You know you are getting old when:

[scottyrocks]

But that's EXACTLY what the Boys in Marketing want you to do.

Don't go food shopping when you're hungry.

 

[Zombie_61]

And the things that you miss when it's gone...

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
Mark Twain

He probably wasn't the first person to have that thought, but he's attributed to being the first to write it down.

...The older I get it seems the more cars look alike.

I don't think that's due to age as much as to advancements in automobile "technology" and auto manufacturers "borrowing" style and aerodynamics ideas from each other. Sadly, I think it will eventually reach a point where almost every car manufactured will look exactly like every other car manufactured. hwell:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

To merge your comment and ChiTown's one about JFK...a while back, I was playing baseball with a group of youngsters...18, 19 years old, just out of high school, and aside from being reminded that 18 year olds NEVER shut up, I felt old when they were kidding me asking me if I remembered JFK getting shot. After a few jokes like "JFK?...hell, I remember when Lincoln was shot" I said "no, I don't remember JFK, I only remember Reagan getting shot." They looked completely perplexed and one said "what do you mean....when was Reagan shot?" But it also dawned on me...for them, JFK (or perhaps even Ronald Reagan) was as far away to them as Abraham Lincoln was for me.

Q: Which President was also an actor?
A: Cliff Robertson (the PT-109 dude)

 

[jamespowers]

I don't think that's due to age as much as to advancements in automobile "technology" and auto manufacturers "borrowing" style and aerodynamics ideas from each other. Sadly, I think it will eventually reach a point where almost every car manufactured will look exactly like every other car manufactured. hwell:

It will indeed. Just a bunch of nasty rounded turds.

 

[Chas]

Shiny rounded turds.

When I was a kid we used to sit around and call out the makes of the cars driving past; "Chevy!!" "Buick!" and so on. Can't do that anymore. They're all the same. No flavor.

I knew I was getting old when the new grad nurses that are coming to work with me are young enough to be my kids. If I had had them, of course.

 

[LizzieMaine]

One of my concession girls is due to give birth in two weeks. I guess that'll make me a surrogate grandmother, sort of.

 

[GHT]

It will indeed. Just a bunch of nasty rounded turds.

I've not heard them called that, they get known as a Eurobox on our side of the pond, the only distinguishing features being the grille and the badge. Even then there's blatant plagiarism, for years after the big Lexus came out, I kept thinking that it was a Mercedes.
Which, I suppose, brings us back to turds. Typical of a big sh*t to copy someone else's work.

 

[jamespowers]

I've not heard them called that, they get known as a Eurobox on our side of the pond, the only distinguishing features being the grille and the badge. Even then there's blatant plagiarism, for years after the big Lexus came out, I kept thinking that it was a Mercedes.
Which, I suppose, brings us back to turds. Typical of a big sh*t to copy someone else's work.

lol lol lol
I don't mind soft rounded curves but they have gone waaay too far. We have Econoboxes here too. My friend's brother had one when I went over last night. We wondered if confetti, streamers and balloons came out before the clowns did.

 

[rjb1]

It's not really a matter of copying someone else's work. If the problem is the same (maximize aerodynamic efficiency) and the rules are the same (laws of aerodynamics) then the results will be very nearly the same.
The people really to blame for these copy-cat-cars are the government politicians and bureaucrats. When they pass very stringent laws and rules governing fuel mileage (CAFE standards) everyone is going to have to go for the same goal, and that goal is not distinctive appearance.

 

[jamespowers]

It's not really a matter of copying someone else's work. If the problem is the same (maximize aerodynamic efficiency) and the rules are the same (laws of aerodynamics) then the results will be very nearly the same.
The people really to blame for these copy-cat-cars are the government politicians and bureaucrats. When they pass very stringent laws and rules governing fuel mileage (CAFE standards) everyone is going to have to go for the same goal, and that goal is not distinctive appearance.

Completely true. As usual we have the government to blame.

 

[GHT]

You know you are getting old when Kate Moss advertises Top Shop on the Lounge, and you don't think Kate who?
And it amuses you to think that of all places to sell their wares, this would be the last.

 

[Stearmen]

It's not really a matter of copying someone else's work. If the problem is the same (maximize aerodynamic efficiency) and the rules are the same (laws of aerodynamics) then the results will be very nearly the same.
The people really to blame for these copy-cat-cars are the government politicians and bureaucrats. When they pass very stringent laws and rules governing fuel mileage (CAFE standards) everyone is going to have to go for the same goal, and that goal is not distinctive appearance.

When Frank Christensen, maker of the Christen Eagle aerobatics biplane, decided to build a new Bush Plane, called the Husky, they kept putting in the designee parameters, and the Cad-Cam, kept spitting out drawings for a Piper Super Cub. Hard to improve on perfection!

 

[Michaelson]

The first real inkling I had that I was starting to get long in the tooth was a few years ago in Scotsdale, AZ. I went into an old radio/TV station museum and realized every piece of equipment they had on display as 'ancient technology' was equipment I had used to make video productions when it was brand new and 'cutting edge' !!

Regards! Michaelson

 

[Zombie_61]

...When I was a kid we used to sit around and call out the makes of the cars driving past; "Chevy!!" "Buick!" and so on. Can't do that anymore. They're all the same. No flavor...

I don't envy current police officers attempting to record an eye-witness account of a crime. "What kind of car were they driving?" "It was...uhhh...silver?" :eusa_doh:

 

[jamespowers]

I don't envy current police officers attempting to record an eye-witness account of a crime. "What kind of car were they driving?" "It was...uhhh...silver?" :eusa_doh:

:rofl:

 

[Dan Allen]

When you go to an antique shop and instead of shopping you end up reminiscing

 

[LizzieMaine]

Even worse, the proprietor offers you ten dollars for your coat.

 

[GHT]

You know you are getting old when a name that consistently crops up in the newspapers, is totally alien to you.
What does Lady GaGa actually do?

 

[Edward]

Pop singer. Musically not my bag (though if you get a chance, look on Youtube for her duetting with Tony Bennett; genuinely great voice). Image wise, she gets huge press by being a sort of cross between Madonna and Leigh Bowery, which is why you and I will have heard of her. We're very far from the target market, but the fact that she has hit our radar in my mind shows how cleverly she has worked that image (bearibg in mind I'd struggle to name a single X Faxtor poppet of rdcent years, and you know how high profile that is).

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

When you go to an antique shop and instead of shopping you end up reminiscing

No lie. People do not believe me when I tell them that I actually sat at one of these desks when I was a kid in school!