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You know you're getting old when...

I refuse to believe that there is a single adult alive in this country who hasn't seen The Goonies, at least one Back to the Future movie, Gremlins, The Wizard of Oz, Live and Let Die, or Batman '89.
 
Matt.GC said:
I refuse to believe that there is a single adult alive in this country who hasn't seen The Goonies, at least one Back to the Future movie, Gremlins, The Wizard of Oz, Live and Let Die, or Batman '89.
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Depends on how you define "adult".
 
Matt.GC said:
I refuse to believe that there is a single adult alive in this country who hasn't seen The Goonies, at least one Back to the Future movie, Gremlins, The Wizard of Oz, Live and Let Die, or Batman '89.
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I'm afraid that I have not seen The Goonies, Gremlins or Batman '89. Sorry to disappoint. I'm sure you're going to tell me that geese don't count now, but we pay our television licence too.
 
I don't want to do broad brush generalisations here, but if you get out of registration and numbering because you are non hominid, you are the first non human I have ever heard of who pays the tv license fee.
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Unless you are human after all...
 
rob666 said:
I don't want to do broad brush generalisations here, but if you get out of registration and numbering because you are non hominid, you are the first non human I have ever heard of who pays the tv license fee.
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Unless you are human after all...
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Nothing in television licencing legislation says that you have to be humanoid to pay it. If you have a televisual / recording equipment in your home, capable of receiving live television transmissions, and you use them for that purpose, pay up. If you access BBC iPlayer, pay up. If you stream free-to-air television channels over the interwebs, pay up. I have paid up. I spend enough time in prisons as it is, I'd rather not be on the other side of a closed cell door and without keys.
 
rob666 said:
Oh come on now...the last person to be given a real custodial sentence for not paying their fine was who exactly...(twitching a goosey research nerve...as fat as my wrist).
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Actually, no one, ever. Being a criminal offence though, rather than a civil one, my clearance would be revoked and it seems just a heck of a lot simpler to pay it.
rob666 said:
And wait for exercise and flutter your wings...
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Followed by an additional two year sentence for escape from prison without force.
 
GooseOnTheLoose said:
Actually, no one, ever. Being a criminal offence though, rather than a civil one, my clearance would be revoked and it seems just a heck of a lot simpler to pay it.

Followed by an additional two year sentence for escape from prison without force.
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But let's say they did catch you watching Goose Watch without a license and locked you up, would they be able to use Chicken Wire for your cage or would this be considered offensive?
 
GooseOnTheLoose said:
I'm afraid that I have not seen The Goonies, Gremlins or Batman '89. Sorry to disappoint. I'm sure you're going to tell me that geese don't count now, but we pay our television licence too.
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The fetus I work with? She's never even heard of Batman 89.
"Tim Burton? You mean that spooky old guy made a Batman movie? You're winding me up!"

She had no idea Star Trek was a half century franchise, and assumed it was just a film,
"You mean there's more than one?"
She's from Australia. I reckon she must have grown up under Ayer's Rock.

Our crew spent most of yesterday asking her "You must have seen [x]?" only to find that she really hasn't ever watched anything filmed in that quaint old fashioned landscape aspect ratio.
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I casually remind you all what industry I work in. Let that sink in.
 
BarryZola said:
When a lot of the police you see out on the streets look younger than you.
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With many of the officers I've seen recently, I have to agree. Same with teachers too. They all seem like kids themselves.

2 CID detectives came and saw me (not anything I'd done I might add) and the pair of them looked like good looking young people wearing hoodies in their early 30's.

I thought detectives were supposed to be overweight blokes, possibly divorced functioning alcoholics, with one hand in their pocket and the other carrying a coffee in a polystyrene cup, wearing tweed jackets, sporting husky voices and an impressive moustache. I always imagined being interrogated by them in a dark room, employing the good cop bad cop routine, leaning over a desk with a smokey ash tray on it, their ties resting on the desk, telling me that maybe the judge will go easy on me if I tell them where the bodies are buried.
 
Or even, when you are dozing off in your fatboy recliner with a nice cup of tea balanced on your lardy belly.

Then...all of a sudden...

"Why are my moobs all warm and wet?"
 
Bottom drawer filth (again) from me I'm afraid.

You know you are really old when the nhs sends you a cardboard box to **** in every two years.
 
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