A guy at work has just told me that when this came out

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY[/video]

he was in first year of secondary school

😯

time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

I was listening to True Faith buy New Order in the car this morning.

It is 28 years old. 🙁

A guy at work has just told me that when this came out…

A very elaborate way of telling everyone you know a 24 year old 😕

One of my neighbours kids was 18 a few Months back and nirvana smells like teen spirit was blaring out into the street. I then realised that I was rocking out to it before he was even conceived.. And Kurt has been dead 20 years?

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-hQ6-biWoo[/video]

And then of course there’s the Half Man Half Biscuit version…

It was my birthday the other week, I was working at a university open day, it was also one of my student assistant’s birthday- exactly half my age. I considered that rude of her tbh.

In my mid 40s – the music of my youth is now older than the music of the Beatles was when I was in my youth. Scary.

Some people are younger than me

Policemen are looking younger these days?

So are doctors

I’m not. I’m looking older 🙁

Who is this child reading the news?

Yeah, we had an admin girl start at work, several of us wondered why the work experience kid was here for a second week… 😳

She had an op recently and was off work, she turned up with her mum, to ‘show off’ her stitches (absolutely mental!). Even her mums younger than me….

I can mine fawn ah this wiz parks…

I commented in the pub this evening that having Hendrix’ “All along the Watchtower” as background music seemed a sign of the times.

I don’t care for the original but this is ace.
[video]http://youtu.be/lr5XwcEMVC4[/video]

Dunno about you lot, but I’m 15.

Inside anyway, the outside is knocking on 40…

White stripes on radio 2 today. Bieber on 1. I felt old today.

‘Not long now before lollypop men are called Darren’.

I went to the Rewind festival and felt young at 38 with the mean fan age of 55 lol

I feel young till I look in the mirror agh!

Where the hell does time go?

[video]http://youtu.be/mSCqeuaP3Lo[/video]

On a less upbeat note ( corny I know ) I was born 18 years after the end of the Second World War. When you think that 18 years ago today is 1997, you realise how recent that world changing event was to those living in the 60’s. Whatever we sit and complain about today pales into insignificance really

We don’t stop playing when we grow old,
We grow old when we stop playing…

… seems appropriate for a forum made up of middle-aged men who participate in a sport which is essentially playing on bikes in the mud in the woods 🙂

jambalaya – Member

On a less upbeat note ( corny I know ) I was born 18 years after the end of the Second World War. When you think that 18 years ago today is 1997, you realise how recent that world changing event was to those living in the 60’s. Whatever we sit and complain about today pales into insignificance really

Very true & I’m only 2 years younger than you really puts it into perspective !

I have noticed now that when filling out on-line forms I have to spend considerable time scrolling down to the year of my birth.

On a note more directly related to the OPs thread I just read this, Costello was and remains my music hero. An extract from his autobiography about being on TOTP in the late 1970’s

Costello

I used to wonder why my mum was playing the really old tunes from the sixties when I was growing up in the eighties.

I now play the really old tunes from the eighties that still sound to me like they were out yesterday.

As pointed out by my godaughter who is now exactly half my age……

Still feel fine now at 38 and am fitter than I ever have been and now have the money to do the things I couldn’t afford when I was younger so it’s not all bad 😀 Especially when one of my Godaughters mate told me I look ” well cute ” for an older guy 😯

I’ve just spent the last 2 weeks trying to get id’d in the states. To be honest the beard doesn’t help…

Being in the same industry for 10 years now means all the new starters are not sure if software existed when I started

If you told me it was 2008 today, I could believe you. I’ve no idea where the last seven years have gone.

Sometimes when junior wants me to listen to something I say “I didn’t listen to that when I was your age, why would I suddenly like it now?”

Policemen are looking fatter these days.

My eldest daughter started secondary school this year. This made me feel very old. Especially as it seems only about 3 years ago, in me years, since she was born.

Still… reading this thread has cheered me up as I know I’m definitely nowhere near as old as some of you giffers 😛

*runs off to avoid a clip round the ear off Jammers*

My youngest started secondary school this year Binners!
Notice that – SECONDARY SCHOOL – not bloody Year 6.7.8 or whatever the hell they use now.

On a less upbeat note ( corny I know ) I was born 18 years after the end of the Second World War.

So young…

Do you remember Apollo 11? That’s the line between sensible adult and callow youth.

Was a bit chilly this morning. Had to dig out the old faithful pace pertex for the ride in. I commented to the receptionist at work how good a jacket it’s been, bought in 1994 and still going strong.
Her reply –
“Wow 1994, that’s the year before I was born”
😯

Incidentally, the solution to “modern music is rubbish, not like when I were a lad” is to be into metal- because modern metal really is rubbish, and all the kidz are still listening to stuff that came out when I was their age.

Something’s gotta be done about your kids”

Dr. Emmet Brown told Marty McFly at the end of the first Back to the Future film.

When do they jump to …. next week

“

all the kidz are still listening to stuff that came out when I was their age.

Jeez Northwind, I didn’t realise you were that old… 😉

The other day I wanted some music to easy the boredom of housework – so for the first time in want felt like 3 weeks, but was in actual fact 7 years I put MTV on TV, things I discovered:

1) MTV doesn’t actually show Music Videos anymore, it shows endless episodes of terrible stylised reality programmes. In fact it’s become so distant from ‘Music’ that it’s not listed with the other Music channels, and they’ve started a channel called MTV Music, or Music Television Music – which is odd.

2) Not all modern music is terrible, most of it is much, much worse, but some of it is actually quite good – Bring Me the Horizon, The Weeknd, James Bay, Disclosure, but most of it is absolutely dire – Selina Gomez for example is so bad at singing that 14 Karats becomes Farting Carrots once Autotune has made her sing the right notes.

Films are one of the worst thing in the world for making me feel old though:

Spiderman – the Tobey Maguire one – 13 years old, it’s so old they’ve rebooted it and made a sequel to the Reboot.

Independence Day – when it comes on TV I still think of it as a pretty new film, some of the computers they use give it away though – it’s 19 years old and came out the year Palmer started Mountain Biking.

Pulp Fiction, feels 10 years old to me, is 21 years old.

Awful Star Wars Prequels, 16 years old.

Lock Stock… 17 years old.

Casino Royale – the ‘New’ Bond – 10 years old.

The Incredibles, The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Harry Potter Films. Saw, Shaun of the Dead, Kill Bill I & II, I Robot, Anchorman, Alien v Predator – none of these films had their trailers premier on YouTube – because IT DIDN’T EXIST!

I since the whole 60 plate thing happened on cars, I can’t really work out how old they are – partly because cars don’t seem to age like they used to, 10 year old cars when I was a teenager were pretty much bangers, they still get scraped of course, but they don’t look old anymore – they don’t rust like they used, plus they don’t change the look very much!