What makes you feel old?

GreyPilgrim

And white dog poo. You never see it nowadays, do you...

Crown

Umm what have I stumbled into.... *exits thread*

PabloNeruda

Since I've entered the latter half of my thirties I've noticed how there's always a little, errrr, dribble left after you think you've finished weeing and tucked it back away.

ZTD

hypno06 wrote:

The other thing I remember from way back when is the witches hat in the park and REALLY tall slides!

And the only thing stopping you banging your head off the ground when you fell off the climbing frame was concrete.

Where you went out on your bike without a helmet, shin-guard, knee guard, elbow guard, and wrist guard. Gloves you wore because it was winter.

Though biking could be dangerous so you wore as a thick pair of jeans. Fall off, and get a hole in your new trousers, and having to face your mother...

That was not something worth risking. :eek:

Then you could climb trees because the council hadn't cut all the lower limbs off them to stop you climbing them...

barnaby-bear

immoral_angeluk wrote:

my 2nd baby at the age of 21

Now that posts makes me feel old, we're "thinking" about whether and how we can afford a family in the next few years and I can't *remember* being 21... Mrs. B will have to be classed as an "older mum" :eek:

ZTD

Foxy106 wrote:

it was fine to play with pans.

You can't play with pans these days? Why?

Foxy106 wrote:

This, my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.

Virtually none of them have ever seen more than six inches of snow outside their own house.

I remember when snowfall was measured in feet...

kay41_2

kissingthepink wrote:

Going bald and taking more than a few weeks of dieting and gym to lose the belly which only comes back anyway!

Also not "getting" why teens think it is cool to wear trousers that rest halfway down their bums!

that drives me mad - I really want to hoist them up, especially when the guys look a bit grubby and I don't really want to imagine how clean their underwear (or even their body) is! Yucky.

I have really found the losing weight thing hard as I have got older and I'm sure I don't laze around as much as I did when I was a teenager!

The fact that my car stereo has been broken for nearly 4 months and I like the peace!

I always listened to music constantly as a teenager, and now I can't remember the last time I put a CD on our stereo.

My daughter asking to see a picture I had taken with my single lens reflex and me trying to explain what camera film was - talk about being brought up in the digital age!

Explaining to my 6 year old that there was no such thing when I was a child as, video, DVDs, CDs, computer games, handheld consoles, tamagotchis, pixel chix, walkmans, mp3 players, computers, the internet, mobile phones, cordless phones, microwaves, and no cable/digital tv so you couldn't watch kid's programmes all day. She asked me what did we do and I said we played outside on our bikes, roller skates, skateboards, scooters, we played board games, imaginary games (a lot), skipping, cat's cradle and we painted and drew. We didn't have a computer at school and I learnt to use a computer at art college when I was 20! She can't imagine not being able to choose when you watch a film, or what it was like not being able to get in touch with someone if they weren't at home!

I have recently met up again with a friend who I have know for 35 years (I'm 41) and we spend hours reminiscing about our childhood. We can clearly remember listening to Simon and Garfunkel's greatest hits on her parents 8 track cartridge in their car. I also remember spending hours on a Sunday afternoon taping songs off the radio when the top 40 was on!

kay41_2

georgiasmum wrote:

Ohhhhhh Duran Duran. i would still leave my husband for John Taylor you know!!!

me too, although if it was a choice between him and Jude Law...

kay41_2

I'm really getting into the swing of this now - I bought my daughter a handful of what I think of as cheap penny sweets and the bill was nearly £2 - now I feel like my father - 'that's ten bob, that is?' when something costs 50p!

I felt old when my 2 year old would play with her till and 'swipe' the toy credit card and say 'do you want cashback?' - it always made me crack up!

My 6 year old daughter was reading a book in bed the other day which was my copy of Silly Verse for Kids by Spike Milligan and when I looked in the back I had written in shaky kid's writing my name and address of a house I left when I was 5! That was very scary!

I can remember we had 2 cars in the 70s - one was a sports car that my dad restored and was a 'fun' car - when I think about it now, that was a real extravagance, and we weren't at all wealthy. Most families only had one car, if at all and lots of the mums didn't drive.

heather38

you're a child of the 80's when...
You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to
build an armoured tank.
Dungeons & Dragons was your favourite cartoon.
You fell out with friends during heated arguments about the relative merits of Matt & Luke.
You owned, or wanted a "Frankie says..." T-shirt.
You have ever danced (or even worse cried) to Kylie & Jason.
Cerise pink, electric blue and banana yellow have ever featured in your wardrobe or make-up collection.
You ever did the top toggle of your coat up around your neck without having your arms in the sleeves, and
knew you looked like a super-hero.
You remember when the A-Ha video was the pinnacle of modern technology, and you can still sing all the
words.
Parachuting Action man was your favourite toy.
Your best party dress was either a ra-ra or puff-ball skirt.
You ever owned a thin, black leather tie (and were proud of it), or worse it was patterned like a piano.
You wondered why a popular kids TV programme told you to "Turn off your TV set and go and do some less
boring instead".
You cried at Zammo's funeral.
You wanted to be either Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys.
You ever said "It's my ball, and if I can't be Kevin Keegan I'm going home!"
You have ever po-goed or space-hopped.
You remember when Keith Chegwin & Maggie Philbin were the hottest romantic couple.
You wondered why your walkie-talkie didn't have the same range as those in the Red Hand Gang.
You tried to set up a "Famous Five" or "Secret Seven" gang with your school friends.
You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front of his Capri so it looked like
KITT.
You ever had more than 10 sweets in a 10p mix-up.
Not only did you wear luminous clothing, but they were mismatched fingerless gloves and towelling socks.
You remember when Betamax was at the cutting edge of technology.
Conveyor belts regularly carried washing machines, deep-fat fryers and a cuddly toy.
You could have got away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.
(Girls) You owned a pair of Pixie Boots, generally worn with leg warmers.
(Boys) You owned a pair of pale grey slip-ons, generally worn with white towelling socks.
Shiny grey flecked suits.
You rolled the sleeves of your suit jacket up
You were proud of your picture appearing in the Gallery.
You wondered why you and your mates never encountered diamond thieves whilst out on your BMXs.
You can remember what Quatro tasted like.
Your best mate had a soda stream at home and you were jealous
Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo
You played with "My Little Ponies."
Friendship bracelets were ties that couldn't be broken.
you read The Babysitters Club,or Sweet Valley High.
You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby".
You wore one of those slap-on wristbands at some point...or heaven forbid one of those T-shirts that changed colour with heat (Global Hypercolour).
You had slouch socks and puff painted your own shirt atleast once.
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off".
You were upset when She-ra, Princess of Power and He-Man got cancelled
You can remember watching Saved by the Bell
You remember Madonna in her cone stage.
You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince."
You could break dance (ok, you wished you could)
You remember when Amiga was a state of the art video game system.
You remember M.C. Hammer.
You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"....
You can remember when it was Jazzy Jeff and The fresh Prince and NOT just plain Will Smith!
You own any cassettes.
You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins, ALF or ET lunchbox.
You have ever pondered on why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
My Little Pony, Gummy Bears and Transformers are familiar to you.
You ever had a Swatch Watch.
You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the CareBear stare."
You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!"
With your pink (or blue) portable tape player, you sang to Kylie and Jason!
If you ever owned Polly Pocket or Micro Machines.
If you ever made Ken fall in love with Barbie.
You know what " Psyche" means.
Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.
You knew that Transformers were "more than meets the eye".
You wore a banana clip at some point during your youth.
You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.
You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box.
Somehow you still know all the words to songs played on VH1's Big 80s"
Your arm was full of rubber bracelets.
You wore those wide, colourful shoelaces.
You still don't like going in the sea because of Jaws.
You remember Now compilations that had the pig on the front cover.
You've ever said "bright light, bright light" in a strange high-pitched voice.
Your new winter coat was best used to demonstrate that your wings were like a shield of steel.
You've ever seen a girl, a clown and noughts and crosses on your TV.
You've ever held a chicken in the air or stuck a deckchair up your nose.
You wore legwarmers & tried to do the splits while jumping in the air while singing you were going to live forever.
Any elderly Scottish lady sounds like Supergran.
When 'Computer' Tennis, Pac-Man and Donkey-Kong ruled
You remember hearing the tune then running out to buy an ice cream cone on a warm summer night - 99's, screwballs or a cider lolly.
You got up extra early, especially to watch Saturday Morning cartoons
You were occasionally allowed to stay up late for Howard'sWay, Dallas,Dynasty or Minder.
Running till you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
You remember Ant and Dec as PJ and Duncan
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
You remember when 25p was decent pocket money and you'd reach into a muddy gutter for 10p.
Important decisions were made by going eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better and taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
You called Going Live on 081 811 8181..... And you had your own Gordon the Gopher.
You had at least 3 pairs of Bermuda Shorts.
You wished you could play the opening tune to Johnny Briggs on trombone, and disliked Our Rita.
What ever happened to Simon and the Witch?
You wanted a skateboard, and extreme sports had never been invented.You remember the first time scooters came out.