Post by: smurfboy on April 25, 2005, 12:25:50 pm
... You can't have a night out with friends without going for a meal.
Come on all, let's have your suggestions...
Post by: chocolate chick on April 25, 2005, 12:32:45 pm
And you start to enjoy Watch Dog, Tonight with Trevor McDonald and Antiques Roadshow!
Post by: loulou on April 25, 2005, 01:07:53 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on April 25, 2005, 01:09:41 pm
I have a packet of tissues in my bag!
Post by: loulou on April 25, 2005, 01:15:08 pm
Post by: smurfboy on April 25, 2005, 02:37:35 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on April 25, 2005, 02:56:13 pm
Post by: goldencup on April 25, 2005, 03:00:18 pm
Post by: smurfboy on April 25, 2005, 03:40:45 pm
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 25, 2005, 04:03:36 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on April 25, 2005, 04:04:40 pm
Post by: smurfboy on April 25, 2005, 04:28:40 pm
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 25, 2005, 04:49:59 pm
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 25, 2005, 04:51:50 pm
You remember when things cost half of what they do now (this has already happened to me - I can remember buying a Dairy Milk Bar for 20p!)
This still happens to me whan I go to Costcutter / Londis and see bars of chocolate for 48p and I think they cost half that everywhere else ... but of course they don't!
Post by: goldencup on April 25, 2005, 04:52:30 pm
Post by: goldencup on April 25, 2005, 04:54:03 pm
Post by: goldencup on April 25, 2005, 05:03:37 pm
Post by: smurfboy on April 25, 2005, 05:05:55 pm
Post by: robbie on April 25, 2005, 06:51:21 pm
Post by: loulou on April 25, 2005, 10:20:49 pm
Post by: roxy on April 25, 2005, 10:59:50 pm
Post by: smurfboy on April 26, 2005, 10:16:26 am
You add any of the following to the end of your statements:
'God willing'.
'All things being equal'.
'If you see my meaning'.
'When it comes down to it'.
Post by: oldspice on April 26, 2005, 11:19:51 am
Your daughter comes downstairs in an outfit that you could have been wearing thirty years ago.
Your children start to vote in general elections.
Toys you had as a kid are now modern antiques.
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 26, 2005, 12:17:33 pm
You realise you are having this conversation with somebody who was actually born during that long hot summer when you were taking your 'O' levels! Now I feel REALLY old!
Oh dear 
do you mean me by any chance?
I feel old when I look at our lists of student enrollments for September (I work at a Uni) and see most of the birthdates are 1987. Most of them probably wouldn't even know what 'O' levels are, goldencup!
'If you see my meaning'
Post by: smurfboy on April 26, 2005, 02:37:52 pm
Post by: goldencup on April 26, 2005, 03:09:23 pm
Yes Cherry Ripe I did mean you! I don't suppose they would know what 'O' levels were, I just threw that in as a further tongue-in-cheek example of my advanced years! Of course they were much harder than GCSEs
And obviously the sun has never shone since like it did in the summer of 1976.....
Post by: smurfboy on April 26, 2005, 05:25:28 pm
And obviously the sun has never shone since like it did in the summer of 1976.....
That's what my parents always say! They got married that year!
Post by: smurfboy on April 26, 2005, 05:25:59 pm
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Post by: goldencup on April 26, 2005, 09:51:13 pm
Robbie seems genuinely amusing................
Well that's a relief - I can't be THAT old then!
Post by: oldspice on April 27, 2005, 09:11:21 am
The long, hot summer of 76....
I've every reason to remember that....
Post by: goldencup on April 27, 2005, 10:50:03 am
Post by: chocolate chick on April 27, 2005, 11:04:09 am
Post by: smurfboy on April 27, 2005, 02:15:20 pm
Post by: goldencup on April 27, 2005, 02:17:01 pm
Post by: smurfboy on April 27, 2005, 02:31:18 pm
No, we have them in the Midlands too. There's a similar chain her called Gimbles - real granny wear.
Post by: chocolate chick on April 27, 2005, 02:43:57 pm
Post by: smurfboy on April 27, 2005, 05:14:12 pm
Post by: oldspice on April 28, 2005, 08:10:53 am
You know you're old when people who were born in that long, hot, summer of 76, that you have every reason to remember , are having children of their own.
When your friends (and your sister!) become grandparents!
When your great-nephew reaches his 16th birthday! (Well, I was a young auntie!)
When you start listening to Sing Something Simple.
Post by: chocolate chick on April 28, 2005, 10:11:42 am
Post by: smurfboy on April 28, 2005, 03:11:11 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on April 28, 2005, 05:32:33 pm
Post by: oldspice on April 29, 2005, 08:02:27 am
You know you're old when your children look at you blankly when you talk about "records" and when your show them how they work they fall around the floor helpless with laughter.
You still call the charts "the hit parade"
You go to more funerals than weddings.