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Old 01-01-2017, 17:13
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No but it does seem weird that in 3 years i'll be 40 and mentally i still feel 19.
All the best people were born in 1980!

I remember making a joke with a friend back in 1999 that "by the time the decade next has a proper name, we'll be 40".
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Old 01-01-2017, 17:15
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It will be good to get back to decades which are straight forward to 'say' / 'describe'....if that makes sense? What I mean is:

Trips of the tongue: 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's

Less easy to say:
00's (noughties has just always sounded wrong to me)
10's (saying 'tens' sounds daft, so you end up saying 'nineteen 10's', twenty 10's' etc)
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Old 01-01-2017, 17:16
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When I think that I was born not long after the half-way point in the last century, that makes me feel very old Some people born in this century will soon be adults! Time goes so quickly.
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Old 01-01-2017, 17:41
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When I think that I was born not long after the half-way point in the last century, that makes me feel very old Some people born in this century will soon be adults! Time goes so quickly.
yes, in a blink of the eye , it will be 2030, if I am still alive
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Old 01-01-2017, 17:52
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It will be good to get back to decades which are straight forward to 'say' / 'describe'....if that makes sense? What I mean is:

Trips of the tongue: 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's

Less easy to say:
00's (noughties has just always sounded wrong to me)
10's (saying 'tens' sounds daft, so you end up saying 'nineteen 10's', twenty 10's' etc)
Teenies is easiest.
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Old 01-01-2017, 19:41
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yes, in a blink of the eye , it will be 2030, if I am still alive
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Old 01-01-2017, 19:45
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Yes.

Where are my flying cars, jetpacks and cities on the moon?! Why isn't life more like the Jetsons?
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Old 01-01-2017, 19:49
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Yep. Wierd!

I remember lying on the school field with some mates on a fine summers day in the sixties sometime when someone nonchalantly asked how old will we be in the year 2000? Forty six someone replied. Oh how we laughed .....
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Old 01-01-2017, 19:51
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If it's not 2020 in three years' time then something very weird has happened.
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Old 01-01-2017, 22:11
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If it's not 2020 in three years' time then something very weird has happened.
Have you missed the point?
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Old 01-01-2017, 22:15
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Yes.

Where are my flying cars, jetpacks and cities on the moon?! Why isn't life more like the Jetsons?
2 out of 3 isn't bad

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Old 01-01-2017, 22:20
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As a kid I remember watching Space 1999 and thinking it was set so far into the future!
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Old 01-01-2017, 22:30
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Have you missed the point?
No
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Old 01-01-2017, 22:34
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No but it does seem weird that in 3 years i'll be 40 and mentally i still feel 19.
I will be 80 in May and I feel 30.
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Old 01-01-2017, 22:47
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Does feel a bit weird. Didn't think much about it when it was 1990s, 2000 or 2010, but maybe because I'm getting older I'm thinking about it more, I'll be 36 in 2020.
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Old 01-01-2017, 23:23
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Old 01-01-2017, 23:27
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Does feel a bit weird. Didn't think much about it when it was 1990s, 2000 or 2010, but maybe because I'm getting older I'm thinking about it more, I'll be 36 in 2020.
Hopefully you'll see dates like 2070 or beyond. Now that is weird!
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Old 02-01-2017, 02:26
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When you get to my age, and you remember thinking "wow, it'll soon be 1970!" ... 2020 is nothing. But...

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Old 02-01-2017, 04:46
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It proves Peano's laws (of arithmetic), otherwise maths would be in a mess ........ fancy, not being able to add up, we'd all be like george osborne ..........
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Old 02-01-2017, 09:44
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Can't wait l will be nearly there for getting my state pension, after waiting these extra years.

Lol, I was going to post that it will seem weird being even older and more decrepit, but STILL not getting my pension! I won't get mine till 2021.

I reckon the 6 years between 2015 and 2021 will seem like the longest 6 years of my life.
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Old 02-01-2017, 10:33
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Not really...I think we went through that phase around 2000, which was considered to be a landmark year.

And like many others, growing up in the sixties I also assumed that by 2000 we would have those flying cars, robots and be living on the moon etc.

Yet we still have technological advancements, but what we could not have predicted is the way they were used.

For example, communications devices seen in spy films of the sixties, wristwatch radio's, all sorts of space age, miniature communicating devices...who would have thought that they would be commonplace and used for mundane conversations by the whole population?

Truth is, once all the hoo ha and celebrations are over, one year feels pretty much the same as the next. 2020 will probably be the same in that respect.
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