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Signs of being an old git

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  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited February 2016
    Wetting the bed and reading CL on your wired Internet. (May have exaggerated the bed wetting and wire).
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,651
    ross1 said:

    bobmunro said:

    Baldybonce said:

    Your first pint was lager 'n' lime.

    Mild and bitter!
    Light and bitter or Double Diamond
    Party 7s and party 4 for when you were skint.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,004
    Baldybonce said:

    ross1 said:

    bobmunro said:

    Baldybonce said:

    Your first pint was lager 'n' lime.

    Mild and bitter!
    Light and bitter or Double Diamond
    Party 7s and party 4 for when you were skint.
    Scrumpy when you were really skint
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,457
    Special Brew when I was skint - the most vile drink ever!
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    purdis said:

    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.

    Talking of (un)real ale - Party 4 or if you were really flush a Party 7. I used to take a Party 4 to a party, say 'here's my contribution', then hunt out the whisky!
  • purdis
    purdis Posts: 1,046
    bobmunro said:

    purdis said:

    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.

    Talking of (un)real ale - Party 4 or if you were really flush a Party 7. I used to take a Party 4 to a party, say 'here's my contribution', then hunt out the whisky!
    The Party 4 used to go flat so quickly - zero fond memories of that pish.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,629
    edited February 2016
    Remembering when Covent Garden was a market And still having a CAMRA glass from the 1975 beer festival that was held in the derelict hall...half pint glass that you got in the way in and had filled up when you went round tasting various real ales...telling the young lads in the jeans shop that yes I do remember having to sit in the bath with my new LEVIS (note the capitals) and my old jean jacket in the wardrobe (which sadly no longer fits - it must have shrunk when it got wet) has a big E...
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    Buying a red light bulb for your mums flicker flame fire, fitting it and thinking you had almost qualified as an electrician.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,457
    Remember getting a pair of Stylo matchmakers - proper boots
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,629
    T.C.E said:

    Buying a red light bulb for your mums flicker flame fire, fitting it and thinking you had almost qualified as an electrician.

    Don't you also have to learn to charge her £60 before you can say you're qualified ?

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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    letthegoodtimesroll said:

    T.C.E said:

    Buying a red light bulb for your mums flicker flame fire, fitting it and thinking you had almost qualified as an electrician.

    Don't you also have to learn to charge her £60 before you can say you're qualified ?
    No way, 30% discount as she was on an annual Maintainance contract. ;)
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Hair in your ears
  • AddickFC81
    AddickFC81 Posts: 4,053
    When you say that clubcall was the main source of club info back then.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,341
    When you forget the forenames of first team regulars but can recall the forenames of reserve team players of the 60s and 70s.
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    You used to get your togs at Dickie Dirts and Mister Byrite.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Still wondering around the car park behind the West Stand looking for the Supporters Club Cabin.
    Hoping the peanut seller will appear..."Peanuts, tanner a bag"
    Wishing you could still run from the east terrace to the covered end when it started raining.
    When we all thought Mike Gliksten was a bad owner of our club.
  • I_was_Floyd
    I_was_Floyd Posts: 468
    Anna_Kissed said:

    You used to get your togs at Dickie Dirts and Mister Byrite.

    Harry Fenton and Dales for me.

  • Treacey1969
    Treacey1969 Posts: 158
    The_President said:

    You have to click more than twice to the year dropdown for your DOB.

    so so true !!
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    I_was_Floyd said:

    Anna_Kissed said:

    You used to get your togs at Dickie Dirts and Mister Byrite.

    Harry Fenton and Dales for me.

    Loved Harry Fenton in Bexleyheath when I was at school.

    Dad bought me my first pair of Levis, shrink to fit, from Dales.
  • Coyotejohn1947
    Coyotejohn1947 Posts: 1,163
    The_President said:

    Remembering shillings and power cuts.

    Shillings? I can remember Victorian pennies (the young Victoria ones with the bun hairdo) in the change on the buses in the 50s. Tell kids that today and they.............drones on and on and on..................

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  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,583
    bobmunro said:

    Baldybonce said:

    Your first pint was lager 'n' lime.

    Mild and bitter!
    With you there Bob, my first ever pint as well, the cheapest mix you could buy. It would have been 1968 and the price was 9d. The old station hotel in Sidcup for those that remember it, they never bothered much about age, I was 15 then!
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,943
    You no longer trust a fart.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    T.C.E said:

    Buying a red light bulb for your mums flicker flame fire, fitting it and thinking you had almost qualified as an electrician.

    Buying a plug for every electrical appliance you got, and fitting it on the wire. Hey presto you have qualified as an electrician.

    Advanced level was pushing the bare wires of another appliance in the same socket holes that already had a plug in.

    Known as a two in one.
  • henrythecat
    henrythecat Posts: 479
    Badger said:

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

    Knowing that you got blue divi stamps at the co-op and green shield stamps in tescos. Confusing your stamps at the till always led to a right kerfuffle.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Remembering Dustman who came down the garden path to collect your bin and never checked the contents.
    Slip them a fiver and they would take any other random tut you wanted to get rid of e.g ironing board, kids bike etc.
    Being happy to bung them a "Christmas box" when they knocked on your door in December.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    edited February 2016
    When you go out to the cinema and for a meal on a Saturday night with your other half and are home by 10.15pm.
    Its just Rock N Roll.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    And when youngsters play 'their' music, you know Garage/Dance/Rap/Hip hop or whatever dog shit they are listening to, when the reality is it sounds like people just moving furniture around.
    My nephew said 'the thing is you dont like our music because you are old' I replied 'no mate its because it really is shite' - so he kicked my zimmer frame over .........
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,854
    Ianaddick62 said:

    Being ignored in high streets by people selling things obviously aimed at the younger market!

    I consider that to be an Advantage!

  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,748
    Remembering dialling 160 to hear the latest Number one record.

  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Remembering Tescos was a small one single shop in Cotmandene Crescent, St Paul's Cray.
    Public toilets being open.
    Woolworths.

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