You know you're old when...

M_Six · 09-30-2022, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by cmyx6go

FML - I turned my head to look for oncoming traffic while merging onto the bridge Wednesday morning and I pulled a muscle in my neck that goes down into my back. Holy shit, it hurts. How the hell do you pull a muscle by turning your head? I must have been sitting crooked or something.

Happy Friday all!

Worst back muscle pull ever was reaching to pat one of our cats while bent over. Took a week to recover.

Esteban · 09-30-2022, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by cmyx6go

FML - I turned my head to look for oncoming traffic while merging onto the bridge Wednesday morning and I pulled a muscle in my neck that goes down into my back. Holy shit, it hurts. How the hell do you pull a muscle by turning your head? I must have been sitting crooked or something.

Happy Friday all!

I've noticed as I get older I have less and less mobility in my neck and I feel it most when I have to look around while I'm driving, so I can relate.

Happy Friday to you as well.

Rono63 · 09-30-2022, 03:56 PM

When you get up in the morning and nothing hurts, but you can't remember the last time that you felt that way.

dmatre · 09-30-2022, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

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Originally Posted by cmyx6go

FML - I turned my head to look for oncoming traffic while merging onto the bridge Wednesday morning and I pulled a muscle in my neck that goes down into my back. Holy shit, it hurts. How the hell do you pull a muscle by turning your head? I must have been sitting crooked or something.

Happy Friday all!

Worst back muscle pull ever was reaching to pat one of our cats while bent over. Took a week to recover.

Mine was standing up out of a chair after eating breakfast. Don't know how/why, but I was out of commission for a week.

tom2021 · 10-01-2022, 07:10 AM

You are excited when The Eagles come to town, and you go to see their performance.
And you download Hotel California to your bimmer.

vreihen16 · 10-01-2022, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by tom2021

And you download Hotel California to your bimmer.

Get off our lawns, kid! Old people don't know how to download music!

You know that you're *old* when your first copy of "Hotel California" was on an 8-track tape.....

tom2021 · 10-01-2022, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

You know that you're *old* when your first copy of "Hotel California" was on an 8-track tape.....

Incorrect.
The original was lp vinyl.

Esteban · 10-01-2022, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by tom2021

Incorrect.
The original was lp vinyl.

Can't remember for sure but think this is right.

sygazelle · 10-01-2022, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

Get off our lawns, kid! Old people don't know how to download music!

You know that you're *old* when your first copy of "Hotel California" was on an 8-track tape.....

FTFY: You know that you're *old* when your first copy of "Heartbreak Hotel " was on 45 RPM record ....

Hotel California came 20 years later.

Esteban · 10-01-2022, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sygazelle

FTFY: You know that you're *old* when your first copy of "Heartbreak Hotel " was on 45 RPM record ....

Hotel California came 20 years later.

Are you that old?

BTW, that came out in 1956. I was a 1 year old.

PS - if I remember right you're 6 years older than me.

shawnhayes · 10-01-2022, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sygazelle

FTFY: You know that you're *old* when your first copy of "Heartbreak Hotel " was on 45 RPM record ....

Hotel California came 20 years later.

LP's came before 45's.

If it was on 78, THEN you're old.

Shawn

sygazelle · 10-01-2022, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Are you that old?

BTW, that came out in 1956. I was a 1 year old.

PS - if I remember right you're 6 years older than me.

Yes, I'm that old. I was very little, but my older sister liked Elvis so...

sygazelle · 10-01-2022, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by shawnhayes

LP's came before 45's.

If it was on 78, THEN you're old.

Shawn

We had 78s but switched to 33 1/3 before Elvis. By the time he came out, 78s were fading in popularity and it was 33 1/3 rpm albums and 45 RPM singles (actually doubles if you count both sides

Esteban · 10-01-2022, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by sygazelle

Yes, I'm that old. I was very little, but my older sister liked Elvis so...

Hell, I liked him too. He was The King of Rock and Roll. I liked early Elvis but didn't like Vegas Elvis very much.

3.0L · 10-02-2022, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by sygazelle

We had 78s but switched to 33 1/3 before Elvis. By the time he came out, 78s were fading in popularity and it was 33 1/3 rpm albums and 45 RPM singles (actually doubles if you count both sides

I also recall some 16 RPM records, although they were few and far between.

sygazelle · 10-02-2022, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

I also recall some 16 RPM records, although they were few and far between.

I'd forgotten about them. Actually they were 16 2/3 RPM. We never had any. 78s and then 33 1/3 and 45s during my childhood.

M_Six · 10-02-2022, 04:47 PM

...when a couple hours of yard work leaves your arms wrecked and your hands shaking. Oy.

Esteban · 10-02-2022, 04:55 PM

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I also recall some 16 RPM records, although they were few and far between.

I'd forgotten about them. Actually they were 16 2/3 RPM. We never had any. 78s and then 33 1/3 and 45s during my childhood.

I only had 33s and 45s when I was a kid.

My dad had some 78s with Frank Sinatra and a few other crooners that we would hear when he had a few drinks in him. I didn't mind, I liked that music.

Llarry · 10-02-2022, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

I only had 33s and 45s when I was a kid.

My dad had some 78s with Frank Sinatra and a few other crooners that we would hear when he had a few drinks in him. I didn't mind, I liked that music.

And my grandparents had 78s with the likes of Eddie Cantor on them. I don't even have the capability to play anything other than 33s and 45s, but I have a few CDs of 1920s 'hot jazz' music -- some of which were mastered from 78s and have the clicks and pops -- and enjoy them. One of my favorite recordings of all time is a 1931 Louis Armstrong rendition of St Louis Blues. Wonderful stuff.

Somehow, though, I always come back to 1965 music -- the music when I graduated from high school.

vreihen16 · 10-02-2022, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

...when a couple hours of yard work leaves your arms wrecked and your hands shaking. Oy.

...when installing four license plate screws with a screwdriver leaves your arms and neck sore, and leaves you so fatigued that you need to beat a hasty retreat to the couch to take a nap!

I think that I'm seriously over the hill now, because it took me almost an hour this afternoon to swap the electronics between two vehicle remote control keys this afternoon...under my old-man magnifying/lighted workbench light. Should have been a two-minute job tops.....

NealfromNZ · 10-03-2022, 01:58 AM

So I removed a car stereo from a build I'd done a decade ago (I'm 50 something)

Thought it would take 3- 4 hours. Day 1 took 8 hours and day 2 took 11. Was black and blue from neck to toe and look like I'd been one of those crash test dummies. Completely out of energy due to heart surgery 5 month prior.

Took three weeks for bruising to go. I must be going stupid as I'm looking to do another build, maybe a plug and play system this time around.

Esteban · 10-03-2022, 02:39 AM

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So I removed a car stereo from a build I'd done a decade ago (I'm 50 something)

Thought it would take 3- 4 hours. Day 1 took 8 hours and day 2 took 11. Was black and blue from neck to toe and look like I'd been one of those crash test dummies. Completely out of energy due to heart surgery 5 month prior.

Took three weeks for bruising to go. I must be going stupid as I'm looking to do another build, maybe a plug and play system this time around.

Use your spending power and hire a professional. Your body, and your heart will thank you.

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