Sh!t that makes you feel old.

sunbeam · 04-08-2019 4:49pm

It really hit me when I realised that from next year people born in the 80s will start to turn 40. Surely this cannot be right? I mean they were always the little kids and weren't the 80s only about 20 years ago...

04-08-2019 4:51pm

sunbeam wrote: »

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.

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I'm only slightly older than you by a few years and that really hurt

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Paddy Cow · 04-08-2019 10:50pm

sunbeam wrote: »

It really hit me when I realised that from next year people born in the 80s will start to turn 40. Surely this cannot be right? I mean they were always the little kids and weren't the 80s only about 20 years ago...

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm only slightly older than you by a few years and that really hurt

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I'm conflicted about these posts because I'll be turning 40 soon and that makes me feel old as hell. It was only yesterday I was late teens/early 20's considering anyone over 40 to have one foot in the grave. And here I am on a thread about nostalgia where some people are looking back to the youth of their 40's :P

I suppose it's all perspective and here's to another 40 years!

ohnonotgmail · 04-08-2019 10:57pm

sunbeam wrote: »

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...

less than four years older for me. jeez.

NickNickleby · 04-08-2019 11:14pm

Found my first passport in a box recently. Its green (the passport, not the box:pac:).

I got it because I was getting married and we were going abroad on honeymoon. I got married in 1979. I was 24.

When I see Pope John Paul II on Reeling in the Years, kissing the tarmac, it reminds me I was away on honeymoon when he did that.

Sometimes a photo comes up on my phone. Its a scanned in photo of me and my now wife, taken on our first date Aug 2nd 1974, by one of those street photographers. I look a little different nowadays.

So the box of tricks, the tv and my phone will have to be destroyed :eek:

lbc2019 · 04-08-2019 11:17pm

sunbeam wrote: »

It really hit me when I realised that from next year people born in the 80s will start to turn 40. Surely this cannot be right? I mean they were always the little kids and weren't the 80s only about 20 years ago...

Yes! I'm 20 next birthday!

lbc2019 · 04-08-2019 11:19pm

sunbeam wrote: »

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...

And Rue's dead.

ohnonotgmail · 04-08-2019 11:21pm

Reading this thread is making me feel old.

Moomoomacshoe · 04-08-2019 11:27pm

When my ex tells me my age is why he's leaving me (I'm older)..that makes me feel oldðŸ˜£!! But then I look at my great bazoobas and non wrinkled face and think fck you basturdface!ðŸ˜„

Airyfairy12 · 04-08-2019 11:53pm

Moomoomacshoe wrote: »

When my ex tells me my age is why he's leaving me (I'm older)..that makes me feel old&#55357;&#56867;!! But then I look at my great bazoobas and non wrinkled face and think fck you basturdface!&#55357;&#56836;

Did he not realise you were older when you started dating? Why is it only an issue for him now? Did he think you'd stay the same age for ever? He sounds stupid, bullet dodged!

sunbeam · 04-08-2019 11:55pm

lbc2019 wrote: »

And Rue's dead.

On a brighter note Betty White who played Rose is still alive at 97 and still acting. Imagine the amount of change she has seen in her lifetime

My oldest grandad who lived to be 91 was my age in 1931 when my mother was born. My oldest granny was a few years younger. My oldest aunt, who died before I was born, was born almost 110 years ago.

Sometimes it freaks me out a bit to think that my grandparents were young Victorians who were well in their 30s before we became an independent country.

Moomoomacshoe · 04-08-2019 11:55pm

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Did he not realise you were older when you started dating? Why is it only an issue for him now? Did he think you'd stay the same age for ever? He sounds stupid, bullet dodged!

He did. I don't know. Probably and yes..THANK YOU...definitely dodged a bullet there.

JupiterKid · 05-08-2019 12:59am

It’s pretty shocking to realise that we are almost in the 2020s and that 2000 was almost 20 years ago and that 1990 was almost 30 years ago.

I am 44 years of age now, and don’t really feel all that different than when I was 27 except that I am more wise and less prone to get overly angry about a perceived injustice in the world or jump to conclusions about something without considering all the angles and points of view. I’m also, unfortunately, a good bit more world-weary and cynical.

It’s a bit scary to think that at the age I am now, my late father and mother were the same age in the mid and late 1980s respectively.:eek:

Ger Roe · 05-08-2019 10:09am

If you are 18 years old now, there have been people living in space for every day of your life. The International Space Station has been continuously occupied since Nov 2nd 2000.

I remember the first moon landing and the launch of the two Voyager space probes in 1977 (now travelling at the farthest distance ever reached and still in contact with earth, 42 years later :eek:). The recent moon landing anniversary and the talk about milestone space achievements since, made me feel old.

I also remember our last real summer - the record breaking drought of 1976 (the first time I heard about 'The Greenhouse Effect' - now re-branded as Global Warming). People talking of 'scorchers' that have happened since (some as recently as the 1990's), make me feel old.

crazyguy01 · 05-08-2019 7:24pm

Moomoomacshoe wrote:

When my ex tells me my age is why he's leaving me (I'm older)..that makes me feel oldÃ°Å¸ËœÂ£!! But then I look at my great bazoobas and non wrinkled face and think fck you basturdface!Ã°Å¸Ëœâ€ž

Better off without his crap... My wife is almost 10 years older than me and I have the wrinkles and grey hair, not her.... And her great bazoobas too, lol...

juneg · 05-08-2019 10:18pm

Today I just feel weary. Same **** different day. I'll be fine again tomorrow and posting in the gratitude thread but today I just feel I've done all this crap before

NickNickleby · 05-08-2019 11:33pm

Ahh, juneg. Glad that you can feel positive enough to look forward to a good day tomorrow, (and the day after, and the day after.....).

Won't offer any platitudes, just wishing you well. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who is.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 05-08-2019 11:38pm

A 29 year old of my acquaintance doesn’t know who Boris Becker is.

The J Stands for Jay · 06-08-2019 8:39am

sunbeam wrote: »

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...

Betty White is so old that she starred in a show about being old before lots of posters on this site were born (thanks Twitter).

The J Stands for Jay · 06-08-2019 8:42am

sugarman wrote: »

Want to feel really old then?

Vice City was set in 1986 and released in 2002. So 16 years apart.

2002 was 17 years ago. So its now further apart than the games story line was.

All these years later, and I still don't get why so many people liked vice city. Both 3 and San Andreas were much better.

The J Stands for Jay · 06-08-2019 8:45am

JupiterKid wrote: »

It’s pretty shocking to realise that we are almost in the 2020s and that 2000 was almost 20 years ago and that 1990 was almost 30 years ago.

I remember Tomorrow's World on the BBC often had a feature where they looked at what life would be like in the far future of 2020. Next year's going to mess with my head. Especially if everyone starts saying crap like "where's my hoverboard?"

Be right back · 06-08-2019 9:18am

Back pain..

freshpopcorn · 08-08-2019 2:40am

When Sonia O'Sullivan won her medals in the Sydney Olympics in 2000 she was 30 now shes 49 nearly 50!

Graces7 · 08-08-2019 9:35am

mirrors are banned.... bad enough when someone kindly takes a photo of you and you don't recognise it. and the worst was when I was playing about with an old laptop and wondered who the old crone on the screen was... I had the camera on

But as they say, what cannot be cured must be endured... and I am at peace with what I have. No mutton dressed as lamb here; simply mutton

bladespin · 08-08-2019 9:38am

Youtube - I love it for instructional vids and think it's an awesome learning tool but my kids watch the strangest Sh1t on it which I honestly have no clue about and am deeply suspicious of -sound like a gran dad just writing that.

Graces7 · 08-08-2019 9:43am

I watched the Coronation ( Queen Elizabeth 2) on TV.

We made sure we had a set ( tiny b/w) and that every car in the road had a suppressor fitted. Everyone crowded in...

lbc2019 · 08-08-2019 9:45am

McGaggs wrote: »

I remember Tomorrow's World on the BBC often had a feature where they looked at what life would be like in the far future of 2020. Next year's going to mess with my head. Especially if everyone starts saying crap like "where's my hoverboard?"

Beyond 2000 anyone?

Sittingpretty · 08-08-2019 11:15am

lbc2019 wrote: »

Beyond 2000 anyone?

I’m old enough to remember tuning into Ripley’s believe it or not with zeal, every Sunday afternoon.

The J Stands for Jay · 08-08-2019 11:54am

lbc2019 wrote: »

Beyond 2000 anyone?

Is that the Australian show?

dubstarr · 08-08-2019 11:56am

Sittingpretty wrote: »

I’m old enough to remember tuning into Ripley’s believe it or not with zeal, every Sunday afternoon.

Ripleys Believe it or Not with Jack Palance.Loved that show.His voice was so unnerving

lbc2019 · 08-08-2019 9:48pm

McGaggs wrote: »

Is that the Australian show?

Yep, used to be shown Saturday evenings RTE2

Capt'n Midnight · 08-08-2019 10:24pm

2000 AD

Judge Dredd
Rogue Trooper
Strontium Dog
Harlem Heroes
M.A.C.H. 1
Flesh
Sláine
Tharg's Future Shocks

and

Ro-Busters with Hammerstein and Ro-Jaws

freshpopcorn · 12-08-2019 8:08pm

When you relies your to old to go out on leaving Cert results night!

Cushtie · 12-08-2019 9:17pm

lbc2019 wrote: »

Beyond 2000 anyone?

Loved that show!

Airyfairy12 · 12-08-2019 9:33pm

Got excited about a Teflon iron on sale today. I dont know when I became like this.

cannotlogin · 13-08-2019 8:41pm

When your friends kids get their Leaving Cert results!

13-08-2019 8:44pm

cannotlogin wrote: »

When your friends kids get their Leaving Cert results!

What will it be? Gin or whiskey?

FatherTed · 13-08-2019 9:07pm

I remember when I was in school and Prince's 1999 song came out(mid-80's) and thought jeez 1999 is so far away. And it's over 20 years ago now.

13-08-2019 9:13pm

FatherTed wrote: »

I remember when I was in school and Prince's 1999 song came out(mid-80's) and thought jeez 1999 is so far away. And it's over 20 years ago now.

We've also passed these dates:

2001 A Space Odyssey

2010 A Space Odyssey 2

October 21st, 2015

Be right back · 13-08-2019 9:14pm

That it is nearly 20 years since the millennium and y2k. Feels like 10!!

FatherTed · 13-08-2019 9:17pm

Deleted User wrote: »

We've also passed these dates:

2001 A Space Odyssey

2010 A Space Odyssey 2

October 21st, 2015

Orwell's 1984

Yeah like in Prince's song "tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999". Well it was Y2K so actually I was in my office with about 20 others waiting for the shyt to happen on our systems at the turn of midnight.

13-08-2019 10:07pm

FatherTed wrote: »

Orwell's 1984

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I was going to post that but that was a little before the time you quoted.

Bowie probably felt the same way you did, but just a few years earlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KByxC7B9WH0

completedit · 13-08-2019 10:41pm

Got my LC results 9 years ago

sunbeam · 13-08-2019 10:45pm

completedit wrote: »

Got my LC results 9 years ago

Got mine 29 years ago. Was bitterly disappointed and thought my life was over. It wasn't.

sunbeam · 13-08-2019 10:48pm

Deleted User wrote: »

We've also passed these dates:

2001 A Space Odyssey

2010 A Space Odyssey 2

October 21st, 2015

Don't forget December 21st 2012. Has a new date for the end of the world been set?

cannotlogin · 13-08-2019 11:11pm

Deleted User wrote: »

cannotlogin wrote: »

When your friends kids get their Leaving Cert results!

What will it be? Gin or whiskey?

Gin please but feel old thinking of the days when they used to serve it in a straight glass with ice. None of those fishbowls with half a garden in them back in the day!!!

yourdeadwright · 14-08-2019 12:56pm

completedit wrote: »

Got my LC results 9 years ago

I can double that

, still seems like 5 years ago

js35 · 14-08-2019 2:11pm

yourdeadwright wrote: »

I can double that , still seems like 5 years ago

I got mine 23 years ago

bladespin · 14-08-2019 2:14pm

1992, wasn't that long ago

Claremorrisdub · 14-08-2019 2:16pm

I am a team leader in an IT company, and one of my colleagues(very early 20's and started recently). Very good worker , sent a message to our internal chat saying a customer was asking how to copy something to a CD. colleague didn't know what a disc was :-) damn i felt old...

Sh!t that makes you feel old.

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