Feeling Old?

[falong]

Here is this year's list:

>>

>> The people who are starting college this fall across the nation

>>were born in 1985.

>>

>> They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and

>>probably did not know he had ever been shot.

>>

>> They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.

>>

>>

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>>There has been only one Pope in their lifetime.

>>

>> They were 10 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not

>>remember

>> the cold war.

>>

>> They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

>>

>>

>>Tiananmen Square means nothing to them.

>>

>> Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

>>

>>

>>

>>Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums.

>>

>> The statement "You sound like a broken record" means nothing to

>>them.

>>

>> They have never owned a record player.

>>

>> They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of

>>Pong.

>>

>> They may have never heard of an 8 track. The Compact Disc was

>>introduced when they were 1 year old.

>>

>> They have always had an answering machine.

>>

>> Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have

>>they seen a black and white TV.

>>

>> They have always had cable.

>>

>> There have always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA

>>was.

>>

>> They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

>>

>> They don't know what a cloth baby diaper is, or know about the

>>"Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial.

>>

>> Feeling old Yet? There's more:

>>

>> They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony.

>>

>> Roller skating has always meant inline for them.

>>

>>

>>

>>Michael Jackson has always been white.

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>> Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

>>

>> They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.

>>

>> Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

>>

>> They have never seen Larry Bird play.

>>

>> They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

>>

>> The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as W.W.I, W.W.II

>>and

>> the Civil War.

>>

>> They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.

>>

>> They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

>>

>> They don't know who Mork was or where he was from. (The correct

>> answer, by the way, is Ork)

>>

>> They never heard: "Where's the beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a

>> Camel," or "De plane, de plane!"

>>

>> They do not care who shot J.R.and have no idea who J.R.was.

>>

>> Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places, not

>> bands.

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>> There has always been MTV.

>>

>> They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

>>

>> Do you feel old yet? If you do, then pass this on to some other

>> old fogies...but don't send it back to me, I feel old enough.

[ThaiPauly]

they could also have no idea what it was like NOT to have e-mail or a mobile

How did we EVER survive

(20 years ago I had to pleaed with my then employers that we needed a FAX MACHINE- Why? they said, I eventually had my way- can you imagine NOT having one?)

[ThaiPauly]

Whoops, sorry to my American freinds, you call "Mobiles" Cellphones and us Brits call them Mobiles, just so you understand

[Crossy]

Whoops, sorry to my American freinds, you call "Mobiles" Cellphones and us Brits call them Mobiles, just so you understand

And just to be complete we call them handphones or handyphones in certain parts of Asia

EDIT Hmmm, replying to a 2004 thread, "guilty m'lord", this is what comes from searching for something on the forum then reading the (unrelated) stuff that comes up

Edited March 27, 2007 by Crossy

[peter991]

Go back 20 years ago ... my daughter was 3 years of age. She was a bright toddler. Woke me one morning at 3.00am. The problem? She had woken up and her TV was 'broken' ... I checked and found it wasn't 'broken' - there was only 1 channel still on air at the time - and it was showing an old black and white movie!

Peter

[PhilHarries]

What's with this "only 13 channels" on television? Those Americans always had it better.

When I was a kid in the UK we had two (2) channels, BBC and ITV in black and white.

The TV took 15 minutes to warm up then dad had to do ten minutes of technical adjustments to get a stable "clear" picture, the final fix always being thump the bluddy thing on the side and top a few times.

Then periodically you'd lose sound and/or picture and the little "Do not adjust your set" message would appear.

Oh happy days.

In fact I can vaguely remember when we were in Germany, dad being in BAOR, having only a radio set that was about as big as an average TV set. We used to listen to BFPO radio programme and I used to hear of guys posted in places like Akrotiri (Cyprus) and think "wow, all that way away".

Shut up Phil, you're showing your age.

[Crow Boy]

Shut up Phil, you're showing your age.

Half the guys on this forum will soon start to reminisce about the old days when they used to sit around the fire waiting for the mammoths to come

[suegha]

I remember getting our first TV and it only had ONE channel! Also remember not having a fridge. When people bought a 'Radiogramme' (that was a record player and a radio in one unit) it was the size of 3 washing machines. I could mention more but I have had enough, I'm tired, I need a lie down...

Ps does anyone remember when the remote control was attached to the TV by a cable???

Oh, halcyon days!

[Jet Gorgon]

Mom did laundry every Saturday morning in the wringer washer (agitator tub and a two-roll wringer above it that you had to feed the wet laundry through). Then she hung the washing outside on the line, whatever the season. I loved helping to collect it in winter when it was frozen stiff like plywood. Then she sprayed each item with a water bottle and rolled it up to stay damp for ironing (no steam irons) on Monday nights.

Mowing the lawn with an elbow grease propelled push cutter.

Rotary dial phones and party lines.

Using the outhouse at the farm and selecting just the right Sears catalogue page to dry off with.

Cola chests filled with cold water at the corner store.

Watching the Beatles on the Ed Sulivan Show on a snowy B/W TV.

My Kodak Brownie camera.

Bottled water? 55555

One age-old item that remains is the key tin opener on cans of corned beef (and maybe Spam?)

Edited March 31, 2007 by Jet Gorgon