You know you are getting old when:

[Trenchfriend]

People, climbing stairs.

Isn't it a phenomenon?
Install an escalator and promptly the people unlearn using the stairs next to it. I mean YOUNG people, teens, 20+, 30+.

As if the people had waiting decades just to see the escalator appearing!

 

[GHT]

 

[Trenchfriend]

Jeeesus, electronic chain store is flogging CD-audio books, at least from some publishers, for 2,99!
No, wonder. Who's buying audio books on CD, these days??

I would have been stupid, not to grab some interesting stuff, I tell you. I grabbed two, this time. Maybe more, later. Who would think, CDs will be there, let's say three years ahead?

 

[Trenchfriend]

Sweet milk-millet gruel, anyone else?

 

[Jon Crow]

Sweet milk-millet gruel, anyone else?

If its anything like porridge nope haha

 

[Jon Crow]

Sweet milk-millet gruel, anyone else?

I'll stick with my kippers for breakfast

 

[Trenchfriend]

I'm 40+, so from now on I like THIS motto!

 

[tonyb]

Jeeesus, electronic chain store is flogging CD-audio books, at least from some publishers, for 2,99!
No, wonder. Who's buying audio books on CD, these days??

I would have been stupid, not to grab some interesting stuff, I tell you. I grabbed two, this time. Maybe more, later. Who would think, CDs will be there, let's say three years ahead?

I have every expectation that CD players will be available for longer than it will concern any of us. They might not be readily available decades down the road, but they’ve been made in the many millions so there will be some still around.

I have a Panasonic cassette deck I bought for next to nothing at a thrift store. And my 5-disc CD changer was similarly acquired.

 

[Trenchfriend]

@tonyb
Yeah, that's true, the CD-player leftovers in german stores will last for a while, too.

 

[Zombie_61]

Sweet milk-millet gruel, anyone else?

The closest I get to "gruel" would be oatmeal. I've been eating oatmeal for breakfast semi-regularly since I was a young child and my dad, who ate oatmeal for breakfast almost every day, would usually make some for me while he was making his own. Most of the people I know don't care for oatmeal, but I've eaten it for breakfast occasionally throughout my life, and in recent months it has become my primary form of breakfast.

 

[Trenchfriend]

@Zombie_61
The british term would be millet "porridge", millet gruel is just the direct translation from German.

Hirsebrei

 

[Zombie_61]

@Zombie_61
The british term would be millet "porridge", millet gruel is just the direct translation from German.

Hirsebrei

Ah, thank you. "Porridge", in English, has more of the connotation of what it is--a warm, oat/grain based cereal. "Gruel" brings with it images of rotting scraps thrown together in a pot and maybe heated just enough to feed prisoners in the cold stone European prisons of centuries past, so these days it often has more of a comedic connotation as well.