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Without saying your age , how old are you?

723 replies

MrReece · 14/05/2020 21:18

I will start

I am older than the TV show friends.

OP posts:
Fairylillie · 15/05/2020 12:01

I got my first mobile phone at age 21. Dixon's had just started selling them, they were expensive and heavy.

Mrsmummy90 · 15/05/2020 12:03

It's bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini was number one in the charts when I was born

Mariposa123 · 15/05/2020 12:03

I was 5 months when the Berlin Wall fell

Waxonwaxoff0 · 15/05/2020 12:04

@Mrsmummy90 same here so you must be 29. You and I must have been born days apart, or maybe even on the same day!

Hedgehog44 · 15/05/2020 12:06

I was born the year of the queen's silver jubilee

NerfectPobody · 15/05/2020 12:11

I was born in the year Stephen King published his first novel.

rhowton · 15/05/2020 12:13

The Berlin Wall fell, the year I was born

unicornsarereal72 · 15/05/2020 12:15

The year we were decimalised.

therobin · 15/05/2020 12:19

@ratonastick no idea of the year but the chances are we went to university in the same place.

Mightymurphy · 15/05/2020 12:21

Walt Disney World opened the same year I was born.

YouveCatToBeKittenMe · 15/05/2020 12:27

I remember being on holiday in Morecambe Bay when Red Red Wine was in the chart, makes me feel old

I was born on the day Phillip and Jay Kunz flew a kite a record 28,000 feet high
bit random!

AngeloMysterioso · 15/05/2020 12:34

I was born on Keir Starmer’s 23rd birthday.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 15/05/2020 12:34

Mariposa. June 1989. So you're 31 next month.

papooshka · 15/05/2020 12:35

I was born the year they landed on the moon

TrophyCat · 15/05/2020 12:38

Up until I was about 4 we had a black and white TV, it was a real luxury to rent a colour TV.

I got my first mobile phone when I was at university.

I still have a box of old love letters, written in the days before email.

We used to dress smartly when flying on an airplane.

Phoebesgift · 15/05/2020 12:41

The Beatles Hey Jude was no 1 the week I was born.

BasalGanglia · 15/05/2020 12:43

I graduated during the financial crash.

ICouldHaveBeenAContender · 15/05/2020 12:43

Old enough to know not to answer questions like this.

As you were.

poppym12 · 15/05/2020 12:45

I'm older than Dad's Army Shock (only by a matter of days)

480Widdio · 15/05/2020 12:46

I was 4 when George V1 died.

BreadmanAndCake · 15/05/2020 12:48

Whigfields Saturday Night was Number 1 in the U.K. when I was born. Smile

longtimecomin · 15/05/2020 12:57

Levi's died a few weeks after i was born

longtimecomin · 15/05/2020 12:57

elvis !!

Mrsmummy90 · 15/05/2020 13:02

@Waxonwaxoff0 yes I am 😊 I was born on the 26th of August. How about you?

InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud · 15/05/2020 13:13

I was born in the summer of love to the children of the revolution