You know you're getting old when...

[Lunch]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Car size: for example, our house has an awkwardly placed post in the right hand garage, which means when you put the roller door up means you have to go close to the left edge of the roller door entry and watch the post on the right. I thought it was a "tight fit" with our "small" 1982 Celica. We then moved our old WB ute down there to the house, and the missus said "Put it under the house until we clear out the shed". I scoffed...it will never fit in that little space! but OK dear...I'll try...

I frigging hate it when wives are right...the damn thing fitted just fine, and here I was thinking it was "huge" compared to the Celica...

Doubt you're the first guy to think its bigger than it is

[Grippy]

When hangovers last 2 days instead of bouncing out of bed the next morning ready for another beer.

[aussiblue]

You can remember as a child being envious of neighbours and relatives who had a telephone, albeit it was a party line and it looked like this:

or this:

[Burnout]

You remember when your kids had to do as they where told.
You remember when your kids never listened to w word you said.
You remember when your kids started to listen to your sage advise.

[aussiblue]

...and buying your first computer at a massive (then) $600 that came with a while 1KB of memory and had a 3.25 MHz CPU.

[MercurySilver]

youre beard is grey yet your hair hasnt changed colour, even at shoulder length
you cant be assed going to the big day out anymore because its just too long a day and a pain in the *** (plus theyve had **** bands each year for the last 8 years)
you drink tea like you should be drinking water
youre happier just kicking around at home and planting veggies than going out...anywhere
you just cruise along in the car now not in any rush

[XC50077]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

An you can remember when there were no Pizza Huts, McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, KFC, Subways etc in the State and hamburgers at the local late night burger joint were made with two pieces of toast, a piece of steak and optional onions and beetroot.

You would have been lucky to find a burger shop open after 10 p.m.back then, even on weekends here in Sydney apart from a couple of drive- in places.

You can tell when it's starting to catch up on you when your bad cholesterol ratio is more important than getting in and changing that diff ratio.

[Sioso]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

You can remember as a child being envious of neighbours and relatives who had a telephone, albeit it was a party line and it looked like this:

image or this: image

Your post made me feel young again.
I'm surprised you know how to use a computer..........

[aussiblue]

Some of the bad things:

a) you can forecast the weather by how much your joints ache;
b) you feel like you're fully funding your specialist's new Maserati;
c) you have to psyche yourself up to do an simple oil change service and it takes twice as long as it used to;
d) the magnetic pickup tool is the most used tool in the toolbox as your arthritic fingers means you keep dropping things and bending down to pick them up hurts your back too much. Next in line is the "inspector Gadget" magnifier light so you can work on the small stuff;
e) some days you even need help doing up your shoe laces;
f) you have to buy unneeded new tools as you can't remember where you "hid" or lost the other ones;
g) the knock in the engine bay turns out to be a tool you left there;
h) pretty girls smile at you but then they say it's because you remind them of their late grandfather;
i) you keep having to buy new specs as you tread, lay on them etc.j0 when you put them down while working on the car;
j) touch screen are becoming prevalent and my 'zombie fingers' (see http://www.technologybloggers.org/te...zombie-finger/) syndrome means they don't always respond to my touch (just ginger peachy with with ATMs and I live in fear of ending up in a hospital or nursing home with a touch screen emergency nurse switch).
k) getting a blank look or a "they don't make them anymore" response when I try to buy my favourite brand tools, parts etc.

[aussiblue]

I'm surprised you know how to use a comp

I was an early adopter and enthusiast; I first used a computer in 1970 (CDC Cyber 70 with punchcards). I bough a primitive kit computer in 1980 but it never worked properly for me; the later $600 one was a Sinclair ZX81. I even used to know how to program in Fortran, Cobal, Forth, C, Z80 machine code and various forms of Basic.

I also spent my childhood in a very isolated part of the bush hence the old phones etc. The phone lines were also strung on convenient trees along the roadside rather than dedicated poles. There was also no TV reception or reticulated power where I grew up. The computing thing happened after I moved to Perth.

[Spurious]

...you only volunteer to chase the grandkids at the local park if you have ambulance cover or a paramedic on standby!

I can't hop fences like I used to. I prefer to walk around & look for a gate nowadyas!

[aussiblue]

And if you want old computing, I used to work for the guy with the broom (Dennis Moore) albeit many years after this picture was taken (it was taken in 1965 when UWA's computing centre took delivery of the pictured DEC PDP6) :


I did get to use a DEC 10 and a PDP 11 and worked for Dennis in the 80's.

Here is Dennis again on the right using the PDP6



I still see him occasionally; unfortunately mostly at funerals of mutual past colleagues.

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

...and buying your first computer at a massive (then) $600 that came with a while 1KB of memory and had a 3.25 MHz CPU.

I first played with my Wang at high school, year ten in 1980.
Then onto TRS-80's just starting to come in as we left school that year.
I bought a Commodore 64 in about 1981-ish. Loved putting in hundreds of lines of code just to make one pixelly picture...

I actually sold the motherboard from an old IBM 286 nicely mounted on a piece of wood for over a hundred bucks on Ebay a few years back. A computer repair place said they thought it would make a nice wall hanging in their foyer.

Remember these days...from back when you had two 3 1/4" floppy drives and you had to keep swapping discs between them to load a big program? And the rich kid down the road owned a "hard drive"?

I find that advert ludicrous...I mean who would ever need a whole 10mb of disc space????

This one from the ever-funny British magazine VIZ says it all...

[mik]

When your old ......
you think the factory tyres are too wide and using more fuel and wearing your steering out prematurely .

you think the factory tyres are too short in the sidewall for adequate ride quality and are wearing out your suspension too quickly.

modding to you means changing the conservative colored fluffy steering wheel cover for something more exiting .......... possibly mauve ?

sporty handling to you means pumping the tyres up from a nice spongy 25 pounds to a body jarring race pressure of 26 pounds.... oh the excitement .... time for track day !

chrome spoked wheels on your stroller.

[XW-BAXR6T]

You know you're old when you begin to see the cops as young kids rather then mature adults.

This is me ^^

[malazn mafia]

You know you're getting old when you can't stand listening to any contemporary radio stations playing horrible sounds the youth listen to and call music. And you tune into Smooth 91.5/95.3 FM, and think ah, now this is real music. When spending time alone becomes more appealing than partying with friends. When beautiful women no longer attract your attention like they used to. When you no longer trust anybody but yourself. When money and material possessions start to lose meaning. When you start wondering what is the meaning of life at all? Signs of ageing, how wonderful. Guess its even worse if you experience all these and haven't even hit 30

[MrXR8]

You see a p plater acting like a tool with his music blaring and his car sitting an inch off the road and you think what a tool, then you have a smack yourself in the face moment when you realise that was you a decade or so ago.

Oh the indignity


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[LoudPipes]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

You can remember as a child being envious of neighbours and relatives who had a telephone, albeit it was a party line and it looked like this:

image or this: image

I love the modern look of your phones.

The party line was great.

You could let the girls at the exchange know you were going out and if the place you were going to also had a phone they'd just patch any of your calls straight through to there.

Those girls also knew every bit of gossip in town.

For memory I think our phone number was 24.

[tweeked]

[aussiblue]

Remember these days...from back when you had two 3 1/4" floppy drives and you had to keep swapping discs between them to load a big program? And the rich kid down the road owned a "hard drive"?

Yes; in addition to dozens of old Microbee computers, I still have some old software on the original 8" floppy disks.

[superyob]

mid-strength is your beer of choice...

[Bonn]

....when you're the only one foraging through the cassettes at a swap meet ...and
You get blank looks at Tandy, when you ask if they still have blank 1/4" reel to reel tapes
(listening to 1/4" as i write - it will NEVER be bettered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[jimt3te50]

Originally Posted by Bonn

....when you're the only one foraging through the cassettes at a swap meet ...and
You get blank looks at Tandy, when you ask if they still have blank 1/4" reel to reel tapes
(listening to 1/4" as i write - it will NEVER be bettered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

^^^
Tandy's You old bugger!

[tut0r]

You know you're getting old when the girls in their 30s are looking better than some of the 18 year olds.......I'm 26....

[danzvtil]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

I was an early adopter and enthusiast; I first used a computer in 1970 (CDC Cyber 70 with punchcards). I bough a primitive kit computer in 1980 but it never worked properly for me; the later $600 one was a Sinclair ZX81. I even used to know how to program in Fortran, Cobal, Forth, C, Z80 machine code and various forms of Basic.

.

I have absolutely no idea what any of these ^^^^ words mean!

You're getting old when you remember paying $17 for a pizza hut pizza, and you ate it sitting in their restaurant.

Or when to go to the movies you had to go to the city. Then hoyts built a 6 screen cinema (OMG 6!) in the suburbs and it felt like living in vegas.

[damo76]

Originally Posted by danzvtil

I have absolutely no idea what any of these ^^^^ words mean!

You're getting old when you remember paying $17 for a pizza hut pizza, and you ate it sitting in their restaurant.

Or when to go to the movies you had to go to the city. Then hoyts built a 6 screen cinema (OMG 6!) in the suburbs and it felt like living in vegas.

It was better when pizza hut had all you can eat for like $6 and kfc aswell

[Bonn]

Originally Posted by damo76

It was better when pizza hut had all you can eat for like $6 and kfc aswell

5c of mixed lollies at the corner shop - with the obligatory musk-stick sticking out of the bag......

[CoupeKing]

Originally Posted by damo76

It was better when pizza hut had all you can eat for like $6 and kfc aswell

I remember Pizza Hut had all you can eat, but KFC?. My Aunties used to clean out Sizzler good and proper. Walked in, carted out.

[Charliewool]

Originally Posted by LoudPipes

I love the modern look of your phones.

The party line was great.

You could let the girls at the exchange know you were going out and if the place you were going to also had a phone they'd just patch any of your calls straight through to there.

Those girls also knew every bit of gossip in town.

For memory I think our phone number was 24.

Ahhh yes.. How phone numbers have changed!
All the areas had 2 letter prefixes, and 4 numbers. Mine in Ascot Vale was FU5796
I also still remember Footscray's Modern Towing phone number off by heart.
It was MW1000. If you were the first to call them when you saw a prang, you'd get a 10 shilling spotters fee. (BIG bucks back then)

[mik]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

Yes; in addition to dozens of old Microbee computers, I still have some old software on the original 8" floppy disks.

Ha ha yes indeed.... still have a 1200 baud modem kicking around somewhere from the days of bulletin boards before internet,
also had an old dick smith computer that had a rubber keyboard 😊, you could type in some data and make a running stick figure out of dots....... serious computing power !

Still have some Amiga stuff kicking around I think .....A2000 with a 286 emulator......./A3000 tower...... used to have an A400, had some cool software on the old Amigas..... deluxe paint, one of my faves.