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Post by Netsuke on Oct 1, 2020 6:53:30 GMT 2
What happened to that handsome young bloke who had all the girls swooning at his feet, when he could hang out till the early hours? Or the girl who polished off a bottle of Red Ned every night and still managed to be bright eyed and bubbly at work the next day?
When the world was your oyster, everybody and everything were fun, and no care was given about tomorrow...When the biggest problem was which lipstick to wear or where to take a girl on your first date!
One day you look in the mirror and there's this old person looking back at you. You spring back in shock asking who are you? Where did you come from?
You know you're old when, you prefer comfortable shoes instead of fashionable heels..
...The actors and actresses all look so young (like teenagers)
..You get asked, "What was it like in the olden days?"
Mowing the lawn takes twice as long...
There's less hair on your head,
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Post by Voy on Oct 1, 2020 14:21:13 GMT 2
And you don't mind being heavier, being white haired, wearing flat shoes and comfy jeans ( tho maybe not yet the elastic waist ones...) - so you put a sticker on the pickup truck you drive , that says " Outrageous Older Woman"... and you get grins and thumbs up from those ^ mentioned above !
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Post by kuskiwi on Oct 2, 2020 5:35:32 GMT 2
And the police look like young teenagers.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 2, 2020 10:28:26 GMT 2
You know you're old when you order half a pint of beer in the pub because a pint is too heavy.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 7, 2020 4:37:26 GMT 2
your young professors are all emeritus
staying up all night takes a massive toll
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Post by Netsuke on Dec 7, 2020 15:25:34 GMT 2
You’re old enough to know better but young enough to do it but don’t get the chance to find out.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 7, 2020 18:29:05 GMT 2
When a woman stands up to give me her seat.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 7, 2020 21:27:49 GMT 2
your students have phds
your kid's friends actually have connections you can use
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Post by tzarine on Dec 12, 2020 23:42:31 GMT 2
no one asks for id anymore
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Post by Netsuke on Dec 13, 2020 3:33:13 GMT 2
You feel like it’s the morning after, but you didn’t have the night before!
You catch yourself in shock because you realise you sound exactly like your mother!
Total strangers speak to you, they know you, but you have no idea who these young men and women are.....Belatedly, you realise they are your son’s/daughter’s school friends!
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Post by tzarine on Dec 13, 2020 20:35:02 GMT 2
if you don't stretch your feet before getting up, there's a real danger of plantar fasciitis
the dreaded sun spots
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 27, 2020 11:20:15 GMT 2
You know you're old when you get summoned for your Covid jab. Wait a minute - why haven't I been summoned? Mrs Faz's brother has and he's way younger than me.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 27, 2020 19:57:08 GMT 2
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 27, 2020 20:14:42 GMT 2
I wonder why these^^^are all blocked on my computer.
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Post by Netsuke on Dec 28, 2020 7:39:51 GMT 2
I wonder why these^^^are all blocked on my computer. Baz, it’s an image of a red electric typewriter. Personally, I find these ones are sexier, Attachments:
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 28, 2020 11:15:00 GMT 2
I remember when I was a student I was the editor of a fortnightly magazine. It was obviously necessary that I should have a typewriter so I got a Lettera 22. I went to Paris in the Easter vacation so I naturally brought my typewriter with me. Going for a coffee at a café on the Boul' Mich' I naturally took along my typewriter and sat tapping away so Parisians could say in later years they had seen this literary genius at work.
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Post by Voy on Dec 28, 2020 16:27:44 GMT 2
I remember being fascinated with the first of the electric "selectric" onea - watching the little ball spin around. But we were still using carbon paper for copies...urrrgh. Even worse was cutting stencils for mimiographs ! ok. it's official. I'm old !
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Post by Netsuke on Dec 28, 2020 20:08:21 GMT 2
Going for a coffee at a café on the Boul' Mich' I naturally took along my typewriter and sat tapping away so Parisians could say in later years they had seen this literary genius at work. Boul’ Mich’? As in Boulevard Saint-Michel? |
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 29, 2020 0:14:31 GMT 2
Going for a coffee at a café on the Boul' Mich' I naturally took along my typewriter and sat tapping away so Parisians could say in later years they had seen this literary genius at work. Boul’ Mich’? As in Boulevard Saint-Michel? Yes. |
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Post by Netsuke on Dec 29, 2020 2:17:25 GMT 2
You know you’re old when you and your teeth no longer sleep together.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 29, 2020 8:35:19 GMT 2
I remember being fascinated with the first of the electric "selectric" onea - watching the little ball spin around. But we were still using carbon paper for copies...urrrgh. Even worse was cutting stencils for mimiographs ! ok. it's official. I'm old ! ive used a mimeograph! loved the selectric balls w the different typefaces |
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Post by auntieannie on Dec 29, 2020 12:46:15 GMT 2
I thought i had replied to this thread?!?
I learned to type on an old fashioned manual typewriter. You know those your fingers went to the gym using you had to press so hard and small fingers would often slip between the keys.
Then the next year they gave us olivetti elctric typewriters and the merest touch would give you three of the letters. aaarrrgghhhh!
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 29, 2020 15:25:01 GMT 2
Excuse me: Gestetner! That's better.
The "golf ball" typewriter's unique selling point was that it didn't knock your beer over.
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Post by Voy on Dec 29, 2020 17:07:58 GMT 2
gee - I don't recall having beer in the office when I was 20, at AFS for a summer job !
and the other is another of one of those across the pond ( in my case the other pond) it was called a mimeograph here, but when I was working in Australia in 66-67 it was called gestetner.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 30, 2020 2:41:09 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Jul 5, 2021 19:32:13 GMT 2
you remember going to bed w no devices to charge
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 6, 2021 15:16:23 GMT 2
Reminds me a little of therapies for cystic fibrosis, which I suppose is hardly surprising.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 6, 2021 16:56:29 GMT 2
A man knows he is old when a woman gets up and offers him her seat.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 6, 2021 21:04:20 GMT 2
you have to stretch before you get out of bed otherwise you're a candidate for plantar fasciitis
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Post by tzarine on Jan 3, 2023 5:50:51 GMT 2
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