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Toby
15-10-2015, 09:38 AM
Sponsored by the 10 years that have passed since this was released:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/I_Bet_You_Look_Good_On_the_Dancefloor.jpg

Boydy
15-10-2015, 09:55 AM
I saw that mentioned on Twitter earlier. Yeah, I felt old. I remember seeing them live as well when they becoming proper big. That must be about nine and a half years ago now.

Toby
15-10-2015, 09:58 AM
This is the one that really got me after my birthday this year.

http://i.imgur.com/E5Wsdxi.jpg

Benny
15-10-2015, 10:15 AM
I feel your pain with that one, Toby.

I had to pay more than my girlfriend to go up the tower in Bruges as I was a year older, and thus entered another category for some reason.

Toby
15-10-2015, 10:15 AM
Where is that? Don't you mean Brugge?

Benny
15-10-2015, 10:16 AM
:eyemouth:

Giggles
15-10-2015, 10:18 AM
You young cunts.

Ian
15-10-2015, 10:25 AM
There being a guy in the office who is 18 and this being his first job. Particularly, I think, because the average age of people in our office is much nearer to 30.

Andy
15-10-2015, 10:27 AM
I turn thirty in five weeks and have no hair, everything makes me feel old.

Giggles
15-10-2015, 10:32 AM
I bought In Utero the day it came out. On cassette.

Sam
15-10-2015, 10:57 AM
Realising that the game I've played is celebrating it's 14 year anniversary and remembering that I beta tested it before release.

Benny
15-10-2015, 11:12 AM
Footballers are another one to make you feel old. Delle Alli was born in 1996 :sick:

Andy
15-10-2015, 11:18 AM
We can't be far off the next wonder kid being born in the 2000s.

Disco
15-10-2015, 11:34 AM
Having to think for a second while you work out how old you actually are.

Giggles
15-10-2015, 11:36 AM
Not waking with a horn any more.

Jimmy Floyd
15-10-2015, 11:39 AM
The years 2006-8 now being impossibly distant keeps surprising me. They seem like yesterday.

simon
15-10-2015, 11:48 AM
One of the kids I was coaching yesterday scored a goal that was distinctly like Ronaldinho's vs us at the World Cup. I mentioned that to him and he had no idea what goal I was talking about as he was 2 years old when it happened. :(

niko_cee
15-10-2015, 12:04 PM
Having to think for a second while you work out how old you actually are.

Yeah, this.

:D

In the same age category as Toby though. Win.

Jimmy Floyd
15-10-2015, 12:12 PM
Sport history is bad for this. To a 17 year old now, Mourinho's first title is what Blackburn's title is to me, time wise.

And for the same person, their equivalent of Italia 90 (I was alive but not old enough to watch it) is Euro 2000.

Benny
15-10-2015, 12:17 PM
Seems unfair that they missed out on Euro 96, think that was my first real memory of caring about England's results.

Pepe
15-10-2015, 12:18 PM
Turning thirty next week. :(

phonics
15-10-2015, 01:00 PM
Pepe's older than me? Get in.

wullie
15-10-2015, 01:13 PM
One of the students I played football with last week was born in 1998, which would have been around the time I bought the France shirt I was wearing to play.

Mazuuurk
15-10-2015, 02:17 PM
Seeing some female quasi-celebrity in any sort of situation and thinking, wow she's fit - then googling and finding out she's born in like 1993 or something.

John
15-10-2015, 02:32 PM
This being the fiftieth iteration of this thread is working quite well at the moment. The old board turning ten years old was a good one.

My now standard answer to this is that Ralph Macchio is now older than Pat Morita was when Karate Kid was made.

Andy
15-10-2015, 02:57 PM
Seeing some female quasi-celebrity in any sort of situation and thinking, wow she's fit - then googling and finding out she's born in like 1993 or something.

As long as it's not 2003 you're fine mate.

mugbull
15-10-2015, 05:58 PM
1 year from the 20th. It's already been 5 years since WC 2010. I remember the first player I heard about who was younger than me, Mason Bennett. This was in 2012 or so. Now there are a good few who are younger than me. Scary. I won't be a teenager ever again come next summer

Alex
15-10-2015, 06:21 PM
1 year from the 20th. It's already been 5 years since WC 2010. I remember the first player I heard about who was younger than me, Mason Bennett. This was in 2012 or so. Now there are a good few who are younger than me. Scary. I won't be a teenager ever again come next summer

This. This make me feel old. :moop:

Shindig
15-10-2015, 06:23 PM
Just wait til your facebook feed is all babies and weddings.

Giggles
15-10-2015, 06:27 PM
Just wait til your facebook feed is all babies and weddings.

Wait til it's Facebook accounts by said kids and the rest of your feed is all heart attacks and funerals.

Alex
15-10-2015, 06:28 PM
Babies and weddings are a good one, actually. I appear to be pretty much the only one left in my group of friends with a complete disinterest in either.

Pen
15-10-2015, 06:38 PM
I guess being a less than a year away from thirty makes me feel somewhat old.

My life is still relatively carefree, but saving for a house, thinking (seriously) when and where to get married, when to start a family are quite a far cry to what I was thinking closer to twenty.

Mazuuurk
15-10-2015, 06:43 PM
Just wait til your facebook feed is all babies and weddings.

Mine already is.

phonics
19-10-2015, 03:57 PM
Remember that lady who put a cat in a bin?

That was five years ago today.

Benny
19-10-2015, 04:10 PM
I bet she's feline pretty stupid now.

randomlegend
19-10-2015, 04:25 PM
Seeing girls out pushing their kids in prams and realising they (no, not the kids, you horrible fucks) would be too young for me.

Toby
19-10-2015, 04:26 PM
Seeing girls out pushing their kids in prams and realising they (no, not the kids, you horrible fucks) would be too young for me.

The kids wouldn't be too young for you and you think we're the horrible fucks?

Lee
19-10-2015, 04:35 PM
I don't consider anybody of legal age too young to fuck. There's a quite wonderful eighteen year old working on my ED reception desk at the minute. The things I'd do. :drool:

John Arne
19-10-2015, 04:51 PM
I attempted a simple leap onto a 3ft wall the other day - nearly fell backwards as my gut stopped me from brining my knees high enough.

Fat and old.

Benny
19-10-2015, 05:53 PM
I thought all Asian people were skinny?

John Arne
19-10-2015, 06:13 PM
I'm not Asian. Just a fatty from Cheshire.

Smiffy
19-10-2015, 06:21 PM
.....

mo
19-10-2015, 07:05 PM
Turning 30 soon.

Students who were born after 9/11.

The Merse
19-10-2015, 07:20 PM
This is the one that really got me after my birthday this year.

http://i.imgur.com/E5Wsdxi.jpg

The 30-40 ones really hit home. I've only come across it once, but fuck me...

Giggles
19-10-2015, 07:28 PM
A lot of you are older than I thought. I would have thought only one or two were out of their 20's and a lot were teenagers.

phonics
19-10-2015, 07:46 PM
I'm not Asian. Just a fatty from Cheshire.

I read that as Aslan.

John Arne
19-10-2015, 07:48 PM
To be fair, I'm not Aslan either.

Disco
19-10-2015, 08:33 PM
I think you're lion to us JA. :sherlock:

Yevrah
19-10-2015, 08:35 PM
Nothing makes me feel old these days, at least any more than I already do, since I accepted that I am old (or at least not young) a few years ago now.

Spoonsky
19-10-2015, 10:32 PM
I've never seen that cover to that album before. It's always been the guy's face surely? :cab:


Sport history is bad for this. To a 17 year old now, Mourinho's first title is what Blackburn's title is to me, time wise.

And for the same person, their equivalent of Italia 90 (I was alive but not old enough to watch it) is Euro 2000.

Yep. My very earliest memory of watching football is Italy 2-0 Germany in the World Cup semifinals, and even then I only have the blurriest memory of the counterattack for Del Piero's goal. The first European game I ever watched was Liverpool 4-2 Arsenal in the Champions League, which I'm sure must seem like recent history to some of you. Albeit that's as an American, where it hasn't been part of the culture, but still.

I'm about to send in my first college application, so that's an obvious one. Being on the cusp of leaving home hasn't really sunk in yet. My 8th grade year feels like it was yesterday, and now I'm in the high school equivalent of that, and it's all just been a blur. I look at my friends and they look like adults, and do adult things. The new presidential cycle is another one.

I think James Mercer of the Shins nailed it for all time when he sung, "The years have been short but the days are long."

Boydy
20-10-2015, 12:01 AM
That's the cover of the single. You're so young you probably don't even remember singles being sold in shops.

Lewis
20-10-2015, 12:19 AM
We should consider ourselves quite fortunate to have straddled that period where technology went mental and developed at light speed. We had dial-up installed off a disk; primitive mobile phones; pre-digital Sky; portable CD players... Remember when you had to be in the same room to play somebody at FIFA?

Shindig
20-10-2015, 07:45 AM
When players you idolised as a kid retire.

Toby
20-10-2015, 08:26 AM
I've never seen that cover to that album before. It's always been the guy's face surely? :cab:


It's not the album, it's the I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor single. The album itself didn't come out until a few months later.

Toby
25-10-2015, 11:02 PM
On a similar note to the opening post, Radio 1 were doing a thing tonight about Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory being fifteen years old tonight.

That actually had the opposite effect on me though, since I was surprised to find I was only ten for the spell where I thought they were great.

Mike
25-10-2015, 11:09 PM
I recently couldn't remember how old I was. That was a worry.

SvN
25-10-2015, 11:17 PM
I've had that happen a few times. Had to do the maths to figure it out. Couldn't remember if I was 28 or 29.

Pepe
26-10-2015, 12:16 AM
Singles, talk about a ripoff. :D

hfswjyr
26-10-2015, 07:38 PM
We should consider ourselves quite fortunate to have straddled that period where technology went mental and developed at light speed. We had dial-up installed off a disk; primitive mobile phones; pre-digital Sky; portable CD players... Remember when you had to be in the same room to play somebody at FIFA?

I consider us incredible lucky to have lived in the golden age of piracy. The internet has bought me music, movies, TV shows, streaming sports, all for "free".

hfswjyr
26-10-2015, 07:43 PM
On the topic though, I've just met my first cousins once removed (I think that's right? My mums' sisters' daughters' kids). They didn't exist 5 years ago, and now suddenly there are 4 of them.

Magic
26-10-2015, 07:49 PM
I read my little girl a book I had when I was a child, published 1992. It was the same book. Can't wait to show her my Dandy/Beano collection. :drool:

Also frequenting the parks I used to go as a kid. Its so beautifully nostalgic. Really emotional.

Boydy
26-10-2015, 07:54 PM
Not a fucking chance I'd raise kids where I grew up.

Magic
26-10-2015, 07:56 PM
Oh I'm not, we never went to local parks LOL. Apart from my grandparents they did. It's the ones out of town like the adventure parks that were absolute shite but you remember them being amazing.

Andrew
26-10-2015, 08:37 PM
Going through some boxes in the attic, and came across a load of old VHS tapes brought them downstairs to have a gander at them, my 10 year old son walked into the room and didn't have a clue what they were or what you did with them.

Sort of sunk in that not only am I old as fuck but I'm from a totally different world to that which my kids are growing up in.

Magic
26-10-2015, 08:39 PM
Were they all tapes of the 10 minute freeview on Television X? :drool:

Jeet
26-10-2015, 08:46 PM
Rooney becoming 30. I remember when he scored vs us for Everton :(

Magic
26-10-2015, 08:48 PM
Doesn't that make Rooney feel old?

Mike
26-10-2015, 09:05 PM
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ac-milan-hand-debut-16-6703394

This 16 year old 'keeper....
http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6703538.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Gianluigi-Donnarumma.jpg

Born in 1999!! I left high school in 1999!

Disco
26-10-2015, 09:13 PM
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ac-milan-hand-debut-16-6703394

This 16 year old 'keeper....
http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6703538.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Gianluigi-Donnarumma.jpg

Born in 1999!! I left high school in 1999!

That's some impressive cramming.

Raoul Duke
26-10-2015, 09:31 PM
Looks like Chris Langham.

Giggles
26-10-2015, 09:35 PM
Thinking you won't lose touch with what young people are into, like you thought older people did when you were young. And then realising you think most of what young people are into is completed and utter bollocks.

Magic
26-10-2015, 09:39 PM
Yeah my little brother and sister who are 13 and 14 are in to different as fuck stuff. I'm so out of touch with it all and that's only 12 years.

Spoonsky
26-10-2015, 09:39 PM
I get the "out of touch" thing at high school too. Look across the lawn at lunch and feel completely disconnected from the vast majority of people out there. God knows what it will be like when I'm actually old.

Your siblings are 12 years younger than you? What were your parents playing at with that?

Magic
26-10-2015, 09:41 PM
I get the "out of touch" thing at high school too. Look across the lawn at lunch and feel completely disconnected from the vast majority of people out there. God knows what it will be like when I'm actually old.

Your siblings are 12 years younger than you? What were your parents playing at with that?

Two mistakes from my dad's affair.

Mike
26-10-2015, 09:42 PM
A women a little older than me at work, was taking her daughter to an autograph signing. The guy signing autographs was 'someone from youtube' :doh:

Spoonsky
26-10-2015, 09:43 PM
Two mistakes from my dad's affair.

Literally not sure if srs.

Magic
26-10-2015, 09:44 PM
Srs. They're now married, to be fair.

Spoonsky
26-10-2015, 09:47 PM
Damn. No wonder you're so fragile.

Magic
26-10-2015, 09:48 PM
What the fuck are you suggesting you little Amish shit bubble.

Toby
26-10-2015, 09:49 PM
:D

"Two mistakes" probably wasn't as bitter as it sounded, but I can definitely imagine you using that if they ever annoy you.

Raoul Duke
26-10-2015, 09:54 PM
What the fuck are you suggesting you little Amish shit bubble.

:D

Danny
26-10-2015, 10:18 PM
What the fuck are you suggesting you little Amish shit bubble.

:lol:

Trying not to burst out laughing and have to explain this to the missus.

Giggles
26-10-2015, 10:23 PM
What the fuck are you suggesting you little Amish shit bubble.

:D

Repped :thbup:

Lewis
26-10-2015, 10:30 PM
I get the "out of touch" thing at high school too. Look across the lawn at lunch and feel completely disconnected from the vast majority of people out there. God knows what it will be like when I'm actually old.

You'll be miserable. Constantly.

Pepe
26-10-2015, 11:39 PM
The beauty of self-awareness.

Spoonsky
27-10-2015, 01:01 AM
You'll be miserable. Constantly.

I don't think so. But I may leave first-world society (is this the wankiest sentence I've ever written?). Surely it's better in a place where the people would be alien to you anyways.

Lewis
27-10-2015, 01:06 AM
How old are you now? You might be a few years behind where I was, but it's coming.

Spoonsky
27-10-2015, 06:43 AM
Seventeen. "Where" were you?

mugbull
27-10-2015, 06:45 AM
Once you get laid you'll suddenly feel much more connected to all those people on the lawn, especially the females. That's what hormones will do for you

Spoonsky
27-10-2015, 01:30 PM
It's not that though; I do feel connected to the people on the lawn in my own grade. It's just that the rest seem comparatively like toddlers to me.

Giggles
27-10-2015, 01:47 PM
Hold on, how did I miss Spoon going from High School Musical to American Beauty?
And so quick too. Drugs or a cult?

Magic
11-11-2015, 04:08 PM
When you're looking for relatively new music on YouTube and you see it's been uploaded 10 years ago or something. :(

igor_balis
11-11-2015, 04:12 PM
I know the feeling. Recently went to see if a few bands I remember liking quite recently had released any new stuff, and realised they'd released about 5 more albums and split up already.

John
11-11-2015, 04:16 PM
I muted the laptop a few weeks ago and completely forgot I'd had music on YouTube with the 'autoplay' thing turned on. When I went back on it had shuffled its way to 'Hoobastank - The Reason', which it informed me is twelve years old. It feels like about half that at most that song was fucking ubiquitous.

igor_balis
11-11-2015, 04:18 PM
Nine Black Alps came into my head the other day, and their first album came out 10 fucking years ago.

John
11-11-2015, 04:24 PM
Same with 'Hope of the States', who I remember being touted as the next great English band at one point. They lasted about a fortnight, didn't they?

phonics
11-11-2015, 05:02 PM
I wish I had access to the sheer troves of pop punk stuff I downloaded back in the day a la Hoobastank, Alkaline Trio et al. I've forgotten most of the bands outside of the real classics since I started listening to Hip Hop.

I used to have a good 100GB of music split across so many tiny hard-drives.

Magic
11-11-2015, 05:06 PM
My recovery driver took his ex-wife to see Trivium in Glasgow a few years ago, this reminded me of all those screamy shite bands that emerged around that time like Avenged Sevenfold etc and the absolute shiners that liked that sort of pish.

phonics
11-11-2015, 05:08 PM
Slipknot :cool:

Korn :cool:

Sepultura :cool:

The Rest :sick:

wullie
11-11-2015, 05:08 PM
Avenged Sevenfold are more the poppier end of it I thought, all their stuff I've heard isn't really shouty.

Magic
11-11-2015, 05:09 PM
Atreyu. :harold:

phonics
11-11-2015, 05:10 PM
Can we start naming the pop punky bands of the time a la Alkaline Trio/Jimmy Eat World? I'm having a youtube nostalgia extravaganza here.

Magic
11-11-2015, 05:11 PM
'Emo' is the phrase I was looking for. A low point for humanity.

John
11-11-2015, 05:13 PM
AFI were another of those.

I used Dancing Through Sunday as the background music for a little game I made for uni in late 2004. That and AM 180 by Grandaddy, which seem like excessively different choices for two marginally different levels of a little PacMan style game in which the mechanics never changed.

phonics
11-11-2015, 05:13 PM
Emo was rubbish but none of the bands you mentioned were emo. Funeral For a Friend were probably my most hated band of that age.

Magic
11-11-2015, 05:15 PM
Alien Ant Farm?

I'd class Trivium as emo shit, by the way.

wullie
11-11-2015, 05:15 PM
I always hated the uniform whiny voice that seemed to be a requirement for lead singers, put me off the whole lot.

phonics
11-11-2015, 05:30 PM
AFI were another of those.

I used Dancing Through Sunday as the background music for a little game I made for uni in late 2004. That and AM 180 by Grandaddy, which seem like excessively different choices for two marginally different levels of a little PacMan style game in which the mechanics never changed.

Now AFI did turn emo. Those first few albums were so good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u3xRp4FP58

Which has then led me to H2O's Thicker Than Water which IIRC was the first mp3 file I ever downloaded. Got it from the Epitaph website on my schools connection, put it on to a floppy and took it home.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kds0Zv3Y7l4

What a time to be alive.

Magic
11-11-2015, 05:32 PM
Fucking hell that is appallingly bad. :D

phonics
11-11-2015, 05:33 PM
Rival Schools :drool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agnTSc3St1Y

There was so much of this sort of nonsense and it all sounds the same but I loved it.

Benny
11-11-2015, 06:59 PM
Alkaline Trio are the fucking tits.

Sir Andy Mahowry
22-01-2016, 12:36 AM
Two things today in Forensic Linguistics, during the lecture Harold Shipman was mentioned and the lecturer said 'You're probably all too young to remember this...'

Later in the seminar she was talking about false memories regarding the London bombings. I instantly recalled in my mind that there was something similar with 9/11 although didn't mention it as I wasn't sure exactly what it was (something along the lines of people believing they saw tower one get hit/collapse live), it then hit me that I was 14 when it happened and every other student in the room had probably just started going to nursery/reception...

Ian
22-01-2016, 12:41 AM
Am I right in saying that the 9/11 thing is that those of us who were coming back from school to see it on the news all saw what would have been re-runs of the tower going down but have all forgotten the re-run bit? I'm sure I had that exact thing until I learned years later that the timing of it meant I couldn't possibly have seen any of it as it happened.

Bernanke
22-01-2016, 12:46 AM
Am I right in saying that the 9/11 thing is that those of us who were coming back from school to see it on the news all saw what would have been re-runs of the tower going down but have all forgotten the re-run bit? I'm sure I had that exact thing until I learned years later that the timing of it meant I couldn't possibly have seen any of it as it happened.

I discussed this with my dad a while back and he said the same thing. I was convinced I had stayed home from school that day for some reason.

To be fair though, I was 10 and I'm an hour ahead of you, I might've had a short enough day to be home for the second plane. Most likely it would've been re-runs though, as I'm not sure how fast news started airing in Sweden about it.

The Merse
22-01-2016, 12:59 AM
I saw the second tower live, as I was in my first year at college and had a free period so was in a shop in town. It's odd to think how news worked back then - when I returned to college some 2 hours later, no one knew. There were a few GPRS enabled phones, but no one consumed news on them - check scores of football perhaps, maybe download a ring tone and a background, that was all really in 2001. There were library PC's, but only 10 or so across a large student body, and again, people didn't consume news in the same way back then.

Bizarre when compared to 7/11 for example.

Sir Andy Mahowry
22-01-2016, 01:01 AM
I saw the second tower live, as I was in my first year at college and had a free period so was in a shop in town. It's odd to think how news worked back then - when I returned to college some 2 hours later, no one knew. There were a few GPRS enabled phones, but no one consumed news on them - check scores of football perhaps, maybe download a ring tone and a background, that was all really in 2001. There were library PC's, but only 10 or so across a large student body, and again, people didn't consume news in the same way back then.

Bizarre when compared to 7/11 for example.

If you were out and about sure, but if you were at home with a TV it was (IIRC which I probably can't) on EVERY single channel.

The Merse
22-01-2016, 01:10 AM
Of which we had 5 (without sky, obviously). It was on 4 of them all day, pretty much non-stop on BBC 1 and ITV for 2 days.

It was a watershed moment, but yeah, my point is not really about people at home on a weekday. It was the last great event before social media, portable devices and mobile bandwidth and optimisation radicalised the way the world consumes news.

Lewis
22-01-2016, 01:13 AM
I was off that day because it was the last day before going back. I rang my friend to see if he wanted to play football and he told me to stick the telly on. Then he came round and we played football. My old man told me it was probably Osama bin Laden, which I just repeated that at school the next day without knowing what I was on about, only to end up looking pretty great when his face started getting everywhere.

I was in sixth form for the London bombings, and I remember the early reports of a 'power surge' on the news (our common room had News 24 on all day for some reason) before going to lessons and coming back to find that the Muslims were at it again.

Sir Andy Mahowry
22-01-2016, 01:16 AM
I can't for the life of me remember the London bombings (what I was doing, how I found out etc) but for 9/11 it feels so vivid.

I remember coming home from school (20p bus back then :drool: Although my journey was only about a mile if that but I was too lazy to walk), throwing my blazer and tie on the floor and turning on the TV to all the carnage.

ScousePig
22-01-2016, 07:17 AM
When the London bombings were happening I was more concerned with watching something else, probably Sky Sports News. My sister was having a pop at me for it. For 9/11, I remember having a football match for my sixth form, so it must have been a Wednesday afternoon. Someone in the changing rooms mentioned something about it and on the way home my dad told me. He announced it like there'd been a death in the family.

I put a world timeline up in my classroom in September with key dates and events, including 9/11. Not one of the kids had a clue what it was (they weren't born until 2006/7). Although it maybe shouldn't have, that took me back a bit.

Smiffy
22-01-2016, 07:20 AM
I remember when Princess Diana died despite not having a clue who she was, I felt the need to go and wake my mum up in the morning to tell her. You think it was 97(?) so I would have been maybe 12 or something, speaks volumes of her I think.

Baz
22-01-2016, 07:53 AM
I was annoyed Neighbours wasn't on because of 9/11.
I was on holiday when Diana died and just remember my parents being mad at everyone caring so much, as we were just trying to make the most of being on our jollies.
And I have no recollection of hearing anything about the London bombings. I honestly had no idea people held it in the same regard as 9/11. :cab:

niko_cee
22-01-2016, 08:20 AM
:D

I was exactly the same. Clicked on BBC1 at 13.45 for a bit light relief down under and see a plane flying into a building instead. Diana dying was the last day of the school holidays, and also the first weekend of the Premier League season. Liverpool v Newcastle was the Super Sunday game and it got binned. Thank the lord for Football Italia which stayed strong through the hysteria.

Boydy
22-01-2016, 08:26 AM
They cancelled Premier League matches because of Diana?

niko_cee
22-01-2016, 08:30 AM
Just the Sunday game. Everyone else got to play theirs on the Saturday before she died. Sickening.

Kikó
22-01-2016, 08:39 AM
I remember watching the Diana stuff unfold on the TV (or lets test that theory now). I think it was breaking early morning which I rushed up to tell my grandmother to wake up with something like "Diana's dead" (missed my calling as a Doctor)

9/11 must have been after school but it definitely feels vivid enough that I watched it live but there is no way I wasn't in high school at the time.

No idea on what I was doing on the London one. It hasn't really connected in anyway or shock me to the core.

Raoul Duke
22-01-2016, 08:47 AM
9/11 (a.k.a. 11/9) I watched at work on some BBC live stream and had the news site on all day.

I was in London the week before 7/7 so that felt pretty weird, plus obviously I have far greater connection to here than to NYC. I think if something like that happened today it would have a much bigger impact, now I've lived here for several years. Even the Paris attacks made me feel a bit twitchy.

I can remember people losing their shit when Diana croaked but I didn't really understand what all the fuss was about and then ignored all the funeral nonsense.

Jimmy Floyd
22-01-2016, 09:04 AM
I was on the escalator at King's Cross underground for 7/7 :cool:

Still remember the thing going off literally as I stepped on the upward escalator. 'There has been a reported emergency. Please leave the station immediately.'

That was one of the more entertaining days I think I'll ever have, even though essentially nothing actually happened to me all day.

SvN
22-01-2016, 09:52 AM
For 9/11, one of my friends who goes home for lunch didn't come home for the last lesson of the day. I found that odd, but just assumed he was skiving. Having said that, I'm pretty sure it didn't kick off until 2pm our time, right? Lunch ended at 1.00pm for us - so perhaps he was skiving, and got lucky. Edit: Actually, this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/americas/2001/day_of_terror/timeline/default.stm) indicates that the first plane crashed at 12:53, so he would've just about caught it.

Noone said anything in school, although someone I know from another school said their last lesson was cancelled and they just sat and watched the news instead. Anyway, I got home and spoke to my parents, who said absolutely nothing about it. I went to my room and went on my PC like any other day. I started chatting to a guy on AIM that I met on an online e-wrestling forum (:cool:) called BigBalla. I was still totally oblivious to anything happening, and I still remember the exact words he said - "Dude, the biggest terrorist attack of all time is happening, turn on the news".

And that was that, I just sat and watched the news for the rest of the day.

For 7/7 I was working in a warehouse, and it was announced live over the radio. It felt like a bad event, but probably not as important as it should have. Certainly didn't feel as significant as the recent Paris stuff.

Giggles
22-01-2016, 10:02 AM
I was off shift for 9/11 and remember waking to see the 2nd one. 7/7 I've no recollection of or even anything about it til this day, but I was probably on a run of nights. I'd completely forgot about Madrid until I seen it mentioned when Paris happened and I'm not even sure I ever knew about it.

Toby
22-01-2016, 10:18 AM
My main memory of Diana is that during the minute's silence of her funeral (which again seemed to be on every channel) my younger brother, who was learning to use the toilet, roared down the stairs, "CAN SOMEBODY COME AND WIPE MY BUM?!"

wullie
22-01-2016, 10:24 AM
I saw the second plane hit, I remember it was a free day so I was lazing about watching Cash in the Attic or one of those kind of things and they cut to the World Trade Centre and what they thought was just a big fire.

Sam
22-01-2016, 10:41 AM
I remember it being a half day, going round my mates house with two others to watch Dragonball Z (fucking ace we were), to find his mom glued to the TV. Remember the second plane going in but god knows if it was legit or not. After bout a few minutes, mates mom come over to me, don't remember much of the conversation but do remember her telling me I best head back home, which I did, to find my family in hysterics trying to get in contact with everyone (huge swathes of family in New York). Didn't really grasp what was going on at the time but looking back was rather surreal.

niko_cee
22-01-2016, 10:50 AM
I remember watching the Diana stuff unfold on the TV (or lets test that theory now). I think it was breaking early morning which I rushed up to tell my grandmother to wake up with something like "Diana's dead" (missed my calling as a Doctor)


Yeah. It was early morning. My gran woke me up to tell me the news. Err, yeah, great, thanks Gran. Then it was wall-to-wall save for the said heroic efforts from Channel 4. The most galling thing was that BBC1 and BBC2 were running the same coverage.

Jimmy Floyd
22-01-2016, 11:07 AM
I love it when the screen fades to black out of nowhere and you have about 15 seconds to try and guess what tragedy has befallen the nation before it cuts to the newsroom for a special announcement. Only witnessed it twice, once for the death of Princess Margaret early on a Sunday morning (interrupting an episode of the Wild Thornberries) and once when Pope John Paul II died, which I think was late on a weekday evening. Both letdowns, to be honest.

Josh
22-01-2016, 11:13 AM
I reckon the presenters of live shows are praying for something big to happen so they can be the first to tell you about it before heading to the news room. Imagine one of those live episodes of Eastenders and Dot having to tell the world the Queen has popped her clogs.

Jimmy Floyd
22-01-2016, 11:23 AM
I want it during a football match with Jonathan Pearce on commentary.

'And we're just hearing the Duke of Edinburgh has died... wait. Has he or hasn't he? Ohh, this is a shambles! Here's Lee Chung-Yong... OHHH WHAT A GOAL. Well, it's a sad day, but the little Korean has maybe put the smiles back on a few faces. But not if you're a Norwich fan.'

Or Peter Drury.

Boydy
22-01-2016, 11:33 AM
I remember waking up on the Sunday morning to watch whatever kids shows were on and it being news everywhere about Diana. I went and woke my mum to tell her and she was proper sad. She loves the royal family and especially loved Diana.

I think with 9/11 I'd just got in from school and was looking for CBBC or whatever then too. It was all just news coverage. I thought I remembered catching it before the second plane hit but I guess I probably didn't.

Kikó
22-01-2016, 11:38 AM
I think 11/9 was the first time I was actually fearful of the world. I remember spouting crazy stuff to friends after it was all unfolding talking about war and going to fight in wherever. Really didn't know how to react or what to think during the event.

Disco
22-01-2016, 12:43 PM
I distinctly remember being at work and hearing about a plane hitting the World Trade Centre and in my mind I assumed it was a Cessna or something small that had gotten off course. Wasn't long before we all just stopped and watched it unfold, I too seem to remember seeing the second plane hitting as I got home but who knows.

7/7 I was on here reading the thread (was it Ginner who we wondered about being caught up in it as well as Jimmy?) and watching the news while checking on friends and family etc.

We were at Dartmouth when Diana died, I think it was a Sunday morning which would normally be spent packing but instead it was wall to wall coverage and people popping in to say how terrible it was. I do recall being slightly thankful it hadn't been the weekend before as I'd have missed the Spa GP. Oddly enough this allows me to date the Danish massacre, which must have been a similar time of year because we were at the house for that as well, I remember having breakfast outside and my sister not believing me when I told her how many had been killed.

I'm trying to think what my earliest memories of this kind of stuff would be. I remember things like Piper Alpha, the Marchioness, Exxon Valdez, and Herald of Free Enterprise being on the news but other than 'late 80's' I couldn't tell you when they were.

Jimmy Floyd
22-01-2016, 12:55 PM
I seem to remember being heavily taken to task in the thread by Oimoi when I posted in a slightly out of breath fashion about 7/7 later in the day. Labour bastard. I was 16 and had just been at/around the site of a major terrorist attack.

SvN
22-01-2016, 01:02 PM
What's the Danish Massacre?

Lewis
22-01-2016, 01:06 PM
For 7/7 I was working in a warehouse, and it was announced live over the radio. It felt like a bad event, but probably not as important as it should have. Certainly didn't feel as significant as the recent Paris stuff.

On a sort of related note, do you think we moved on from that bloke deliberately crashing his plane into the ground a bit quickly? I'm not saying we should have gone all Scouse about it, but it was pretty unusual and mental.

Disco
22-01-2016, 01:24 PM
What's the Danish Massacre?

Anders Breivik, he bombed a load of government buildings then dressed up as a policeman and shot about 80 kids at some kind of summer camp on an island.

Sir Andy Mahowry
22-01-2016, 01:27 PM
Anders Breivik, he bombed a load of government buildings then dressed up as a policeman and shot about 80 kids at some kind of summer camp on an island.

Why is it the Danish massacre? It happened in Norway.

Kikó
22-01-2016, 01:29 PM
The Danish Massacre is that new film about transgender no?

Disco
22-01-2016, 01:35 PM
Shows how well I remember that then, I could actually tell you what I was having for breakfast that day though.

Jimmy Floyd
22-01-2016, 02:01 PM
Danish, presumably.

Boydy
22-01-2016, 02:03 PM
I seem to remember being heavily taken to task in the thread by Oimoi when I posted in a slightly out of breath fashion about 7/7 later in the day. Labour bastard. I was 16 and had just been at/around the site of a major terrorist attack.
What did he say?

Jimmy Floyd
22-01-2016, 02:08 PM
I can't remember, it was 10 and a half years ago and I'm not Lewis. He was sneering in typical fashion at my giddiness at having been near it.

Boydy
22-01-2016, 02:39 PM
I wonder what he's up to now.

Jimmy Floyd
22-01-2016, 02:40 PM
Probably swinging from a rafter, or worse still, working for the Blair Foundation. Or he's Dan Hodges, which sort of combines the first two.

Boydy
22-01-2016, 02:44 PM
His name wasn't Dan. He's not on the Blair Foundation's staff page either.

Nor does he appear to still be where he used to work.

Disco
22-01-2016, 02:46 PM
Danish, presumably.

Seville marmalade and Damson jam on toast, not all at once obviously, we aren't monsters.

Jimmy Floyd
22-01-2016, 02:49 PM
His name wasn't Dan. He's not on the Blair Foundation's staff page either.

Nor does he appear to still be where he used to work.

Oh, I didn't know we'd got as far as names. He's probably in the City then. Or a teacher.

Lewis
22-01-2016, 04:38 PM
Wedge found a picture of him in 2009 and compared it to shooting an elephant. I miss him.

Sir Andy Mahowry
22-01-2016, 04:49 PM
I thought the London bombings were about 5 years ago :\

Boydy
22-01-2016, 05:18 PM
Wedge found a picture of him in 2009 and compared it to shooting an elephant. I miss him.

He posted a picture once, I think.

John
22-01-2016, 05:28 PM
Oimoi was an excellent poster but he was a proper wanker.

I was on holiday for the London bombings and found out off someone tearing out of the hotel bar looking horrified and announcing it the pool area in that sort of half rambling, not quite getting to the point way that a smacked child would use.

"IT'S HORRIBLE, OH MY GOD IT... IT WAS BUSES AND THE SUBWAY. THEY'RE HURT, SO MANY OF THEM ARE HURT."

Jimmy Floyd
22-01-2016, 06:44 PM
For the Paris attacks I was sitting in a pub (as I had been all evening) when I suddenly noticed 'Over 100 dead' on the TV in the background and some French people weeping. I pointed it out to my mate, and he said 'This will be revenge for Jihadi John'. I made my excuses and went to get a kebab.

Disco
22-01-2016, 06:48 PM
I remember seeing something on the news and thinking I can't really handle this much abject horror of an evening, so I turned the England game off and watched the news instead.

Offshore Toon
22-01-2016, 09:01 PM
My mum cried when I told her that Diana had died, which is a pretty lol way to wake up.

ScousePig
22-01-2016, 09:05 PM
:D

I was exactly the same. Clicked on BBC1 at 13.45 for a bit light relief down under and see a plane flying into a building instead. Diana dying was the last day of the school holidays, and also the first weekend of the Premier League season. Liverpool v Newcastle was the Super Sunday game and it got binned. Thank the lord for Football Italia which stayed strong through the hysteria.

My dad left a silly note for my sister which said something like 'Gone out for milk. Diana is dead.'

Like you say all football was cancelled, but my local team played their friendly anyway. One of the players dislocated his shoulder and my dad had to drive him to A&E. I went too and remember it well.

Shindig
22-01-2016, 10:37 PM
One of my earliest TV memories were seeing The West's have their garden dug up.

Lewis
22-01-2016, 11:20 PM
That was the best Ground Force ever.

Disco
22-01-2016, 11:27 PM
I reckon Tommy Walsh could have killed someone, he looked like he had a murder in him.

John Arne
08-03-2017, 05:25 PM
Eminem's daughter is 19.

Smiffy
08-03-2017, 05:36 PM
A clean shave. :nodd:

Shindig
08-03-2017, 07:21 PM
British Sea Power aren't too far off that.

Giggles
26-03-2017, 10:28 AM
Fucking 17.

845931206210453504

Magic
26-03-2017, 10:38 AM
Peep Show was on Gold last night.

Gold.

Shindig
26-03-2017, 11:18 AM
I can't wait to tune into a classic rock station and hear Arctic Monkeys.

Boydy
27-03-2017, 10:42 AM
I found a grey hair this morning. :moop:

John Arne
27-03-2017, 10:56 AM
Bruises and cuts just don't disappear anymore. My body has given up bothering to repair itself.

John Arne
27-03-2017, 10:58 AM
I found a grey hair this morning. :moop:

That's not too bad (assuming you are about 30)....How old you? I started seeing grey hairs when I was about 30... which I thought was about normal.

Pepe
27-03-2017, 11:17 AM
I have a few of those myself.

Disco
27-03-2017, 11:34 AM
I've been grey at the sides for years, got some grey in the beard too. People seem to make a big deal of it but I'm not sure I've ever cared less about anything.

Giggles
27-03-2017, 11:41 AM
I never noticed mine going grey but presumably it is by now.

phonics
27-03-2017, 11:44 AM
My Dad didn't go grey until well into his fifties so I've got time on my side.

Boydy
27-03-2017, 11:53 AM
That's not too bad (assuming you are about 30)....How old you? I started seeing grey hairs when I was about 30... which I thought was about normal.

28. I'll be 29 in June.

Alex
27-03-2017, 12:00 PM
I wouldn't worry about it. I vividly remember finding my first one at about 23 and having a minor mental breakdown about it. I turned 30 a couple of months ago and it's never gotten any worse really. I'll just find the occasional, offending grey hair, and because my hair is very dark they're easy to spot and pull out. To be honest, as long as it doesn't start to fall out it can go whatever colour it wants for me.

Sir Andy Mahowry
27-03-2017, 12:03 PM
I got my first grey when I was 18 or 19.

I've got a fair few which aren't too visible unless you go looking for them, I can see them all incredibly clearly.

I pluck any greys I get in my beard.

I have an uncle who went completely grey when he was 17 or 18 which must have been awful.

Alex
27-03-2017, 09:42 PM
I got my first grey when I was 18 or 19.

I've got a fair few which aren't too visible unless you go looking for them, I can see them all incredibly clearly.

I pluck any greys I get in my beard.

I have an uncle who went completely grey when he was 17 or 18 which must have been awful.

I wish I had this problem, I'm three decade in now and I'm no closer to being able to grow one. It's never going to happen, is it? :(

I suppose, with the whole going grey thing, at least we're lucky enough to be male. We can pull it off. It can be "distinguished", or whatever. Thank George Clooney. People look at women like they've lost their mind if they don't start dying their hair as soon as the grey becomes visible.

Spoonsky
27-03-2017, 09:51 PM
I wish I had this problem, I'm three decade in now and I'm no closer to being able to grow one. It's never going to happen, is it? :(

Don't ruin my day man.

Alex
27-03-2017, 10:05 PM
Don't ruin my day man.

On the plus side I still get asked for ID at the bar on a semi-regular basis, which I like to take as a huge compliment now. So it's not all bad.

Lewis
27-03-2017, 10:16 PM
You don't want to be growing a beard anyway.

Alex
27-03-2017, 10:36 PM
Maybe not. I'd at least like the option though.

Baz
28-03-2017, 06:35 AM
Would you rather go bald or somehow go ginger, including the dreaded "ginger skin"?

Jimmy Floyd
28-03-2017, 08:11 AM
You don't want to be growing a beard anyway.

As I get balder, I doubt I'll be clean shaven again. You can't be bald both ends.

John Arne
28-03-2017, 08:17 AM
I got mega cramp whilst having sex the other day - that was a weird one. Probably more to do with being unfit, rather than old. Or both.

phonics
28-03-2017, 10:08 AM
I'm the ultimate anti-Hipster because I'm too beta to grow a beard, tattoos are gay and my eyes are too damn awesome for glasses.

Shindig
28-03-2017, 06:23 PM
My greys probably started showing around 28, although I didn't notice them til a year or two later. They're at the side and if I keep my hair short, they tend to blend nicely into my brown hair.

Dark Soldier
28-03-2017, 06:30 PM
Plucking the grey out of ya beard? Lunatic behaviour.

I've got a fair few greys coming through and am going for the full salt and pepper facial hair.

Disco
28-03-2017, 06:42 PM
Silver Foxes :cool:

Panda Bear
28-03-2017, 08:19 PM
Turning 30 made me feel old.

But someone guessed I was 24, so it's fine.

Mike
28-03-2017, 09:08 PM
I've told the kids at work I've had silver highlights put in because it's bang on trend.
They didn't believe me :(

Rather be grey than bald though.

Offshore Toon
28-03-2017, 09:14 PM
If you're bald you've got to be a proper man to pull it off like Stone Cold. If you're grey you've got to be suave like Charlie from Casualty.

Giggles
27-06-2017, 06:11 PM
Fr. Damo was on a chat show this evening and he looks old as fuck.

Shindig
27-06-2017, 06:23 PM
Playing Gran Turismo 4 and the Nike One 2022 has been awarded to me. That's five years away.

Giggles
02-12-2019, 08:09 PM
Fucking 60.

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phonics
02-12-2019, 08:13 PM
Saw that picture and thought, he looks unwell.

I was thinking of Paul Parker.

Jimmy Floyd
02-12-2019, 08:13 PM
I was on the double of him and Shane MacGowan, 250/1, get in there.

phonics
02-12-2019, 08:16 PM
Although this has made me reflect on the difference in how time works now vs then.

I knew of Paul McGrath even though he retired the year after I was born, do you think a 10 year old non chelsea fan born in 2016 will be hearing about Branislav Ivanovic?

SvN
02-12-2019, 08:21 PM
McGrath retired in 1998. Sorry mate, you're not 21 years old, I don't care what you tell yourself to feel better.

phonics
02-12-2019, 08:22 PM
McGrath retired in 1998. Sorry mate, you're not 21 years old, I don't care what you tell yourself to feel better.

Ah, he left United in 1989. That makes more sense.

Giggles
02-12-2019, 08:23 PM
Ah, he left United in 1989. That makes more sense.

He put Roberto Baggio in his pocket 5 years after that.

SvN
02-12-2019, 08:25 PM
Ah, he left United in 1989. That makes more sense.

To give this context, 61% of his professional club appearences came after 1989.

Giggles
02-12-2019, 08:26 PM
I’d always remember him far more as a Villa player than a Utd one anyway.

phonics
02-12-2019, 08:26 PM
I was 6 at the time so probably could have fit into their pocket. Don't remember shit of 94. Flashes of Euro 96. 97 was the first year I can remember being compus mentus about professional football.

Shindig
02-12-2019, 08:55 PM
I remember 94 in a greatest hits kind of way. Namely Houghton against Italy, Diana Ross, Hagi's goal and those really, really deep nets.

Mellberg
02-12-2019, 09:05 PM
Paul McGrath related ignorance is just not on.

SincereTheRebel
03-12-2019, 12:55 PM
This villa fan I work with is always talking about how great Paul McGrath was. He was before my time but he claimed, McGrath used to turn up on match days drunk out his face, high on something

Mellberg
03-12-2019, 08:57 PM
PFA Player of the Year in 92/93. An Aston Villa centre half who spent half of it smashed and not training due to chronic knee injuries. The man's a beast.

Smjffy
03-12-2019, 09:44 PM
Past experience in regard to him has taught me to just say nothing.

NOTHING!

Giggles
26-02-2020, 09:00 PM
Apparently that “what colour is the dress” thing was 5 years ago.

Ian
26-02-2020, 09:03 PM
Fuck off.

No it wasn't.

You're LYING.

Lewis
26-02-2020, 09:12 PM
Sportsmen coming through whose dads you grew up watching is a new one.

Giggles
26-02-2020, 09:13 PM
Fuck off.

No it wasn't.

You're LYING.

I was told it earlier, though I was then told it was on ladbible so it may be a false alarm. I doubt the writers could count to five.

Pepe
26-02-2020, 09:30 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress


The dress is a photograph that became a viral internet sensation on 26 February 2015, when viewers disagreed over whether the dress pictured was coloured black and royal blue, or white and gold.

Sir Andy Mahowry
26-02-2020, 09:35 PM
Alright Sherlock.

Manc
26-02-2020, 09:59 PM
Billie Eilish.

Ian
26-02-2020, 11:40 PM
I was told it earlier, though I was then told it was on ladbible so it may be a false alarm. I doubt the writers could count to five.

Oh I totally believed it I just didn't want to.

Detective Pepechu has confirmed.