Sh!t that makes you feel old.

freshpopcorn · 24-06-2019 4:04am

When I'm in town and the secondary school's are out for lunch and I have no idea who anybody is.

moonage · 24-06-2019 4:15am

When you ejaculate and all that comes out is some dust.

Wanderer78 · 24-06-2019 6:28am

The don't feel old at all, sure why would you worry about time, not as if we have control over it

Peatys · 24-06-2019 6:31am

The extra scrolling down to the dob online

Fuuuuuuukkkkkk that

Peatys · 24-06-2019 6:31am

Wanderer78 wrote: »

The don't feel old at all, sure why would you worry about time, not as if we have control over it

You're in the wrong thread so.

ZX7R · 24-06-2019 6:35am

When everyone in work comes to you for advice,then adding your to old to understand

angel eyes 2012 · 24-06-2019 6:52am

suicide_circus wrote: »

a child today would have absolutely no idea what this is

I'm kind of relieved I don't know what it is and I'm in my late 30s.

Subject of Gerry Ryan came up in work recently. Two of the newer staff in their early 20s had never heard of him.

Pinch Flat · 24-06-2019 6:53am

ilovesmybrick wrote: »

The first time the barber offered to trim my eyebrows for me after a haircut...I refused on principle, but he wasn't wrong!

I’ve had him offer to trim hair on my ears

McCrack · 24-06-2019 7:48am

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

I'm kind of relieved I don't know what it is and I'm in my late 30s.

Subject of Gerry Ryan came up in work recently. Two of the newer staff in their early 20s had never heard of him.

Caps for toy guns .. If youre female I'll allow it

eisenberg1 · 24-06-2019 5:02pm

Remembering when you had to use a manual choke..

valoren · 24-06-2019 5:15pm

Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption came out a quarter of a century ago.

Last Saturday after walking around our local town I didn't fall asleep on the couch but made a conscious decision to have a "nap".

yourdeadwright · 24-06-2019 5:15pm

A young lad in work asked me who I thought the best Premier league keeper ever, I said even as a Liverpool fan i'd have to say Schmeichel

He replied " ah he's ok but he's getting on at 32 " took me a minute to realise he was talking about Peter's son Kasper.,

How in the F*CK is Peters Schmeichel's son coming up to retirement age ,

freshpopcorn · 24-06-2019 5:18pm

Home Alone is 29 years old!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-06-2019 5:26pm

kg703 wrote: »

Nightclubs/late night bars and I’m only in my thirties. You know there’s no turning back when you walk out saying the music is too loud

That's one of the good things about getting older. You can ditch niteclubs.

I always hated them, even as a teen and in my early 20s.

Always preferred a late bar.

Manic Moran · 24-06-2019 5:30pm

The nickname for the commanding officer in a US Army unit is "The Old Man".

When I was a Troop commander, I was interviewing troops joining my unit who were born in the 90s. At that point, it hit me. "I really am the Old Man".

Now, of course, troopers are joining who are well in the 2000s.

freshpopcorn · 24-06-2019 5:37pm

The kids that were born when 9/11 happened will be 18 this year and a lot will have just done their leaving cert.
Part of me feels they should still be in primary school

24-06-2019 5:50pm

Was at a George Ezra concert the other night (don't judge me), and before the gig there was an ad for a FooFighters' gig..

Overheard:

"What's the Foo Fighter?"
"Don't know. Sounds like a wrestler"

It didn't help that the average age of the concert goer was about 16. I have never felt so tall in my life.

victor8600 · 24-06-2019 5:51pm

This sound!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MyzOP0vyi0

King of Kings · 24-06-2019 5:53pm

I went to a waterpark today with my kids
I thought some of the rides were dangerous

Kill me now

BrokenArrows · 24-06-2019 6:01pm

Looking at my pension fund online and thinking "**** that's not enough".

BrokenArrows · 24-06-2019 6:12pm

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

I'm kind of relieved I don't know what it is and I'm in my late 30s.

Subject of Gerry Ryan came up in work recently. Two of the newer staff in their early 20s had never heard of him.

What sort of childhood did you have?
I'm in my early 30's and everyone used these as kids.

Developed into a minor in bomb making as a teen with these.

Slice them down the middle, wrap tightly in tape. Makes a nice bang.

For Forks Sake · 24-06-2019 7:18pm

I was chatting to a lad in his early 20s about football recently (I'm 39), specifically about Zidane returning to Madrid.

Actually had to dig out the phone to show him this goal, he'd never seen it - only knew Zidane as manager.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFfomw-Z4uE

BeerWolf · 24-06-2019 7:30pm

White nose hairs.

Clareman · 24-06-2019 7:34pm

My daughter asked me recently did I write with feathers dipped in ink when I went to school.

BrokenArrows · 24-06-2019 7:39pm

Clareman wrote: »

My daughter asked me recently did I write with feathers dipped in ink when I went to school.

Hopefully your daughter is 3 years old.

For Forks Sake · 24-06-2019 7:40pm

Clareman wrote: »

My daughter asked me recently did I write with feathers dipped in ink when I went to school.

Are you one of Jacob Rees-Moggs relatives?

Clareman · 24-06-2019 7:41pm

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Hopefully your daughter is 3 years old.

She's 6. She can't understand that there was no internet when I was younger, but at least I had YouTube and NetFlix, didn't have the heart to tell her that I was older than both combined

Clareman · 24-06-2019 7:42pm

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Are you one of Jacob Rees-Moggs relatives?

J@ysus that some kind of personal abuse right there.......

Just Wikipedia's him to check his age, he's 5 years younger than Boris Johnson who is the same age as Keanu Reeves

soiseztomabel · 24-06-2019 7:48pm

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

BrokenArrows · 24-06-2019 7:49pm

Clareman wrote: »

J@ysus that some kind of personal abuse right there.......

Just Wikipedia's him to check his age, he's 5 years younger than Boris Johnson who is the same age as Keanu Reeves

Jesasus, Keanu is almost ready to be in the Expendables

Capt'n Midnight · 24-06-2019 7:53pm

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Remembering when you had to use a manual choke..

And some people would use it while overtaking.

And the story of the house wife whose car used to guzzle down petrol.

Mechanics checked it out loads of times and couldn't find any problem so eventually one of them asked to go on test drive with her.

She got into the car pulls out the choke, and hangs the handbag from it.

Clareman · 24-06-2019 7:54pm

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Jesasus, Keanu is almost ready to be in the Expendables

I just went on a Wikipedia wander there and noticed that Ewan McGregor is 48, I had a pint with him in Sixmilebridge when he was filming a movie here when he was starting out, that was over 25 years ago.

I better go put the Bovril on I guess

Clareman · 24-06-2019 7:57pm

Clareman wrote: »

I just went on a Wikipedia wander there and noticed that Ewan McGregor is 48, I had a pint with him in Sixmilebridge when he was filming a movie here when he was starting out, that was over 25 years ago.

I better go put the Bovril on I guess

22 or so years ago, not too bad I suppose.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Serpent%27s_Kiss#Locations

jcorr · 24-06-2019 8:51pm

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

, shouting as a form of communicating over distance, 'COME IN FOR YOUR DINNER' is a thing of the past now..

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

Ol' Donie · 24-06-2019 9:04pm

I remember the first time, while getting my hair cut, I looked down and thought "how am I covered in someone else's grey hair?"

Bobblehats · 24-06-2019 10:38pm

Getting a haircut before I remembered to dye my hair.

Gimme A Pound · 24-06-2019 11:51pm

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

25-06-2019 12:00am

Clareman wrote: »

She's 6. She can't understand that there was no internet when I was younger, but at least I had YouTube and NetFlix, didn't have the heart to tell her that I was older than both combined

I was just chatting about this tonight with some friends over pints, how we were the last generation that will ever have lived on a planet without instant connectedness.

I was born in the late 1980s and even as a child, I remember one neighbour who had no electricity or running water. Some of our neighbours had no telephones either, and would walk into the house to make a phone call and leave 20p on the phone table. (Remember phone tables, the ones with the little cushioned seats that you could sit on?)

Most of us here are probably very lucky that we got to experience childhood without the glare of social media. There will probably never be another generation like that again.

freshpopcorn · 25-06-2019 12:02am

I met somebody once and they couldn't believe that cars hand manual wind down windows. Even tough new cars still have them.

25-06-2019 12:08am

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I met somebody once and they couldn't believe that cars hand manual wind down windows. Even tough new cars still have them.

Cars are great markers of change. Remember when most cars didn't even have safety belts in the back? And the front belts weren't even wound, just loose, dangling and of very doubtful benefit.

And those rubber wires that hung from the back of cars and bobbed along on the road? Apparently they were to do with car sickness, or static electricity? I'm not sure, but that's another thing that's gone.

*Adjusts pince-nez and looks wistful*

branie2 · 25-06-2019 12:10am

the grey in my beard

JustAThought · 25-06-2019 12:13am

When you take for.granted that if the only ulstairs toilet is occupied in your parents hkuse that you will use the outdoor one. Yes - outdoor toilets are still a thing for some people.

When you put the kids on a horse & trap trip around town and buzz off for a coffee to wait for them to retuen and then think perhaps giving your choldren to a total stranger for an hoir or so around the city xwntre os not the modern way of doing things (kidnap/abduction /child welfare)

When you stop to meet & talk with a schoolfriend and eventually realise that the lanky teenager hanging around isnt lost and looking for you to stop talking to ask for directions but is in fact their child.

Discussing the milennium with aomeone born in 2003.

Doctors getting MUCH younger and gardai being young, cheeky and looking like teenagers.

De Bhál · 25-06-2019 12:14am

I heard on the radio the other day that the footballer Fernando Torres is retiring.
Made me feel old.

JustAThought · 25-06-2019 12:15am

Kids who haave no idea who U2 are.

banie01 · 25-06-2019 12:17am

Having so many tablets to take that you end up needing pill organizers!
I'm not even bloody 40 yet!

freshpopcorn · 25-06-2019 12:19am

I remember going to friends Birthday's and five of us were in the back seat and we passed Garda Checkpoints and they just waved us through and I'm nearly thirty.
If this happened Today they'd have a field day on Twitter.

Dtp1979 · 25-06-2019 12:24am

To realise mrs. Doubtfire is 26 years old

Gimme A Pound · 25-06-2019 12:59am

banie01 wrote: »

Having so many tablets to take that you end up needing pill organizers!
I'm not even bloody 40 yet!

Put the bread next to the toaster! :pac:

Dtp1979 · 25-06-2019 1:02am

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

When you ask your wife does she want to go out to the pictures and you're delighted when she says no, let's watch one on TV instead

The fact that you call it the pictures.......

Richard Hillman · 25-06-2019 1:25am

I was walking through Golden Discs a couple of weeks ago and seen 90s compilations under a Father's Days Gifts signs.

I still associate 70s music for fathers.

Sh!t that makes you feel old.

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