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Timwis

Timwis

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Everybody gets older but we still feel we are the same 18 year old as we change so slowly we don't notice until suddenly we find ourselves doing something or having an opinion that makes us realise:

"Christ i'm getting old"

I am watching a Youtube video about steam trains, this isn't a film that's been recorded off TV or taken from a DVD but one that was made for online as it would never get sanctioned to come out on DVD or anything because it's very amateur. It's mainly grainy Black and White video and the narrator has a boring one tone voice that shows no emotion whatsoever, add to this i am not a train fanatic and never gone train spotting in my life.

I'm really enjoying it, makes no sense, then it occurred to me "Christ i'm getting old"
 
Just to add I'm struggling to keep up with the acronyms and memes and all this cool kid lingo of today :D
 
Christos said:
Just to add I'm struggling to keep up with the acronyms and memes and all this cool kid lingo of today :D
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They need to start language courses so we can be fluent in youth of today. We might understand them then.
 
Timwis said:
Everybody gets older but we still feel we are the same 18 year old as we change so slowly we don't notice until suddenly we find ourselves doing something or having an opinion that makes us realise:

"Christ i'm getting old"

I am watching a Youtube video about steam trains, this isn't a film that's been recorded off TV or taken from a DVD but one that was made for online as it would never get sanctioned to come out on DVD or anything because it's very amateur. It's mainly grainy Black and White video and the narrator has a boring one tone voice that shows no emotion whatsoever, add to this i am not a train fanatic and never gone train spotting in my life.

I'm really enjoying it, makes no sense, then it occurred to me "Christ i'm getting old"
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Hahaha classic. I love antiques and steam trains. And all old things. I'm not even 40 yet.

Some will describe me as old school or old fashioned.
 
I had that moment when I listened to the radio while driving a while back. They had a golden oldies hour on. All of a sudden a wild "Alice n Chains" song pops up. then I realised their first stuff is over 30 years old and can count as golden oldies. And that will make me old af.
 
Adephi said:
I had that moment when I listened to the radio while driving a while back. They had a golden oldies hour on. All of a sudden a wild "Alice n Chains" song pops up. then I realised their first stuff is over 30 years old and can count as golden oldies. And that will make me old af.
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Which Alice in Chains song was it? Layne Staley what a great voice he had! RIP Layne. My guess is "No Excuses"
 
Timwis said:
Which Alice in Chains song was it? Layne Staley what a great voice he had! RIP Layne. My guess is "No Excuses"
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To be honest it was a couple of months ago. But it was either No Excuses or Nutshell.
 
Right there with you @Timwis. Watched a programme while I was back in UK showing highlights of The Old Grey Whistle Test (excellent old show featuring live bands and music first broadcast in the 70s) and recall thinking to myself that this is just a load of old gits talking about something that had happened 40 odd years ago. It then struck me I fitted that description exactly, and to add insult I remembered watching most the clips shown when they were first aired...
 
"I don't have the time or inclination to bother learning this now."

*Turns off console and heads to bed at 21h00*

*Loses glasses for the third time in one day*

Shortly followed by...

"**** I'm getting old".
 
I still listen to The Beatles and Queen.

Just a while back, I watched Monserrat and Freddie. I was 8 when I watched it. Wow **** I'm old now.
 
Raindance said:
Careful @Stosta, there are a significant number of us that were born before there were any footprints on the moon.

Regards
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I was born 21 days before the first moon landing, that’s why I’m going grey! Still listen to Elvis the Pelvis and all the good music from 60’s and 70’s. But I actually like any music, from boeremusiek to Beethoven and Straus, :cool: but NO RAP. Sometimes wish I could just pull their pants so hard that they will sing soprano for a month and never think of looking it again. Leave that to me and the plumbers out there!:D
 
Room Fogger said:
I was born 21 days before the first moon landing, that’s why I’m going grey! Still listen to Elvis the Pelvis and all the good music from 60’s and 70’s. But I actually like any music, from boeremusiek to Beethoven and Straus, :cool: but NO RAP. Sometimes wish I could just pull their pants so hard that they will sing soprano for a month and never think of looking it again. Leave that to me and the plumbers out there!:D
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Strangely enough, my hair was not affected by the moon landing at all. Listning to the radio broadcast of the first moon walk is however one of my earliest memories.

As far as music is concerned im not to fussy as long as a song contains more than ten words and does not contain the words ‘heisie’ or ‘baby chocklets’.

Regards
 
All this happened the year I was issued......
Popular Culture 1964
  • Sidney Poitier becomes the first black actor to win the "best actor" Oscar
  • "Hello Dolly," "Funny Girl," and "Fiddler on the Roof" premier on Broadway in New York.
  • The Rolling Stones release debut album, "The Rolling Stones"
  • The Beatles make their first appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show.
  • The Beatles have 13 singles Billboard's Hot 100 at the same time
  • The first pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, is established
  • The Beatles hold the top five positions in the Billboard Top 40 singles in America
  • Bob Dylan releases "The Times They Are a-Changin" many consider a 1960s classic as it captured the changes hapening in society
  • BBC2 starts broadcasting in the UK.
  • Pablo Picasso painted his fourth Head of a Bearded Man
  • The Sun Newspaper is first published in the United Kingdom
  • Hasbro launch G.I. Joe an action figure for boys to join the Barbie Doll For Girls.
  • Buffalo Wings ( deep fried chicken wings coated with hot sauce ) are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published written by Roald Dahl
  • Top of the Pops premieres on BBC television.
  • Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton for the first time
  • AND women dressed like this ...
    1964threepiecesuitdress.jpg
 
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ARYANTO said:
All this happened the year I was issued......
Popular Culture 1964
  • Sidney Poitier becomes the first black actor to win the "best actor" Oscar
  • "Hello Dolly," "Funny Girl," and "Fiddler on the Roof" premier on Broadway in New York.
  • The Rolling Stones release debut album, "The Rolling Stones"
  • The Beatles make their first appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show.
  • The Beatles have 13 singles Billboard's Hot 100 at the same time
  • The first pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, is established
  • The Beatles hold the top five positions in the Billboard Top 40 singles in America
  • Bob Dylan releases "The Times They Are a-Changin" many consider a 1960s classic as it captured the changes hapening in society
  • BBC2 starts broadcasting in the UK.
  • Pablo Picasso painted his fourth Head of a Bearded Man
  • The Sun Newspaper is first published in the United Kingdom
  • Hasbro launch G.I. Joe an action figure for boys to join the Barbie Doll For Girls.
  • Buffalo Wings ( deep fried chicken wings coated with hot sauce ) are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published written by Roald Dahl
  • Top of the Pops premieres on BBC television.
  • Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton for the first time
  • AND women dressed like this ...
    1964threepiecesuitdress.jpg
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Some parts of Pretoria they still dress like that
 
I have always been into Rock music (still am) LED Zeppelin, Kiss, AC/DC, the whole Glam Rock scene, then Grunge and so on. The great music of the 80's was rock in the album charts in the UK and US rock dominated but the singles charts was a different matter it was full of throw away one hit wonders and very catchy tunes that followed the same formulae and acts that had all their songs written for them by hit factories (Stock Aitkin and Waterman spring to mind). It's this plastic music that 30 to 35 years later is looked back at as the sound of the 80's and is regarded as the last great era for pop music.

In the 80's if any of this throw away music came on the radio which was constantly the radio went straight off and a Iron Maiden or Queensryche album would hit my turntable but now if any of this pop crap from the 80's comes on the radio i find my leg tapping to it and have been known to start humming "Christ i'm getting old".
 
Timwis said:
I have always been into Rock music (still am) LED Zeppelin, Kiss, AC/DC, the whole Glam Rock scene, then Grunge and so on. The great music of the 80's was rock in the album charts in the UK and US rock dominated but the singles charts was a different matter it was full of throw away one hit wonders and very catchy tunes that followed the same formulae and acts that had all their songs written for them by hit factories (Stock Aitkin and Waterman spring to mind). It's this plastic music that 30 to 35 years later is looked back at as the sound of the 80's and is regarded as the last great era for pop music.

In the 80's if any of this throw away music came on the radio which was constantly the radio went straight off and a Iron Maiden or Queensryche album would hit my turntable but now if any of this pop crap from the 80's comes on the radio i find my leg tapping to it and have been known to start humming "Christ i'm getting old".
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Anybody remember Rick Astley? He brought out two hit albums, each track sounding the same as the next and previous. Come to think of it, nothing much changed since then.

Regards
 
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