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Signs of being an old git

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,457
in General Charlton
Having a first name of Colin, Clive, Barry, Wayne .....

Greeting people with 'wotcha'

Missing arctic roll and findus crispy pancakes

Going to school in a Ford Cortina

Thinking Blue Nun was a sophisticated wine in your youth

Remembering the first 100k transfer in football
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,038
    edited February 2016

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9jSAJIDGFQ
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,608
    Used to love chicken and bacon findus crispy pancakes.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    Sophisticated wine was Asti Spurmanti if you had any class. ;)
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    DaveMehmet said:

    Used to love chicken and bacon findus crispy pancakes.

    Those b@st@rds were responsible for removing the skin from the roof of many a mouth...
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,651
    Your first pint was lager 'n' lime.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited February 2016
    Huffing and puffing when you're in a queue...with only one person in front of you.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Sherbet fountains.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,362
    more hair growing in your nose and ears than on yer loaf (does not apply to me mind you thank you very much)
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    Remembering ordering light and bitter and getting a pint of bitter and a bottle of light.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    when you actually had a local that you went to and pubs were affordable and centres of the local neighbourhood.

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  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    kentaddick said:

    when you actually had a local that you went to and pubs were affordable and centres of the local neighbourhood.

    I have that, not the affordability bit mind.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    You have to click more than twice to the year dropdown for your DOB.
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Making sure you didn't forget the greenshield stamps when shopping at the co-op
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Hating everything
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Remembering shillings and power cuts.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Having the number plate of your first car put onto a pair of cuff links.

    869 FGY

    White on black.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,886
    The_President said:

    Remembering shillings and power cuts.

    I didn't know pence were also called power cuts :wink: .
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,232
    Being prescribed your first pair of varifocals. Old lady.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,886
    When you've got snow permanently on the roof.
  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,275
    edited February 2016
    I was only explaining at work today that my junior season ticket at Ladywell Baths in 1970 was 12s 6d, then had to convert it to 62 and a half pence for it to make sense to the younger people.

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  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    sitting down to put your pants on?
  • Ianaddick62
    Ianaddick62 Posts: 263
    Being ignored in high streets by people selling things obviously aimed at the younger market!
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    Baldybonce said:

    Your first pint was lager 'n' lime.

    Mild and bitter!
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    Badger said:

    Making sure you didn't forget the greenshield stamps when shopping at the co-op

    Co-op dividend number - I always remember my mum's because when she sent me to get the shopping she'd say 'Bobby don't forget the divi number when the man asks you'

    190970 it was.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,886
    bobmunro said:

    Baldybonce said:

    Your first pint was lager 'n' lime.

    Mild and bitter!
    My old Dad would never drink mild, reckoned it was all the regurgitated slops. He drank light and bitter (always got more than a half of bitter) and if the light ale went in first, he wouldn't accept it :open_mouth:
  • charente addick
    charente addick Posts: 3,810
    A vesta curry followed by Angel Delight all washed down with a Tizer bought off a bottle lorry.
  • purdis
    purdis Posts: 1,046
    edited February 2016
    T.C.E said:

    Sophisticated wine was Asti Spurmanti if you had any class. ;)

    Pomagne was our limit
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,004
    bobmunro said:

    Baldybonce said:

    Your first pint was lager 'n' lime.

    Mild and bitter!
    Light and bitter or Double Diamond
  • purdis
    purdis Posts: 1,046
    Director's Bitter came out when I was about 18 - it was the beginning of my love for real ale and I still enjoy a new, untried brew with eager anticipation to this day, given the opportunity. Used to love Fuller's ESB.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    Being in bed by 20:30 reading CL on your iPad

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