You know you're old when:

[avgas]

Or when 91 petrol

That new stuff???

[ellipsis]

...when youngsters are celebrating getting part no# whatever of their motorcycle licence that has cost hundreds of dollars today...but paying the $1.50 fee for doing a figure of eight in front of a traffic cop was not half as relevant as riding your bike to the beach and getting pissed with your mates , for less than a dollar...

[Daffyd]

What are these young'uns doing in a thread for oldies? Getting an education, maybe?
Let's go the whole way....
Farthing (quarter penny) - dropped from circulation early 60's?
Ha'penny (half a penny) dropped from circulation around 1965?
Penny
Trupence (three penny coin)
Sixpence
Shilling (twelve penny coin)
Florin (2 shillings)
Half Crown - dropped from circulation before I remember
Crown (5 shillings) - also dropped during the 60s
1/2 pound note - 10 shillings
1 pound note - 20 shillings
2 pound note
5 pound
10 pound note
Note sure if there were higher denomination notes...

In 1967, we went metric, and values were simplified
Penny - 1c coin
Sixpence - 5c coin
Shilling - 10c coin
Florin - 20c coin
Crown re-introduced as 50c coin
1/2 pound - 1 dollar note
1 pound - 2 dollar note

Items that were valued at 1/2 pound or more appeared to double in price...

You forgot the guinea... 21 shillings. And I think the farthing went out long before the 60's; more like the early 50's or even earlier than that.

[FJRider]

You know you are old when ... everything hurts. What doesn't hurt ... doesn't work ...

[slofox]

You know you are old when ... everything hurts. What doesn't hurt ... doesn't work ...

What does it mean when things DO work but hurt like hell when they do..?

[FJRider]

What does it mean when things DO work but hurt like hell when they do..?

Either ...

You're really old ...

or ...

You're doing it wrong ...

[Big Col]

Bullrush at school was full contact. Shoes were only worn in winter at our school. Teachers could bash the shit outta ya if you got a smart mouth.

[FJRider]

You know you're old when there's only one candle on your birthday cake ...

but you need help to blow it out ...

[Skinon]

You know your old, when all your mates youngest sisters, which you despised at school for soo many reasons, are now out getting drunk and looking DAM hot! Too bad they just think of you as a dirty old wizard tho

[Countyman]

You were tuned into the Pirates on a transistor after lights out while it was sinking. Never forget that.

Attending free concerts in Albert Park in the city, taking advantage of passive smoke Oh and being left alone by the cops

Paul Lineham was the DJ. I was listening to it from Southland. Paul now lives in Australia.

[Hinny]

And Radio With Pictures with Karyn Hay was really weird

Paul Holmes way before Karyn - big curly hair, lying on a bean bag acting stoned out of his tree. Maybe he wasn't acting.

[Hinny]

Chrysler Charger, need I say more

It was a long, long time (many years) before there was made, in Oz, a faster accelerating production car than the E49 Charger.
Cops had them as pursuit vehicles. A mate bought one from the auctions for $600.00. Brakes would nearly throw you through the windscreen.

The most powerful vehicle in my home town had 48 pistins.
It was the night cart.

Milk was delivered into your billy on the front verandah from out of a can on the horse drawn milk cart. The milkman didn't guide the horse - he just knew where and when to go, stop etc.

[slofox]

You know you are old when...

You are taking your class of six-year-olds to the school swimming pool for their daily swimming lesson and one little darling asks you, "Mr. T, did you have to go for a swim every day when you were at school?"

And you reply "When I was at school we didn't have a pool to swim in!"

And she says..."Didn't they have pools in the olden days?"

I was 25 at the time...

[Edbear]

You know you are old when...

You are taking your class of six-year-olds to the school swimming pool for their daily swimming lesson and one little darling asks you, "Mr. T, did you have to go for a swim every day when you were at school?"

And you reply "When I was at school we didn't have a pool to swim in!"

And she says..."Didn't they have pools in the olden days?"

I was 25 at the time...

They painted a Mermaid on the bottom of ours to encourage us to get our heads under the water... I had my first attempt at diving after that...

[MSTRS:Me]

They painted a Mermaid on the bottom of ours to encourage us to get our heads under the water... I had my first attempt at diving after that...

Strange! Can't figure out how that would work. After all, mermaids don't have muff...