You know you're old when...

[chand]

I think 'screamo' is similar to 'extremo'. Not quite sure of the difference between 'emo' and 'emocore' if there is one.

[MonkeyDrummer]

what is this new language?

[Nearly Annually]

I didn't know what "emo" was until recently...

< Drums fingers on table, puffs out cheeks >

C'mon then, you've got our attention, don't milk it, what's "emo"?

[Partridge's Love Child]

Emotive rock.

Sorry, did I forget to tell you to get a bucket ready?

I guess that it could also be Rod Hull's left arm.

[fanny splendid]

emo?

[hencole]

I'm more of an emu music fan.

[MonkeyDrummer]

emotive rock?

Fuck, I'm losing it. First I couldn't understand why Muse were headlining Glatsonbury, now we have a new form of music. What happened to grunge?

[hencole]

Whatever happened to Reginald Dixon, thats what I want to know?

[Mediocre Rich]

Didn't Nick Cotton stab him?

[Nearly Annually]

emo?

this emo/post-punk ring site is owned by fourfa.

Shouldn't that be post-(post-post-punk)-punk?


You know you're old when you say that sort of thing.

[Crazy Penis]

...when you fix your younger sisters computer and she accidentally says "thanks dad."

[Incredible Monkey Doctor]

emo?

Jesus fucking christ. I've never heard a genre define itself in such limp wristed terms. Say Emo to me and I automaticallty think of this chap:



My biggest sign of aging is when I look at dancers on pop videos and instead of thinking 'cool' think - they're just waggling their arms and arse about, that's not dancing.  The 'Project Dance' thing on MTV Dance was particularly embarrasing as amateurs danced freestyle. What the fuck? I can dance better than that, and i'm 30...

Still, that Narcotic Thrust video is awesome. Goth Cheerleaders, oh yeah.

[mook]

When you can't resist going doo-doo-da-doo-doo whenever you hear someone say phenomenon.

Actually that's probably more a sign of me being a twat rather than a sign of ageing.

[Cerys]

You know you're old when you read a thread about knowing you're old ... which consists mostly of posts made by people who are younger than you.

Pardon me while I mutate into a toothless wad of gum.

[kenneth trousers]

You know you are getting old when you still remember a time when presenting Blue Peter wasn`t a means of getting into bland adult day time telly.

[Marcus Or Relius]

You remember Ed The Duck and Gordon The Gopher.

[MonkeyDrummer]

Can anyone remember whether Ed the Duck started off without his trademark green mohican. I'm pretty sure Andy Crane attached it later, but I'm not sure. Don't suppose it matters a great deal, it's just always annoyed me.

[Partridge's Love Child]

Didn't he have a mop of green hair, that was later cut into a mohawk, as you say, by Andy Crane.  I don't wish to sound like Cuddles, but I hated that duck, even as a young 'un.

[Purple Tentacle]

I fucking hated Ed the fucking Duck as I was called "Ed the Duck" at school constantly, not because of a mohican but because my name is Edward.


That and "Edward the Pedward the big fat Wedward", even though I was not big, fat, or even a Pedward.

[Partridge's Love Child]

Well, I'm not going to claim to like you, Poipul Edward, as that would make me a P. Edophile.

Fucking hell fire.

[Rats]

did you get this little rhyme too? Karen bomb bearing, stickle airing, five fairing, five fairing, stickle airing, that's how you spell karen. To the tune of the bells of st clements? That was my sister, I was steven bomb beaven, stickle even, five feven, five feven, stickle even, that's how you spell steven.

[Krang]

Hah, i had an Ed the duck book.

ahhh, the broom cupboard, the days when the BBC wouldnt give a proper studio to the Childrens entertainment department.

I remember when Otis the Aardvark first appeared, i thought he was fucking shit. Far too big for a start. I did grow to enjoy him, not like that Emlin the Gremlin.

[Partridge's Love Child]

I remember the days before the broom cupboard, when Willow The Wisp used to come on just before the news.  Later days saw the 5.35 timeslot alternate between The Flintstones and quiz show Masterteam hosted by Morecambe & Wise fanny-flasher Angela Rippon.

[Morrisfan82]

Can anyone remember whether Ed the Duck started off without his trademark green mohican. I'm pretty sure Andy Crane attached it later, but I'm not sure. Don't suppose it matters a great deal, it's just always annoyed me.

I think ETD was a puppet sent in by a viewer. Yes, he had no mohican to start with. I guess they felt he was too much of a 'generic animal puppet' up to that point, and needed something to give him an edge.

Mind you, let's face it, anyone sat next to Andy Crane has an edge.

The 5:35pm slot also played host to Fax, a programme about... er, stuff in general really (if it were made today it would probably be called FAQ, if that makes the concept any clearer), hosted by yer man Oddie amongst others.

Also, First Class, which I'm going to stick my neck out for and say was probably the best TV quiz show ever. For the simple reason that it was just a load of kids playing Track & Field, 720º and Paperboy against each other. Fucking ace.

[Partridge's Love Child]

And the delicious Debbie Greenwood.

No prize whatsoever goes the person who can remember the name of computer.

[Nearly Annually]

You know you're old when ... you need a fluffer.


Edit: this post related to another post in another thread, in another fucking universe for all I know. Sorry.

[Frinky]

It's my 20th birthday today and I've declined going out twice now on the grounds that I can't be arsed.

On the other hand, I have to design video covers for porn flicks today. Happy Birthday me.

You also know you're old when childhood favourites (such as the Turtles) start coming back, and instead of being pleased, you sneer at the new inferior version and pity what "kids" have to put up with these days.

[Morrisfan82]

No prize whatsoever goes the person who can remember the name of computer.

...wasn't it Eugene? Or something like that.

You know you're getting old when people five years younger than you are designing the packaging for porn films.

[Cerys]

Just you wait until they're eleven years younger than you.  Oh, yes, you youngsters ... price of bacon ... the war ... teeth ... etc.

[joFFeman]

you know you're getting old when they stop calling you a rapist and start calling you a paedophile.