You know you are getting old when:

[V.C. Brunswick]

Tempus fugit, indeed.

I prefer to think of myself as a fugit from tempus.

 

[LizzieMaine]

They keep telling me age is a tempus in a teapot, but what do they know?

 

[Edward]

Just why are all the girls jumping up and down..?? ..Don't get it...
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The form of dance is the pogo, indeed, as Standby pointed out above. Further to that, Top of the Pops, the TV show from which this clip was taken (actually, it seems this particular one is a clip of Top of the Pops 2, the retrospective compilation version, hence the additional, superimposed text), was well known for having a strict policy on audience dancing. While a wide range of dancing styles, including the pogo, were permitted, the audience were not allowed to appear on camera unless they were dancing to whichever performer was "playing" at the time (I say "playing" as throughout the show's entire run they refused to allow anyone to perform completely live. Musicians always mimed, while only in latter years were vocalists allowed to sing live rather than lip synch). Additionally, the public area was towards the back, and most of the people you ever saw on camera in the show's heyday were paid dancers. Needless to say, many credible musicians, including the Clash, refused to appear on the programme, though others did and took the opportunity to poke fun at it, satirsing its santised blandness in various ways.

Have you ever found yourself looking through the CD racks to see if there might be a big band compilation album?
You see a modern music CD entitled So & So's Greatest Hits, and you think: "Who?"

I dropped out of mainstream entertainment when I was fourteen. Don't listen to commercial radio, nor Radio 1 (or Radio 2, which these days seems to be all the drivel that drove me away from Radio 1 in 1991), nor do I watch any mainstream pop music on television. What you're describing is the story of my adult life. Those few mainstream pop music products of which I have heard have been because they've been in the paper donig something daft or on a billboard on the tube. On the rare occasions I am subjected to such stuff, my life is typically confirmed as the richer for this ignorance.

Apparently this originated from the fact that when punk started, the bands performed in small clubs/pubs without stages, and the Pogo was started by people jumping up and down to try and see the band.

Romanticised, but that's pretty much it. Add in the excitement of punk rock in what had become an incredibly stale music scene by late '76, the natural urge to move to music, and how tight packed those crowds were, the only way to dance was to go up... and down. Ahh.... I've pogoed, stage-dived and crowd surfed with the best of 'em, but alas I think it'd kill me now to keep that pace up all night.

 

[Dan Allen]

You know you're getting old when every entertainer you recognize is dead.

or all the people you grew up wanting their impress are gone. Maybe that is why so many old gizzer's don't care what anyone else thinks.

 

[Ghost Rider]

(I say "playing" as throughout the show's entire run they refused to allow anyone to perform completely live. Musicians always mimed, while only in latter years were vocalists allowed to sing live rather than lip synch). Additionally, the public area was towards the back, and most of the people you ever saw on camera in the show's heyday were paid dancers. Needless to say, many credible musicians, including the Clash, refused to appear on the programme, though others did and took the opportunity to poke fun at it

Oh yes, I remember the Sex Pistols performing "Pretty Vacant"

Romanticised, but that's pretty much it. Add in the excitement of punk rock in what had become an incredibly stale music scene by late '76, the natural urge to move to music, and how tight packed those crowds were, the only way to dance was to go up... and down. Ahh.... I've pogoed, stage-dived and crowd surfed with the best of 'em, but alas I think it'd kill me now to keep that pace up all night.

You and me both

 

[Stand By]

Yup. I know I'm getting old these days when I have a hangover - or I just stay up all night watching TV until dawn (say, LOST on DVD) - and then it takes all the wind out of my sails and I feel tired for the rest of the week ! How rubbish is that ?!
Gone are the days when I could have a good session in the pub at the weekend and have shrugged it off come the start of the work week ... and when I used to imbibe 4/5 pints of good beer before I felt I was about to over-do anything ... now 2 does it.

 

[Stearmen]

They keep telling me age is a tempus in a teapot, but what do they know?

As long as it's not, "tea pot dome!"

 

[Stray Cat]

You know you're getting old when it takes you time every day to think about "have I taken all my medications/vitamins..."

 

[LizzieMaine]

You know you're getting old when you always seem to be studying for a blood test.

 

[Edward]

Oh yes, I remember the Sex Pistols performing "Pretty Vacant"

Yip, they appeared for that one and Anarchy in the UK (if memory serves, this was the "Woodstock! Get off your arse!" performance, of which you might have seen footage) as I recall. There should also have been an appearance for God Save the Queen, but as we all know The Powers That Be fiddled the charts that week to prevent it from hitting number one and having to be played on the show during Jubilee week, May 77...

I used to imbibe 4/5 pints of good beer before I felt I was about to over-do anything ... now 2 does it.

Don't knock it - think of how much you're saving that can go into another jacket!

 

[skydog757]

You know that you are old if you remember when drinking fountains in area parks were operated by a hand pump. Bonus points if it was just a hand pump with a tin cup on a chain for everyone to use.

 

[GHT]

We went to a really rather good, outoor event yesterday, called: "The Nostalgia Show," a three day event but we only have enough time to fit Saturday in.
Great though it was, you know you are getting old when you look forward to going home, just for a respite from the kids & dogs.

 

[Stanley Doble]

When you are young and you hear that someone is giving a party you fear that you won't be invited. When you are old you fear that you will be invited.

 

[Gregg Axley]

When you are young and you hear that someone is giving a party you fear that you won't be invited. When you are old you fear that you will be invited.

:eusa_clap

 

[Stanley Doble]

You know you are getting old when you have wisdom and experience, but would rather have hair and teeth.

 

[Zombie_61]

You know you're getting old when you put on a little weight and/or start losing your hair, and the response from your overweight, balding male friends is, "Finally!" lol

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

You use most of your vacations for Doctors visits.

 

[Gregg Axley]

You use most of your vacations for Doctors visits.

 

[LizzieMaine]

You know you're getting old the moment you realize you're going to be living the rest of your life in someone else's world.

 

[Zombie_61]

You know you're getting old the moment you realize you're going to be living the rest of your life in someone else's world.

lol I haven't quite made that transition yet, but the warning signs are visible from here.