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Shandris

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43. Wait...there are people who AREN'T getting older?!?!

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 08:27 PM

Jul 2016

Great list!

I miss shag carpeting. Ohhhhh so much do I miss shag carpeting.

...to be fair, I was so young I never had to sweep it once. I probably wouldn't miss it long after that!

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For us who are getting older... [View all] Archae Jul 2016 OP

I like these. Ilsa Jul 2016 #1

You're right, these are a cut above the usual pinboy3niner Jul 2016 #17

remember what? passiveporcupine Jul 2016 #29

DUzy malaise Jul 2016 #32

at 74 years old.... chillfactor Jul 2016 #2

Didn't walk nine feet through shag carpet to change channel on the tv Thirties Child Jul 2016 #3

I did littlebit Jul 2016 #4

Ours was orange shag. progressoid Jul 2016 #26

I don't know which was worse passiveporcupine Jul 2016 #30

Ours was blue and brown littlebit Jul 2016 #31

Sure was... kag Jul 2016 #38

True littlebit Jul 2016 #39

Must be nice to have had it so easy that you didn't have to make that slog pinboy3niner Jul 2016 #5

Fascinating! You really have seen the world evolve from a simpler, more... ChisolmTrailDem Jul 2016 #6

My dad knew a guy who was a ham radio operator who had a T.V. Binkie The Clown Jul 2016 #14

I knew about TV when I was a kid, but we didn't have one until I was about 10 years old. Arkansas Granny Jul 2016 #15

We didn't walk through it. One of us seven kids was Ilsa Jul 2016 #44

@61 SCVDem Jul 2016 #7

I'm gonna go make a crouton... n/t jtuck004 Jul 2016 #8

That's the ONLY old people thing I've found amusing. SheilaT Jul 2016 #9

Great pins, LOL! pinboy3niner Jul 2016 #11

GREAT one! calimary Jul 2016 #12

lol - all the above 840high Jul 2016 #10

Number 8 made me chuckle out loud. Turborama Jul 2016 #13

Looks pretty accurate to me. hobbit709 Jul 2016 #16

From an old cartoon baldguy Jul 2016 #18

I don't know if that competes with the hardship of shag carpet NJCher Jul 2016 #19

run. dir. malthaussen Jul 2016 #21

Still used today. "rm -rf /" mwooldri Jul 2016 #22

my fav shireen Jul 2016 #42

We're all getting older... malthaussen Jul 2016 #20

Hysterical! lunatica Jul 2016 #23

Getting older? raven mad Jul 2016 #24

My dad would always say... Pluvious Jul 2016 #25

This is going to be emailed to some people! progressoid Jul 2016 #27

Unfortunately, I can relate to most of those. Different Drummer Jul 2016 #28

LOL - love the tip for cooking tofu. Vinca Jul 2016 #33

but it was WORSE back then: Gabi Hayes Jul 2016 #34

I can tell you are old... using correct grammar. "who" instead of "that" OKNancy Jul 2016 #35

But but... Doesn't this contribute to ageism? Helen Borg Jul 2016 #36

I don't actually think it contributes to ageism... CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2016 #40

But they are stereotypes. Helen Borg Jul 2016 #41

"I'm try-sexual" forest444 Jul 2016 #37

Wait...there are people who AREN'T getting older?!?! Shandris Jul 2016 #43

Funny! MarianJack Jul 2016 #45