Things that you make you feel old

[Pagnell]

Remembering going to watch Star Wars on the cinema.

 

[Pagnell]

When you realise you're cheering on a football player that's younger than you. Really weird.

To be fair you could still be a teenager and be doing this on a regular basis.

 

[mowgli]

Modern music.
Knackered knees.
Need more sleep.
Can't drink as much as i used to.
Falling asleep after Sunday dinner.
Seeing a woman in her mid 50's and thinking "I would"

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Seeing a woman in her mid 50's and thinking "I would"

Something very sexy about an older woman.

 

[Pagnell]

Seeing a woman in her mid 50's and thinking "I would"

Who the fuck wouldn't?

 

[PaulHaddock]

Too young to understand this.

 

[epic73]

Something for you all to feel old:

I was born multiple years after 9/11.

 

[Pagnell]

1FF's own Mankytoes.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

I think we were all born many years after a 9th of November. Hardly a claim to fame.

 

[epic73]

September 11th, 2001*

I speak American, not English.

 

[mistermagic]

Facetious being CB again.

 

[eightiesrobin]

Being able to identify Pagnell's avatar

 

[silkyman]

September 11th, 2001*

I speak American, not English.

There's a lad at a company I work for, who studied the sept 11th attacks in history.

I was at work.

 

[silkyman]

I remember this being cutting edge computer technology...

And this blew my fucking mind.

 

[Max]

• People wearing onesies outside, eg to the supermarket
• The constant infantilising of consumer products, eg I saw an ad today for limited edition soap that smells like lovehearts, those old chalky sweets
• Cupcakes, pop-up restaurants for burgers, hot-dogs, and other undeniably delicious but basically children's food.
• The knowledge that people who weren't alive for The Spice Girls are now adults.
• The X Factor
• The X Factor considering over 25 to be 'overs'
• The career and accomplishments of Adele
• Nightclubs
• Seeing people drink pitchers of cocktails in places like Wetherspoons
• Overhearing students talk about making skittles vodka
• The music of the Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Hard-Fi, or anything from that time from about 2005-2010 when everyone seemed quite into guitar-based pop music and not every song was a twat of a DJ doing their best to appropriate disco culture.
• Talk of Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest etc.
• Remembering how much time I used to spend on MySpace and MSN messenger

 

[Veggie Legs]

There are students at university who were born when Tony Blair was PM.

 

[SALTIRE]

I remember this being cutting edge computer technology...

And this blew my fucking mind.

Had both games, Stunt Car Racer was fantastic, I used to bunk off school, play it and listen to Simon Mayo and Jackie Brambles on Radio One! Mmmmmm Jackie Brambles...

 

[Pagnell]

I remember this being cutting edge computer technology...

And this blew my fucking mind.

Bought both those, Stunt Car Racer was one of my first purchases on my old 500. Shame Crammond never updated it, although perhaps it wouldn't have had the same effect.

 

[silkyman]

I don't think I've ever been as tense and nervy playing a computer game as in the latter stage of Ghostbusters, with the finger on the 'Ghost Bait' button ready to press it in time before they merge to form Mr Staypuft......

Getting sweaty palms thinking about it.

 

[shane]

Not understanding trolling on twitter, forums etc. I understand winding someone up to their face as you get a live reaction but whats the point of doing it online?

I guy I used to go to college with would always do the "unloosen the salt shaker" "gag" when we'd eat in this cafe. The cafe was more often than not empty so he would never get to see the "gag" land. I'd often ask him about this and he'd just reply that he didn't care. Just knowing it would piss someone off was enough for him.

I bet hes sending fat tweets to Adele right now.

 

[mente captus]

i can remember the night the Berlin wall has fallen
i can remember to use the east german Mark and the D-Mark as well

brothers grimm on the 1000 DM note

 

[nousername]

1. Being totally out of step with current popular culture (Drake, Future et al...)
2. People talking about Snapchat
3. Making observations about pop culture that are completely out of date (no one in the office understood my Byker Grove reference...)
4. Footballers you remember being 'up and coming' now close to retirement...
5. Having family get-togethers and seeing cousins for the first time in 10+ years...

 

[Pagnell]

4. Footballers you remember being 'up and coming' now close to retirement...

A good one that has made me feel really old. I remember when footballers like Gazza and Alan Shearer were unknown and viewed as up and coming.

 

[slaphead]

Being in the IT game....

Punchcard readers were new technology.
The first datacentre I worked in the mainframe took up a whole floor, and had a quarter of the processing speed and storage of my Fitbit.
Maths lessons before calculators, let alone computers, were allowed/invented. Slide rules were the order of the day.

 

[Pagnell]

Being in the IT game....

Punchcard readers were new technology.
The first datacentre I worked in the mainframe took up a whole floor, and had a quarter of the processing speed and storage of my Fitbit.
Maths lessons before calculators, let alone computers, were allowed/invented. Slide rules were the order of the day.

My uncle was a Cobol programmer for Plessey back in the 70s and 80s. Some of the stories he told me of the old punchcard systems and how much of a pain in the arse they were.

 

[slaphead]

My uncle was a Cobol programmer for Plessey back in the 70s and 80s. Some of the stories he told me of the old punchcard systems and how much of a pain in the arse they were.

That's how I started, in 1984. A sly extra hole in a punchcard when your colleague wasn't looking causing his hours of programming to go tits up. Oh, how we laughed.

 

[Camborne Gills]

Remembering the 'Hand of God' goal as if it was only a few years ago, when in reality it was 30.
World in Motion being half my lifetime ago.
Not knowing a single number one for the past 5 years (except Onerepublic)

 

[SALTIRE]

Remembering the 'Hand of God' goal as if it was only a few years ago, when in reality it was 30.
World in Motion being half my lifetime ago.
Not knowing a single number one for the past 5 years (except Onerepublic)

Thats a good thing.

 

[slaphead]

30 years of hurt suddenly becoming 50. How the fuck did that happen so quickly?

 

[mente captus]

30 years of hurt suddenly becoming 50. How the fuck did that happen so quickly?

what a game that was. one of the best ive ever witnessed. England vs Deutschland. fucking golden goal rule, made the extra time nearly impossible to watch.