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

[Negev]

For me its seeing that no one really does much aside from going out to specific places like the beach or something, I remember as a kid there were always kids playing or people just hanging out or walking around town and now Its basically a ghost town besides cars. Same thing for holidays, my nieces and nephews barely grasp normal trick or treating because so few people give out candy now, I remember going out trick or treating into high school until people realized we were high schoolers and stopped giving us candy.

I mourn the death of Payless. It wasn't perfect, but at least it always had decent quality shoes at affordable prices. Now if I need a pair of one time shoes to match a dress for a party, I have to either shell out 50+ bucks, or buy TEMU/Shein crap and hope the heels don't snap by the end of the night.

Honestly I got some surplus boots and they have been great, same thing with jackets if you get the older ones, they are pretty comfortable and super durable.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

This song/Album is 30 fucking years old. The CD in original case in my attic somewhere in a box of shit I refuse to throw away.

I just saw them in concert, still amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoY&list=OLAK5uy_n0iP7-_ZOkjO55LiJlr0tmqSLeaAnNcxs&index=7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgNPkokSEG0

 

[PuffMacMuffin]

I was at a retro gaming store and had to explain that there were Castlevania games before SOtN.

 

[AnOminous]

That's less annoying than that "Millennial whoop" crap.

There's a millennial whoop? Never mind I'd rather not know.

Young people at work come up with some stupid idea and I almost find it charming. I mean, when I was 27 at this job I had the same stupid idea! What a coincidence! Now I realize my best work friend, who retired a bit ago, must have thought I was so adorable back then. Just like her, I'm internally patting them on the head while saying, "Why don't you try that and share with us at the next meeting?"

Let 'em try. They might be the ones to finally figure out how to make it work. And if not it will be amusing to watch.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

For me its seeing that no one really does much aside from going out to specific places like the beach or something, I remember as a kid there were always kids playing or people just hanging out or walking around town and now Its basically a ghost town besides cars. Same thing for holidays, my nieces and nephews barely grasp normal trick or treating because so few people give out candy now, I remember going out trick or treating into high school until people realized we were high schoolers and stopped giving us candy.

It’s definitely less than when I was a kid, but I still see roving groups of kids on bikes or walking around town, especially on nice weekends and school vacations. Halloween has definitely gotten more concentrated. There are whole neighborhoods or parts of small towns that don't participate at all, but even in small towns there’s usually a few blocks that have a bunch of houses going all out and handing out candy, and everyone just ends up going there.

 

[Lady Bizness]

Let 'em try. They might be the ones to finally figure out how to make it work. And if not it will be amusing to watch.

Y'know it's one of those things that works, but is exhausting and once you have kids your priorities change. There's less showy ways of accomplishing the same thing so I am no longer willing to sacrifice time with my family to work harder so I can look like I'm working harder.
As long as the young'uns don't expect me to jump on board, I'm going to wish them well!

 

[ToroidalBoat]

There's a millennial whoop? Never mind I'd rather not know.

If you've had the displeasure of hearing that craptastic Katy Perry song with "hear me roar" in the lyrics, you've already heard it.

But if you've never heard it, that's good.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Had a memory come to me last night, about being in the Scouts. I recall a camping trip we had, one of many in particular, where we spent what seemed like an age learning how to fold, unfold, carry, and raise a flag on a pole. It was all extremely thorough, rigorous, but interesting - even at the time as a retarded 11 year old.

I'd bet good money that doesn't exist anymore, in any capacity. I'd be astonished if it did.

20+ years ago in Britain may as well be 100 years, given the change everything has gone through.

Can anyone confirm what the Scouts is like in current year + 8? UK, USA, or otherwise?

 

[Friendly Primarina]

There's a millennial whoop? Never mind I'd rather not know.

Too bad! Do I have an aural treat for you!

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

If you've had the displeasure of hearing that craptastic Katy Perry song with "hear me roar" in the lyrics, you've already heard it.

But if you've never heard it, that's good.

That song is over a decade old, it isn’t the anthem of anyone

 

[AnOminous]

Too bad! Do I have an aural treat for you!

Amazingly the least faggy incarnation of it was by a literal fag who literally died of AIDS (Baltimora).

 

[Dean Pentel]

I now have enough salt-and-pepper in my hair/beard that I get knowing nods from senior citizens at a local steakhouse I hit twice a month. And I'm almost always there about 1630 (because I'm in bed at 2000).

 

[ThicClaw]

my skin

 

[Summer of George]

This song/Album is 30 fucking years old. The CD in original case in my attic somewhere in a box of shit I refuse to throw away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoY&list=OLAK5uy_n0iP7-_ZOkjO55LiJlr0tmqSLeaAnNcxs&index=7

Even though I owned this album on cassette tape - the second "copy" of it I had; the first had been kludged together from radio recordings - I had never, until this day, seen the music video. So thank you for that!


Here's one that keeps happening to me lately. Buy concert tickets, chuckle to yourself, figure you'll be the youngest ones there by 10 or 20 years. Show up and find out that everyone in the crowd is right smack dab your age. Damnit.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

tape

I still have a box full of VHS tapes. And another smaller box full of cassette tapes. And using a DVR still feels like a newfangled way to record stuff off of broadcast TV.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

As much as I laughed along with the SoK when Phil complained that his hands hurt after playing too long, my own hands actually do cramp up after using a controller for a long time now.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Even though I owned this album on cassette tape - the second "copy" of it I had; the first had been kludged together from radio recordings - I had never, until this day, seen the music video. So thank you for that!


Here's one that keeps happening to me lately. Buy concert tickets, chuckle to yourself, figure you'll be the youngest ones there by 10 or 20 years. Show up and find out that everyone in the crowd is right smack dab your age. Damnit.

We saw Foreigner, Loverboy, and REO Speedwagon this year.
Nothing but gray haired old people. Like Mr. Cheese and myself.

 

[Mr Bunny]

When did people stop communicating with actual words?

When we stopped talking to eachother in person for the majority of our social interactions.

People don't actually know eachother or what makes them tick anymore.

So as an example they'll put a laughing emoji to show what they said isn't meant to be taken seriously.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

magnets in computing gizmos
I know that they're ssds and rams and whatevers that aren't impacted (and magnets were sort of a meme anyway) but it just gets this instinctual fear from my youth at the idea of "the cell phone case has a magnet! and it's ON my laptop!"

 

[glass_houses]

So, I've known for quite a while that some people get more prone to developing skin tags as they get older, and that I am one of these unlucky individuals. (Thhhhhhaaaaannnks genetics!) But what I can't figure out is why I have a whole cluster of them developing in just one inner elbow, while my other inner elbow remains smooth and unblemished.