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

I'm going to be 38 next month. I'm creeping ever closer to the big FOUR OH.
 
Fats McGee said:
My feeling old is amplified by the zoomer phenomena of having no interest in media from before your time. I don't know what it is about this generation, but they don't listen to any music more than 10 years old. They don't watch old movies. They don't watch old TV shows. And if they do, and they discover something good, they turn it in to a meme and beat it in to the ground. Mention anything more than 10 years old that isn't currently a hot meme and they have no idea. I feel like when I was younger, a lot of us kids liked all sorts of things from before our time and we didn't have the luxury of every piece of media being available at the press of a button.
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I did have a zoomer coworker who felt that watching stuff made in the '80s was something like I feel watching stuff from the black & white era - ie. so alien that it's hard to connect with or care about. I think the gist of it is that the problems in most of those movies is so quaint that they can't be bothered. 'The boss is dead but he moves when they play music? Cool bro I have niggers to avoid if I want to get home safe off the bus, and my 37th tinder hoe just ghosted me so I gotta shower before #38 comes over.'
 
Legalize Asbestos said:
'The boss is dead but he moves when they play music?
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On that note, remember that week about a decade+ ago when the urban demographic discovered Weekend at Bernie’s 2 and made it a dance? I felt weirdly old at the time and now doubly so.

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I grew up in the 90s and people treated the 80s like it was some ancient and backwards time when people tucked in their shirts and guitarists dressed like fags instead of heroin addicts from Seattle. Oldies stations in 1995 played adult contemporary music up to 1989. I think this mindset was actually way worse until the 2010s when pop culture became such slop that people by default started looking back at older media. Millennials refused to consider media that was made in the 80s for the longest time.
 
The Hardest R said:
I grew up in the 90s and people treated the 80s like it was some ancient and backwards time when people tucked in their shirts and guitarists dressed like fags instead of heroin addicts from Seattle. Oldies stations in 1995 played adult contemporary music up to 1989. I think this mindset was actually way worse until the 2010s when pop culture became such slop that people by default started looking back at older media. Millennials refused to consider media that was made in the 80s for the longest time.
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>'Oh GAWD the 'EIGHTIES'
>woman who use to have big hair and leg warmers hides face in embarassment

Now that I'm older, I realize this was just shitlibs being angry that there was a brief revival of fundies, weightlifting and conservatism in the '80s that interrupted their '70s child-fucking and '90s nihilism. The moment mens' balls were safely back in the societal purse, everyone stopped giving a shit about the 1980s. They'll treat the 2020s the same way.

Most Millenials I know loved ~'80s era films though. Terminator, Predator, Alien, Breakfast Club, Stand By Me, etc.
 
Legalize Asbestos said:
I did have a zoomer coworker who felt that watching stuff made in the '80s was something like I feel watching stuff from the black & white era - ie. so alien that it's hard to connect with or care about.
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I still find that a bit odd. Maybe it was my upbringing, but I just never failed to connect to something just because it's old and different from my current experiences. My favorite show as a kid was the original Twilight zone. My mother would always be watching little house on the prairie or gone with the wind and other old stuff (those aren't black and white, just old) and sometimes I'd sit down and watch along. I'd argue that the zoomer phenomena I'm talking about, and that your coworker embodies perfectly, is actually a sign of diminishing intellectual function. When a zoomer sees a story they can't immediately relate to, their brain quite literally lacks the capability to "imagine" themselves in the shoes of the protagonist on top of lacking the natural empathy to care about the protagonist regardless of similarity to oneself.

That's probably why "representation" has gotten so overboard and infected our media with hyper-specific self inserts that appeal to a whopping 0.1% of the population. These people get jobs in the creative industry, and they're like "I'm a gay, black, obese, schizophrenic transgender. Therefor, my story also has to be about a gay, black, obese, schizophrenic transgender or else I won't really know what to write."
 
Seeing old tech in TV and Movies that was once considered high end is is incredibly en-boomer-ing. Not even like really old stuff. I was rewatching The Office (British version, because it's better) and the computers they use look absolutely ancient now even though it was "just" the early 2000s. It sticks out like a sore thumb. I quite like it though because it's a cool way to easily date media set in the present day. Just makes me feel old.
 
Legalize Asbestos said:
Most Millenials I know loved ~'80s era films though. Terminator, Predator, Alien, Breakfast Club, Stand By Me, etc.
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My experience as a millennial was different. Millennials I knew only started watching that stuff once 80s stuff became retro cool in the late 2000s and 2010s. In the 90s and early 2000s, it was treated like some kind of dystopian time warp. As I mentioned before, oldies stations in the mid 90s played 80s music. If Terminator was going to be watched, it was the second one. Any John Hughes movie started with Home Alone. It was retarded because 80s is the peak of American pop culture but it wasn’t considered as cool and extreme.
 
The Hardest R said:
My experience as a millennial was different. Millennials I knew only started watching that stuff once 80s stuff became retro cool in the late 2000s and 2010s. In the 90s and early 2000s, it was treated like some kind of dystopian time warp. As I mentioned before, oldies stations in the mid 90s played 80s music. If Terminator was going to be watched, it was the second one. Any John Hughes movie started with Home Alone. It was retarded because 80s is the peak of American pop culture but it wasn’t considered as cool and extreme.
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Depends on the part of the world, in the Eastern block those had to wait for the iron curtain to fall and the VHS player being introduced with a delay, so people in the early 90's were absolutely obsessed with the 80's movies to the point they were okay with early shitty amateur voiceovers (almost nobody knew English as it wasn't taught and it was harder to add subs) where one person voices all the characters at once with impassive or overly emotional tone, I've heard it was especially comical in case of porn.
Sometimes people got the chance to see sequels to something older before ever seeing the original work. Like 90's Star trek movies in cinemas, but none of the series and older movies were translated and aired yet.
 
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The Hardest R said:
I grew up in the 90s and people treated the 80s like it was some ancient and backwards time when people tucked in their shirts and guitarists dressed like fags instead of heroin addicts from Seattle. Oldies stations in 1995 played adult contemporary music up to 1989. I think this mindset was actually way worse until the 2010s when pop culture became such slop that people by default started looking back at older media. Millennials refused to consider media that was made in the 80s for the longest time.
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And now pop culture offerings suck so bad that there are kids born in 2009 reminiscing about how good 2016 was.
 
Last night I watched The Sting with me mum on a family visit, wherein I recognized the late James Earl Jones (Field of Dreams) by his voice.

Except it wasn't James. It was his father, Robert Earl Jones. Which means I'm old enough to name a black son by his dad's voice.

I didn't even know his dad was an actor.

 
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When I have to give my exact birthday when signing up for something, and the year takes longer and longer to scroll to.
 
Legalize Asbestos said:
Last night I watched The Sting with me mum on a family visit, wherein I recognized the late James Earl Jones (Field of Dreams) by his voice.

Except it wasn't James. It was his father, Robert Earl Jones. Which means I'm old enough to name a black son by his dad's voice.

I didn't even know his dad was an actor.

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James Earl Jones was one of those guys who always looked 70 years old.

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Morgan Freeman is the same phenotype of man. There’s a story in Christopher Reeve's book where met Morgan Freeman on a movie and found out he was a grandfather. Which struck him as fascinating because in the movie Freeman is a bloodthirsty pimp.
 
Window sticker for a pickup truck that'll most likely never get made again: V-10 engine w/ manual transmission. 😍

Look at that price, too! I think a base model Corolla goes for that nowadays. 🤣

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(I'm not a huge pickup truck fan, but I am a Dodge Viper fan, so this is definitely in my wheelhouse.)
 
This is still one of the best commercials ever some 24 years later.


(Note: The YouTube video is only 19 years old (!), but the ad ran during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.)
 
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