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

[Bunny Tracks]

A kid came into my store today with his mom, and he was really upset because he was terrible at cursive, and his teacher told him he'd better get good at it because he would have to use it for everything for the rest of his life. I reassured him that my teacher told me the exact same thing over twenty years ago, and that it was not true, and that at most, he would just need to be able to write his name.

And then I realized that it really was over twenty years ago, and that hit me like a fucking freight train.

 

[Soso]

One long day tires me out, and I don't have the energy I had. I used to burst with energy

 

[skol]

My parents are doing renovation, there’s a group of contractors working there. Catching up with my father, he mentioned the work progress much quicker than expected, because the contractor’s chief hired more people. Then, the dialog went somehow that way:
“-and they also bring along their son, who is younger than you but seems to know a lot and helps with easier stuff.
-so, a teenager part time?
-no, he’s in late twenties.”
Somehow it gave me a brain lag to be reminded that people “younger than me” are still adults already

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Went to the state fair yesterday. You know those carnival games where you win a goldfish as a prize? Some little kid was swinging around a bag with a fish in it like a toy.
That being said......
Being a kid is getting excited to win a cute pet fish.
Growing up is feeling terribly sorry for the poor fish.

I'm impressed there are still places that give out goldfish as prizes! Very wholesome throwback - and I know I know 98% of those fish are destined for a quick death (or vertigo, for the one in your story) - but a plastic bag with a goldfish is SO much better than yet a other cheap gaudy "plushie"* stuffed animal made in China and stuffed mostly with chemicals.

* thread tax: We don't need this dumb, childish neologism, and I'm grossed out hearing supposedly normal people casually use it**. It's inextricably linked in my mind to people of the sort who are featured on this site. It sounds fetishistic and weird, like you're doing creepy things with it behind closed doors. Just fucking say stuffed animal!

**My own kids!!! ...And I can't even fuss about it because they already think it's weird I am so familiar with deranged people and dysfunctional subcultures in the internet.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Nobody does anything anymore. They just look at screens.
Also,
Bodycam videos are hilarious. When an officer makes an arrest on a woman (even if it's for a violent felony), the first thing that comes out of her mouth...
"don't yOU FUCKING TOUCH ME". Lady, you just ran over your boyfriend for 'cheating' (DMs with an assumed female).

I think it's all the SSRIs interacting with legal THC. It's making normies fucking unhinged.

 

[titan8332]

Nobody does anything anymore. They just look at screens.
Also,
Bodycam videos are hilarious. When an officer makes an arrest on a woman (even if it's for a violent felony), the first thing that comes out of her mouth...
"don't yOU FUCKING TOUCH ME". Lady, you just ran over your boyfriend for 'cheating' (DMs with an assumed female).

I think it's all the SSRIs interacting with legal THC. It's making normies fucking unhinged.

people stressed from a lot work of not getting paid a lot

 

[Pina Colada]

I was at a supermarket the other day, and the young checkout chick was wearing a necklace style that I used to wear back in the early 2000s, when I was her age. I told her that and she looked horrified. It reminded me of the "wide jeans legs are not the same as flares!" arguments I used to have with my parents back in the day, looking back now I understand why they thought it was hilarious.

Nice necklace, though. I liked that style, although I personally struggled to pull it off.

Did it look like this?

 

[barrow greeter]

I think it's all the SSRIs interacting with legal THC. It's making normies fucking unhinged.

My irritation of the legalization/normalization of weed out in public makes me feel old and out of touch, because the average younger normie these days either seems to not care about it at all or like it.

I had my own weed phase when I was younger, but that was back when it was illegal and you had to keep it on the down low, and the operative term is "phase", it seems more people than ever now just never grow out of it and live their entire adult lives stoned. I don't like the fact that is now considered normal.

I'd be interested to see how many more DUI traffic accidents are happening now in states that have fully decriminalized weed and THC products. There probably isn't accurate reporting on it because there is no system in place for that kind of reporting yet, and as far as I know no field sobriety test for it that can yield instant results like a breathalyzer for alcohol can.

This is a good excerpt that largely captures my current old fuddy-duddy sentiments on pot being everywhere now:

 

[cactus]

Did it look like this?
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I have a necklace like that! I loved the puka shell jewelry back then and I never got rid of them.

 

[AnOminous]

My irritation of the legalization/normalization of weed out in public makes me feel old and out of touch, because the average younger normie these days either seems to not care about it at all or like it.

I remain generally pro-legalization or at least decriminalization (for the worse stuff), but we need to have kept something like the open-container law combined with the general rules you don't just toke up within 10 feet of a door or something.

Maybe leave it alone in bars or a Phish concert or something, but you shouldn't be able to walk around blazing a joint in front of kids, acting like a disruptive idiot, reeking of weed, and exposing people to carcinogens.

 

[Cardinal Cardinal]

I watched a recent movie with Dakota Fanning (Vicious, it sucks don't watch it) and got confused for a bit. Last time I saw her was when she was a kid on DVD cases for "Eloise" and "Man on Fire" .

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The 2020s are already halfway done, and it's already a quarter of the way through the 21st century.

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

My irritation of the legalization/normalization of weed out in public makes me feel old and out of touch, because the average younger normie these days either seems to not care about it at all or like it.

Same. I hate the stuff. I swear weed permiates the air more than a typical ciggy. Every street i've been on always had that one pothead, and you knew when he was smoking becuase you could smell the stuff from a block away.

 

[Soso]

Nobody does anything anymore. They just look at screens.

It was an issue even before the pandemic lockdowns, but I feel that the lockdowns wiped out what little social skills some people had. It's tough to gain back social skills, or gain any if one never had any in the first place. It's pretty fucking grim how many go home, watch netflix all day, fuck around on their phone, go to work, repeat.

Thread tax: When antisocial behavior was discouraged instead of being encouraged and/or allowed to run wild.

 

[Captain Syrup]

When I was a kid, hearing the NPR theme in someone’s car automatically meant they were a latte-slurping, fanny pack liberal. Now it’s for midwits who are too dumb to use the web. I just rode home with a dude who looked like a caricature of a Muslim cabbie from Adult Swim and he’s got All Things Considered on.

Nothing against NPR, really, but the audience shifted, while the self-serious hosts stayed the same.

Number #2:

Someone else pointed out that horror fans are just like metalheads in the sense that they make it their whole identity. Back in the day, both had this dangerous energy like you might get stabbed at their venues. Now it’s just… dyed hair, goofy tattoos, and this constant stream of off-color jokes that aren’t funny but have to be said because that’s their personality now, they watched too many “killer Santa” movies, too many “evil clown” movies.

 

[strumpets exeunt]

My ten-year-old just referred to one of his classmates as a "they" and it made me so tired in my soul that I had to leave the room entirely, log onto the computer, and write this dumbshit post.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

deviantART is celeberating 25th anniversary

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

Sometimes I learn enough to make a zoomer to tell me to fuck off. That hatred fuels me for the rest of the day. Yeet.

It is a sign when you're at death's door when you can no longer learn enough to annoy the fuck out of the youngest generations.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I watched a recent movie with Dakota Fanning (Vicious, it sucks don't watch it) and got confused for a bit. Last time I saw her was when she was a kid on DVD cases for "Eloise" and "Man on Fire" .

I thought Dakota Fanning was gonna make it as an actress but she just kind of grew into… a person. Not ugly, not beautiful, just this totally neutral human that my brain refuses to log. I saw her in The Alienist, that was the title, right? That show where everyone looked like they hadn’t bathed. She was fine. And then it got canceled and I felt nothing.

 

[Megaton Punch]

Sometimes I learn enough to make a zoomer to tell me to fuck off. That hatred fuels me for the rest of the day. Yeet.

The easiest way to really piss off below average teenagers is to simply talk the way black people talked five years ago. Slang changes so rapidly that all it takes is a few years for something to go from ubiquitous to completely unacceptable, and it's mostly because of the concerted effort to shove everything any black person says into common vernacular. Smarter kids figure this out very quickly, but if someone is parroting social media ebonics after the age of maybe 14, they're clinically retarded and being reminded of this infuriates them to no end.

I think it's because the world hasn't really advanced in like 20 years. Everything that is now we already had back then, minus the normies on the Internet and their endlessly scrolling attention traps. Maybe the AI will change things or the robots who knows.

The most recent show to really shake things up was The Office with its mockumentary format, which itself wasn't exactly original but was arguably perfected there. That was 20 years ago. Since then, all TV has been largely identical. A fifth of a century of the exact same shit, over and over, without a drop of innovation.