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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.

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slipperywhensparticus · 15/05/2020 20:29

@Breathmiller

Yes! 😁

AmberAndAlexsMum · 15/05/2020 20:32

I was born the last time England won the World Cup.

LunaL0veg00d · 15/05/2020 20:35

I was born when Rick Astley 'never gonna give you up' was number 1 in the charts.

Flavabobble · 15/05/2020 20:38

I was born 9 months after England won the world Cup.
(But I'm not too old for sims)

MajesticWhine · 15/05/2020 20:39

Get it on by T-rex was no 1. when I was born.
I was the last year to sit O levels.

TerfTerfTerf · 15/05/2020 20:41

My kids like to joke that along with all the other important things, I was born the same year as the Original Factory Shop Grin

Saz12 · 15/05/2020 20:44

I can finger-knit.

My gran had a rag-and-bone man whose horse I wasn’t allowed to pet (not a euphemism!).

My mum cooked on a peat-fired range, I can remember casting peat.

I had hand-knitted leg warmers to match my leotard.

ArbitraryNameChange · 15/05/2020 20:45

I am the same age as Spaghetti Junction on the M6

babbi · 15/05/2020 20:45

I was born in the middle of “ year that rocked the world” ....

Saz12 · 15/05/2020 20:45

Luna, maybe born in 1985? Not googled it though...

Mooey89 · 15/05/2020 20:46

I saw the spice girls at Wembley when I was 8 💃🏼

Chillipeanuts · 15/05/2020 20:47

Peace and love.

JanetWeb2812 · 15/05/2020 20:48

I was born three days before the Farthing (1/4 of an old penny, 1/960 of a pre-decimal pound) ceased to be legal tender.

Chocolate50 · 15/05/2020 20:49

Apparently a good wine year.
The Cray brothers were arrested & the abortion act came into effect.

Drogonssmile · 15/05/2020 20:52

My mum watched Diana and Charles's wedding when on mat leave with me.

mangomama91 · 15/05/2020 20:56

I was born the same year as the animated Disney Beauty and the Beast was released

hopefulhalf · 15/05/2020 20:58

Chocolate you are 53

MrsDarcyIwish · 15/05/2020 20:58

I went to the Wembley leg of Madonna's Blond Ambition tour the summer I passed my GCSEs.

BabyMoonPie · 15/05/2020 20:58

@hopefulfhalf - I think you're 42/43

popcorndiva · 15/05/2020 21:01

I was born in the year where a robot danced to electric pop and looked good on the dancefloor

piperatthegates · 15/05/2020 21:04

I was 17 when Abba's Dancing Queen was released

Pantheon · 15/05/2020 21:09

I graduated into a recession.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 15/05/2020 21:10

I am only a few years too young to be a boomer, I am generation x by a whisker.

MadameJosephine · 15/05/2020 21:12

I was born the year of decimalisation

newtb · 15/05/2020 21:15

Suez crisis according to stbxh was the only interesting thing the year I was born