Banter Im so Old I remember

[Saximony]

Thread for Old Folks to complain and reminisce. the thought came to me when I just spent $3 for a bottle of water...

Im so old that....


I remember when water was free and you didn't have to buy it in plastic bottles.

 

[Gobster28]

I’m so old that I remember I had to go to the tv to change the channel

 

[Saximony]

I'm so old I remember when there was only four TV channels and you had to put tinfoil on the rabbit ears to get the signal in for two of them.

 

[PurpleVelvet_]

I'm so old that I can hear this picture... and remember the year it was born..

 

[Dogowar]

I'm so old I remember cars using leaded fuel, black and white TV and only three channels. BBC, BBC 2 and ITV. Public phone boxes took 2p pieces. And the BBC played God save the Queen at the end of the night.

 

[Thalassa]

I'm so old I went to the premiere of Limelight.

 

[Slopps]

I'm so old I don't remember what I had for lunch sometimes

 

[Alexa79]

I’m so old we had an intelevision hamming machine before the first Nintendo. Never had Atari.

 

[Alexa79]

I’m so old my kids ask me about the “olden days”. Still trying to figure out what “olden days mean”

 

[Alexa79]

Thread for Old Folks to complain and reminisce. the thought came to me when I just spent $3 for a bottle of water...

Im so old that....


I remember when water was free and you didn't have to buy it in plastic bottles.

Great thread.

 

[Thalassa]

I'm so old I've met Charlotte Brontë

 

[Alexa79]

I'm so old I've met Charlotte Brontë

I’m jealous,

do you have a time machine. I want to play too

 

[Deleted member 133968]

I'm so old that to see/hear porn, I had to hold the tv knob between channels to get a mostly scrambled image.

 

[Stanthropical]

I'm so old, I remember the recession of 2008.

 

[Dirtymatt]

I'm so old I remember when The Simpson's was treated as the height of controversial TV.

 

[PurpleVelvet_]

I'm so old I remember the 9:00pm whistle and turning off the streetlights at 10pm.
(unsure if this was everywhere)

 

[Dirtymatt]

I'm so old I remember the 9:00pm whistle and turning off the streetlights at 10pm.
(unsure if this was everywhere)

No I can't say I remember this happening here in Canada.


I'm so old I remember when you would occasionally find the long lengths of magnetic tape from cassettes glistening in the summer sun as some frustrated individual must have discarded it from their car tape deck or such

 

[Saximony]

I am so old I remember Green Stamps

https://texashillcountry.com/sticking-green-stamps-grandma-house/amp/

 

[PoliteandNaughty]

I'm so old I remember when gasoline cost less than $1 a gallon.

 

[Thalassa]

I'm so old I remember swing dancing.