What makes you feel old?

[MG Clive]

Let's face it, we're just a bunch of old gits.

 

[T1 Terry]

I remember as a kid, sitting around the speaker of the radiogram listening to radio shows like "Life with Dexter" The fact I can even remember the name of one of the radio shows means there must still be something left in the brain box ..... No idea why it was important to remember rubbish like that ..... it's a bit of a mystery really ....

T1 Terry

 

[Black estate]

I watched play school , Rainbow , Charlton amd the wheelies , bod ,mr Ben , Mr men , rhubarb and Custard
Looney tunes , tom and Jerry etc

 

[Archev]

I wonder these days how I did it. I guess working in an industry where things were heavy, but still within the reality of being able to lift and place them by hand, kept the muscles in tune.
I remember going on 14 hr shift shutdowns at Bluescope Steel carrying a tool bag that weighed 80kg .... you had no idea what you would be working on, so take all the hand tools you might need ......
I remember when I changed jobs from dyno tuning, servicing and carburettor rebuilder on cars, back to truck mechanics, the first time I had to fit a flywheel while under the truck, I couldn't pick the thing up ..... got a good laugh from those around, but after a mth working there, the foreman gave me another job to replace a clutch in an F12 Volvo truck, so the gearbox out and clutch and flywheel had to come out to machine the flywheel, and I lifted it out and later back in without much effort, so I guess you become conditioned to the work load requirements.

I had to move a 150Ah deep cycle lead acid battery a few weeks ago, it would have weighed under 50kg ..... and I couldn't pick it up, had to get the trolley and roll the battery part way over to get under it with the trolley ..... I really felt it then, 3 yrs before, I would carry one of these in each hand the length of the workshop, roughly 25 mtrs, to stack them up with the other dead batteries, ready for a trip to the recyclers ..... now I couldn't pick up one

T1 Terry

It’s called ageing
It happens to the best of us.

If we’re lucky

Let's face it, we're just a bunch of old gits.

But jovial gits

OK, here's the kicker. I remember watching Rose Marie with my Mum

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028207/

I remember the song, but not the plot, probably because Mum was always singing it, wouldn't be surprised if we also had the 78 for the wind up gramaphone.

Remember the song
Lost the plot

I remember as a kid, sitting around the speaker of the radiogram listening to radio shows like "Life with Dexter" The fact I can even remember the name of one of the radio shows means there must still be something left in the brain box ..... No idea why it was important to remember rubbish like that ..... it's a bit of a mystery really ....

T1 Terry

A Dexter was a tractor wasn’t it ?

 

[Ian Key]

Isn't Dexter a breed of cattle?

 

[Archev]

Isn't Dexter a bread of cattle?

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I knew farming came into it

 

[T1 Terry]

I think I must have been 7 or 8 yrs old. Dexter was married with kids, lived in the average .... I'm guessing American neighbourhood and got into all sorts of troubles by completely reading the situation wrong, generating quite funny scenarios.
His neighbour was one of those types that had a way to fix everything, that always went completely wrong right at the end .....

T1 Terry

 

[securespark]

I think we have all pulled some crazy feats and looked back years later and thought "Did I really do that?"

I know I have.

Like me delivering stuff. Once went to London and back twice in quick succession, without much more than a meal break.

Wouldn't do that again!

 

[securespark]

I remember as a kid, sitting around the speaker of the radiogram listening to radio shows like "Life with Dexter"

 

[Archev]

I knew farming came into it

Spelling problem !
The tractor was the Ford Dexta

 

[Black estate]

Who also gets nostalgic when this tune comes on , Cliff mitchelmore and crew and later Jill Dando

 

[T1 Terry]

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So it was Australian ... well, there ya go ..... it started airing 2 yrs before I was born
We didn't get a TV until after my father died, I'd just turned 11 then .... we must have had it by July '69 because I stayed home from school to watch the first steps on the moon ..... one of those significant events that burn into the brain .... flash bulb memory they call it
Watching TV early hrs of the morning and seeing live, the second plane circle and plough into the Twin Towers and the sound and sight of people hitting the concrete after jumping out of windows, then watch the buildings around it collapse because the fire underground was so intense with all that aviation fuel pouring down the lift wells ......
Initially, I thought it was a very well staged SiFi movie .... but when there were no cuts to the hero and heroine love scene ... the shock that it was for real chilled me to the bone ....

T1 Terry

 

[T1 Terry]

Who also gets nostalgic when this tune comes on , Cliff mitchelmore and crew and later Jill Dando

Must be a very British thing, I've never heard it before .....

T1 Terry

 

[Archev]

Who also gets nostalgic when this tune comes on , Cliff mitchelmore and crew and later Jill Dando

Jill aye - Cliff - not so much

 

[m4rmite]

I'm surprised none of you old farts have mentioned torchy the battery boy

 

[Ian Key]

I'm surprised none of you old farts have mentioned torchy the battery boy

Probably because we're not as old as we appear

I remember Noggin the Nog though.

"In the Lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the men of the North Lands sit by their great log fires, and they tell a tale..."

 

[siteguru]

I watched play school , Rainbow , Charlton amd the wheelies , bod ,mr Ben , Mr men , rhubarb and Custard
Looney tunes , tom and Jerry etc

You called?

 

[Rolfe]

So it was Australian ... well, there ya go ..... it started airing 2 yrs before I was born
We didn't get a TV until after my father died, I'd just turned 11 then .... we must have had it by July '69 because I stayed home from school to watch the first steps on the moon ..... one of those significant events that burn into the brain .... flash bulb memory they call it
Watching TV early hrs of the morning and seeing live, the second plane circle and plough into the Twin Towers and the sound and sight of people hitting the concrete after jumping out of windows, then watch the buildings around it collapse because the fire underground was so intense with all that aviation fuel pouring down the lift wells ......
Initially, I thought it was a very well staged SiFi movie .... but when there were no cuts to the hero and heroine love scene ... the shock that it was for real chilled me to the bone ....

T1 Terry

It wasn't so long ago. Nearly 25 years though, I suppose. My godson was shopping in London and saw what he thought was a "Towering Inferno" type film on a TV in a shop. Then he realised a woman standing next to him was crying, and it was the News...

 

[Black estate]

I'm surprised none of you old farts have mentioned torchy the battery boy

I'm only 50 not 100

 

[Black estate]

Jill aye - Cliff - not so much

Jill was a stunner , shame what happened