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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Your 9 year old asks you

'Who is Robbie Williams?'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

too many things - i work with a whole heap of young things

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Can remember a few years ago having to explain to a younger colleague what a vinyl record was....

....but mercifully they've now made a comeback so I'm young again!!

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

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"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague. "

Erm... I need to google that.

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By *ellowbabesCouple
over a year ago

newport/cwmbran

You have to google Niall Horan.....in my defence I was at least aware of One Direction!

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By *arksMan
over a year ago

in the centre


"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague. "

Egggsactly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague. "

Exactly (very scouse accent)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague.

Egggsactly "

That's what I meant but didn't know how to spell it in scouse

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Explaining that, if you were lucky, there was just one phone for the whole family and you would have to use it to talk to people (or cross the road to the phone box). I was asked why it couldn't send a text.

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By *rrol.BMan
over a year ago

Wrexham


"Your 9 year old asks you

'Who is Robbie Williams?'

"

I think that just goes to show your 9 year old has taste

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague. "

I do this on a regular basis, so much so I've ear marked the link on YouTube for easy copying and pasteing

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By *eneathTheDiamondSkyWoman
over a year ago

East Anglia

10 year old: "What's a fax mac_ine?"

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x "

And explaining the television didn't start until well after breakfast and ended not long after bedtime.

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By *arksMan
over a year ago

in the centre


"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague.

Egggsactly

That's what I meant but didn't know how to spell it in scouse "

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x

And explaining the television didn't start until well after breakfast and ended not long after bedtime.

"

And explaining you only had three channels to choose from!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Explaining to the people I work with, watching tomorrow's world with them showing CD players and DVD players!

Or only having the computer in the classroom once a week!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had to explain Jive Bunny to someone the other day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x

And explaining the television didn't start until well after breakfast and ended not long after bedtime.

And explaining you only had three channels to choose from!!"

Yes, and having to get up to turn it over. And if it started rolling you had to turn the little buttons on the back,

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

When you have to Youtube footage of the Banana Splits to show your teenager

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"I had to explain Jive Bunny to someone the other day "

How did that start?

Well there was this really s**t band in the 80's

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x

And explaining the television didn't start until well after breakfast and ended not long after bedtime.

And explaining you only had three channels to choose from!!

Yes, and having to get up to turn it over. And if it started rolling you had to turn the little buttons on the back, "

And that if you missed a programme you had to wait till it was repeated months or years later

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By *ust PeachyWoman
over a year ago

Prestonish

...... When you go to your works Christmas do then a club afterwards - and 95% of your colleagues have to get their ID out!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x

And explaining the television didn't start until well after breakfast and ended not long after bedtime.

And explaining you only had three channels to choose from!!

Yes, and having to get up to turn it over. And if it started rolling you had to turn the little buttons on the back, "

Or more usually give it a thump on the top

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

When you go to a gay club with a bunch of swingers (there really should be a better collective noun for such a gathering), one of them gets ID'd and it isn't you.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

On a tangent a teacher friend of ours was telling her class about the safety campaigns that we used to get with Tufty the squirrel.

She proceeded to download one and without checking pressed play.

Look it up on Youtube and see what she had done, its hilarious

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Speak for yourselves you old codgers....I'm still a youngster haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You say to your children 'those clothes were in when i was younger '

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

When the "biggest girl band in the world right now" walk on stage and you ask who they are (despite the words LITTLE MIX being spelled out on a giant screen behind them)!!

Yes, this did just happen!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x

And explaining the television didn't start until well after breakfast and ended not long after bedtime.

And explaining you only had three channels to choose from!!

Yes, and having to get up to turn it over. And if it started rolling you had to turn the little buttons on the back,

Or more usually give it a thump on the top "

Yes, and turn the aerial if it went fuzzy x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I had to explain Jive Bunny to someone the other day

How did that start?

Well there was this really s**t band in the 80's"

Im not even sure but my explanation of a cartoon bunny making mix tapes was met with a very confused expression

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

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"When you go to a gay club with a bunch of swingers (there really should be a better collective noun for such a gathering), one of them gets ID'd and it isn't you. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"...... When you go to your works Christmas do then a club afterwards - and 95% of your colleagues have to get their ID out!! "

I've been ID'D for a scratch card before. Therefore the person thought I could be 15. People ID others because they can.

I always feel old when I realise how expensive a Freddo is

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x

And explaining the television didn't start until well after breakfast and ended not long after bedtime.

And explaining you only had three channels to choose from!!

Yes, and having to get up to turn it over. And if it started rolling you had to turn the little buttons on the back, "

...back when you hired your telly!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having to get up to turn the TV on/off/volume and change channels!

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

You consider listening to Radio 2

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x

And explaining the television didn't start until well after breakfast and ended not long after bedtime.

And explaining you only had three channels to choose from!!

Yes, and having to get up to turn it over. And if it started rolling you had to turn the little buttons on the back,

...back when you hired your telly!"

Yes putting 50p in the box on the back

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x

And explaining the television didn't start until well after breakfast and ended not long after bedtime.

And explaining you only had three channels to choose from!!

Yes, and having to get up to turn it over. And if it started rolling you had to turn the little buttons on the back,

...back when you hired your telly!"

When you had to put 50p in for 4 hours of tv

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When there's loads of work colleagues born after 1990 and that doesn't seem that long ago to me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague.

Erm... I need to google that. "

Noooo!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When students don't get my references to Full Metal Jacket

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Your 9 year old asks you

'Who is Robbie Williams?'

"

God he was shocking.hope he's better than that when I go see him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague.

Erm... I need to google that. "

I could go off you, you know

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I had to explain Jive Bunny to someone the other day "

How do you ever explain Jive Bunny?

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit


"I had to explain Jive Bunny to someone the other day

How do you ever explain Jive Bunny? "

Stars On 45 but worse!!

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

When you realise that EVERYONE who is at school now was born after year 2000

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I had to explain Jive Bunny to someone the other day

How do you ever explain Jive Bunny?

Stars On 45 but worse!! "

Even I had to google that!

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

[Removed by poster at 04/06/17 20:55:02]

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I make references and catchphrases about the Fast Show at work and nobody knows what I'm on about

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

You are searching high and low for your glasses when you suddenly realise that they are on top of your head.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you have to show your kids how to use an old style telephone - stick your finger in the hole and turn

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

When you bend over to tie your shoelaces you ask yourself "What else can I do while I'm down here?"

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

You can't drive and keep your mouth closed at the same time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sometimes I feel old when the younger guys on the team dont get my references of the 80s and 90s.

Sometimes it will be a general knowledge, and I think that the education system for there generation was fucked.

One halfwit I work with thought thought that seahorses are the size of racehorses

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville


"You are searching high and low for your glasses when you suddenly realise that they are on top of your head. "

It's not just me that does it then?!!

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

....Saga keep sending me holiday brochures!...

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By *sh6866Man
over a year ago

halifax

When the hairdresser spends more time with the hairs on your ears than the ones on your head

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"You are searching high and low for your glasses when you suddenly realise that they are on top of your head.

It's not just me that does it then?!! "

Sad isn't it

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By *iforfun999Man
over a year ago

Haverfordwest


"10 year old: "What's a fax mac_ine?""

We still use a fax mac_ine in work. The boss isn't into technology and can cope with a fax mac_ine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When the girl serving you says whose meatloaf? We were discussing lemons and I said about his life is a lemon song x

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By *im_66Woman
over a year ago

Bradford

All the kids at this gig are watching it through their phones!!

Can remember having to smuggle a camera into a gig by stuffing it into my bra under my boobs...

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By *iforfun999Man
over a year ago

Haverfordwest

When someone asks if you like 80's music and you realise it's the first time round for them but they've been old favourites of yours since the 80's, first time round!

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"10 year old: "What's a fax mac_ine?""

30 year old: "what's a telex mac_ine?"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Can remember a few years ago having to explain to a younger colleague what a vinyl record was....

....but mercifully they've now made a comeback so I'm young again!! "

Yeah, I had to go through this a couple of weeks ago. They were truly stupified by the concept.

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

You put 2p into the telephone in the phonebox...which occasionally had telephone directories that were intact...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

... when i have no idea who most the children are who are performing at the Manchester concert !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You put 2p into the telephone in the phonebox...which occasionally had telephone directories that were intact..."

Miss that urine smell ....not

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Sometimes I feel old when the younger guys on the team dont get my references of the 80s and 90s.

Sometimes it will be a general knowledge, and I think that the education system for there generation was fucked.

One halfwit I work with thought thought that seahorses are the size of racehorses "

. I hope you corrected them and told them they are the size of Shetland Ponies.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"10 year old: "What's a fax mac_ine?"

30 year old: "what's a telex mac_ine?" "

Having to start again when you made a mistake.

I get laughed at when I tell young people I started out on a Wang word-processor.

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville


"You put 2p into the telephone in the phonebox...which occasionally had telephone directories that were intact...

Miss that urine smell ....not "

Halcyon days...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague.

Erm... I need to google that. "

Ahhh man!!

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"10 year old: "What's a fax mac_ine?"

30 year old: "what's a telex mac_ine?"

Having to start again when you made a mistake.

I get laughed at when I tell young people I started out on a Wang word-processor.

"

Those first word-processors! just putting the paper in was a mission.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"... when i have no idea who most the children are who are performing at the Manchester concert !"

Think you mean miming in Manchester

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

One halfwit I work with thought thought that seahorses are the size of racehorses "

lol - oh imagine if they were, they would be awesome!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You're posting on a thread that's titled ~ you know you feel old when.......

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"When students don't get my references to Full Metal Jacket "

A friend of mine worked at as a chef at Army Training Regiment Bassingbourn, which is where they filmed Full Metal Jacket (the Parris Island part). He asked one of the recruits how tall he was, the recruit replied, and my friend said "I didn't know they piled shit that high" (a quote from the movie), the recruit started crying and my mate felt awful!

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

You feel old when you start to see doctors your age or younger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"... when i have no idea who most the children are who are performing at the Manchester concert !

Think you mean miming in Manchester"

Could be but we didnt have the sound on til later lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You put 2p into the telephone in the phonebox...which occasionally had telephone directories that were intact...

Miss that urine smell ....not

Halcyon days... "

some serious snogging sessions used to take place in those

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When students don't get my references to Full Metal Jacket

A friend of mine worked at as a chef at Army Training Regiment Bassingbourn, which is where they filmed Full Metal Jacket (the Parris Island part). He asked one of the recruits how tall he was, the recruit replied, and my friend said "I didn't know they piled shit that high" (a quote from the movie), the recruit started crying and my mate felt awful! "

So many lulz....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lol when you get asked who Paul McCartney is

That's when I feel old

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By *weetChariotMan
over a year ago

High Wycombe

Explaining that holes in the knees of your jeans were from playing with toy cars in the lounge.... ( grass stains on the knee will become fashionable next)!

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By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

When a19 year old says he has never heard of Elvis.....wtf lol.....

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

I don't feel old, but some of my clothes are older than the guys I meet

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By *rowleyMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh


"I had to explain Jive Bunny to someone the other day "

Oh god... I had forgotten all about Jive Bunny.

I loved that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You know when your getting old !!! in the morning when getting dressed, you testicles end up in your socks with your feet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you have to explain to your children that the internet or mobiles didn't exist when I was a kid. And that I couldn't snapchat anyone lol

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By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"You know when your getting old !!! in the morning when getting dressed, you testicles end up in your socks with your feet. "

Really??

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By *ineMan
over a year ago

In cave behind a waterfall on a hill

I don't feel old ever...

I just look it

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

When you have to explain what " Button A" and "Button B" were on a phone in a public phone box.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"When you have to explain what " Button A" and "Button B" were on a phone in a public phone box. "

You must be proper old.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I don't feel old, but some of my clothes are older than the guys I meet "

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By *eliciousladyWoman
over a year ago

Sometimes U.K


"

When you had to put 50p in for 4 hours of tv "

..or in the electricity meter when the lights went off!

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x "
Hee hee yes I remember

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

When you say "You have much to learn Grasshopper" and they look at you gone out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Why don't they know phrases from my favourite war films?

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

When you're queuing to get into a gig and you look like you're there to accompany a kid (but you're not)...

...this happened last November when we went to see Biffy Clyro!!

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By *iscean MaleMan
over a year ago

Darlaston

When you can remember scotch was a video casette aswell as a drink

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"When you can remember scotch was a video casette aswell as a drink"

It's a sticky tape too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you have cheese and wine on a Saturday night instead of going out...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you have cheese and wine on a Saturday night instead of going out... "

I did that even when I was a young 'un.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you tell a colleague about simon and Garfunkel and he ask who he was

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When your eldest is only weeks off turning 37

Where did the years go

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By *dy-ukTV/TS
over a year ago

Alcester


"When you tell a colleague about simon and Garfunkel and he ask who he was"

Bright eyes.... watership down

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By *ilthyDebaucheryWoman
over a year ago

Telford

Didn't feel old til I started struggling reading small print last year

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My daughter is s lollypop lady...#fuckinold

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By *p4funCouple
over a year ago

Plymouth


"Your 9 year old asks you

'Who is Robbie Williams?'

"

Hes a man that holds a microphone while people who paid lots of money sing his songs for him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Your 9 year old asks you

'Who is Robbie Williams?'

Hes a man that holds a microphone while people who paid lots of money sing his songs for him "

#shite

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By *ilthyDebaucheryWoman
over a year ago

Telford


"Your 9 year old asks you

'Who is Robbie Williams?'

Hes a man that holds a microphone while people who paid lots of money sing his songs for him "

PMSL that's so true!

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford


"When you have cheese and wine on a Saturday night instead of going out... "

Gosh we do that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"too many things - i work with a whole heap of young things "

Are you yet to be asked what it was like to live in the Stone Age?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Your 9 year old asks you

'Who is Robbie Williams?'

"

When I told my daughter Michael Jackson is a black man!

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By *iforfun999Man
over a year ago

Haverfordwest

When a mate who is 10 years younger, casually mentions he is a grandfather and you don't have any kids.

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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago

Paisley


"10 year old: "What's a fax mac_ine?"

30 year old: "what's a telex mac_ine?"

Having to start again when you made a mistake.

I get laughed at when I tell young people I started out on a Wang word-processor.

"

Me too! Had to save everything on to 5 1/2" floppy disks. Now there's something to compare cocks with.

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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago

Paisley

My driving licence is older than some of my colleagues.

I tell them when I first started working people smoked at their desks, there was no email, orange internal envelopes held memos not birthday cards to be signed and there was no internet!

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By *orny IrishMan
over a year ago

Rural Wiltshire

When you explain to someone about meeting someone famous and they used to do xyz and on a date and they were not even born.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"My driving licence is older than some of my colleagues.

I tell them when I first started working people smoked at their desks, there was no email, orange internal envelopes held memos not birthday cards to be signed and there was no internet! "

Treasury tags!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you tell a colleague about simon and Garfunkel and he ask who he was

Bright eyes.... watership down "

Yep but he thought it was one person lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you realise that EVERYONE who is at school now was born after year 2000"

Oh good god!

I left school in 2000

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By *ficouldMan
over a year ago

a quandary, could you change my mind?

Am just going to sit down here for a little while, I might remember why I'm here then.

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By *abes in the woodWoman
over a year ago

wales

When your kids say oh goshe you never hear of these singer.

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

Your kids hold YOUR hand to cross the road.

When, before leaving the house they ask you if you'd been to the toilet.

When in the car, they're in the driving seat, you're in the back and they turn around and ask if you have your seat belt on.

Instead of helping them dress Tiny Tears you're dressing their real life baby.

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood


"Can remember a few years ago having to explain to a younger colleague what a vinyl record was....

....but mercifully they've now made a comeback so I'm young again!! "

Good to hear vinyl records making a good comeback (they never really went away).

Have to get myself a new turntable anyway.

Still buy vinyl, hope it never goes away.

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood


"When your kids say oh goshe you never hear of these singer."

Yea, kids never heard of singers you know and you never heard of singers kids know

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x "

You also remember when to channels actually closed/shut-down for a few hours and that weird noise came on, was like an up and down tone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You see Coldplay on TV singing Don't Look Back in Anger and they have to put the words on a screen behind them because the audience have never heard it before.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You have a Good knee and a bad knee, instead of knees.

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood


"You see Coldplay on TV singing Don't Look Back in Anger and they have to put the words on a screen behind them because the audience have never heard it before."

Probably so the audience can "join in" in like a big karaoke.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you encounter someone who has never seen Bedknobs and Broomstick, and had never even heard of Dark Crystal is what made me feel old

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An album you play pretty much all the time has just been remastered and re-release on its 22nd Birthday

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you encounter someone who has never seen Bedknobs and Broomstick, and had never even heard of Dark Crystal is what made me feel old"

I've never heard of Dark Crystal and I'm twice your age.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you are regularly filtered out on fabswingers...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You see Coldplay on TV singing Don't Look Back in Anger and they have to put the words on a screen behind them because the audience have never heard it before.

Probably so the audience can "join in" in like a big karaoke."

Probably. I didn't think the words would be necessary though. One of those songs I thought everyone knew.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you encounter someone who has never seen Bedknobs and Broomstick, and had never even heard of Dark Crystal is what made me feel old

I've never heard of Dark Crystal and I'm twice your age."

dark crystal was my childhood horror film. Done by the puppeting genius that is Jim Henson (who is my idol)

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood


"An album you play pretty much all the time has just been remastered and re-release on its 22nd Birthday "

A LOT of that remastering and re-relasing of albums going on

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By *orwegian BlueMan
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..

You know when you're old when you visit a museum and find yourself looking at an exhibit and saying "I remember seeing that on tomorrow's world and it was set to revolutionise our lives"..

The usual response is "what's tomorrow's world?"

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood


"You see Coldplay on TV singing Don't Look Back in Anger and they have to put the words on a screen behind them because the audience have never heard it before.

Probably so the audience can "join in" in like a big karaoke.

Probably. I didn't think the words would be necessary though. One of those songs I thought everyone knew."

Yea, most people should know the words to they songs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Found my old tamagotchi

Gave it to my son

" is it on Wi-Fi already mum ?"

Yeah I felt old

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

I'm made to feel old all the time lol maybe coz I am

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You see Coldplay on TV singing Don't Look Back in Anger and they have to put the words on a screen behind them because the audience have never heard it before.

Probably so the audience can "join in" in like a big karaoke.

Probably. I didn't think the words would be necessary though. One of those songs I thought everyone knew.

Yea, most people should know the words to they songs"

I personally don't know it, but thats because I never really listened to them as they weren't my cup of tea. I'll stick to Ray Charles, Tina Turner, and Jackie Wilso

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By *rrol.BMan
over a year ago

Wrexham

"Take it out and give it a blow" doesn't sound so innocent.

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By *lactontogMan
over a year ago

Clacton on Sea

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By *0tt0nSu3Woman
over a year ago

London


"You know when your getting old !!! in the morning when getting dressed, you testicles end up in your socks with your feet. "

Fret not.

An invention has been made to elliviate this dilemma.

https://youtu.be/s6Xaa6R9rGA

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By *iscean MaleMan
over a year ago

Darlaston

When u can no longer be called a toyboy

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By *azkinsWoman
over a year ago

leeds

When an early night actually means sleep zzzzzz

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

When you have to Google what converse trainers are! Actually think I might get some, or am I too old?

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By *ustmuttsMan
over a year ago

wisbech

People with kids look like kids themselves

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I felt old last Friday when my daughter turned 26

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering


"When you have to Google what converse trainers are! Actually think I might get some, or am I too old? "
. I had converse trainers when I was in my teens they been around a very long time

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By *crumdiddlyumptiousMan
over a year ago

.

When you go to a party on Saturday, Take the Monday off work and don't want to go in on Tuesday as you still feel delicate

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By *robertsCouple
over a year ago

Leicestershire


"Your 9 year old asks you

'Who is Robbie Williams?'

"

To be fair it's been a long time since Mork & Mindy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you bend over to tie your shoelaces you ask yourself "What else can I do while I'm down here?" "
when you actually lol at a forumites post cos it's so you.

PTU xxx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


""Take it out and give it a blow" doesn't sound so innocent."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But you could sent text on phone boxes ? ????

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Your teenage son keeps calling you a old dinosaur

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"...... When you go to your works Christmas do then a club afterwards - and 95% of your colleagues have to get their ID out!! "

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood


"When you say you're first tv was black and white, and you used to sit watching the test card waiting for the children's programmes to start x

And explaining the television didn't start until well after breakfast and ended not long after bedtime.

And explaining you only had three channels to choose from!!

Yes, and having to get up to turn it over. And if it started rolling you had to turn the little buttons on the back, "

Getting up and banging the TV if it stared to flickering/rolling etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you have to explain to your teenage daughters friends on the school run , that Blondie and the Undertones were the groups responsible for writing Teenage Kicks/One way or Another and not Frigging One Direction

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague. "

Exactly

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford


"When you have to Google what converse trainers are! Actually think I might get some, or am I too old? . I had converse trainers when I was in my teens they been around a very long time "

Gosh, really, I haven't lived! Like the look of them though!

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

When I asked my grandson ' are you still courting that nice girl?' and he said 'no I'm not going to court..she is 17'!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When your latest Depeche Mode tour shirt is 4 times the size of the one you got in 1986

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When, after watching the Champions league final, a quick google told me that Gary Lineker is 56!

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By *iforfun999Man
over a year ago

Haverfordwest

Noticing the policemen and women are getting younger, then realising your doctor and dentist are too and what happened to the old fishmonger who used to call round?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They drink alot of milk lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I would love to jive with you bunny x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You start making a noise every time you stand up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you have to explain the significance of the phrase 'Accrington Stanley; who are they?' to a colleague. "

God that brings back memories .. that was one of my favourite adds growing up.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At the welcome meeting your main question to the Rep is where is the nearest doctor and hospital

Also when your wife stops becoming your playmate and becomes your career

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London


"You start making a noise every time you stand up"

...then forget what you stood up for!

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood


"When you bend over to tie your shoelaces you ask yourself "What else can I do while I'm down here?" "

When you sit on seat/sofa to tie your shoes

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood


"You know when you're old when you visit a museum and find yourself looking at an exhibit and saying "I remember seeing that on tomorrow's world and it was set to revolutionise our lives"..

The usual response is "what's tomorrow's world?""

Tomorrow's world was a good programme, wish it would come back

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