Author Topic: You know you're middle aged when  (Read 186640 times)

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #650 on: 06 April, 2018, 10:05:05 am »
... your sister had a Betamx VCR.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #651 on: 06 April, 2018, 10:09:40 am »
I bought some double sided sticky foam pads to stick electronic bits into my model aeroplanes.  I know I did because eBay says so.  So I must have.

I recall using a few, but not many. I don't recall where I put the packet when I'd done that.  I do know that it's not where I used to put the previous packet until that ran out.

I've bought another packet.  Presumably the part-used packet will turn up today, at about the same time as the postman.

This never used to happen to me 20 years ago.......


EDIT: The postie brought the second batch of sticky pads, purchased from the original supplier, loose in a plain envelope. The first batch did not show up at the same time.

In hunting for the first batch, I was looking for some sort of proprietary packaging, but I now suspect that I probably re-packaged the pads into a packet/bag/box of my own choosing.  Which is going to make it even harder to find them. 

Is my brain really fading that fast? Is there any hope.......?

Update:  Found them, as predicted, when I was looking for something else.  I hadn't re-packaged them, just put them somewhere safe.........  I now have more than a lifetime's supply of double-sided sticky foam pads.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #652 on: 06 April, 2018, 10:46:19 am »
.... you check this topic every few days to see if you are there yet

...or still here, as the case may be.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #653 on: 07 April, 2018, 09:23:23 am »
Cassette players are more useful than a CD player in a car.  At least you can stick a tape-adapter in and plug it into your MP3 player.  Much better than an FM transmitter.
Absolutely. You can run a DAB radio through them as well. After we killed the peugeot and bought Red Ted, we had to buy a DAB car radio, because it had a CD player. It also has a USB slot for playing your MP3. A lot of spend to get where we were, and we can't play tapes on it.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #654 on: 07 April, 2018, 01:09:18 pm »
Trick is to have old enough cars that you can just slot the radio out and install one of your choosing.  Better than having to buy a tape recorder to copy things to tape for the car.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #655 on: 09 April, 2018, 05:24:32 pm »
You need Viagra just to get your hopes up!

If the massive window poster in the Keswick branch of Boots is to be believed Viagra is available without prescription now  :thumbsup:

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #656 on: 09 April, 2018, 05:51:00 pm »
Trick is to have old enough cars that you can just slot the radio out and install one of your choosing.  Better than having to buy a tape recorder to copy things to tape for the car.

We just have a singalong. We invent songs from musicals that don't exist but really, really should, like Sharknado: the Musical which feature such epics as Let's Give Thanks to the Elasmobranchs. We made the sharks the heros. Well, people dressed as sharks, the American Humane society monitors such things.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #657 on: 24 April, 2018, 08:36:30 pm »
You are the only person in your place of work who has watched a black and white film.  :o

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #658 on: 24 April, 2018, 08:49:30 pm »
You remember spending pound notes

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #659 on: 24 April, 2018, 09:49:26 pm »
You  remember a good  night out on a ten bob note.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #660 on: 25 April, 2018, 07:42:56 am »
You are the only person in your place of work who has watched a black and white film.  :o
I used to work with a bloke who wouldn't watch black and white films on TV as he'd paid for a colour licence and was damn well going to get his money's worth.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #661 on: 25 April, 2018, 07:49:31 am »
You  remember a good  night out on a ten bob note.

Blimey.  I can remember black and white television but I cannot remember ten bob notes.   You must be very old Basil.   :P

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #662 on: 25 April, 2018, 07:52:40 am »
You  remember a good  night out on a ten bob note.

Blimey.  I can remember black and white television but I cannot remember ten bob notes.   You must be very old Basil.   :P

You're right.  That's beyond middle-aged, isn't it?
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #663 on: 25 April, 2018, 08:07:06 am »
You  remember a good  night out on a ten bob note.

Blimey.  I can remember black and white television but I cannot remember ten bob notes.   You must be very old Basil.   :P

You're right.  That's beyond middle-aged, isn't it?

I had to go and check when ten bob notes were finally phased out and it was 1970:  I was seven.  My memories of money of my early childhood doesn't extend beyond thruppeny bits and sixpences.   

Ah, those were the days.   ::-)    :D

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #664 on: 25 April, 2018, 08:09:06 am »
You  remember a good  night out on a ten bob note.

They were brown, a bit like the tenner now.  Isn't that inflation for you?  A 10 bob note would have been 4 pints, so a reasonable night out in those days.  I'd be fast asleep now after 3 pint zzzzzzzzz.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #665 on: 25 April, 2018, 02:07:26 pm »
I collected the cash for Kosher dinners at 1/9 each and was handed ten bob notes for a week's dinners till the 50p coin was introduced.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #666 on: 25 April, 2018, 04:18:19 pm »
They were still legal tender when we moved back from Germany in 1970 but 50p coins had practically taken over by then.  Not that I ever had that much money back then ;D
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #667 on: 25 April, 2018, 04:57:34 pm »
I was quite surprised when the machine gave me £5s the other day. That's not even a beer token in 2018 London (£6.50 for a 330ml can as it turned out).

ETA: of course, complaining about the price of beer is another symptom of middle age. Though that was bloody expensive (the price of rooftop drinking).

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #668 on: 25 April, 2018, 05:17:28 pm »
You get thanked for letting someone out of an HST, by dint of knowing that there’s no internal door handle.
Bonus points for remembering when HSTs DID have internal door handles.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #669 on: 25 April, 2018, 06:41:29 pm »
I don't remember HSTs every having internal door handles. I do remember when you had to lower the window and use the external door handle, before they introduced the push buttons. I also remember when HST referred (in the UK) to only one type of train.  :D
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #670 on: 25 April, 2018, 09:03:49 pm »
They had internal door handles until unfortunate folk leant against them in moving trains, with predictably disastrous results.

I suppose this proves I am OLD...

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #671 on: 25 April, 2018, 09:24:46 pm »
You  remember a good  night out on a ten bob note.
And you* start repeating yourself without realising you're doing so. See posts starting here

*That's a collective, "you" not a dig at Basil who is venerable rather than old middle-aged.  :)
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #672 on: 25 April, 2018, 09:40:17 pm »
 ;D. Yes.  I realised when the price of ye olde beer came up that we'd been here several times before.

That's the trouble with YACF now being ten years old.  We're starting to go round in circles a bit.

You know YACF is middle aged when ...............
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #673 on: 25 April, 2018, 09:44:53 pm »
I was quite surprised when the machine gave me £5s the other day. That's not even a beer token in 2018 London (£6.50 for a 330ml can as it turned out).

ETA: of course, complaining about the price of beer is another symptom of middle age. Though that was bloody expensive (the price of rooftop drinking).


I was paying £4.80 a pint in Southwark a couple of weeks ago.  Last week we ended up somewhere in Liverpool paying about £2......   thats cheap, usually £3.80 for decent real ale.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #674 on: 25 April, 2018, 10:14:08 pm »
You know you're middle aged when . . .

...you can't remember what you were going to say.
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