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

[Orange Rhymer]

That feel when you have clothing older than your manager...

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Relativity is a bitch. Three months of summer vacation were grand adventures when we were kids, now three months is nothing.

I experienced something similar. It seemed time moved very slowly up to the age of 12 with days and weeks dragging on and summer vacations being an awesome period of extended downtime and fun adventures.

For me, two months can pass in what seems to be the blink of an eye. While it means the busy periods go by quickly, it also means the fun times go by just as quickly with less ability to enjoy those moments before they're gone again.

when I thrift, 13 years later, it's all like "I'd like to have a good office chair, maybe get another coffee maker or something". I'm getting more anxious about what appliance or furniture I'm wanting to get than indulging on any interests I have remaining. And granted even back then when I saw a piece of furniture I thought I could use or something, yeah I'm pouncing on it, but it wasn't a primary goal as it is now.

Wants and needs change over time. I used to enjoy doing certain things or looking for different stuff on and offline. Over time, interests change, there's less free time, etc. and it tends to make a personal more practical.

Thread tax: I feel old when it seems like I can't turn my neck as much when backing out the car and having the fear I'm going to hit something I didn't or couldn't see - even if the backup camera helps in that respect.

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

Witnessing stuff I like being quietly retired and shut down. It really makes the passage of time feel tangible.

 

[Travis Touchdown (REAL)]

>No More Heroes is now older than I was when I first played it

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The PS4 and XBox One were released almost 12 years ago.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

I'm past halfway in my working life. I'm not dumb enough to say what industries but I've had to change over the years and know I will again to migrate. I know I still have languages and skills to learn.
It's all so tiring but there is a half way point so to speak where you think "oh, I guess I will live to retire" and you change, that's when the diet and exercise values change to what can my body and joints carry for another 40 years instead of pushing to be as good as you can in any particular category.

I guess my horizon now is to wake up one day in my mid 70s, feed the goats and chickens, wander to the village, have a nice lunch and a chat in the native language at a cafe overlooking a lake, go home and die in my sleep. Far far away from this festering leech of the remains of a country we called Britain.

That's how I know I'm getting old and I look forwards to it.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

>No More Heroes is now older than I was when I first played it

>TFW you older then Travis.

He used to be my Idol of what "cool weebs" looked like.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Remember when the minimum wages in the USA were somewhere around $5 an hour? Now those days were at least a quarter of a century ago.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

Remember when the minimum wages in the USA were somewhere around $5 an hour? Now those days were at least a quarter of a century ago.

I remember when I first got my license I paid 79¢ a gallon for gas. And I learned to drive on a manual transmission, something that you never see in the US anymore.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I remember when I first got my license I paid 79¢ a gallon for gas.

Even in the late '90s it could still be around $1 a gallon (or about $2 a gallon now).

manual transmission

I sometimes see some old cars which likely have manual, but newer cars do not have it.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's already the mid-2020s.

 

[Dick The Birthday Boy]

If you wanted anything anime related you had to go into a tiny rack sized corner of FYE in the mall. It was also one of the only places you could get pocky.
When the original Kingdom Hearts came out, I wasn't even a teen yet and had to beg my mom if I could go look on ebay for merch and fingers crossed, you wouldn't get scammed. Now that shit is everywhere and there truly is no escape.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Remember when the minimum wages in the USA were somewhere around $5 an hour? Now those days were at least a quarter of a century ago.

I remember it being $3.25 an hour in the mid-80s. One day at my job (a local Mart-type store) we got overtime and made five dollars an hour and thought we were rich.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Now that shit is everywhere and there truly is no escape.

I do not mind anime being more popular. But I miss anime as it was -- and how anime fans were seen -- before Current Year Clown World.

we got overtime and made five dollars an hour and thought we were rich.

Sucks how a dollar keeps getting worth less and less.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'm old enough to remember when the Simpsons was GREAT.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I'm old enough to remember when the Simpsons was GREAT.

If you view the point where that show started sucking to be around the year 2000, then the show has sucked longer than it's been good.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

As of March 31, StarCraft was released 27 years ago.

And first StarCraft 2? Released almost 15 years ago.

 

[Foltest]

I had to write down the cheatcodes for GTA SA in a notebook.

 

[Pork Wellington]

Seeing the mullet hairstyle come back in to fashion. I never would have imagined it coming back.
It shows everything is cyclical if you live long enough.

 

[pyrinyx]

Windows 11 is already 4 years old.

The Playstation 5 is already 5 years old.

My memory is starting to have its lapses and I'm only in my mid-30s. I really forgot the name of a chinese restaurant I used to regularly go to while being able to remember two of the other ones I don't frequent anymore.

I just found out a couple days ago one of my better exes died...3 years ago.