Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

[Absolutego]

Any time that a current TV series ends. Last night was the series finale of Better Call Saul. It's not like it was on for decades like The Simpsons or anything, but it was something which I followed from day one since its beginning over 7 years ago. It makes me kind of sad not just because the show has ended its run, but I always get a bit sentimental. In the grand scheme of things 7 years isn't all that much, but a lot changes.

I'm a little allergic to even keeping up with Better Call Saul because it keeps reminding me just how fucking long ago Breaking Bad took place.
I keep seeing clips from that show featuring Bob Odenkirk or Giancarlo Esposito and I'm just thinking "holy shit Breaking Bad is more than 15 years ago now"

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

My shoulder stopped working for a month and my grade school buddy had to get spinal surgery. It's only going to get worse.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Since I don't keep up with Current Year America, a lot of Current Year American stuff is to me like it would be to an old person.

I could be like "Kardashians? Didn't they oppress the Bajorans?" or "what's Fortnite about?" - stuff like that.

7 years ago.

7 years ago in Current Year is much quicker to me than 7 years was before then.

 

[WonderWino]

Middle-aged Mutant Ninja Turtles

That moment you realize wacky packages had a point. The funny thing is its from 1991

 

[ZipDisk]

Another one where trying to help my mom made me feel old. I tried to turn her old samsung fascinate into just a media player because it's lighter than the iPod, and I actually watched google kill it.
All of the google processes suddenly started failing, and now it's stuck in a fucking bootloop.
Fuck you google.
(I'm aware the CDMA network is dead tech walking, but this was essentially being used like an ipod touch)

What made me even more stupid angry was that every time the google processes failed, it said "sorry". Google isn't sorry, they meant to do that shit.

Also my SNES died.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

I was thinking about this today.

We now live in the future that we used to dream of as kids. There are real hoverboards that can fly, it’s called Drone Surfing. Technically flying cars exist, they’re just not practical for market. New prosthetic technology has mage genuine cyborgs while robots become more and more human in both thinking and shape. We have tiny phones the size of my hand that can do what our old computers used to and way more. The only thing we don’t have is teleportation and immortality.

 

[glass_houses]

I was thinking about this today.

We now live in the future that we used to dream of as kids. There are real hoverboards that can fly, it’s called Drone Surfing. Technically flying cars exist, they’re just not practical for market. New prosthetic technology has mage genuine cyborgs while robots become more and more human in both thinking and shape. We have tiny phones the size of my hand that can do what our old computers used to and way more. The only thing we don’t have is teleportation and immortality.

When they crack immortality, it'll be exclusively reserved for the rich and elite. The rest of us will be living in the pod, eating bugs and owning nothing by then.

 

[toilet_rainbow]

Having to card people born in 2001 for alcohol always throws me off. No, no, don't remind me that 2001 was over 20 years ago. I remember feeling old when I was passing by a ten year anniversary memorial for 9/11 in 2011 as it is.

Also once heard a bagger talking about how he was three when Ghost Adventures first came out. In 2008. He had thought that it was "even older" and surprised that it was "that recent." Recent to you, maybe.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

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That moment you realize wacky packages had a point. The funny thing is its from 1991

Not having seen Wacky Packages since the 80s, your post has now made me feel old.

 

[girlblogging]

As a eastern European, there are adults who don't remember the Yugoslavian wars. There's a big generation gap there.

The media stuff is , most of the TV during my childhood was politics, definitely do not miss that.

Early internet was great tho, IRC chats, starting fights in MySpace BBS, flash games and animations (RIP).

 

[Sneeds]

I’m technically a (zoomer) but I felt old when tik tok got popular. I’ve been used to vine and instagram before tik tok came out.

Also I feel old whenever see my dad’s old car around town. (He had a navigator but sold it years ago to a local guy) It feels like yesterday when me and brother were in that car watching movies on the DVD player, while on Vacation

 

[Pargon]

I played right into the stereotype and bought the car of my dreams. I’m very late thirties, and realized on my way to work the other day:

“Yo you did like Number Two on the list of Things You Do During A Midlife Crisis”.

I’m not doing Number One, though. I’m too tired to fuck a golddigging blonde.

 

[A-Stump]

I have a nephew born when I was just entering high school who is now almost done with high school and yes I feel incredibly old

 

[Shmuel "Sam" Coinsniffer]

My little brother is becoming a father in a month. I vividly recall how we had to coax him on the first day of the first grade because he was so shy. What the absolute fuck. I have been a dad for a while but now I'll be an uncle...I feel like a decrepit mummy.

 

[glass_houses]

I have a nephew born when I was just entering high school who is now almost done with high school and yes I feel incredibly old

Dude, I had seven niblings before I was twelve. I think I've got something like five or six grandniblings by now. I'm not sure how many exactly. They're all rotten cunts, I don't keep in contact. Also my eldest nephew married a woman who already had something like five kids and he calls himself their father, so that fucks up the count significantly.

 

[Sergeant Major Buzzkill]

I realized how many times I yelled at those pesky kids to get off my lawn.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

"holy shit Breaking Bad is more than 15 years ago now"

rest easy old timer it only finished 10 years ago

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

My little brother is becoming a father in a month. I vividly recall how we had to coax him on the first day of the first grade because he was so shy. What the absolute fuck. I have been a dad for a while but now I'll be an uncle...I feel like a decrepit mummy.

I love being a uncle, I can spoil the little one rotten and then hand her back her folks with new toys and full of ice cream or cake and interesting new words she can't say in pre-school

 

[Slimy Time]

Watched the new Top Gun last week. Part of it shows scenes from the original film. Then you remember the original came out in the 80s.

 

[.iota.]

remembering the exhilaration that i felt as i watched reagan tell gorbachev to "tear down this wall" ... live.