Things that make you feel old

[supernova1965]

I was just watching TV and an add for Everyone Loves Raymond and the promo said lets go RETRO 90's AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH

way to make me feel old:sadeyes::mad2::rofl:

[ballaratdragons]

hahahaha, that's funny coz i am watching 'Everyone loves Raymond right now :lol:

Robert is playing ventriloquist cop :rofl:

Yeahhh, the 90's aren't Retro!!! They were just a few weeks ago weren't they? :question:

[supernova1965]

Yeah if the 90's are Retro what do you call Space Invaders now:confused2:

[Astroman]

The best game ever made! :D

[Terry B]

The fact that I have never watched Everyone Loves Raymond makes me seem even older.
My son doing the HSC this year is a much bigger prompt that I'm gettingold.:sadeyes:

[ballaratdragons]

Dunno, coz I've never actually played it.
Never been a video game person.

Wasn't Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon just a couple of years ago?

[Suzy]

I admit it.. :whistle:
I was and still am a space invaders geek. I have it on my phone, I have on my playstation, and heaven help a machine at the shops that has it.:face: $1 a game too- are they serious? :screwy: I remember when they used to be 20 cents. If seen in public with this said machine, one must always be seen comfortable and well relaxed whilst shooting, as one must always appear to be the best space invaders player ever. :D

Actually.. this gives me a great idea for a thread :question::D

90's was only yesterday, I don't see how it can be "retro" already. Fashion does 20 year circles, not 10. Oh, I just realised, that is 20. Yes, Warren, am feeling old now, I think I want to hurt you. :mad2: :P

[supernova1965]

All the Space Invader machines around Wynnum had WAR for all the high scores being the first 3 letters of my name.:D

[astroron]

You guys and Girl are only spring chickens ;)
You don't know what old is :question::P:P:P:P

[that_guy]

Yeah, IIS makes me feel so young :P :lol: :rofl:

[Waxing_Gibbous]

Girls I snogged in High School that now have daughters old enough for me to snog!

[rcheshire]

When I could fill up my Mini for $2.00 - gallons in those days. No! Becoming a Grandfather.

[AdrianF]

Yeah becoming a grandfather for the second time made me feel old.
But what makes me feel really old is having to push a mower around 1.5 acres of grass so old in fact I went out and bought a rideon mower to save my poor old body.

Hmmmm space invaders.........

Adrian

[mithrandir]

Most of you lot don't know what retro means. :D

Retro
Dollars and cents had just driven out L, S and D.
Petrol was 38c/gal. Ciggies about the same for a pack of 20.
Parking at Macq Uni was free.
Still had conscription.
Skirts were **that** short. (Maybe that's back.)
Striped flairs.

15 years since the Macq Uni 25th anniversary dinner.

Today.
Grandson is nearly 5.
Just had 40th anniversary school reunion.
Self propelled mower since pushing one up the banks is too much work on hot days.

Andrew

[Suzy]

1981 - I ruled the Albion fish & chip shop machine with my top scores, daily:P Errr, was on my college lunchbreak - one game would last me most of my lunch hour. :rolleyes: All done while dipping hot chips into coleslaw and into my mouth. Multi tasking. :D

Let's take a moment and salute our icon (who by the way, gave us no life and sent us broke. :screwy::lol:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=space+invaders +song&aq=1

Peter :lol::lol::lol:

Ron, well... from what I understand ....
Back in your day you had to use ice boxes to keep meat, when silent movies were your big Saturday night entertainment, when you had to make the flour so you could make the bread, and when it was bath time, you had a basin and a sponge as there were no showers or bath tubs.:P
Ooooops. . :scared3: :face:

[jjjnettie]

Old schmold.
I still feel 18 inside.

[astroron]

Ron, well... from what I understand ....
Back in your day you had to use ice boxes to keep meat, when silent movies were your big Saturday night entertainment, when you had to make the flour so you could make the bread, and when it was bath time, you had a basin and a sponge as there were no showers or bath tubs.:P
Ooooops. . http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/../vbiis/images/smilies/scared15.gif http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/../vbiis/images/smilies/face.gif


Suzy Most of what you say is true :P:P:P:P
In the UK when I was a kid, we had a bath in front of the fire and all five boys and two girls shared the water:eyepop:
We had to buy meat daily as there were no fridges.:rolleyes:
Mum made the bread, and yes we went down the road and watched Charllie Chaplin Silent movie at the Sally Army Hall:D
So you see you where not far off the mark;):P
PS
Food such as Meat, Butter, Sugar and even lollies was on Ration till 1952
and TV did not come in till about that time as well :thumbsup:

[Suzy]

:lol:.... and I thought I was having a dig at him and went too far back. :confuse3:

Crikey, I'm not sure about that bath water, Ron.:scared2:

[astroron]

Suzy there was always a fight to see who had the first bath:rolleyes:
Which by the way was only once a week unless we where really dirty:lol::lol::lol:
Cheers

[Suzy]

I wanted to mention that (as I hear that's the way it was in England back then), but I thought I'd better better not. :lol:
From what I understand is, that over there, it's so cold that you'll don't sweat. And apparently it was the US that invented the daily bathing routine.:question:

[astroron]

Suzy that's why us old Poms have such good skin;), we never washed the oils out of the skin so it never dried out:)
Now because we shower so much that people spend lots of money on Skin moisturisers :shrug:

[Ric]

Good onya Peter

I found an old Playboy mag the other day dated 1978 ;) and then realised that the lovely young lady on the cover is 12 years older than me making her 62. :eyepop:

Now I feel old. :D

[avandonk]

I used to be able to do things that cannot be described on this site all night and night after night. Now I just take astro images all night.

Says it all really!

Bert

[renormalised]

I know how you feel Peter, but that could a case of jail bait!!!!:):P:P

[renormalised]

It's a shocking slippery slide to the bottom:):P

Or have we just broken symmetry:):P

[avandonk]

It is a bit like that old poor double translation of 'the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak'

to 'the grog is good but food is terrible'.

I learned mental arithmetic at school.
We were told Latin was a living language.
Calculators were very large mechanical machines where I first worked.
Petrol was 31C per imperial gallon that is about seven cents a litre! Smokes about 30C a pack of twenty. Half dozen cans of Vic $1.32!
When I first started drinking a pot was 10C!

The local milk bar got a juke box and served coffee. The headline in the local rag read for a headline ' Hoods Hangout ' and the story was that coffee crazed youth would dance to all hours of the night! They shut at eight PM! Pregnancies would occur with all this drug addled dancing!

And you tell the young ones today and they don't believe you!

Bertt

[renormalised]

What makes me feel old...aching all the time with arthritic pain in my joints and muscles (but I grin and bear it), being a grand-uncle and having grand nieces and nephews old enough to have kids themselves, seeing Airfix model plane kits you could buy for $1.50 now costing more than $20, the cost of toffee apples these days (and they're so small too!!!!), remembering the milk (in bottles!!!) we used to get at school either in the morning or at little lunch (morning recess for all you Gen X and Y kids out there), Showbags that only cost 20 cents and you actually got something in them, The Paul Hogan Show (now too politically incorrect to be on TV), On The Buses, Kingswood Country, Skippy, BJ and the Bear, TJ Hooker, Six Million Dollar Man (and the Bionic Woman), Matlock Police, Division 4, Graham Kennedy Show, the original Hey Hey it's Saturday, Star Trek (TOS), the original Superman TV series...I could go on and on, but I suppose what keeps me feeling young is my mind. I still feel young at heart and that's a good thing:):)