You know you're old when ...

[XCP]

croyde said:

P5BNij said:

When you look back and realise that the £3k you spent on restoring a basket case 1970 Mini thirty years ago wouldn’t buy you the same 1970 Mini now, let alone restore it.

When you remember that half of the teachers at your last school did national service or served during WWII.

One of my first jobs was in a furniture shop. The manager was the captain of a Lancaster bomber at 19

One of my teachers was a paratrooper who jumped on D Day. He seemed quite old. He was younger when he taught me than I am now.

[BT Summers]

Grew up in a street of semi detached houses in York, we were the only people that owned a car.

My tricycle had solid rubber tyres.

The coal man delivered to every house.

Our fruit and vegetables were delivered by horse and cart

The first non mains transister radio that I remember was about the size of a bread bin and had a battery that was huge, about 5 by 3 by 3"

You need to buy some new clothes but have doubts that you will get the wear out of them.

[SpudLink]

TorqueDirty said:

Only the Porsche section seems to be holding its own - but then Porsche drivers do tend to "hold their own" quite a lot I suppose.

[Exige77]

When it’s your turn to get the jab !!

[Exige77]

SpudLink said:

TorqueDirty said:

Only the Porsche section seems to be holding its own - but then Porsche drivers do tend to "hold their own" quite a lot I suppose.

Very good

[P5BNij]

XCP said:

croyde said:

P5BNij said:

When you look back and realise that the £3k you spent on restoring a basket case 1970 Mini thirty years ago wouldn’t buy you the same 1970 Mini now, let alone restore it.

When you remember that half of the teachers at your last school did national service or served during WWII.

One of my first jobs was in a furniture shop. The manager was the captain of a Lancaster bomber at 19

One of my teachers was a paratrooper who jumped on D Day. He seemed quite old. He was younger when he taught me than I am now.

That same year 1944 my other half’s Dad left school and started work on the Great Western Railway as a signal box ‘booking lad’ at Slough. I feel old!

[BryanC]

When retro stuff being auctioned on Antiques tv shows reminds you when you bought it new.
( just heard that on the wireless ).

[NMNeil]

When you find a photograph of yourself when you were in your 20's, and are amazed at how much hair and how few chins you had back then

[spikeyhead]

jdw100 said:

spikeyhead said:

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.

Bloody hell! Did you die?

After dropping about ten feet, I managed to grab hold of another ledge, which was handy as I was still fifty feet of the floor.

[Earthdweller]

XCP said:

croyde said:

P5BNij said:

When you look back and realise that the £3k you spent on restoring a basket case 1970 Mini thirty years ago wouldn’t buy you the same 1970 Mini now, let alone restore it.

When you remember that half of the teachers at your last school did national service or served during WWII.

One of my first jobs was in a furniture shop. The manager was the captain of a Lancaster bomber at 19

One of my teachers was a paratrooper who jumped on D Day. He seemed quite old. He was younger when he taught me than I am now.

My geography teacher, whose famous saying was “ the problem with abroad is that it’s full of bloody foreigners” was in the commandos and then went behind the lines with the Yugoslav resistance

Makes you think

[Riley Blue]

J4CKO said:

When you order your first pair of varifocals.

I was in my 40s!

[glenrobbo]

Earthdweller said:

My geography teacher, whose famous saying was “ the problem with abroad is that it’s full of bloody foreigners” was in the commandos and then went behind the lines with the Yugoslav resistance

Makes you think

My German teacher came to England as a young lad with his family to escape the horrors of the Russian Revolution.
I am now a lot older than he was when he taught us.



My grandfather was a Lancer and fought in the Boer Wars.

[P5BNij]

glenrobbo said:

Earthdweller said:

My geography teacher, whose famous saying was “ the problem with abroad is that it’s full of bloody foreigners” was in the commandos and then went behind the lines with the Yugoslav resistance

Makes you think

My German teacher came to England as a young lad with his family to escape the horrors of the Russian Revolution.
I am now a lot older than he was when he taught us.



My grandfather was a Lancer and fought in the Boer Wars.

That's incredible glenners . My grandfather's two (much) older twin brothers started their railway careers as engine cleaners at Paddington a month before Brunel's broad gauge was abandoned in favour of 4ft 8.5inches.

[Morningside]

You bump up a level on the Covid inoculation group.

[john2443]

Earthdweller said:

Dracoro said:

When you were born closer to the end of the 2nd world war than the present day.

Oh fk !

Yep and you can recall sitting on your granddad’s knee and he fought in WW1

Double fk! I'm 63 and was born 39 years after the end of WW1, so closer to that than to now!

Treble fk! I was born 55 years after the end of the (2nd) Boer War (1899-1902) and 'only' 56 years after Queen Victoria died!

I also knew my grandad who was in the trenches in WW1.

Edited by john2443 on Saturday 6th March 22:04

[Earthdweller]

john2443 said:

Earthdweller said:

Dracoro said:

When you were born closer to the end of the 2nd world war than the present day.

Oh fk !

Yep and you can recall sitting on your granddad’s knee and he fought in WW1

Double fk! I'm 63 and was born 39 years after the end of WW1, so closer to that than to now!

Treble fk! I was born 55 years after the end of the (2nd) Boer War (1899-1902) and 'only' 56 years after Queen Victoria died!

I also knew my grandad who was in the trenches is WW1.

My grandad was born in 1899 and joined up aged 15 in 1914

Served in the Accrington Pals and lost his leg when they went over the top on the first day of the battle of the Somme in 1916 .. aged 17 !

My dad was in the back of a Lancaster aged 18 in 1944

I was born 20 years after WW2 ended

Yep !


I’m getting old

[RC1807]

When watching Unforgotten, you're shocked to learn Marathon became Snickers in 1990!
(Maybe I should be more shocked that I can still remember 30+ years ago )

[Spare tyre]

I’ve a new bench mark

When you fall for the brands in sports direct. Always see brands in there and think that’s an incredible price for xyz brand. Buy it then realise its cheap tat that they’ve got the rights to sow a logo onto it.

My dad started to fall for this with Kodak branded stuff in pound type shops, now I’m falling for it

[Dr Jekyll]

When the former colleague you used to go out with who had a 12 year old daughter mentions that her daughter has now got her PhD.

[croyde]

RC1807 said:

When watching Unforgotten, you're shocked to learn Marathon became Snickers in 1990!
(Maybe I should be more shocked that I can still remember 30+ years ago )

I still call it Marathon.

Someone else in a shop called me out on it and I replied that I hadn't got used to the change of name.

'But mate, it was 30 years ago!' he replied.