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They do have mufflers, why did you choose to live near an airport is the better question.


Reminds me of something. For anyone who wants some ragebait look up noise complaints for your local airports. There are people who file multiple complaints per day, they seriously have nothing better to do. Most of the airports in the country predate most the housing around them, so people choose to move near an airport, then file noise complaints incessantly. It's maddening. Fucking NIMBYs. If Cessna 185s weren't so expensive I'd buy one because in addition to being cool and a good airplane it's the loudest small airplane you can buy and you can really grind some boomer gears by playing with your constant speed prop.
Admittedly my house is newer than the airport. But in my defense the airport changed from a private small one to a training school about 10 years ago. So the same plane will circle overhead for 30-60 minutes, then the next plane takes off and does it.

And I promise you, these mother fuckers don't have mufflers.
 
I'll leave this here:

Bottle Rocket Fights
The most boss summer event a neighborhood could experience.
Yes, the potential for harm was great - that's why it was awesome.
Neighborhood wide activities are something that has been forgotten about. Back in my day when we were kids if you were a kid who lived in our subdivision anything your house had outside was basically communal, open to all the kids in the Neighborhood. If you had a basketball hoop, swimming pool, swing set, trampoline, or if your yard could be cut through to get to another part of the subdivision quicker you could expect random kids in the neighborhood to come up and start using it no questions asked. There were of course one of two exceptions, kid's who banned us from using their stuff, but for the most part this rule was universal. And it's honestly something I couldn't imagine happening today, most adults (myself included) would be far too afraid of lawsuit should one of them get hurt to allow random kids to just come onto their property and use their stuff, but I guess in the 90s we didn't care about that kind of stuff.
 
Double whammy frens. Me and my niece were watching a movie and my internet had a hiccup and went out for a few minutes. I told my niece I remember when I first got dial up internet if someone called my house jt would boot me from the internet. She asked what dial up was. I told her and showed her the dial up sound on youtube, she then said I was such a boomer.
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I member as a kid actually buying from my savings a Game And Watch Donkey Kong Multi Screen when they were totally new and nothing like it had existed before. Might even be the first four point controller.
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Loved it but I never became a gamer until Outrun Arcade came out, that sealed the deal.
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I member going to a friends who's dad had a pc for work at home (that was super rare) and he was showing off Testdrive 1 and I was hella impressed by intro graphics that were in reality super low rez. We had super low standards because that was the state of media early 80's, the reruns were 70's trash where everybody working was on drugs, it showed and digital work suites worth a damn were still to come.

Memory was very very expensive and so most shit just had little of it like low multiples of 1/1000 MB. You can't do much with that. Tell you what most shit was not even electric in any way.
I member no internet no computer no portable phone 2 tv channels no daytime tv payphones young like a couple of years old cars being rusted out and that being totally normal

It is not that you are being reminded of getting old things change you change it's like a push pull thing. It's that you know that what you knew is gone. It's that you see the devil is winning decisively and the kids are dumb and fucked. They can't help it yet they are not helping. So that probably means I'm fucked because I know my generation was tought by the best of the international bolsheviks (I was there) they are cheering just as loud as the youth. We might be largely in charge but we are not helping.

For obvious reasons I'm totally neglecting the Millenials inbetween X and Z. I just don't see it.
 
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Someone's probably said this before, but SnapChat.

I was a teenager when it first got popular. It was an app that you were supposed to send nudes with. Now there are people who SnapChat with their grandmothers. Whenever someone asks for my SC I get a little mad about it now, like, don't you know that's just for degeneracy???
 
Someone's probably said this before, but SnapChat.

I was a teenager when it first got popular. It was an app that you were supposed to send nudes with. Now there are people who SnapChat with their grandmothers. Whenever someone asks for my SC I get a little mad about it now, like, don't you know that's just for degeneracy???
I can go you one better.

I've never used Snapchat.

And no one has ever asked me if I do.
 
Yeah I think being annoyed is more of a realizing you've been screwed and have no control thing than a getting old thing. I'm annoyed too, but I know older people who are not like me at all.


They do have mufflers, why did you choose to live near an airport is the better question.


Reminds me of something. For anyone who wants some ragebait look up noise complaints for your local airports. There are people who file multiple complaints per day, they seriously have nothing better to do. Most of the airports in the country predate most the housing around them, so people choose to move near an airport, then file noise complaints incessantly. It's maddening. Fucking NIMBYs. If Cessna 185s weren't so expensive I'd buy one because in addition to being cool and a good airplane it's the loudest small airplane you can buy and you can really grind some boomer gears by playing with your constant speed prop.
Luke Airforce Base was built in the 40's when it was surrounded by nothing but desert. when the urban sprawl finally surrounded it in the 90's people started bitching. Folks would find a nice house for sale and view it while the base wasn't doing flight training or something and think "oh this isn't bad" then one day 8 F-35's do close flybys and your fucking windows are shaking, you can't even hear the other person on the phone. It's pretty hilarious. WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?
 
I still prefer making appointments over phone or in person, rather than "use the app" or online, especially since the older way can avoid issues an automated system can't.

I've never used Snapchat.
oh hey same over here 😎

When people refer to 9/11 as ancient history.
9/11 to now is like a happening in 1981 was to 2004.
 
When people refer to 9/11 as ancient history.
There are full grown adults, people in their twenties, who weren't even alive yet when 9/11 happened. Honestly every time I see someone put their date of birth past Jan 1, 2000 online, that makes me feel old. For example somebody said they were born in 2002 the other day and I was thinking to myself, "What is this teenager doing on," my mind immediately assuming they were like a middle schooler or something. I then stopped for a second to do the math in my head and realized that this was in fact a full grown adult in his 20s. 2000+ birthdays will always trip me up mentally.
 
There are full grown adults, people in their twenties, who weren't even alive yet when 9/11 happened. Honestly every time I see someone put their date of birth past Jan 1, 2000 online, that makes me feel old. For example somebody said they were born in 2002 the other day and I was thinking to myself, "What is this teenager doing on," my mind immediately assuming they were like a middle schooler or something. I then stopped for a second to do the math in my head and realized that this was in fact a full grown adult in his 20s. 2000+ birthdays will always trip me up mentally.
I went back to college and that's the majority of the students. It sucks.
 
Double whammy frens. Me and my niece were watching a movie and my internet had a hiccup and went out for a few minutes. I told my niece I remember when I first got dial up internet if someone called my house jt would boot me from tge internet. She asked what dial up was. I told her and showed her the dial up sound on youtube, she then said I was such a boomer.
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Do you remember when they used to give you those AOL trials at the mall? I may be misremembering because I can't find anything online about it but I have a clear memory of them handing them out for free when I was like 8-11 or something.

Also, another thing kids these days won't understand is home videos. Back in the day before you had cell phone cameras that were basically Hollywood Tier you would only have special occasions recorded when your old man pulled out his VHS Camcorder, it's not like today where kids have their entire lives documented and put on their parent's facebook pages. And honestly kids these days are missing out, sure we didn't have every nanosecond of our lives recorded but it made it special when you would go back and look at old home movies knowing how rare of an occurrence they were.
 
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The remainder of the Master of Puppets lineup is like 40 years overdue for getting Final Destination'd

I recently heard the old "It should have been Lars" joke. I still remember the Napster thing where he acted like a rich douchebag. Kids downloading songs was gonna happen no matter what. The record companies and stores were a big part of the problem. It took them years to get on the bandwagon. They refused to see the writing on the wall. Now record stores are few and far between and Spotify barely pays out. You'll see a big deal being made about how some band has a record coming out in five colors of vinyl. But that's for collectors. The average kid is not buying neon green paint splatter vinyl limited edition marketing ploys. They're listening to one or two songs off the album on Spotify or whatever and probably couldn't name half the discography of a band with two albums total off the top of their head.

I miss back when kids cared about having a collection of albums and everyone wanted a cool stereo to play them on.
 
Messing around with GTI Club in MAME.
The idea is that you race a bunch of retro Euro hot hatches (Austin Mini Cooper, VW Golf Mk. I etc.) around a town in the French Riviera. Anyway, it suddenly struck me that these cars from the 60s and 70s were roughly as old at the time as the game is now.
 
Luke Airforce Base was built in the 40's when it was surrounded by nothing but desert. when the urban sprawl finally surrounded it in the 90's people started bitching. Folks would find a nice house for sale and view it while the base wasn't doing flight training or something and think "oh this isn't bad" then one day 8 F-35's do close flybys and your fucking windows are shaking, you can't even hear the other person on the phone. It's pretty hilarious. WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?
For ten years my family lived in a tiny subdivision built next to a very busy Southern Pacific (now Union Pacific) rail line.

This first couple of nights, it sounded like the trains were coming down our hallway, but then we got used to them and tuned them out.

About fifteen years ago, that area started getting built up, and the first thing some of the new arrivals did was complain about the train horns and such.
I went out there a year or so back to see my old stomping grounds, and it's now a "quiet zone". No train horns allowed.
Some idiots have tried getting UP to move the damn rail line.

What did you idiots think, you knowingly bought a home next to an active rail line? They ran on marshmallows?
 
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