[Zealot]

...you insist that Polaroid shots are better than camera-phone shots.
...you tell people with camera phones about how old cameras had an auto shutter with a timer with which you could take self portraits from further away than arm's length,and their eyes glaze over.

[solvegas]

... when your long term memory is better than your short term memory. 

[solvegas]

... when you bought and saw the Penthouse magazine edition with ... THE vaginal shot !!  ( way back in 1972 )

[sidewalkpsycho]

...you tell people with camera phones about how old cameras had an auto shutter with a timer with which you could take self portraits from further away than arm's length,and their eyes glaze over.

They still exist in the most modern cameras as well! Have people become *that* ignorant?

[Zealot]

They still exist in the most modern cameras as well! Have people become *that* ignorant?

Yes.

[pedonbio]

In the U.S. attention deficit disorder has become a way of life. I recently listened to a debate between the two major candidates for a statewide office. The format was that the moderator would ask a question; the candidate would have 90 seconds to respond; his opponent would have 45 seconds to reply.

In 1858 Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had a series of debates during the Illinois race for the U.S. Senate. The format for those debates was: One candidate gave a one-hour speech; his opponent had a half-hour to reply; the opponent then gave a one-hour speech, to which the other candidate had a half-hour to reply. Each candidate then gave a one-hour closing speech.

[DruulEmpire]

(Good grist also for a political thread ... )

Your grooming is not complete without also checking your ears and nose.

[gOOber]

....you go through old threads here at the BEA and are surprised as hell at what you`ve posted.

[SamV]

You realize that the only closest living relative you still have is you!

[AgentDee]

....toys you played with as a kid show up in either an antique store, or a store that sells old toys.

Agent "5 till 6K !" Dee

[pedonbio]

...you pass a car that is the same make, model, and year of your first car, and you notice the "collector" license plate.

[AgentDee]

...you pass a car that is the same make, model, and year of your first car, and you notice the "collector" license plate.

been there

[mcgarp]

I haven't quite been there, but at 32 I've seen some cars go by and think they are so old I can't believe they are still on the road, then noticed I used to drive one in high school. Though, in my state collector plates would go on them, just nobody wants to put one on a 1990 Chevy Corsica.

[AgentDee]

....movies you saw as a kid in the theater are 20, 25, 30 years old respectfully.

when I was ten I saw Back to the future by myself, rode my bike downtown, took the bus to the mall watched it.  2010 was the 25th anniversary of BTTF and the re issued it in ceartain AMC theaters that year.  I remember seeing E.T. in 1982 with my dad and future step mother then seeing it again in 2002 and a guy tells his kid "I saw this in the theater when I was little", I leaned back and said "yeah, me too".

[Zealot]

...the parents of a girl you want to ask out has the same taste in music as you do.