Society & Culture Things that Make You Feel Old

[emuboy]

What are things in life - both football and non-football related - that make you feel old?

Here are some of mine:

• A number of the Brisbane Lions players were not even born at the time the Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy merged in 1996.
• There are no remaining AFL listed players born in the 1970s or who played in the 1990s.
• Sons of 1990s players are now playing AFL.
• Teenagers say that something is 'so 1990s'.
• Some of my high school classmates from the early 1990s have adult children.
• Alicia Silverstone plays the mother of teenagers in the recently released 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' movie.
• Actresses Kate Winslett and Reese Witherspoon both have daughters aged 16.
• I remember watching a news story in 1998 about Steve and Terri Irwin welcoming their first baby into the world - a daughter named Bindi.
• Princess Diana has been gone nearly 20 years now.
• September 11 happened closer to 1985 than the present day.

 

[perthblue]

eminem's daughter is 21 years old

my favourite rappers growing up are dead or in their 40s and 50s

 

[DroopStDanny]

When I hear the word root I automatically think of gardening rather than sexual intercourse.

 

[raskolnikov]

I put this on the song contest thread. My two favourite albums, Different Class by Pulp and What's the Story Morning Glory by Oasis, both released in 1995 are 22 years old.

 

[Gough]

Jeff Buckley's been dead twenty years, Garcia twenty two.

 

[Gough]

The first draftee born this century has to happen this year I think. Eek.

 

[Roobs321]

A generational barrier signpost for me is whether you can remember things like NYE 1999, 2000 Sydney Olympics and 9/11. Also eerie that things like the Diana passing, hell even Pokemon, Harry Potter, Pixar, etc. are now pushing 20.

This month also marks a decade since I left home.

 

[Gough]

Sydney Olympics is a funny one for me. A real high point for Australia, and something we're rightly proud of. I barely even registered it being on at the time, I'd bought my pub six months previously, and at the time barely had time to scratch myself.

 

[raskolnikov]

A generational barrier signpost for me is whether you can remember things like NYE 1999, 2000 Sydney Olympics and 9/11. Also eerie that things like the Diana passing, hell even Pokemon, Harry Potter, Pixar, etc. are now pushing 20.

This month also marks a decade since I left home.

I mentioned Kylie Minogue to my class last term.

"Who's that?"

 

[Gough]

No young queens in your class either then.

 

[MatthewB]

girl started at work last year wasn't even born when i started working there

 

[M Malice]

My daughter turning 30 2 days ago does it, also looking after 3 grand children ages 6, 9 and 12 for the duration of the school holidays will do it.

Getting old beats the alternative though.

 

[HBF]

MEB_ calling me an old campaigner most days.

 

[Gough]

Mebby can f*** off.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Receiving resumes from kids who were born in the year 2000 and onwards

 

[Power Raid]

remembering:
- every full forwards mark was signalled by the full back, rather than the umpire, with a punch to the back of the head
- 22.5% interest rates, EFTPOS starts replacing the book
- when the tv remote had a wire and the not so lucky ones, changing the station meant getting up and turning a dial
- JJJ scandal with F the police followed by "express yourself"
- and a sound from a not so distant past

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

People at work who don't know there were two Germanys.

Seeing the number on a footy jumper and immediately associating it with someone who hasn't played in 20 years.

There are "adults" that like T20, and adults born in a world which already had The Simpsons.

 

[Gough]

Ian Chappell played in the first Test I ever saw.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

The fact that prep was 20 years ago for me.

Also, some current AFL players weren't born when I was in prep.

 

[SportsCentre]

kids I coached are now parents.

 

[Hamingja]

When I hear the word root I automatically think of gardening rather than sexual intercourse.

So you are one of the few Doggies supporters to see two flags in their lifetime?

 

[Boultzboi]

Hearing Radiohead, Greenday and Nirvana on Gold FM

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[Procrastinator35]

My back, my legs, my arms, my head.

 

[MrKK]

Boomer was the last AFL player born before me - I shed a tear when he retired last year.

 

[perthblue]

yugoslavia broke up 25 years ago