I used corn starch. Not as messy.
How OLD are you.
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I walked over a mile on a snow bound road to school in Grade 1. It was passable by horses and sleds but not by vehicles.
I wore breeches (breeks) and moccasins.
I'm so old physical media was still prevailing for some of my life 
Dial up and DSL speeds meant the Internet wasn't the source of instant gratification it is today
I'm so old we used to concern ourselves with long distance and night/weekend minute allotment
Call me
after 7pm we'd say
Text messages were 25¢ each
T9 typing on a flip phone gave us joint issues that still haunt us today
I'm so old, I predate the emoji. We had to make emoticons out of punctuation elements : (
I'm so old I remember watching analog TV, and there only being ~20 channels
Divide that in half if you only understood English
I'm so old I (just barely) predate the mass produced EV, as it was thought they could never be mainstream transportation
When I came into this world, people were unironically doing the macarena, in the red and black lumberjack plaid (with the hat to match
)
Boy the late 1900s was quite a time
I'm glad I lived through the days of crank windows, cassettes, and non standardized cell phone chargers
I'm not a complete expert on it, but many historians are chronicling it
Isn't that right @dishdude
Dial up and DSL speeds meant the Internet wasn't the source of instant gratification it is today
I'm so old we used to concern ourselves with long distance and night/weekend minute allotment
Call me
after 7pm we'd say Text messages were 25¢ each
T9 typing on a flip phone gave us joint issues that still haunt us today
I'm so old, I predate the emoji. We had to make emoticons out of punctuation elements : (
I'm so old I remember watching analog TV, and there only being ~20 channels
Divide that in half if you only understood English
I'm so old I (just barely) predate the mass produced EV, as it was thought they could never be mainstream transportation
When I came into this world, people were unironically doing the macarena, in the red and black lumberjack plaid (with the hat to match
)Boy the late 1900s was quite a time
I'm glad I lived through the days of crank windows, cassettes, and non standardized cell phone chargers
I'm not a complete expert on it, but many historians are chronicling it
Isn't that right @dishdude
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I remember seeing a television set in a restaurant in 1953 while on a trip to a family wedding.
We stopped on route to stay with relatives who had an ash tray on a stand with an airplane on top that had 2 propellers and lights in the windows. And I got to sleep in the bathtub. All quite memorable.
And that's a long time ago.
We stopped on route to stay with relatives who had an ash tray on a stand with an airplane on top that had 2 propellers and lights in the windows. And I got to sleep in the bathtub. All quite memorable.
And that's a long time ago.
I'm so old that when I was a kid, the Dead Sea was just sick.
I use the same expression. I will celebrate the 32nd anniversary of my 29th birthday in October!
This
used for this
used for this
Please.
As we old Canadian guys say:
I don't watch hockey anymore because there's too many teams, and ya can't remember who plays for who anymore, and
I don't listen to the radio anymore because all the new music sounds the same, and
I don't keep up with the new cars because they all look the same!
I don't watch hockey anymore because there's too many teams, and ya can't remember who plays for who anymore, and
I don't listen to the radio anymore because all the new music sounds the same, and
I don't keep up with the new cars because they all look the same!
My Harley had a foot clutch and left hand shifter and mechanical spark advance (51 Panhead) when I drug it home on a trailer. It had been sitting outside in stock condition for many years from the look of it. Chopped it and converted it to foot shift, SU carb, ran great! I was still in high school, Dad helped me re spoke and true the wheels after I had the hubs chromed. Good times!
I'm so old telephone numbers had prefixes and 5 numbers. Still remember my first Pa Parkview
I'm so old that I remember the neighbor coming on our party line and telling us, "You kids need to hang up. Grownups need to make calls."
The plum tree was 1st base, the swingset was 3rd...and the worn out patches were 2nd and home plate, God I long for those days
When I was a kid we spent all day in the summer playing with our friends. Our parents only expectation was that we'd be home for meals and home again before the curfew. The town cop rang a siren at 9:00 pm and kids had better be home by then.
So what did we do? - rode bikes, did a little fishing, played hide and seek, played Anti-Anti-I-Over, played cops and robbers, played cowboys and Indians, played scrub, played kick-the-can (cricket without any special equipment), played football, flew model airplanes and homemade solid fuel rockets, flew hydrogen balloons, shot sparrows with a BB gun, and probably a few more things I can't remember off hand.
So what did we do? - rode bikes, did a little fishing, played hide and seek, played Anti-Anti-I-Over, played cops and robbers, played cowboys and Indians, played scrub, played kick-the-can (cricket without any special equipment), played football, flew model airplanes and homemade solid fuel rockets, flew hydrogen balloons, shot sparrows with a BB gun, and probably a few more things I can't remember off hand.
Playing in the creek (always looking for crawdads), a million hours at the town pool, dinner at grandmas, seeing how many pieces of hubba bubba we could fit in our mouths and still blow a bubble, always upgrading or tinkering with my bike, catching bugs in glass jars then observing them for a few days, getting yelled at by my drunk neighbor for jumping her fence to retrieve another football/wiffleball, mowing the grass with an old push mower that was way older than me.
Don't make yourself sick over it.
Vote for me and I'll bring back the '50's!
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I didn't get the memo 4 years ago. But I learned a new way to tell someone's age. How many spaces after a period. I refuse to change and unlearn what I've been doing since 10 years old. Btw on this forum, looks like software is removing the sign that I mention, which would show that I am old.
When cars had two metal keys. The round-head to unlock the door, and the square-head for the ignition - which went straight into the dash.
