You're old when......

[hydro noun15]

my dad said to me the other day !! "he remembers when petrol went to 50c and they were shocked"
im supprised he hasnt had a heart attack over petrol prices then..lol


jason

 

[spilota_variegata]

The GTHO price is the one that kills me

I know... I remember being offered one in the early 1980's for under 10k. I asked my girlfriend at the time if I could get it and she said I was crazy so I decided against it. I could kick myself for listening to her. She was also the person that told me I was crazy when I bought a house and said it would be a good idea to buy the block beside it because it was just 11k. Once again, on her advice, I didn't purchase the block. That was just before the real-esate boom of the 1980s and the block was worth over 100k less than 2 years later.

 

[tooninoz]

The GTHO price is the one that kills me

Haha, yeah, and Monaros were hated, only driven by westies in tight black jeans and forearm tatts



My fondest memories were those kits you could get from the chemist (might have been the newsagent?!) so you could search for the 'Argentine Ant'? All my mates and I would get 'em in the hope we'd find this ant and get a $20 reward and go berko on the spaceys. Never found one, as a 12yo has bugger all attention span.
Anyone here (I think it were a Sydney thing) ever honestly get an Argentine Ant?

 

[Jen]

paper money was actually paper

 

[The Devil]

having a shilling (10 cents) to spend at the movies at half time. It was enough to keep you chewing for the second movie.

Being kicked out of the movies for not standing when God save the Queen was played.....

 

[spilota_variegata]

When you sleep like a baby - a solid 8 hours a night.. Problem being is you have to go to the toilet every 6 :shock:

 

[MatE]

Turned 35 today so feeling old lol.I Remember coming back from sydney with my dad and fuel was 35 cents and pulled up in the XY Falcon to a petrol bowser to find they didnt have any signboards up tell how much fuel was and it turned out to be 50cents and you should have had dad go off lol.A phase 3 GTHO went for well over half a million the other day on the auction show,if only we had a crystal ball.

 

[pythonmum]

I remember walking to the record store with my sister and buying 45s for $1.00 (in the USA).
Other OLD memories - getting our first colour TV (I was in year 10); 8-track tapes; video disks (don't know if that misguided product made it to Oz); disco craze and when Michael Jackson looked like a normal African-American child!

You also know you are getting old when you start saying/ doing things like your parents. The first time I licked my thumb and reached out to remove a smudge from my partner's face, I caught myself and nearly died of the horror. I'd become my mother!

 

[Jen]

Michael Jackson is African American?

 

[GSXR_Boy]

Reading the thread the other day about what song came out in the year you were born and thinking i remember getting that on Lp or tape

 

[The Devil]

Michael Jackson is from a planet out near Pluto, he got caught in a space storm and ended up here......aren't we lucky..................

 

[thepythonpit]

i remember when we went from 2 tv channels to 3 thanks to SBS , now you can see almost anything anytime you want on utube

 

[snakes4me2]

watching roger ramjet and doctor who when the was only channel 6 and Abc

 

[spilota_variegata]

What are you talking about, there are still only 3 channels in Alice Springs Thank god for Austar

i remember when we went from 2 tv channels to 3 thanks to SBS , now you can see almost anything anytime you want on utube

 

[Leigh]

some of this stuff is an entirely different language to me :shock:
case in point

go berko on the spaceys

??
i have vague memories of lollies being reasonably priced, and everybody knew the moves to the Macarena. that's about it.

oh, wait, i've got one. when Humphrey B. Bear's severe lack of trousers wasn't considered pornographic.
oh, and when Brittany Spears was a virgin. wait....:|

 

[pythonmum]

Michael Jackson is African American?

Not any more!!! Most Black folk have disowned the little creep.

 

[spilota_variegata]

You know you're old when you look at this car and think "ho hum." This baby sold for 5.5 million dollars, setting a new American - and world record in the process. I don't think anyone in their right mind would not like this snake (a Shelby Cobra)....

A phase 3 GTHO went for well over half a million the other day on the auction show,if only we had a crystal ball.

 

[Poppy]

I remember when TVs were first sold. We would go to the TV shop and watch it through the window and dream of owing one.
The first people in our street bought one and invited all the neighbours around to watch. (that was the end of conversation)
They were the good old days (NOT).

 

[amazonian]

You're old when...

You're dreams are dry & your farts are wet.

 

[spilota_variegata]

I remember when TVs were first sold. We would go to the TV shop and watch it through the window and dream of owing one.
The first people in our street bought one and invited all the neighbours around to watch. (that was the end of conversation)
They were the good old days (NOT).

That would make you around 60 years old. Are you sure you're not talking about colour televisions? Not having a go at your age, with age comes wisdom (I'm an exception to the rule)