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Retro computing is popular now, maybe in a few years we will be "ironically" going back to dial-up BBS
Some hipsters will be interested in the feel of it, but it will be about as popular as it is to host your own live radio show is.

In other words, a couple of enthusiasts will do it and the majority will not give a fuck and will be listening to podcasts instead.
 
Remembering what it was like to rewind cassette and VHS tapes, Blockbuster, the fact that kids born in 2000 are 20 now. While they're not there yet, my one cousin's kids are all pre-teens and I still can't get over it. I also heard a girl at my college flat-out ask "What's Sailor Moon?" a couple weeks ago.
 
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My mother pointed out my grey hair today.

Also, apparently a new generation of kids is watching Friends. Not even ironically. I despair.

For some reason I mentally sort anything that appeared after I turned 18 or so into the pile of Newfangled Shit. It's a big fucking pile.
 
Axl Rose has truly aged hideously.
When I googled dad rock, Nirvana and Oasis popped up. They were both popular when I was very young, I'm not a dad...or male. And now I have to deal with the fact that I like dad rock. The article that suggested those two bands are dad rock also claimed Arctic Monkeys were too and that seems insane. I know they've been around for a while but I feel like they need a bit more time to be classified as that.

Fall Out Boy is dad rock now

and Lil' Jon is dad rap
 
Talking w/ my teenage brother about horrible movies.

-Man do you remember when all of the chicks used to go crazy for twilight and high school musical?

-Whats twilight? High school musical is that like a play or something?

Im not even that old god dammit! Even when your in your early twenties right now the world is moving so fucking fast that you just want it to stop for a second.

On one hand I'm actually glad to hear Twilight and High School Musical are being forgotten.

On the other hand it is incredible that they would be old enough already to be forgotten, 2008/2009/2010 feels like yesterday to me.
 
-Probably the first time was when I was on some message board (can't remember where) and the discussion was about music, and we were talking about how sometimes we liked oldies, and one girl was like, "Oh yeah, I love Bon Jovi!" 😧
-When my aunt told us the story of the time she was babysitting my cousin's youngest kid, and he pointed at the phone on the wall and was like, "Grandma, what's that?"
-Hearing that most of my teachers from high school are now retired.
-Naps are a GOOD thing.
-Hearing about kids getting in trouble for texting at school, and remembering how much easier it was when you could just write notes to each other, because teachers would think you were taking actual notes. (And remember folding them in those little squares?)
-I miss being able to slam the phone down when I'm pissed at somebody.

And finally, three cousins I used to babysit:
-Youngest is in college
-The middle is currently going for bother her Masters AND her Ph.D. at the same time.
-And the oldest got a degree in zoology, and at one point was in the Caymans, studying a rare species of iguana (or some kind of lizard) with the local zoo.

Jesus, these are kids I used to put in time out!
 
I'm seeing 90s fashion come back and it's fucking scary.
My hair is turning grayer and grayer each passing day.

I finished college seven years ago and high school 14 years ago.
Whenever I see new construction projects or new buildings, I remember what they used to be before.

New cars scare me, I don't trust rear-view cameras.
 
Some eighteen year old kid: You hear about the new Shrek remake?

Me: Jeez, the original isn't even that old.

Other kid: Yes it is! It's almost twenty years old.

Me: That wasn't that long ago.

Other kid: Yeah it is. That's hella old.

Me: ...
 
My mother pointed out my grey hair today.

Also, apparently a new generation of kids is watching Friends. Not even ironically. I despair.

For some reason I mentally sort anything that appeared after I turned 18 or so into the pile of Newfangled Shit. It's a big fucking pile.
My aunt lets my 8 year old cousin watch friends with her 11 yr old twin sisters. I question this sometimes.
 
I remember hearing a ringtone that was actual sound instead of electronic beeping, and I was thinking "what the hell is that?"
 
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I remember hearing a ringtone that was actual sound instead of electronic beeping, and I was thinking "what the hell is that?"
I was one of those annoying early adopters to that craze. I had a Japanese import SONY (before Sony Erricson) phone and it could record audio clips for the ringtone, and had a 20 second clip of the Rage Against The Machine Bulls On Parade riff as my ringtone... In 1999!!! I used to think I was so cool.

Now my phone has been on silent constantly since about 2005. Don't even know what the ringtone is.
 
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