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Sh!t that makes you feel old.

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  • #392
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    When the greys start to appear downstairs :eek:

    Hasn't happened yet but I've a fair few on top so I presume the inevitable isn't too far away :(

    reminds of that Billy Connolly quip about growing old...

    "my willy's beginning to look like an old age pensioner with a grey beard" :p


  • #393
    evil_seed
    Registered Users Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭evil_seed


    When you make a movie reference that you and your mates would all get, but in the office the young folk just stare at you blankly like you're going senile.


  • #394
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    When the newbies in work are talking about their parents upcoming significant birthday celebrations and I'm older than their parents, how did that happen ffs.


  • #395
    mordeith
    Registered Users Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    When my 11 year old found and old camera that that I used to take pictures with in college. When I told him it took film he reacted like we'd found the first tools used by humans.


  • #396
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    RIP Brendan Grace, great entertainer. No one has any idea in our office who Bottler was or what Free a Nipper is :(.


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  • #397
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    RIP Brendan Grace, great entertainer. No one has any idea in our office who Bottler was or what Free a Nipper is :(.

    Maybe they only know Father Stack


  • #398
    A2LUE42
    Registered Users Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭A2LUE42


    branie2 wrote: »
    Maybe they only know Father Stack

    What about the safe cross code?


  • #399
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,102 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    A2LUE42 wrote: »
    What about the safe cross code?

    If they dont know Bottler they wont be old enough to remember that.


  • #400
    paleoperson
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    If they dont know Bottler they wont be old enough to remember that.

    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?".


  • #401
    Crock Rock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Crock Rock


    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.


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  • #402
    Thespoofer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Thespoofer


    My job.


  • #403
    Millionaire only not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


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


  • #404
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    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!


  • #405
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    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


  • #406
    lbc2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭lbc2019


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


  • #407
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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.


  • #408
    Cushtie
    Registered Users Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Cushtie


    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??


  • #409
    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    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 ! :D


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


    "Its common in old people" :mad:


  • #410
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,102 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    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


  • #411
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


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


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  • #412
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,102 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    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"


  • #413
    griffin100
    Registered Users Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭griffin100


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


  • #414
    Millionaire only not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


    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��


  • #415
    Millionaire only not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


    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


  • #416
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    When you cough and you wee yourself


  • #417
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    dubstarr wrote: »
    When you cough and you wee yourself




    Get on the cough bottle :D


  • #418
    cobweb
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭cobweb


    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


  • #419
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    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!


  • #420
    bubbles o hara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 430 ✭✭bubbles o hara


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


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  • #421
    cobweb
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭cobweb


    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,


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