In Equal Rites, when confronted with a crystal ball, she mutters "Never could get the hang of this damn silicon stuff. Granny Weatherwax often does it when dealing with younger witches.As a contrast, there's also a forest of extremely long-lived pine trees with a particularly old one saying that they had proper glaciers back in the day.
We had a proper sun, right up in the sky, none of this red nonsense.
Then you had to run two miles to the river to bathe and draw enough water for all the horses to drink, run back with it, and get the axe to go out and chop firewood for the kitchen fires, before y-Įlminster: When I was your age, axes hadn't been invented yet. Storm: What sort of Knights and Harpers is Faerun breeding these days? Why, when I was your age. The twist? The old man is from our age (possibly The New '10s), and it is justified in that the world in the future is undergoing an agricultural apocalypse, and it has gotten so bad that the Moon Landings being faked is taught at schools to direct more people to working crops. Interstellar has an interesting variation where the main character's father-in-law talks about how, back in his day, inventions were being made every day and laments the sterility of the times he lives in and how his son-in-law was born in the wrong era.47-year-old Marty pulls this on his son in a deleted scene of Back to the Future Part II, saying that when he was his age, when he wanted to watch two shows at once, he had to put two televisions next to each other.In Back to the Future, Lorraine (Marty's mother) chastised Linda (Marty's sister) for thinking that it's okay for girls to call boys, saying "when I was your age I never chased a boy or called a boy or sat in a parked car with a boy." Then Marty goes back in time and discovers that this was a great big lie.