What makes you feel old?
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I swear they get shorter and stupider every year, I first noticed the shorter part in 3rd grade when most of the 5th graders were easily 5 foot or taller but when my class was in 5th only a few of us were 5 foot or taller. The stupider part wasn't until middle school.AlAaraaf74 said:
I feel old whenever I remember when there was almost always something good on TV.
I'm only 19, but I'll be damned if I don't feel like I'm at least twice that sometimes.Shawn MacDonald said:
Pretty much this, but with College as I'm not AmericanAlAaraaf74 said:
But it's the good kind of old, not the "I'm going to die soon" kind
Hey I remember those. Used to have The Oregon Trail on a blue one.Regnes said:How about this?TopazFusion said:
Great, now I feel older having realized I actually used the original floppy on a daily basis.
OT: Having a niece in University.
I feel old when now that I'm going back to school. being one of the oldest people there is a weird felling. That and my jokes are based in 80's early 90's references. some of these kids have never even seen Captain Planet.
I don't really feel that old. Except when the occasional treasured childhood TV show gets referenced or is playing. What usually follows is me bitterly eating some sugary snacks and then getting mad at my sister for watching things like iCarly, and, uh, what's it called...uh...huh. I don't know, it's some terrible show about a hollywood art school and a bunch of teenagers, the kind where laugh tracks play every 4 seconds or after someone breathes.
IHATEIHATEITIHATEIHATEIT WHY DON'T YOU WATCH HEY! ARNOLD! OR ANGRY BEAVERS OR DANNY PHANTOM OR OR OR RUGRATS OR NNGHRGHAGHYAYBALBYAYGBUGHAGHDH*eats oreos*
IHATEIHATEITIHATEIHATEIT WHY DON'T YOU WATCH HEY! ARNOLD! OR ANGRY BEAVERS OR DANNY PHANTOM OR OR OR RUGRATS OR NNGHRGHAGHYAYBALBYAYGBUGHAGHDH*eats oreos*
Probably the fact that I'm balding. I also read legal documents on a regular basis, and actually have to file taxes now.
Eh. I already beat you there, but I had a little bit of a head start. This site makes me feel old looking at the average age of people. On here, I'm positively ancient having learned to type on a typewriter and having a VIC-20 for my first computer. Then I look at one of my gaming groups and realize I'm the youngest one of them and feel like a little kid. I go back and forth between 40-year-olds and undergrads/high school kids in my different gaming groups, while I'm in the middle. It's kind of funny and keeps me on my toes.Treeinthewoods said:
I have 2 younger cousins named Ashley and Brook. I held them both in the hospital after they were born. As of now, Ashley is a sophomore in college and Brook is a sophomore in high school.
For as far back as I can remember my aunt Karen (their mom obviously) would bring them over to my house on Christmas Eve and they would bring homemade chocolate chip cookies for me and my brother. We would give them some of the treats we had at our house and hang out for a bit.
I started feeling old when Ashley was driving them to the house without my aunt Karen. This year Brook drove. I actually have several relatives that I remember being born who every time I see I feel old.
Here are some more:
- People around here talking about Pokemon being the first game they ever played.
- 10 year olds at the mall with cell phones
- Watching anything on MTV (makes me weep for humanity)
- I've lived in 4 decades. 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's
- I used to work with students born in 1995. When I started meeting them my first thought was "I REMEMBER 1995."
- Opening presents at my grandparent's house goes in order of age. I used to be second (my cousin Walker is 1 year younger than me) out of
anywhere from 10-15 people. This year I was in the SECOND HALF. Gah.
- When someone tells me they haven't seen *TV show I grew up with*
- My truck is now old enough to drive itself.
- I was talking to an old rec baseball coach of mine and realized it'd been 10 years since I became too old to play rec ball.
- My shitty genetics for my hair. It started falling out at 17. My beard is also turning gray. Yippee.
I'm not that old. I'm only 24.
For as far back as I can remember my aunt Karen (their mom obviously) would bring them over to my house on Christmas Eve and they would bring homemade chocolate chip cookies for me and my brother. We would give them some of the treats we had at our house and hang out for a bit.
I started feeling old when Ashley was driving them to the house without my aunt Karen. This year Brook drove. I actually have several relatives that I remember being born who every time I see I feel old.
Here are some more:
- People around here talking about Pokemon being the first game they ever played.
- 10 year olds at the mall with cell phones
- Watching anything on MTV (makes me weep for humanity)
- I've lived in 4 decades. 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's
- I used to work with students born in 1995. When I started meeting them my first thought was "I REMEMBER 1995."
- Opening presents at my grandparent's house goes in order of age. I used to be second (my cousin Walker is 1 year younger than me) out of
anywhere from 10-15 people. This year I was in the SECOND HALF. Gah.
- When someone tells me they haven't seen *TV show I grew up with*
- My truck is now old enough to drive itself.
- I was talking to an old rec baseball coach of mine and realized it'd been 10 years since I became too old to play rec ball.
- My shitty genetics for my hair. It started falling out at 17. My beard is also turning gray. Yippee.
I'm not that old. I'm only 24.
My friend, I'm 18 and I remember using VHS, I miss those days, actually not really, but still, you don't have to be that old to have used it.Hemlet said:
Today I was sitting in my psychological tests and measures class and thinking about interesting examples of different things related to the class that I could use to remember the material. I thought about an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Robert gives Ray and Debra IQ tests, and thought that it was something I could use if I actually managed to get into grad school and ended up teaching some. Suddenly I realised that anyone who's an 18yo freshman in a gen psych class four years from now (when I would be in grad school) will have been six when that show went off the air in 2005.
That's not really fair. Not being ignorant isn't about knowing a set list of things, it's about having an inquisitive mindset and applying it. If someone hasn't applied it to data storage (yet), it's no more important than someone not knowing much about biology, or literature. Or carpet fitting - something we use easily as much as digital storage.Kaleion said:The only thing that makes me feel kinda old is whenever I hit myself on the head with the frame of a door or a low chandelier or other stuff like that, though it's not really feeling old, more like feeling weird because only 4 years ago everybody still thought I was 10 [small](Though I was 17, yes I was really small)[/small] the increase in size was really sudden, though the funny thing is now that I'm 21 even though I'm tall everybody seems to think I'm 17, that being said nothing really makes me feel old but that may be because I don't really give that much importance to time.
TopazFusion said:Stuff like that doesn't make me feel old either [small](I still have a lot of those diskettes, cassettes and VHS)[/small], it just makes me feel like kids these days are ignorant idiots because I never saw any of these things:Regnes said:How about this?
Great, now I feel older having realized I actually used the original floppy on a daily basis.
But I still know they existed and what were they used to, so this kind of thing just makes me think that kids these days are just ignorant idiots, as I learned from a lot of those devices from encyclopaedias and magazines and you know kids these days have all of the knowledge in the world just a few clicks away and they still don't know what these things are, so IMO I'm not old because they weren't around to remember those things, they are stupid for not knowing.LP Discs
Edison cylinders
Betamax
Laser Discs
This computer storage perforated cards whose name I can't remember.
And a lot more archaic technologies that I can't remember right now...
I guess it's the fact that I'm increasingly unable to understand young tykes and teens when they revert to the current youth lingo. I'm supposed to be teaching these kids in two years, dammit - I need to breach that language barrier!
Also, how is it that elementary school kids have state-of-the-art cellphones these days? When I was their age I was happy to get my weekly allowance of five Deutsche Mark!
Also, how is it that elementary school kids have state-of-the-art cellphones these days? When I was their age I was happy to get my weekly allowance of five Deutsche Mark!
When I realize I can run for President of the US of A next election. I mean that as I'm eligible, because I meet the requirements, not because I'm going to.
What makes me feel old?
When I was young it was always inferred to me that at some point you would pass through some kind of chronological/sociological gateway and suddenly find yourself largely in the company of reasonable, mature, sophisticated adults.
Now I'm in my late twenties it's become readily apparent that the overwhelming majority of 'adults' are no more mature than the kids they profess to lecture to on responsibility and civility. I work with people in their fifties who throw tantrums that would make a five year old blush. I watch something like Prime Ministers' Question Time, where educated men screech tiresome rhetoric at each other like particularly well-spoken bonobos, and I can pretty much perceive our entire evolution grinding into reverse.
Young people I don't mind so much. It's older people that tend to make me feel old. And tired. And desirous of sweet numbing liquor.
When I was young it was always inferred to me that at some point you would pass through some kind of chronological/sociological gateway and suddenly find yourself largely in the company of reasonable, mature, sophisticated adults.
Now I'm in my late twenties it's become readily apparent that the overwhelming majority of 'adults' are no more mature than the kids they profess to lecture to on responsibility and civility. I work with people in their fifties who throw tantrums that would make a five year old blush. I watch something like Prime Ministers' Question Time, where educated men screech tiresome rhetoric at each other like particularly well-spoken bonobos, and I can pretty much perceive our entire evolution grinding into reverse.
Young people I don't mind so much. It's older people that tend to make me feel old. And tired. And desirous of sweet numbing liquor.