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

Jean ValJean said:
if I don’t get at least 7 hours of sleep I am worthless the next day.
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My dilemma is that 7 hours is my sweet spot for sleep. However, if I try to get 8 or more hours for whatever reason, I'll wake up at regular intervals with bizarre mini-dreams happening in between. Think of a dream starting off with a walk on the beach only to be immediately switched to being inside a runaway car about to hit a brick wall.

The Last Stand said:
I have actually been into music my grandparents listen to because of GTA: Vice City. Right now, I'm listening to Luther Vandross and Freddie Jackson.
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Last spring, I was at a ball game where one of the players used a 70's song as their walk-up music. When I got home, I learned the song had become popular again thanks to it being included in a recent hit movie.

Dogmeat General said:
Music has sucked since 2010 or so.
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For me, music started to suck in the early 2000s. I still remember listening the local radio station's top 40 every weekend back then only to nope out once the top songs were ones I never heard of and had the same cookie-cutter style and lyric structure as everything else being released.

Thread tax: Reading the celebrity birthday box in the newspaper and seeing how the ones most familiar to me are now in their 70s or 80s.
 
I’ve boomered on about this in the music section of the board but the music industry is fucking weird these days. On the radio they’ll just play the same 4-5 singers. But then I’ll read how Lil Yung Nigg went 8x platinum with his debut album during this time and has more Grammy nominations than the Beatles…and then two years later nobody ever hears from him again. Yet they’ll still play the same crapola from Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Dua Lipa.
 
arrivefriday said:
I'm only 28 but one thing I've thought about recently is how far technology has progressed since only 10 or so years ago. I used to be able to fix almost anything wrong with my PC, phone or whatever it may be, but recently I feel like a fucking dinosaur. I can't for the life of me understand new tech because it's all based on fucking AI or cloud services, whatever the fuck that is.
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I built my most recent PC but completely lost my shit at some point in the process. I figured out I had probably used a non-grounded screw or something, but I was pissed off enough I decided to quit messing with it and took it to an (actually honest) PC dude, saying I thought it was one of the screws and he only charged me $50 for an hour for figuring out which one and replacing it.

I learned, some time ago, that if I start getting pissed off and freaking out about some repair issue, it's time to lay it off and let someone else take care of it before I make it worse.
 
Hearing a list of celebrity birthdays on the radio last night definitely reminded me that I am getting old.

Diana Ross - 82
Keira Knightley - 41
Steven Tyler - 78
Martin Short - 76
Jennifer Grey - 66
Kenny Chesney - 58
Richard Dawkins - 85
 
teriyakiburns said:
Maybe he means a sitcom that's actually funny and not just another big bang theory-level slogfest?
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I never knew that my faux pas of using two synonyms together to describe something would spark another discussion.

sherwoods110 said:
Hearing a list of celebrity birthdays on the radio last night definitely reminded me that I am getting old.

Diana Ross - 82
Keira Knightley - 41
Steven Tyler - 78
Martin Short - 76
Jennifer Grey - 66
Kenny Chesney - 58
Richard Dawkins - 85
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Me when I recently read that my teenage rock star crush Brandon Boyd just turned 50. He was in his 20s when I was majorly into Incubus.
 
The Hardest R said:
I’ve boomered on about this in the music section of the board but the music industry is fucking weird these days. On the radio they’ll just play the same 4-5 singers. But then I’ll read how Lil Yung Nigg went 8x platinum with his debut album during this time and has more Grammy nominations than the Beatles…and then two years later nobody ever hears from him again. Yet they’ll still play the same crapola from Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Dua Lipa.
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When it comes to radio, most radio stations - even local ones-are owned by COMCAST or some other big corporation that buys licenses or packages of music so you only get the same songs over and over. Even Sirius XM radio is becoming like this. I had a station called Yacht Rock that played soft rock from the 70s and 80s and I got tired of listening to it because they literally only played 12 songs on loop.

As far as songs going platinum, I think that’s all about iTunes downloads and such.

Grammy Awards mean about as much as Oscars anymore.
 
I went to sit on a rolling stool at work yesterday and it rolled away from me, causing me to fall. I fell like two feet, didn't obviously injure anything and was able to pop right back up immediately. Completed the rest of the work day without issue.

Today my left knee is swollen like fuck, hurts quite a bit, and feels damn stiff. Getting old is some bullshit.
 
Jean ValJean said:
I had a station called Yacht Rock that played soft rock from the 70s and 80s and I got tired of listening to it because they literally only played 12 songs on loop.
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It’s a meme that people have taken seriously. That’s the gimmick: it’s soft rock from LA between 1975 and 1984. The channel has actually expanded the lineup a bit in the past couple years to include more songs, but some of them really don’t fit. It was never supposed to be a thing beyond the very first year, but here we are, ten years later and outside the traditional summer window, and it’s been on for a few weeks already.
 
You can be any age and end up with permanent pain that comes and goes. I injured both my knees as a teenager and it stayed with me.
 
Lian Xing said:
It’s a meme that people have taken seriously. That’s the gimmick: it’s soft rock from LA between 1975 and 1984. The channel has actually expanded the lineup a bit in the past couple years to include more songs, but some of them really don’t fit. It was never supposed to be a thing beyond the very first year, but here we are, ten years later and outside the traditional summer window, and it’s been on for a few weeks already.
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I think there was a thing a couple years back where they called Donald Fagen from Steely Dan and asked him about "yacht rock" and his response was basically go fuck yourself.
 
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Remember when that 9th planet was demoted to "dwarf planet"?

That was about 20 years ago now.​
 
I know that art and entertainment has been (self-)censored and overall fucked with for the sake of search engine optimization, algorithm-friendliness, and ToS compliance for a very, very long time, but it still hits me like grandma discovering for the first time that you can just lie on the Internet whenever it happens to a classic.

Context:
A theater is currently in the early stages of a production of Nikolai Erdman's 1928 absurd social satire simply titled Самоубийца ("[The] Suicide"). When the creatives behind this production got together for the very first time, literally the FIRST topic of discussion/"brainstorming" was how to change the play enough so that they could promote it online, including changing the title, without Google just throwing up a bunch of DON'T FUCKING KILL YOURSELF bullshit before anything else.

And for further context, the simplicity and provocative directness of the title is very much intentional and a perfect reflection of the kind of absurd, cynical, and over-the-top social satire of the play. The whole thing is about taking self-serving opportunism to a dark, yet comically absurd extreme by having a bunch of characters fight each other over the exclusive rights to the main character's suicide to promote their own agendas; a battle for ad space in someone's suicide note, if you will. Calling it something like "Unalive & Loving It" or "#Die4Me" just feels so fucking wrong, even more so when you consider the play's history (the writer never got to see it on stage because the Soviet regime banned it for lack of compliance with their "ToS").
 
Both the cars I bought as daily drivers have now become classics. The first one was less of a surprise as its a car that was never common here, but the second one I bought about 12 years ago and they used to be common, there is a club for them and its become a desirable car now, I am thinking of insuring it as a classic now as its cheaper to do it that way

Edit: also all the guys I had crushes on when I was young.... they done got old! How the fuck dat happened?
 
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General Patton said:
You can be any age and end up with permanent pain that comes and goes. I injured both my knees as a teenager and it stayed with me.
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Yes. I broke my collarbone when I was 10 years old and that thing old people used to say about being able to tell the weather by aches in your bones is true.
 
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