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

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

"It's an old movie"
"No it's not, it's from 1998, that's a modern movie"

 

[2mm and 99 others]

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.

Do you drive a lot, and is it on whatever is the driver's side? It could be the uneven sunlight exposure.

 

[glass_houses]

Do you drive a lot, and is it on whatever is the driver's side? It could be the uneven sunlight exposure.

I do drive, but no, the tags are not on the arm next to the window.

That said, I've suddenly remembered what I always do on that side, and that's carrying my handbag on that shoulder almost exclusively. Possible connection?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"It's an old movie"

Know that The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe movie?

It is as old now as Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was when that movie came out.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

When filling in birthdate on my iPhone I now have to flick the scroll wheel on my 1 more time than I used to to reach my year

 

[Dawdler]

I remember when american and uk type keyboards would be first option on the language tray and not burried somewhere deep below under angola and other bannana states.

 

[Yukako]

I've had to teach people how to save screenshots in MS Paint. The information didn't stick with them.

 

[Samhain]

I've had to teach people how to save screenshots in MS Paint. The information didn't stick with them.

It's absurd the number of times I've seen a photo someone took of their computer screen. Few people seem to know what the Print Screen key does anymore.

 

[TismFarmer]

Did you know that after menopause, your body decides it doesn't need public hair anymore?

Neither did I...

 

[Jason Wynn]

Lamenting to my friend the other day about how I was starting to see more grey in my beard. She laughed and said “welcome to the club” first response was me making a dad joke and replying “you have grey in your beard too? I hardly noticed!”

Not even that bummed about the grey in my beard. At least I can start trying to cultivate a “silver fox” look…but if that’s going to be my go-to sense of humor now as I get older I’m fucked.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

 

[The Last Stand]

I'm watching a random short and heard THIS song again. I don't miss these random rap pop songs. Soulja Boy being another example.

 

[Local Fed]

I'm watching a random short and heard THIS song again. I don't miss these random rap pop songs. Soulja Boy being another example.

I wonder if black people can hear the constant siren in the background. Even though the song would still be bad without it, the siren makes it torturous.

 

[ATI Escapee]

Im 30. I havent really had a 'real' boss several years. Got a part time job to help with potential hardships due to partner's layoff. I work not quite at a school but a place that deals with kids and parents, like half retail half office. Im older than almost all the other part time people by several years, the couple other ones are much older adults. Since I have been self employed or contractor for so long, the last time I was working on a stable team or with regulars I was 'young'. I am being talked to differently now- parents engage in conversation with me like an equal while waiting for their kids, like they assume I have kids too (I dont) rather than getting asked if I am in school or other questions young adults get asked. It feels weird, because its like I skipped the social transition from a fresh 22 year old college student to a 'real' adult. There is definitely a stark difference in how people engage with me now vs then, in this type of work situation. It makes sense and I am not mad about it or anything, but it is noticeable that I am getting grouped into 'standard adult' rather than 'young adult'. I assume a person who stays in a career where they work with people and the public every day for years experience the transition too, albeit gradually. It feels sudden to me, lol. Feeling older. Feels weird.

 

[skjora]

There is definitely a stark difference in how people engage with me now vs then

Same, but in my case I think it's just as much about how I carry myself more securely and confidently than I did in my early 20's as it is about how old people perceive me to be. I did experience the change gradually as you said, but it feels like it has come in small chunks rather than smoothly and imperceptibly.

 

[Tingle]

I have somewhat recently reached the point where my soul is overcome with an unfathomable rage whenever a gaggle of zoomers fortnite dance into whatever establishment I'm currently at, bussin' and flossing their irritating assess around like overgrown toddlers.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

As a (new) instructor, realizing that the stuff I care about or want to use as examples is already meaningless to them
Understanding that things that were very important and close in time to me, growing up (the Cold War, the Gulf Wars, old WW2 vets) are already completely meaningless to them and their deracinated, timeless worldview

 

[Cheesegirl78]

As a (new) instructor, realizing that the stuff I care about or want to use as examples is already meaningless to them
Understanding that things that were very important and close in time to me, growing up (the Cold War, the Gulf Wars, old WW2 vets) are already completely meaningless to them and their deracinated, timeless worldview

I asked the youngest cheeselet about this sometime back, and he said he wasn't taught much about events like WW2. Only the very basic facts, nothing about the Holocaust or the Cold War. Very little about the Gulf Wars, Vietnam, and 9-11. Said he learned more about those things from Mr. Cheese and I than he did in school.
We were discussing the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking a few days ago, it was the same thing. Never taught about it at all, other than what we've told him.
Same thing with my grandchildren.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

I asked the youngest cheeselet about this sometime back, and he said he wasn't taught much about events like WW2. Only the very basic facts, nothing about the Holocaust or the Cold War. Very little about the Gulf Wars, Vietnam, and 9-11. Said he learned more about those things from Mr. Cheese and I than he did in school.
We were discussing the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking a few days ago, it was the same thing. Never taught about it at all, other than what we've told him.
Same thing with my grandchildren.

Agree. What my (young adult) kids weren't taught formally dumbfounds me sometimes.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"No it's not, it's from 1998, that's a modern movie"

Remember that new Lost in Space movie? That's a 1998 movie.