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Thread: Make me feel young again, or the I Feel Old thread...
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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The last Calvin and Hobbes strip was over seventeen years ago
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lilBuddha
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Is that some sort of religion v. philosophy cartoon?
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lilBuddha
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Sorry, bad joke. I love Calvin and Hobbes. Given the ubiquity of references to it, I'd no idea it was gone for so long.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Nor me. Which is why it made me feel old.
Far Side stopped about the same time IIRC.
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Zach82
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The date of the release of Disney's The Little Mermaid was closer to the moon landing than it is to today.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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The worst one was when a work colleague pointed out that I was closer in age to Ann Widdicombe than to the new receptionist.
Anyone know anyone with a bath chair and carpet slippers sale?
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St Everild
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Realising that I am nearly the same age now as my father was when he had to retire from work on health grounds...
Listening to someone complain (on Facebook) about being wolf-whistled in the street...and realising that I can't even remember the last time that happened to me...
Realising that I have been married (to the same man) for 1/3 as long again as the time before I was married...
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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I am older now than my grandmother was when the only photo I have of her was taken -- five years before she died!
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Marvin the Martian
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Originally posted by Zach82:
The date of the release of Disney's The Little Mermaid was closer to the moon landing than it is to today.
Do not be alarmed if you feel a slight itching of the scalp in the next few minutes. That's just me trying to telekinetically set your head on fire for pointing that out.
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Adeodatus
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quote:
Originally posted by St Everild:
Listening to someone complain (on Facebook) about being wolf-whistled in the street...and realising that I can't even remember the last time that happened to me...
And when it does happen, it's not a wolf-whistle, it's just that ringing noise you sometimes get in your ears.
I realised a few weeks ago that technically I'm old enough to be the grandfather of someone who'll go to university this year.
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Og, King of Bashan
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It's not making me feeling particularly old, but I did realize the other day that on Tuesday (my birthday) I will have had a driver's license for exactly half of my life. (For anyone who is counting, that is 16 years, and I have still never been cited for a moving violation.)
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Schroedinger's cat
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My eldest son is just a year and a half younger than my wife was when we got married.
I work in IT. Nothing that I do or use was even thought about when I started.
I am nearly half as old as my house.
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take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Nenya
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Mr Nen and I were married 27 years ago today and we were 25 and 26 when we married. This means we've been married for longer than we haven't been married. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Nen - amazed at her own staying power. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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WearyPilgrim
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I visited my home town not long ago and happened to meet an old high school acquaintance whom I hadn't seen in over forty years. The upshot was this dawning realization: You know you're old when you meet someone who looks old, who in fact is younger than you. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
I work in IT. Nothing that I do or use was even thought about when I started.
I worked in IT before I retired. Nothing I did or used is still done or used.
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ChaliceGirl
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Remembering the day Kurt Cobian died, and how he left behind his little toddler girl...
and then knowing she now looks like this.
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Starbug
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When I first started working, the Latest Thing in high-tec was the Gestetner duplicator and a word processor with the enormous floppy disk drives.
[ 01. March 2013, 18:10: Message edited by: Starbug ]
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basso
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I was at a meeting the other day, and the chairman asked us to 'put your cell phones on stun'.
He then had to explain the reference for the younger people in the room.
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Organ Builder
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On the upside, when I went to the orientation class for knee and hip replacements I was one of the youngest people there.
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Lyda*Rose
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I felt old when the manager of the small store I worked at turned out to be the daughter of a friend I had in middle school and said manager had a little daughter. Which made my old chum a grandma. Which made me old enough to be a grandma.
And -wait for it- this took place twenty-five years ago. I'm officially old-as-dirt.
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I was ordained 25 years ago, come December. I was sooooo young. Yet sometimes I think of myself as a relatively inexperienced minister.
Weird.
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"May I live this day… compassionate of heart" (John O’Donoghue)...
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Boogie
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When I started work there were no calculators.
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Schroedinger's cat
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I watched last nights "Child of our time" earlier. There was a teenage mother there, whose mother was a teenager when she was pregnant. That means that the new grandmother was in her early thirties.
By the time she is my age, she will be a great grandparent.
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luvanddaisies
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quote:
Originally posted by St Everild:
Listening to someone complain (on Facebook) about being wolf-whistled in the street...and realising that I can't even remember the last time that happened to me...
Well, I don't think I know you, so it wasn't me on facebook - I recently posted that I must be getting old, because when a bloke wolf-whistled at me I had to stop myself from grinning rather than stopping myself from lamping him.
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St. Gwladys
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Darllenwr and I did a computer course using cards to program the computer.
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The Machine Elf
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quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
When I started work there were no calculators.
My Nan was pictured in the Daily Mail operating one of a batch of new calculators. I think that before she was married, so would be the mid 1930s. I'm not sure quite what was newsworthy - they had been around in some form or another since the 17th century.
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Chorister
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The sheer number of funerals.... soon I'll know more people dead than alive.
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churchgeek
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This may make me sound young to some of you...but I graduated from college 20 years ago this spring. Funnily, the year of my 20th high-school graduation anniversary, I was graduating from an MA program, so I've been in a PhD program now just as long as I was in college. Hardly seems the same length of time... you know how time seems much faster (and IME emptier - like less happens in the same length of time, even if that's not actually true) as you get older. Ah, what short and empty years I have to look forward to!
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North East Quine
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Originally posted by St Everild:
quote:
Listening to someone complain (on Facebook) about being wolf-whistled in the street...and realising that I can't even remember the last time that happened to me...
I got wolf-whistled this morning, as indeed I do many times, in my own house. Although, it must be said, our cockatiel isn't particularly discerning with his wolf-whistles and I'm just as likely to be greeted with a telephone ring tone.
My "feeling old" moment came when I was telling my son he was like a stuck record, and then having to explain about vinyl records, and needles in grooves.
My first school computing class c1978, involved knitting needles.
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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
My first school computing class c1978, involved knitting needles.
Did anyone mention "Jacquard loom"?
My first computing job (no one called it IT then) involved loading sheets that had been bar-marked (like Lotto cards) into a reader which produced paper tape, then writing a job control card specifying the program to read the paper tape, and any parameters.
For years afterwards I could read and edit 8-hole paper tape.
I suppose it dawned on me that I was defintely middle-aged standing in the church at my son's wedding.
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North East Quine
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Karl, if you really want to feel young, join me in my church on Sunday. I promise you will look round and realise you are one of the younger ones.
Tonight we had the World Day of Prayer service, with a congregation of at least 40. I was not only "one of the young ones" I was the youngest person there. I'm 48.
At the last meeting of the "Young Wives Group"* I was the only one present still to have a child at school. Although, on the positive side, only one of the "Young Wives" has a grandchild old enough to be at secondary school.
* We call ourselves the "Women's Group" now, but the logistics of changing our bank account has defeated us and our account is still in the name of the "Young Wives."
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I think you can be defined as Getting On A Bit, Middle-Aged or Really Quite Young by whether you remember where you were when you heard that ...
(a) Kennedy had been shot (I don't - I was less than 2 years old)
(b) John Lennon had been shot (I was a student in Aberdeen)
(c) Princess Diana had died (I was on holiday in Orkney)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by piglet:
I think you can be defined as Getting On A Bit, Middle-Aged or Really Quite Young by whether you remember where you were when you heard that ...
(a) Kennedy had been shot
(b) John Lennon had been shot
(c) Princess Diana had died
(a) In college, in a class on Thomistic philosophy
(b) I don't remember
(c) At home, heard it on the news
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
I watched last nights "Child of our time" earlier. There was a teenage mother there, whose mother was a teenager when she was pregnant. That means that the new grandmother was in her early thirties.
By the time she is my age, she will be a great grandparent.
There was a lot of that where I grew up. Not me, though!
Our last three ministers at church, and my President are all younger than me. *sigh*
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Sir Kevin
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
The last Calvin and Hobbes strip was over seventeen years ago
Our daughter cut and pasted them (physically) into little scrapbooks: that was, actually, half a lifetime ago for her!
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Sir Kevin
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Originally posted by St Everild:
Realising that I am nearly the same age now as my father was when he had to retire from work on health grounds...
I am nearly 20 years past that: I am looking forward to 60 the second day of next year! (Dad was forced into retirement at age 40...)
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Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Timothy the Obscure
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It's now 50 years since the Beatles' first recordings. At that time it was less than 40 years since the first Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five records--and they seemed so old-fashioned in 1963...
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Uncle Pete
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My son is 40 today.
My eldest brother, were he alive, would be a great-grandfather.
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The girls at school are on a Scoobies kick at present. I was telling them how they come round every few years and that I was keen on making them when I was in the equivalent of Y7 too, then realised that was nearly 50 years ago!
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Rosa Winkel
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For me it was obvious that something was up when people refer to Iron Maiden and Metallica as being "old". Same when Public Enemy call themselves "old-school".
Most of my clients (from Germany) weren't alive when the Berlin wall came down. The same clients also don't know of the German team being hated for boring play.
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It makes me feel old when my Son stresses that he'll be 30 next year.
On the plus side, when I take his children (aged 3 & 1)out, quite a few people assume I'm their mother.
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Marvin the Martian
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I think a big one was realising that I've been playing senior cricket for my club for longer than some of my teammates have been alive.
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Hail Gallaxhar
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Nenya
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I suppose it dawned on me that I was defintely middle-aged standing in the church at my son's wedding.
Indeed. Our daughter got married last year and I don't know how that happened - last time I looked she was playing with her toys on the floor. Mr Nen and I have been looking through our wedding photos this morning (27 years married, see above ) as we're going to a reunion of his youth group this weekend. It's sobering to see how many of our wedding guests are now no longer with us... the majority of the group, in some photos...
Nen - having a wobble.
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Sioni Sais
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I suppose I tried very hard to banish from my mind, on my last birthday, that I was the age my Dad was when he retired. OK, that was from the Royal Air Force, but he joined before WW2 and served nearly 39 years!
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nomadicgrl
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Originally posted by Zach82:
The date of the release of Disney's The Little Mermaid was closer to the moon landing than it is to today.
Little Mermaid was released 1989 - 24 years ago
Moon landing was 1969 30 years before the TLM was released.
I am very relieved that this wasn't true, as it made me feel very old indeed and now I feel less very old. (though the fact that in only 7 years it will be true isn't helpful).
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ThunderBunk
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Originally posted by nomadicgrl:
quote:
Originally posted by Zach82:
The date of the release of Disney's The Little Mermaid was closer to the moon landing than it is to today.
Little Mermaid was released 1989 - 24 years ago
Moon landing was 1969 30 years before the TLM was released.
I am very relieved that this wasn't true, as it made me feel very old indeed and now I feel less very old. (though the fact that in only 7 years it will be true isn't helpful).
Erm, sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but 1969 is only 20 years before 1989, so the original premise is true.
I am similarly unimpressed by it, but it is nevertheless accurate.
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Foolish, potentially deranged witterings
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Ariel
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On the I Feel Old theme, my grandparents were born two centuries ago.
When I started work nobody had email, very few people had computers and they weren't networked. Somehow, we seemed to manage perfectly well writing letters and using the phone.
I was watching "Gone With the Wind" a couple of weeks ago and realized with shock that it was 74 years old.
A colleague said she'd seen "Mary Poppins" recently. I replied that I'd seen that when it first came out - then realized this was some 25 years before she was born. Just file me under Antique.
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Moo
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My father was born in 1899.
Moo
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Moo is a tough act to follow.
But I remember when we got a color TV to replace the black and white so we could continue to watch the three channels we received through the aether.
And having to hoist the humongous new microwave (who could imagine such a thing?) onto the high shelf in the room just off the kitchen.
spellign
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