Sh!t that makes you feel old.

partyguinness · 05-09-2019 4:10pm

Alun wrote: »

My first "PC" was one of these ...

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=333

Twin 8" floppies, that at least were actually floppy! The thing weighed an absolute ton as well.

Yes when they were literally floppy and the world would end if you touched the middle with your finger...:eek:

the beer revolu · 05-09-2019 4:39pm

Alun wrote: »

My first "PC" was one of these ...

You're all fierce posh.
My first computer had 1k of ram.
Sinclaire zx81

I got a 16k ram pack for it so it could actually do some stuff.

bladespin · 05-09-2019 4:59pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

You're all fierce posh.
My first computer had 1k of ram.
Sinclaire zx81

I got a 16k ram pack for it so it could actually do some stuff.

Phtttt, I had a C64, it came with 64kb!

the beer revolu · 05-09-2019 5:03pm

bladespin wrote: »

Phtttt, I had a C64, it came with 64kb!

That was probably colour too.
Posh git

bladespin · 05-09-2019 5:05pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

That was probably colour too.
Posh git

Twas, had 16 like

the beer revolu · 05-09-2019 5:09pm

The zx81 was a right pile of shlte really.
The 16k colour Spectrum was just out and I got the zx81.

banie01 · 05-09-2019 5:12pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

That was probably colour too.
Posh git

I had mine with a B/W TV altho I did have the 5.25" floppy drive aswell

ohnonotgmail · 05-09-2019 5:20pm

That when Danny Glover was "too old for this ****" in Lethal Weapon he was considerably younger than i am now.

DoozerT6 · 05-09-2019 5:33pm

When you catch your reflection in a shop window and legit see a middle aged person staring back at you.

05-09-2019 6:49pm

Today I saw a rather muscular nail clippers that looked like it would actually cut my partners toenails without tearing them off at the edges. So I bought it and thought to myself that he'd be pleased with that. Ten years ago I never foresaw an occasion where nail clippers would please me. I also bought a cleaning product I was mildly excited to try out.

So, this is my life now.

Mam of 4 · 05-09-2019 6:56pm

Candie wrote: »

Today I saw a rather muscular nail clippers that looked like it would actually cut my partners toenails without tearing them off at the edges. So I bought it and thought to myself that he'd be pleased with that. Ten years ago I never foresaw an occasion where nail clippers would please me. I also bought a cleaning product I was mildly excited to try out.

So, this is my life now.

Lol , terrible isn't it ?
Wait until you start looking at shoes thinking , hmmm , comfort and ease over style

Leg End Reject · 05-09-2019 7:04pm

Unexplained aches and pains, creaking joints and looking forward to the weekend to relax, instead of partying.

Younger me would have been disgusted by current me.

Redneck Reject · 05-09-2019 7:56pm

When you have to explain who the Hooters were.

Tikki Wang Wang · 05-09-2019 8:31pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

The zx81 was a right pile of shlte really.
The 16k colour Spectrum was just out and I got the zx81.

Zinda, his face black, his eyes red

05-09-2019 8:39pm

When you can see your friends visibly ageing and have to admit that the same is happening to yourself..when you have to get your foundation into crevices on face..when someone in work emails photos to everyone of work nights out from years ago and we all look hot and young..fcuk it anyway.

honeybear · 05-09-2019 8:42pm

My oldest sister is turning 50 next year! Tbh, she looks & acts 10 years younger.

Autosport · 05-09-2019 8:42pm

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Lol , terrible isn't it ?
Wait until you start looking at shoes thinking , hmmm , comfort and ease over style

I already do this

Leg End Reject · 05-09-2019 10:16pm

Autosport wrote: »

I already do this

Still hobbling on that ankle though! :pac:

Duvet, you post reminded me of meeting someone I hadn't seen in about 10 years. I told a friend about how surprised I was at how much they'd aged. She pointed out that they must have thought the same about me.

Graces7 · 06-09-2019 7:26am

DoozerT6 wrote: »

When you catch your reflection in a shop window and legit see a middle aged person staring back at you.

I wish! Wait until you reach my age! Who is that wrinkly? OH NO!

odyssey06 · 06-09-2019 8:15am

When footballers younger than you start retiring...

LenWoods · 06-09-2019 8:57am

When your eldest child starts secondary school

Agent Smyth · 06-09-2019 9:13am

I know it might be obvious but in a few months time the first people born this century will no longer be teenagers :rolleyes:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 06-09-2019 9:16am

LenWoods wrote: »

When your eldest child starts secondary school

That makes you feel old? What - Late 30s or early 40s? Wait until they are getting married or having kids and then maybe, just maybe, you'll feel older then.

Tikki Wang Wang · 06-09-2019 10:35am

Graces7 wrote: »

I wish! Wait until you reach my age! Who is that wrinkly? OH NO!

What age is that ?

sbsquarepants · 06-09-2019 10:36am

It was ebays birthday this week. I'm double it's age!:eek::eek:

partyguinness · 06-09-2019 1:11pm

When you are older than the Taoiseach...only a few months but still.

completedit · 06-09-2019 2:21pm

What's going on here is we're overestimating our sense of self as a country. Of course Ireland has contributed to the world but so have many countries. Irish aren't the only emigrant group in the UK and in a multicultural society, the Irish nowdays are just pretty much samey to most British. It's a bit weird they know nothing but what do Irish people know of French history? Like actually really know. I'd gather most Irish don't know charlamegne.

B_ecke_r · 06-09-2019 2:25pm

people born in 2006 starting secondary school

Theo Walcott being in his 30s

explaining to kids how we used to have to tape songs off the radio

my nephew not knowing how to use a windy down window in a car

Airyfairy12 · 06-09-2019 2:28pm

Working in a Summer camp a couple of years ago I brought some of the kids out to take photos, handed them some disposable cameras, they looked at them confused wondering were the screen was and didnt know how to use them, literally had to give them a tutorial on how to use disposable cameras.

partyguinness · 06-09-2019 3:25pm

completedit wrote: »

What's going on here is we're overestimating our sense of self as a country. Of course Ireland has contributed to the world but so have many countries. Irish aren't the only emigrant group in the UK and in a multicultural society, the Irish nowdays are just pretty much samey to most British. It's a bit weird they know nothing but what do Irish people know of French history? Like actually really know. I'd gather most Irish don't know charlamegne.

Wrong thread methinks.

ohnonotgmail · 06-09-2019 3:29pm

partyguinness wrote: »

Wrong thread methinks.

old people can get confused more than younger people.

Esel · 06-09-2019 11:14pm

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Working in a Summer camp a couple of years ago I brought some of the kids out to take photos, handed them some disposable cameras, they looked at them confused wondering were the screen was and didnt know how to use them, literally had to give them a tutorial on how to use disposable cameras.

Those cameras are reloaded with film (and battery if necessary), repackaged and resold.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 07-09-2019 12:18am

I’m now ‘A Person Who Can Newly Vote’ years past sitting my Leaving Cert. The September 11th attacks are also ‘A Person Who Can Newly Vote’ years ago.

^^^^ I was 17 when both those things happened. They happened longer ago than the age I was when they happened.

The Princess Bride · 07-09-2019 2:08am

John Lennon will be 40 years dead next year.
4 decades.
And I remember when it happened.

Sharp MZ700 · 07-09-2019 2:17am

Looked at myself earlier in the mirror hadn't shaved since yesterday morning. Made me a bit sad, my kids will only know me as a(fairly) old man.
I thought i was ageing well!!

Graces7 · 07-09-2019 7:00am

when the traffic in town stops when I hover at the pavement.... There are good things about this ageing!.

Carry · 07-09-2019 10:29am

Graces7 wrote: »

when the traffic in town stops when I hover at the pavement.... There are good things about this ageing!.

when the traffic in town stopped when I was walking along the pavement, miniskirt, tight top, long blonde hair and all .... and when you realise that this was really a very long time ago. :pac:

odyssey06 · 07-09-2019 12:22pm

The Corrs are singing We're So Young on the radio.

And I'm thinking... not anymore. Plus I'm listening to RTE Gold and that song was from the last century.

Graces7 · 07-09-2019 12:37pm

Carry wrote: »

when the traffic in town stopped when I was walking along the pavement, miniskirt, tight top, long blonde hair and all .... and when you realise that this was really a very long time ago. :pac:

wait until you have to use a walking aid...

Aceandstuff · 07-09-2019 12:45pm

completedit wrote: »

What's going on here is we're overestimating our sense of self as a country. Of course Ireland has contributed to the world but so have many countries. Irish aren't the only emigrant group in the UK and in a multicultural society, the Irish nowdays are just pretty much samey to most British. It's a bit weird they know nothing but what do Irish people know of French history? Like actually really know. I'd gather most Irish don't know charlamegne.

r/lostredditors

AndrewJRenko · 07-09-2019 4:53pm

Carry wrote: »

when the traffic in town stopped when I was walking along the pavement, miniskirt, tight top, long blonde hair and all .... and when you realise that this was really a very long time ago. :pac:

I can still stop traffic when I go out in my miniskirt and tight top.

Mind you, I'm a fifty-something bloke carrying a few more kgs than I really should.

Hunchback · 07-09-2019 4:54pm

When i see arenas full of people watching other people playing computer games I realise I'm past it

dusty207 · 07-09-2019 5:33pm

House down the road was being cleared out and on top of the pile was an old Ferguson 21" B/W TV, rows of push buttons and the speaker cabinet on the side. My mate and myself were reminiscing about these things when a 20 year old lad joined us. After a moment or two looking at it he says: "What the hell is that?"
We hobbled off to get the bus into town with our free travel passes

Redneck Reject · 07-09-2019 5:34pm

That the first Sony Walkman portable cassette player came out 40 years ago.

07-09-2019 6:21pm

Hunchback wrote: »

When i see arenas full of people watching other people playing computer games I realise I'm past it

My 97 year old uncle who has vascular dementia lives for his simple computer games, like solitaire. He is bed bound so this is his outlet, my late aunt having got their children's passed-on technology when they upgraded. It has proved a blessing. Technology is great for the elderly and incapacitated.

Graces7 · 07-09-2019 6:43pm

Deleted User wrote: »

My 97 year old uncle who has vascular dementia lives for his simple computer games, like solitaire. He is bed bound so this is his outlet, my late aunt having got their children's passed-on technology when they upgraded. It has proved a blessing. Technology is great for the elderly and incapacitated.

Not anywhere near 97 but I share the pleasure of solitaire here online in all its forms as I am often bedbound for parts of the day now. In between knitting etc. Keeping the mind active...this new computer has a rich selection!

PostWoke · 07-09-2019 6:46pm

My joints.

Stupid internet dances.

Kids walking around in Ninja t-shirts.

dhaughton99 · 07-09-2019 6:48pm

Shaved bush.

Carry · 07-09-2019 7:40pm

Redneck Reject wrote: »

That the first Sony Walkman portable cassette player came out 40 years ago.

Now that makes me feel old.

I had a bout of house clearing a short while ago and found my old walkman, plus a rather cumbersome fax machine. Went all to the local recycling centre. Can't have that in the house. People might think I'm old ... :cool:

Graces7 · 07-09-2019 7:50pm

Oh and the food forum and the food threads here! All the foreign stuff when all I am used to is the older things. rice and pasta? No thank you! curry? yukk! Mixed up messes!

Sh!t that makes you feel old.

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