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Nemesis
03-11-2003, 14:17
Come be creative ... when do you know you're getting old :D

Me... when I sound like me dad ..

altis
03-11-2003, 14:19
..when you've bent down to tie your laces, you look round to see if there's anything else you can do while you're there.

Bex
03-11-2003, 14:21
....you start saying "when i was younger....."

Bex
03-11-2003, 14:22
.......and you spend saturday night posting on .co.uk and not going out clubbing

MetaWraith
03-11-2003, 14:35
and you check if nando's allows zimmer frames

Bex
03-11-2003, 14:44
and you check if nando's allows zimmer frames

:rofl: :rofl:

darant
03-11-2003, 14:49
Come be creative ... when do you know you're getting old :D

Me... when I sound like me dad ..

you cant stay up as long as you used to ..... unadied!

Scarlett
03-11-2003, 15:00
You don't 'get' the latest 'thing' on TV.

Ramrod
03-11-2003, 16:18
You say the same things to your kids that your parents used to say to you!

Bex
03-11-2003, 16:21
You say the same things to your kids that your parents used to say to you!

i do that to my nephew :eek:

CaKe
03-11-2003, 17:06
...when you get Now! That's What I Call Music Decades and actually remember the songs as well as having the first one on vinyl ;)

...when you actually remember vinyl :o

...when you hear someone doing a cover version of a song and say "it was much better when ___ did the original"

Stuart
03-11-2003, 17:46
You hear a band that did a recent cover version of a song released in your teens describe what they did as "modernising a classic song" .. I heard Lisa Scott-Lee talk about Chain Reaction this way.

You see a "25th Aniversary" edition of a film you saw as a kid (Superman).

You start wishing that modern music had words you can sing, and a tune you can hum.

Bex
03-11-2003, 17:53
cake this is getting serious, your thingy says ur 21....same age as me....and we both think we are getting old :cry:

yes i remember vinyl

iadom
03-11-2003, 17:57
When you remember when a "wireless" was a radio, not some new fangled way to connect PC's:(

homealone
03-11-2003, 18:20
When you get your pension statement & it says you retire in 15 years.:eek: - can't wait;)

idi banashapan
03-11-2003, 19:18
when you make a noise when standing up. A kind of straining noise merged with an 'ooooh' sound. No reason for this sound, but it does signify that you are indeed, getting old!!!! It makes it all that much worse when you catch yourself doing it too!!!!

Atomic22
03-11-2003, 20:00
when all i am allowed to watch on my two and a half grand plasma screen is "totally spies" , "dora the explorer" or various disney dvd's coz my five year old informs me she has "total ownage" of it......

Xaccers
03-11-2003, 20:05
when all i am allowed to watch on my two and a half grand plasma screen is "totally spies" , "dora the explorer" or various disney dvd's coz my five year old informs me she has "total ownage" of it......

Time to show her who's boss! (be careful though, five year olds can be vicious) :D

iadom
03-11-2003, 20:10
my five year old .....When you suddenly find that your five year old is 25 next week.:cry:

She is still rather cute though.

Alan Waddington
03-11-2003, 20:21
When you go to a musuem and wonder why they've included in their collections all the modern stuff you've got at home.

Maggy
03-11-2003, 20:39
when you find yourself uttering the immortal line "because I said so".



Incog. :)

snodvan
03-11-2003, 21:31
When the picture on your buss pass looks old!

Paul
03-11-2003, 21:41
when you enjoy TOTP2 much more than TOTP :D

Bex
03-11-2003, 21:41
.....you start a thread about knowing when you get old
......read and reply to said thread

Chimaera
03-11-2003, 22:09
When you get your pension statement & it says you retire in 15 years.:eek: - can't wait;)
You lucky devil Gaz - I can't wait either! (If the kids don't spend it all first)

Back on topic then - when all the policemen in our locality start looking too young to be out on their own! :D

(And VERY nice some of them are too - must get arrested some time!)

peachey
03-11-2003, 22:13
When you get your pension statement & it says you retire in 15 years.:eek: - can't wait;)


or worse - can remember when two yoghurt cups and a piece of string strung together in a crude attempt to set up a makeshift walkie talkie functions better than the orange network I am currently bemoaning in a different thread

Maggy
03-11-2003, 23:16
entirely :notopic: but snodvan i just have to ask about your nickname.how did you come up with snodvan? :wavey:


incog. ;)

tick
03-11-2003, 23:25
When you have to buy a black tie
because the peoples you used to borrow are all dead

Undisputedtruth
03-11-2003, 23:40
when you enjoy TOTP2 much more than TOTP :D

I never enjoyed TOTP as a teenager. Pop music so naff. I guess I must be old as a teenager.

basa
04-11-2003, 09:50
All of the above reasons :dozey: :dozey: :zzz: :zzz:

Theodoric
04-11-2003, 20:44
. . . you've posted something and can't find it again a few days later! I posted something about Religious Discussions last week and couldn't find it when I returned this week. Well, I assumed that the Spanish Inquisition had struck and deleted it, but I've just found it again (purely by chance) on the nthw Site Discussion forum, so off I shall go to see what's happened.

Colin
04-11-2003, 22:28
When you tut at teenagers being a little bit noisy...

when you say to people 'do you remember this cartoon' and no-one around you was more within the time period it was on...

When you reminise about cartoons...

Stuart
05-11-2003, 13:16
You know you are old (or have at least been using PCs for a long time) when

a) You remember Wordstar.
b) You remember the versions of Wordstar that had no fancy Graphical User Interface (PCs didn't have one) and fitted on a single 360K 5 1/4 inch floppy disk, and you could run it without installing to hard drive first.
c) You remember 360K 5 1/4 inch floppy disks...

Have a look at http://www.wordstar.org/ if you are wondering what Wordstar is..

Bex
05-11-2003, 13:19
dont rememner wordstar but i remember huge floppy dics

Enterian
05-11-2003, 13:20
I remember 8 inch floppy disks - sigh!

Ramrod
05-11-2003, 13:48
I remember 8 inch floppy disks - sigh!8 1/4" :D
How about 'hunt the wumpus'? on the BBC model B 'puter

altis
05-11-2003, 14:10
Sorry Ramrod - 3.50", 5.25" and 8.00".
http://www.athana.com/html/diskette.html

...and yes, I used them too!

Nemesis
05-11-2003, 14:44
you remember having an IBM PC XT and thought that the IBM PC AT was the bees knees :D

gary_580
05-11-2003, 15:07
playing ping pong on that old orange binatone ting

altis
05-11-2003, 15:13
http://www.stylophone-sales.fsnet.co.uk/home/IMAG005.JPG (http://www.stylophone-sales.fsnet.co.uk/)

:D

iadom
05-11-2003, 15:35
dont rememner wordstar but i remember huge floppy dics

REALLY.:naughty:

Bex
06-11-2003, 12:32
REALLY.:naughty:
DISC's....:blush: ok that was a bad typo..........

Enterian
06-11-2003, 13:37
The 8" disks were wonderful, you could get them double sided, but to use the other side you had to turn them over! And I seem to remember that if you left them in the drive when turning the computer on or off (A Motorola 6800 development machine if I remember correctly), it corrupted the disk and you lost all the data.

I've also got half a box of blank punched cards, that we use for shopping lists, I wonder if they're valuable?

ian@huth
06-11-2003, 15:42
You remember getting an electric IBM card punch to replace the manual Holerith one.

I still have a copy of Wordstar v1 somewhere in the loft and it isn't anywhere near the bottom of the no longer used pile.