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

[Suomy Nona]

Hitler was a bad human being. Strictly as a politician, though, he was probably the greatest who ever lived.

He invented modern politics: make a permanent enemy which isn't tangible, push agenda in state-controlled nedia, glorify the military like some sort of Mycaenan Greek city-state. There's politicians today in most countries who use his ideas and are actually proud of it.

Now if you want a comically-bad military tactician, Adolf's your guy.

His love for his people is unmatched. Especially in todays world.
The USA and the UK allied with the USSR-Now feign shock that Communism has risen in the West.
Germany fought off the UK and the US to such a degree they needed a state that treated and viewed their own people as disposable. Take note that Russia had the highest count of causalities in WW2 (highest count of civilian and military deaths).
It is the 'hatred of ones own people' that "won" WW2 for the West. Are you enjoying your post-WW2 world? This 'great and grand victory' didn't even last 100 years.

 

[millennialcat96]

Balding.

 

[BlaireWhitesBottom]

I'm around 50 and the same way. Email and text messages give me proof of what someone said if I need it. It pisses me off when I am doing business with someone and I keep texting/emailing them but they respond by calling me on the phone.

Plus I have crap hearing and understanding people on the phone can be difficult.

invert this rule for selling and or buying drugs though

I started high-school just over twenty years ago.

Twenty fucking years.

in the can... not a peep

i wanted manigot, i ate grilled cheese off the radiator, i wanted to fuck a woman, i jacked off into a tissue

 

[AnOminous]

When someone gives you directions to some place involving turning left where the old whatever used to be, and that's been gone for over 20 years, but you remember it.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

My oldest nephew passed his drivers test the other day.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

When shows and movies you liked are well over 10 and 20 years old

 

[Dom Cruise]

One of the most surreal aspects of aging is young people changing while you start to more and more stay the same.

People who were born when I was in my late teens are now entering their teens, kids of cousins who I remember so well holding as babies are now getting old enough to have actual conversations with.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

I’m completely losing interest in films and tv shows of genres that I’d normally like.

New Pixar movie? Meh all the old crew are gone and they’re just a branch of Disney now.

New Marvel superhero film? Meh who cares after the Endgame arc and Iron Man’s death?

New sci-fi or fantasy series? Bah I already read the books ages ago.

At least my kids are enjoying themselves.

 

[spastic_bag]

Throwing my back out by tying my shoes wrong.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

I’m completely losing interest in films and tv shows of genres that I’d normally like.

Welcome to my world. It’s hard to get interested in new things too. Somewhere along the way I lost all my passion and joy. I think if you actually enjoy movies to the point of analyzing them it eventually ruins the whole experience for you, really that goes for everything in life.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

I think if you actually enjoy movies to the point of analyzing them it eventually ruins the whole experience for you, really that goes for everything in life.

Sort of. I actually really enjoy picking apart a movie while I watch it (when it's actually good). For example, while I'm super unimpressed an uninterested in anything Star Wars anymore, I thoroughly enjoyed the new Dune.

Shrug.

 

[Eric T Duckman]

When people go to recommend music and it is always a link to a video or streaming service.

Hell, on that note I've offered optical media to borrow (audio or video) and people tell me they don't have a way to play it.

 

[AnOminous]

Comparing current year computer shit to the earliest computers I used. Even just from my last main computer to my current, where just the video card has twice the memory as the previous whole computer, and some ridiculous multiple of its computing power, to the point it can mine Ethereum. Nothing major but enough it has paid for itself already.

And then I think of the TI-99/4A which was the first computer I touched (other than a Space Invaders console). 3 MHz CPU. 16K RAM. If you wanted to run programs on it, you either had to type them in manually from somewhere like a magazine, or load them on a standard cassette tape, which would flake out fairly often and you'd need to do it again. There was also a cartridge but I didn't have any of those.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Comparing current year computer shit to the earliest computers I used. Even just from my last main computer to my current, where just the video card has twice the memory as the previous whole computer, and some ridiculous multiple of its computing power, to the point it can mine Ethereum. Nothing major but enough it has paid for itself already.

And then I think of the TI-99/4A which was the first computer I touched (other than a Space Invaders console). 3 MHz CPU. 16K RAM. If you wanted to run programs on it, you either had to type them in manually from somewhere like a magazine, or load them on a standard cassette tape, which would flake out fairly often and you'd need to do it again. There was also a cartridge but I didn't have any of those.

With all the retro computing shit going on over the last few years the old specs don't feel that remarkable or out of place in time. A popular example would be C64/Amiga, in the late 90's that was old now it's retro or vintage. I'm currently trying to figure out a way to make having a bad shoulder a hipster vintage thing so I don't have to feel old.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

My toddler discovered some old VHS and was perplexed by them.

 

[Pissmaster]

My toddler discovered some old VHS and was perplexed by them.

I don't really blame him, I didn't even know how they worked until I watched a video on YouTube that showed how they pull the tape out and run it through a reader head.

 

[Joan Nyan]

I had never heard of any of the celebrities that got their own McDonald's meals before, besides BTS.

 

[Jeff_the_Thriller]

The most recent blow was playing Max Payne 1. In the graphic novel cut scenes there are shots of the NYC skyline. The World Trade Center is in it. Max Payne is over 20 years old.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

Idea of dating and marriage.

 

[ImagineTheSmell]

Paying over $200 for a 150gb hard drive and thinking I would never more space ever again.