You know you're old when...

vreihen16 · 05-21-2021, 03:29 PM

While I was on YouTube for the above, this Beatles/Beetles "mix tape" came up in the suggested videos column:

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3.0L · 05-21-2021, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

That is beautiful!

Sorry you missed out.

The particular bug I was looking at was 2-tone blue and blue-gray. It wasn't quite as pretty as the one in the picture, but pretty close.

Esteban · 05-21-2021, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

While I was on YouTube for the above, this Beatles/Beetles "mix tape" came up in the suggested videos column:

Nice! I like it! Beetle fan, and Beatles fan.

upstatedoc · 05-21-2021, 05:53 PM

Aren't they still building bugs in Mexico?

Esteban · 05-21-2021, 06:03 PM

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Aren't they still building bugs in Mexico?

Wednesday July 10, 2019 was the last day.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/aut...-line-n1027866

3798j · 05-21-2021, 06:15 PM

You know you're old...when realizing that this is the fourth time you're experiencing the hatch of the 17 year locust...(brood X cicada).

wdb · 05-21-2021, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by 3798j

You know you're old...when realizing that this is the fourth time you're experiencing the hatch of the 17 year locust...(brood X cicada).

Me too, but the last iteration found me in the midst of about a gazillion of them. We had to shout at each other when we were outside. It went like that all summer. Now they're baaaaaack....

upstatedoc · 05-21-2021, 10:30 PM

Do they do any damage to your property?

rwheels · 05-21-2021, 11:01 PM

M_Six · 05-21-2021, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Wednesday July 10, 2019 was the last day.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/aut...-line-n1027866

Went on a college geology field trip to Toluca in '96. Three of us in a VW bug. I have a pic I need to scan of a long line of VW bug taxis lined up along a street. They were everywhere in Mexico at the time.

Esteban · 05-21-2021, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by rwheels

#sockittome

M_Six · 05-21-2021, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by wdb

Me too, but the last iteration found me in the midst of about a gazillion of them. We had to shout at each other when we were outside. It went like that all summer. Now they're baaaaaack....

They were here in 2013. Deafening, indeed. Neighbor and I had to yell to each other to be heard above the din.

Esteban · 05-22-2021, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by wdb

Me too, but the last iteration found me in the midst of about a gazillion of them. We had to shout at each other when we were outside. It went like that all summer. Now they're baaaaaack....

They were here in 2013. Deafening, indeed. Neighbor and I had to yell to each other to be heard above the din.

Been in my house since '91. Never had a problem. Guess they don't come to SoCal, or at least my neck of the woods.

Thank God! Only saw locust problems in Excorcist 2. lol

wdb · 05-22-2021, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by upstatedoc

Do they do any damage to your property?

They chew some leaves. Nothing horrendous. The worst of it for us is avoiding squishing them.

When I met my now-wife she had a cat that thought cicadas were great playthings. She'd bring them in the house, chase them around, eventually eat them. Scared the whee out of us with a fresh catch more than once!

3798j · 05-22-2021, 07:43 AM

When the cicada hatches out of the ground it climbs a tree where it sheds its exoskeleton (which sticks on the tree looking pretty prehistoric) ...then for a few weeks it mostly just makes noise.

wdb · 05-22-2021, 01:13 PM

They climb stone fronts on garages too.

The noise has started here. Still few enough of them that you can differentiate one and another. Soon it will just be a constant tone.

vreihen16 · 05-22-2021, 02:45 PM

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Esteban · 05-22-2021, 03:17 PM

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Three's Company?

Dpc2u · 05-23-2021, 10:02 AM

Had some friends over for cocktails, ribeyes on the grill and some time in the pool followed by the fire pit and more cocktails. Finished up well after midnight.

This morning I KNOW I might be getting old.
🙄

King Rudi · 05-24-2021, 11:18 AM

I've decided I'm older mentally than in years.....I've also decided that I'm just over people's shit.....therefore, I am old.

When recognizing that having a conversation with someone isn't going to yield positive results, so you just withhold information to avoid the whole damn thing and hope the best....yet the best that you hoped for doesn't materialize; and you still don't give a shit.

M_Six · 05-24-2021, 02:02 PM

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I've decided I'm older mentally than in years.....I've also decided that I'm just over people's shit.....therefore, I am old.

When recognizing that having a conversation with someone isn't going to yield positive results, so you just withhold information to avoid the whole damn thing and hope the best....yet the best that you hoped for doesn't materialize; and you still don't give a shit.

In those instances I try to decide if the whole thing will still bother me in a week or so. If not, I just brush it off. Not worth the raised BP.

hdahman · 05-24-2021, 02:21 PM

I know I am old, every time I remember how excited I was when going to blockbuster to rent VHS and/or DVDs. good old days

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