You Know You Are Old When

[WinterDeere]

I saw 3 girls with blue hair, 2 with orange hair, one with purple hair and one with rainbow hair.

Sorry folks but I never saw any of that back in the day.

Where were you 40 years ago? Hell, it seemed every little old lady had blue hair, and Cyndi Lauper was already rocking orange and rainbow.

 

[MoKelly]

Where were you 40 years ago? Hell, it seemed every little old lady had blue hair, and Cyndi Lauper was already rocking orange and rainbow.

I was just out of college and working my first job. I paid no attention to little old ladies or Cindi Lauper at that time.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

To me I'm thinking from the early 1900s to the 1920s "flapper era" was a tremendous change, short skirts, girl's smoking cigarettes then things reversed a bit, people well dressed in public up until early 60s.
The last 20-30 years it's been a freak show.
Most likely for 10% of rural population to maybe half in large cities.
Before about 1975 these people would be arrested, put in jail or mental hospital.

 

[ultrarunner]

May you live in interesting times is suppose to be an ancient proverb?

I’m guessing we do?

 

[WinterDeere]

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I never understood all of those supposed Elvis sightings reported in the 1980's, until I saw this photo of George Carlin.

 

[deserteagle71]

I saw 3 girls with blue hair, 2 with orange hair, one with purple hair and one with rainbow hair.

And I bet they all had hog rings in their noses to keep them from rooting around.........

 

[ultrarunner]

Serious question...

What's with the nose rings?

She it more and more and not just women.

Some of my young co workers excelling on the job have nose rings.

Sensitivity training teaches not to ask or question but simply accept...

 

[deserteagle71]

What's with the nose rings?

Some on-line "influencer" told them it was the cool thing these days. Gotta be part of the "In" crowd.

Disgusting....but hog farmers who put these in their hogs' noses to keep them from rooting up the ground are shaking their heads in disbelief when they see people trying to look like their hogs.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yep or Grandpa also had a ring on the bulls nose.

The medical aspects of piercing and tattoos is known.

It’s more and more I see younger people that you think have a colorful shirt when it’s full body art.

Can only imagine it all would be called mutilation if forced.

 

[check]

We all know where we were when 9/11 happened, and probably Challenger... maybe even Columbia. Same with Waco, and at least for those of us anywhere near Philly, The Move. Many here are old enough to remember the assassinations of Kennedy and MLK Jr.

My earliest memory of a major news event was the death of Elvis in 1977, mostly because that breaking news interrupted whatever cartoon I was watching, and I remember my mother (prime age to be an Elvis fan) shushing me to hear the news on the TV.

I guess I should remember the John Lennon assassination, but since my parents were too old to be into the Beatles, that one didn't even get honorable mention in our house. The Ronald Reagan assassination attempt was much bigger news, at least in our house.

What's the earliest major news event you remember experiencing, live? Anyone here old enough to remember FDR dying in office? Harding? VE or VJ day?

Biggest news event for me was the day they drooped the drinking age from 21 to 18 - on my 18th birthday! April 1, 1971.

 

[jjeff]

Only to raise it back to 21 in the early eighties, lol why I remember that event from my younger child hood memories was an omen of things to come I guess.

 

[ultrarunner]

Biggest news event for me was the day they drooped the drinking age from 21 to 18 - on my 18th birthday! April 1, 1971.

Happy Birthday?

It was a big deal as I recall.

 

[jjeff]

Unfortunately in my case and people I hung out with it didn't matter. However I'll say I did support my community by paying occasional fines and providing involuntary community service. Stupid thread worthy.

 

[MossRoad]

Only to raise it back to 21 in the early eighties, lol why I remember that event from my younger child hood memories was an omen of things to come I guess.

Michigan raised the drinking age from 18 to 19 on December 3, 1978.

18 days later, on December 22, 1978, they raised it from 19 to 21.

I remember this, because I turned 18 about 7 weeks later.

Fortunately, we had a classmate nicknamed Sasquatch.
Big hairy dude. Never got carded.

 

[MossRoad]

Fun facts...

U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[jjeff]

Michigan raised the drinking age from 18 to 19 on December 3, 1978.

18 days later, on December 22, 1978, they raised it from 19 to 21.

I remember this, because I turned 18 about 7 weeks later.

Fortunately, we had a classmate nicknamed Sasquatch.
Big hairy dude. Never got carded.

WI held out til they passed a law pulling federal highway funding if state drinking age wasn't raised to 21 (mid 80s). Still occasionally here stories from older folks reminiscing of xing the state lines for booze.

 

[MossRoad]

WI held out til they passed a law pulling federal highway funding if state drinking age wasn't raised to 21 (mid 80s). Still occasionally here stories from older folks reminiscing of xing the state lines for booze.

We would sometimes drive 2 hours over to St. Marys, OH to buy beer. As I recall, in OH the drinking age was 18 for 3.2 beer and low alcohol wine. 21 for hard beer and liquor.

Didn't seem to matter as they's sell us a couple cases of Little Kings regardless.

 

[MoKelly]

I guess you can say you are old when you bought 3/2 beer? Does it even exist anymore?

 

[masseyrider]

Biggest news event for me was the day they drooped the drinking age from 21 to 18 - on my 18th birthday! April 1, 1971.

Went the opposite here. The year I turned 18 they raised it to 19. Never made much of a difference. I looked older and got what I needed.
Used to go into the liquor store with a shopping list from the rest of the guys.
Worst part was the handfuls of change they had given me to pay.
One time I was coming out the end of an aisle and bumped straight into a huge cop. I had about 7-8 bottles in my arms.
He apologized and stepped around me. I was sure I was in trouble that time.
Only thing the age change did was keep us drinking illegally.

 

[logcabin]

You know that you are old (not getting old) when you go to take a whizz and find that your zipper is already down.

Cheers,
Mike

But, you are really getting old when you go take a whizz, and it's not down.