Illuminati-R-Us

by **Heid the Ba** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 3:51 pm

Your silver wedding anniversary is later this month.

by **Arneb** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:07 pm

...,you feel like a break every so often.

by **KLA2** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:42 am

... you've outlived your teeth

by **Capt. Moosedoom** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:12 pm

..you watch soaps

by **ockopuss** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:39 am

...you realize the people younger than you dont know what "Be Kind, Rewind" means...
go ahead... ask around.

by **KLA2** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 1:04 am

You remember when there were only 5 channels on the black and white TV ... three of them "snowy" when it rained ... and you had to walk across the room to change them.

by **Arneb** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:26 pm

...you start asking your colleagues if they still remember the GDR.

by **Мастер** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:13 am

Arneb wrote:...you start asking your colleagues if they still remember the GDR.

by **Heid the Ba** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:04 pm

Arneb wrote:...you start asking your colleagues if they still remember the GDR.

I went to university in September 1989 with the plan to study Cold War relations. :D

GDR and USSR were such a huge part of my life it seems odd that my nephew who started university this year wasn't born when the Wall came down. It must be even weirder to be in Berlin with people who don't remember it.

by **KLA2** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:45 am

You remember all students being sent home early on a cold grey day in November, 1963.

John Kennedy had been killed in Dallas, and even in Canada I guess there was concern over the consequences, possibly even nuclear war.

by **Arneb** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:22 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:I went to university in September 1989 with the plan to study Cold War relations. :D

GDR and USSR were such a huge part of my life it seems odd that my nephew who started university this year wasn't born when the Wall came down. It must be even weirder to be in Berlin with people who don't remember it.

I have to add, though, the answer was an obvious yes. The colleague had just made her ascension from Junge Pioniere to Thälmann-Pioniere when the GDR collapsed.

September 1989... Cold War Relations. Mind boggling, absolutely mind-boggling.

Maybe everyone else knows you're getting old when you dismiss what they say with "you weren't there".

by **Мастер** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:33 pm

Arneb wrote:Maybe everyone else knows you're getting old when you dismiss what they say with "you weren't there".

I had a history teacher who would refer to events that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago, saying "I know, I was there."

by **Arneb** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:00 pm

Reminds me of my father who will say thinks like "In 1879/71", or "During WWI, when I was young..."

YKYGOW ...a common cold maks you breathless after two flights of stairs.

by **KLA2** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:28 am

You remember when "The optimists were learning to speak Russian; the pessimists, Chinese." :wink:

by **Heid the Ba** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:36 pm

Arneb wrote:The colleague had just made her ascension from Junge Pioniere to Thälmann-Pioniere when the GDR collapsed.

There are a couple of names I haven't heard in years. :D

I have the terrible feeling (echoed by my Dad who grew up in Glasgow in the 1930s) that I would have joined any organisation that would have taken me camping or to any outdoor activity. Being an obsessive and slightly fanatical child it would not have ended well.

What was it Marx said? "Give me a child until he is seven . . ." :D

Edit: Hmm, it has just occured to me that the Thälmann-Pioniere and my favourite political organisation have the same slogan. :roll:

by **Мастер** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:19 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:my favourite political organisation

I knew it! I knew those things were just fronts!

by **Arneb** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:35 pm

Heid, Wikipedia links hopping brings up one question for me: Rangers seems to by the club of the Unionists. What brings an avowed Nationalist to be in that club's ranks?

by **Heid the Ba** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:59 pm

I was born into it and like any family you have to put up with the daft uncles and wayward cousins. It is also Unionist in the sense of Ireland/Northern Ireland being part of the UK rather than Scotland, the Unionist part predated any thought of an independent Scotland.

I also suspect to many the Unionist agenda is simply because Celtic fans are avowedly for a united Ireland. :roll:

by **Lianachan** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:44 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:...the Unionist part predated any thought of an independent Scotland.

Indeed, and let's hope it doesn't postdate our glorious new independent Scotland - due for delivery around 2016! :D

As a Highlander, of course, I would never be able to bring myself to support any club with which the Butcher's Apron is associated*. I also harbour no feelings for the other half of the great sectarian divide, I should say.

*Especially now I'm re-reading The Lyon In Mourning.

by **KLA2** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:39 am

When your age exceeds the proof of your whiskey. :lol:

by **Capt. Moosedoom** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:35 am

......there's a game for the computer you bought and upon putting it into your computer you find that you in fact do not have windows '98

by **KLA2** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 3:26 am

You remember using DOS 3.1 As a business platform.

by **pmcolt** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:47 am

You start your stories with "when I was your age..."

by **Мастер** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:57 am

KLA2 wrote:You remember using DOS 3.1 As a business platform.

You remember DOS 2.0, running on computers with no hard disk at all.

by **Lance** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:18 pm

Mactep wrote:
KLA2 wrote:You remember using DOS 3.1 As a business platform.

You remember DOS 2.0, running on computers with no hard disk at all.

You remember the Timex Sinclair 1000

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