Things that make you feel old

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by 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.
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.

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

[Ric]

Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous

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

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.

Now I feel old.

[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 (Carl)]

Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous

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

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

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by 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

It's a shocking slippery slide to the bottom

Or have we just broken symmetry

[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 (Carl)]

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