Your showing your age when . . .

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #1 11-09-2010, 11:17 PM

Cheryl (my Missus) has been sitting at her laptop most of the night and she just said her neck is hurting.

I replied "it's probably coz you've been sitting at your typewriter too long"

Oh dear

supernova1965 (Warren) · #2 12-09-2010, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

Cheryl (my Missus) has been sitting at her laptop most of the night and she just said her neck is hurting.

I replied "it's probably coz you've been sitting at your typewriter too long"

Oh dear

OH that's SAD

danielsun · #3 12-09-2010, 10:37 AM

Oh dear Ken. Sometimes listening to the wireless for too long can have effects on the body too!

OneOfOne (Trevor) · #4 12-09-2010, 11:12 AM

I find it annoying that I can't get FM radio on my crystal set, and that my 8 inch floppy doesn't fit any more!

Jen · #5 12-09-2010, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

Cheryl (my Missus) has been sitting at her laptop most of the night and she just said her neck is hurting.

I replied "it's probably coz you've been sitting at your typewriter too long"

Oh dear

LOL Ken

I felt old when my 24 year old sister seen my vinyl records the other day and asked me what they were

taxman (Matt) · #6 12-09-2010, 01:23 PM

Mine was when a lady told her daughter to "ask the man" when she wanted a chocolate in the shop I was working in when I was at uni. I looked around before I realised she was talking about me...

Inmykombi (Geoff) · #7 12-09-2010, 08:42 PM

I can remeber 6 digit landline telephone numbers

I also remember a family member who's phone number was only through an exchange. The number was Booligal 12 ( in NSW )

At the local paper shop, the Sun and Mirror Newspapers that cost 5 cents each.

If fizzy drink bottles were returned to the corner store, you could get 5 cents for each one. There were no empty bottles lying around anywhere.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #8 12-09-2010, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Inmykombi

I can remeber 6 digit landline telephone numbers

I also remember a family member who's phone number was only through an exchange. The number was Booligal 12 ( in NSW )

At the local paper shop, the Sun and Mirror Newspapers that cost 5 cents each.

If fizzy drink bottles were returned to the corner store, you could get 5 cents for each one. There were no empty bottles lying around anywhere.

Yep, I can remember lots of things like that too

But do you accidentally refer to old stuff in the present?

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #9 12-09-2010, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by danielsun

Oh dear Ken. Sometimes listening to the wireless for too long can have effects on the body too!

my boss keeps asking me to turn the wireless down at work

and he's only 2 years older than me

lacad01 (Adam) · #10 12-09-2010, 10:26 PM

Or remember that receiving a telegram was such a big deal

AstralTraveller (David) · #11 12-09-2010, 10:46 PM

My parents and I often give directions by referring to landmarks that no longer exist. Some have been gone for >30 years. Things like 'you know the corner Dr Powrie used to be on' or 'you turn down where the rescue station was'. Well, ... it makes sense to us.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #12 12-09-2010, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

My parents and I often give directions by referring to landmarks that no longer exist. Some have been gone for >30 years. Things like 'you know the corner Dr Powrie used to be on' or 'you turn down where the rescue station was'. Well, ... it makes sense to us.

Oops, I do that

mithrandir (Andrew) · #13 12-09-2010, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Inmykombi

I can remeber 6 digit landline telephone numbers

I also remember a family member who's phone number was only through an exchange. The number was Booligal 12 ( in NSW )

I remember dialing 2 letters and 4 numbers. JJ for Pymble and YA for Castle Hill. And Sydney CBD numbers being 5 digits.

Numbers starting with Y were the first to become 7 digits, so they could adopt 0 as the first digit of STD services.

Paddy (Patrick) · #14 13-09-2010, 11:49 AM

This is not so much showing my age, but showing perhaps more age than I should.

A few months ago I helped my parents, in their mid eighties, move into a retirement village. I knew I was getting old when the people around the place (including tradesmen) thought that I was moving in and kept saying how much I'd like it there.

Ric · #15 13-09-2010, 11:56 AM

The cheeky young girl in our office say's that the year I was born in was B.C.

B.C. = Before colour television

Cheers

taxman (Matt) · #16 13-09-2010, 12:30 PM

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

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Originally Posted by Ric

B.C. = Before colour television

michaellxv (Michael) · #17 13-09-2010, 03:11 PM

I thought B.C. = before children.

cybereye (Mario) · #18 13-09-2010, 03:15 PM

.. you can remember that there's 16 ounces in a pound and 14 pounds in a stone...

Fossil (Jonathan) · #19 13-09-2010, 03:24 PM

I'm so old I can't remember any of my memories

TrevorW · #20 13-09-2010, 03:26 PM

You remember when you used to buy a Peters Drumstick for 10c and and a gallon of petrol was 50c and I could ride too and from school on the bus and buy lunch and have change from 20c