What makes you feel old?

[Gomev]

As I said earlier, I remember 78s.

I also remember punching cards to input data into a mainframe computer. As a postgraduate.

I wrote whole programs in Fortran on punch cards at uni. The mainframes still used them to boot up when I started work, even though they had a room full of hard drives, each one the size of a large washing machine.

Ah those were the days. Writing programs on coding sheets, sending them to data prep to punch the cards and checking them when they came back hoping you (and they) had coded/punched it right first time.
Coded in Cobol, RPG2 and Assembler then. Thankfully that all ended very soon after I started.

 

[T1 Terry]

Not really it's a great film
3 fun facts
George Lucas allowed them to copy star wars as long as there was no film merchandise and he had a bit part
John Hurt loved doing the Alien scene again

I can't get past the scene where whatever the thing is that comes up on the screen demanding payment ..... that's me all corned out by that stage .... are you saying it gets better?

T1 Terry

 

[securespark]

12 inch LP's played at 33 1/3 rpm
7 inch singles played at 45 rpm

"What do I do with my old 78s?"
NTNOCN.

 

[T1 Terry]

"What do I do with my old 78s?"
NTNOCN.

T1 Terry

 

[Ian Key]

"What do I do with my old 78s?"

That's no way to talk about your parents

 

[securespark]

Mum will be 90 in December!

Still as active as ever, she drives, goes to Pilates and another exercise class I can't remember the flipping name of, does Aqua classes and she's in the garden all the time. She reads loads of books and watches TV so she's always up to date with what's going on, even in the celebrity world to some "slip of a girl who's only 19..."!

 

[T1 Terry]

My dad would have been 102 this yr and mum 105 if they were still with us .... I wonder what my dad would have though of events today ..... he was upset enough about events in 66 when he died, not quite reaching his 41st birthday.
At 68, mum walked 8kms each way to the shops, towing her two wheeled granny shopping cart, fit as a fiddle right up to being admitted for a colonoscopy .... somehow, they perforated the bowel and she was dead 6 weeks later ........ cause of death, pneumonia not like they'd put the real cause on the death certificate eh

T1 Terry

 

[DBedford]

My mother-in-law is 91, 92 if she makes it this year, and my Mums sister (my aunt is 94), it breaks my heart to reflect on what a mess we have made of our nation in the last 50-60 years. All values seem to have gone out the window, in this self-centre,'whats in it for me' society.

 

[PeterHR2]

"What do I do with my old 78s?"
NTNOCN.

Other companies are available.

 

[securespark]

I remember when they moved from you asking the operator for the number to dial phones. I remember when 78s were a thing. I remember inkwells in school desks with ink in them.

I started secondary school in 77. Most classrooms had new square metal framed tables with Formica style tops but one English teacher refused to reliquish his old oak flip top desks complete with porcelain inkwells.

He would launch chalk or board rubbers at us if he thought we weren't paying enough attention. We would lift up the desk lids to deflect the missiles!

 

[T1 Terry]

Watching the "Celebration of Life" of a friend we knew from the RV get together we attend every yr we can get there ......
He was 6 mths younger than me, not the sort of thing you should watch before bed, that's for sure ......
Another good friend from RV get togethers and our forum here in Australia has his "Celebration of Life" today .... he was a few yrs older than me, but not by much ......

Off for new glasses and find out why I keep going stone deaf in the left ear .... hopefully it's the hearing aid ......

T1 Terry

 

[securespark]

Getting old is no joy.

Someone I knew of died at 61 recently. I'm 60 in August.

It makes you think

 

[decrep]

Trapped in a rapidly ageing body and brain, is not a lot of fun for an eternal being.
Just make the best of what you've got, release is on it's way.
Even if it does carry an ugly looking scythe!

Don't be sad Clive, this is reality, embrace it, live life to the full.
There's no point moping about just because we're all going to die.

 

[Ian Key]

Getting old is no joy.

Someone I knew of died at 61 recently. I'm 60 in August.

It makes you think

One of my grandfathers died a few weeks before I was born and the other a fortnight before he was due to retire so I knew neither of them and my father died at 72.

Mind you my grandmother died at 92 and my mother at 88 so fingers crossed I have their genes

 

[Archev]

My Dad died at 56. His Dad died at 66. I’ve been 76 now for too long. Can I break the chain and incinerate the next cake and avoid all grass cutting equipment toted by others ??

 

[MG Clive]

My Dad died at 56. His Dad died at 66. I’ve been 76 now for too long. Can I break the chain and incinerate the next cake and avoid all grass cutting equipment toted by others ??

The chain already seems to be broken, you should have gone at 46.

 

[Archev]

The chain already seems to be broken, you should have gone at 46.

Always had trouble with mathematical progressions

 

[securespark]

I have trouble with maths full stop!

I was trying to work out 30K at 3p a mile yesterday...

 

[salty]

Jesus! The last few posts, cheered me up,
no end. Cheer up for God's sake. Enjoy ya bloody selves.

 

[securespark]

Didn't I cheer you up with my rubbish maths?

Most people are happier once they find someone who is worse at maths than they are!