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You know you're old when ....
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Please, I'm only 24 and I've had that experience. Knowing people can be born in this century and be adults is a frightening realisation but it doesn't mean you're necessarily old. No, no. You know you're auld when Vera Lynn sounds better to you than Nirvana (and don't get me wrong, the lass is a leg and great on her own right)
When more of the people whose names you can remember are dead than alive.
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Whenever a person younger than you says they’re going to do something fun and you admonish them for it instead of wishing them a good time
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... When you talk too much about the past.
... When your sentence starts with: in my time.
... When you regularly dose watching TV.
... When you don't like to talk about the future.
... When you easily let go what you cherished for years.
... When you stop having idols.
... When you smile as others talk about happily ever after.
... When you accept that every road has an end.
... When your sentence starts with: in my time.
... When you regularly dose watching TV.
... When you don't like to talk about the future.
... When you easily let go what you cherished for years.
... When you stop having idols.
... When you smile as others talk about happily ever after.
... When you accept that every road has an end.
You got me there. Sounds like me recently selling some of my vinyl records.
When you can no longer check the 18-24 age group on online forms :-(
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When you wake up on a Saturday morning, face pressed to the pillow, and your very first thought is a wave of blessed relief that you didn't go out on Friday night.
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…when…wait, what are we talking about again?
... when you've used these two floppy things back in the day?
But seriously I think it is also a state of mind. There's biological age then there's social age.
But seriously I think it is also a state of mind. There's biological age then there's social age.
Agreed. "An expert is a man who has stopped thinking because 'he knows'" - Frank Lloyd Wright
Pfft on those 5-1/4" diskettes. I have a box of 8" Verbatim diskettes. And a few are still virgin. Heh: The 40-Year Old 8" Virgin.
... when you can relate with all the replies in a "you know you're old when..." thread in a public forum.😆
When you’re only mid 30s but somehow in your fifth decade . . . 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s.
- When you remember what this was, and glad your Caribbean father had the guts to listen to new music and purchased the Lloyd's player and this album on this format:
^ I remember that was the first electronic in the apartment I broke - pressing that 'Track' button and hearing 'Ka-chunk' was soOoo satisfying, that Rapid fire just was not fast enough to mimimic sci-fi animation sound effects of Starblazers/Danguard Ace or etc.
- When the anime you've watched completely dates you:
Danguard Ace, Grandizer, G-Force, StarBlazers ... heck even Akira (anyone hard core into anime for more than 25yrs will know of this last one).
- When you know what the top dial of THIS TV actually did:
PS: Bonus if you had a Zenith Studio B&W TV on it's own cart with built-in wheels and specifically a red Applause light on the top right that WORKED in 1979-81 when you watched Gilligan's Island, Laurel & Hardy, or The 3 Stooges on Buffalo29!
- When you remember NOT only having the earlier version of this ... but also driving your father crazy with why it would continually break! The first one we had we connected to our first colour TV - rented from Grenada rental (Jesus even THAT brand is old and dead lol). So, as a kid with no toys for an 7 yr old, having this box and seeing many cable channels were still blank or out of tune, you get creative.
So ... you start from Channel 1 and work your way to 30 I think and the faster you go the quicker the channel zero fuzz shows up, and the longer it lasts. ROFLMAO! Took 15mins after watching Go Bots and GI Joe after school and Herself The Elf (sister's show) that it was broken. Mom came home an hour after my dad on most shifts so he had 1 hour to fix it on an empty stomach before she'd come home and give him crap for buying junk and missing out on Dallas or whatever soap she watched then. Solder iron out dad fixes it. If he had OT he'd replace with a spare he had in the vacuum closet. After about 3 months he came home very early and caught me rapid firing across the channels and said THAT"S the reason why I have over 40 boxes in the closet!!!
ROFLMAO
That Christmas, pop's bout me a Select 7
- When you remember Game & Watch handheld games
or
- When you remember just how cool and important and significance that Tron was when it debuted!
And with that I give you an inside view of Tron: Legacy something I found VERY interesting.
^ I remember that was the first electronic in the apartment I broke - pressing that 'Track' button and hearing 'Ka-chunk' was soOoo satisfying, that Rapid fire just was not fast enough to mimimic sci-fi animation sound effects of Starblazers/Danguard Ace or etc.
- When the anime you've watched completely dates you:
Danguard Ace, Grandizer, G-Force, StarBlazers ... heck even Akira (anyone hard core into anime for more than 25yrs will know of this last one).
- When you know what the top dial of THIS TV actually did:
PS: Bonus if you had a Zenith Studio B&W TV on it's own cart with built-in wheels and specifically a red Applause light on the top right that WORKED in 1979-81 when you watched Gilligan's Island, Laurel & Hardy, or The 3 Stooges on Buffalo29!
- When you remember NOT only having the earlier version of this ... but also driving your father crazy with why it would continually break! The first one we had we connected to our first colour TV - rented from Grenada rental (Jesus even THAT brand is old and dead lol). So, as a kid with no toys for an 7 yr old, having this box and seeing many cable channels were still blank or out of tune, you get creative.
So ... you start from Channel 1 and work your way to 30 I think and the faster you go the quicker the channel zero fuzz shows up, and the longer it lasts. ROFLMAO! Took 15mins after watching Go Bots and GI Joe after school and Herself The Elf (sister's show) that it was broken. Mom came home an hour after my dad on most shifts so he had 1 hour to fix it on an empty stomach before she'd come home and give him crap for buying junk and missing out on Dallas or whatever soap she watched then. Solder iron out dad fixes it. If he had OT he'd replace with a spare he had in the vacuum closet. After about 3 months he came home very early and caught me rapid firing across the channels and said THAT"S the reason why I have over 40 boxes in the closet!!!
ROFLMAO
That Christmas, pop's bout me a Select 7
- When you remember Game & Watch handheld games
or
- When you remember just how cool and important and significance that Tron was when it debuted!
And with that I give you an inside view of Tron: Legacy something I found VERY interesting.
When you realize you've been "retired" for over 20 years, and you received your "gold watch" for 25 years service way back in 1990.
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The thing that makes me feel old is nothing to do with myself or the present actions of others. It is thinking of people I have known in the past that are now gone. Oldest person I met was born in 1878-79, and oldest person I actually knew well was born a decade later. Knew quite a number born in the early 20th, most of them are gone now.
Other than that it's that most of the stories I tell people don't interest them...
Other than that it's that most of the stories I tell people don't interest them...