Birthday Thread

OMG. I'm 56 today. *shakes a fist at the sky*

Can I ramble like the elderly person that I am? I mean, I grew up with black-and-white tv. Back when there was no remote control. You want to change tv channels? Get up and walk over to the tv set and turn that big clunky dial one preset channel at a time. There was no cellphone. Only big corded black telephones. You dial the number, one digit at a time, and you have to wait for the dial to rotate back before the next digit can be dialed. I watched Wild Wild West. The original tv series starring Robert Conrad. I watched The Beatles cartoon series. It always starts with A Hard Day's Night. I watched Battlestar Galactica, the original series with Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict and Jane Seymour. I watched Star Wars in the cinema. I fell in love with Harrison Ford. I spent friday nights at discotheques drinking Pina Coladas and Brown Cows and dancing to Def Leppard, Robert Palmer, George Michael, The Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Queen. Back in the day, cameras were big and unwieldy. Film was expensive and had to be developed before you could ogle at the photographs. It took an eternity week. I used a typewriter to write my university essays and assignments. Mistakes had to be meticulously whited out with Liquid Paper. Computers were big, scary machines. I touched one in my teens. Used one in my 20s. Got hooked to the internet in my 30s. Discovered videogames in my 40s.

Ah, I'm living my life backwards. It all makes sense now.

I hate being old. I do not know what it means to age gracefully. I will kick and scream all the way to the end. *shakes other fist at the sky*

But wait. Let me read my manga, watch my anime, play my games first. Too many hobbies, so little time. 😬😱😆
 
CrankyCupcake said:
OMG. I'm 56 today. *shakes a fist at the sky*

Can I ramble like the elderly person that I am? I mean, I grew up with black-and-white tv. Back when there was no remote control. You want to change tv channels? Get up and walk over to the tv set and turn that big clunky dial one preset channel at a time. There was no cellphone. Only big corded black telephones. You dial the number, one digit at a time, and you have to wait for the dial to rotate back before the next digit can be dialed. I watched Wild Wild West. The original tv series starring Robert Conrad. I watched The Beatles cartoon series. It always starts with A Hard Day's Night. I watched Battlestar Galactica, the original series with Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict and Jane Seymour. I watched Star Wars in the cinema. I fell in love with Harrison Ford. I spent friday nights at discotheques drinking Pina Coladas and Brown Cows and dancing to Def Leppard, Robert Palmer, George Michael, The Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Queen. Back in the day, cameras were big and unwieldy. Film was expensive and had to be developed before you could ogle at the photographs. It took an eternity week. I used a typewriter to write my university essays and assignments. Mistakes had to be meticulously whited out with Liquid Paper. Computers were big, scary machines. I touched one in my teens. Used one in my 20s. Got hooked to the internet in my 30s. Discovered videogames in my 40s.

Ah, I'm living my life backwards. It all makes sense now.

I hate being old. I do not know what it means to age gracefully. I will kick and scream all the way to the end. *shakes other fist at the sky*

But wait. Let me read my manga, watch my anime, play my games first. Too many hobbies, so little time. 😬😱😆
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Happy belated birthday!

I remember those old tvs. We had one in our basement -- it had 8 channels and the antenna never wanted to stay in place haha

Even though phones with buttons were already a thing for quite a while, we had a rotary phone for the longest time when I was growing up. Kids these days would possibly perish with a rotary phone. A 17y/o I know expressed great horror at the thought of having to start the entire rotary process again if even one number was incorrect 😅

Aging backwards is a wonderful thing. Do all the things that you enjoy doing for as long as you enjoy doing them! Hope that no one is trying to tell you otherwise!

Happy birthday again! 🎂
 
Soo, today's my birthday, yet nobody is telling me Happy Birthday here. That's so sad.
 
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