You know you're old when.......

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You remember that there were 240 pennies in the Pound and now there are a lot less! (only applies to those from UK)
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Your first old clonker (used rust bucket) car did not have a synchromesh gearbox.
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You know that you took the keys out of the car, but then spend 3 bloody days looking for where you carefully put them.
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Bristolian wrote:Your first old clonker (used rust bucket) car did not have a synchromesh gearbox.
... your first old clonker had a crank handle.
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11pm was the time the pubs shut - now it's time for a piss.
2am was the time the clubs shut - now it's time for a piss.
5am was the time when lock-ins let you out - now it's time for a piss.
8am is when the police would let you out of the drunk tank - now it's time for a piss.
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^^ :laugh: :laugh: and...

3 a.m. used to be when you went to bed, now it's when you get up.
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dtaai-maai wrote:
Bristolian wrote:Your first old clonker (used rust bucket) car did not have a synchromesh gearbox.
... your first old clonker had a crank handle.
You owned a car that could not break the motorway speed limit, however hard you tried
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dtaai-maai wrote:^^ :laugh: :laugh: and...

3 a.m. used to be when you went to bed, now it's when you get up.


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You can't imagine how you were ever capable of drinking 6 pints of beer.
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You remember when your host would say 'come on, one more for the road', nobody used a seatbelt, and a designated driver sounded like an engineering term.
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You remember servicing your own car and then look under the bonnet (hood to you folk from over the pond) of your new car, and realise that you don't recognise all that electronic shite............
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You remember the days when you put the key in the ignition of your car and turned it one click. All you saw was the oil warning light flicker and the fuel and temperature gauges move. Now it's a wonderland of coloured symbols.
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You remember going fishing on the Grand Union Canal in England, sitting under a yellow pacamac in the horizontal freezing rain, with a thermos flask of tea that went cold hours ago, chewing a stale cheese sandwich that was curling at the edges and then yelling to your mates that you just hooked an 8 oz Roach...................
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You remember taking your girlfriend to the cinema, by bus, getting hot-dogs and popcorn whilst in there, having fish & chips on the way home and still getting change out of a pound..............
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You remember having to do hand signals, with the window of the car open in the pissing rain, whilst changing gear manually - on your driving test.
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