Things that make you feel old...

[Sheets Tabuer]

Kids born in 2000 will be 15 this year..

Still a year younger than the matrix which came out 16 years ago

[Celtic Dragon]

Give it another couple of years and we'll be working with people born this century!

So far on my office the highest year of birth is 1995.

[Blib]

Discussing gaming consoles with Master Blib, I mentioned the Commodore 64 v Sinclair Spectrum "wars".

"What are they?" He asked.

[Spanglepants]

Music videos on Youtube - was watching a load of Glam Rock vids from the early - mid 70s. Reminded me of a great period of my life ( all to do with Gary Glitter before you start!)
Going to watch Crystal Palace when Malcolm Allison was manager
Went to my old neighbours the other day and she gave me a (Marvel) Avenger 1976 Annual. As i was saying how good it was she said look inside. Inside the front cover it was addressed to me from my Dad for Christmas 1975. Forgot to ask how she got hold of it.

[Petrolhead95]

My last two months as a teenager, fk that's a horrible thought

[northwest monkey]

Blib said:

Discussing gaming consoles with Master Blib, I mentioned the Commodore 64 v Sinclair Spectrum "wars".

"What are they?" He asked.

I hope you told him the ZX Spectrum is what put the "Great" into Great Britain and the Commodore 64 is something that was for people with body odour.

I showed my son (7) a video on You Tube of the original SNES Mario Kart. He laughed.

[djfaulkner]

My son (7) asked me what a VCR was and when I told him, his response was...

"granddad has got one of those"

[J4CKO]

northwest monkey said:

Blib said:

Discussing gaming consoles with Master Blib, I mentioned the Commodore 64 v Sinclair Spectrum "wars".

"What are they?" He asked.

I hope you told him the ZX Spectrum is what put the "Great" into Great Britain and the Commodore 64 is something that was for people with body odour.

I showed my son (7) a video on You Tube of the original SNES Mario Kart. He laughed.

I had both (I delivered a lot of papers) and loved both but the 64 was better, all the Speccy owners looked up to the cool kids with a C64, after all it was £199 vs £129, never mind you had to buy the specific Cassette deck at £30 as well.

But, the Spectrum did have some specific and pretty fantastic games despite its limitations, it was uniquely British, the C64 had all the US games to go at.


Then there was the posh kid with the BBC Micro, which was allowable as it had Elite and cost £399, but the Acorn Electron wasnt, it was a BBC for kids from families that werent minted and wasnt as good, then there was that one weird kid with a Dragon 32 or an Oric of some description, sat all alone, rocking in playground.

[Baz Tench]

I'm mad for music, but I'm just thumbing through the Daily Star, and have arrived at the 'showbiz' page.

Meghan Trainor? Nope, not a clue!

Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Funk'? Nope.

I've never been a fan of Radio1 or R1 as they call it these days , but thank god I'm old (well, 45).

[Vizsla]

Did my Speed Awareness Course, at the beginning they do the 'add up years of driving experience' in each group of punters (supposed to get you involved and defuse the seething anger of the pi$$ed-off ones!). Almost surprised myself when we went round the table and my 51 was waaaay greater than anyone else

[Johnny]

I'll be 40 exactly 2 weeks today...

So, pretty much everything at the moment!

[Xaero]

Can legally shag someone born in 1999 now (in January anyway). And I wouldn't want to either.

[Baz Tench]

Johnny said:

I'll be 40 exactly 2 weeks today...

So, pretty much everything at the moment!

I was at Glastonbury festival for my 40th.

It's not all bad .

[krallicious]

Petrolhead95 said:

My last two months as a teenager, fk that's a horrible thought

Oh get out.

[RobinBanks]

Petrolhead95 said:

My last two months as a teenager, fk that's a horrible thought

I'm not sure that being nearly 20 years old counts as old (for a human).

[Blib]

northwest monkey said:

Blib said:

Discussing gaming consoles with Master Blib, I mentioned the Commodore 64 v Sinclair Spectrum "wars".

"What are they?" He asked.

I hope you told him the ZX Spectrum is what put the "Great" into Great Britain and the Commodore 64 is something that was for people with body odour.

I showed my son (7) a video on You Tube of the original SNES Mario Kart. He laughed.

Nah. I told him the the Spectrum was for sad geeks and that it had a weird rubber keyboard and that the C64 was a proper machine from proper men.

[B17NNS]

Blib said:

Nah. I told him the the Spectrum was for sad geeks and that it had a weird rubber keyboard and that the C64 was a proper machine from proper men

It was beige and boring! The Spectrum was funky and fresh.

It's like comparing an RM Nimbus with a 1st gen iMac.

[Blib]

B17NNS said:

Blib said:

Nah. I told him the the Spectrum was for sad geeks and that it had a weird rubber keyboard and that the C64 was a proper machine from proper men

It was beige and boring! The Spectrum was funky and fresh.

It's like comparing an RM Nimbus with a 1st gen iMac.

And that 'funky & fresh' rubber keyboard made standard ones obsolete overnight......no wait a minute!

[B17NNS]

Blib said:

And that 'funky & fresh' rubber keyboard made standard ones obsolete overnight......no wait a minute!

You might have a point

I still reckon Sinclair was way ahead of his time in terms of his ideas. A truly creative British inventor.

[Skyedriver]

Noel Gallagher was on the radio on Saturday told a tale where he went to an X factor or something similar show, as he got out of the car a teenage girl asked "are you Noel Gallagher".
"Yes" he said.
Her reply " my Dad likes you"