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

[Miss Misery]

Also just this. Remember when you weren't an old man? Just thinking about this question will make you feel really fucking old if it is relevant to you.

I'm a middle-aged woman and it still resonates. Being an old man is a state of mind.

 

[Sundae]

Seeing my dog struggle to get up from lying down, or having trouble climbing onto the couch for a nap because her hind legs are giving out on her due to her age (10+ years), yet it feels like just yesterday when she was brought home as a puppy.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Seeing my dog struggle to get up from lying down

Having pets takes more and more out of you.

At my last vet visit, I overheard a veteran chatting with a woman. They both had cats. He said he's a dog person but, after his last dog died, he couldn't bring himself to raise any more.

 

[Synthetic Smug]

Having pets takes more and more out of you, until, I suspect, you stop adopting them altogether,

They often live long enough now that what gets them in the end is drawn out. I can bear the expense but it's the suffering that leads to questions without good answers.

As an artist I see myself inspiring the young who may have more talent than me anyhow. Godspeed, I say.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Having pets takes more and more out of you.

At my last vet visit, I overheard a veteran chatting with a woman. They both had cats. He said he's a dog person but, after his last dog died, he couldn't bring himself to raise any more.

I stopped raising Finches for this reason. They live 4 to 5 years and after seeing them get old and die (and one die from depression after because his mate died.) I stopped buying them.

 

[The Last Stand]

That paper clip helped me with a lot of papers.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Not being able to hear this song without associating it with Windows XP

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Speaking of computer sounds, how many people would recognize that sound now?

 

[The Last Stand]

Speaking of computer sounds, how many people would recognize that sound now?

That voice would spook me sometimes.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

That voice would spook me sometimes.

I'd always rush to turn it down when I'd sneak on the computer late at night.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'd always rush to turn it down when I'd sneak on the computer late at night.

What's louder, the startup or knocking over the speaker?

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

What's louder, the startup or knocking over the speaker?

Oh man, that is another one I kept trying to silence.

 

[Sundae]

I can remember being young and having to use dal-up to get online (fucking CompuServe, man). Sometimes it could take upwards of twenty minutes to establish a connection, which could be lost whenever someone else in the house went to use the phone.

Now everyone and their grandmother has access to the internet as long as they have a cell phone and access to Wifi.

Edit- fixed a spelling error

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

when you start eating vitamins and you already see an improvement of your heath.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

If I knew what cars would be like these days I would have treated my 70s era Buick Regal better.

The future is the John Deere standard for automotive repair & maintenance.

Electronic lockdown of all components, until you pay the extortion fee. Hell, Tesla is already doing it.
Eventually, we will just be perma-leasing cars. I doubt you will be able to purchase a vehicle in the near future.

"You'll own nothing and you will be Happy"...

 

[AnOminous]

Speaking of computer sounds, how many people would recognize that sound now?

When I heard that sound the first time it was 300 baud. I miss that Internet. It was slower but there were so fewer retards.

"You'll own nothing and you will be Happy"...

It's amazing these fuckers openly admitted this so soon.

No, I won't. I'll go out in a shooting spree first. In Minecraft, of course.

 

[Clovis]

Making a conscious effort to at least try to like and be interested in new trends and technology because giving up on being current seems to be one of the morbid signs of getting old.

Still wanting to use my phone for it’s intended purpose. I don’t like having full blown conversations entirely through text. I really only send texts for small info a phone call isn’t needed for (be there in a few) (want anything while I’m at the store?) if you want to talk to me, call me. People these days seem deathly afraid of having a real time conversation with another person. One girl I work with says she gets anxiety talking to the person at a fast food drive through for Christ’s sake

Grumblegrumbledamnkidsgetoffmylawn

Nope. I'm 37 and I avoid direct communication at every opportunity. I prefer texts or email because then I have a record of exactly what was said. If someone phones me rather than emails me at work and it's not an emergency I'm immediately suspicious. Plus, ringing people seems rude these days. Insisting they stop what they're doing to talk right now feels invasive.
I do not get video calls though. I see people walking down the street holding their phone on front of their face having conversations - why?

Having pets takes more and more out of you.

At my last vet visit, I overheard a veteran chatting with a woman. They both had cats. He said he's a dog person but, after his last dog died, he couldn't bring himself to raise any more.

I was reading one of those catalogs of tupperwear and gadgets and shit and I saw something both sad and heartwarming - a fold up ramp for getting your dog into the back of your car, for when the dog is too old to jump and you're too old to pick it up.

 

[Drkinferno72]

Channel 3 to do anything

 

[Captain Syrup]

Channel 3 to do anything

Boomers still haven't adjusted to having more than three channels. Local news, Westerns, NCIS. They don't waver.

 

[DejaThoris]

I'm 37 and I avoid direct communication at every opportunity. I prefer texts or email because then I have a record of exactly what was said.

I'm around 50 and the same way. Email and text messages give me proof of what someone said if I need it. It pisses me off when I am doing business with someone and I keep texting/emailing them but they respond by calling me on the phone.

Plus I have crap hearing and understanding people on the phone can be difficult.