[fatdoc]

without getting toooo forumy.. thought I'd start something off:

- you realise that the 65p  that you paid for your first pint now wont get you a packet of crisps

- your kids laugh at what a walkman was capable of

- you lived without the internet

- we once bought fuel in galleons

-fuel was 50% off  what it  is was now, not that long ago

-having a nap in the day is now a pleasure, rarely attained, you laughed at this.....

- just how little a pound is worth

- we cant live our lives without email *arriving* all hrs of the day on our phones

- we have mobile devices that get email on them.. our employers regard responses as part of the job, even if it's 3 a.m

- surf forecasts  can be attained on the same mobile device.. and..

- it's usually wrong...

- most state employees used to know fuck all about a competitive marketplace... now they know they are all basically f*cked

- there is now no, or little, benefit to being a state employee

- if we dont add 1p on income tax you can kiss the NHS goodbye

- the NHS free at point of delivery is going.... now

- we are taxed indirectly by school catchment areas

- we let this happen...

- there is no gold left in our coffers... there is no plan B, if the current big society etc does not release monies than we lose all sway in the international money markets... as that is the only thing we make now, regarding global worth the UK is f+cked



other wide ranging, over simplistic comment welcome........



but.... we all seem to be totally f*cked here....



thank God for grit, lime and the shear fun of being alive, able to climb and talk b*llcks on the interenet

[tomtom]

Have you got your new glasses yet?

[fatdoc]

20:20

vision....

means

- CT scan for brain tumour, or

- reduce my 50+ hrs week

or just chill out a little..

[tomtom]

Are you Charlie Sheen in disguise?



edit - getting a bit cheeky beyond my station!
Whats wid da short lines?

[slackline]

Have you got your new glasses yet?

Beat me to it!

However, why should there be a benefit to being a state employee over any other employment?  You are employed to do a job and are remunerated for it.  That remuneration may well include pensions and such like, but I don't understand why just because your employers happen to be those who run the country that it should automatically confers additional benefits compared to doing the same job in the private sector (I'd actually expect it to be the other way round if anything).

[mrjonathanr]

Pay vs benefit Slack_line.

[grumpycrumpy]

without getting toooo forumy.. thought I'd start something off:

-

- we once bought fuel in galleons

-

Christ you ARE old .......

[dave]

we once bought fuel in galleons

I bet a galleon full of fuel used to cost you a fair few dubloons.

[tomtom]

It only used to cost you in pieces of seven...

[SA Chris]

- when most times you are asked "when did you start climbing?" an accurate answer is "before you were born" ...

And kids who were born after you stated climbing are climbing harder than you ever did already.

[nai]

- we once bought fuel in galleons

and a gallon of fuel used to cost half what a litre now does.

[nai]

one gigabyte was a fucking huge number, properly huge like a million billion pounds

[ianv]

Nostalgia and  , never a good combination.   

[webbo]

- when most times you are asked "when did you start climbing?" an accurate answer is "before you were born" ...

Or even "before your dad was born"

[lagerstarfish]

When you discuss babies, people assume you are a grandparent

[Serpico]

You're old when:
You can remember when most of the 8a's in Yorkshire where only 7c+
when the guidebook topos where full of lines instead of a spider's web of variations and link-ups
and when you could go down the climbing wall and crimp instead of pinching on a load of blobby nonsense.
Also add in a load of stuff about real bands, not manufactured, playing their own instruments, price of concert tickets, etc....

[SA Chris]

one gigabyte was a fucking huge number, properly huge like a million billion pounds

I still have my scientific calculator from uni in daily use - it has a full 28K of memory.

[slackline]

One thing I've noticed as I age is that there are more and more members of the opposite sex whom I find attractive.

[gme]

And less and less that reciprocate.

[Teaboy]

You're old when:
You can remember when most of the 8a's in Yorkshire where only 7c+
when the guidebook topos where full of lines instead of a spider's web of variations and link-ups
and when you could go down the climbing wall and crimp instead of pinching on a load of blobby nonsense.
Also add in a load of stuff about real bands, not manufactured, playing their own instruments, price of concert tickets, etc....

When you no longer revel in the joys of climbing but focus on the negatives     

I now dress for the weather which is something I never used to do and even wear a fleece in social situations. I also can't bend down to tie my shoe laces without exhaling a loud "Ooof"

[DaveC]

You're old when:
You can remember when most of the 8a's in Yorkshire where only 7c+

I can remember when most of the 7c's in Yorkshire were E6!

[The Aaronator]

You know you are gettin old when...you say you know you are gettin old when...

[webbo]

You're old when:
You can remember when most of the 8a's in Yorkshire where only 7c+

I can remember when most of the 7c's in Yorkshire were E6!

I can remember when most of the E6's were HVS's.

[slackline]

  Not heard of that before (as a side issue the graphic would be easier to read and give a better representation if the scales were the same on the x and y axis).

[robertostallioni]

So when I hit 55, it's "acceptable" to date a 95 year old?

I'm gonna have to get Niks mum to give me his nan's number.

[lagerstarfish]

for the maximum socially acceptable limit, just use the columns the other way round

when do we start bragging about how socially unacceptable we are?

there hasn't been a decent bit of willy-waving for ages

[metal arms]

I always thought the rule was

(Half your age - Other half of your age) + 18

 

[chris20]

(Half your age - Other half of your age) + 18 17

The Berlusconi index

[SA Chris]

(Half your age - Other half of your age) + 18 17

The Glitter index

[fatkid2000]

When you realise that Primal Scream's - Screamadelica came out 20 years ago.

[SA Chris]

or Depeche Mode's Speak and Spell (one of first records bought) is now 30 years old!

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

When your sympathies are with the councils in this matter


http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/mar/25/g2

[Andy F]

You can remember when Serpico didn't moan about most of the 8a's in Yorkshire being only 7c+ on his scale 

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

one gigabyte was a fucking huge number, properly huge like a million billion pounds

Never minnd that, how about when the £2,000 for landing on the hotel on Mayfair was the target annual salary for what your dad wanted to retire on

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Oh. And when we talked about to-morrow, to-night, and phoenix and diorrhoea had dipthongs in them

Not to mention "fetid" [sic]

[mrjonathanr]

I have it on reliable -medical - authority that Fatdoc's diarrhoea always has dipthongs in it.
You know you're old when instead of taking great delight in being provocative and shocking others is a great game, you quietly rationalise that you're pretty well unshockable/seen it all anyway. (I'm not going to mention any names but I bet Fatdoc knows what I mean).

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

I have it on reliable -medical - authority that Fatdoc's diarrhoea always has dipthongs in it.
You know you're old when instead of taking great delight in being provocative and shocking others is a great game, you quietly rationalise that you're pretty well unshockable/seen it all anyway. (I'm not going to mention any names but I bet Fatdoc knows what I mean).

If you're [sic] diorrhœa's got dipthongs inn it you need to seek urgent medical advice. Like immediately. As in now.

[iain_cbr]

I told my 15yr old cousin to "put a donk on it". She told me that I couldn't say that because I was old. I'm 32, but feeling 60. And I burned her with my laser vision for upsetting me.

[Serpico]

You can remember when Serpico didn't moan about most of the 8a's in Yorkshire being only 7c+ on his scale 

Not on my scale, in the guide book.
You know you're old when you can remember GA before Andy started dogging it.

[slackline]

One thing I've noticed as I age is that there are more and more members of the opposite sex whom I find attractive.

- and when you know what "half your age plus seven" means ...

How bizzare that I should hear about this from two different and unrelated sources within a couple of days.

[Adam Lincoln]

You know you're old when you can remember GA before Andy started dogging it.
[/quote]

Ouch.
 

[mrjonathanr]

When you realise that Primal Scream's - Screamadelica came out 20 years ago.

When you remember thinking when it was first released - The Stones did it so much better, good but not a patch on Exile on Main Street.

And you can remember your mate in Beris telling you he's been climbing a lot with this lad who'd just got really good, Johnny somebody-or-other, but he was a bit cocky.
On flashing Sonic Sinbin 'It was quite hard - I nearly fell of it! '  Strange to think E4 was quite tricky once.

Or dossing in Parisellas with the likes of Basher, Jerry, Pollitt, Phil Kelly, Tim Freeman all hanging out there, Leachy and Mick Johnston just passing through, and Jerry's second ascent of Statement .This  this nails it for me though- being so keen after three days in the cave we didn't know what was past Firefly wall because with so much climbing to do we couldn't find the time to walk round the corner!

[SA Chris]

^^ You know you're old when you can't figure out how to use the quotes function.

[DaveC]

^^ You know you're old when you can't figure out how to use the quotes function.

  ..errr...oh bugger!

[fatdoc]

.... more from the gloom of middle age...

- your eldest is taller than you

- his feet are bigger

- you have to stand up and try when you ride up a hill together

- you pack an ultrasound machine & some acupunture needles when off to font

- the junior drs that are starting are young enough to be your offspring

[tomtom]

.... more from the gloom of middle age...

- your eldest is taller than you

- his feet are bigger

- you have to stand up and try when you ride up a hill together

- you pack an ultrasound machine & some acupunture needles when off to font

- the junior drs that are starting are young enough to be your offspring

have you thought about getting a Harley?



Or possibly an open top sports car?

[Jaspersharpe]

That picture was taken shortly before Jay Kay had lagers arrested for breaking onto his estate and attempting to smear his naked buttocks on the upholstery of every one of "the twat in the hat"'s prestige car collection.

[tomtom]

That picture was taken shortly before Jay Kay had lagers arrested for breaking onto his estate and attempting to smear his naked buttocks on the upholstery of every one of his prestige car collection.

I do hope he put the central arm rests to good use...

edit: does Lagers have hairy shoulders?

[lagerstarfish]

The police statement said "naked, buttered buttocks"

I don't remember much about that night

[webbo]

When you go to the shop,you put your shopping in the boot.You get in the passenger seat then remember you are on your own.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

That picture was taken shortly before Jay Kay had lagers arrested for breaking onto his estate and attempting to smear his naked buttocks on the upholstery of every one of "the twat i n the hat"'s prestige car collection.

"I refer the honourable gentleman to a previous 'dreams' / 'reality' statement made to this house…"

[butters]

That picture was taken shortly before Jay Kay had lagers arrested for breaking onto his estate and attempting to smear his naked buttocks on the upholstery of every one of "the twat in the hat"'s prestige car collection.

If I hadn't got alcohol in the house to remove the awful image that created in my mind I would have puntered you for that.