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Uncle Pete
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My parents are a century old; my paternal grandmother was born a hundred and twenty-one years ago and is nearly the same age as my mother's eldest sister. My eldest cousin would be 103.
Send in the knacker's wagon.
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I'm "watching" hits of the 90's with my flatmate, she is 10 years younger than me, and enjoys making me feel old. This thread is redressing the balance, and making me feel young.
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North East Quine
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My aunt and uncle got a colour television to watch Princess Anne's wedding. My parents regarded this as wanton spendthiftness. At that point I had no expectation that I'd ever have a colour television.
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Schroedinger's cat
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In the TV front, I remember visiting some friends who had cable TV - probably 40 years ago, when it was being trialled in the UK. The general impression was that it would never take off.
Ah well.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
I remember visiting some friends who had cable TV. . . . The general impression was that it would never take off.
Pay TV, they called it. The movie industry launched a vigorous campaign against it.
On a related note -- an old school chum reminded me recently that our senior year English teacher, a woman who was much admired, was of the opinion that ZIP codes were a passing fad that would never take off.
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Zacchaeus
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
My aunt and uncle got a colour television to watch Princess Anne's wedding. My parents regarded this as wanton spendthiftness. At that point I had no expectation that I'd ever have a colour television.
I can remember when 'Tomorrows World' (that's enough to age me) experimented in colour transmission..
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I remember the first transmission of BBC2. Heck, I remember the first commercial TV programme (an episode of Robin Hood with Richard Greene).
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Lamb Chopped
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I comfort myself by remembering that Jesus, as far as his human nature goes, is about 2016 this year. So at least there's somebody around who could consider me a mere child. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Wasn't it Karl: Liberal Backslider who suggested there should be an acronym for There's an XKCD For That.
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Latchkey Kid
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Our first telephone number was something like WOR 973. WOR stood for Wordsworth. All the telephone districts in my area of Middlesex were signified by poets.
And now it occurs to me that I remember Middlesex being a real county.
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Qoheleth.
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Originally posted by Latchkey Kid:
Our first telephone number was something like WOR 973. WOR stood for Wordsworth. All the telephone districts in my area of Middlesex were signified by poets.
And now it occurs to me that I remember Middlesex being a real county.
Oh! Me too: BYR 4635 (for Byron)
Middlesex County Council (RIP 1965) ran the schools and fire station IIRC.
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Our telephone (when I was in second grade) had a hand crank. IIRC, our ring was two longs and three shorts.
St. Sebastian and I were talking today about the days when you had to let the phone company know if your phone worked with pulse or touch tone.
Now I feel ancient because I have an iPhone 4. Daughter-Unit and her hubby have shiny, new phones.
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nomadicgrl
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Originally posted by FooloftheShip:
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Originally posted by 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).
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.
![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) Wow, that was a dumb math mistake I made, somehow transposing 1989 to 1999 - maybe I was so in denial that my subconscious mind screwed up my math mind....yah....I'll go with that.
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We once had a three digit phone number when we lived in Linlithgow.
I remember an old BBC pop-science show called "How" transmitting a spinning disc image that made the illusion of colours on a B&W TV.
I just barely remember radio licenses. The transistor radio killed those, as no one would pay more than the price of a radio for a license.
I remember a Daimler car my father had with electromechanical turn signals-a lighted arm popped out of the B-pillar.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
... my grandparents were born two centuries ago ...
I take it you mean the century before last, i.e. the 1800s, and not in 1812. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
It makes me feel quite old knowing that two of my grandparents were born during the reign of Queen Victoria.
When D. started teaching (in 1979) he felt old that some of the kids were too young to remember the Beatles.
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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
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".
Punk-rock (which, in some permutation, is still considered youth music, at least in some circles) is now older than rock & roll was when punk-rock was the latest thing. John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) is older than Mick Jagger was when the punks were calling the Stones "boring old farts."
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Pigwidgeon
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I just came home from a wonderful concert by our Grammy-winning Phoenix Chorale -- when I was looking through the program before the concert started I noticed that almost all of the composers were younger than me!
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Palimpsest
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boogie:
[QB] When I started work there were no calculators.
Well calculators do go back a while. My favorite was the
curta from the fifties.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by piglet:
It makes me feel quite old knowing that two of my grandparents were born during the reign of Queen Victoria.
All of mine were. And a few of my uncles during the reign of Edward VII.
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All my gradparents were born during the reign of Queen Victoria too. One of them was old enough to fight in the Boer War.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by piglet:
When D. started teaching (in 1979) he felt old that some of the kids were too young to remember the Beatles.
I recently cheered up the 20-somethings in the office (who were harking nostalgically back to the Nineties!) by saying that in just 3 years' time they may be working with people born this century.
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Zacchaeus
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quote:
Originally posted by Palimpsest:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boogie:
[QB] When I started work there were no calculators.
Well calculators do go back a while. My favorite was the
curta from the fifties.
The calculator was not cheap enough or practcal enough for most people until the 60's or 70'.
Sometime around then, I remember my brother, who is a 'gadget man,' getting very excited about them being in the shops and being able to afford one.
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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 (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)
a) I was just as baby
b) Behind the counter at the Post Office where I had just started work.
c) In bed in my house in Cleethorpes when the 7am news came on.
I can also remember what I was doing when I heard Elvis was dead. I was ironing a shirt watching the Ten O'Clock news. The newsreader was Reginald Bosanquet (sp). I was 15 and living in Blackpool.
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Mudfrog
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I was an inkwell monitor at school.
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luvanddaisies
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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 (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)
a) wasn't born
b) no idea - I think I was 2 (I googled it, it was 1980, right?)
c) Was my first morning in a rented flat - just before starting my second year at music college (I'd lived in halls of residence in my first year). I heard about it in church.
Hmm, maybe I'm not as old as I feel ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Thanks piglet.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by Mudfrog:
I was an inkwell monitor at school.
Filled with a particularly corrosive fluid that made the pen nib (dip pen, of course) go all scratchy. Nevertheless, we were not allowed fountain pens, as these would 'spoil' our handwriting(!). As for biros - perish the thought.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by piglet:
It makes me feel quite old knowing that two of my grandparents were born during the reign of Queen Victoria.
Both of my parents were.
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Schroedinger's cat
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It is interesting to think that people retiring at the age of 65 this year ( and last year ) were all born after the end of the second world war.
I am currently in the phase of going to second weddings of relatives, and first weddings of the next generation. I suppose the next is the era of funerals, which will happen in the next 10 years.
My eldest nephew is in his mid 30s.In fact, he is nearly as old as I was when I lost my dad.
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Originally posted by Latchkey Kid:
And now it occurs to me that I remember Middlesex being a real county.
I was born the year after Middlesex became part of Greater London, so I consider myself a Londoner. My husband, however, says that I was born in a 'postal address'.
What makes me feel really old, though, is that I was born on the same day that one of The Beatles' albums was released (the one released in the USA with the infamous Butcher Cover).
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Lamb Chopped
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Originally posted by Ariel:
quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
When D. started teaching (in 1979) he felt old that some of the kids were too young to remember the Beatles.
I recently cheered up the 20-somethings in the office (who were harking nostalgically back to the Nineties!) by saying that in just 3 years' time they may be working with people born this century.
You are evil. I like you.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
It is interesting to think that people retiring at the age of 65 this year ( and last year ) were all born after the end of the second world war.
OMG! Pretty soon most Boomers will be pensioners. Boomers, by tradition, have resented the retired as our taxes (and NI/Social security contributions) have paid for their pensions. Who will we resent when they are retired?
I suppose it'll be the Gen. X'ers for paying lower taxes than we did, so governments (stuffed with Gen. X'ers) can be mean with our pensions. If they have a grain of sense the US government will pass a law banning old folks from owning guns.
I don't know if you read it here first, but you read it here.
Sioni Sais, b. 1957.
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Lamb Chopped
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It' s okay, our parents' generation have screwed us lifelong, what's another few years between friends? LC, born 1966.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
LC, born 1966.
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Sioni Sais, b. 1957.
Mere babes..
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Here is an interesting one. There was a time when I vaguely knew what would be on this list (it comes out every year), then there was a time when it felt wrong that I did not know what was on that list. Finally I have got to the stage where not knowing is the way I expect it to be. So I look at it and think "Oh I wonder who that was" when it mentions a pop start who died before they were born as I lost interest in pop music before that person made it big.
Jengie
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Latchkey Kid
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Originally posted by Palimpsest:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boogie:
[QB] When I started work there were no calculators.
Well calculators do go back a while. My favorite was the
curta from the fifties.
I remember comparing slide rules at school. I think mine was a Faber-Castell.
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Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner
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North East Quine
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My grandparents house had no plumbed in bath - the bath was a tin one brought in from the shed on Saturday nights. The floor was lino laid on flagstones and always cold, the bath was in front of a roaring hot open fire. The end result of being simultaneously too hot and too cold was something we called "tinker's tartan" a red and blue mottling of your skin.
Also, my grandparents toilet (a proper plumbed in flushing one!) was in a lean-to add on to their house. In winter there was no way anyone would go to the toilet at night, as the temperature could be well below freezing. So we all had a chamber pot tucked under the bed.
One of my grandmother's sisters never had an indoor toilet - her toilet was in a shed at the bottom of the garden.
It seems like another world, now.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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One grandparents' had a shed with a bucket down beyond the hen run. The other - I don't even recall chamber pots: it was find a corner of a field with plenty of docks growing.
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Latchkey Kid
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My mother was a Comptometer operator.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Here is an interesting one. There was a time when I vaguely knew what would be on this list (it comes out every year), then there was a time when it felt wrong that I did not know what was on that list. Finally I have got to the stage where not knowing is the way I expect it to be. So I look at it and think "Oh I wonder who that was" when it mentions a pop start who died before they were born as I lost interest in pop music before that person made it big.
Jengie
I quiver at the thought that, as of this year, all new teenagers will have been born since the odometer ticked over to the second millennium.
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
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.
I am in the bizarre position of having moved from being the second youngest adult at a church (after Mrs Backslider) to being almost certainly the oldest.
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Pine Marten
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Some years back, when our office was putting up an exhibition to celebrate the anniversary of the Hit Parade, people were eagerly checking what was top of the charts when they were born. I eagerly checked, too, but was puzzled when I couldn't find it. Then it dawned on me - the Hit Parade started in 1952 ...
Pine Marten, born 1950.
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Meerkat
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1957... a good year, Sioni... I share it with you...
It makes me feel old when:
* I have been at work longer than most of the people in our company have been alive
* ditto re me driving
* I am the oldest person in our company
* I am married to someone who will receive her first State Pension payment next week
* I remember the very first Doctor Who episode being broadcast
*The first car I drove (UK) had the handbrake to the right of the driver and the headlight dip-switch was a button on the floor, by the clutch pedal. That made it interesting sometimes, putting my foot on the wrong control lol
Meerkat... who thinks of himself as being in his late 30's, until he actually thinks that he will become a great-uncle in a couple of months.
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Originally posted by Pine Marten:
Pine Marten, born 1950.
The same year my father was born.
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Pine Marten
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...and the year before my own parents.
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Earwig
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I had to explain to the receptionist at work today who John Peel was.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Meerkat:
Meerkat... who thinks of himself as being in his late 30's, until he actually thinks that he will become a great-uncle in a couple of months.
My wife's neice has just become a grandmother! That makes Mrs Sioni a great-great-aunt, and she's younger than me!
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Moo
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quote:
Originally posted by Pine Marten:
Some years back, when our office was putting up an exhibition to celebrate the anniversary of the Hit Parade, people were eagerly checking what was top of the charts when they were born. I eagerly checked, too, but was puzzled when I couldn't find it. Then it dawned on me - the Hit Parade started in 1952 ...
Pine Marten, born 1950.
The Hit Parade started long before 1952. I have CDs of the hits of each year. My collection starts with 1941; I don't know whether that's when it started.
In 1950 the songs were
- Music, Music Music
- Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
- I Wanna Be Loved
- A Bushel and a Peck
- My Foolish Heart
- Play a Simple Melody
- The Cry of the Wild Goose
- All My Love
- Sentimental Me
- There's No Tomorrow
- I'll Never Be Free
- Harbor Lights
- Hoop-Dee-Doo
- I Can Dream, Can't I?
- Mona Lisa
- Nevertheless
- Goodnight Irene
- Bewitched
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- Dear Hearts and Gentle People
- It Isn't Fair
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