A Conversation for Ask h2g2

You know you're getting old when ...

Post 21

Rod

Here we have a man of yore, bent of leg and lean of jaw
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( you still there, Smudger?)


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Post 22

ITIWBS

You're getting in the habit of sleeping on your left side to prevent the double hernia on the right from bulging out even more.


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Post 23

$u$

...people you see on TV who are your age look 'old'.


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Post 24

Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly)

Or those that you know are 6 to 10 years younger than you ...

Look OLD ! (Damn them all to he!!)


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Post 25

Florida Sailor All is well with the world

When you remember owning the objects in the museum displays. It is even worse if you have used them in the last week.

F smiley - dolphin S


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Post 26

Cheerful Dragon

... when you're going round a museum and you spot something you owned/used in your youth.


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Post 27

$u$

...when you discover a museum that houses items which were considered 'new technology' in your youth.


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Post 28

Smudger879n

When you have to try and explain to a young person how you used to have to load film into a camera, then how to rewind it to remove it, then take it Way to get developed?

The look of total confusion of their face, as they think you are kidding themsmiley - winkeye

smiley - cheersSmudger.


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Post 29

Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly)

Nawww, really? Next thing you'll try to tell us is that you had to replace flash bulbs or cubes or such. smiley - tongueout


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Post 30

Smudger879n

I didn't like them flash cubes, I burnt my forehead once, taking a picture when I was p.. very merry!

How could I explain that to a youngster?smiley - winkeye

smiley - cheersSmudger.


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Post 31

Teasswill

When you have to explain Betamax vs VHS.


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Post 32

Icy North

Don't many professional snappers prefer film? For one thing it's analogue - the resolution is only limited at a molecular level.


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Post 33

Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly)

BetaMax was still superior in quality. But as with OS/2 - marketing works or is missed.


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Post 34

Smudger879n

You know you are getting old when............You have to explain to a youngster that Vinyl isn't a new thing,................. its just making a revival smiley - ok


smiley - cheersSmudger.


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Post 35

quotes

You start to browse prices online "high to low" instead of "low to high".


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Post 36

Icy North

You have actually heard everything before.


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Post 37

broelan

When you start a new job in a new office and your new co-workers are the same age as your children. smiley - cry


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Post 38

Smudger879n

Aye! That's if you are lucky enough to get a job at that age, most employers won't even consider taking on anyone over the age of fifty, or even less?smiley - sadface

smiley - cheersSmudger.


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Post 39

Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly)

My last decade of work, most of my co-workers (theoretically superiors as they wear uniforms) were all younger than my daughter. smiley - senior


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Post 40

Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Cool old Guy smiley - cogs build 64
"Just managed to get a job in the printer business.

They do not know about matrix printers (needles hammering an ink ribbon)."


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