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Sh!t that makes you feel old.

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  • #502
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,283 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    I remember getting paid when I was in my 20s. Best day of the week/month. Now, in my mid 30's, payday is a reminder of how broke I'm going to be before the next pay day. Adulting is fun...


  • #503
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I did and online survey yesterday. At the end there were a few general questions asked. There were five options for 'Age' and I'm now the second oldest section (45-54). :(


  • #504
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,515 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    I did and online survey yesterday. At the end there were a few general questions asked. There were five options for 'Age' and I'm now the second oldest section (45-54). :(

    or when they have the year of birth as a dropdown list and you have scroll for ages to find yours.


  • #505
    Pogue eile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,877 ✭✭✭Pogue eile


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    or when they have the year of birth as a dropdown list and you have scroll for ages to find yours.

    I think one of the first signs or realisations is when you are asked your age and you actually have to think aboutit and do the math - up to a certain age you just know what age you are.


  • #506
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,825 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    When you first leave school. You'd still know a few people in your local secondary school. You may even know friends siblings in the primary school.
    Now you relies you know nobody apart from maybe your friends/family children starting off.


  • #507
    Aisling(",)
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    I was getting a skincare treatment and they starting telling me the deals I could get on botox and fillers for my fine lines.I know it's probably their standard upselling but I'm not even 30 yet!


  • #508
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Pogue eile wrote: »
    I think one of the first signs or realisations is when you are asked your age and you actually have to think aboutit and do the math - up to a certain age you just know what age you are.

    I know what age i am sob:(


  • #509
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    file.php?id=34


  • #510
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,195 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    remembering the moon landing (only vaguely of course!) and knowing I definitely won't be around for the 100th anniversary!


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  • #511
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,953 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Bobblehats wrote: »
    file.php?id=34

    Oh lord , I haven't a clue who they are :(


  • #512
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,555 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    is_that_so wrote: »
    When you realise how old your email address is!:o

    When you have firstnamelastname@gmail.com (substitute actual names) because of getting in there first

    Myself and two siblings have that. I get so much misdirected stuff. I wonder if the other person with my name ever got his tickets to Fleetwood Mac!


  • #513
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,824 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    If my very first CD (Placebo 1996) were human they'd be finished college and gainfully employed by now!


  • #514
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    Oh lord , I haven't a clue who they are :(

    It’s The Rolling Stones FFS


  • #515
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,515 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    L1011 wrote: »
    When you have firstnamelastname@gmail.com (substitute actual names) because of getting in there first

    Myself and two siblings have that. I get so much misdirected stuff. I wonder if the other person with my name ever got his tickets to Fleetwood Mac!

    come back to me when you firstnamelastname@hotmail.com


  • #516
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    It’s The Rolling Stones FFS

    Come on now Jimmy Page on the right. Or is that the left


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  • #517
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    /doubled up


  • #518
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    kasper schmeichel is 32 I remember when his dad was younger than that


  • #519
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    Oh lord , I haven't a clue who they are :(

    Stone Roses Ian Brown still looks the same.

    Even though the fella in the suede looks like Compo from Last of The Summer Wine


  • #520
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,953 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    dubstarr wrote: »
    Stone Roses Ian Brown still looks the same.

    Even though the fella in the suede looks like Compo from Last of The Summer Wine

    Thank you :o


  • #521
    bluenose1956
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭bluenose1956


    peasant wrote: »
    Explaining to people you work with that when you started working a fax machine was a new invention....that you actually had a operate a telex machine.

    (and still a lot more than 10 years to go until retirement)

    Worse still when you have to explain what a comptometer is.


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  • #522
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,825 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    When your Garda ID is fading away!


  • #523
    Kewreeuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Kewreeuss


    Hey now! I was using a telex machine in 1988. It's not that long ago.
    and who are those old chaps? I can't recognise any of them, honestly.


  • #524
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,535 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    When your Garda ID is fading away!

    When you're old enough to have gotten served with a sibling's birth cert back in the day. All you had to do was rattle off the DOB.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #525
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,825 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    When you're old enough to have gotten served with a sibling's birth cert back in the day. All you had to do was rattle off the DOB.

    I was in a hotel in 2008 and it said the accepted birth certs.


  • #526
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,535 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I was in a hotel in 2008 and it said the accepted birth certs.

    When you realise you could have the parent of someone using a birth cert to buy alcohol in 2008!
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #527
    Heckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭Heckler


    Bought a nose and ear trimmer today. 46. Works great ! 6 euros in dealz.

    Old.


  • #528
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,812 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    Oh lord , I haven't a clue who they are :(

    I don’t think THEY do either :eek:


  • #529
    bluenose1956
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭bluenose1956


    Because of the weekend’s special anniversary, I can remember where I was 50 years ago. I believe man really walked on the moon because I saw it in black and white.


  • #530
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,825 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    There a very famous band from South Korea called BTS and I never heard of them until recently!


  • #531
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    well, my decision is to live the old ways as much as I can..embracing my old age... When I came to the island I was five months with no electricity ( council chaos) and managed fine. Now no washing machine etc and back to childhood for me ... as long as I have the internet of course ;) Rusticating gently and peacefully out here.. far less wearing!


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  • #532
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Redsky121 wrote: »
    I remember when Georgia Salpa was still in the tabloids.

    I remember when she was the Fas ad girl!


  • #533
    Silent Running
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭Silent Running


    When a load of the cars I've owned as my daily runaround are now much sought after classics. :o


  • #534
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,825 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    When you remember that buzzing sound the TV would make when your mobile phone rang/whilst you you talking.


  • #535
    kaji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭kaji


    BrianBoru00 wrote: »
    They're Educating todays children on Personal Hygene, Healthy Eating, The Dangers of the Internet, The Birds and the Bees, What is or isn't approopriate to say or do to another person, Manners . . . . .
    You know - basically the things that our parents taught us..

    This. There is only so much time in a school day to teach everything and you have kids coming in with no lunches, can't tie their shoelaces, no pencils, ruler or rubber but yet have the latest console and tablets at home. :mad:


  • #536
    PoisonIvyBelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,721 ✭✭✭PoisonIvyBelle


    1970 still feels like 30 years ago to me. 1980 is like 20 years ago etc. I think time basically stood still for me in 2000!


  • #537
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    PoisonIvyBelle wrote: »
    1970 still feels like 30 years ago to me. 1980 is like 20 years ago etc. I think time basically stood still for me in 2000!

    Sure 2000 was only last New Year's Eve in my mind


  • #538
    Redneck Reject
    Closed Accounts Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject


    When you remember when George Foreman had hair,heh.


  • #539
    FFred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭FFred


    Redneck Reject wrote: »
    When you remember when George Foreman had hair,heh.
    When you notice that your George Foreman grill is so old that’s it’s growing hair..


  • #540
    MrMiata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 393 ✭✭MrMiata


    The sun baby in teletubbies now has a baby


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  • #541
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,156 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    There's been 9 presidents of Ireland.
    Only 2 of these predate me!
    That's to say, we were only on our third present when I was born.


  • #542
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sorry to tell certain posters this but eh,



    John Craven is 78 years old.

    I should probably post a link to the AH "help" thread, just in case:

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057082164


  • #543
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    There's been 9 presidents of Ireland.
    Only 2 of these predate me!
    That's to say, we were only on our third present when I was born.

    #metoo :D


  • #544
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Not being able to remember the name of Rice Krispies earlier.And calling them Snap,Crackle and Pop.Much to the amusement of my kids.Happening a bit to often for my liking.


  • #545
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,953 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    FFred wrote: »
    When you notice that your George Foreman grill is so old that’s it’s growing hair..

    When you still have (and use ) one of the original GF grills :o


  • #546
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    When you realise that your date of birth is closer to the release of the classic silent films Battleship Potemkin and The Gold Rush than today.


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  • #547
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Most actresses these days are younger than you


  • #548
    Lady Spangles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭Lady Spangles


    Events I remember well in my lifetime being taught in school history class.

    I was browsing WH Smith in Belfast last weekend and saw a study guide for a History syllabus. On the front cover was a big picture of Saddam Hussein's statue being pulled down after the invasion in 2003. So yeah, clearly this event I remember well and protested against (Iraq war itself) vociferously is now being taught in History classes here in the north. :/


  • #549
    lainey_d_123
    Registered Users Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭lainey_d_123


    Realising that 1995 wasn't just a few years ago, like it is in my head.


  • #550
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


    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.


  • #551
    lainey_d_123
    Registered Users Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭lainey_d_123


    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.

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


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