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

[Leonard Helplessness]

Not long ago, before the boomer holocaust that scared all the boomers (and everyone else) into the shadows, I donated blood. The blood drive had set up at a local nonprofit community center and was staying after hours, to allow visits from anybody who was just on the way home from work and wanted to be stabbed and bled out. Donating blood is a popular boomer pastime, and as such, the community center was full of boomers. I think I was the youngest person there other than the Red Cross hemophages.

The donation queue was long and the community center staff had all left for the day, so the boomers wanted to text and surf to pass the time. However, the cellular signal in the building was shit, so they sought to get on the wi-fi. Soon, the boomers were asking each other for the community center's wi-fi password, only to discover that nobody had the password at all.

A hero emerged: One particularly insightful boomer went rifling through the papers on the reception desk, trying various scribbled notes-to-self on her phone's wi-fi password screen until one of them worked. It did, and she proceeded to share the password with everybody.

And goddamnit boomer, that's our hard-earned hacking skillz you're appropriating.

I don't know about "old," but the other week my sibling pointed out that the PlayStation 2 turned 20. I'm only a few years older than the PS2 so I wouldn't say it made me feel old per se, but it was really odd to think that the video game console I grew up on is now considered old if that makes sense.

Remember what they say: Once you hit 30, warranty's up.

 

[Spooky Bones]

It consistently pleases me how many non-younglings are on kf. Originally I attributed this to Chris getting on in age but it can't be it because plenty of you ok-Xers don't follow him. I guess we cater to a more mature audience than one might guess

 

[Ex Cummunicated Sasser HD]

Do you remember when we had the 12 certificate for a bit and then it went away.

The first ever 12 film (well it was technically 12a) was Batman 1989, remember it well, one because I own it and 2, it was a massive thing at the time. They couldn't get a PG, but WB put so much pressure on the BBFC that they made a new certification just for that film, so that it wasn't just 15+ at the cinema because they would have lost a load of money, as 12a meant you had to be accompanied but could be younger if you were with an adult, same as PG.

Old man yelling at clouds but I can remember old Viz comics having ads for OAVs and they being like 80-100$ for dubbed or subbed. Also now feeling old for remembering how the only translated manga was from Eclipse and Viz and even then it wasn't something g you found at your garden variety comic shop.

Viz always used to have shite like that. So pissed off, I only have the annuals now, because although the fake ads are still in them, all the really weird shit you could only get from those sort of mags is dust in the wind... Mail off a postal order to blah blah blah for £1 and we will send you our lists!!!

 

[Lost send help]

The first ever 12 film (well it was technically 12a) was Batman 1989, remember it well, one because I own it and 2, it was a massive thing at the time. They couldn't get a PG, but WB put so much pressure on the BBFC that they made a new certification just for that film, so that it wasn't just 15+ at the cinema because they would have lost a load of money, as 12a meant you had to be accompanied but could be younger if you were with an adult, same as PG.

Wish I could remember why they got rid of it, it was probably during the whole video nasties panic I suspect. Hey it was always fun begging my dad to at least buy the tickets for me to see it even if he just walked out and went down the pub whilst I watched the film.

 

[Mimic]

Wanting to browse through a Montgomery Ward store only to remember they all went out of business nearly 20 years ago.

And after that remembering when your family finally got one of those magic color printers.

 

[Spooky Bones]

When you don't remember it's daylight savings time and you didn't miss anything important because your phone takes care of that for you and this amazes you

 

[Dom Cruise]

I'll tell ya what really made me feel old.

A few months ago a younger cousin of mine visited that I hadn't seen in around a decade, it seemed like just yesterday he was an 11 year old kid and now he's a 21 year old man.

That just totally blew my mind, now he's a really cool guy and it made me proud, so it wasn't necessarily a negative thing to see him all grown up, but it still made me realize just how much time has passed since the late 2000s like I never really realized before.

I made sure though to give him some advice though that I wish someone had given me at his age and that's that your 20s are going to go by a lot quicker than you're expecting.

 

[saisegeha]

I had a kid ask me what it was like when Chester Bennington was alive because he recently got into Linkin Park (he's 11 and son of a coworker)

I have no idea why that made me feel so old. Chester's been dead for about 3 years I guess, but I wonder if this is how it felt for the people who had to deal with the constant "what was Kurt Cobain like" questions. Just so weird.

 

[Slappy McGherkin]

How do I know I'm fucking old?

Phewwww. Too many ways to even list here. I'll just leave it at I get Medicare this year. Not touching Social Security until I hit 70.

65 is the new 40 anyway. Except all those years in between. Where da phuck did they go so fast?

S'ohkay, kids. Be young, do stupid shit, have fun. Cause before ya know it, you're me.

 

[Pond Scum]

I'm not even old but the fact that everybody seems to be using D&D 5e makes me feel like a relic. Won't be able to cope when I'm actually old I guess.

 

[Chad Nasty]

I remember my father got me Bob Seger cassette tapes for my new cassette walk man.

 

[Pissmaster]

Seeing people online talking about newer Nickelodeon shows like Drake & Josh and iCarly, and figuring out that they're not stunted manchildren but actually grew up watching those was a memento mori for me.

And by the same vein, about half of the YouTubers I watch are younger than I am. I even got sort of annoyed when I found out how one deep-voice burly guy I watch is actually younger than I am.

 

[Marco Fucko]

• We're closer to 2040 than 1990.
• All the "hip" or "rebellious" subcultures I observed back in the day are old and lame now.
• My first (ex) gf is probably almost done with medical school, assuming she did the standard Bachelor's -> Med -> Residency path.
• Nick Rekieta who seems to be in his mid to late 30s has fond memories of listening to the same music my older siblings listened to in their teen years.
• There's probably political shitposters out there that don't even know who Ron Paul or Vermin Supreme are.
• The older Millenials are old enough to be getting gray and even have grandkids if they and their children were teen parents.

 

[ditto]

That the brand-new Windows 7 is now so old it's out of support.

 

[F. Murray Abraham]

Music from the 90's for teenagers now is how I used to feel about music from the 60's when I was a teenager in the 90's.
I have a low-key hatred and disdain for coomers, doomers and zoomers in general.
I don't feel old but the mirror is a daily betrayal.

Live without regrets, kids. You get one shot and tomorrow isn't promised.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

When there's a movie or game or album that comes out and people are like "wow that's so old" and like wtf it just came out

Starcraft 2 and Super Mario Galaxy 2 still seem like recent releases to me...

 

[Radgy Chadobah]

I can't get up from a chair nor off the floor without enjoying a new-jazz percussion improv solo performed by my various joints. It also baffles me that as I age, I periodically manage to injure myself sleeping. It' s not just "sleeping wrong" on a part, it's waking up to a separated shoulder or a sprained neck or something that requires medical attention.

 

[JULAY]

I'm old enough to see one of these things before the end of their run. And hearing the dial-up, treating the internet like a portal to a new world rather than a utility like now.

My ring tone is a dial-up modem. Once, I had an older colleague ask me, "Do you have a fax machine in your pocket?" The next day, I had a younger colleague ask me, "Jesus, what the fuck is your ring tone? That's an awful sound."

 

[Slap47]

For freshman in college, 9/11 was just a historical event.

Schools seem to follow the 20 year rule so we're one year off.

 

[Farmer Dave]

2 years ago.