Society & Culture Things that Make You Feel Old

[rocker_oz33]

I watch this with my little brother.
It gave him night mares .

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Use mine daily

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

Back to back stories from "things that make you feel old" quotes....good thing I'm still in my peak. Right?

Midnight Express when I was about ten freaked me out. On the up side it put me off heroin trafficking as a career choice.

Grade 11, this was one of the movies for our Director study in English P. Our English classroom was right at one end of the school, entry off an alleyway, then a long hallway after the door before you entered the room - you could always sneak out for a ciggy (or come in late) and our teacher just did not care (some days, he'd even join us). This day, we snuck in and after a few minutes the two main characters kissed (both men).

Being very mature and comfortable in our 16yo masculinity, we started laughing, pretending to gag, etc. Thinking we were so funny, we didn't realise no-one else was reacting. Suddenly the movie stops, the lights flicks on. It's the AP sitting at the teacher's desk! "Where the hell have you two been?". Turns out there's a FAR move explicit scene in the few minutes before we got there, and the AP had had to stop a few times to calm the class, hence why no-one else reacted.

For punishment, we had to (re)watch the movie with the AP in our own lunch breaks. Took the best part of two weeks detention - that movie must be four hours long!

I used to hang out at the local records shop.
Before getting this .
I found the cover abit scarry ahhhhhhhh.

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I'll claim this as the first ever LP I bought with my own money. (It was actually the second, the first was "Soft Metal" or some compilation but that's because the record shop guy recommended it).

It was the year 1988 - I was 8 - but what an incredible time to get into music. I got a record player, amp and speakers for my birthday from my parents, and my father and uncle started my journey of musical discovery with a new album every month for a year.

Guns'n'Roses (Appetite), Skid Row (Skid Row), Metallica (RTL, MOP, then AJFA on release), Slayer (Reign in Blood), Anthrax (spreading the Disease), and slightly later Megadeth (Rust in Peace was the first album of their's and I bought it myself). There must have been some others I don't remember, but it was just hit after hit - and with a month in between getting each one they were played constantly.

...edit: Just looked up "Soft Metal 1988". Damn if that songlist isn't my secret guilty pleasure of hair metal singalongs.

 

[Ivelisse]

Nostalgia is often nostalgia for the media and pop culture of the time. Which makes me wonder if nostalgia was far less of a thing before movies and recorded music.

 

[rank and file]

Nostalgia is often nostalgia for the media and pop culture of the time. Which makes me wonder if nostalgia was far less of a thing before movies and recorded music.

Nostalgia pre media and pop culture were hard earned dopamine hits,now pick up your phone.
Elon implant might level the playing field.
.

 

[The Dice Man]

Nostalgia is often nostalgia for the media and pop culture of the time. Which makes me wonder if nostalgia was far less of a thing before movies and recorded music.

Nice.

 

[the_interloper]

Nostalgia is often nostalgia for the media and pop culture of the time. Which makes me wonder if nostalgia was far less of a thing before movies and recorded music.

I'd never thought of that, you make a fair point.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Nostalgia is often nostalgia for the media and pop culture of the time. Which makes me wonder if nostalgia was far less of a thing before movies and recorded music.

Do you run this account .
There's a few more Nostalgia accounts that could be yours .

 

[GreyCrow]

Do you run this account .
There's a few more Nostalgia accounts that could be yours .

5 cougars thanks

 

[rocker_oz33]

5 cougars thanks

Your eye sight might be abit dodgy.

Im pretty sure theirs six cougers .

At least your not greedy .

 

[Scotland]

Nothing scared the shit out of me more as a kid than Warwick Moss on The Extraordinary.

 

[Roobs321]

my dad as a little kid was apparently scared of the Doctor Who theme, used to run out of the room

even today he still doesn’t like ‘techno’

 

[Roobs321]

nostalgia is indeed a timeless thing. Back in the day there were oral yarns, songs, festivities, folklore, trinket keepsakes, family photos, wars/famines/plagues, people tended to live their lives more locally, etc. and without modern distraction and instant answers nostalgia would’ve held some power, particularly if away from a homeland

I just think some people simply have better memory than others and more idiosyncratic sentimental attachments. Those that don’t will tend to uncritically parrot the broadstroke framing of pop culture as if they downloaded a backstory yesterday. You often see it around this time of year, relatives (when probed) with no memory of things unless it has been subsequently related ad nauseam.

 

[GreyCrow]

Nostalgia has previously been diagnosed as a mental disorder but it was a blurring of homesickness and a desire for different better times

It's evolved into its current meaning: a fondness for objects or experiences of the past

 

[Beerfish]

I work in a Hi-Fi store, we sell about 5 cd players a week.

Hell there are CD players that go for 3499 AUD these days.

I'd love to get another 5 disc turntable. Do they still sell those?

5 cougars thanks

Now there's an ad I'd forgotten about that would never get the tick today.. I think?

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

was it two beers, two gin and tonics and a scotch?

 

[JackOutback]

was it two beers, two gin and tonics and a scotch?

I walked up to the bar girl thinking '5 cougars, 5 cougars, 5 cougars', but took one look and said 'two flat whites, thanks'.

 

[Norwegian Blue]

was it two beers, two gin and tonics and a scotch?

See for yourself:



If you scroll down the comments, the lady herself makes an appearance.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

VODKAS not beer

 

[Gough]

was it two beers, two gin and tonics and a scotch?

That was a John Lee Hooker song wasn't it?

 

[Pistol Night]

That was a John Lee Hooker song wasn't it?

George Thorogood

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

one bourbon, one scotch, one beer

 

[Scotland]

2000s alcohol ads were great. Cougar, Jim Beam, Carlton Draught, Hahn Premium Light all got in on the action. The Toyota Hilux ads were in the same vein.

Now we live in a time where people are offended by ads that are clever and well made but sports betting ads being woven into the coverage of sports is somehow OK.

 

[Pistol Night]

2000s alcohol ads were great. Cougar, Jim Beam, Carlton Draught, Hahn Premium Light all got in on the action. The Toyota Hilux ads were in the same vein.

Now we live in a time where people are offended by ads that are clever and well made but sports betting ads being woven into the coverage of sports is somehow OK.

Jayden Stephenson is a great example of how hypocritical the AFL are when its comes to betting and sponsorship revenue. Ads promoting it on every medium even during games but a kid gets caught falling victim to their trap and gets hung, drawn and quartered

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

The “big beer ad” was so good