Sh!t that makes you feel old.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 23-07-2019 12:01am

Watching the new Lion King film coming out and realising that there's a whole new generation of kids bout to get messed up by THAT THING that you're still not entirely over :pac: But in some sinister, regurgitated uncanny valley version of cinema classics that you cannot understand the appeal of.

When you realise your demographic is now the demographic that's being pandered to with nostagia-fuelled concert tours and club nights and stuff.

Jeff2 · 23-07-2019 12:11am

I was walking to the shop and a child about 2.5yo said something to his Mum and she said to the child while looking at me "no, you say an elderly gentleman".

Bobblehats · 23-07-2019 12:16am

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

Damn it, I threw away one of those not long ago. My dad asked me why I had that sh1te clogging up his attic.

Because nothing screams ‘90s like a double tape deck with rotating triple CD platform on top

In faux metallic silver I might add.

kikilarue2 · 23-07-2019 12:19am

I saw a review of an event that happens every Monday evening and finishes around 11pm. It said "It finishes at the perfect time if you're going for a night out after."

Who goes out at 11pm on a Monday night???

Capt'n Midnight · 23-07-2019 1:20am

sabat wrote: »

I was browsing a 2nd hand/vintage site the other day and it appears that crappy plasticky midi systems from the late 80s and early 90s have earned a certain cachet. I'm not talking about good quality hi-fi separates that still sound great but garbage 3/4-in-ones from amstrad, grundig, texet etc. It seems that the ones with the most useless gimics like hundreds of buttons, levers, light-up equalisers etc are the most valuable-going for 2 or 3 hundred euros a pop.

:eek:

And they wouldn't even have a line in for you to hook up bluetooth too

Beast4mdaeast · 23-07-2019 1:21am

My creaky knees and sore back

jippo nolan · 23-07-2019 2:32pm

€8.50 for a haircut on thursday’s

23-07-2019 5:37pm

When you get a load of post thanks for just posting the following number without any context:
01 811 8055

gerrybbadd · 23-07-2019 5:41pm

Bobblehats wrote: »

Because nothing screams ‘90s like a double tape deck with rotating triple CD platform on top

In faux metallic silver I might add.

Hell ya, have this exact thing in the attic. Dunno why i've brought it everywhere with me upon moving.

The J Stands for Jay · 24-07-2019 10:42am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

When you get a load of post thanks for just posting the following number without any context:
01 811 8055

I only know what it is because one of those nostalgia programmes came on TV the other day.

For slightly younger people, the number would be 081 811 8181. I cam remember when it later changed to 0181 811 8181.

*Awaits this post being used as an example of **** that makes PlentyOhToole feel old*

The J Stands for Jay · 24-07-2019 10:48am

sabat wrote: »

I was browsing a 2nd hand/vintage site the other day and it appears that crappy plasticky midi systems from the late 80s and early 90s have earned a certain cachet. I'm not talking about good quality hi-fi separates that still sound great but garbage 3/4-in-ones from amstrad, grundig, texet etc. It seems that the ones with the most useless gimics like hundreds of buttons, levers, light-up equalisers etc are the most valuable-going for 2 or 3 hundred euros a pop.

I don't think they even cost that much at the time (ignoring inflation).

topper75 · 24-07-2019 11:05am

sabat wrote: »

I was browsing a 2nd hand/vintage site the other day and it appears that crappy plasticky midi systems from the late 80s and early 90s have earned a certain cachet. I'm not talking about good quality hi-fi separates that still sound great but garbage 3/4-in-ones from amstrad, grundig, texet etc. It seems that the ones with the most useless gimics like hundreds of buttons, levers, light-up equalisers etc are the most valuable-going for 2 or 3 hundred euros a pop.

It is a bit of weird economics. But there is still a niche demand in the market, chiefly people with legacy CD collections whose own playing equipment has failed. The trouble is the suppliers have deemed such products obsolete and have all but ceased production and abandoned the market. So the prices of secondhand ones remaining in attics gets silly.

gerrybbadd · 26-07-2019 12:35pm

My birthday today.

My 5 yr old lad asked me to show him how old I was on my fingers. Displayed up 36 by flashing 10 three times, then holding up 6 fingers.

His "WOW, you're very old" didn't inspire me with youthful thoughts:p

Redneck Reject · 26-07-2019 12:44pm

gerrybbadd wrote: »

My birthday today.

My 5 yr old lad asked me to show him how old I was on my fingers. Displayed up 36 by flashing 10 three times, then holding up 6 fingers.

His "WOW, you're very old" didn't inspire me with youthful thoughts:p

Heh Happy Birthday Old Man. I'm 47 and my 11 year old daughter, whenever she wants to plan something in the near future, always ends the conversation with "If your still alive". Heh kids these days yeah?

freshpopcorn · 26-07-2019 5:36pm

Cars: I looked at 2000 cars now and I can't believe they are nearly twenty years old.

Conall Cernach · 26-07-2019 7:05pm

Deleted User wrote: »

When you get a load of post thanks for just posting the following number without any context:
01 811 8055

I have one roller skate (left foot) and I want to swap it for a space hopper.

lbc2019 · 28-07-2019 9:53pm

The winner of the Tour de France is 22... I feel old

Comhrá · 28-07-2019 10:49pm

Finishing my pint hoping to be home to see Prime Time.

28-07-2019 11:06pm

I was sitting on the rug in the front room earlier and when I went to get up my knees and my arm made cracking sounds ,don't like this aging process one bit tbh.

Graces7 · 29-07-2019 8:37am

Deleted User wrote: »

I was sitting on the rug in the front room earlier and when I went to get up my knees and my arm made cracking sounds ,don't like this aging process one bit tbh.

lol.. the time to worry is when your knees will no longer allow you to get up at all!

When I sit outside, i put the garden chair by the big gate so I can "climb" up the bars and even that is getting harder.. Just no leverage left now... makes me laugh. Awed I have reached this venerable age. Thanks to decades of ballet, I am still supple and bending to pick things up is easy.. Just the knees!

mondeo · 29-07-2019 9:09am

Knowing that fast n the furious came out in 2002'.... Has it really been 17 years ago that I sat in the cinema with a fine teenage girl watching that movie ? Ye I feel old.

29-07-2019 9:26am

Walking along the pavement beside a low wall, and not instinctively hopping on and walking atop it.

Having a sense of danger, also. It's very comfortable not having broken a bone in a long time, but it does remind me that I'm old now.

dubstarr · 29-07-2019 10:47am

Walking up tired.I went to bed at a decent hour.Didnt wake during the night.But still wake up knackered.

Ger Roe · 29-07-2019 11:02am

When some teenagers I know started talking about how they loved the music of Billy Idol. I thought to myself, there's hope for the world yet.... but then it turned out I had misheard, they were talking about Billie Eilish.

I had to google to find out who she was ....

Lithium93_ · 29-07-2019 5:45pm

mondeo wrote: »

Knowing that fast n the furious came out in 2002'.... Has it really been 17 years ago that I sat in the cinema with a fine teenage girl watching that movie ? Ye I feel old.

Not to be pedantic, (and assuming it's the first Fast & Furious your talking about), but The Fast and the Furious came out in 2001....

Great Lemmy's ghost where have those 18 years gone

Schwanz · 29-07-2019 5:56pm

"Excuse Me Mister"

I'm 38

angel eyes 2012 · 30-07-2019 6:19am

Ger Roe wrote: »

When some teenagers I know started talking about how they loved the music of Billy Idol. I thought to myself, there's hope for the world yet.... but then it turned out I had misheard, they were talking about Billie Eilish.

I had to google to find out who she was ....

I had a listen to two of her tracks there out of curiosity, her music would put years on you, desperate stuff. When she is singing it sounds like the CD is skipping (we all remember that from the 90s). Give me Billy Idol anyday.

dubstarr · 30-07-2019 12:00pm

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

I had a listen to two of her tracks there out of curiosity, her music would put years on you, desperate stuff. When she is singing it sounds like the CD is skipping (we all remember that from the 90s). Give me Billy Idol anyday.

She reminds me of a really bad Goth band.Shes dire.

freshpopcorn · 01-08-2019 3:09am

Gay Bryne's last Late Late show aired over 20 years ago.
Pat Kenny's last one aired over 10 years ago.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-08-2019 3:28pm

The rash of senseless threads opening lately and how borderline vulgarity is what now passes for humour has me questioning the generation gap and thinking I may be past such things.

03-08-2019 3:32pm

My back,

Seriously I’m only 31 and I dread when I go to sneak my back hurts lol

ohnonotgmail · 03-08-2019 9:03pm

Deleted User wrote: »

My back,

Seriously I’m only 31 and I dread when I go to sneak my back hurts lol

wait until you get to the stage where you sound like a transformer when you get up out of a chair.

Sharp MZ700 · 03-08-2019 9:15pm

Cleaned out my shed today to find an old passport of mine from 1993. I don't know that guy any more:-(

Redneck Reject · 03-08-2019 9:28pm

Sharp MZ700 wrote: »

Cleaned out my shed today to find an old passport of mine from 1993. I don't know that guy any more:-(

Heh I feel ya, every time I look in the mirror I think, "I'm in there somewhere". I'm not aging well at all.

Airyfairy12 · 03-08-2019 9:33pm

I was at a family thing a few months ago and was talking to my 21 year old cousin about going out in town and the nightlife, were she goes out etc, we got talking about a pub that I used to go to regularly, it was a pub that everyone drank in and I asked does she go there much, she told me she doesnt as its always full of old people, she then said it's more my age group that goes there .. im 30 ffs

greencap · 03-08-2019 9:38pm

80's/90's music videos can actually kill you due to nostalgia overdose.

be careful with anything by A-ha, Petshop boys, eurythmics.

Redneck Reject · 03-08-2019 9:46pm

greencap wrote: »

80's/90's music videos can actually kill you due to nostalgia overdose.

be careful with anything by A-ha, Petshop boys, eurythmics.

It's the older stuff ya have to watch out for, like Dr.Hook,Three Dog Night and Creedence that will get ya heh.

Hannibal_Smith · 03-08-2019 11:20pm

I'm the same age as Frasier was in Season 3.

Be right back · 04-08-2019 12:04am

It's probably been mentioned but for me, it's working with people who weren't even born when I did my leaving cert!

Schwanz · 04-08-2019 12:06am

“I like much older men like you”

Ah ffs

Tazzimus · 04-08-2019 12:07am

My knees, usually.

04-08-2019 12:25am

Schwanz wrote: »

“I like much older men like you”

Ah ffs

lol I burst out laughing

FanadMan · 04-08-2019 1:32am

jcorr wrote:

Not with my Dad. He's still doing it! And I'm 36!

My mum used to shout that for me. Now I shout it to my father.......he's old and getting deaf.

Posy · 04-08-2019 1:41am

-There will soon be 18 year old adults who weren't alive when 9/11 happened. It feels about 5 years ago to me.

-I work with people who never say 'pounds' when they mean euro, because they don't remember pounds.

Sharp MZ700 · 04-08-2019 1:51am

Schwanz wrote: »

“I like much older men like you”

Ah ffs

That's harsh!

Listening to Fever 105 on GTA Vice city.. released in 2002! I would've said 2008!

budgie412 · 04-08-2019 2:03am

Schwanz wrote: »

“I like much older men like you”

Ah ffs

Im 35, exactly how much older does she like em?

Schwanz · 04-08-2019 2:49pm

budgie412 wrote: »

Im 35, exactly how much older does she like em?

38

sunbeam · 04-08-2019 3:52pm

Looking at old footage of Charles and Di's Wedding in 1981 and realising I'm now older than Diana's mother was on that day. I was eight years old at the time.

Realising that Rue McClanahan, the actress who played the youngest 'Golden Girl' in the 1980s series, was only four years older than I am now when it started to air back in 1985.

And as I mentioned in a previous incarnation of this thread, the fact that we now have posters who were not even born when I created my account in August 2002...

biko · 04-08-2019 3:59pm

I am old enough to be alive before the Berlin wall fell in 1989, and later the dissolvement of the Soviet Union.
No-one would have even considered communism to fall before that happened.
But it happened!

paleoperson · 04-08-2019 4:02pm

biko wrote: »

I am old enough to be alive before the Berlin wall fell in 1989, and later the dissolvement of the Soviet Union.
No-one would have even considered communism to fall before that happened.
But it happened!

Old enough to be alive before the Berlin wall fell would make you 30, I hope that's not supposed to be impressively old.

Sh!t that makes you feel old.

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