clint van damme
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You know you're getting old when........
You die of old age
You die of old age
You Know You're Getting Old When........ (1 Viewer)
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Robinshio
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You Remember when :-
TV had choice of 3 channels
Jeans had choice of Levis or Wrangler
Your Trainers were from Woolworths
You got your shopping from the corner shop and had a Corona pop van and a Davenports beer van for deliveries
Town was the place to hang out on a Saturday Day
Your choice was Bitter or Mild (or a Mixed if you were really exotic)
City centre pubs were all packed on a Friday and Saturday night, and were literally everywhere
You Stood on the West End and could turn up at any ground at 2.55pm and get in
FA Cup Final was the biggest day of the year
TV had choice of 3 channels
Jeans had choice of Levis or Wrangler
Your Trainers were from Woolworths
You got your shopping from the corner shop and had a Corona pop van and a Davenports beer van for deliveries
Town was the place to hang out on a Saturday Day
Your choice was Bitter or Mild (or a Mixed if you were really exotic)
City centre pubs were all packed on a Friday and Saturday night, and were literally everywhere
You Stood on the West End and could turn up at any ground at 2.55pm and get in
FA Cup Final was the biggest day of the year
duffer
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And the only way to change them was by physically pushing the button on the TV (assuming you'd got 50p for the meter on the back. Two words, "Radio Rentals"!)
And your Dad got you to work as the 'remote', because he wanted to kip on the sofa after dinner (which was actually called 'tea').
skybluetony176
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I not only remember that I also remember the only TV we had in the house when I was very young was a 14” black and white portable that you had to get up out of your seat, go to it, retune into another channel with a dial and then readjust the circular arial on top to fine tune ever time you wanted to change channel.
Kneeza
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I too started on a 90cc Honda, illegally, in 1969. However, it wasn't a step-through, it was (loosely speaking) a proper motorcycle; a C200 model. Black, chrome sided tank, and a bit like a severely undernourished Black Bomber. Very few imported though.I started riding on my 17th birthday (Honda C90, oh the humanity!), and kept going on and off until finally passing my test in my thirties. Without admitting too much, I may have been stretching the boundaries of legality on occasion, cc wise.
I'm now back down to a 250 dirt bike just for the hell of it, maybe 70mph flat out! I'm tempted to pick up something like a cheap Bandit 600, for a bit of A/B road scratching.
Remember always though:
There are old riders, and there are bold riders, but there aren't many old, bold riders.
On the other point, my mate who is in his mid seventies is an absolute hooligan on two wheels (usually Ducatis but I think old age might be creeping up slightly as he has a big Harley (spits...) too now
Kneeza
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Don't they say that the only person that doesn't know you're dead... is you?
NorthernWisdom
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Didn't you have a dial to turn through lots of static to get to the channel?!?
duffer
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I remember them on the small portables, for sure. I'm sure the black plastic channel knobs on our old TV could be tuned in individually - what we'd call "user configurable", these days...
skybluetony176
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I’m not and never have been a fan of Harleys except the FLA. I think it’s the suicide shifter on them. Always been a four cylinder air cooled Japanese bike fan but I must admit that I’m starting to look at classic British bikes in a different light, especially the real old stuff. Must be getting old.I too started on a 90cc Honda, illegally, in 1969. However, it wasn't a step-through, it was (loosely speaking) a proper motorcycle; a C200 model. Black, chrome sided tank, and a bit like a severely undernourished Black Bomber. Very few imported though.
On the other point, my mate who is in his mid seventies is an absolute hooligan on two wheels (usually Ducatis but I think old age might be creeping up slightly as he has a big Harley (spits...) too now
skybluetony176
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That’s what we had, right until we got a TV with a money slot on the side from Granada rentals. I remember the day we were allowed to rent one that wasn’t coin operated. It’s the proudest I’ve ever seen my mum.
rob9872
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Not so much the tele but the electric meter when the man came round to nans to empty it there was always some over versus the meter that you got back, no idea how it worked but nan always saw I got a couple of them and felt like I'd won the lottery!
Sbarcher
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It would take my dad a week tinkering under the bonnet before we would go on our holidays.
ovduk78
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My dad spent most weekends tinkering under the bonnet of his car and sometimes someone else's car.
Houchens Head
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50p??? Robbery!! I used to rent mine from DF Gibbs (next to the General Wolfe). It was a two bob slot in the back (or a florin to us really old buggers!).
Always looked forward to it being emptied by the TV man and hoped I'd get at least 10 bob rebate!
Houchens Head
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Going to the " tanner rush" on a Saturday morning. The main choices in town were the ABC Empire or the Gaumont.
Flying Fokker
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You are getting old, aren’t you?
nicksar
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Much more complex these days unfortunately but I have an OBD tool that's very useful for fault diagnosis.
It's a total pisstake that Garages charge you these days to tell you what the problem is with your car.
Flying Fokker
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On this theme, being sent out into the garden to move the arial further up the hedge.
there was no tv before 6am. 3 channels. World of Sport and watching the wrestling.
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
A blonde comes back home after taking her car in for a service. She said to her husband "That's a really good garage. After the cost of the service, the only extra I had to pay for was indicator fluid!"
Robinshio
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Peugeot quoted me £180 just to investigate and quote for a suspension issue
Kent Walton from Bedworth Civic Hall!
skybluetony176
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Top tip for 400 four owners. Talking of points. On a 400 four you have two sets of points. One set will always be a problem so the easiest solution is to replace the points with an electronic ignition kit, problem solved. Smoother running, no moving parts to wear out and as an added bonus unlike point they won’t constantly go out of calibration so it’s fit and forget. Did it on both of mine and they quickly became the most reliable bikes I’ve ever owned
Ah shit, I’m talking about motorbikes again
ovduk78
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Had a quick look and there are loads for sale on ebay around 4k, go on you know you want toTop tip for 400 four owners. Talking of points. On a 400 four you have two sets of points. One set will always be a problem so the easiest solution is to replace the points with an electronic ignition kit, problem solved. Smoother running, no moving parts to wear out and as an added bonus unlike point they won’t constantly go out of calibration so it’s fit and forget. Did it on both of mine and they quickly became the most reliable bikes I’ve ever owned
Ah shit, I’m talking about motorbikes again
skybluetony176
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If I had a bigger garage I’d do it in a heartbeat. There’s so much crap in there I only have room for the one bike.Had a quick look and there are loads for sale on ebay around 4k, go on you know you want to
Although I haven’t checked my lottery ticket yet so you never know.
Kneeza
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Almost as old as Houchen's Head.
You do realise it's far preferable to the alternative?
Kneeza
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I just did a 3200 mile tour in Europe and never turned the 1500 nicker Pioneer thing on other than to use its reversing camera and satnav functions!When you turn the volume down when driving to be able to concentrate and see better? Wtf is that all about?
duffer
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When you turn the volume down when driving to be able to concentrate and see better? Wtf is that all about?
If only that would work on the better half when I'm driving.
If you'd told me when I was twenty, that one day I'd enjoy driving nice and steadily, in a comfy automatic, with the radio off, I'd have thought you were mad.
duffer
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Robbing bastards. Might be worth trying one of the smaller garages or even one of the quick fit places.
Any half decent mechanic should be able to identify a significant suspension issue pretty quickly... Springs, shocks, bearings, or bushes, basically, imho. A ramp, a torch, and a big lever finds most things pretty quickly...
Do you think this was true in the middle ages when everyone died in their 30's?
NorthernWisdom
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30s would have been old age then though, not middle age
dutchman
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No it wasn't. The mean figure was artificially skewed by much higher infant mortality.
Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too
There is a common misperception that long life spans in humans are very recent, and that no one in the past lived much beyond their 30s before now. This is not true. There is physical evidence that plenty of people in the past lived long lives — just as long as some people do today. Anthropology...
sc.edu
rondog1973
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Actually can remember when for a time there was only 3 channels available as ITV were on strike for what felt like aeons.
NorthernWisdom
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It was a joke...No it wasn't. The mean figure was artificially skewed by much higher infant mortality.
Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too
There is a common misperception that long life spans in humans are very recent, and that no one in the past lived much beyond their 30s before now. This is not true. There is physical evidence that plenty of people in the past lived long lives — just as long as some people do today. Anthropology...sc.edu
