Your age in five words

Adrian_Scope

I overheard (wasn't watching!) Loose Women today and they were talking about a Twitter game where people summed up their age in five words.
They used examples such as: 'I had a Blockbuster membership' and 'Trolls meant something totally different.'

Mine is: I can use a VCR.

How would you sum up your age?

Richard_Scope

I used to 'Tape' charts

CockneyRebel

I don't understand mobile phones

Seanchai

I remember black and white tv

Hart86

Awww was going to do “I taped off the radio” but @Richard_Scope beat me to it with a similar one!!

Two others come to mind:

”I hate the term Millenials”

and

”I remember playing with POGS”

CockneyRebel

I remember beer @ 1/9d

Hart86

Adult cinema ticket was £3

Deb_Alumni

We won the World Cup

Chloe_Scope

Never seen a floppy disk 

Ails

Tiny Tears dolls were popular and I loved mine!  Also Spangles sweeties were all the rage! 

janer1967

Snickers bar was marathon bar 

April2018mom

The Internet became more common

humble_rumble

The age of the dial up! Lovely 

poppy123456

Duran Duran were the best!

Topkitten

Saturday morning pictures, half a crown

Sorry, needed 6.

TK

buzzer

The Clitheroe Kid. ⅓ pt of milk

GettinOlde

Ails said:

Tiny Tears dolls were popular and I loved mine!  Also Spangles sweeties were all the rage! 

26 words !!!

GettinOlde

TV -Torchy The Battery Boy

GettinOlde

Sweet smell of summertime silage.

GettinOlde

My prefab estate has gone.

Hart86 said:

Adult cinema ticket was £3

Only used to cost us that for five, We'd all chip in for one ticket and that person would go to the loo that had a back-alley fire exit close by (nudge-nudge).

Connie00

I remember a threepence bit

Connie00

andy pandy and bill and ben

GettinOlde

Connie00 said:

I remember a threepence bit

I remember swallowing one.

GettinOlde

My prefab estate has gone.

GettinOlde

Lots of youngsters in here. 🤣

Connie00

@GettinOlde
 why would you want to swallow one, do you know how many sweets that bought,   

GettinOlde

Connie00 said:

@GettinOlde
 why would you want to swallow one, do you know how many sweets that bought,   

If I remember correctly, 2 Lucky Bags or 2 Jamboree Bags or any combination of at 1 & 1/2d each.

pollyanna1052

I`m almost at the age where other folk are soon to draw their state pension. I got mine at 62.5.

debbiedo49

I played tapes on walkman

debbiedo49

PS I still have the Walkman 😂 

wilko

Steam trains,
Pre decimal coinage £ and pence
pre mobile phones
points and condensers in the ignition systems of cars .
The Morris 1000, Ford Anglia  cars
your own school text books
pre self service shops, ( open all hours )

GettinOlde

wilko said:

Ford Anglia

My very first car, with the slanting rear screen, go-faster stripes and a 6ft fibreglass whip aerial. 😎

Always wanted an NSU Quickly moped though.

GettinOlde

@debbiedo49 Ah, but when and how old were you when you got it - they had been available between 1979 - 2010..I'm gues ing 49 is either your YoB or your age (trying to be tactful )

I was 17 (1974) when I bought my first stereo tape deck on HP from Currys. It didn't have speakers and couldn't afford an amplifier and sperate speakers and had to listen to it with massive headphones - it gave me vertigo and made me physically sick.  🤮

debbiedo49

GettinOlde said:

@debbiedo49 Ah, but when and how old were you when you got it - they had been available between 1979 - 2010..I'm gues ing 49 is either your YoB or your age (trying to be tactful )

I was 17 (1974) when I bought my first stereo tape deck on HP from Currys. It didn't have speakers and couldn't afford an amplifier and sperate speakers and had to listen to it with massive headphones - it gave me vertigo 

Cut that in half vertically and it looks like my older brothers first tape deck 😂 
I was in my late teens when my boyfriend gave me a Walkman. They were all the rage then. Must have been 1987

April2018mom

I was 17 when my boyfriend gave me a iPhone. That is how young I am. 

UCExpert

Finders crispy pancakes were all the rage

GettinOlde

@UCExpert

Finders - keepers, losers - weepers. Uhh, FIndus maybe?

Always burned my mouth on them - like Pop Tarts. 😢

UCExpert

Silly auto correct 😆

GettinOlde

My dad's old rent book (the year before I was born).

The rent was 31 shillings and 8 [old] pence or £1:11s:8d, including rates and water charges, for a 3 bedroom house, approximately equivalent to £1.58. With inflation that would be just over £39 in today's money.

Suds

debbiedo49 said:

I played tapes on walkman

I  played tapes on a reel to reel

GizmoTiddles

Had a wind up gramaphone 

And played 78's 

GizmoTiddles

Can you , anyone remember this ?

  

GettinOlde

GizmoTiddles said:

Can you , anyone remember this ?  

Not I, but I bet my youngest big-sis can, 

'GizmoTiddles' - is that like a fluffy cat with big ears that turns nasty if you feed it after midnight?

GettinOlde

GizmoTiddles said:

Had a wind up gramaphone 

And played 78's 

We used to have a pedal-pump organ as well - like this.

April2018mom

I must be the youngest Scope member right now (I’m only turning 23 in November). 

Suds

April2018mom said:

I must be the youngest Scope member right now (I’m only turning 23 in November). 

50 years younger than me

Sam_Alumni

I saw Oasis at Knebworth.

Connie00

@GettinOldenow you are just showing off loving the rent book though   
@April2018mom    you my darling are still a baby, I would like to say wish I was that age again, but these days are different days, so i wouldn't swap with you but you have your whole life ahead of you, make it count   

oh its so nice to go down memory lane.

camber993

Black Jacks, four for 1d.

pollyanna1052

Suds said:

April2018mom said:

I must be the youngest Scope member right now (I’m only turning 23 in November). 

50 years younger than me

Suds said:

April2018mom said:

I must be the youngest Scope member right now (I’m only turning 23 in November). 

50 years younger than me

44 younger than me

Adrian_Scope

Old enough to know better.

Connie00

very old and feeling it

Ails

Older and still a daftie! 

easy

6d a week pocket money.

easy

(2 & 1/2p )

GettinOlde

Botty burned with bleachy potty (must've been around '59/'60, you always remember the hurty things).  😭🤣

HollyGCat

Thirsty? Get some council pop

camber993

Saturday night. Vesta beef curry.

Adrian_Scope

These are all great, keep sharing!

CockneyRebel

Muffin the mule

The Wooden tops

Bill and Ben the flower pot men

exdvr

48 farthings to a shilling !

camber993

Tank tops and air wear! 
I can imagine all the under 50s saying ‘what’s that??’

April2018mom

I was 17 when JLS split up. It broke my heart at the time. I also briefly remember AOL. 

CockneyRebel

I still use AOL

April2018mom

I remember Flying Saucers however. My local sweet shop sells them. It brought back memories from my childhood.  As I love old fashioned sweets I buy some. I love classic hard to find nowadays sweets. 

cripps

So much older than yesterday. I may be older but I’m very much wiser. I was born in 1965 and going through the 70’ and 80’ the 90 i know there’s never been a better time than the the 1970. Life was so much simpler, no mobile phones and stress to succeed. What times we had. NC

exdvr

cripps said:

So much older than yesterday. I may be older but I’m very much wiser. I was born in 1965 and going through the 70’ and 80’ the 90 i know there’s never been a better time than the the 1970. Life was so much simpler, no mobile phones and stress to succeed. What times we had. NC

You were born too late on I think.  I was born in 1948 days before the NHS started. For me the best times were from the mid-60's to 1983.  Downhill all the way since then mainly because of politics.

Louise2001

One day, everything was different. 

deb74

 I grew up listening to 80's rock music.

Birdsnbees

Binge watched Fresh Prince Bel-Air

GettinOlde

Birdsnbees said:

Binge watched Fresh Prince Bel-Air

Another youngster.

Stinky old paraffin room heaters.

I used to be fascinated by the flickering patterns of the warm glow cast in the darkened room on a winter's night and the magical frost-ferns caused by the condensation from it freezing on the windows during the severe winter of 1962/3.

Threesticks

Last of the summer wine.

Threesticks

Respect your elders opinions please 

GettinOlde

@Threesticks You've got me sumped there  🤣

Jurph

Phone or Internet. Not both.

Threesticks

Corporal punishment was that era 

GettinOlde

Jurph said:

Phone or Internet. Not both.

Two tin cans and string 🤣

susan48

My first job, a YTS in Safeway, 30ish years ago 

Threesticks

Jubbly was an iced drink.

GettinOlde

susan48 said:

My first job, a YTS in Safeway, 30ish years ago 

Ah, Safeways where I had my second job as a 17yr old in '74, where I bumped into my ex gf Tintins, the one who broke my heart after dumping me because I couldn't buy her nice things on my paper round money. 💔

susan48

GettinOlde said:

susan48 said:

My first job, a YTS in Safeway, 30ish years ago 

Ah, Safeways where I had my second job as a 17yr old in '74, where I bumped into my ex gf Tintins, the one who broke my heart after dumping me because I couldn't buy her nice things on my paper round money. 💔

I’m sure she regrets it now 

GettinOlde

Threesticks said:

Respect your elders opinions please 

Little pictures have big ears - was one I often heard when mum was gossiping with the neighbours.

Threesticks

Wigan pier was the bomb

Threesticks

Mouth shut ears open wide.

boriswho

i remember when dolphins were called dolofins when i was younger "a form of autism nowadays"?

boriswho

or films a filim beither that or geordie definately is another language

boriswho

am gan doon te watch this filim like are yee comin?

GettinOlde

Hi @boriswho , (I'm guessing not Bo-Jo 😲)

Thie idea of the game is to describe your age using a five-word phrase.

e.g. am gan doon te fleapit - fleapit is what we used to call our old cinema.

GettinOlde

susan48 said:

I’m sure she regrets it now 

I doubt it, but I'd bet my ex whished Tintins hadn't let me go.  🤣

boriswho

Haway man giz a chance I'm just trying to evolve from the plankton my father once said may he rest in peace 

GettinOlde

boriswho said:

Haway man giz a chance I'm just trying to evolve from the plankton my father once said may he rest in peace 

Here's an avatar image for you.

boriswho

GettinOlde said:

boriswho said:

Haway man giz a chance I'm just trying to evolve from the plankton my father once said may he rest in peace 

Here's an avatar image for you.

Added! Lol

boriswho

Homebrewing beer in the USA
illegal prior to my arrival.

GettinOlde

Written In Roman numerals LXII

Pete2

Ten times six plus two.

boriswho

187?@pete2

GettinOlde

Pete2 said:

Ten times six plus two.

Are you saying you are 80?

I was taught that additions and subtractions are performed before multiplications and divisions.

10 x (6 + 2)  = 10 x 8 = 80

Pete2

Nope ...my addition is 10 x6 = 60 + 2 = 62..........i woukd be a very rich man if i added my cash 10 x (6+2) = 80......i like it simple.....dont forget iam a Geordie we like easy things. Maybe this could be a topic for another thread........

Threesticks

Time tables was the norm.

Pete2

Trolly busses were the norm.

sam12

Magic roundabout