Passage of time that shocks you..

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Fretwired said:

Kilgore said:

Barbara Windsor is 80.

I met her with her husband .. feels like it was yesterday but it was 1989 ..


One of things that throws me is my gear .. I look at something and think 'that's quite new' then I realise I bought it 10+ years ago and haven't used it that often.

I bought what to me is my 'new' Strat in 1996 as a treat to myself for my 40th...the case still has that chocolate smell when you open it. I don't play it that often because it's new and I don't want to scratch it...



I'm 61 which seems to have gone past in a flash. Ten of my lifetimes ago the official language in England was French and Henry Prince of Wales was beseiging Welsh rebels at Aberystwyth.

Twenty lifetimes ago King Offa of Mercia died after a thirty nine year reign and King Aethelred of Northumbria was murdered.

Thirty lifetimes ago Helvius Pertinax was made Roman governor of Britain.

Scary really.

prowla

sticker said:

prowla said:

TheBigDipper said:

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...

(I was racking my brains trying to think where it came from!)

Well the "Stairway" quote is from Bad News and the Amplifier quote alludes to Spinal Tap .

I (geuinely) used to have an electric hob which went up to 11!

lovebuzz

@57Deluxe 

I'm more amazed that your rubber bumper MG has not become a rust bucket   

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prowla said:

sticker said:

prowla said:

TheBigDipper said:

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...

(I was racking my brains trying to think where it came from!)

Well the "Stairway" quote is from Bad News and the Amplifier quote alludes to Spinal Tap .

I (geuinely) used to have an electric hob which went up to 11!

The knobs on one of my amps (Hotrod deluxe) go up to 12. I win.

Fretwired

A still from a video - camping with friends April 1975. I'm the tall guy in the middle eating a bacon sandwich - my girlfriend to the left is now a professor of law in Baltimore, my friend in the blue shirt is a director at the Land Registry and the girl on the right in now a vicar in Borehamwood. It only seems like yesterday that we sat listening to Pink Floyd and sipping cheap wine without a care in the world.

Bridgehouse

Fretwired said:
listing to Pink Floyd sipping cheap wine

Must have been cheap wine

Fretwired

Bridgehouse said:

Fretwired said:
listing to Pink Floyd sipping cheap wine

Must have been cheap wine

:-) .. very cheap win .. makes your spelling go west ...

ICBM

Neill said:

It's cars with me. Cars are enormous these days.  If you see an original Mini today the thing is so small you almost feel as though you could pick it up and tuck it under your arm.

A few months ago I came across a Ford Capri parked in the street. It was *tiny* - I remember that they were considered a mid-sized car, basically a sports version of the Cortina, which was a family car.

Before we had it demolished to build my workshop, my house had a garage. When it was built in 1982, presumably it was big enough to get a normal car in. But when I wanted to do some work on my Renault Scenic I measured it and discovered that I would only be able to get the car into the garage if I took literally everything else out, the wing mirrors would pass through the door with about a quarter inch clearance and I would not be able to get out of it except through the tailgate.

Neill said:

My first car was an Austin A35 you could give hand signals out of the nearside window.  But we could get five blokes in it - how?

Absolutely no side impact protection.

I used to drive a Citroën 2CV - they're about four feet wide, and when you're sitting in one your shoulder touches the door, which is made of sheet steel about as thick as a fag packet folded into a hollow half-inch-thick pressing. And that's it - that's the amount of distance anything crashing into it has to travel before it hits you. Most other cars made before the 1980s aren't a lot better.

usedtobe

I can remember at junior school, I think I was 8, which would make sense, and we were doing something about the year 2000, and we had to work out how old we’d be by then (38).
I remember thinking how incredibly far away it seemed, and how very old I would be...

ICBM

usedtobe said:

I can remember at junior school, I think I was 8, which would make sense, and we were doing something about the year 2000, and we had to work out how old we’d be by then (38).
I remember thinking how incredibly far away it seemed, and how very old I would be...

I remember doing exactly that in about 1977, when I was 10. I would be *33* in the year 2000...

When I saw Debbie Harry on TV for the first time, she was also 33! That sounded about the same age as my grandmother  - although somehow she looked younger .

I was 33 when my eldest daughter was born, and now she has a boyfriend and a provisional driving licence. I'm not sure which is more scary.

Phil_aka_Pip

usedtobe said:

I can remember at junior school, I think I was 8, which would make sense, and we were doing something about the year 2000, and we had to work out how old we’d be by then (38).
I remember thinking how incredibly far away it seemed, and how very old I would be...

When I were at Junior School, 2000 was so far ahead that nobody thought about it. Anyone who tried probably concluded we'd all have been nuked by then.

I turned 43 in 2000.

Teetonetal

ourmaninthenorth said:

I was alive the last time England won the World Cup. 

I bet I'm not alive the next time they win the fooker....

Let's hope for your sake they don't win it in 2018 then..

Sporky

Fretwired said:

A still from a video - camping with friends April 1975. I'm the tall guy in the middle eating a bacon sandwich

If it helps, I was a month old then, and I still can't grow a moustache.

Sassafras

I remember when the local Bobby would give you a clip round the earhole for crossing the road where you shouldn't.
Nowadays you're more likely to get tasered or worse.

ICBM

Sassafras said:

I remember when the local Bobby would give you a clip round the earhole for crossing the road where you shouldn't.
Nowadays you're more likely to get tasered or worse.

Local Bobby? Nowadays?

Time really has passed...

Danny1969

I remember getting caned at school across the arse or the hand, the girls used to get slippered across the arse. Fags were about 58p a packet when I started smoking at 13 ... lot of money for a 13 year old mind! Teachers smoked in class, some of mine drunk from small flasks in class. Days used to drag for teachers and kids alike. A lot of kids left illiterate. I told the careers adviser I wanted to be an electronics repair specialist or a traveller  .... one came true
Beer was 88P a pint when I turned 18 and with a weekly wage of £124 I could afford a lot of it .... my first proper motorbike, a KH125 cost £600 new and insurance was about £48 a year. 

ThePrettyDamned

ICBM said:

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.

And yet it still sounds completely contemporary, compared to the beatles. 

Says a massive beatles fan. 

ICBM

ThePrettyDamned said:

ICBM said:

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

And yet it still sounds completely contemporary, compared to the beatles. 

Says a massive beatles fan. 

To you and me it might. It probably doesn't to a teenager.

It's also probably a bit of a sad reflection that guitar-based rock music has reached a state of very little further evolution. Some other evidence - the last amplifier to totally redefine what distorted guitar sounds like was probably the Mesa Dual Rectifier... since then, new designs have mostly been about repackaging old sounds in more versatile and user-friendly ways. The Dual Rectifier also came out in 1991.

Phil_aka_Pip

@ICBM don't ask what is new, ask what is good

Chalky

I'm old enough to remember when you'd meet a girl in a pub, and agree to meet again a week later at a certain time and place. Only, you didn't know her address or phone number (many homes had no phone back then), just that you'd arranged to meet.  If one of you didn't turn up or was too late you might never meet again, ever.

Can you imagine that today?

The oldest storyline - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl - just doesn't work in today's world.