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Offline BrumbyTopic starter

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #150 on: July 06, 2021, 05:53:33 am »
... you realise that when you were born, Albert Einstein was still alive.   :palm:

Or (in my case) that Einstein died the year you were born.

In my case it was only a matter of a few days - but there was an overlap!
 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #151 on: July 06, 2021, 07:12:05 am »
... you realise that when you were born, Albert Einstein was still alive.   :palm:

Or (in my case) that Einstein died the year you were born.

In my case it was only a matter of a few days - but there was an overlap!

Was there any profound baton-passing?
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #152 on: July 06, 2021, 07:40:01 am »
Or (in my case) that Einstein died the year you were born.

In my case it was only a matter of a few days - but there was an overlap!

Was there any profound baton-passing?

Several months gap for me so no baton sadly, and for Brumby, overlap=no baton.
I think there might be other reasons too.
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #153 on: July 06, 2021, 08:25:25 am »
and for Brumby, overlap=no baton.

Beatles/Pink Floyd.
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #154 on: July 06, 2021, 10:29:01 am »
To be fair, there is a bit of truth to it, in that newer standards that cram more information into the same bandwidth would be more picky about signal quality. Especially in the US where they used the oddball 8VSB.

Yes I agree... regarding 'modern' Digital TV, and some modern aerials. Yes, there is more info in the bandwidth now, not
to mention the different frequency bands now, (at least in Australia?)... requiring better physical aerial designs...   :-+
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #155 on: July 06, 2021, 10:52:12 am »
and for Brumby, overlap=no baton.

Beatles/Pink Floyd.

I'm just listening to Dark side of the Moon as I type. ;D
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #156 on: July 06, 2021, 10:57:04 am »
and for Brumby, overlap=no baton.

Beatles/Pink Floyd.

I'm just listening to Dark side of the Moon as I type. ;D

But were you in the right?
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #157 on: July 06, 2021, 11:53:45 am »
Several months gap for me so no baton sadly, and for Brumby, overlap=no baton.
I think there might be other reasons too.

I wasn't able to grasp the baton - besides I baulked at the unified field theory stuff.
 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #158 on: July 06, 2021, 11:57:02 am »
I guess in my case:
You fell down the stairs, and instead of laughing and getting yet another drink with the pals...
You genuinely hurt yourself, have to pick up the laundry that you thaw everywhere and need to stay in bed for days.
 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #159 on: July 07, 2021, 07:21:54 pm »
When you can remember sticking S&H Green stamps into a stamp book...
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #160 on: July 07, 2021, 07:57:26 pm »
When you know what an E Ticket is through personal experience.

 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #161 on: July 07, 2021, 08:55:38 pm »
when you are sad about the death of John Lawton. RIP  :(
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #162 on: July 07, 2021, 09:19:21 pm »
You know you are old if you were deeply saddened by the news of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly; Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson
 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #163 on: July 08, 2021, 12:26:57 am »
You know you are old if you were deeply saddened by the news of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly; Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson

You know you are old, when you:-

 Fix electronic stuff for fun!

Can remember when you first heard "American Pie".
(actually, the song is so long, that you visibly age from its start to its finish)

Remember when "The King" was still called "Elvis the pelvis".

Remember 6 volt car batteries.

Remember the first time you saw a "pocket transistor radio" (& how gorgeous the little chick who owned it was!)

Had a car with a crankhandle.

Remember jukeboxes.
 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #164 on: July 08, 2021, 10:06:55 am »
... when you are waiting for the EURO 2020 final match(which is scheduled for 2021) and suddenly you remember that you have already watched 8 EURO finals :-DD

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #165 on: July 08, 2021, 05:11:56 pm »
... when you are waiting for the EURO 2020 final match(which is scheduled for 2021) and suddenly you remember that you have already watched 8 EURO finals :-DD
I've been alive for every Euro final, but I've never seen one. Does that mean I'm still young?
 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #166 on: July 08, 2021, 07:04:32 pm »
To me was the death of the three “Js”:
Jimmy Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Janis Joplin.
 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #167 on: July 08, 2021, 08:05:28 pm »
When you remember cars that had generators instead of alternators. If they were giving you trouble on the road, for a quick fix you could take a screwdriver and press in on the brushes to get better charging (and make sparks).
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #168 on: July 08, 2021, 11:50:08 pm »
It's not so much getting old that bothers me, but the fear of losing my f-ing mind. And stupid stuffups like the following just make me worry more about that.

So, quick little milling job. Part of setting up to make a resin cast of a HP button.
The mech workshop had become cluttered lately, so it took some clearing away to get at the milling machine. By which time I was feeling like this had already taken far too much time. So refilling the cutting fluid pump seemed like even more 'too much.'
And it's been a while since I used the mill at all. Forgot the 'touch', and what a sudden increase in required cutting pressure means.

Result: snapped an 8mm milling bit. Aluminium bound to the edges, gumming it up. It only takes a second. Wouldn't have happened with cutting fluid running.

I KNEW this. Used to anyway. That I forgot it this time... makes me feel pretty bad. Old and stupid.

So now instead of finishing that, I'm reworking the drain hose system from the mill. The old hose had become stiff from some effect of the fluid, and also blocked up and caused an overflow of the fluid onto something else.
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #169 on: July 09, 2021, 01:04:38 am »
You know you're old when you realise your Grandfather was right, young people really are as dumb as a box of rocks! >:(
 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #170 on: July 09, 2021, 01:33:59 am »
You know you're old when you realise your Grandfather was right, young people really are as dumb as a box of rocks! >:(

..and when you find yourself mumbling very similar strong ******* vernacular in regards to said people.
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #171 on: July 09, 2021, 04:49:10 am »
...when you realize electronics is not about electrons, but elections, these days.

 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #172 on: July 09, 2021, 09:38:24 am »
When you realise you do NOT have enough time left to ever understand the deep stuff.



Otoh election fraud motives, means and methods, are easily comprehensible.
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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #173 on: July 09, 2021, 06:50:04 pm »
You know you are old when you neither want nor need a smart phone  :-DD
 

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Re: You know you're old when.....
« Reply #174 on: July 10, 2021, 02:34:01 am »
You know you're old when you realise Forrest Gump was wrong.

Life is like a box of dog poo-------you know exactly what you're going to get, the only question is when! >:(
 


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