You know you’re getting older when……

[Busaholic]

Must have been a good school; we had to make our own hole with the straw.

We needed a sieve! I'm afraid it put me off drinking milk for life.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Does that make you 'holier than thou'?

Well, needless to say he is probably milking it for the the fame ......

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When you find yourself "nodding off" on trains and buses.

 

[PG]

Blimey Ashley, that puts you on a pedestal. Foil top piercing wasn’t even an option when I was at school but ringing the bell for break time or lunchtime was a real accolade.

Can't remember what I did to earn that privilege but it made a change from getting detention! Nowadays (is that even a word?) it makes me think they should have put this on the turntable

 

[Peter Sarf]

Can't remember what I did to earn that privilege but it made a change from getting detention! Nowadays (is that even a word?) it makes me think they should have put this on the turntable

Crickey, twas ages ago that I stopped being able to sing that (badly ?) in the right key !.

 

[johnnychips]

When you remember Judge Dredd! I just thought about him now. When I was 13, his records were never played on air, and merely listed on the chart programme. I never dared buy any of his records, but wondered why they were banned.

Turns out they were slightly risqué rhymes to a reggae rhythm sung by a fat bloke.

 

[Dai Corner]

When you remember Judge Dredd! I just thought about him now. When I was 13, his records were never played on air, and merely listed on the chart programme. I never dared buy any of his records, but wondered why they were banned.

Turns out they were slightly risqué rhymes to a reggae rhythm sung by a fat bloke.

I bought them just because they were banned. I probably still have them somewhere, in mint condition as they were only played a few times.

Similarly with the Sex Pistols album.

 

[Purple Train]

I had an example just before boarding my National Express coach on Friday evening.

The driver asked us to have our tickets ready for boarding. Nobody in front of me had any tickets, not even A4 printed ones. Everyone just showed him their mobiles for their "ticket" display.

I shall argue against that on the grounds that I refuse to use any form of mobile ticketing and I am most definitely not old

 

[Ashley Hill]

When you remember Judge Dredd! I just thought about him now. When I was 13, his records were never played on air, and merely listed on the chart programme. I never dared buy any of his records, but wondered why they were banned.

Turns out they were slightly risqué rhymes to a reggae rhythm sung by a fat bloke.

I remember Judge Dredd with Big 7 etc and so on. Very 70s but now sound so dated.

 

[D6130]

When you remember Andy Stewart, Kenneth Mackellar and Moira Anderson in the White Heather Club on BBC TV. (Cringe!)

 

[Gloster]

When you remember Andy Stewart, Kenneth Mackellar and Moira Anderson in the White Heather Club on BBC TV. (Cringe!)

You can still find Kenneth McKellar on the interweb-thingy, including singing The Ball of Kirriemuir. I bet they didn’t have that version on the White Feather Club. (It is wonderful, but not for the under-eighteens.)

 

[D6130]

White Feather Club.

Freudian slip....or typo?

 

[dangie]

You can still find Kenneth McKellar on the interweb-thingy, including singing The Ball of Kirriemuir. I bet they didn’t have that version on the White Feather Club. (It is wonderful, but not for the under-eighteens.)

Kirriemuir…… The childhood home of Bon Scott the original lead singer of the rock group AC/DC. There is a statue of him in the town.

 

[Gloster]

Freudian slip....or typo?

No. It is an old joke of one of my father’s acquaintances, though possibly not available to those who didn’t do National Service. And it is too complicated to for me explain, if I could. If somebody on this forum can explain it, please do.

Kirriemuir…… The childhood home of Bon Scott the original lead singer of the rock group AC/DC. There is a statue of him in the town.

And also the birthplace of J.M.Barrie, but not of David Niven, despite many sources claiming it is. (The claim may have been a joke by Niven that was not unconnected to the song.)

 

[nw1]

When you remember Andy Stewart, Kenneth Mackellar and Moira Anderson in the White Heather Club on BBC TV. (Cringe!)

The "Donald Where's Your Troosers" guy?

Heard of him, but only thanks to the 1989 re-release. I guess even that makes me old nowadays, of course...

 

[317 forever]

No. It is an old joke of one of my father’s acquaintances, though possibly not available to those who didn’t do National Service. And it is too complicated to for me explain, if I could. If somebody on this forum can explain it, please do.



And also the birthplace of J.M.Barrie, but not of David Niven, despite many sources claiming it is. (The claim may have been a joke by Niven that was not unconnected to the song.)

You know you're getting old when you know you can remember the song No Charge from J J Barrie

 

[nw1]

When you remember Judge Dredd! I just thought about him now. When I was 13, his records were never played on air, and merely listed on the chart programme. I never dared buy any of his records, but wondered why they were banned.

Turns out they were slightly risqué rhymes to a reggae rhythm sung by a fat bloke.

I remember the cartoon Judge Dredd, but not the singer who I think was "Dread" with an "a".

However, I remember first seeing his records listed in the "British Hit Singles" book (Gambaccini/Rice/Rice) in the late 80s - but to this day I've still never heard them. They all seemed to be called "Big {n}", where n is >= 6. Not sure if Big 1-5 ever existed, though.

Obviously for reasons I can probably imagine, completely unsuitable for radio.

 

[AM9]

When you remember Andy Stewart, Kenneth Mackellar and Moira Anderson in the White Heather Club on BBC TV. (Cringe!)

I remember the WHC on TV every New Year's day immediately after midnight. I am so grateful for Jules Holland!

 

[Benters]

Kirriemuir…… The childhood home of Bon Scott the original lead singer of the rock group AC/DC. There is a statue of him in the town.

Funny you should mention Bon Scott. I was watching one of the old re-runs of Top of the Pops on BBC4 the other week.It was from February 1980 and it featured AC/DC performing 'Touch Too Much'. Two weeks after that performance Bon Scott was dead, having imbibed a 'touch too much '. Hard to believe he's been gone for 44 years now.

 

[Ediswan]

ABBA, Waterloo, on Dial-a-disc.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When you remember Anona Winn was a member of the panel on the "Twenty Questions" radio programme.

 

[32475]

When you remember Anona Winn was a member of the panel on the "Twenty Questions" radio programme.

Similarly, you can just remember listening to Jack Di Manio presenting Today on the BBC Home Service. He was renowned for his inability to read the time.

 

[AM9]

Similarly, you can just remember listening to Jack Di Manio presenting Today on the BBC Home Service. He was renowned for his inability to read the time.

Or Dickie Valentine singing the signature tune to the 'drive time' programme Roundabout (yes, Roundabout was the first drive time programme started in the UK in 1958, from 17:30 to 18:45 on the BBC Light Programme).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When you wonder if Frankie Vaughan ever found out what was happening behind the green door.

 

[AM9]

When you wonder if Frankie Vaughan ever found out what was happening behind the green door.

Maybe the moonlight and the girl.

 

[PeterC]

Freudian slip....or typo?

White Feather Club was a spoof on I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again.

Although remembering ISIRTA probably puts me in the old category too. (Especially as I can sing the Angus Prune Song too)

 

[D6130]

White Feather Club was a spoof on I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again.

Although remembering ISIRTA probably puts me in the old category too. (Especially as I can sing the Angus Prune Song).

You have my deepest condolences!

 

[AM9]

You have my deepest condolences!

ISIRTA was great, by todays standards, quite non-pc, but a it was in some ways a parent of Python and The Goodies. I was too young when the Goons was in its heyday but Beyond Our Ken and Round The Horne was very much my kind of humour, (still is). In the '50s it was more Ray's A Laugh, Take It From Here, Life With The Lyons and Educating Archie, - all pretty naff, although I soon thought that a radio ventriloquist show was a pretty good scam if Peter Brough got away with it.

 

[Killingworth]

Maybe some of us need a new thread "You know you are old when...."

I was just reminded of this old film marking the last days of Sheffield trams in 1961. I lived further north in those days but note new buildings going up in the 1961 film. I worked in one of them from 1983, it may be to let in the film. It was demolished and replaced about 10 years ago so barely lasted 50 years. See;

It gets worse. The Central Sheffield Fire Station was relocated, possibly late 70s? It can't have lasted 20 years before it went.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Maybe some of us need a new thread "You know you are old when...."

I was just reminded of this old film marking the last days of Sheffield trams in 1961. I lived further north in those days but note new buildings going up in the 1961 film. I worked in one of them from 1983, it may be to let in the film. It was demolished and replaced about 10 years ago so barely lasted 50 years. See;

It gets worse. The Central Sheffield Fire Station was relocated, possibly late 70s? It can't have lasted 20 years before it went.

Well, well. There was a bit of the old 1,500 Volt DC route there - I mean up on the railway !.

The video, and demise of trams, is all before my memory would have started holding such things. I don't remmeber steam either despite often being shown them passing at Bushey.

In the film plenty of old cars I remember - Morris Minors everywhere. And the odd Beetle !. Even a VW split screen (camper ?) van.

Right at the end I instantly recognised the driver gettng into a new Leyland Atlanteen bus. From 1965 onwards I must have travelled on the Atlanteens that Maidstone and District had so many times. The school busses were always the older buses with a nose at the front - I only remember waiting for them standing in the snow and then getting on as near the front as possible for the heat.

Thanks for posting.