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

AnneRipper1010 said:
Kids these days don't watch SpongeBob anymore. All my references don't make sense to the under 20 year olds
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Jesus I was in high school when that show started airing. Way after my time as a boy. Little me still would have hated it though, that show is nothing but screaming. Can't stand it.
 
A local grocery store does "digital coupons" with a "smartphone" "app", and I'm still used to the kind one cuts from junk mail or newspaper (still don't use coupons though).

I also still recall physical phonebooks* like the Yellow Pages.

* (that real printed kinds and not the new way to say "doxing")
 
All the people now have their tickets on their smartphones, even the simple ones that only get you a couple of stations. When people get checked, I'm almost always the only one still having a paper ticket.

I start to enjoy taking sunday walks.
 
I hate digital odometers. It was fun watching the virgin turn of the wheel say 999 to 1000 or 9999 to 10000 on analog odometers, at least to my somewhat autistic eye. Yesterday our new car turned 1000 miles and I didn't even fight with my husband to be the one driving. If someone made a digital simulation of analog odometers for us old fags I would probably buy it (as long as it wasn't a goddamn subscription).

And don't even get me started on watching for special numbers, palindromic or series. Not to say that buying a new car for the first time in 12 years was a big thrill. It wasn't.
 
Can you imagine being born so ridiculously late that the release of the PS1 or N64 was before your time? And Independence Day and Men in Black came out before you were born?

:thinking:
 
Realizing that most of my life has already been lived. I've always believed in doing things in the here and now and I am embracing that belief even tighter these days. Carpe Diem and all that.
 
I’m the youngest in my team at work and one of the youngest in my office. However, I do have stuff in common at work with people of all ages and can definitely relate to “millennials” who are significantly older than me as I was raised by boomers with a lot of older millenial kids in the family so I resonate a lot with the pop culture even if some of it is older than me. I’ve also been a weird internet goblin since I was ridiculously too young which again lets me in on more millenial internet lore but also I got to grow up with all the zoomers shit too. However, there’s a team at work that’s mostly zoomers aged between 18-21 and I feel so different to them in every single way.

There was office discussion one day about going to the “video shop” or Blockbuster. Someone teased that I would be too young to participate and I explained that no, I grew up with both VHS and DVDs in the 00s and loved renting films. The younger zoomers all either didn’t do that or only remember doing it a few times but they all acted like it sounded awful. Everyone was trying to explain that yeah, steaming is a lot more convenient but that it was an exciting event to go pick out a film (especially a new one) and get yourself a fun snack. It was something to look forward to. I felt like such a boomer agreeing with my older colleagues about it.

I was stuck in a team building thing with some of them at one point when working remotely. We got put in a breakout room to discuss a dumb task that we finished pretty fast and They all started reminiscing about what smartphone and iPad apps reminded them of their childhood. I could join in kinda but I then tried to steer it onto flash games and old YouTube and none of them knew what I was on about minus one girl who knew about The Impossible Quiz because she’s one of those girls obsessed with Dan and Phil and apparently they used to play it all the time.
 
Finding out yesterday that “unc” is now zoomerfag slang for old person and being genuinely confused why they don’t just call someone gramps or grandpa or something similar if they want to roast them for being old. How the fuck is unc or uncle synonymous with old fart?

Naturally I got called unc for questioning this.
 
Jason Wynn said:
Finding out yesterday that “unc” is now zoomerfag slang for old person and being genuinely confused why they don’t just call someone gramps or grandpa or something similar if they want to roast them for being old. How the fuck is unc or uncle synonymous with old fart?

Naturally I got called unc for questioning this.
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It's derived from ebonics/general brownoid culture where you call people older than you uncle/auntie even if they aren't related.
 
cybertoaster said:
That had already happened by the 90's, and by the early 00's with the shuttle fleet being retired it was definitely over.
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Tbh, as cool as the space shuttle looked and as much I enjoyed watching their missions as a kid, the program was objectively a pretty godawful failure.

The intent behind the space shuttle was good - to make space flight routine with a fully reusable launch vehicle, and to shove a huge middle finger in the face of the Soviets from Low Earth Orbit. The  reality, on the other hand, rapidly turned into a dick-sucking contest servicing aerospace contractors that resulted in over a dozen deaths. That's the majority of all spaceflight related deaths. Ever. Both American and Soviet, which is impressive given that the Soviets once sent a guy up in a ship held together by The Workers' 🌈, on a mission that he only agreed to fly so that his friend could go home and live a full life. Granted, that track record sounds slightly better if you consider that the shuttle carried seven people compared to 1-3 for Soviet spacecraft, but it sounds a hell of a lot worse if you consider that there were only ever four working shuttles. Two of them self-destructed spectacularly, like a med student who discovered pressed Adderall, dropped out, and decided to pursue a career performing as a naked cowboy at seedy gay bars in the Tenderloin. The others had their missions limited, and were grounded for extended periods to keep the frigid Florida winters and falling pieces of trash from killing even more people. A 50% fatal failure rate is...not great, to say the least.

Modern reusable spacecraft seem to be headed in the right direction, if you ignore Katy Perry acting like she saw the light of God with her own eyes and kissing the ground after a brief suborbital flight. That whole thing was cringe-inducing, but at least it wasn't as bad as turning on the news to watch a shuttle land in small, crispy chunks.
 
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Jason Wynn said:
Finding out yesterday that “unc” is now zoomerfag slang for old person and being genuinely confused why they don’t just call someone gramps or grandpa or something similar if they want to roast them for being old. How the fuck is unc or uncle synonymous with old fart?

Naturally I got called unc for questioning this.
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It’s been niggerslang for a while. The Wire was using it and that show is over 20 years old. I’d call that zoomerfag out for using slang that’s old enough to vote.
 
I got this last week from an older employee at a bar:
"Hello, young man!"

The absolute fuck. When did I hit this age?
 
Orange Rhymer said:
I got this last week from an older employee at a bar:
"Hello, young man!"

The absolute fuck. When did I hit this age?
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Try being called Ma'am. Last time I was called Miss was my mid-40s.
Doesn't help that I've let my hair go completely gray. Oh well.
 
Cheesegirl78 said:
Try being called Ma'am. Last time I was called Miss was my mid-40s.
Doesn't help that I've let my hair go completely gray. Oh well.
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I feel it. I’m getting called “sir” regularly now, with an occasional “mister” which is even worse. Wasn’t that long ago I was just “dude” or “bro” the grey showing up in my beard doesn’t help.

“Inside every old person is a young person asking ‘what happened?’” -Terry Pratchett
 
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