"Feeling Old" 2017 Edition

Started by mirth, January 24, 2017, 12:34:12 PM

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Martok

I'm still a "Whippersnapper" -- barely. 
"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

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Staggerwing

Quote from: Windigo on December 30, 2017, 01:17:38 AM
Quote from: Gusington on December 29, 2017, 05:50:07 PM
Is Windy European dirt?

I love the smell of mimeograph paper in the morning.,...

Were you one of the Trusties allowed to go behind the school office counter and crank the big handle on the mimeo machine?
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

MikeGER

Quote from: Staggerwing on December 29, 2017, 08:49:07 PM
Jumping forward a decade or so....

can you imagine: the kids that are born today will in the majority probably never learn to steer a car by them self, because most cars will be autonomous  (a branch analyst wrote in a biz mag)   

Emeraldlis

Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 30, 2017, 12:12:49 AM
Quote from: Emeraldlis on December 29, 2017, 07:38:51 PM
Because I don't remember the olden days gramps !!  ;)


your kid is older than either of mine :D

Double the amount of grandkids then for you with two kids  ;).... And probably sooner than me, because my kid doesn't want kids!
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm " winston Churchill 😉
"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune , or to take arms against a sea of trouble ,and by opposing end them "  hamlet  🎭

A bad hobbit is hard to break - Staggerwing
Booooo!!!!! Repeat !!!!!!!   - MetalDog

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Emeraldlis

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm " winston Churchill 😉
"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune , or to take arms against a sea of trouble ,and by opposing end them "  hamlet  🎭

A bad hobbit is hard to break - Staggerwing
Booooo!!!!! Repeat !!!!!!!   - MetalDog

bayonetbrant

Quote from: mirth on December 30, 2017, 01:34:23 PM
Grampa Brant :P

Let's hope I'm at least 10 years from that.  Then again, I have all y'all running around acting like 3-year-olds to keep up with ::)
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MetalDog

Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 30, 2017, 01:57:58 PM
Quote from: mirth on December 30, 2017, 01:34:23 PM
Grampa Brant :P

Let's hope I'm at least 10 years from that.  Then again, I have all y'all running around acting like 3-year-olds to keep up with ::)


You know you need that.  Otherwise, you'd be Grumpa Brant.
And the One Song to Rule Them All is Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones


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Sir Slash

My two-year old grandson just learned to say, "Grandpa". Thing is he usually holds one finger up while he's saying it. Not sure what that's about. Least he's not pointing at the potty chair when he says it.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

Gusington



слава Україна!

We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

-JudgeDredd

bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Gusington



слава Україна!

We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

-JudgeDredd

Sir Slash

I am not sure if he thinks I'm No.1 or.......
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

Windigo

Quote from: Staggerwing on December 30, 2017, 07:07:34 AM
Quote from: Windigo on December 30, 2017, 01:17:38 AM
Quote from: Gusington on December 29, 2017, 05:50:07 PM
Is Windy European dirt?

I love the smell of mimeograph paper in the morning.,...

Were you one of the Trusties allowed to go behind the school office counter and crank the big handle on the mimeo machine?

If you mean nerd then sure.
My doctor wrote me a prescription for daily sex.

My wife insists that it says dyslexia but what does she know.