You know you're getting old when..

[kirbycrackle]

^ haha, a flumpsy moment there I remember the reruns can't say I was there though...must have been like hearing matin Luther King in the flesh eh?

[choirgirl]

When you watch films, TV shows, and most of the cast look younger than you. Even weirder when it's something you watched a while back.

[choirgirl]

Fat Boy Slim and Zoe Ball's son Woody getting his GCSE results!

[Fluorescent Grey]

You're filling in a form online which asks for your date of birth and you get an error because you didn't think to put in what century you were born in. I was born in the previous millennium. You remember those good old days?

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally Posted by jinny

I loved the Taxi theme tune..the only time I can hear 70s flute & it doesn't sound like revolting hippy s***

My memory is pretty bad, so can't actually recall taxi,
Hill street blues I recall, but then, Larry Carlton doing his thang on his geetar is memorable,
Also recall Rockford files music too, ~ guitar solo again,....
Ah,.. the 70's,.... when you got guitar solos on tv theme tunes
I even recall a news programme that had the rock band Mountain performing Nantucket sleighride at the start ffs

[SHYGIRLAJB]

When you ask someone to guesstimate your age and they guessed 10 years older than you actually are ***55357;***56895;***55357;***56895;

[Jane Doe]

.. You think/know that most music these days is regurgitated, meaningless rubbish.

[SHYGIRLAJB]

Originally Posted by gregarious_introvert

Well, you're a year older than you were yesterday! Happy Birthday.

Ta

[Fluorescent Grey]

At a kids birthday party with a disco (my niece's. I don't just turn up at children's parties drunk and set fire to the dance floor. Not anymore.) and the only song I recognised was Gangnam Style. I found myself wondering whether this was the same song they'd been playing for the last half-hour because it sounds exactly the same. Music these days all sounds the same to me, not like in the good old days. Is this that Mrs Gaga who seems so popular with the kids these days? I think I heard one of her songs on the wireless once. Something about card games. Snap Face? Bridge Face? Ahhhhh! You old bastard!

But I guess pop music has always been derivative crap. In my day, during one of the wars, there was The Black Eyed Peas who I hated with a passion. I still listen to new music but none of that pop shit. Who's number one right now? Don't know, don't care. Should I hate Ed Sheeran? Don't know. Couldn't name one of his songs. I've always hated derivative pop shite but I used to know who I was hating. Who's this arsehole singing about sexy, sexy bodies to a bunch of 6 year olds? Who am I supposed to hate for this sonic diarrhea? I miss the good old days of hating Will I Am (Dick You Are). Pop music these days doesn't make me want to stab myself in the ear, it's just a dull noise.

[wd40mk17.4]

when people talk about x-factor and strictly and love island and all the others and you make this face

[newbs16]

When legal and general send you a letter addressed to Mrs (My surname) i'm not married and providing a quotation for life insurance.

[indiegirl1980]

When the people who were famous when you were younger die and no-one under the age of about 30 has a clue who they are.

For example, I was saddened by Sean Hughes's passing at such a young age and especially from the effects of alcohol abuse which he'd done a lot to address in recent years. Sean always seemed like a sweet and gentle soul and I used to like seeing him in things. However, anyone under the age of 30 would've been like 'Who?'

[MJC]

Originally Posted by wd40mk17.4

when people talk about x-factor and strictly and love island and all the others and you make this face

Excellent!

[Mo34]

When teens turn round and say they don't use facebook as it's 'old' and celebs for them often include vloggers.

[newbs16]

When I could already be in bed and it's only nine o'clock.

[kirbycrackle]

^ looks like we are the only people keeping the fire burning here newbo! Don't you bugger off too!

[newbs16]

^ I can't promise.

[newbs16]

I seem to need to get the tweezers out more often than I used to, I'll be a hairy lady before I know it.

[Mo34]

When you find yourself getting absorbed into watching The Thornbirds (I hated it when I was kid)

[Ronnie_Pickering]

The Thornbirds?!

[Indigo_]

I don't even know what The Thorn Birds is

[Mo34]

I think it was the most watched tv mini series of all time (though I might be wrong) I was very young but my mum loved it.

I think I quite fancy Richard Chamberlain in his priest robes as well....

[KookyBlue]

A child asks you what life was like in the olden days

[les]

I popped into my local chemist and was aske at the check out if I wanted a Flu Jab.

[Blackflies]

You feel the need to check in with your friend to see if the clothes you're about to buy are still age appropriate. I would of cried if she said no. *smirks*

[Kipling]

When you buy a Phil Collins CD.

...And think it's quite good.

[choirgirl]

When every time a celeb dies, you know who it is. Back in the day I'd be like - who? And there's be some old black and white footage played. Alas, no more.

[Kipling]

Originally Posted by choirgirl

When every time a celeb dies, you know who it is. Back in the day I'd be like - who? And there's be some old black and white footage played. Alas, no more.

So true. When I was a child it was all the old 1920s/30s Hollywood legends who I'd never heard of at the time - Laurence Olivier, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich (it's like a lyric from Madonna's Vogue ) etc etc.

Whereas now it's Prince, George Michael, David Bowie, Natalie Cole, Cilla Black, Pete Burns, Victoria Wood... all from my own childhood.

[newbs16]

When you look forward to getting in to your nice warm bed and you fall asleep quickly lol.

[veracocha]

The lollypop man/woman asks if you need a hand across the road.

Star Trek TNG is celebrating it's 30 year anniversary.