How to feel old? When the icons of your youth start dying all over the place at a younger age than you!

Rikkitic:

How to feel old? When the icons of your youth start dying all over the place at a younger age than you!

 

You know you are old when you can truely understand the statement "Being old is a full time occupation"

my original internet account was Sxxx@es.co.nz  the email was just xxx but you need the capital S to login because it was a slip account.

a few years later when ihug took over, the call centre would always claim they couldn't find me on the system "We don't have 3 letter user names" and then I'd ask them to add the capital S, I'd get "still cant find it" and then I'd say, "Did you use a capital", and have an argument about how it didn't matter.. then they would try it 'BOOM mind blown'

to prove how long ago it was, I still have "mysurname".com as my domain (Ok its not "Smith" but still...)

A slight sideways step - but sometimes old is still plenty 'good-enough'.

Great video from Oshkosh this year of a (still operational) B-52.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eszA8JSZRsQ

As I said to my wife, they started flying these when I was 2 years old – and finished building them when you were born…
They’re still operational and they will probably be the first to serve for a century. 

Earliest era vintage turbines – hence the sooty exhausts. 
USAAF have settled on RR to design a special engine to re-engine the fleet – 92 x 8 engines plus spares.
They can’t just re-engine them with 4 big modern turbofans – everything else would need a re-design too.
Even the control surfaces, that were designed with emergency / recovery actions with 8 engines to play tunes on.

Amazing longevity.

johno1234:

jrdobbs:

One of my mobile numbers is about 22+ years old now. Thats about a third of my life!

My phone number is mostly the same as my original BellSouth number from the mid nineties. Just the prefix changed in 30+ years!  

The wear and tear on my mousewheel from the amount of scrolling to get to my birthyear when filling out a form.

floydbloke:

 

The wear and tear on my mousewheel from the amount of scrolling to get to my birthyear when filling out a form.

 

Or worse you have a calendar pop-up and have to click back year by year....