Sh!t that makes you feel old.

Lackadaisical · 25-06-2019 1:31am

Birthdays

25-06-2019 2:16am

Richard Hillman wrote: »

I was walking through Golden Discs a couple of weeks ago.. .

That was the first giveaway

parttimeadult · 25-06-2019 3:27am

The music I was into back when I was into clubbing is now considered oldskool.

Irish Guitarist · 25-06-2019 7:13am

I was one year old when Elvis died. Now I'm a year older than he was at the time of his death.

banie01 · 25-06-2019 8:13am

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

Put the bread next to the toaster! :pac:

But it's the only exercise I get!
I'm just glad my protestant wife doesn't keep it in the press :pac:

Feisar · 25-06-2019 8:50am

I'm 35, we had a young wan staying with us for a while, she's a student, just her general way of going on was so far removed from what I was like as a student.

The Irish Simpsons Fans Memes page.

Billie Eilish

I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you! - Ironic given point Nr 2 there.

Feisar · 25-06-2019 8:53am

soiseztomabel wrote: »

A new temp started at work, she casually asked me how old I was and when I replied she said....

“Oh my god, you’re older than my ma”

I’m 36 btw

Her mum having a child at 15 shouldn't make you feel old!

Suckler · 25-06-2019 8:59am

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

Just saw a "Do you remember?" post on Facebook now about those mp3 players when you were growing up. :rolleyes:

I remember a lad giving away his CD's as mini-disc was going to revolutionise music. Cars would come with mini disc players instead of CD players etc. etc. He spent a fortune on the stuff at the time.

namenotavailablE · 25-06-2019 9:02am

* Having to tick a different box for my age category on surveys.
* Being permitted to pay a greater percentage of my income into a pension.
* Losing the competitive urge of yesteryear.
* Middle age spread.
* Finding myself in conversation with colleagues along the lines of how "the youth of today" do stuff so wrong to the way "we" had to do it.
* Wanting to be mortgage free and able to retire.

Meh. Feeling grumpy and it's barely 9am...

Feisar · 25-06-2019 9:41am

Suckler wrote: »

I remember a lad giving away his CD's as mini-disc was going to revolutionise music. Cars would come with mini disc players instead of CD players etc. etc. He spent a fortune on the stuff at the time.

I've a Sony HIFI with a mini-disc player

banie01 · 25-06-2019 9:44am

Suckler wrote: »

I remember a lad giving away his CD's as mini-disc was going to revolutionise music. Cars would come with mini disc players instead of CD players etc. etc. He spent a fortune on the stuff at the time.

The only thing minidisc ever really seemed to take off for was for backing tracks for gigging musicians.
It was one of the most popular pieces of extra kit for that back in the day.

Had a Walkman version myself and just gave up on it.

LLewellen Farquarson · 25-06-2019 9:55am

Not only remembering pre-smartphones
Remembering pre-internet
Remembering pre-PCs
Remembering pre-TVs

And finally, remembering pre-decimalisation.

Feck I'm old.

And on a recent holiday realising that it only takes 8 years for a generation gap. The people 8 years older and younger than me were definitely in different generations to me.

Nunu · 25-06-2019 9:56am

‘Timofte against Bonner...’ Those 3 words that set up a wonderful event burnt into millions of brains.

TWENTY NINE years ago today?!

Pogue eile · 25-06-2019 9:58am

Someone at work asked me a few weeks back what I was at for the weekend and I excitedly replied that I was going to a Smashing Pumpkins concert, there were 3 interns in the room and none of them had any idea who the Smashing Pumpkins were

Went to the gig and was appalled at the idea that there was a seating area in the arena and wondered to myself why on earth anyone would want to be seated at a Smashing Pumpkins concert, two hours later I was looking up at those same seats with such jealousy and regret!

jobless · 25-06-2019 10:01am

Chemical brothers - hey boy hey girl..... 20 years old this month.. now i feel old

antodeco · 25-06-2019 10:03am

So many comments about things in cars!

Im lucky in that my car didnt have rear seatbelts, up to about 3 years ago (I put them in myself). Manual wind windows on the front (hinge opening on the rear), manual choke, no radio, no cigarette lighter socket and 1 speed wipers!

ohnonotgmail · 25-06-2019 10:07am

My niece looking at me like i had two heads when i told her we didn't have a phone in our house when we were kids. She wanted to know how we got on to the internet.

is_that_so · 25-06-2019 10:07am

Being pleased that a song you thought was 25 years old is really only 22 years old!

Arne_Saknussem · 25-06-2019 10:23am

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I was one year old when Elvis died. Now I'm a year older than he was at the time of his death.

I'm slightly younger than you.

A friend sent me a link to one of those Birthday Info sites on my birthday, it told me the time gap between the day of my birth and today is greater than the gap between the day of my birth and the day Hitler invaded Poland! :eek::eek:

ohnonotgmail · 25-06-2019 10:25am

Arne_Saknussem wrote: »

I'm slightly younger than you.

A friend sent me a link to one of those Birthday Info sites on my birthday, it told me the time gap between the day of my birth and today is greater than the gap between the day of my birth and the day Hitler invaded Poland! :eek::eek:

whippersnapper. It wont be long before the gap between my date of birth and today is greater than the gap between my date of birth and the end of world war 1.

Tauriel · 25-06-2019 10:43am

Bones cracking when you move from a sitting down position to standing.

bonzodog2 · 25-06-2019 10:51am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

whippersnapper. It wont be long before the gap between my date of birth and today is greater than the gap between my date of birth and the end of world war 1.

Pfft.:D
The gap between my date of birth and today is greater than the gap between my date of birth and the birth of Mao Zedong, Aldous Huxley, Edward VIII, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Kruschchev

is_that_so · 25-06-2019 10:54am

http://you.regettingold.com:eek:

BobMc · 25-06-2019 10:55am

Your 2nd child graduating primary school from the same place you went yourself

is_that_so · 25-06-2019 10:56am

BobMc wrote: »

Your 2nd child graduating primary school from the same place you went yourself

The fact that children graduate primary school! We just left!

Boom_Bap · 25-06-2019 10:57am

When you enjoy a good sit down.

mcgucc22 · 25-06-2019 10:58am

Robbie Keane, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard etc becoming coaches and managers. I'm around the same age and it seems only like yesterday when these guys were bursting onto the scene as teenagers.

Boom_Bap · 25-06-2019 11:00am

When clothes are purchased for practicality over style

bear1 · 25-06-2019 11:01am

When 1998 is the exact amount of time away as 2030...
sonic is over 20 years old

Tell me how · 25-06-2019 11:08am

When those you match with on online dating have it written in their profile, "all my kids are over 18".
Or as happened, I matched with a 39 year old grandmother.

Not ready for that at 40!

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 25-06-2019 11:11am

mustang shelly wrote: »

Bones cracking when you move from a sitting down position to standing.

And those groaning/ shouting noises people make standing up. I always assumed they were basically deliberate. Nope, they just happen.

DublinWriter · 25-06-2019 11:16am

When you finally 'get' the reason for slippers.

razorblunt · 25-06-2019 11:20am

bear1 wrote: »

When 1998 is the exact amount of time away as 2030...
sonic is over 20 years old

Emmmm, 98 is further.

Pogue eile · 25-06-2019 11:34am

bear1 wrote: »

When 1998 is the exact amount of time away as 2030...
sonic is over 20 years old

Try 2040!!

NOW you feel old

magic_murph · 25-06-2019 11:35am

Collecting the pension and then spending it all on cough drops and Werthers original

victor8600 · 25-06-2019 11:36am

DublinWriter wrote: »

When you finally 'get' the reason for slippers.

The reason for slippers is the ability to walk on Lego pieces in a dark room without waking up kids

Boom_Bap · 25-06-2019 11:38am

When you are thinking about the sand that you'll have to clean up before the trip to the beach has started.

bear1 · 25-06-2019 11:40am

razorblunt wrote: »

Emmmm, 98 is further.

Ara ****

25-06-2019 11:43am

"LLewellen wrote:

And finally, remembering pre-decimalisation.

ha, this reminds me of my late dad.

To determine whether a price was good value, he'd first convert it into punts and then back into pre-decimal.

"9 pounds and 90 pence and thruppence for a burnt burger? Why you could hire a man for a week on that, in my day"

joeysoap · 25-06-2019 11:48am

mcgucc22 wrote: »

Robbie Keane, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard etc becoming coaches and managers. I'm around the same age and it seems only like yesterday when these guys were bursting onto the scene as teenagers.

When you stood at first division matches. Having queued up for half an hour and paid at the turnstile.
When you remember Jimmy Greaves, Mick Channon, Martin Peters playing etc and thought anyone who remembered seeing Stanley Matthews, Nat Lofthouse, Jackie Carey playing etc must be very old.

Remembering the names of old stadiums doesn’t help, Ayrsome, Roker, Baseball Ground, Maine Road etc etc

Zaph · 25-06-2019 11:51am

On the radio yesterday they mentioned that "All the Small Things" by Blink182 was 19 years old. It's probably the only song of theirs I know, but 19 years. Wtf???!!!

Dr Bob · 25-06-2019 12:03pm

FunLover18 wrote: »

That 70s Show was first broadcast in 1999, 20 years after the year in which it was set (1979). We're now 20 years on from 1999.

it was closer to 30 years ....it was set in the early 70s initially,, eventually ( after 7 or so seasons) finished with the last episode hitting the stroke of midnight 1979-1980.

tigerboon · 25-06-2019 12:05pm

Zaph wrote: »

On the radio yesterday they mentioned that "All the Small Things" by Blink182 was 19 years old. It's probably the only song of theirs I know, but 19 years. Wtf???!!!

I think you've just brought on a mid-life crises

Deebles McBeebles · 25-06-2019 12:07pm

tigerboon wrote: »

I think you've just brought on a mid-life crises

That's even older!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlife_Crisis

Junkyard Tom · 25-06-2019 12:11pm

Climbing over a fence is quite a chore these days.

bear1 · 25-06-2019 12:41pm

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Climbing over a fence is quite a chore these days.

Just drive through it

Tauriel · 25-06-2019 12:43pm

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released on the 26th June 1997, that's 22 years ago tomorrow:eek:

I remember getting my dad to bring to some of the midnight book launches in the book shops a few towns over! I could of sworn that was only yesterday:rolleyes:

Duffryman · 25-06-2019 12:45pm

Dr Bob wrote: »

it was closer to 30 years ....it was set in the early 70s initially,, eventually ( after 7 or so seasons) finished with the last episode hitting the stroke of midnight 1979-1980.

Hope this makes sense.....but it's occurred to me before that if there was a new programme today, set as far back in the past as 'That 70s Show' was set when it first aired, it would be called 'That 90s Show'.

Now THAT makes me feel old!

Cyclepath · 25-06-2019 12:56pm

My son asked me "Dad how did you settle arguments before Google?"

Duffryman · 25-06-2019 1:01pm

Cyclepath wrote: »

My son asked me "Dad how did you settle arguments before Google?"

....and my five-year-old son recently said to me: 'Dad......did you know that in the olden days......people didn't have Netflix?'

Sh!t that makes you feel old.

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