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

[Kermit Jizz]

A young kid called me Sir. Fuck.

 

[B2_Spirit]

When I do these shitty YouGov surveys for money and they give a bunch of "current celebrity" names of TV people, musicians and actors I've never heard of, and never want to hear of. That said, I haven't watched TV since 2009 and I never listen to the radio so of course I don't know anything.

 

[Dyn]

As a Certified (R) Old School Goth, I think it sort of happened without warning in the mid aughts. They stopped doing goth nights at clubs, because it was mostly olds like me and the younger crowd wasn't bothering. I asked some other people I knew from The Scene back then and they think it was because of shifting music taste.

I think they all switched to drum & bass within a few years of the buprenorphine program starting and I don't think it's a coincidence.

 

[AnOminous]

A young kid called me Sir. Fuck.

An asshole kid actually said "nice shave old man" to me in a grocery store. I hadn't shaved in a couple days.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

When all my peers at church have babies and toddlers.

Mind you, most of my peers at work don't have kids - nature of the career - but it's still concerning to see what the normal folk are up to.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Nah, I suspect that it's more because I'm not American. We only have red dot Indians on my continent. Still, I'm mildly surprised that it hasn't shown up in the colossal amounts of American media I've consumed over my lifetime.

Without knowing (or bothering to look up) the etymology, I'd say "Indian giver" probably refers to things like potlucks and Indians giving gifts as part of diplomacy. They didn't have as much attachment to their possessions as White devils, but the flip side was expecting other people to give you stuff too. In some tribes it was a big thing that wealth was measured by the ability to give out gifts (which obviously overlaps with having a big income). They'd have these feasts called potlach (potluck) where it basically was pissing matches of who could give more stuff away.

When did mallgoths go extinct in the wild?

Never did. I saw three of them in black and face paint, at least one in a trench coat with fedora, walking the streets of an Ohio suburb. It was the gayest shit I ever saw.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

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.

It's so bizarre to think about. I remember growing up and seeing all the adults in my life as being like statues and to think that I'm hitting the point where my life is like that is terrifying.

 

[Mr Bunny]

Waking up at 4am every morning for the hell of it. I wish I could go back to sleeping in on my days off. I find myself bored out of mind until leaving for work.

Wait until you get to the next stage when you can't stay awake during the day and need a nap.

 

[Fish Fudge]

So many grey hairs. The mother-fuckers just snuck up on me. I've got that whole salt and pepper thing going on now and I'm not sure how to feel about it.

Describing life before home computers and the internet to young people. They look at me like I'm describing gathering round the radio to hear World War 2 being declared.

 

[Dysnomia]

I kind of miss dial phones even though they were tedious.

So many grey hairs. The mother-fuckers just snuck up on me. I've got that whole salt and pepper thing going on now and I'm not sure how to feel about it.

Describing life before home computers and the internet to young people. They look at me like I'm describing gathering round the radio to hear World War 2 being declared.

They probably think we were all bored out of our minds with no social media and streams.

I was just remembering what it was like back when if you missed a new TV episode then you had to wait until summer to see the rerun. Most of the time you could. But occasionally they stuck one of those summer replacement series in the time slot because a short season was used as a test run to see if anyone was interested.

Now you can binge watch anything via a streaming service or pirating. It doesn't matter if you miss this week's episode. You can find it somewhere online. I stopped even caring about TV when it became that easy.

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

My dad telling me it's a good idea to get my blood tested every year or so to check if I'm healthy.

 

[yasscat]

Realizing my favorite band's first album came out two years before I was born. This album is considered a ~classic.~
I graduated college 10 years ago.
I graduated from high school 14 years ago.

I'm not sure if this makes me feel old or just...not well, but I have to see an audiologist once a year because of an ear condition I have. Every year, we discuss how I'm closer and closer to needing hearing aids.

 

[Corndog]

The random lady stopping me to say "Damn, how old are you? Your beard got more grey than my pops!" to then follow it up with, "That's ok baby, you hotter." God bless the New York homeless population. Of course I gave her a cigarette.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Without knowing (or bothering to look up) the etymology, I'd say "Indian giver" probably refers to things like potlucks and Indians giving gifts as part of diplomacy.

I know that term was very common in the dutch colony; the new york area. So at least there the native americans could give items and expected to be given items of roughly equal value in return as a kind of bartering, whereas the europeans thought since nothing had been agreed, that they were a gift.

So they would either take their gifts back or become irate; indian givers.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights and Other Stories

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The youngest veterans of the Persian gulf war are now in their 50s.
About as much time has passed between us and the 6th console generation (ps2, gamecube, dreamcast, original xbox) as the time between that generation and the 2nd console generation (atari 2600).
The original version of the Kaiserreich mod for hoi2 is as old enough to be a senior in high school.
Youtube is now seen as an old website.
The star wars prequel trillogy are now as old today as was how old the original trilogy were when they came out.
I use to remember a much more freer internet.
Most 2000s bands and music groups are now mostly forgotten.

 

[Mr Bunny]

Was working along with a new start who is early 20s, I crack a joke and he responded with "lol"

 

[TV's Adam West]

>having to explain what dial up is to a coworker.

 

[Shibaru]

They Closed a Decade ago.

 

[TV's Adam West]

Remembering when Chris wasn't a tranny.