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Things that make you feel old
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Looking at our socials this weekend and seeing miles less engagement for the post about the Greatest Game than the final a few years ago.
Then realised loads of people would have passed over it because they werent even born!0 -
Seeing Alfred Molina mentioned in the TV thread, immediately thinking of El Cid, then finding that was 36 years ago0
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That plot size is deeply suspicious0
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We live on the country with the World’s 6th, sometimes the 5th, largest economy and when we travel abroad on our hols etc to less richer countries and we see air con units littered over most homes and flats; and yet you think somebody with air con in the UK must be rich ?iainment said:
and homes) with air conditioning like we have todayletthegoodtimesroll said:
It’s hotter these days than when it was when you and I were younger. Old people in the UK then didn’t have to cope with heat like this. If they had similar hot days to contend with they would have had cars (and homes) with air conditioning like we have today and we would have had to dash off to Spain for a fortnight of sunshine once a year.Arsenetatters said:I used to wonder what all the fuss was about watching out for old people during heatwaves….. 🥵Who has a home with air conditioning? Only the rich methinks.0 -
Unlikely. That’s the point. It wasn’t as hot when we were younger as it is today - that’s why they keep saying new records are being setCovered End said:
What on earth are you talking about?letthegoodtimesroll said:
It’s hotter these days than when it was when you and I were younger. Old people in the UK then didn’t have to cope with heat like this. If they had similar hot days to contend with they would have had cars (and homes) with air conditioning like we have today and we would have had to dash off to Spain for a fortnight of sunshine once a year.Arsenetatters said:I used to wonder what all the fuss was about watching out for old people during heatwaves….. 🥵
Old people when you were young had cars and homes with air conditioning?0 -
For GDP per capita, the UK ranks around 25th in the world with some of the highest electricity costs in the world, so it's not much of a surprise.letthegoodtimesroll said:
We live on the country with the World’s 6th, sometimes the 5th, largest economy and when we travel abroad on our hols etc to less richer countries and we see air con units littered over most homes and flats; and yet you think somebody with air con in the UK must be rich ?iainment said:
and homes) with air conditioning like we have todayletthegoodtimesroll said:
It’s hotter these days than when it was when you and I were younger. Old people in the UK then didn’t have to cope with heat like this. If they had similar hot days to contend with they would have had cars (and homes) with air conditioning like we have today and we would have had to dash off to Spain for a fortnight of sunshine once a year.Arsenetatters said:I used to wonder what all the fuss was about watching out for old people during heatwaves….. 🥵Who has a home with air conditioning? Only the rich methinks.2 -
I used to be up there with technology, and still am good with computers but I stalled with mobile phones and pretty much use mine for calls and whats app. I took the decision to bow out when I could see people being too wedded to them on the commute to work. I am now a real dinosaur when it comes to using them.0
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Also see the "split economy" for why being a large economy by one flawed measure in GDP will likely not feel like it for the vast majority of people.Stu_of_Kunming said:
For GDP per capita, the UK ranks around 25th in the world with some of the highest electricity costs in the world, so it's not much of a surprise.letthegoodtimesroll said:
We live on the country with the World’s 6th, sometimes the 5th, largest economy and when we travel abroad on our hols etc to less richer countries and we see air con units littered over most homes and flats; and yet you think somebody with air con in the UK must be rich ?iainment said:
and homes) with air conditioning like we have todayletthegoodtimesroll said:
It’s hotter these days than when it was when you and I were younger. Old people in the UK then didn’t have to cope with heat like this. If they had similar hot days to contend with they would have had cars (and homes) with air conditioning like we have today and we would have had to dash off to Spain for a fortnight of sunshine once a year.Arsenetatters said:I used to wonder what all the fuss was about watching out for old people during heatwaves….. 🥵Who has a home with air conditioning? Only the rich methinks.0 -
GDP per capita is a less appropriate measure of likelihood of affordability as it’s easily distorted by small populations and low tax incentives for businessesStu_of_Kunming said:
For GDP per capita, the UK ranks around 25th in the world with some of the highest electricity costs in the world, so it's not much of a surprise.letthegoodtimesroll said:
We live on the country with the World’s 6th, sometimes the 5th, largest economy and when we travel abroad on our hols etc to less richer countries and we see air con units littered over most homes and flats; and yet you think somebody with air con in the UK must be rich ?iainment said:
and homes) with air conditioning like we have todayletthegoodtimesroll said:
It’s hotter these days than when it was when you and I were younger. Old people in the UK then didn’t have to cope with heat like this. If they had similar hot days to contend with they would have had cars (and homes) with air conditioning like we have today and we would have had to dash off to Spain for a fortnight of sunshine once a year.Arsenetatters said:I used to wonder what all the fuss was about watching out for old people during heatwaves….. 🥵Who has a home with air conditioning? Only the rich methinks.
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When your Old Man's Bladder* is the leading contributor to your physical fitness, because you're up and down the stairs all day.
*For the avoidance of any doubt, in this instance the phrase "Old Man's Bladder" refers to my bladder which is rather old because so am I. It's not a reference to the bladder of my dad, my husband (not that I have one) or anyone else with a chronologically disparaging nickname.0 -
Realising it was 50 years ago almost to the day you hit your maiden 50 in men’s cricket and then got engaged (been married nearly 48 years)0
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Hit 50 and bowled your maiden over.CharltonKerry said:Realising it was 50 years ago almost to the day you hit your maiden 50 in men’s cricket and then got engaged (been married nearly 48 years)2
