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

[ChompChomp]

Every second day or so I get a call from my father complaining that his or my mother's phone isn't working, and I have to bite my tongue to stop from saying, "Are you sure about that? Because I can hear you perfectly."

To hus defense, my phone is a piece of shit that randomly drops calls (in 2025!) using regular and VoIP capabilities while in a Wi-Fi-equipped environment.

And, of course it works when he calls to complain about it because the Gods have a sense of humor.

It'll go back to not working once he hangs up and tries the other number again.

 

[pyrinyx]

Turning 30 soon and feeling like I should've died by now. Not literally, I don't need to be arrested by the crazy police, but man. I did NOT plan this far ahead.

Tack on 5 years for me and it is like, I don't know how I'm still making it at all. I just keep stumbling into living another day. Sure as shit won't know what to do for my 40s and not a clue for the next 5 years.

I'm not as old as you, so I remember when Hot Topic was the mall goth store.

Oldies stations seem to only play music from 20-40 years ago, in another 10 years, it'll probably be impossible to hear anything from the 70s and 80s on the radio, and the ones near me already barely play 70s music.

I seriously cannot wait for that day, it can't come any sooner. I usually have a soft spot for old stuff like old music, but there is such a thing as a burnout from that kind of material. Doubled if you work in retail where they refuse to let go even a little bit of something from the 70s and 80s.

 

[Chromeo]

Oldies stations seem to only play music from 20-40 years ago, in another 10 years, it'll probably be impossible to hear anything from the 70s and 80s on the radio, and the ones near me already barely play 70s music.

There's a station in my area that rebranded to play "the hits from the 80s, 90s, 2K, and today!" Even the classic rock station we normally listen to at our house started playing MCR and Weezer when their old program director retired. It's so weird. I like to think that with streaming and with the popularity of some songs, there will always be a place on radio/in people's ears for songs from the 70s and before, but it's strange watching the stations change. I wonder if our parents/grandparents saw similar changes in their lifetimes.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I usually have a soft spot for old stuff like old music, but there is such a thing as a burnout from that kind of material.

I’m beginning to understand why Gen X loathed Phil Collins, because that’s how I feel every time Billy Joel or Neil Diamond starts playing.

 

[Charlie Delicious]

At work me and my buddy were having a convo and somehow the phrase "first rule of fight club..." Came up. A younger coworker heard this and asked about it. We told her Fight Club is a great movie. "The same director as Seven!"

"Seven?!" She replies

I died inside

 

[Castoreum]

I am starting to perceive that I am 5 years younger than I actually am. I remember being a child and days lasting forever, then being a teen/young adult the days felt too long, then getting into real adulthood and finally hitting stride. But now my perception of time is all weird. Some hours drag on at a snails pace, but then 5 years have passed in the blink of an eye. I feel like an amnesiac vampire sometimes. I get a bit anxious about it.

 

[hog cranking frog]

The zoomers at my work today didnt know what the word pedantic means. These people make good wages and are college educated. Its making me feel old how angry this made me.

 

[AnOminous]

I’m beginning to understand why Gen X loathed Phil Collins, because that’s how I feel every time Billy Joel or Neil Diamond starts playing.

I've grown out of my reflexive loathing of Phil Collins (part of which was just rage at Peter Gabriel not getting his due respect). I didn't know that was a Gen X thing specifically.

 

[Commander Suzdal]

Shit that reminds me I'm getting old:

• Checking whether I get an AARP discount
• Friends who are younger than me dying of natural causes, and not saying "But he was so young" - more like "Yeah, I saw that coming". And that's "friends", plural
• Meeting adults born after 9/11

 

[AnOminous]

Listening to zoomers and millennials reeing about Trump even though they don't remember what it was like to have the dumbest President in history on 9/11 being led around by the nose by fucking neocons, the worst political plague America has ever experienced.

Trump is not as bad as Dubya.

As for 9/11 in general, it's sad there are adults who don't remember a time before it. It's not the event itself so much as the knock-off effects it triggered. America is a more dour and stupid nation than it was before. Osama got what he wanted. Dubya said they did it because they hated our freedom, then he destroyed our freedom. The SJW plague couldn't exist without the elimination of freedom preceding it.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Trump is not as bad as Dubya

Low bar to clear. W was the end of American growth. After him, every strip mall had at least one dead store. Sometimes three. We had Norway tier prosperity and came out of it with nothing

 

[Haloperidol]

Listening to zoomers and millennials reeing about Trump even though they don't remember what it was like to have the dumbest President in history on 9/11 being led around by the nose by fucking neocons, the worst political plague America has ever experienced.

Trump is not as bad as Dubya.

As for 9/11 in general, it's sad there are adults who don't remember a time before it. It's not the event itself so much as the knock-off effects it triggered. America is a more dour and stupid nation than it was before. Osama got what he wanted. Dubya said they did it because they hated our freedom, then he destroyed our freedom. The SJW plague couldn't exist without the elimination of freedom preceding it.

I don’t think it’s an uncommon sentiment that pre- and post-9/11 are two completely different worlds and I’m sorry for younger people who don’t even have a reference point for how much better things were, and could be.

 

[Glory To Arztotska]

Bloodborne came out 10 years ago. Good gravy.

 

[Meat Target]

Bloodborne came out 10 years ago. Good gravy.

My old dog passed away on Saturday and we had her for that long.

2015 was 4 presidents ago.

 

[AnOminous]

Being old is fucking gay.

 

[oldTireWater]

My peer group has enough experience, seniority, and authority that I'm reflexively intimidated around them . . . and I'm older than a lot of them.

I'm starting to view diminishing aquifers as not my problem anymore.

 

[grump]

I had a miniexistential crisis when I stumbled upon a conversation of people reminiscing about their grandparents playing MMORPGs.

 

[Um...]

Most of the bands I grew up listening to (like KISS, Bob Seger, Ozzy, Aerosmith, The Eagles, Ted Nugent) are on their farewell tours.

Or DEAD.

 

[AnOminous]

Or DEAD.

You don't need to rub it in, bitch!

 

[pyrinyx]

There's a station in my area that rebranded to play "the hits from the 80s, 90s, 2K, and today!" Even the classic rock station we normally listen to at our house started playing MCR and Weezer when their old program director retired. It's so weird. I like to think that with streaming and with the popularity of some songs, there will always be a place on radio/in people's ears for songs from the 70s and before, but it's strange watching the stations change. I wonder if our parents/grandparents saw similar changes in their lifetimes.

Highly doubt it. They wouldn't have known radio stations until sometime in the mid-70s. Because back in the 30s, 40s and 50s the AM frequency was dominant. FM Radio didn't start gaining traction until late 60s. So I would imagine that by the 80s, they would experience similar things but as to how far back they went, probably just a mixture of 70s and 80s stuff too.

The only transition periods they would've noticed is going from radio dramas to strictly music or news. Because that's all that they had to listen to back then, was news, radio dramas and a few music tracks here and there.