Your showing your age when . . .

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by taxman

I don't think my kids can imagine television that isn't colour...

My niece when she was quite young had seen some old b&w movies and she asked her mother in all seriousness 'when did the world get colour?'.

BTW I remember the arrival of our first TV (just), phone being connected and the sewerage being put on (both clearly).

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

I'm loathe to join in this forum 'cause I don't want to admit that I'm aged but, remember when it cost $3:00 to fill the tank ( 10 gallons / 45 ltrs ) of the EH Holden, a meat pie was 1 shilling,the 1st TV in '57, a 15" Stromberg Carlsen that was 200 pounds,a few months wages. Listening to the Smoky Dawson radio serials ( before TV ) or being out in the streets with the rest of the population of Sydney watching the first Russian Sputnick pass overhead in Oct. 4th '57, the beginnings of my interest in astronomy.

Jeff

[RAJAH235]

Just to add my 2 pennies worth....
Remember when Paddle pops were 5 pence each & we yelled very loudly when petrol went up to 2 shillings a gallon?
A Saturday afternoon at the flicks, (4 theaters to choose from), where you got to see the latest episodes of Tom Mix, Flash Gordon etc + a trailer & the main movie & would cost no more than 3 bob & that included ice cream, chips & a box of Jaffas.

(Hi Jeff.)

[Spiritinthesky (Joe)]

...you make strange noises every time to leave your chair!

[taminga16 (Greg)]

When the neighbours child (about 8 yrs) reprograms your television and improves the picture quality ten fold, and all of the while you thought that it was your eyesight.

Greg.

[ZeroID (Brent)]

I remember when LSD stood for Pounds, shillings and pence ... !!!

[Colin_Fraser]

Times when I realize I'm old...plenty
I am often reminded I am old when I tell the young kids at work the problem with them is they stay out too late at the discotheque.

I feel old when I look at any Rolling Stones photograph in my office and Mick Jagger looks younger than me.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by taminga16

When the neighbours child (about 8 yrs) reprograms your television and improves the picture quality ten fold, and all of the while you thought that it was your eyesight.

Greg.

lol Greg thats funny

[DavidU (Dave)]

When your grand kids tell me to turn down the music and go to bed !!!

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by DavidU

When your grand kids tell me to turn down the music and go to bed !!!

Yep. Ab Fab was a doco.

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Originally Posted by Colin_Fraser

Times when I realize I'm old...plenty
I am often reminded I am old when I tell the young kids at work the problem with them is they stay out too late at the discotheque.

I feel old when I look at any Rolling Stones photograph in my office and Mick Jagger looks younger than me.

Be happy, noone looks as old as Keith Richards !!

[Jen]

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning....

Uphill... Barefoot...

BOTH ways

Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waitin g! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! Wehad the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever!
And you could never win.. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!


You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-*******s!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980or before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

heheheh

[CraigS]

Oh Jen;

You have aged way too fast and matured way too prematurely !! ...
Better get it checked out … quick !!



Cheers

[Alchemy (Clive)]

The biggest sign of old age is putting on weight...... And not losing it. Never put on an ounce before 30.

[CraigS]

Originally Posted by Alchemy

The biggest sign of old age is putting on weight...... And not losing it. Never put on an ounce before 30.

Ahh .. but you say this effect of 'old age' only occurs after 30.

So, go for broke before 30 !!


Cheers

[Suzy]

Jen, I couldn't have said it better myself. That was a brilliant post - funny, and so damn true!

You did forget one thing though...
When we ran out of money - that was it - we had to wait for the banks to open in the morning - none of this atm stuff!

This generation of kids, known as the "bubble wrap" generation is the most supported (financially), protected and cared for generation than any other generation.

[CraigS]

Metro gums, Redskins and Sherbies used to be: two for a cent !

You had to wait another day more than your friends to find out your HSC and SC results because you lived in a suburb which existed, for some unknown reason, in a time-warp.

Sunburn and blisters were commonplace in Summer. The only suncream that worked was Pink Zinc so you always ended up looking like some kind of mutant !

Car seats in Summer were always scalding hot, which doubled the pain of sunburn.

Car seats were always 'slidable' - so one could always enter from one side and conveniently slide across to get to the other - without getting impaled in the process.

Cars never started 'first pop' - children learned first hand from their parents REAL language skills !

Navigation on those school holiday trips always involved tons of paper NRMA/RACV maps … which were always out of date .. resulting in getting lost at least three times in every trip.

Motels used to be inhabited by mythical creatures possessing nothing but a hand (in body). 'The Hand' was only observable in the mornings when it appeared through a flap located near to the door of your room, when it dished up (always) cold toast for brekkie !

School children were used as lab-rats by diabolical, evil scientists wanting to gauge the effects of seriously curdled milk on the human body …

Learning to swim involved a test of pain thresholds, orchestrated by another group of evil scientists called swimming coaches, who always delighted in observing the colour of bodily parts changing from normal to indigo blue/purple.

Cheers

[Jen]

[OICURMT]

An old friend of mine had a saying...

"Age is that process by which everything get wider, heavier and closer to the ground"...

Highly accurate statement!

[AstralTraveller (David)]

You know what 'three on the tree' is because your first car was. Oh, and no syncro on first. The list of accessories was 'cigarette lighter' and - because it was the 'Special' model - a radio, valve of course. Speaking of valves the ones under the hood were opened via push rods and you knew how to adjust the associated tapits. One could also clean and gap plugs, set the dwell angle and adjust the timing. All lubricants and filters were changed at home. Pulling a carby apart to clean the jets and then adjusting said jets was considered routine. Then there was the hours of fun with the front suspension's set-up. And that is before anything actually went wrong! Finally, despite these rituals having become largely redundant one still has all the necessary tools, meters, timing light and torque wrench.

[BTW you also know in what way bench seats are better than buckets. ]