What makes you feel old?

[Willie Ray]

love that pig!

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Agreed.

And reminds me of another reason for feeling old…

When I do watch TV….

I now prefer watching SBS and ABC….

Call me Gandalf the Grey..

And then it gets worse. You start being selective on those esteemed stations too.

News, documentaries and live sport.

And wildlife shows:

“ Ingrid the 300 year old tortoise from Patagonia- believed to be 3 centuries old”

“ The lifecycle of the common Canadian bedbug”

“sounds of the shrubbery, what insects hear”

And you try to work out how to record them without a Betamax. And don’t tell me VHS was better. No way.

Kids won’t believe it today, but people used to get murdered in arguments over video formats.

 

[Eric F]

Remembering contested scrums.

 

[horrie hastings]

Remembering contested scrums.

and when you could kick for goal off scrum penalties.

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

and when you could kick for goal off scrum penalties.

and kicking duals

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Yes, considering my IPOD is so top heavy with 70's and 80's.

My favourite albums A New World Record- ELO ( 1976 ) and Super Trouper -ABBA ( 1980 ) are 45 and 41 years old .

The Towering Inferno (1974 ) 47 years old.

So you’re old enough to remember the Alvin Purple sitcom on TV, then. Back in the days when soft porn was on the ABC lol.

 

[horrie hastings]

and kicking duals

Some great ones between Marty Gurr and Greg Bretnall in the 80s. Mark Harris and Graham Eadie used to belt a few beauties before that.

 

[horrie hastings]

So you’re old enough to remember the Alvin Purple sitcom on TV, then. Back in the days when soft porn was on the ABC lol.

Oh definately yes also before that Abigail on number 96

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Oh definately yes also before that Abigail on number 96

Abigail was smoking’. Joe Hasham used to work at Cronulla Leagues for a time

 

[horrie hastings]

Abigail was smoking’. Joe Hasham used to work at Cronulla Leagues for a time

Abigail was smoking hot even when she appeared in Sons and Daughters in the mid to late 80s.
I remember Joe Hasham had his burger joint at Kyeemagh just before Brighton Le Sands and also one at Barker St Randwick.
Also Tom Oliver who played Jack Sellers opened the Jack's Cellar's wine bar in Kensington.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

love that pig!

If he’s still alive, he should be assigned to select the new Queensland club for admission. He’s obviously of a higher intellect than Vlandys.

No blow out score footy under Arnold.

 

[horrie hastings]

The Macca's ad, i haven't eaten Macca's in about 20 years but remember it when McDonalds first opened in Australia and the ads are celebrating the 50th birthday.

Australian food history timeline - First Australian McDonald's

1971-The first Australian McDonald's opened in the Sydney suburb of Yagoona 16 years after the company was founded in the USA.

australianfoodtimeline.com.au

 

[Ghostface Killah]

There are a wealth of players currently in the NRL who were not even born when the Super League War occurred.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

There are a wealth of players currently in the NRL who were not even born when the Super League War occurred.

or some, like Sam walker, who weren’t even a glint in their fathers’ eye for the Sydney 2000 Olympics …

 

[horrie hastings]

Some more Olympics names - big names of their day - that may make you feel old (like me)…

Glynis Nunn - is now 61
Kerry Saxby - is now 60
Kathy Watt - is now 56
Debbie Flintoff King - is now 61
Lisa Martin (ondieki) - is now 61
Darren Clarke - is now 56
“Spike” Cheney - is now 50
Duncan Armstrong - is now 53
Jon Sieben - is now 54
Gary Honey - is now 62
Dean Lukin - is now 61
Wendy Turnbull - is now 68 (she won a bronze medal in Seoul) with….Liz Smylie…

Loved Glynis Nunn and Debbie Flintoff King, actually love the list you did and could add more

but the one i always feel is forgotten but not to me is Wendy Turnbull, for so many years she was the flag bearer for Australian tennis, especially after Evonne retired, Wendy was a very good player but was around the time where Martina and Chris Evert were dominant, in singles Wendy got to the finals of the US, French and Australian Open and in the women's doubles and mixed doubles she won at Wimbledon, the US open and the French Open. Wendy is the last Australian player to play in the final at the Australian Open which was back in 1980. I feel lucky i got to see Wendy play live quite a few times at White City, she was nicknamed Rabbit because of her speed around the court.

One year at White City, i think it was 1983 i got to see Wendy and Anne Hobbs from GB play the final of the QLD open doubles at White City, the final was played in Sydney because the doubles got washed out in Brisbane before play commenced, they won the QLD open doubles at White City on the Wednesday, then she won the NSW open doubles final that week also on the same court with Anne Hobbs then made the final of the Australian Open doubles with Anne where they lost in 3 sets to Martina and Pam Shriver.

To me Wendy never got the credit she deserved for being one of Australia's top line players for so long, she was an absolute champion in my eyes and will never be forgotten.

 

[The Rosco]

Horrie and I think the last ten years of tv has been bullshite.

The pig on Green Acres is more intelligent than most modern actors.

Actually, I reckon Arnold the pig could do those ads for the stupid fkkn washing powder, instead of those God forsaken stupid fkkn influencers that show us how clean their fkkng clothes are, with the stupid fkkn background happy music playing.
There. 2 birds, one stone. . . . I'm too old to suffer influencers, and I hate the fkkn ads that they are a part of.
And using the term " 2 birds one stone" also makes me feel old. Can you imagine the angst and counselling bills if a young woke non gender specific entity, threw a rock at a bird ? and even worse if by some divine intervention it actually managed to hit the poor bird ? They'd be curled up rocking back and forth while sucking their thumb.
So imagine the mental carnage if they killed 2 birds ?
That's why I feel old. And feeling old draws me to ramble.
Ya want more ? . . . . fkkng grammar and spelling.
While I may not be perfect, I shake my grey tinged head at folks on the interweb that can't differentiate between:
there and their, than and then, your and you're.
Don't even get me started on spelling.

 

[Parra]

 

[Mr Angry]

I am just waiting for Nicole Kindman to claim Gold for BMX bandits.

Now an Olympic Gold Medal event we won.

So farging old............

 

[The Rosco]

I am just waiting for Nicole Kindman to claim Gold for BMX bandits.

Now an Olympic Gold Medal event we won.

So farging old............

Ahh . . . bmx bandits. A mate of mine owned the red ski boat in the film. This thing had some massive 396 or 454 bolted on the back, chrome everything and sounded like manhood. I went up the river with him a few times ( lol, not that I could ski), I'd just hang around the boat and entertain all the petrol heads( and their girls) that were drawn from 3k away to the throbbing rumbles from this thing. I'd throw in technical terms like "blown, blueprinted and balanced, and fkk yeah" into the conversation and I was da man. The girls loved it too. Many a good night was had.
BMX bandits makes me feel old.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

I am just waiting for Nicole Kindman to claim Gold for BMX bandits.

Now an Olympic Gold Medal event we won.

So farging old............

You need to change your name from Angry to Nostradamus..

Nicole Kidman pays tribute to Australian BMX rider Logan Martin

Nicole Kidman was one of the many Aussies celebrating Logan Martin's historic win at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday.

www.dailymail.co.uk