sadoldgit Posted 1 November, 2019 Share Posted 1 November, 2019 The fact The Beatles split up 50 years ago really does it for me. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Wow. Doesn’t seem possible. Mind you, I was trying to work out the first gig I went to recently and that was T.Rex in 1969 so that was 50 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shroppie Posted 1 November, 2019 Share Posted 1 November, 2019 Wow. Doesn’t seem possible. Mind you, I was trying to work out the first gig I went to recently and that was T.Rex in 1969 so that was 50 years ago.Was that gig at Soton Uni? If so, I was there. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guided Missile Posted 1 November, 2019 Share Posted 1 November, 2019 Nostalgia isn't what it used to be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 1 November, 2019 Share Posted 1 November, 2019 Was that gig at Soton Uni? If so, I was there. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk No Shroppie, Fairfield Halls, Croydon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shroppie Posted 1 November, 2019 Share Posted 1 November, 2019 No Shroppie, Fairfield Halls, Croydon.Fair enough. When I saw them they were supporting Pink Floyd! Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 1 November, 2019 Share Posted 1 November, 2019 Fair enough. When I saw them they were supporting Pink Floyd! Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk Wow! That was value for money. From memory they had not long changed from being a hippy duo Tyrannosaurus Rex to poppy electric band T. Rex. Lots of screaming girls in the audience S they just had a hit with Ride A White Swan. My next live gig was Deep Purple which looks much better on the CV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenilworthy Posted 3 November, 2019 Share Posted 3 November, 2019 Talking about football in the office to people who had no idea that there was once a time when substitutes were not allowed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 3 November, 2019 Share Posted 3 November, 2019 Nothing wrong with being born in '84. Vintage year mate. Now you've made me feel old, realising I was at the Fratton cup tie, and Highbury semi-final the year you were born Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 4 November, 2019 Share Posted 4 November, 2019 Put the year of my birth online and taking about 10 minutes to scroll down to the date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 9 November, 2019 Share Posted 9 November, 2019 Put the year of my birth online and taking about 10 minutes to scroll down to the date. this!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 9 November, 2019 Share Posted 9 November, 2019 Remembering when Saints finished second in the top flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 9 November, 2019 Share Posted 9 November, 2019 Remembering when we last won at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 9 November, 2019 Share Posted 9 November, 2019 Knowing that next year I'll have been teaching for 40 years. The old timers when I started had invariably been Dunkirk or D Day veterans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portugalsaint Posted 9 November, 2019 Share Posted 9 November, 2019 Looking at today’s TV programmes Strictly, Apprentice and other reality crap on TV. Not finding today’s comedians very funny at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 9 January, 2020 Share Posted 9 January, 2020 Driving home this evening, the radio played "School's Out" by Alice Cooper, a record I bought, aged 12, when it came out in 1972. I pointed out to my wife that a 12 year old today, on hearing that record, would be the equivalent of us in 1972 listening to a tune recorded in 1925. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 9 January, 2020 Share Posted 9 January, 2020 Driving home this evening, the radio played "School's Out" by Alice Cooper, a record I bought, aged 12, when it came out in 1972. I pointed out to my wife that a 12 year old today, on hearing that record, would be the equivalent of us in 1972 listening to a tune recorded in 1925. I just had a similar experience. I am on an ELP appreciation site and tonight someone posted a Melody Maker review from their gig at the Hammersmith Odeon in December 1972 which I attended. I was 18 at the time and remember it like yesterday. Where does the time go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsland Codger Posted 10 January, 2020 Share Posted 10 January, 2020 Two things. I had a birthday recently. I told some of the younger members of staff that I was now of an age where every summer I could rent a cottage on the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear. I was met with looks of utter bewilderment. Yesterday I visited my local library and on the counter were takeaway copies of a freebie newspaper called “Mature Times, the voice of our generation”. I picked up a copy without hesitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 23 February, 2020 Author Share Posted 23 February, 2020 Waking up for the boxing not staying up for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 23 February, 2020 Share Posted 23 February, 2020 Waking up for the boxing not staying up for itLightweight. I'm off to bed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 23 February, 2020 Author Share Posted 23 February, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 23 February, 2020 Share Posted 23 February, 2020 three coins in a fountain was the number 1 record. when i was born bet my mum thought she had hit the jackpot, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets B Avenue Posted 24 February, 2020 Share Posted 24 February, 2020 three coins in a fountain was the number 1 record. when i was born bet my mum thought she had hit the jackpot, Didn't she think it was called "Three Kois in a Fountain"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 24 February, 2020 Share Posted 24 February, 2020 Saw the Doctor this morning, they are a proactive practice, get you in for an MOT and check over before you've gone wonky. Doctor asked how I was, I said I had a spot of sciatica since last Tuesday evening taken a bloody age to go, normally sleep and its gone. Cheeky bugger just said you're getting older and as that happens bits of you just wear out! So its not just "Things that make you feel old", bloody medical professional officially confirming it to you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 24 February, 2020 Share Posted 24 February, 2020 Didn't she think it was called "Three Kois in a Fountain"? Haha. He also thinks Carpe Diem means 'seize the fish' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuel Posted 24 February, 2020 Share Posted 24 February, 2020 Saw the Doctor this morning, they are a proactive practice, get you in for an MOT and check over before you've gone wonky. Doctor asked how I was, I said I had a spot of sciatica since last Tuesday evening taken a bloody age to go, normally sleep and its gone. Cheeky bugger just said you're getting older and as that happens bits of you just wear out! So its not just "Things that make you feel old", bloody medical professional officially confirming it to you!! Went to my doctor for the first time in a decade because I had 4 months of feeling nauseous every time I ate anything and was losing weight fast. He basically shrugged and said "what do you expect me to do about it?" Fortunately it got better by itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyle04 Posted 24 February, 2020 Share Posted 24 February, 2020 Went to my doctor last week, told him every time I raised my right arm above my head it was really painful. He said,"well don't do it then.." .... egg bag, bag egg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saint in winchester Posted 27 February, 2020 Share Posted 27 February, 2020 Went to my doctor last week, told him every time I raised my right arm above my head it was really painful. He said,"well don't do it then.." .... egg bag, bag egg... Thanks. Are you going to do the whole Tommy Cooper act now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 13 May, 2021 Share Posted 13 May, 2021 Saw this fact today, fucking hell!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 13 May, 2021 Share Posted 13 May, 2021 13 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said: Saw this fact today, fucking hell!!!!!! Still a classic. I must get mine out occasionally and give it a spin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 13 May, 2021 Share Posted 13 May, 2021 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said: Saw this fact today, fucking hell!!!!!! Fuck knows how anyone would think that was remotely astonishing. Abbey Road was released 24 years after the war, so that fact has been true since the mid nineties, nearly thirty years ago. Edited 13 May, 2021 by CB Fry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 13 May, 2021 Share Posted 13 May, 2021 Our House by Madness was released closer to WW2 than today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 13 May, 2021 Share Posted 13 May, 2021 Sorry I take it all back, I can see it says WW1. I'll leave my posts up and you can all laugh. However, still not really that astonishing as WW1 was more than 100 years ago and everyone in it is dead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 13 May, 2021 Share Posted 13 May, 2021 In similar vein; What makes me feel old ? I was born closer to 1900 than today. 😞 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 13 May, 2021 Share Posted 13 May, 2021 1 hour ago, CB Fry said: Sorry I take it all back, I can see it says WW1. I'll leave my posts up and you can all laugh. However, still not really that astonishing as WW1 was more than 100 years ago and everyone in it is dead. Yes, sadly they pass away. My mother was born in 1919 and she is still going and her former neighbour is now 108 so there are a very few witnesses still around. I was born in 1949 and the Second World War was very recent. Lots of bombsites around, spent bullets all over our local mudflats and, if you knew where to look and when, flakes of cordite washing up in the surf. There was a shipwreck off Felixstowe of a collier that had hit a mine and a crashed Liberator in the marshes near Parkeston Quay. My father, born in 1918, had two brothers who had fought in WW1. What makes me feel old? Indoor toilets Bathrooms Refrigerators Washing machines Central heating Television, black and white Television, colour Plastic footballs Cars Cars that start in any weather Bicycle tyres that you don’t have to pump up every day. Realising that we won the World Cup after I first met my wife. Celebrating our Golden Wedding last year. When your eight year old grandson asks you what calculus is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan The Flames Posted 13 May, 2021 Share Posted 13 May, 2021 2 hours ago, CB Fry said: Sorry I take it all back, I can see it says WW1. I'll leave my posts up and you can all laugh. However, still not really that astonishing as WW1 was more than 100 years ago and everyone in it is dead. I read it as WW2 and was underwhelmed as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 18 May, 2021 Share Posted 18 May, 2021 Gabrielle Drake.i just saw her in show from way past 1970.....then I noticed this show was over 10 years old too. How come she aged so much when I never aged at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 15 April, 2023 Author Share Posted 15 April, 2023 This was 32 years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 15 April, 2023 Share Posted 15 April, 2023 On 13/05/2021 at 19:10, Lord Duckhunter said: Saw this fact today, fucking hell!!!!!! You know you're getting old when you see that pic and hope the white Beetle got a ticket for parking on the pavement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 15 April, 2023 Share Posted 15 April, 2023 It’s 13 years ago today that the eruption of Ejfujfirrriefuloyullourerefooollferederrwseryylouedeueueloooo closed the entirety of European airspace for a couple of weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 15 April, 2023 Share Posted 15 April, 2023 15 minutes ago, buctootim said: You know you're getting old when you see that pic and hope the white Beetle got a ticket for parking on the pavement. All the Beatles were white, you racist 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 16 April, 2023 Share Posted 16 April, 2023 On 15/04/2023 at 11:43, Lighthouse said: It’s 13 years ago today that the eruption of Ejfujfirrriefuloyullourerefooollferederrwseryylouedeueueloooo closed the entirety of European airspace for a couple of weeks. Known as E15 in geography lessons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 16 April, 2023 Share Posted 16 April, 2023 On 15/04/2023 at 03:28, buctootim said: You know you're getting old when you see that pic and hope the white Beetle got a ticket for parking on the pavement. Maybe the driver did, and took it to court. "There's no evidence I parked on the pavement, your honour." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 12 December, 2023 Author Share Posted 12 December, 2023 Hearing that every Leeds player starting tonight was born after that famous Tony Yeboah goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 12 December, 2023 Share Posted 12 December, 2023 On 09/01/2020 at 20:53, sadoldgit said: I just had a similar experience. I am on an ELP appreciation site and tonight someone posted a Melody Maker review from their gig at the Hammersmith Odeon in December 1972 which I attended. I was 18 at the time and remember it like yesterday. Where does the time go? Saw Keith Emerson in The Nice at Southampton Guildhall a couple of years earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan The Flames Posted 13 December, 2023 Share Posted 13 December, 2023 Reading this, thinking it was a new thread, until you come to one of your posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 13 December, 2023 Share Posted 13 December, 2023 (edited) On 15/04/2023 at 11:43, Turkish said: All the Beatles were white, you racist Wait until you see Netflix’s remake of “Hard days night”, I was reading about it the other night. John is being played by Idris Elba. Halle Berry is in the frame to play Ringo, but they’re still casting for the George role. Only Brown skinned Muslims in a wheelchair are being considered at the moment. Paul is being played by a white actor though, Eddie Izzard got that part. Edited 13 December, 2023 by Lord Duckhunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan The Flames Posted 13 December, 2023 Share Posted 13 December, 2023 3 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said: Wait until you see Netflix’s remake of “Hard days night”, I was reading about it the other night. John is being played by Idris Elba. Halle Berry is in the frame to play Ringo, but they’re still casting for the George role. Only Brown skinned Muslims in a wheelchair are being considered at the moment. Paul is being played by a white actor though, Eddie Izzard got that part. You could write gags for Geoff Norcott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 13 December, 2023 Share Posted 13 December, 2023 Danny Cadamateri's son scoring for Sheffield Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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