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

[JULAY]

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

Not sure what you mean, but that's not the case in the US.

 

[ClipBitch]

I used to buy stuff with silver dollars when I was a kid. I haven't seen one irl for several decades.

 

[JULAY]

I used to buy stuff with silver dollars when I was a kid. I haven't seen one irl for several decades.

I used to spend my grandpa's Franklin half dollars all the time. Now I wish I'd kept them all. They were 90% silver.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Meeting post 9/11 adults

 

[Constellationzero]

Meeting post 9/11 adults

In college, I was only one of two people in Modern US History class who was alive and remembers the Iran Contra affair and late Soviet era USSR.

Also someone mentioned old Nickelodeon. I grew up on Pinwheel, Mr. Wizard, Out of Control, Livewire, The Tomorrow People, You Can't Do That on Television, Hey Dude, Danger Mouse, and too many other actually good shows to mention.

 

[fuckass]

If Marty McFly were to go back in time today, it'd be to 1990

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Hearing Quiet Riot's version of the hard rock song Cum on Feel the Noize be played on oldies stations.

 

[Pond Scum]

I used to buy stuff with silver dollars when I was a kid. I haven't seen one irl for several decades.

That's because I've been hoarding all of them.

 

[#zzz]

When I see everyone walking around permanently affixed their phones. And how much people rely on them to get anything done. It gives me the impression, if you don't have a smartphone, you literally don't exist in society.

 

[Richard Harrow]

Found a bunch of 80s VHS tapes (mostly action genre) in the garage and brought it up at a family event. Some younger in-laws were like "Uhhh, like, what's a VHS tape? Is that like before Netflix?" FFS that made me feel old.

 

[Spastic Colon]

• Hearing the songs I listened to as a teenager playing in the grocery store.
• The fact that I no longer want to wear high heels -- I've somehow morphed into the sensible shoe kind of person that I swore I would never be. I also keep the heat turned up too high because I am cold all the time now.
• Realizing that I am completely out of the loop when it comes to slang. Can't understand what what those damn kids are saying half the time without doing a google search.
• Needing to wear glasses and I'm pretty sure a hearing aid is in my future.

 

[Rhoda Penmark]

I've started receiving spam for geriatric singles for some time now. Pisses me off. I don't want an ad for grandpa and grandma riding a motorcycle, especially since every day i look more and more like them.

I've been keeping those. I'm looking forward to being the young chick in a few years.

 

[XYZpdq]

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.

iirc those Grey vhs advertised in the back of Area 88 (by "Viz" a subdivision of Eclipse) were raw straight outta Japan

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

iirc those Grey vhs advertised in the back of Area 88 (by "Viz" a subdivision of Eclipse) were raw straight outta Japan

They probably were, I'd have to find my last surviving copy of Justy to confirm. It was Grey, Pineapple Army and Mai the Psychic Girl if memory serves me right.

 

[XYZpdq]

They probably were, I'd have to find my last surviving copy of Justy to confirm. It was Grey, Pineapple Army and Mai the Psychic Girl if memory serves me right.

Dunno about the others, but I know I saw them in the ancient Area 88 singles. I got a ton of them at some comics store just before the turn of the century
also to answer OP

the idea that you can refer to "the turn of the century" and it was a while ago

 

[queerape]

I was watching BigMouth when it was new on Netflix to try it, and one episode mentioned a porn scape. So, porn+netscape? it makes sense. I mentioned it to some people in their early 20s at school. Poor things didnt even know what netscape was.

 

[Slimy Time]

Having a much younger sibling go through first proper exams and watching them stress about it. Huh, that's piss easy baby stuff, it's nothing...wait, when did I take those exams...ah, I feel old. Also watching them stress about it and how the Corona virus might push it back by a few months makes me feel old. Few months for them seems like a long time...few months to me is nothing, hell, we are almost 1/4th of the way through 2020.

 

[ZXO]

I asked for a phone book at a convenience store. They didn't have one so they weren't very convenient.

 

[Hoc Signo Vinces]

Memes used to be zerox copies of Bart Simpson saying "I'm not staying here for a year man" in 91.

 

[Kenobi]

Talking w/ my teenage brother about horrible movies.

-Man do you remember when all of the chicks used to go crazy for twilight and high school musical?

-Whats twilight? High school musical is that like a play or something?

Im not even that old god dammit! Even when your in your early twenties right now the world is moving so fucking fast that you just want it to stop for a second.