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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Just seen this and it’s absolutely knocked me for six
“Jurassic Park came out closer to the moon landings than to now”
Anyone else got little facts like this
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Trying to explain a vhs to a teen today. Or that I has four channels and I couldn't pause them and if you missed a show you were fucked.
Not being able to use the Internet as your parents needed to make a phone call with the landline "what's a landline"
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My favourite record is 34 years old.
Many peoples favourite records are Beatles tracks, and they were most active in around 1965.
1965 + 34 years is 1999. If I think back to 1999 and were able to ask myself what I though about someone whose favourite record was still the Beatles, I'd have scoffed mightily.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The one that always gets me is now women can legally do porn if born in 2004.
Two thousand and fucking four. When I was going to gigs in cities far away and getting with people behind bike sheds.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Cleopatra lived closer in time to the building of the first Pizza Hut than to the building of the Pyramids "
That is probably true… first pharaohs were 3200 bce… |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My date of birth makes me feel old. I remember being an IT duty manager on the y2k night, we all thought everything was going to stop.. that was 22 years ago. Nearly a quarter of a century...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sitting with the guys at work, chatting about films.
Mentioning 'The Magnificent Seven' with Yul Brynner, and being met with blank faces asking..."Who is Yul Brynner?" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Trying to explain a vhs to a teen today. Or that I has four channels and I couldn't pause them and if you missed a show you were fucked.
Not being able to use the Internet as your parents needed to make a phone call with the landline "what's a landline"
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On a side note making the dial up tone with your mouth is a great way to get teens to fuck off |
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By *ANDA!Man
over a year ago
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"Sitting with the guys at work, chatting about films.
Mentioning 'The Magnificent Seven' with Yul Brynner, and being met with blank faces asking..."Who is Yul Brynner?""
I get that, talking to my kids about films saying "it's only a few years old" whereas in reality it's older than my son who's nearly 20 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My Mum was Beatles fanatic
She seen them four times at cavern club in Liverpool
So was stuck outside in my silver cross pram with loud Beatles music in background  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I was cheerfully chatting to a guy on here and he asked what I was doing the year he was born. I answered “I just graduated from uni”.
I belong to this thread."
What were you doing in 1990 DC? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When I have to enter my date of birth and I get RSI cos I have to scroll for so bloody long to get to the year of my birth  "
But you still have the body and energy of a 24 year old HC  |
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"I was cheerfully chatting to a guy on here and he asked what I was doing the year he was born. I answered “I just graduated from uni”.
I belong to this thread.
What were you doing in 1990 DC? "
Probably having a fair share in post grunge high school teenage grump  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I was cheerfully chatting to a guy on here and he asked what I was doing the year he was born. I answered “I just graduated from uni”.
I belong to this thread.
What were you doing in 1990 DC?
Probably having a fair share in post grunge high school teenage grump "
Oh are you a grunger?! That's news! I was doing that too, but quite a few years after you obviously  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You know you're getting old as Bruce Willis said " as you get older God plays tricks on you ,he takes all the hair on your head and puts it into your nose and your ears "..Music is always a great indicator of time as you soon discover a song is older than the time you were born when it was released..ie..you would have been 20 when a certain song was released but that song is now 28 years old |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Trying to explain a vhs to a teen today. Or that I has four channels and I couldn't pause them and if you missed a show you were fucked.
Not being able to use the Internet as your parents needed to make a phone call with the landline "what's a landline"
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How about not being able to use the internet because it didn't exist?
How old do we feel when we realise that Woddy and Buzz's first outing in Toy Story was in 1995 - 27 years ago.
The first time we saw Luke Skywalker was 45 years ago
And it's been 51 years since Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
"My father was born 5 years before the start of WW1 and died this day 25 years after the end of WW2.
Hope you have happy memories  "
I have many happy memories, I always find the time on 1st Dec every year to go and walk round the local Crematorium Garden of Remembrance and tell him all that has been happening, Sounds silly I know, but that is how I am. |
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"Just seen this and it’s absolutely knocked me for six
“Jurassic Park came out closer to the moon landings than to now”
Anyone else got little facts like this
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When work colleagues were born after you started working for that employer! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Trying to explain a vhs to a teen today. Or that I has four channels and I couldn't pause them and if you missed a show you were fucked.
Not being able to use the Internet as your parents needed to make a phone call with the landline "what's a landline"
How about not being able to use the internet because it didn't exist?
How old do we feel when we realise that Woddy and Buzz's first outing in Toy Story was in 1995 - 27 years ago.
The first time we saw Luke Skywalker was 45 years ago
And it's been 51 years since Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon."
1969 first Moon landing |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I went back to a town where I grew up and I visited a street where I used to sometimes make phone calls from a phone box. The locals told me the phone box was removed over 20 years ago. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When I have to enter my date of birth and I get RSI cos I have to scroll for so bloody long to get to the year of my birth "
I hate this but then recently I was on a site that required touching the back arrow to birth year..I am 59. That's a lot of finger poking!  |
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"When you say "accrington stanley" in a mock scouse accent, and all you get is a blank look
Who are they?
Exactly "
Beat me to it!! Was it an ad for milk? I can only remember the two scouse lads, not the product haha |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Trying to explain a vhs to a teen today. Or that I has four channels and I couldn't pause them and if you missed a show you were fucked.
Not being able to use the Internet as your parents needed to make a phone call with the landline "what's a landline"
How about not being able to use the internet because it didn't exist?
How old do we feel when we realise that Woddy and Buzz's first outing in Toy Story was in 1995 - 27 years ago.
The first time we saw Luke Skywalker was 45 years ago
And it's been 51 years since Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon."
Oops, had a bit of a brain fart there. It is of course 53 years since Apollo 11 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Trying to explain a vhs to a teen today. Or that I has four channels and I couldn't pause them and if you missed a show you were fucked.
Not being able to use the Internet as your parents needed to make a phone call with the landline "what's a landline"
How about not being able to use the internet because it didn't exist?
How old do we feel when we realise that Woddy and Buzz's first outing in Toy Story was in 1995 - 27 years ago.
The first time we saw Luke Skywalker was 45 years ago
And it's been 51 years since Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.
1969 first Moon landing "
Correct. Well spotted. My brain had popped out for a quick break |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When you say "accrington stanley" in a mock scouse accent, and all you get is a blank look
Who are they?
Exactly
Beat me to it!! Was it an ad for milk? I can only remember the two scouse lads, not the product haha"
It was milk yes |
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Things that make me realise the changes in my lifetime are .....
Watching cows being led through cities to be milked.
Watching the coal man hump coals sacks
Keeping coal in the house
No houses with water boilers just a back boiler that needed a fire
Mangles
Single tub washing machines
Thrashing the salt fish with a hammer
Eating dandelion leaves
Swimming in the canal
No shops open on Sundays
Shops closed half day Wednesdays
Buying meat from the butcher, veg and fruit from the greengrocers, light bulbs and candles from the costermonger, ice cream men on bikes with dry ice boxes, bread from the bakery and fish from the fishmonger.
No such thing as t.v. ....... later no such thing as daytime t.v. ....... no all night t.v. ........ no telly on Sunday mornings......
No phones AT ALL of any kind in peoples home.
One flavour only of crisps.
No places to eat out ...... no one did that.
All listening to the radio .....
No social media ...... you had to talk to real people and be confident in front of people.... you HAD to have a personality and not an online persona where you could pretend to be sexy and sassy...
Have to WALK everywhere and thinking nothing of it ...
Being lucky if we could afford a chicken for sunday .... they weren't cheap back then .....
Salad was for summer, couldn't grow it in the winter
Wearing winter clothes between sept and may......
Having eiderdowns not duvets...
Fuck it .... that's enough
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"Things that make me realise the changes in my lifetime are .....
Watching cows being led through cities to be milked.
Watching the coal man hump coals sacks
Keeping coal in the house
No houses with water boilers just a back boiler that needed a fire
Mangles
Single tub washing machines
Thrashing the salt fish with a hammer
Eating dandelion leaves
Swimming in the canal
No shops open on Sundays
Shops closed half day Wednesdays
Buying meat from the butcher, veg and fruit from the greengrocers, light bulbs and candles from the costermonger, ice cream men on bikes with dry ice boxes, bread from the bakery and fish from the fishmonger.
No such thing as t.v. ....... later no such thing as daytime t.v. ....... no all night t.v. ........ no telly on Sunday mornings......
No phones AT ALL of any kind in peoples home.
One flavour only of crisps.
No places to eat out ...... no one did that.
All listening to the radio .....
No social media ...... you had to talk to real people and be confident in front of people.... you HAD to have a personality and not an online persona where you could pretend to be sexy and sassy...
Have to WALK everywhere and thinking nothing of it ...
Being lucky if we could afford a chicken for sunday .... they weren't cheap back then .....
Salad was for summer, couldn't grow it in the winter
Wearing winter clothes between sept and may......
Having eiderdowns not duvets...
Fuck it .... that's enough
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You ate dandelion leaves?? |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
Frankly, I value my age, chronologically speaking, because in the past 20+ years I have learned so much through a process of self-education; just a few years ago I went on a training course at a call centre (about 20 people).
The trainers ran several online quizzes and I beat the entire group, by a long chalk, every time.
Age, viewed positively, is to be valued, as it is in many cultures worldwide, but not in the western industry-oriented milieu. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When I talk to my friends when I was a kid, I use to have a black and white TV."
Same black and white only 3 channels had to watch a tv programme when it aired too |
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"When I talk to my friends when I was a kid, I use to have a black and white TV."
Ha. I mentioned a CRT tv to an engineer this week. Total blank expression. Had to explain the CRT, the TV the inside bipole, aerial, no remote rotary tv changing. Hilarious the complete glakic look in his face.. pure joy.. |
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By *piderBunnyCouple
over a year ago
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"Realising that the period of time between the end of WWII and my birth is shorter than the period of time between my birth and now. "
But... WWII is *history*! That's can't be right 
*does the maths*
*cries 
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"Frankly, I value my age, chronologically speaking, because in the past 20+ years I have learned so much through a process of self-education; just a few years ago I went on a training course at a call centre (about 20 people).
The trainers ran several online quizzes and I beat the entire group, by a long chalk, every time.
Age, viewed positively, is to be valued, as it is in many cultures worldwide, but not in the western industry-oriented milieu."
I agree. I value my age too. I'm alive, I'm flaming well going to live |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember old ladies stopping me in the street when I used to live in Carlisle. -These are some of the earliest memories of mine from the 1970s, when I was about 4 years old and would be walking around with my mum or dad.
They would stop and say to how cute I was, or comments to that effect. Which is quite endearing.
When I think about it though, some of these ladies were around 70 & 80 years old, that means that they would have been born in the 1800s. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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My four grandparents were all born during the reign of Queen Victoria who died over 120 (one hundred and twenty) years ago; if conscription had existed in Ireland at the start of the First World War (1914-1918) my two grandfathers would have been amongst the oldest to have been called up to be wastefully slaughtered, in a futile conflict between two sets of warring European royal cousins, one set of whom were obliged to change their surname to Windsor from Sax Coburg Gotha. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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"Getting my state pension end of December "
Thankfully, I got mine in May; it made a colossal difference to my life, when compared to being on Universal Credit of £63 pw and being unable to work for two years through injury, and during Covid.
Winter Fuel Allowance of £500 sorted out a lot of issues; Rishi's £600 Jan'y energy payment will be put to good use; the pension triple lock of 10•1% is good too, but prices are increasing at a phenomenal rate, especially food.
When I compare food prices to when I was a child in the 60s, they are shocking and astonishingly high.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When you listen to music that Teens listen to and it's just noise. "
I grew up with my parents music. Beatles. Hollies. Motown. And I grew to like them because that’s what they played.
My boys listen to Guns n roses. James. Oasis. Blur. Shed seven. Ocean colour scene and I think ‘lucky bastards.
Just imagine the music their children will have to endure in the future?!  |
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"When you listen to music that Teens listen to and it's just noise.
I grew up with my parents music. Beatles. Hollies. Motown. And I grew to like them because that’s what they played.
My boys listen to Guns n roses. James. Oasis. Blur. Shed seven. Ocean colour scene and I think ‘lucky bastards.
Just imagine the music their children will have to endure in the future?! "
Honestly I have a pretty open minded attitude towards music and in fact my family complain about the music I like grew up listening to electro.
I enjoy EDM and similar stuff.
But seriously the urban music out today is just a series of random words with "man" at the end of every sentence.
Yes I sound old but fucking hell it's awful.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When you listen to music that Teens listen to and it's just noise.
I grew up with my parents music. Beatles. Hollies. Motown. And I grew to like them because that’s what they played.
My boys listen to Guns n roses. James. Oasis. Blur. Shed seven. Ocean colour scene and I think ‘lucky bastards.
Just imagine the music their children will have to endure in the future?!
Honestly I have a pretty open minded attitude towards music and in fact my family complain about the music I like grew up listening to electro.
I enjoy EDM and similar stuff.
But seriously the urban music out today is just a series of random words with "man" at the end of every sentence.
Yes I sound old but fucking hell it's awful.
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Oh man the same. (I play Dolly Parton and Gilbert O’Sullivan in between Eminem and the Offspring so you can imagine my playlists. )
My views on todays music is that they are all following each other trying to use the same formula. Nobody is breaking the mould. Your right. They all sound the same!!! |
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