You Know You Are Old When

[Oaktree]

I thought it was her ex James Taylor she wrote this for.

I recently read where she has been quoted as saying the second verse was about Beaty.

I'd heard both WB and Mick Jagger. Who really knows?
She and Taylor were relative newlyweds when she did that song, they didn't divorce until the early 80s.

 

[WinterDeere]

I'd heard both WB and Mick Jagger. Who really knows?

I'd say she's brilliant, for keeping people talking about such a mediocre song for what... 35 years?

 

[Jstpssng]

I'd heard both WB and Mick Jagger. Who really knows?
She and Taylor were relative newlyweds when she did that song, they didn't divorce until the early 80s.

I had thought it was Taylor, but in her memoirs "boys in trees" she said that one was about Beaty.

..., You’re So Vain is about one-time Hollywood lothario Warren Beatty. But only the second verse (“You had me several years ago when I was still quite naïve/Well you said that we made such a pretty pair/And that you would never leave

She wouldn't identify the others because in her words...

I haven’t told either of them that it’s about them, so it would be too much of a shock, too much of a cold, calculated thing to put it in the book without them knowing,” says Simon

Mind, everything I've quoted is from an interview on USA today, not from her book.

 

[Jstpssng]

I'd say she's brilliant, for keeping people talking about such a mediocre song for what... 35 years?

All of that... she wrote it in 1972.

 

[WinterDeere]

All of that... she wrote it in 1972.

It's funny, as I had remembered it from the mid-70's myself, and initially wrote "50 years". Then before clicking that "Post reply" button, I thought I'd better double-check the release date, and F'ing Bing returned 1989!

I guess she must've re-released it in 1989.

 

[BravoXray]

Pretty popular on another forum I visit, here is one I put up there.

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I can still hear dad saying that. He meant it too.
I think I turned out pretty well for it.

Some kids today are a bunch of wimps.
That's why they're so screwed up, and parents are to blame, a total lack of respect and responsibility.

 

[BravoXray]

I had thought it was Taylor, but in her memoirs "boys in trees" she said that one was about Beaty.

That's what I had heard way back when the song was released. Warren was a bit of a egomaniac.

 

[WinterDeere]

Some kids today are a bunch of wimps.
That's why they're so screwed up, and parents are to blame, a total lack of respect and responsibility.

You know, our grandparents said that about us. Just ask Archie and Edith.

I've mentioned it before, but my favorite podcast of all time was Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. It's waned a bit, but one of the better episodes from a few years back was called, "Old School Toughness". The basic premise is him thinking and talking through the scenario of how any generation might hold up in a war against their grandparents, with the initial thought being that the younger generation would probably have their asses handed to them. Of course, he works through the problem in bloody detail, the way only Dan Carlin can, with great historical reference to the Greatest Generation, etc.

He usually keeps the last several episodes available for free, so you can probably still grab it off your favorite podcast repository. If not still available, I think he sells back-episodes (usually 3 - 6 hours long) for all of $2 - $3 each, and it's usually well worth the price of admission.

PS -- Doh... looks like this particular 14-year old episode has aged out of the free section, but it's only $3: Hardcore History 33 – (BLITZ) Old School Toughness – Dan Carlin

PPS -- My favorite episode of the last few years is still free, and I guess still related to BravoXray's "kids today" thought, as it gets into the way the senior military staff were trying to push JFK around on using nukes in Cuba. They thought of him as the unqualified kid / playboy: Hardcore History 59 The Destroyer of Worlds – Dan Carlin

 

[Sigarms]

Tell my wife I'm going in for a haircut today, may turn the beard into a goatee.

Go in, girl asks "same #4 on the beard and #2 on the sides, tapered at the top?"

I tell her #2 on the sides, tapered at the top, but I want to with a #4 on the face but turn the beard into a goatee.

Girl looks surprised and asks "really?". Tell her yes.

She then asks me "have you told anyone I was doing this?".

I tell her I told my wife but threatened her I'd have it all taken off the face because she hates me clean shaven LOL

Girl then says "I'm sorry, I just get really excited when someone totally changes their hair style!"

I told her that in my case, the only hair style changes I can make make are on my face because I have almost nothing on the head to work with.

Swear to God, hair grows quicker on my face, ears and eyebrows than it does on my head.

 

[Oaktree]

You know, our grandparents said that about us. Just ask Archie and Edith.

I've mentioned it before, but my favorite podcast of all time was Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. It's waned a bit, but one of the better episodes from a few years back was called, "Old School Toughness". The basic premise is him thinking and talking through the scenario of how any generation might hold up in a war against their grandparents, with the initial thought being that the younger generation would probably have their asses handed to them. Of course, he works through the problem in bloody detail, the way only Dan Carlin can, with great historical reference to the Greatest Generation, etc.

I don't have the patience to sit thru a podcast, could you give a synopsis of it?

I told her that in my case, the only hair style changes I can make make are on my face because I have almost nothing on the head to work with.

Swear to God, hair grows quicker on my face, ears and eyebrows than it does on my head.

Still have most of my hair at 73, though it's getting a bit thinner. Never could grow a decent beard. Tried back in my 20s, but it was scraggly and itched so off it came.

 

[WinterDeere]

I don't have the patience to sit thru a podcast, could you give a synopsis of it?

I did!

The basic premise is him thinking and talking through the scenario of how any generation might hold up in a war against their grandparents, with the initial thought being that the younger generation would probably have their asses handed to them.

 

[goeduck]

Ever since the pandemic I have been cutting my own hair. I have to say it doesn't look bad under my cap.

 

[Williy]

I don't wanna say I'm old but I tell people that you
can't do anything about growing old but you can eat
right and poke fun at it - when I was 40 they told me
that I had spurs - I don't have a horse When I was
80 they told me I had shingles - I don't do roofs either

Last week a musem made me an offer but I had to
refuse them they wanted to stuff me

willy

 

[Sigarms]

Still have most of my hair at 73, though it's getting a bit thinner. Never could grow a decent beard. Tried back in my 20s, but it was scraggly and itched so off it came.

That's the odd thing, my dad actually had a good head of hair even when he passed at 90. The ONLY time he ever had hair on his face is when he came back from Laos while in the Air Force wearing a mustache, and I can still remember my mom telling him to take it off now, which he did LOL

Me? It always seemed my beard always grew quicker than the hair on my head. Wife is so used to me with it, that I guess I'm lucky she prefers me that way because the few times I shaved, she always ask "why did you do that?"

in my mid 40's when I played Santa, I had to use white coloring in my beard to play the part. 15 years or so later, no coloring needed.

 

[sixdogs]

Ever since the pandemic I have been cutting my own hair. I have to say it doesn't look bad under my cap.

My wife has cut her own short hairstyle for 50 years. Has a Wahl home clipper set with different guards and always looks like she went to a salon. People compliment her. There have been times when she had to use the dog clippers and it came out just as nice. Beats me.
She's been cutting my hair for 30 years and it comes out close enough for me. If there's any tension that day I've learned to wait.

I would highly suggest getting a set of Wahl clippers and cutting your own hair or having your wife do it. It comes out just fine and we have saved a barrel of $$ over the years. Money saved is money earned and money spent on a barber is after-tax money so it's really maybe 25%-30% more than you think. Plus gas, time and vehicle cost.


The pandemic woke a lot of people up to many incidental costs that really don't need to be and cutting back was easier than I thought. That's the law of unintended consequences.

 

[WinterDeere]

 

[WVH1977]

When Snoop Doggy Dog song , "Sipping on gin and juice" is 30 years and an oldie!!!!

 

[masseyrider]

I like that story to. And the movies.

 

[steve tym]

Yeah, but my barber is hot. Somebody asked me once if she did a good job. My reply: Who cares.

 

[Hay Dude]

You know you are old when:

You call a manual transmission a “standard” transmission.