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You know you're old when ....
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...the definition of gay was carefree and happy.
Schrödinger's Dust Bunnies.
Until you look closely enough, they're in the superposition state of existing + non-existing.
- 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
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- 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 my sister’s and brother-in-law’s van had the 8-track player. Heck I remember some of our vehicles having them too, and the stereo system in our house, but I especially remember theirs because it was a real funky van with a big, platform bed in the back, and I’d go on trips with them and their kids and we’d all sleep on the big platform bed on the way to Disneyworld.
And those TV knobs - it’s funny because my dad would holler at me from the den and I’d be all paranoid I was in trouble, but he’d just want me to change the channel for him. Getting a TV with a remote control was AWESOME!!
When "literally" literally meant "in a literal way".
You forget what the thread you are answering is about 
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...you still listen to vinyl.
In those days, a nickel would buy you two movies, a popcorn, and a whoopin'. Kept your mind on your business.
In those days, a nickel would buy you two movies, a popcorn, and a whoopin'. Kept your mind on your business.
Wow, you really are old.
So were my nickels!
Is it true you were only in the army because someone slipped a shilling in your tanker?
What sort of musket did you use?
When you have to scroll down several pages to get to your birth year on a survey page!
When 25 cents meant you were wealthy for the day.
Is it true you were only in the army because someone slipped a shilling in your tanker?
What sort of musket did you use?
The Springfield Model 1795 musket and I wasn't that cheap! It was 2 shillings!
I am the official 8 inch diskette restorer for Marshall Space Flight Center (and a whole lot of other companies in Huntsville), whenever they dig up one they want, they pay me to download the data from it and put it on a CD (now usually a DVD). One of the actual employees found out that they had a bunch of disks coming down the pipe and went out and spent lots of money on equipment so he could do it, and let me know that they were no longer going to be paying me $500 a disk as he thought they were because he would be quite happy doing it for $250, the look on his face when I pointed out the $500 check was for 20 disks and I was getting paid $25 a disk, but he was welcome to all the business because frankly keeping all that 30+ year old equipment running was a bit of a pain. Amazingly I once again had the job.
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I would pick on you for saying that about your Amiga, but my wife pointed out that my Toaster/Flyer hasnt been plugged in and turned on since I drowned the house in December 2016.
-Tig
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I guess your younger friends don’t know what the symbol for voicemail on their cellphone represents either then right?
I dated a girl for a very short time who also didn’t know. Fun but such a mess.
Stanford. Summer of 1967. Good times (including the Fillmore and "be in"s on campus).
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...when you mention this thing called a “typewriter” and your grandkids have no idea what you’re talking about.
...every time you watch an old TV show in which one character is in extreme danger and another character, located elsewhere, can’t warn him because there were no cell phones back then.
...when you go to the store and much younger people start holding the door open for you and letting you go first.
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...every time you watch an old TV show in which one character is in extreme danger and another character, located elsewhere, can’t warn him because there were no cell phones back then.
...when you go to the store and much younger people start holding the door open for you and letting you go first.
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Women ask that all the time. 😏
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When you have to get up 3-4 times a night to take a whizzz!
Even worse is the fact that you need to sit because of the slow weak flow.
Even worse is the fact that you need to sit because of the slow weak flow.
you have to plan your drive based on washroom breaks
It still does. It's one of those quirky English words that mean it's opposite, depending upon context and inflection. Bad is another. "That's bad, man" can mean it's awesome or terrible.
Anyhow. I ain't old
, but I remember a time when "fast food" meant the chicken I couldn't catch.
3-4? Once or twice is where I’m at. But my flows all good thanks!When you have to get up 3-4 times a night to take a whizzz!
Even worse is the fact that you need to sit because of the slow weak flow.
You know your old when you’ve seen all the latest films before they were reboots/rewrites/remakes.
When you tell someone you think Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance) was actually quite attractive and they immediately make that robbing the cradle crack.
Or even now, when you think it may necessary to explain who Ethel Mertz was!
Or even now, when you think it may necessary to explain who Ethel Mertz was!
I am 45, I have no kids, no married, I want to be a DJ and a keyboard player.
I am "old", I still roller skating. The girls I date could be my daughters easy. For some reason I do not have that "mature man" vibe. I have the same age Roger Moore had when he did James Bond the first time and "he still older than me".
I just gave a damn. I feel I am 25.
I am "old", I still roller skating. The girls I date could be my daughters easy. For some reason I do not have that "mature man" vibe. I have the same age Roger Moore had when he did James Bond the first time and "he still older than me".
I just gave a damn. I feel I am 25.
Welcome to my world. 😄When you have to get up 3-4 times a night to take a whizzz!
Even worse is the fact that you need to sit because of the slow weak flow.