h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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

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.

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

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

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

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

F S

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

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

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 them

Smudger.

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

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?

Smudger.

When you have to explain Betamax vs VHS.

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

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

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


Smudger.

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

You have actually heard everything before.

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

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?

Smudger.

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

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

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