Dammit, I'm old.

Started by Guinness, May 22, 2010, 07:48:47 PM

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Guinness

It's been 30 years since the release of the Empire Strikes Back, the first Start Wars movie I remember seeing in a theater as a kid (at the old incarnation of the movie theater at Phipps Plaza, which is a mall in Atlanta, for anyone keeping track).

Add this to the fact I'm now driving a minivan, and I'll soon be yelling at you young people to get off my lawn!  ;)

maddox

Man, wanna trade? I have seen  Episode IV,  A New Hope in the local theater. And I drive a micro SUV.

But if you're reflecting your newborn, and your birthday....  congrats on both again....

The Rock Doctor

Likewise, though I was only five at the time. 

Do something that makes you feel young.  I just spent a few minutes vaulting fences and running across pastures, in pursuit of a fox.  It confirmed that I'm not as old as I could be.

Guinness

Does riding my bike to and from work, in Atlanta traffic, in the summer count? :)

The Rock Doctor

It sounds reasonably terrifying, so sure.

maddox

Rocky , '72 seems a fine year, doesn't it?

TexanCowboy

My laptop crashed....that made me feel old.

Texan, clueless as to his sim report as of 2:00 PM CT.

maddox

Texan Cowboy, you're welcome in the house of Chaos. 

TexanCowboy

Don't get on Warship Projects. That's where it popped up.

ctwaterman

72' is fine if your a Bordeux... or perhaps some of Johny Walker older Sipping Whisky... but as a human it just makes us getting older....

*said from someone who predates 72*
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The Bushranger

I'm from '80. And I feel terribly old whenever I see a place advertising "20 years, since 198(late number)" or (worse) "...since 1990", and I go, "but, that can't be, it hasn't been long enough...oh dear, it has...nrrraaarghhh, kiiiiids thhhheeeseeee dayyyyysss..."

Carthaginian

Meh... you are only as old as you feel. Me, I'm about 75 when I wake up, pass the century mark just after the morning QA meeting, and turn 25 when I get home and have the first Jack & Coke.

Wake, rinse, repeat.

*Carth, who remembers a clandestine trip to the theater with his favorite uncle to watch Top Gun*
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You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed
We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.

Sachmle

I'm only a '79 vintage, but I sure feel older some days.
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Desertfox

Wow you people are old...  ;D

*ducks*
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ledeper

I AM OLD:GGGGGGGGGGGGG
Born in 58 cant remember if its 19 or 18 GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG