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

The Internet Dick said:
Went on a hike on a park trail yesterday in a state forest with my daughter, first time on this trail for both of us. We thought we were doing a quick 3.5-mile hike, a fun jaunt through the woods, but then we took a right instead of a left at a fork on the trail, not knowing going right meant we would do the whole nine miles on high hills with a church steeple pitch. By the time we realized our mistake, we were over halfway done and committed. Fucking hills, man. Goddamn but I'm out of shape. Goddamn but I'm old.
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Your body not working the way you want anymore is one of the annoying biggest things about getting old. When I was in my early to mid 20s I had the energy to drive 10+ hours in a sitting without issue. I remember my friends renting a vacation house that was nearly half a days drive away and making then making the drive in one setting with enough energy left to hang out for several hours that night. I couldn't imagine doing that now that I'm nearly 40, I would probably have to get a motel and split the trip up into two days, or I would be completely out of energy and have to go to bed as soon as I arrived.
 
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Derrick said:
Weather Channel is still on TV, one of the restaurants I go to weirdly has it playing on one of their TVs
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Even the Weather Channel is drama-political these days. No one needs 'Storm Chasers' or hot takes on the election. I just want to know what jacket to wear.

(I also miss the vaporwave and radar images.)
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
The Simpsons arguably started to suck by or after season 10. That was around a quarter of a century ago, and less than one third into the total run of the show as of now.
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Seriously. There was an episode recently that is a "future" episode in that it features a grown-up Lisa, but it's set in the present day. That is, it is based on an alternative ending to an episode that aired in 1993 and the years have passed in realtime. It's so bizarre to watch when you can remember watching the original episode on TV.
 
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The Last Stand said:
I miss watching The Weather Channel on television.
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They used to do that weekly forecast "on the 8s" -- at the minutes ending in 8 -- and it was how I found out how sucky a winter week would get. Now I just use internets.

Friendly Primarina said:
There was an episode recently that is a "future" episode in that it features a grown-up Lisa, but it's set in the present day.
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There's 2 of those "Lisa in the future" episodes. The one where she almost married was set in 2010, which was set ~15 years in the future from when it aired. The 2nd one where Lisa becomes president -- after Trump, as a joke not connected to that Current Year Orange Man Bad "culture war" BS -- was set in 2030, which is only 6 years away.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
There's 2 of those "Lisa in the future" episodes. The one where she almost married was set in 2010, which was set ~15 years in the future from when it aired.
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I really liked Lisa before she was Flanderized into just being the mouthpiece for whatever dumb shit the Writer of the Day wanted to preach about.
 
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Next time you want to feel old tell a child how old you were when you got your first cell phone. I recently told my 8 year old nephew I received my first cell phone as part of a graduation present when I graduated from High School in '03. You should have seen the look of utter confusion he gave me, wondering why Grandma and Grandpa wouldn't just give me one when I turned 6 like most modern parents. In order to really mess with him I told him they gave me a beeper when I was 12 and they could page me if I was out and they needed me to call them. He looked at me like I was speaking Latin or something when I said "Beeper".

I should have told him that his Grandpa used to have a phone built into his car when I was a little younger than him, that would have probably broke his brain.

And that reminds me, another thing kids these days don't get. When a young person likes another they ask for their snapchat or instagram or whatever social media they're using now-a-days. When I was a teenager if you liked a girl you had to get her home phone number, call and pray her Dad didn't answer. Kids these days will never get the utter fear that would wash over you before calling someone your interested in's household, hoping they would answer and not Mom and Dad.
 
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Derrick said:
Neighborhood wide activities are something that has been forgotten about.
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My neighborhood was similar growing up. As my childhood peers and I aged, we would do all sorts of activities together: childhood games, board games, making up our own board games, card games, basketball at the houses having hoops, street hockey, mock Olympics, etc. Every now and then, it wouldn't be a shock to see kid a two in the group joining in on the community activity of the day and wonder "who's that?" because they were from the next block or next street where we didn't normally see them.

Derrick said:
Do you remember when they used to give you those AOL trials at the mall?
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I remember all the promotional free CDS ranging from 500, 1000, and maybe 1500 hours free. Of course nobody might have realized there was fine print that those hours were only valid over a 30-day span.

Cheesegirl78 said:
What did you idiots think, you knowingly bought a home next to an active rail line? They ran on marshmallows?
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In my region of Kiwi Land, people had the bright idea of building subdivisions next to active farmland and running the farmers out of business by complaining about the unpleasant barnyard smells. The farmers were there first, sometimes for over a century.

Trollish and Suspicious said:
The case is just one big black box with a bunch of USB ports.
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That reminds me of the small "brick" I use at $DAYJOB that seems to be approximately 8" x 12" x 4" or something like that with nothing but USB, sound, Ethernet, and KVM ports and nothing for a CD/DVD drive unless you have an external one to connect. As much as the small footprint might be likeable, I can't help wondering how inconvenient is is to service or upgrade - assuming it can even be upgraded.

ToroidalBoat said:
And family and friends could wait right at that dock-like thing for boarding planes for passengers.
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At my last flight pre-9/11, I was chilling in front of the gate with my parents and we were chuckling at some of the names of the lesser-known carriers that all went belly up right after 9/11 because they couldn't afford the added expense and hassle associated with post 9/11 security. Now, waiting for a flight isn't nearly as relaxing or fun.

The Last Stand said:
Snow days don't exist anymore thanks to online learning.
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Some places have given up on online learning during snow days because they figured out nobody was learning. Recently, several schools in my area cancelled school over the mere forecast of snow even though the area got a coating at best if anything at all.

Derrick said:
I recently told my 8 year old nephew I received my first cell phone as part of a graduation present when I graduated from High School in '03.
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I got my first cell phone the summer after I graduated college when my efforts to use a payphone in an unexpected situation proved unsuccessful. Years later when I visited Europe, people back home were blown away when I told them how 8 year old kids had cell phones like it was no big deal.

Thread tax: People giving you blank looks when you reference older pop culture references such as Morris the Cat or anything else popular in that era.
 
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I'm listening to the radio and they play You Know You're Right by Nirvana. Kurt Cobain has now been dead 30 years. I remember seeing the breaking news on TV. Then someone calls in and requests Sea Of Sorrow by Alice in Chains. Layne Staley has been dead 22 years.

How does this much time pass?
 
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gorgoroth7134 said:
Someone's probably said this before, but SnapChat.

I was a teenager when it first got popular. It was an app that you were supposed to send nudes with. Now there are people who SnapChat with their grandmothers. Whenever someone asks for my SC I get a little mad about it now, like, don't you know that's just for degeneracy???
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I'm old enough to have a vague memory of the Vine app before TikTok became its unofficial replacement. Hell, I remember MySpace and those custom backgrounds they'd have on their pages with music playing upon opening a friend's page.

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