Author Topic: You know you're middle aged when  (Read 186158 times)

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #950 on: 06 October, 2019, 04:37:44 pm »
All of my trainees for about the last 5 years were born after I started training.   U suspect the newest consultant was born after I got my fellowship!

The problem is the respect they seem to have invested me with which I am sure I do not deserve.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #951 on: 06 October, 2019, 10:56:47 pm »
You discover a colleague in their early 20's was born on your 30th birthday.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #952 on: 06 October, 2019, 11:08:02 pm »
"Kid, I've got shoes older than you" ~ The Finn

I'm really quite worried that I got that reference.

Tell me something, when does middle age start?

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #953 on: 06 October, 2019, 11:10:43 pm »
Tell me something, when does middle age start?

Thursday.  I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #954 on: 06 October, 2019, 11:12:56 pm »
I try to kid myself that age is just a state of mind...

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Which works as long as I don't mind the state I'm in...
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #955 on: 07 October, 2019, 09:14:54 am »
Tell me something, when does middle age start?

Thursday.  I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
Thursday is when the weekend starts (unless it's a long weekend), ergo middle age is the weekend.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #956 on: 07 October, 2019, 11:33:40 am »
Tell me something, when does middle age start?

Thursday.  I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
Thursday is when the weekend starts (unless it's a long weekend), ergo middle age is the weekend.

Douglas Adams applies.

“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.”
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #957 on: 10 October, 2019, 10:12:35 am »
The beep emitted by the continuity tester in your multimeter is beyond your auditory range.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #958 on: 10 October, 2019, 10:13:48 pm »
You discover a colleague in their early 20's was born on your 30th birthday.
In my case, I discovered that an ex-girlfriend recently bought a house with her partner. He was born when I was 27.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #959 on: 10 October, 2019, 10:17:08 pm »
The beep emitted by the continuity tester in your multimeter is beyond your auditory range.

That's a bit worrying.

And another reason[1] why they should have the option to flash the backlight like those nice Brymen ones.


[1] See also: Continuity testing in loud or noise-sensitive environments.  Both if you're a soundie.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #960 on: 11 October, 2019, 07:26:43 pm »
In the 80's I did a Computer sci degree. 

Last month I had a work laptop 'upgraded' to windows 10 and I had to ask PB for help finding the shutdown command. How was I to know it was no longer an English  word :-[

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #961 on: 11 October, 2019, 07:34:18 pm »
In the 80's I did a Computer sci degree. 

Last month I had a work laptop 'upgraded' to windows 10 and I had to ask PB for help finding the shutdown command. How was I to know it was no longer an English  word :-[
So what on earth does it say? It still says "Shut down" on mine, which is Windows 8. Have Microsoft invented a new word???!
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #962 on: 11 October, 2019, 08:58:05 pm »
So how do you get it to shut down completely?
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ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #963 on: 11 October, 2019, 09:03:00 pm »
Weight it down and drop it in the Mariana Trench.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #964 on: 12 October, 2019, 01:26:44 pm »
The beep emitted by the continuity tester in your multimeter is beyond your auditory range.

That's a bit worrying.

And another reason[1] why they should have the option to flash the backlight like those nice Brymen ones.


[1] See also: Continuity testing in loud or noise-sensitive environments.  Both if you're a soundie.

Yeah.  I can still just hear it.  It's about 15 years since I stopped being able to hear the out-of-bpm-range beep from my HRM. No loss.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #965 on: 12 October, 2019, 03:10:53 pm »
This Unit uses and endorses Classic Shell, which makes current versions of Windows look like the versions us wrinkly oldsters grew up with as opposed to a Fisher-Price toy with a touch screen.  See rants passim re touch screens.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #967 on: 15 October, 2019, 09:16:58 am »
When an hour and a half in the workshop feels like a whole morning.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #969 on: 15 October, 2019, 12:25:01 pm »
Ctrl-Alt-Del is thataway==============> (region of your numeric keypad). This topic is about decrepitude.  Oh, wait... OK, go on talking about Windows 10.
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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #970 on: 15 October, 2019, 02:33:27 pm »
Win 10 matters have been split off and moved to Ctrl-Alt-Del.

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Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #971 on: 15 October, 2019, 02:47:06 pm »
 :thumbsup:
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ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #972 on: 15 October, 2019, 02:49:31 pm »
Surely you're middle-aged if you remember Windows 3.1.

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #973 on: 15 October, 2019, 02:55:14 pm »
Surely you're middle-aged if you remember Windows 3.1.
I remember when people got excited about Windows 3.0
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ian

Re: You know you're middle aged when
« Reply #974 on: 15 October, 2019, 03:05:33 pm »
I wrote my PhD thesis on a Windows 3.1 machine (I think, whatever Windows for Workgroups was). I found an entire IBM PS 3/2 in a skip and set it up in the basement of our building, making myself a nice space to play solitaire contemplate molecules.

Everyone was really impressed that I had my own computer and an office space that didn't smell like radioactivity. I never did tell anyone that I put the computer in the skip in the first place so I could 'find' it, and I never actually asked about the basement space, I just annexed it. Anything done with enough confidence is indistinguishable from being officially authorized.