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

[Buster O'Keefe]

Complaining about how small the print on ingredient labels is when trying to read them in the supermarket. Reading ingredient labels in supermarkets.

 

[augment]

I still don't exactly know what it means when people say someone "is based".

 

[Pissmaster]

I was one of those annoying early adopters to that craze. I had a Japanese import SONY (before Sony Erricson) phone and it could record audio clips for the ringtone, and had a 20 second clip of the Rage Against The Machine Bulls On Parade riff as my ringtone... In 1999!!! I used to think I was so cool.

Now my phone has been on silent constantly since about 2005. Don't even know what the ringtone is.

Were musical ringtones just a fad? Seems like everyone just uses the default ones these days.

Come to think of it, I can't remember what my ringtone is right now. All I know is that I set it to whatever was simple and slightly obnoxious.

 

[Stormy Daniel's Lawyer]

The radio in my wood shop is tuned into a classic rock station, and the music is from when I was a teenager, not my dad...

 

[Tootsie Bear]

My aunt lets my 8 year old cousin watch friends with her 11 yr old twin sisters. I question this sometimes.

Man, I can remember disliking the majority of live action sitcoms with the exception of Malcolm in the Middle in the 90's and early 2000's. Which reminds me how different it was back then for most television series undersold when they were released on DVD for their season box sets. To this day I'm still sour because there hasn't been a release of the whole series as a box set or released in their original quality for digital download.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

The realisation that, if they made Back to the Future today, they would travel back to 1990.

 

[Niggernerd]

I talk about weather and watch news all day. I always speak about old vidya because i could give less of a shit about what kids these days play and i don't like these portable controllers.

 

[AssRock]

The Xbox 360 still feels cool and modern to me, despite it coming out in my late teens.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I feel old knowing that there's some kid graduating college soon that only knows my evil scandinavian black metal as that thing his/her dad listens to. It's lame dad rock now.

Quoting myself to post this:

 

[Guts Gets Some]

I want to yell at my neighbors, who are barely 10 years younger than me, to turn down their damn music.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Some years ago I dated a woman who was a good half a decade older than me. Realizing that I'm now older than she was back then is concerning.

Edit: What's autistic?

 

[Cyclonus]

This one goes out to all my fellow irishers out there:

Most kids today (and even teenagers) have no idea who Dustin the turkey is.

 

[Niggernerd]

I reminisce more than i should and complain about my neighbors being 1 decibel too loud.

 

[drfuzzyballs]

Those stickers on the gas station counters that say you cant buy tobacco if you were born after such and such date

Also reading an article about Greta chan saying she was born in 2003, I can remember a time before her birth and that never stops being weird

 

[Niggernerd]

Those stickers on the gas station counters that say you cant buy tobacco if you were born after such and such date

Also reading an article about Greta chan saying she was born in 2003, I can remember a time before her birth and that never stops being weird

So the good ol days before the fetal alcohol uprising?

 

[drfuzzyballs]

So the good ol days before the fetal alcohol uprising?

>tfw no spergy environmentalist daughter

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Where to begin? I'm 37 and it feels like the world changed over night. I could really start feeling it around 2012. It doesn't feel like I'm living in modern America anymore. Pop culture isn't fun anymore. Yes, I thought pop culture, warts and all, was a lot more fun in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. Now? Now everything is controversial or offensive everywhere you turn. There's too much outrage. Also, some things just feel bland and homogenized. "No Fun Allowed" seems like the rule of thumb these days.

I like to think that I know how older people feel now. I feel like Abe Simpson. "It" is weird and scary to me. Some of it is. A lot of what zoomers and younger millennials like either pisses me off or makes me roll my eyes. Stuff I loved and appreciated is either gone or changed in ways I don't like. The message from the current year liberal-left seems to be that change for its own sake is good. Even if the said changes are either pointless, bad, or stupid. I hate that.

One last bit of sperging: I'm cool with technological change, but sometimes digital-only feels cold and distant. Also, I HATE SOCIAL MEDIA! I'll take my austistic ratings for refusing to use any type of social media. E-mail is enough.

That's my 2 cents.

 

[W00K #17]

That my car, which would be considered an old piece of shit by any standards, didn't exist yet when I first started driving.

 

[#zzz]

Seeing some of the fashion girls wear today and realizing they aren't cosplaying.

yeah probably every third girl i see over 18 with these tattoos. Aren't we unique.

 

[The 3rd Hooligan]

Everything hurts