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You know you're old when.....
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Circlotron:
 ...you put a posting in the "pet peeve" thread and a few weeks or months later you put exactly the same thing in again.
CatalinaWOW:
Check.

In fact you can judge my age by how many days, weeks or months it is.  And sometimes it makes the calendar look pretty darned good.
Brumby:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on June 16, 2021, 02:26:07 pm ---
--- Quote ---My bro made a great little regenerative HF radio using a small "plumber's iron" stuck in the firebox of a "Metter's No2" stove for all the soldering work.

--- End quote ---

Impressive. My first soldering iron, which I still have and still works, is rated at 60W. It's a monster compared to this modern day pencil size "rubbish".

--- End quote ---

Monster?  Let me tell you about a monster....

It was only a little thing - with a big transformer ..... and the ability to barbeque anything in seconds.....

One word: Miniscope   :scared:


(and it was thought to be a good thing to buy)
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: Brumby on June 17, 2021, 07:29:07 am ---
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on June 16, 2021, 02:26:07 pm ---
--- Quote ---My bro made a great little regenerative HF radio using a small "plumber's iron" stuck in the firebox of a "Metter's No2" stove for all the soldering work.

--- End quote ---

Impressive. My first soldering iron, which I still have and still works, is rated at 60W. It's a monster compared to this modern day pencil size "rubbish".

--- End quote ---

Monster?  Let me tell you about a monster....

It was only a little thing - with a big transformer ..... and the ability to barbeque anything in seconds.....

One word: Miniscope   :scared

(and it was thought to be a good thing to buy)

--- End quote ---

And that was the "mini" ----- the real one was a lot bigger, & a bit more bitey.

Actually, they were very useful, as they can complete many connections which otherwise need a really heavy mains soldering iron.
They were also useable on a car battery (a 6 volt one).

The other extreme was a little device called a Fairey iron, which would make the smallest modern iron look large.
I had one, which I used with a 6.3volt "filament" transformer.
It was pretty capable------------I used it for all my solder work for some years.
Adrian_Arg.:
I think we are getting old!
The people who entered the universities last year were born in 1988. For them there has been only one Pope who has lasted almost his entire life.
They never sang 'We are the World, we are the children', and when García Márquez won the Nobel they didn't even know how to read.
They were 3 years old when the Soviet Union disintegrated. They do not remember the Cold War and they know only one Germany, although at school they have been told that there were two.
They are too young to remember the explosion of the space shuttle 'Challenger' and will probably never know what the 'Pepsi Challenge' or the 'Pepsi Challenge' was.
For them, AIDS has been around their entire lives. They didn't get to play with the Atari.
The CD entered the market when they were not even one year old.
They never had a record player. They never played Pacman.
StarWars seems pretty fake to them, and the special effects seem pathetic.
Many of them do not know, or do not remember, that televisions only had 13 channels and a 'U', and they were switched with a knob; moreover, some have never even seen a black and white television, they cannot even explain what it is to watch TV without a remote control.
They were born six years after Sony put the Walkman on sale, for them the skates have always had in-line wheels and let's not talk about the normality with which they see a cell phone or a personal computer.
They may never have seen Sesame Street, The Treasure of Knowledge, Lost In Space, Topo Gigio or The Lone Ranger.
They never go swimming thinking 'Jaws'.
Michael Jackson has always been white. And how can they believe that Travolta could dance with that belly.
They never heard the following expressions: 'The plane, boss, the plane', or 'Grandpa, tell me you'. They don't remember who 'Wonder Woman' was.
They never used a metal lunch box.
They do not remember who was 'The Nuclear Man', 'The Bionic Woman', or 'the General of the Dukes of Hazard' (Hazard? ... what is that?).
They never heard or could say 'By the power of Greiscol', or 'Thunder, thunder, thunder cats oooooooohhhhhhhhh'.
They don't know who 'Tom Sawyer', 'Maya the bee', or 'Little Lulu' is.
They believe that 'The Love Cruise' leaves Miami loaded with honeymooners. That 'Charlie's Angels' is a film 'premiere' and that when they are told about 'CHIPs' they will think of potatoes to accompany lunch.
Remember that all these people entered the University last year, they are young people now !!!!!
Symptoms that you are getting old:
1. When you understand the above text and smile.
2. When, as a man, you are finally able to say NO to a woman without remorse.
3. When, as a woman, you are finally able to say YES to a man without remorse.
4. When you do sports and proud, you tell everyone that you do it.
5. When there are remedies on the nightstand.
6. When virginity has long since been a topic of conversation.
7. When the children with whom, until recently, you had a certain complicity, now they call you 'sir', they treat you ... or, worse still, they call you 'uncle'.
8. When you need much more time than one morning to recover from a late night.
9. When you hang up the towel yourself after showering.
10. When it bothers you that someone else leaves the toothpaste uncovered.
11. When your friends get married without being in a rush.
12. When your little cousins ​​ask you for cigarettes.
13. When your nephews know more about computers than you.
14. When you go to the beach and you can go all day without bathing.
15. When you watch games and concerts on TV, instead of going to see them live.
16. When you bring gifts to birthdays again ... just like when you were a kid.
17. When, to play sports, you buy clothes that cover you instead of showing.
18. When you would rather see a friend than talk to him Hooooo on the phone.
19. When you already know what you want.
FRIENDS ..... WE ARE getting old, but we have lived WONDERFUL !!! I hope so .......
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