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coppice:

--- Quote from: tpowell1830 on June 24, 2021, 04:49:29 pm ---... when all of your friends have died out.

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You are getting seriously old at that point. You are starting to age when you are invited to more funerals than weddings. You are ageing when the police start to look young, but you are getting seriously old when the corpses start to look young.
BradC:

--- Quote from: tpowell1830 on June 24, 2021, 04:49:29 pm ---... when all of your friends have died out.

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I recall having that conversation with my grandmother at 96. "None of my friends visit anymore. Yeah Nan, you've outlived all of them."

My grandfather turns 100 in August. He has a similar problem. Unfortunately he's also outlived his 5 year old great grandson and completely upset the natural order.

Personally I only go back as far as electro-mechanical totalizers, so I'm not as old as most of you.
GlennSprigg:

--- Quote from: HobGoblyn on June 21, 2021, 07:35:52 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on June 16, 2021, 06:38:17 am ---When the salesman looks at you strangely when you ask where the colour TV's

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I remember as something like a 7 year old, going to a friends house and they had a new colour TV.  They played around with the colour knob turning it to b&w and back to colour.

I then went home and tried to do the same thing on our b&w tv

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Not to mention the 'Sales Gimics' back then, trying to sell you a 'special' Colour TV Aerial!!!   :palm:
NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on June 25, 2021, 12:53:50 pm ---Not to mention the 'Sales Gimics' back then, trying to sell you a 'special' Colour TV Aerial!!!   :palm:

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They're still doing it with "HD" and "4K" antennas.
GlennSprigg:
And now just REMINDED of my age, when a then best mate from my 1st year apprenticeship just phoned me!!!   ;D
It's been 45 years... and we have a lot more to talk about and catch up on !!   :-+
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