You know you're old when ...

[witteringon]

Not read through the thread yet, so apologies if this has already been posted


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC9pOedHgzY&ab...

[witteringon]

And now for something completely different


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piK3g_AQzPQ&ab...

[Psycho Warren]

markcoznottz said:

Putting the bin out is exciting. I love going to the launderette .

do people go to launderettes still with modern cheap white goods? thought that was a poor people thing for those poor people who were so finacially irresponsible even brighthouse and provident loans wont touch.

[spikeyhead]

XCP said:

When your shoes are older than your work colleague.

I went to a climbing wall with a dozen colleagues a couple of years ago.

I bought my rock boots in 1985, when only one of the colleagues I was with had been born.

[Trophy Husband]

spikeyhead said:

I went to a climbing wall with a dozen colleagues a couple of years ago.

I bought my rock boots in 1985, when only one of the colleagues I was with had been born.

1985?

I'm guessing Boreal Fire. Very much the shoe at the time. Great edge, sticky. I've still got a pair from that very year somewhere although I'm not climbing any more.

[john2443]

spikeyhead said:

I went to a climbing wall with a dozen colleagues a couple of years ago.

I bought my rock boots in 1985, when only one of the colleagues I was with had been born.

I bought my EBs in about 1982, can't remember exactly when, haven't climbed since 1987, tried them on a couple of years ago when a friend invited me to an indoor wall and my feet have spread in the last 30+ years! I know they're supposed to be tight, but not that tight!

[RC1807]

I'm interviewing with a US based fin tech at the moment.
I'm the same age as the CEO's Dad!

[TorqueVR]

I'm late 60's and have a mixed bunch of mates aged from mid-thirty's who (before Covid) met up every 5 weeks or so for a curry.

I stunned the younger ones 18 months ago when I told them that my first two houses cost almost half than my last two cars.

[jet_noise]

TorqueVR said:

I'm late 60's and have a mixed bunch of mates aged from mid-thirty's who (before Covid) met up every 5 weeks or so for a curry.

I stunned the younger ones 18 months ago when I told them that my first two houses cost almost half than my last two cars.

I still haven't (and now won't) bought a car worth more than my first house (1987). I'd like to say I was cheap but just poor!
Wouldn't stop me window licking if there was a showroom with a Zonda in it, I can dream

[4Q]

Cotty said:

No but the road I live on is named after the farm it was built on.

The house I live in was the farm that owned the fields that my neighbours houses are built on.

[bristolracer]

4Q said:

Cotty said:

No but the road I live on is named after the farm it was built on.

The house I live in was the farm that owned the fields that my neighbours houses are built on.

Station road without a station
Bulleid road without a train in sight
Big development in north Bristol on the old disused Aerospace runway with all the districts being called Brabazon or Concorde

[spikeyhead]

Trophy Husband said:

spikeyhead said:

I went to a climbing wall with a dozen colleagues a couple of years ago.

I bought my rock boots in 1985, when only one of the colleagues I was with had been born.

1985?

I'm guessing Boreal Fire. Very much the shoe at the time. Great edge, sticky. I've still got a pair from that very year somewhere although I'm not climbing any more.

All I can remember is that they were called Spiders. There's no makers mark on them. Good edge, sticky for their time and reasonable wear rate. Stopped climbing in 1987 when a ledge I was holding onto with both hands came away. That's not fun when free soloing.

[The Hypno-Toad]

When you pull up to a junction and turn down the radio to see better.

[Mr Tidy]

JMGS4 said:

Mr Tidy said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

oceanview said:

Realising you were born only 8 months after decimalisation, fifty years ago!

When you were born 5 years before.

When you were born nearly 12 years before!

When you were born more than a score of years before!!

Fair enough - all the best to you both, and anyone else in that category.

[Biker's Nemesis]

The Hypno-Toad said:

When you pull up to a junction and turn down the radio to see better.

[ApOrbital]

I did that a few weeks ago when i got lost

[dartissimus]

when you don't understand the abbreviations and you've heard the jokes in a previous life

[Laurel Green]

I've probably said this before, however...

When your face goes further up your head.

[BritishBlitz87]

You go to listen to some "modern" music, only to find it's 15 years old.

I'm only 22 and I already feel old.

[Last Visit]

When you are filling out your date of birth on an online form and need 2 swipes with the finger to reach your birth year.