Reminders you're getting old

When Gold 104 plays Blister in the Sun, straight after St Elmo’s Fire.

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Getting to the top of the water slide towers at Waterbom Park and letting half a dozen kids go past so I can catch my breath.

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Not an admirer of Brock. He bashed his Wife, and threw her down the stairs. Our Mothers were close friends, so she had been part of our family since her birth. No-one in our Families lamented his passing.

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mate i’ve heard good charlotte and offspring on that station

-edit- get a load of this “ultimate dad rock” playlist on spotify

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Wim replied to one of my posts recently beginning with the words “no shade”.

I had to Google “no shade”

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When you’re at home drinking beer and playing records on your “vintage” amp that was manufactured after you were born because you couldn’t be bothered accompanying your (somewhat younger) partner to the Project Hardstyle Halloween rave and then she sends photos of your son dressed as the joker cutting the same awkward “I cannot dance to this ■■■■ and I ■■■■■■■ know everybody knows it” moves that you used to do thirty years ago to proper ■■■■■■■ hard house and he asks her not to tell you he’s there because he has exams Monday…

On snapchat.

I have never felt as old as I do this evening.

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Could have put this in the red & black humour thread but thought it fit here better.

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I think I posted this but not sure (might be the old age…)

Anyway, I was at the gym doing a workout in a pretty intense HIIT class.
About 2 minutes in in the first ‘recovery’ phase. This young girl comes up to me and discreetly whispers ‘are you ok? Do you need me to get someone…?’

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Were you OK?

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Yep. Just old, but ok.

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… maybe in Adelaide.

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Maybe you can interpret it as “young girl initiated conversation with me…I still got it!”??

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Enough of that sh*t @frosty…this isn’t the lid off thread.

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I must admit, when I was younger and first time travelling in Nth America. When the waitress would write their name and a smile or heart picture on the receipt, I did think I was set for some kind of adventure. My Canadian friends got a laugh out of it, until they pointed out they were just doing it for tips…

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I purchased my first house in 1975 in Ascot Vale, deposit of $300 paid with a cash advance from my newly acquired Bankcard. House cost $22,000. Mrs Fox the First and I earned about $24,000 a year in total and while no Bank would give me a home loan ( Mrs Fox as a woman was not eligible), we got Vendor terms from Owner with repayments of $40 per week. I took it every week myself to his Fish & Chip shop in Union Road.

Life was much simpler then.

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Unless you were a woman who needed a home loan?

Still was simple ; simply could not get one. Not that it was easy for anyone to get a home loan, unless you had 20% deposit, and could show 3 years of regular savings with Bank.

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