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

[ChompChomp]

Seeing the mullet hairstyle come back in to fashion.

That assumes it was ever in fashion or out of fashion.

No, the mullet resides somewhere between now and then, traveling within and without dimensions at will.

A place unaffected by time, space, or good taste...

That place: Fashion Spergatory.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The default mental image of "phone" to me is landline. Maybe even one with a rotary dial. But not a "smartphone" or cellphones though.

 

[RinguPingu745]

In my mind I keep thinking the 70s were thirty years ago. Then I remember it's 2025 and scream.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Noticing slightly more grey in my beard.

 

[glass_houses]

Thinking, "It's on its way... it's on its way..." like Ewan Macgregor in Trainspotting, only instead of heroin withdrawal, it's grey hair.

 

[Swine Schwein]

When I find out that sportsmen, whose careers I used to follow and whom I've always known to be older than me, have been retired and/or dead for the last 50 years of which I have retained zero memories.

Whose fault is this

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I'm still used to the prices of stuff in the '90s and '00s, so the costs of things today can look more outrageous. $10+ for a burger?!

 

[botrix_fan]

In my mind I keep thinking the 70s were thirty years ago. Then I remember it's 2025 and scream.

2050 is closer than 1999

 

[ToroidalBoat]

In my mind I keep thinking the 70s were thirty years ago. Then I remember it's 2025 and scream.

2050 is closer than 1999

It really feels like it shouldn't be this far into the future yet.

And some future so far: no flying cars, no colonies on the moon...

 

[botrix_fan]

And some future so far: no flying cars, no colonies on the moon...

AI is here, but it's kinda shitty..

 

[ToroidalBoat]

AI is here, but it's kinda shitty..

AI arts can sometimes be good, but AI dialog usually sounds like "trying too hard" to sound like a hipster human. Also, AI "answers" on search engines are somewhat annoying.

Found out in a Reddit thread that one can use uBlock to block that AI "answers" from appearing by adding this code to custom filters.

! 2024-05-18 https://www.google.com Block A.I Search Results
www.google.com##.M8OgIe > div:nth-of-type(2) > div

 

[WonderWino]

Set my alarm earlier than normal because I had something to do - woke up and didn't remember what it was I had to do. I still don't know.

Hopefully it didn't involve forgetting to take alzheimers medication

 

[Ratboy Genius]

Went to a fundraiser thing at my old high school today. PL- I graduated less than a decade ago. So I was expecting to see plenty of people I knew. But bruh, I only recognized like 2 people. Kinda a mixture of relief and sadness...

 

[Zoosadist sadist]

Went to a cafe recently and wanted to say how they play popular music, only to realize none of that music was popular for years. I wonder what the music topping the charts in the early 2010s will be called, apart from garbage marginally better than garbage we have now. Do you remember when songs used to have understandable and sensible lyrics?

I'm not a 30-year-old boomer, i'm a 20-year-old-boomer.

 

[AnOminous]

I'm still used to the prices of stuff in the '90s and '00s, so the costs of things today can look more outrageous. $10+ for a burger?!

$10 or even $20 for a REALLY REALLY GOOD burger isn't unreasonable, but not much goyslop is that. Like a Culver's Deluxe triple is a bit over $10 but well worth it and basically a whole day meal. You don't need to eat too much else.

 

[pyrinyx]

I unironically start hating people. No reason, no mental illness, nothing. Just a matter of "I value my time and peace and all of you fuckheads are continually ruining it."

Having to frequently correct people who're too dumb to know when a thing is from a certain year but they categorize it in another year. They base it entirely on when they discovered it and confuse it when it was actually first available. I used to have seen this shit all of the time within those mountains of starterpacks on Reddit when nostalgia and childhood is the theme. No, the PS2 was not released in 2006, that was when you discovered it, retard. Just an example.

 

[fist_of_khonshu]

I remember when Hot Topic used to sell stripper heels and catered towards the racey or music crowds. Now it's all low quality disney slop.

 

[BigBadBastich]

I remembered old syndicated Teen Nick shows like the Amanda Show or Kenan and Kel one day and realized just how long stuff like that premiered on TV. I remember Action League Now or stuff like Hey Arnold or Angry Beavers.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

The first three Pokemon generations are all old enough to drink in the US.

 

[cactus]

I remembered old syndicated Teen Nick shows like the Amanda Show or Kenan and Kel one day and realized just how long stuff like that premiered on TV. I remember Action League Now or stuff like Hey Arnold or Angry Beavers.

They all premiered and/or aired on SNICK too.

The first three Pokemon generations are all old enough to drink in the US.

Not Pokemon, but Digimon: we are 2 years away from when the season 2 epilogue happens.