Society & Culture Things that Make You Feel Old

[Scotland]

I find it strange that I may well be conversing online with people who were born after 9/11. It's so weird because, even though I was only 9 at the time, I can still remember that day vividly. The kids who were born after that probably don't have any real idea of the impact that event had on the world.

When I 'converse online' with people born after 9/11 plain clothed officers with clipboards knock on the door and ask questions.

I don't really feel old because I still do a lot of the same shit I did as a teenager (play video games 'till 2am, eat junk food with little care for my body, jerk off); just replace slacking off at school all day with slacking off at uni/work. It does annoy me though when I see people who are years younger than me but far more successful.

You might have stumbled on the source of your annoyance there.

I don't mind seeing people younger than me who are successful. I've got a lot more time for the 25 year old who works his arse off than the 30 year old who's barely competent but gets by on Daddy's money/name.

 

[perthblue]

I find it strange that I may well be conversing online with people who were born after 9/11. It's so weird because, even though I was only 9 at the time, I can still remember that day vividly. The kids who were born after that probably don't have any real idea of the impact that event had on the world.

I don't really feel old because I still do a lot of the same shit I did as a teenager (play video games 'til 2am, eat junk food with little care for my body, jerk off); just replace slacking off at school all day with slacking off at uni/work. It does annoy me though when I see people who are years younger than me but far more successful.

you can't spend your whole life jerking off m8.
well unless you started recording yourself doing it.

 

[Jobe Watson]

When I 'converse online' with people born after 9/11 plain clothed officers with clipboards knock on the door and ask questions.

I was worried that line might come off a bit To Catch a Predator-y.

But seriously, people born in 2001 are 15/16 years old now. There's probably a bunch of them on BigFooty, posting dank memes and talking about how 'lit' various things are.

you can't spend your whole life jerking off m8.
well unless you started recording yourself doing it.

I already do that.

 

[Scotland]

Whenever someone says 'dank' I feel old.

 

[Plugger35]

When you say dank memes I think of something like this.

you can't spend your whole life jerking off m8.
well unless you started recording yourself doing it.

That's another thing that makes you feel old, not being able to jerk off as much as you used to, even that becomes an effort.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

In about 2 years and 5 months the 90s started 30 years ago

what the ****. That wins.

 

[Billy ray]

You know you’re getting old when your favorite kind of plans are cancelled plans

 

[Scotland]

My favourite kind of plans are DENTAL PLANS.

 

[Marmozet]

Seeing blokes I played footy with as early as Under 9s playing AFL.

 

[Spongebob]

I keep getting phone calls about funeral insurance.

 

[kickazz]

I swear there is large segment of people in the 20-25 age range now who have seemingly no knowledge or awareness of anything that existed before they were born, or even before high school age.

When I was a kid in the '90s, I had the TV or radio going on all the time, or I was reading about or being told about something by my parents. The generation after had the Internet to grow up with as well, yet somehow they're less knowledgeable about the world around them than ever. I mean, you don't need to be a history buff or be living in the past, but some 20-somethings appear like the world just got turned on in 2005, and that nothing came before it. I'm not even 30 until next year, but it makes me feel old.

Yeah it's weird, you get the types that will say they haven't heard of Elvis because he died before they were born.........

 

[kickazz]

Telling the kids in the car that Smells Like Teen Spirit is a great song that is not really that old is equivalent to your parents, back when SLTS came out, saying the same about "The Sound of Silence" my Simon Garfunkle or the Beatles' "Day Tripper"

 

[kickazz]

Makes me feel old?

-pain
-not being able to binge drink with my mates like I used to.
-lamenting the demise of the video store, the record store.
-remembering what I used to pay for beer

 

[MatthewB]

Makes me feel old?


-remembering what I used to pay for beer

i miss $2 beers then on a friday night you get happy hour for 2 hours and a beer was only $1

 

[Gough]

i miss $2 beers then on a friday night you get happy hour for 2 hours and a beer was only $1

Change from $3 for 25 Dunhills.

 

[KardiniaPark]

i miss $2 beers then on a friday night you get happy hour for 2 hours and a beer was only $1

The Workers in Fitzroy on Mondays has $2 pots, $4 pints, $8 jugs.

 

[JackOutback]

I remember going to see Toy Story at the cinema in 1995. Doesn't feel like that was 22 years ago.

The cinema I saw it at (Hoyts Carousel v1.0) was demolished "a few years ago". In 1998.

Ah, I remember that Carousel. Saw classics like Rocky V there.

 

[Admiral Byng]

Usually listening to young people's music. Some band I never heard of doing a bad cover of an old song I remember from my youth.

But, the other day I walked past a group of school kids. They were playing Guns & Roses Sweet Child of Mine. It is what I used to listen to, song came out when I was in Year 11 or 12.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

what the ****. That wins.

Also, we are closer to the start of the 2030 AFL Season than we are the 2003 AFL Season.

 

[JackOutback]

Usually listening to young people's music. Some band I never heard of doing a bad cover of an old song I remember from my youth.

But, the other day I walked past a group of school kids. They were playing Guns & Roses Sweet Child of Mine. It is what I used to listen to, song came out when I was in Year 11 or 12.

I like new music as well as the music I grew up with (I mean, not commercial music, obviously). I don't ever want to be that guy who says music is somehow objectively worse now than in years gone by. It's not, most people just don't find the time to search for great music.

 

[Admiral Byng]

I like new music as well as the music I grew up with (I mean, not commercial music, obviously). I don't ever want to be that guy who says music is somehow objectively worse now than in years gone by. It's not, most people just don't find the time to search for great music.

I like some new music too. Good music is good music regardless of who and when it was performed.

I was in the barber shop the other day (at least I still have my own hair) and they were playing a radio station I don't usually listen to. They announced it was time to go retro and play an old song - they played a cover of a U2 song. That sort of thing makes me feel old, when the cover version of a song is considered old and retro.

 

[Keys]

My reflection

 

[GPW1]

My favourite kind of plans are DENTAL PLANS.

Lisa needs braces

Edit: In the spirit of the thread, this episode of the Simpsons is now 24 years old.

 

[SugarShane]

• September 11 happened closer to 1985 than the present day.

Along the same line, the release of Back to the Future was longer ago than 1955 was in the film (30 years).

• Alicia Silverstone plays the mother of teenagers in the recently released 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' movie.

This one really got me when I saw the trailer. It was one of those realising your own mortality moments. "She's the mum in a wholesome family movie? But I used to bat off to her."

 

[NSWCROW]

Saying " ****en P-Platers "