Passage of time that shocks you..

Emp_Fab

Do you know that in just 4 years from now, it will be FORTY YEARS since the Falklands war?

Forty!!  WTF!?

It only seems like ten years ago or something to me, not half a lifetime.


Also, just four human lifetimes ago, the country was just recovering from the bubonic plague and the great fire of London had just started. (Assuming an average lifespan of 75 years).

matone

Blimey! Where did that time go ????

prowla

It seems a very long time ago to me - I was at Uni, wearing flares, hadn't had kids, couldn't drive, CDs weren't out yet, computers were 8-bit.

One thing which did make me think about time was a few years back when one of my kids said "Daddy - you were born 15 years after WW II".

Funkfingers

Malvinas Libras. Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Out! Out! Out!

Teetonetal

I found a photo of an 8 year old me with my dad on holiday. My dad was 2 years younger in that photo than I was when i found it... 

ICBM

I’m 50.

Not only was I born only 22 years after the end of WWII - the equivalent of 1995 to today - I was born closer to the end of the *First* World War than to now.

Sporky

Thanks, Timeghost.

Chalky

Can you remember when pubs on a Friday night were packed with workers who'd just finished for the week, had a fog of fag-smoke filling them, and the landlord would advise any drunk regulars to drive home slowly?

Emp_Fab

Sporky said:

Thanks, Timeghost.

Yeah, I know.  Still... burying your head in the sand isn’t the better option. Or is it ?

Sporky

Safer than sticking your head above the battlements, surely?

I'll join in.

The formation of the Stone Roses was closer to the formation of the Rolling Stones than to today.

Legionreturns

My bus ticket to school used to cost me 15p... Return.

Emp_Fab

I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was 22. I think that says quite a lot.

ICBM

Sporky said:

The formation of the Stone Roses was closer to the formation of the Rolling Stones than to today.

On the same theme, Nevermind is now older than Sergeant Pepper was when Nevermind was made.

Alnico

Legionreturns said:

My bus ticket to school used to cost me 15p... Return.

Mine was 4p single.

TheBigDipper

Emp_Fab said:

I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was 22. I think that says quite a lot.

And his amplifier didn't go up to 11... Have a LOL...

Phil_aka_Pip

My little sister ... is now a Grandma!

Legionreturns

Alnico said:

Legionreturns said:

My bus ticket to school used to cost me 15p... Return.

Mine was 4p single.

And an apple for the horse?

VimFuego

I'm closer to the grave than the cradle. Literally, I was born in Basingstoke, so that's 150 odd miles away, but live right next door to the churchyard. 

GoldenEraGuitars

TBH, it’s a very recent thing for me. I look at my 8 1/2 year old daughter and wonder where time went.

And it’s the little things that make you think “okay... well when did that happen?” Yesterday, for example she had her hair in a different style which instantly made her look 11/12. Even our son of 5... I was treating him like a baby over the Lego he got and while i was looking he raced ahead and did the next few parts himself. A few months ago he couldn’t have done that.

Children are definitely the most amazing gauge of time in my life, regardless of the events of the past. 

Legionreturns

My first computer had 48kb ...my phone now has 64000000

Kilgore

I like to ponder the passage of time through confectionary.

I am 50.

Marathon changed it's name to Snickers in 1990, over half my lifetime ago.