The Official Music Banter Old Fogeys Thread
 

Come in, come in! WIPE YER FEET, WHY DON'T YE? THINK CARPET GROWS ON TREES? Sorry, sorry. Welcome to the clubhouse. Here is where we can moan and bitch about those younger, prettier and smarter than us, and whine about the good old days. Open to those 50 or over, either in body or mind, and oh I suppose kids can join too, but expect to be treated with condescending sneers and comments about how you don't know you're born, how you don't know what hardship is and so on. What? No, there are NO sockets into which you can plug your mobile phone or Ipad or whatever the damn hell you kids use these days! In my time, we had conversation. Well, sort of. Yeah, you'll soon get bored and leave, that's the plan. Young 'uns these days, I don't know...

All right then, feel free to speak with a lyrical twist, a tear in your eye or a scowl on your face about how things were so much better in our day, and let's show these punks how we did it in our dayzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wha? Wha? Who's there? I have a gun, I warn you. Well, a club. Well, all right, I'm not armed but I can bore you to death with pointless stories. Oh yeah? Wanna try your luck punk? Feeling lucky? Right then, you asked for it.

Rabbit's ears was what we called the television aerial we would use to pick up all of four channels when I were a lad, but you had to position it just right, otherwise the reception would...

I'm 22 does that count

*Foghat intensifies*

If you're 22 in body but 52 in mind, then yes.

I think my mind is like 22ish also

Those who can remember a time when you did not have to have a payment plan for super quality headphones might be able to share my feelings on the subject. I'm sure there are good budget-area "cans", but looking at the hyped sets give off an ultimate sticker shock.

Oh God, whose trollish second account are you? Sigh.

Haha! Good idea, Trollheart :clap: but don't we already have a Grumpy Old Man thread? I had it in my hand just a minute ago and now I can't find it....

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Welcome back, Screen13 :wavey:

Yeah, crazy prices! I remember when a new paperback cost "three an' six", which would be 17.5p in modern Brit money.
When I was a kid, you could get 4 cheap sugary chews, each in its own wrapping, for a penny. So they were technically a farthing each, though, the farthing no longer being legal tender, you had to invest in two chews, minimum.

We'll set up a playpen for you then :D


I remember that we had to actually go outside and play because they didn't have video games back then. We actually had to socialize face to face.

I miss AM radio (Top 40) too.

If it is an alt account, my money's on jadis.

Yeah that or Tristan. But Tristan already shitposts so...

??? I am just annoying

I think that should read, "Oh God, whose trollish account you are, 'tis I." And no praying allowed here, sonny.
What? You think I have time, at my stage of life, to go searching to see if there are similar threads? I'm far too busy staying one step ahead of the Reaper - BOC don't know what they're talking about. That guy is one to fear!
I WANT ATTENTION! Everybody listen to ME!
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Come to think of it, didn't Trolls start the Grumpy Old man thread too?

Take your pick… now where did I leave my glasses?

grumpy-old-man-woman-thread.html

grumpy-old-man-thread-why-today-sucks.html

Figures they were both started by Trollheart. I give the old fart 2.5 years before he starts the fourth thread about how wizened and forgetful he is.

Maybe sooner if he can find his teeth :D

They're stuck to my coc k.

Yeah, you know what I should really do? Start a thread for us oldies. That'd be a good idea. Or, or , OR! I could start a thread for us oldies. In fact, I think I'll go and do that now. What does this mean "Hard disk will be erased are you sure y/n?" I've always been a yes man so...

We're already three pages into this thread, old man, and not a single 'Back in my day' story yet for us whippersnappers? And I've already heard the one about the time you caught the ferry over the Shelbyville...

Remember when pinnies were 20c?

****, pennies used to be worth 20 cents? Fuccking inflation, I tell yah!

Pfft! You kids don't even remember the original Matrix! This one we're living in now - you want to have seen how it was in MY day! Sometimes you were an hour late for work cos the system kept buffering. And don't even start about the traffic on the way home! Matrix 3.0 my ass! :mad:

In Primary School, we used to write in pencil, but, first day of Secondary School we were inducted into the arcane mysteries of writing in ink:



Imagine 35 eleven-year-olds doing this on average once a day: every desk, book, pair of hands and uniform had its inkstains. The fingers I used to hold a pen were permanently stained for about four years - until I moved to a school that was so progressive in outlook that they permitted the use of ball-point pens.

Where I lived it was like most Streets


Almost nobody had a CAR....

Around the Cities it would be quite different, with lots of Buses and Trains + Cars.

Did they tell you ball point was bull**** and not used by reputable adults? Sorta like how they told us we'd have to learn to do math without a calculator cause we wouldn't have them at the grocery store or whatever BUT GUESS WHAT BITCHES EVERYONE HAS A CALCULATOR AT ALL TIMES NOW AND I AIN'T DOING MATH EVER AGAIN!!!

This is to sincerely apologize for all the gratuitous trash talk I hurled at Trollheart, lisna and rubber soul. I joined this forum to get a taste of 2005 forum culture, and that I sure have gotten, but when this (or anything else) is done at someone's else expense it just becomes pathetic. You are top blokes and I've been a piece of $hit.

Ugh... time marches on. I can still do quite a few of the things that I could do in my younger days, but they're slowly diminishing. At 55 I just have to work a bit harder to retain it.

This song gets more real to me every year:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j0AyWbAbrc

I remember, back in my day, I used to go to a Five and Dime shop to get my Wacky Packages to add to my collection.

I also had quite a few bikes and they'd usually end up with a banana seat and chopper forks like this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d7/5f...6677026dc0.jpg

Thats all I can remember though because... you know... I'm old.

To be honest, I've forgotten how to do the multiplication table and it's totally fine.

O.o. How drunk are you right now?

Yeah, whats ^ up with the resident sock puppet?

Also, what the **** were these actually good for?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/s0EAA...MVw/s-l500.jpg

It's an uncharacteristically earnest post, yes, and I'm prepared to be mocked for it.

I very rarely drink though. Maybe I'm in one of those "tired and emotional" states but for other reasons.

You should probably get one of these then:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/s0EAA...MVw/s-l500.jpg

It's okay, jadis. I forgive you.

Yeah, I used to collect wacky packages when I was a kid. Remember trading baseball cards and using them for spokes on bicycle wheels so it would make noise. God knows how much money we were throwing away in those days. :laughing:

That and all the comic books I treated like yesterdays old newspaper. Luckily my brother got smart and started bagging, boxing, and cataloging all of the ones that were worth saving. He's got an entire wall of boxes of bagged comics. Some are mine, but I don't even know which ones.

Another big part of the back in my day were video games. Playing the first Donkey Kong at the local pizza joint. Pinball, Centipede, Galaga, Tempest... I spent many hours and many quarters in arcades.

Pong. Hours of fun. I used to set the ball perfectly bouncing straight off each paddle and go to school with it on. I'd come back after school and continue the game.

Then, there was Atari. Hoo boy. I think I liked Combat Tank2 the best. Blowing ****ers up from the other side of the map. Pitfall too. I took a pad of paper and made a map for every screen and beat the game.

Intellivision was cool too, but then I got a Commodore 64.

Here, have some 1983 SOTA gameplay:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTxaHYK9cXw

You had to keep changing out the 5.25 discs. Fun stuff.

I've spent my life in front of screens. No wonder I can't see.

I was terrible at video games, even Atari.

I was, however, something of a pinball wizard. We had an arcade in my neighborhood and the most popular machine was the Elton John Pinball Wizard machine. I could spend hours on it.

I've never been a fan of the tune, both versions, but it sure fueled the movement. Not too long ago I was visiting someone and they asked me if I liked pinball. I said 'sure, I guess', so they took me to their garage and when he opened the door it wasn't a garage, it was a pinball arcade. I stayed on the Kiss one for quite a few hours before they told me I had to leave.

We had in the 80's a Spectrum ZX Clive Sinclairs inventions...


way way before that about the 50's then, we played in the Street Marbles ,Hot Scotch and Rode our Bikes, always 2nd Hand and My late Dad had done them up by repairing and painting them...
we loved them...

We had no Fridge or Freezers and used a cool box which was filled with cold water at the top and kept food slightly cool....similar to the cool boxes for camping that have gel freezer packs...It was kept in a Pantry which is a really small room for baking goods mainly and stores of tin foods.

Holidays were taken in South Devon a SW Coastal Area, Places mainly were Torquay, Paignton or Brixham, that last one was a favourite, rugged and hilly town.
...Can remember by Sister buying a Elvis Presley Mirror there with a Black Frame.
... We went by Train as never had a Car until quite soon before I got married in 1967 at the age of just 19.