What makes you feel old?

[T1 Terry]

"If it's not on, it's not on" an ad promoting the use of condoms ....

T1 Terry

 

[OriginalBigAl]

We always had the same ice cream van that came around every day at 5.00pm for years on end . A new van started coming around at 4.30 pm and nicking the originals round and trade. This went on for a week until the first caught wind of it, cue , Starsky and Hutch, but in ice cream vans with full revving engines and dingly dong chimes going racing around the kid infested estate . David Attenbourgh in the Serengeti and his warring lion prides had nothing on this. Every house emptied to watch the ensuing spectacle.
We also had a fizzy pop van which sold R Whites lemonade and Cresta which exploded on opening covering anyone in a 6ft radius in a sticky liquid. A penny back on the bottles was a roaring trade for a 10 year old business guru who went around picking them up from ditches , other peoples bins or the back alleys of shops who had already paid back the remise to other minded kids. An empty bottle could potentially earn 10p in this circular business model before being returned to the supplier.

 

[LenEV2016]

You know you are old when "a bonk meant getting hit on the head" ..... that was one of the lines for a potato chip claiming to still have the old fashioned quality and flavour

T1 Terry

I was going to reply saying you know you're old when you don't remember what one of them .....

I decided to be polite and not drag this forum further into the gutter.

It reminded me of a post, I read, from a member prior to the launch of the X Power who basically claimed young ladies wouldn't be able to restrain themselves if they got in one and the guy floored it.

As a reply stated at the time it was like one of the Inbetweeners!
I'll try and avoid that.

Also to be fair the demographic of x power owners are not men of an age who are looking to get up to stuff in their cars, more likely be paranoid about dirty shoe marks on the upholstery or doors.
There is probably a cover you can buy of AliExpress or MG titan for that, @salty probably has one, he has everything else

 

[T1 Terry]

We always had the same ice cream van that came around every day at 5.00pm for years on end . A new van started coming around at 4.30 pm and nicking the originals round and trade. This went on for a week until the first caught wind of it, cue , Starsky and Hutch, but in ice cream vans with full revving engines and dingly dong chimes going racing around the kid infested estate . David Attenbourgh in the Serengeti and his warring lion prides had nothing on this. Every house emptied to watch the ensuing spectacle.
We also had a fizzy pop van which sold R Whites lemonade and Cresta which exploded on opening covering anyone in a 6ft radius in a sticky liquid. A penny back on the bottles was a roaring trade for a 10 year old business guru who went around picking them up from ditches , other peoples bins or the back alleys of shops who had already paid back the remise to other minded kids. An empty bottle could potentially earn 10p in this circular business model before being returned to the supplier.

Remember that one well, we now get 10c a can or bottle at the recyclers as part of the litter reduction and recycling program introduced in just about every state now, but it did start out in South Australia .....
There was a time when interstate truck drivers would bring over those big chemical tanks mounted on a pallet base, but full of empty cans ..... they cracked down on it as much as possible, but it was quite a well organised thing involving drop offs over quite a large area ..... that is all over now that the other states have introduced the same refund schemes, but you still see people along the highways collecting can and bottles that have been tossed out the window

T1 Terry

 

[LenEV2016]

10p a bottle for years in Scotland mostly Barrs irn bru bottles or gingeys as our friends from the west call them

 

[PeterHR2]

You're old if you can recall watching Tales of the Riverbank in good ol' 405-lines... Hammy and Roderick <sigh>

 

[MG Clive]

STD now has another meaning for our younger population.

Sugar Topped Doughnuts ??

Yes, that one as well.

 

[Archev]

Over here, the first two numbers are the state the exchange is in, so some towns along a border might have the other states initial code numbers, the next 2 numbers are the regional area code, the next 2 numbers were the local exchange, and the last 4 numbers actually identified your telephone line .... as an example 02 was NSW, 42 was the Illawarra area, 29 was central Wollongong 3493 was the actual workshop line, 10 numbers to get both correct and in the correct order .... simples
Now I really feel old, that dates back to the mid '80s, but I still remember the phone number of my automotive workshop ....

T1 Terry

I don’t have a landline. Only use the mobile.

 

[Black estate]

Getting excited about cutting the lawn

 

[T1 Terry]

I don’t have a landline. Only use the mobile.

Gave the landline a miss when we moved to South Australia 9 yrs ago, even the 'puter is through the mobile and never get close to using out data cap .....

T1 Terry

 

[LenEV2016]

The old thread

This sums up

Talking about grass

And bin collection

Buch old farts

Lot of us

In the style

Day three words

Just to confuse

In wrong thread

Who am I

Where am I

Help me please

 

[T1 Terry]

Are you now
getting so old
you get the
threads confused Len
This is not
3 word thread


T1 Terry

 

[LenEV2016]

Are you now
getting so old
you get the
threads confused Len
This is not
3 word thread


T1 Terry

That was the point Terry, the three words thread had grass cutting and bush trimming

It tied in perfectly with the we are old as **** thread, I then tried too hard to make the threads linked and you blew it out the water with the thirst reply

I am no longer funny and clever, just old!

 

[Black estate]

The old thread

This sums up

Talking about grass

And bin collection

Buch old farts

Lot of us

In the style

Day three words

Just to confuse

In wrong thread

Who am I

Where am I

Help me please

Matron will be along soon to give you your tablets

 

[Gomev]

I don’t have a landline. Only use the mobile.

You still have an "area code" though. 07 of course indicates a mobile and the following three digits indicate the original network provider that you got the number from. This used to change when you switched networks but since 1999 have been portable, so we can keep our number.

 

[Archev]

You still have an "area code" though. 07 of course indicates a mobile and the following three digits indicate the original network provider that you got the number from. This used to change when you switched networks but since 1999 have been portable, so we can keep our number.

Yet I still look over at the printer whenever I return home to see if the built in fax machine has spewed out any more job sheets for me to attend it’s nearly seven years since I stopped working and quite a while before that since the last job came that way - but old habits die hard.

 

[Fokmg]

Running up a 1 in 5 hill at 7.30 every morning chasing my 3 dogs (great fun at 68!)

 

[MG Clive]

Running up a 1 in 5 hill at 7.30 every morning chasing my 3 dogs (great fun at 68!)

They'll pull you up that hill if you have them on a lead mate.

 

[Archev]

They'll pull you up that hill if you have them on a lead mate.

Chariots are good

 

[Black estate]

Can remember my last 2 post codes