tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post9058183079694487237..comments2023-06-05T09:22:52.912+01:00Comments on Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Open: Kids these daysPlease Don't Eat With Your Mouth Openhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246896544080806179noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-53695532095152459902013-01-22T14:12:25.888+00:002013-01-22T14:12:25.888+00:00I don't believe any adult who says he/she was ...I don't believe any adult who says he/she was born after 1985. Impossible. <br /><br />I was one of the few at uni who had a computer. I used to type other students' papers for them. $2 a page. How would I have made that extra spending money in today's age?Elliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09130776138284979286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-5844208134249174052013-01-18T14:33:24.592+00:002013-01-18T14:33:24.592+00:00Encarta 95! I had that. It's true... in my fir...Encarta 95! I had that. It's true... in my first year of university nobody had a mobile phone and friends wrote me letters. Letters! Three years later, everyone had mobile phones and email addresses. We should have known it was a slippery slope. Still, at least I went to university in the pre-Facebook age.Jonhttp://vidalondon.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-30802532284654671392013-01-15T15:05:54.333+00:002013-01-15T15:05:54.333+00:00I like to think that it's not us getting too o...I like to think that it's not us getting too old too fast that leads us into having these nostalgic wallowings when we're still so young but, rather, that we are progressing at such an alarming rate (and not always in the areas that we should be - but that's a whole other ballbag) `the good old days' can sometimes only be five years ago.London Lass Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05585548733858304214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-77590681843086338762013-01-13T19:00:02.020+00:002013-01-13T19:00:02.020+00:00Speaking of 1995, that's when this year's ...Speaking of 1995, that's when this year's crop of students entering University were born. <br />University.<br />1995.<br />Students. <br /><br />Mind you, in 5 years time there'll be a bunch of students entering higher education who weren't even born in the last millennium.<br /><i>Jesus</i> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-82209242342837017812013-01-11T12:17:38.126+00:002013-01-11T12:17:38.126+00:00This post. These comments. Oh. I am SO old.This post. These comments. Oh. I am SO old.Lissyhttp://lissyruns.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-27493534666380186212013-01-11T10:29:11.652+00:002013-01-11T10:29:11.652+00:00Em - urgh, the pain of writing essays longhand and...Em - urgh, the pain of writing essays longhand and making glaring error that meant you had to put a line through an otherwise perfect sheet of A4...Blondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04135846185772109032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-78486220208049125712013-01-10T17:57:35.270+00:002013-01-10T17:57:35.270+00:00Not forgetting recording the top 10 or top 20 from...Not forgetting recording the top 10 or top 20 from the radio every Sunday. Making sure to pause it right when the song ended and un-pause it to start recording again as soon as Dr Fox stopped speaking. <br /><br />For years whenever I heard East 17's Stay Now, I would expect to hear radio chatter at the end of it.MissNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-88086281756907222942013-01-10T16:43:30.973+00:002013-01-10T16:43:30.973+00:00This could not have come at a more relevant time -...This could not have come at a more relevant time - yesterday lunch, after a chat about the benefits of growing up PRE-digital cameras, an intern asked us a few questions<br />a) how did you do essays before the internet. <br />b) how did you meet your friends before mobile phones. <br />c) what was dial up internet (the regional WI office i called yesterday clearly had dial up still - bless them)<br />I'm only 31 and explaining 'how life used to be' made me feel so old! <br /><br />Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241181864022527545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-3767190076164640332013-01-10T15:41:08.118+00:002013-01-10T15:41:08.118+00:00Even nostalgia isn't as good as it used to beEven nostalgia isn't as good as it used to beDominichttp://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-77211561379565242892013-01-10T14:58:38.271+00:002013-01-10T14:58:38.271+00:00Oh god. DIAL UP. Single MP3s taking days to downlo...Oh god. DIAL UP. Single MP3s taking days to download. And parents being able to see exactly how long you were online for, because it was all itemised on the phone bill.<br /><br />Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Openhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246896544080806179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-34331859432141716472013-01-10T14:55:16.884+00:002013-01-10T14:55:16.884+00:00See also: that squeaky crackly noise of dial-up, a...See also: that squeaky crackly noise of dial-up, and not being able to use the internet when your parents were on the phone. SIGH.Blondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04135846185772109032noreply@blogger.com