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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.
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 *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
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"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.
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And explaining you only had three channels to choose from!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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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)
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"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 *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 (user no longer on site)
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"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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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 *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)
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"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
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"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"...... 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
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"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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"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
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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. "
I could go off you, you know  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"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 *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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"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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Those first word-processors! just putting the paper in was a mission. |
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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago
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"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"... 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
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"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)
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"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
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"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 *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.
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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 *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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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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"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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"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)
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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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"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)
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"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)
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"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)
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"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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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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"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)
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"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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"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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"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)
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"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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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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"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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