You know you are getting old when...

[Mark]

Originally Posted by SidewinderINC

I think the thread is done folks, I'm sorry to say it, but Darrin has won this one.

Moon Landing was the year before I popped out, but I remember Challenger all too well.


... when you demand they bring back Borstal.

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Joe 90

When you're very excited to finish building your new shed...

http://yfrog.com/kkq8lxwj

Dude. I wasn't particularly good at woodwork at school but that doesn't look all that 'finished' to me

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Mark

Moon Landing was the year before I popped out,

Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on my 4th birthday. Sadly, we didn't get our first telly until I was 7

[Kell_ee001]

... people refer to you as ma'am! Or almost as bad, "that nice lady"

[Kitten]

ma'am as in Palm,or Mam as in ham?

[Garp]

When you find yourself wondering if people have any grasp of even recent history.

Seeing people protest about how computer games, sexual immorality, violent films, liberalism etc. are the causes of the riots in London and across the country.

What the ****?

It's simple, it's happened so many times in London and across the country it really isn't that much of a surprise. Annoying, frustrating, upsetting, but not that much of a surprise. Reaching for bull**** like that instead of going to the simple, obvious and far more directly attributable. You've got higher than normal unemployment, the after effects of a bad recession, underlying grumbles about immigrants being cheap labour and taking jobs. Even a basic grasp of history shows riots in London and the country as a result of most of those, and then the final spark comes, something usually related to the actions of the establishment and *bam* riots. This time around it was accusations of Police Brutality, always a good one to get a good little riot going, as it has done in the past under similar circumstances.

[Haly]

Originally Posted by Will

When you argue/shout at the tv... and realise it's exactly what your father does!

I've been doing that since I was about 10 Guess that's what comes from growing up in a very political household does!

Originally Posted by Garp

When you find yourself wondering if people have any grasp of even recent history.

Seeing people protest about how computer games, sexual immorality, violent films, liberalism etc. are the causes of the riots in London and across the country.

What the ****?

It's simple, it's happened so many times in London and across the country it really isn't that much of a surprise. Annoying, frustrating, upsetting, but not that much of a surprise. Reaching for bull**** like that instead of going to the simple, obvious and far more directly attributable. You've got higher than normal unemployment, the after effects of a bad recession, underlying grumbles about immigrants being cheap labour and taking jobs. Even a basic grasp of history shows riots in London and the country as a result of most of those, and then the final spark comes, something usually related to the actions of the establishment and *bam* riots. This time around it was accusations of Police Brutality, always a good one to get a good little riot going, as it has done in the past under similar circumstances.

*nods*

[Justsomebloke]

Originally Posted by BBx

You know you are getting old when...

You don't join in with the Rioters you just sit there shaking your head.

[Kitten]

I have to say, I could have been any age, and I'd never have joined in.

[TinkerBell]

100% agree with you. I normally go to my dad's today. But I'm not even going to leave the house! Lockdown soon.