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

[CobraPlissken]

Got told last Friday at the drugstore (my frequent shopping there is already a reminder I'm not a young'un anymore) by a zoomer clerk that my T-shirt was ”iconic” (a word I had never heard IRL in my non-anglo country) and I've felt downright geriatric during the whole weekend

 

[cybertoaster]

My grandparents, when I was growing up, had one of those ancient wood console televisions in the corner with a neat doily on top of it. It had stopped working many years ago and was so obsolete that the parts to repair it were no longer being made, and my grandparents had grudgingly bought a modern colour set. However, since my grandparents were Depression babies, they refused to throw out anything... including that massive old set. So it sat in the corner until my grandparents lay down, and we cleaned out their house. My grandparents were far from hoarders because it almost took threatening them at knife point to get them to spend money, but because they never bought anything, their house was like a museum.

Your grandparents sound like cool people, I hate the modern throwaway culture.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Extremely awkward Monday at work in the "conference" room. Boss sat all us "boomers" on one side of the table and the zoomzoom trainees on the other.
Boss asks both groups how they'd signal to someone to call them without using words. Our side does the following collectively:

Zoomers kind of flail their palms close to their heads. I swear, they keep holding their phones more wrong with every passing day.
Next, how would you signal someone that he should hurry up or ask about time.

Natural for us. Zoomers had no response.
Next up, money.

Same ordeal. No response from zoomers. Turns out none of them even carried a wallet.
And finally, payment.

Once again, zoomers are dumbfounded, because they have no concept of paying without using their phone.
I can't imagine being this dependent on a single device. The battery dies, you're crippled. No service, you're crippled. Establishment only accepts cash, you're crippled.
Boss just smirked and dismissed us. Makes me wonder what was the purpose of this.

 

[Fareal]

Seeing my friends' babies become actual nearly-grown humans. Your own kids are bad enough, but other people's are like opening a time capsule.

 

[GenociderSyo]

My grandparents, when I was growing up, had one of those ancient wood console televisions in the corner with a neat doily on top of it. It had stopped working many years ago and was so obsolete that the parts to repair it were no longer being made, and my grandparents had grudgingly bought a modern colour set. However, since my grandparents were Depression babies, they refused to throw out anything... including that massive old set. So it sat in the corner until my grandparents lay down, and we cleaned out their house. My grandparents were far from hoarders because it almost took threatening them at knife point to get them to spend money, but because they never bought anything, their house was like a museum.

My grandparents were the same way and had a rotary phone that still worked. That thing was so fun to call people on you had to work for your phone call.

 

[The Ugly One]

The Xbox 360 turns 20 next year.

 

[neverendingmidi]

My grandparents were the same way and had a rotary phone that still worked. That thing was so fun to call people on you had to work for your phone call.

The phone company finally came to my grandmother’s and changed out the rotary she had because their systems didn’t support it anymore sometime after 2000.

 

[GaryGray]

Seeing what was once white papers and graduate thesis in 2010-2014 having now become trivial. To the point it is used as core components of AI.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

My grandparents were the same way and had a rotary phone that still worked. That thing was so fun to call people on you had to work for your phone call.

We were still using rotary phones when I was a kid. I remember having to buy all new phones for the house when then phone company ended pulse dialing and switched to touch tone.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

When people say they can't read cursive, I'm reminded of the troglodyte Ving Rhames lookalike that testified at George Zimmermans' trial, one of the sides wanted her to read a letter, and she said she couldn't read cursive. I doubt she could read much more than a Waffle House menu, but that's beside the point.

My oldest son turned 40 a couple of days ago, and was griping about getting old. If only you knew, sonny boy.

Been watching a memorial channel on YouTube, and I'm stunned at how fast time has gone by. What do you mean, Robin Williams has been gone for ten years now? David Bowie has been gone for eight years?

Few months back Mr. Cheese got rid of an old laptop he used 20 years ago and we marveled over how damn thick and heavy it was, and it cost about $800. The laptop I bought last year is about a half-inch thick and under $150.

 

[Jalal-Ibn-Jalal]

Mario Kart Wii and Pokemon Platinum turn 16 years old in 2024.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

The amount of (white) people i meet who talk about eating asshole and generally other ghetto adjacent shit.

 

[Roland TB-303]

I rewatched season 1-10 of The Simpsons and was surprised how shit the drawings and animation were. I mean they have their charm but it just caught me off guard since I haven’t watched many since primary school and high school. Don’t get me wrong the jokes definitely stood up to the test of time, I was laughing my ass off as there’s lots of jokes I missed as a non-American kid. I remember watching it at 6pm every night and quoting it with my friends the next day at school. Also remember the summer break when we were all speculating about who shot Mr. Burns and taping that episode to VHS because I thought it was a big moment in history. Have never seen an episode passed season 14 or so, last I heard they were still making them.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

I mentioned Marilyn Manson at a table with four other people and none of them had even heard of him. I felt myself age fifty years, I remember when you literally could not avoid hearing about him and now he's a complete relic.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

I mentioned Marilyn Manson at a table with four other people and none of them had even heard of him. I felt myself age fifty years, I remember when you literally could not avoid hearing about him and now he's a complete relic.

Oldest son liked his music, the only thing my youngest knows about him are the SA allegations.

 

[Plantation Barbie]

I mentioned Marilyn Manson at a table with four other people and none of them had even heard of him. I felt myself age fifty years, I remember when you literally could not avoid hearing about him and now he's a complete relic.

I was watching a youtube video about this the other day. The guy was talking about how a lot of bands that millennials grew up with are now considered classic/dad rock.
If those other people were gen-z then Marilyn Manson is to them what Alice Cooper was to us.

 

[glass_houses]

Oldest son liked his music, the only thing my youngest knows about him are the SA allegations.

Have you heard he's "coming back?"

He's fifty five. He's well and truly past the age of shocking the establishment. He is the establishment.

I used to listen to the Living End's Prisoner of Society a lot when I was in high school. Now I am the society.

 

[AnOminous]

I used to listen to the Living End's Prisoner of Society a lot when I was in high school. Now I am the society.

We live in a society.

Also kids who aren't aware of things from before when they were born are basically retarded. I wouldn't be that mad that retards aren't aware of things that people of normal intelligence are aware of.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The Xbox 360 turns 20 next year.

wat

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Watching the IT Crowd for the first time in like 10 years and the skit poking fun at all the directory enquiry services springing up in the UK at the time makes me feel kind of old.