch it must have an expandable band not a strap with a buckle.
don't care how they look. convenience is more important.

12-07-2019 6:54pm

I met people the other day I grew up with- just a few years older than me- about 5-no more- they’re now grandparents

*swigs bottle of Southern Comfort like Dan Aykroyd did in Trading Places•

lbc2019 · 12-07-2019 8:08pm

McGaggs wrote: »

Was he in Father Ted?

She aint familiar with Father Ted, she was born in 2001!

lbc2019 · 12-07-2019 8:11pm

cobweb wrote: »

When talking music with my workmates and discussing gigs they were going to and gigs id love to go to they looked at me smiled in a sympathetic manner tilted their head and remarked, Oh you know who Picture This is.

The awwwwwwww at the beginning of the sentence was silent. I suddenly realised I could be the parent of the 25 year old I was talking to. Im 46 and had been listening to the cd in the car on the way to work that morning

I mixed up Picture This with Picture House!

Purple Mountain · 12-07-2019 8:11pm

Having to Google the meaning of 'IKR' which my 15year old cousin left as a reply on my Instagram post.

lbc2019 · 12-07-2019 8:12pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Having to Google the meaning of 'IKR' which my 15year old cousin left as a reply on my Instagram post.

I know right? Fml yolo bae

is_that_so · 12-07-2019 8:14pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Having to Google the meaning of 'IKR' which my 15year old cousin left as a reply on my Instagram post.

Not an age thing I'd say, just not embracing the need to turn everything into an acronym!:cool:

Paddy Cow · 12-07-2019 8:25pm

ampleforth wrote: »

Going to the charity shop and buying them for 50c each...and thinking it's a fantastic deal.

A lot of charity shops don't take them anymore as they can't sell them.

Potential-Monke · 12-07-2019 9:00pm

That 18 year olds were born in 2001
Fight Club is 20 years old
The Simpsons first episode aired 30 years ago
Facebook is 15 this year
The first Harry Potter book came out 22 years ago

DareGod · 12-07-2019 11:38pm

Lithium93_ wrote: »

A relative starting secondary school in September.

Said relative, born in 2005.

Is 14 not a bit old to only be going into secondary?

corner of hells · 12-07-2019 11:43pm

bottlebrush wrote: »

I buy slip on shoes and sandals with velcro on the straps as anything with laces and buckles is hard work. (as Brendan grace used to say you know you're getting old when you bend down to tie your laces and you're wondering is there anything else you can do when you're down there!)

also when I buy a new watch it must have an expandable band not a strap with a buckle.
don't care how they look. convenience is more important.

Erm , I wear an old pair of combats when doing gardening or doing some DIY , they are really hard wearing , but my wife got sick of replacing the buttons in them and stuck in two peices of velcro instead of replacing the buttons.

banie01 · 12-07-2019 11:46pm

lbc2019 wrote: »

She aint familiar with Father Ted, she was born in 2001!

Ahhh that's no excuse!
My kid was born in 2004 and can quote whole episodes!

It's plainly poor parenting

:pac:

Lithium93_ · 12-07-2019 11:50pm

DareGod wrote: »

Is 14 not a bit old to only be going into secondary?

Held back a year in Primary School.

Akrasia · 13-07-2019 12:12am

banie01 wrote: »

Ahhh that's no excuse!
My kid was born in 2004 and can quote whole episodes!

It's plainly poor parenting :pac:

Just tell the kids to ignore the odd fu.ck, and reference to yanking yerself off around the clock

RicketyCricket · 13-07-2019 12:48am

Walking around Lidl earlier and a Mom tells her kids to "get out of the man's way". My folks used to say that to me. I am officially old.

ZX7R · 13-07-2019 4:17am

paleoperson wrote: »

meh, I'm familiar with that safe cross code despite being slightly below the age it was for.

Sometimes it can be kind of annoying if young people know all about old stuff. Like if you're all "I suppose you lads never heard of MacGyver..." and they're "oh great show, I have it on dvd, which season is your favourite?".

Hate to break it to you but,those young lads were probably talking about the macgyver remake....

Deja Boo · 13-07-2019 8:10am

Waking up to mammy's face in the mirror.

steddyeddy · 13-07-2019 8:58am

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

The sad thing is i do remember it.

I'm too young to remember it but I'm told it was the equivalent of a chest X-RAY.

Akrasia · 13-07-2019 9:22am

I love XKCD and when this came out I got it printed onto a T Shirt to annoy my older friends

The problem is, that was 8 years ago...

bobbyss · 13-07-2019 9:43am

Akrasia wrote:

I love XKCD and when this came out I got it printed onto a T Shirt to annoy my older friends

Akrasia wrote:

The problem is, that was 8 years ago...

Not being able to read attachments especially when tapping on them to enlarge fails to work is another sign of ageing.

Sh!t that makes you feel old.

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