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

[TismFarmer]

Remember when peanut butter jars were made of glass than plastic?

Remember when milk came in glass bottles delivered to your door?
And remember when dollar stores were actually called five and dime?

 

[AnOminous]

Remember when peanut butter jars were made of glass than plastic?

Peanut butter in glass jars is one of those things I can live without, because the mess those left behind if you dropped them was ridiculous. Sticky peanut butter with glass shards in it. Real fun to clean up.

Another thing: remember when toothpaste came in those shitty aluminum tubes, and a retard could squeeze them in the middle and make them break open and leak, so you had to roll them a bit at a time? I hated when people did that.

Now, you'd have to be really old to remember when they made those tubes out of tin and lead, like they did before WW II.

And remember when dollar stores were actually called five and dime?

Remember Woolworth's lunch counters?

 

[Freya]

I don't even think it should be legal to have what amounts to a giant Android cell phone in the middle of the dashboard, especially considering it's illegal to use a normal cell phone. It's distracting, requires you to look away from the road to do so much as change the radio station, and if driving while talking on a cell phone is as dangerous as DWI, why the fuck are they allowed to install them right in the car itself?

Heres the interior of the 2021 Ford Explorer. Its so ugly too. how is this legal? the NHTSA regulates everything but this?

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Heres the interior of the 2021 Ford Explorer. Its so ugly too. how is this legal? the NHTSA regulates everything but this?
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Mr. Cheese had to rig up a cover for the front of his car stereo, even at full dim, it's too bright and distracting when we're driving at night.

 

[Derrick]

Heres the interior of the 2021 Ford Explorer. Its so ugly too. how is this legal? the NHTSA regulates everything but this?
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getting inside a car built after 2016
"why does it need a huge screen?"

I hate all these new gadgets they're putting into cars these big screens with all the bells and whistles, rear assisting, auto piloting, self parking nonsense. I'm not a fucking astronaut, I'm not taking this car into space. Just give me an airbag, seat belt, and steering wheel please.

 

[Freya]

Mr. Cheese had to rig up a cover for the front of his car stereo, even at full dim, it's too bright and distracting when we're driving at night.

horrifying!

What really lets me relax is going on a nice drive in the countryside at night. No screens, no distractions. Just being in the moment. Cant do that anymore. Everything is tracking you. Even fridges have fucking screens on them now. its disturbing, like the entirety of human existence is just data points to sync to google.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

It's probably been said before but....
GamerGate was almost 10 years ago. Things have been retarded ever since.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'm not taking this car into space. Just give me an airbag, seat belt, and steering wheel please.

What, no A/C, no radio, no electronic windows?

Speaking of which, remember those cassette player attachments you'd buy from Radio Shack to hook up your phone to the car stereo?



These things.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

I miss the days when the worst ethnic groups you'd encounter were micks, dagos, and polacks.

 

[NyQuilninja]

What, no A/C, no radio, no electronic windows?

Speaking of which, remember those cassette player attachments you'd buy from Radio Shack to hook up your phone to the car stereo?

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These things.

Phone? You meant portable CD Walkman right?

 

[Lady Bizness]

I was chatting with office staff and one of the gals got my 90's teen reference. I mean, I knew she's my age but she just seems so much more mature than I and I kind of look up to her...

I should probably grow the fuck up too.

 

[ATI Escapee]

Seeing grey hairs in the mirror tends to remind me. I'm in my mid 20's....

Ive been going gray since my early 20s. Was only one or 2 hairs, then in the last year or two they seemed to explode. I love my grays though. Cant wait to have wizard hair. Ive got that almost white silver, but unfortunately they dont curl the same as the rest of my hair so sometimes they stick out like I got electrocuted. Im 30 now.

I feel old because I slightly pulled a muscle in my back yesterday while stretching in the floor. It is fine today, but I had to sleep with pillows under my knees to take the pressure off.

 

[AnOminous]

Speaking of which, remember those cassette player attachments you'd buy from Radio Shack to hook up your phone to the car stereo?

I used one of these with a portable CD player.

Ive been going gray since my early 20s. Was only one or 2 hairs, then in the last year or two they seemed to explode. I love my grays though. Cant wait to have wizard hair. Ive got that almost white silver, but unfortunately they dont curl the same as the rest of my hair so sometimes they stick out like I got electrocuted. Im 30 now.

I know a couple people who literally started going gray in their teens. They rolled with it though and just drank in bars without having to show ID, because they were also pretty burly and looked like adults even without gray hair.

 

[glass_houses]

I know a couple people who literally started going gray in their teens. They rolled with it though and just drank in bars without having to show ID, because they were also pretty burly and looked like adults even without gray hair.

One of my in laws started going grey in high school, or so I've been told, but she hates her grey and dyes it religiously. On the other hand, her husband is in his mid forties, no grey at all, and our family is pretty renowned for not starting to grey until the mid fifties mark, even though we're Caucasian. It's going to be interesting to see how it goes with their kids, given that their genetics are from two extremes.

Earlier this year, however, I found a stark white hair in my eyebrow, which was alarming because I'm in my early forties. At some point I'm going to cave to pressure and get my hair cut (hate hate hate hair cuts and I put them off for years at a time) and I'll ask the hair dresser if there's any grey on my scalp. If there is, there's not a great deal that I'll be able to do about it. My hair refuses to take a box dye, and even if I could afford it, there's no way in hell that I'm going to a hair dresser every six weeks.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

I hate all these new gadgets they're putting into cars these big screens with all the bells and whistles, rear assisting, auto piloting, self parking nonsense. I'm not a fucking astronaut, I'm not taking this car into space. Just give me an airbag, seat belt, and steering wheel please.

I travel - rent cars daily.
I literally have to spend 10 minutes trying to figure out wtf is going on with the car I just got.
Ford wants you to log in to your Ford Rewards account.
The Yuro cars are the worst. They smelled American Tech money, and came running.
Volvo has made a deal with Satan himself. Turn on the car, log into your Google account. Not a joke.

All of them fight you when you properly leading a fast turn.
All of them are underpowered (if they have a hybrid system).
All of them give you a stroke if you get brake-checked.

They also have shit radios. Sirius has stopped giving new cars a free trial window, due to Pandora stealing their supper.
So I drive in silence.

 

[Derrick]

Volvo has made a deal with Satan himself. Turn on the car, log into your Google account. Not a joke.

Semi related but I refuse to drive a car that isn't starting by putting a key in the ignition. None of this new aged using a fob or even God Forbid starting the car with an app on your smartphone, the only apps on my phone are the ones that came with it (minus all the spywear, I mean social media, already preloaded that I had to uninstall).

They also have shit radios. Sirius has stopped giving new cars a free trial window, due to Pandora stealing their supper.

I am a complete boomer when it comes to the car Radio, I only listen to my favorite local FM stations. Do not ask me to pass the Aux Cord, I do not have one. Do not ask me to put on a song on Bluetooth, I do not know how to connect it. We are listening to local FM Stations that I've been listening to regularly since I moved here. Call me old fashioned but I enjoy hearing the same sixty plus year old DJs in the morning when I'm heading into the office, giving me traffic reports and telling me about fun events in town I never bother to go to.

 

[glass_houses]

I am a complete boomer when it comes to the car Radio, I only listen to my favorite local FM stations. Do not ask me to pass the Aux Cord, I do not have one. Do not ask me to put on a song on Bluetooth, I do not know how to connect it. We are listening to local FM Stations that I've been listening to regularly since I moved here. Call me old fashioned but I enjoy hearing the same sixty plus year old DJs in the morning when I'm heading into the office, giving me traffic reports and telling me about fun events in town I never bother to go to.

I can't stand any radio, especially in the morning. There's always a ton of ads and some empty headed random jabbering on about completely irrelevant shit I have no interest in. I was delighted when I bought my last car (now ridiculously out dated) because it had a usb hub, and I wouldn't have to switch CDs out when I was driving. It also has a bluetooth connection, but fuck that thing.

I've never particularly liked radio, except for a couple of stations that did regular "no ads" programs at different times of the day. Which sounds weird because I was born in the 80s. I'm one of those wasteful spendthrift consoomers that has a YouTube premium account, so I won't have to deal with fucking ads. Even if I did like radio, I wouldn't listen to it anymore. I had a traumatic experience with an ex housemate who had untreated schizophrenia. When he told me, in complete seriousness, that he always listened to a particular presenter because they were giving him secret messages, that was the end of what little interest I had left in radio.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

One of my in laws started going grey in high school, or so I've been told, but she hates her grey and dyes it religiously.

iirc wrassle promoter Eric Bischoff was grey as a mule by 20, which is why he always had that slick black dye

 

[AnOminous]

One of my in laws started going grey in high school, or so I've been told, but she hates her grey and dyes it religiously.

A woman would tend to be more concerned, because while it's good for a man to look older (although they might wonder why he is going to high school), it's almost uniformly not considered an attractive trait in women (unless you are @The Last Stand). This is hardly universal. Someone like Dame Helen Mirren looks positively regal in her 70s.

 

[The Last Stand]

A woman would tend to be more concerned, because while it's good for a man to look older (although they might wonder why he is going to high school), it's almost uniformly not considered an attractive trait in women (unless you are @The Last Stand). This is hardly universal. Someone like Dame Helen Mirren looks positively regal in her 70s.

I feel it comes down to fashion, personality and talent as well. The sum of its parts with defining age with women.

I'm old enough to complain, but too young to deal with others complaining.