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07/10/2011 11:14:57 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
When you reminisce about falling asleep and waking up to "The Star Spangled Banner" followed by the test pattern on the TV...
and people look at you funny. |
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07/10/2011 11:27:17 AM · #27 |
You know what S&H green stamps are were.
You folded a news paper into a square the size of an iPad so you could read it on a crowded bus.
Message edited by author 2011-07-10 11:30:25. |
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07/10/2011 11:31:33 AM · #28 |
| Your sweetie says, "Let's go upstairs and make love," and you answer, "Pick one, I can't do both!" |
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07/10/2011 11:35:53 AM · #29 |
| When the first computer you used had a whopping 1KB of memory (not a mistype!) and you could still play games on it! |
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07/10/2011 11:42:45 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by paulbtlw:
When the first computer you used had a whopping 1KB of memory (not a mistype!) and you could still play games on it! |
The first computer I ever used had no memory, everything was on those giant disks! LOL! This was at a cell/car phone company. The phones were huge and came in suitcases. |
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07/10/2011 11:45:28 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
I've forgotten. |
Memory is the second thing to go... I forget what the first is.
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07/10/2011 11:51:49 AM · #32 |
You are in the movie theater watching "Tron - Legacy 3D" with your kids, and your child leans over to whisper...
"Mom, what's a PAGER?!"
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07/10/2011 12:03:34 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by Marty:
Originally posted by hahn23:
I've forgotten. |
Memory is the second thing to go... I forget what the first is. |
I'll never forget...my husband and I were looking to add some memory to our computer and my mother perked up (she had
Alzheimer's by that time) and said "can I buy some of that memory for me too"... |
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07/10/2011 01:05:50 PM · #34 |
| You've fallen and you can't get up. |
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07/10/2011 01:51:21 PM · #35 |
When you hit the golf ball 200 yards and go "Wow!"...
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07/10/2011 01:58:52 PM · #36 |
| ...you remember going to McDonald's as a "special" trip that might occur two times a month! And there was no happy meal, because you were happy just to get to go to McDonald's!!! |
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07/10/2011 02:53:09 PM · #37 |
| For a guy it is the first time the hot young barista calls you sir. |
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07/10/2011 03:08:49 PM · #38 |
I am with  ja-9 13 reasons why kids are spoilt.
Only ours was an Orac something or other, then along came the commador 64 then the Sinclair spectrum 128 bit which took a lifetime to load games and most of the time it went wrong so you had to start over and you could hear the game loading with some horrid noise and you had to fast forward through the tape to find the game you wanted and it was the end of the world when the tape got chewed up.
Also, there were no mobiles so people had to talk to each other when sitting and waiting for something instead of playing games on their phone.
We were kicked out the door first thing and told to be back at lunch time, if we were late we got the belt or slipper, then kicked back out again to climb trees, make camps, play with bugs, make mud cakes, hell we even tried to make perfume with rose petals and water.
Edit:We had to save up our pocket money and pay to wait a week or two for the film to be processed before we could see our photos.
But back to the thread topic...
You know you are getting old when you say...
"You kids these days dont know how lucky they are, back we I was a kid we didnt have..."
Message edited by author 2011-07-10 15:23:19.
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07/10/2011 03:28:54 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by kleski:
...you remember going to McDonald's as a "special" trip that might occur two times a month! And there was no happy meal, because you were happy just to get to go to McDonald's!!! |
There weren't MacDonald's when I was young :( (or should that be :) )
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07/10/2011 03:34:38 PM · #40 |
When your nephew asks you what flash games you used play on the internet when you were his age, and you respond to tell him the internet wasn't around. And then he asks you what DVDs you used watch when you were a kid, and you also explain they weren't around. And the he says he doesn't believe you.
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07/10/2011 03:40:00 PM · #41 |
| One day at work a wicked storm was about to blow in and a co-worker got my attention from across the parking lot and made a hand motion of manually "rolling up" a car window to alert me that I had my windows down slightly for cooling and they needed to be closed. It hit me that most kids nowadays would not have any idea what message was being conveyed! |
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07/10/2011 04:20:51 PM · #42 |
You watch a porno and think to yourself
"That bed looks comfortable". |
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07/10/2011 05:18:31 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by Simms:
You watch a porno and think to yourself
"That bed looks comfortable". |
Great horny toads... and here I thought I was alone thinking that. :O)
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07/10/2011 05:53:30 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by dswann:
One day at work a wicked storm was about to blow in and a co-worker got my attention from across the parking lot and made a hand motion of manually "rolling up" a car window to alert me that I had my windows down slightly for cooling and they needed to be closed. It hit me that most kids nowadays would not have any idea what message was being conveyed! |
Kids also wonder why you "dial" a phone number ... :-( |
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07/10/2011 06:07:08 PM · #45 |
| You go to a wedding and they have you dance until they call the number of years you have been married before you can sit down and you lose to the couples married over 50 years |
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07/10/2011 06:12:52 PM · #46 |
Originally posted by dswann:
One day at work a wicked storm was about to blow in and a co-worker got my attention from across the parking lot and made a hand motion of manually "rolling up" a car window to alert me that I had my windows down slightly for cooling and they needed to be closed. It hit me that most kids nowadays would not have any idea what message was being conveyed! |
This is kind of in reverse: About fifteen years ago, some childhood friends of my parents came for a visit while I was in the house. They are very well-to-do and always had expensive cars and so on. They flew up from Melbourne and hired a car and drove a couple of hours. When they got to my parents' house, they complained they couldn't find the button to put the windows down. I thought that was strange, so when they were leaving I had a look and showed them the winder handles on the doors. "Look, you just turn them like this," I said. |
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07/10/2011 06:18:29 PM · #47 |
| I'm not old, but I think a good one would be actually knowing someone's phone number! When I was younger, I used to know all my family member's phone numbers off the top of my head, as well as most of my friends (if not all), now, most people barely know their own phone number! (no joke here, I've had people go through their phone to find their number) |
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07/10/2011 07:01:04 PM · #48 |
You were not allowed to see The Exorcist, The Omen, or The Blue Lagoon when they came out.
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"All skaters, change directions" means something to you. |
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07/10/2011 08:07:08 PM · #49 |
You get someone who is really in a bad mood (after being late home and having a barney with the hubby) make you feel old by telling you that some of the great films we watched and loved as youngsters such as The Lost Boys, Ghost Busters, Ferris Bueller, The Naked Gun and so on are all from the 80's which makes them over 20 years old.
Yes it is 25 years since we watched Tom Cruise fly in Top Gun and 26 years since we were introduced to The Breakfast Club.
And...
You know you are getting old when they do remakes of some of the classics thats we were brought up on such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Karate Kid, The Italian Job, Planet Of The Apes, etc...AND you then go on to say "it's not as good as the original"
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07/10/2011 08:10:31 PM · #50 |
| Who are you people, and what are you doing in my room? Nurse! Nurse! |
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