Things that make you feel old

[Easy Mac]

I was listening to music when Killing Me Softly came on. I remember listening to that song religiously on our 8th grade trip to DC. That song is now 15 years old. Then Color Me Bad came on. I Wanna Sex You Up is 20 years old.

Having a kid didn't make me feel old, but realizing that a song I grew up with is 20 years old makes me feel old. Basically, the distance between Killing Me Softly and now is the same as the distance between Sgr. Peppers and my birth, which seems like an entirely different epoch.

It's only going to get worse, isn't it.

[Pumpy Tudors]

What makes me feel old is that you mentioned the song "Killing Me Softly" and I thought only of the one that is most certainly NOT only 15 years old.

[Ironhead]

Realizing that someone born in 1995 is actually old enough to work.

[CrimsonFox]

I hate you, easy mac. Killing me softly - Roberta Flack is what went through my head.

Granted I only heard that in repeats on the radio. That's it.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I remember when I was a kid, I'd buy some kind of baseball magazine that The Sporting News would put out during spring training. It listed all the spring training rosters and had previews and all kinds of stuff. I used it to get rosters so I could enter them into MicroLeague Baseball. Anyway, back then, I remember thinking "Wow, some of these guys were born in the '70s and they're already in the majors." Most of the players at the time were born in the late '50s and '60s. Ugh. Now I REALLY feel old.

[ColtCrazy]

Realizing this school year will be the first that all my students are born in 2000 or later. No more students from the 1900s. That made me feel old.

[Lathum]

Shorty

[jeff061]

I was feeling fine until I noticed I'm older than Mac.

[Mustang]

Realizing that the car that my daughter will probably learn to drive in is going probably be a car made in 2020.

[RainMaker]

For me it's sports. When I see a 28-29 year old player and think "well he's getting old, only a couple years left". Then realize I'm 31.

[Swaggs]

There are only a handful (if that) of guys on my favorite sports teams that are older than me and that kind of hits it home for me.

[Sun Tzu]

I've always had a dream of somehow making it into professional baseball. I'd think, if I could just get a hot streak in semi-pro, maybe someone would notice me. Even if I putted around in the minors for a couple years and then hung up my cleats, I'd be happy.

This year I turned 29, and it occurred to me that even if I hit .500 in semi-pro and ran the basepaths like Rickey, I'd still be considered too old to sign to a developmental contract. That made me feel old...very old. :(

[johnnyshaka]

The kink in my neck that I get if I lay on the couch for too long. Fuck.

[GrantDawg]

There are only a handful (if that) of guys on my favorite sports teams that are older than me and that kind of hits it home for me.


Realizing no one on my favorite sports teams are older than me. Heck, hearing Chipper referred to as an "aging vet" when I still have a hard time thinking of him as anything but a kid.

But the number one thing? My 15 year old daughter.

[tucking fypo]

That Baby Spice is 35 years old now.

And that my students are studying US history from the 80's and 90's and I'm the one teaching them (I'm 37).

[Groundhog]

I was at a party a few weeks ago talking to a girl who was dressed like an 80s rocker, and she said to me "It's sorta strange how much I love 80s rock, considering I was born in the 90s". Straight away I felt like an old, old man.

[Groundhog]

For me it's sports. When I see a 28-29 year old player and think "well he's getting old, only a couple years left". Then realize I'm 31.

Yeah, this too.

[EagleFan]

What makes me feel old is that you mentioned the song "Killing Me Softly" and I thought only of the one that is most certainly NOT only 15 years old.

I hate you, easy mac. Killing me softly - Roberta Flack is what went through my head.

Granted I only heard that in repeats on the radio. That's it.

+1

[k0ruptr]

I've always had a dream of somehow making it into professional baseball. I'd think, if I could just get a hot streak in semi-pro, maybe someone would notice me. Even if I putted around in the minors for a couple years and then hung up my cleats, I'd be happy.

This year I turned 29, and it occurred to me that even if I hit .500 in semi-pro and ran the basepaths like Rickey, I'd still be considered too old to sign to a developmental contract. That made me feel old...very old. :(

27 yet I feel pretty much the same way.

[EagleFan]

A few things:

My youngest neice turning 24... she was born on the day I graduated from high school.

Seeing a sports star that is older than me as a rarity. Going from idolizing the men that played when I was a kid, to seeing players my age to now seeing those kids that play.

Listening to the crap that passes as music.

Having a doctor that is only two years older than me, plus she is hot. Though 10 years ago when I first went to her she was even hotter.

[Shkspr]

Smells Like Teen Spirit is as old now as Stairway to Heaven was when Smells Like Teen Spirit came out.

Stairway to Heaven is as old now as Minnie the Moocher was when Stairway to Heaven came out.

And for Bucc, Minnie the Moocher is as old now as Camptown Races was when Minnie the Moocher came out.

[bignej]

I took my kids to see the Easter bunny wearing 2 different shoes.....and it didn't bother me. Also, I sat in the waiting room at the hospital recently with a giant hole in my khaki colored shorts. Luckily, I was wearing black underwear so it wasn't so obvious.

[Suburban Rhythm]

We had a kid interning with us, now staying on part time.

He turns 21 next week and wants me (35) to go out with him and his friends.

I keep getting this image of them asking him why he brought his dad.

[Ksyrup]

What makes me feel old is that you mentioned the song "Killing Me Softly" and I thought only of the one that is most certainly NOT only 15 years old.

I didn't know there was another one.

I'm beyond the point of feeling old. I've always felt older than I am, so now my age is just catching up to my mental state.

[Noop]

Babies.

[Draft Dodger]

I was listening to music when Killing Me Softly came on. I remember listening to that song religiously on our 8th grade trip to DC. That song is now 15 years old.

oddly enough, that song reminds me of DC as well. I wasn't in 8th grade, though.

[korme]

realizing i can legally hook up with people born in 1993... weird

[3ric]

When one of my favorite players retired almost two years ago at an age of 38, and I realized he actually was 10 months younger than me.

[Passacaglia]

This forum is over 10 years old.

[albionmoonlight]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/movie_ages.png

[DaddyTorgo]

I don't feel that old honestly, which is nice. I went the other day to look at the new puppy my family is getting, and when we were chatting and I mentioned my age (it came up) I mentioned that I was 31 and the breeder said "Oh - I was thinking you were in your early 20s."

So that made me feel real young I guess. Although I suppose it could be taken both ways...

[BYU 14]

Hearing Grandpa in connection with my name...

[Kodos]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/movie_ages.png

Heh. I worked at the Dayton Mall Cinemas the summer that T2 came out. Long time ago.

"Would you like butter-flavored topping on your popcorn, sir?"

I'm 41, but have always looked and felt younger than I am. I attribute it to my general immaturity, and the fact that I generally stay out of the sun. Less toll on your skin over the years.

[I. J. Reilly]

Smells Like Teen Spirit is as old now as Stairway to Heaven was when Smells Like Teen Spirit came out.

You just blew my mind.

[Ksyrup]

Hell, ...And Justice For All will be 25 years old in a couple of years. I'm still holding out hope for an anniversary edition/remastering where they find Jason Newsted's long-lost bass tracks and add them to the mix.

[Buccaneer]

When one is older than every single professional sports player. Growing up, I too marveled at active players that were born in the 30s and 40s.

[AnalBumCover]

When someone of legal drinking age didn't know that The Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith was a remake.

[Alan T]

My body the day after a softball game makes me feel old!

[Maple Leafs]

I can't believe it's been almost 30 years since the California Raisins wrote "Heard It Through The Grapevine".

[korme]

When someone of legal drinking age didn't know that The Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith was a remake.

unacceptable if this person is a male

[Sun Tzu]

When someone of legal drinking age didn't know that The Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith was a remake.

Or when someone of legal drinking age doesn't realize that the background for "Pump It" by Black Eyed Peas (or, almost any of their other songs) is completely lifted in it's entirety from other songs several decades prior.

[AnalBumCover]

unacceptable if this person is a male
This person is a male.

[Chief Rum]

It's funny, because I work a serving job as my second source of income, so I work with a lot of college age kids, and count some of them among my better friends. So I am constantly reminded when I bring up something that ages me--I can see the glaze starting to film over their eyes when I mention a song from the 80s, lol.

That said, I still feel young and in touch, despite being 38 (which could also mean I am delusional and just prepping myself for senility).

[Coffee Warlord]

We got to talking about the movie thing at work, and came to the conclusion 1989 was one of the best movie release years...ever.

[MikeVic]

We got to talking about the movie thing at work, and came to the conclusion 1989 was one of the best movie release years...ever.

1994.

[Sun Tzu]

1989 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_in_film)

1994 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_film)

[korme]

You guys are making Coffee Warlord's point

[bronconick]

Going out early on St. Patrick's day with friends and realizing that *we* were the old people in the bar now.

Realizing that one of my cousins that followed me around the house all day at one of the last family X-mas' before my grandparents passed as a 2 year old toddler had her graduation party this year.

[britrock88]

Going out early on St. Patrick's day with friends and realizing that *we* were the old people in the bar now.

Given that it's late July, I'm not surprised you would be the oldest guys celebrating St. Patty's Day.

[Passacaglia]

A few weeks ago, I found out my brother-in-law's fiancee, who is 23ish, had never heard of Tears For Fears.

[jeff061]

I had heard tons of Tears for Fears songs and no idea the name of the band until I was in my 20s.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I was bowling with some kids a few months ago, aged 18 and 17, and I mentioned how I once danced to "Sunglasses at Night" with my mother on a Halloween night in a gay bar. The only thing that fazed them was that they'd never heard of "Sunglasses at Night." Ugh.

[jeff061]

WTF is Sunglasses at Night gramps?

[Pumpy Tudors]

See? Nobody cares about the fact that I was in a gay bar with my mother on Halloween.

[jeff061]

You do seem to enjoy talking about sweaty balls....just saying.

[Suicane75]

See? Nobody cares about the fact that I was in a gay bar with my mother on Halloween.

Where did she play basketball?



What makes me feel old? This heat. This heat and the way it makes me feel old.

[JediKooter]

Not sure if this should make me feel old or young, but, if I bang that cute 21 year old bartender, I would think that she would make me feel young.

[Suicane75]

Bangin isn't the hard part, it's the skating and hiking and the this and that she'll want to do after wards.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Not sure if this should make me feel old or young, but, if I bang that cute 21 year old bartender, I would think that she would make me feel young.
No, you'd just feel old after falling asleep in the middle of it.

[JediKooter]

Bangin isn't the hard part, it's the skating and hiking and the this and that she'll want to do after wards.

If I time it right, she'll have to go to work after we're done banging. ;)

[Sun Tzu]

Yeah, and the herps she gives you will make you feel liked a bona-fide teenager!

[JediKooter]

The gift that keeps on giving.

[johnnyshaka]

Bangin isn't the hard part, it's the skating and hiking and the this and that she'll want to do after wards.

You Sam Malone?

[JonInMiddleGA]

I suspect that by tomorrow I'll be able to add "going to a concert at a club" to this list.

[JediKooter]

No, you'd just feel old after falling asleep in the middle of it.

Sorry I missed your post...I fell asleep.

[rlmayer32]

My daughters wedding last Saturday sure didn't make me feel any younger. :eek:

[JonInMiddleGA]

I believe my suspicion was correct, pretty sure it's safe to add "going to a concert at a club".

My neck is gonna be sore in the morning (my back is already killing me after standing for about 5 hours).

[Ksyrup]

The only concerts I go to are at clubs. I don't go all that often, though. I haven't been to an arena for a show since... the early 90s maybe? I must be forgetting some show I've seen in the past 20 years.

[JonInMiddleGA]

The only concerts I go to are at clubs. I don't go all that often, though. I haven't been to an arena for a show since... the early 90s maybe? I must be forgetting some show I've seen in the past 20 years.

Amphitheaters are the new "arenas" I think.

Off hand, the only arena show I've seen in the last 20 years was Metallica (with somewhat unlikely opening acts Trapt & Chevelle). Everything else has been outside IIRC.

[cougarfreak]

The fact my doctor put me on testosterone last week? That's an eye opening experience. I had noticed my temper flaring quite a bit, as well as some serious mood swings. Enough that my wife said some, so I was proactive and did some research. Sure enough, after bloodwork came back, I was deemed very low.

[BYU 14]

If I time it right, she'll have to go to work after we're done banging. ;)

Make sure you start no more than 3 minutes before she has to leave then :)

[Draft Dodger]

Hell, ...And Justice For All will be 25 years old in a couple of years. I'm still holding out hope for an anniversary edition/remastering where they find Jason Newsted's long-lost bass tracks and add them to the mix.

this

[JediKooter]

Make sure you start no more than 3 minutes before she has to leave then :)

I think I can get it down to a minute and a half. ;)

[tucking fypo]

Watching the "Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 90's" on VH1 Classic is a classic feel old moment.

[Mustang]

When my daughter is my age...

The Beatles will have been broken up for around 78 years.

War Vets from the first Gulf War will be in their 70's

WWII Vets (based on Frank Buckles age) will have been gone for around 8 years.

Me knowing WWII vets to her kids will be the equivalent of my grandparents knowing Civil War Vets.

Justin Bieber will be 54.

All the presidents up to now might be dead. (Obama would be the oldest at around 87)

[tucking fypo]

That just blew my mind, mustang, because I'm thinking we're the same age.

[Passacaglia]

Either that, or you're too old to do the math properly :p

[CU Tiger]

We had some friends over the other night and played some board game knock off of outburst.

I picked a music category. Each category had 10 answers a point for each...the question Garth Brooks songs. My daughter, "Garth Brooks, who is SHE?"...

that made me feel old.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Wearing bifocals (as of this afternoon)

[ColtCrazy]

Okay, Mustang's list aged me 5 years. When my youngest (twins) are my age, I'll be 70. By comparison, my dad is 63 now. Ugh.

[PilotMan]

Seeing all the old guys who used to be on my baseball cards coaching and managing now. Oh, and Davey Johnson looks like Casey Stengel now.

[Mustang]

Either that, or you're too old to do the math properly :p

You made me double check, do the math wrong on the recalc, fix it.. realize I was right and change it back. I must be getting old. :)

My daughter will be 41 on August 29, 2048.

[cartman]

When I went to the Rolling Stones concert at the Cotton Bowl back in '90, it had been 25 years since 'Satisfaction' had been released. For folks going to the U2 concerts this year, it has been 25 years since 'The Joshua Tree' was released.

[Dodgerchick]

This

[Passacaglia]

This

I'll be there with you in two weeks!

[Jon]

I feel old when I see players I grew up watching play now head coaches (ex: Jim Harbaugh--I still remember him in the 1996 AFC Championship Game).

[MizzouRah]

I've listening to 70's and 80's music on satellite radio and my kids just stare into space as I sing along.

[heybrad]

I just saw an article on Yahoo that the hot teacher in Van Halens 'Hot for Teacher' video is now 60.

She looks great for 60 but it still made me feel old.

[Lathum]

I feel old when I see players I grew up watching play now head coaches (ex: Jim Harbaugh--I still remember him in the 1996 AFC Championship Game).

To piggy back on this, it makes me feel old when guys I watched have kids playing.

[Blackadar]

The family was watching Tron2 on TV the other week. At one point, the hero finds out that an old pager that his father used to use recently got a page.

My 12 year old son turned to me and asked, "Dad, what's a pager?"

:(

[RomaGoth]

This

That is a rather unfair poll imo. Notice how the ages are separated by only 2-3 years, then suddenly, at the ripe old age of 35, you are included with the nearing 50 crowd? :rant:

[RomaGoth]

I remember when I wasn't embarrassed when hearing Steven Tyler sing. :(

[fortheglory]

When Marty went back in time 30 years he went from 1985 to 1955. In the sequel he went 30 years into the future 30 years to the year 2015 where there was a professional baseball team in Miami. We are three years from that date.

[path12]

Getting your first junk mail application from AARP.

[Wolfpack]

To hear someone say or read that something hasn't happened since 1992, for example, which doesn't seem that long ago, but then get broadsided by the realization that it's 20 years ago now.

Most recently this occurred when I was perusing the State board tonight and saw a thread about the last time State beat Duke at Cameron when Coach K was the head coach. It was 1988. Dammit, that was 24 years ago??! (The Coach K qualifier excludes the one win in 1995 when K had to step down for a year due to health issues.)

[Draft Dodger]

I just saw an article on Yahoo that the hot teacher in Van Halens 'Hot for Teacher' video is now 60.

She looks great for 60 but it still made me feel old.

wow, that definitely does it for me

[Matthean]

Getting your first junk mail application from AARP.

I have been getting those since I was like 35. They confuse me greatly.

[BillJasper]

I just saw an article on Yahoo that the hot teacher in Van Halens 'Hot for Teacher' video is now 60.

She looks great for 60 but it still made me feel old.

Time is a harsh mistress. :(

[Jughead Spock]

Tim Hardaway.



Junior.

[LloydLungs]

Watching a Ferris Bueller 25 Years Later special the other night and seeing Cameron as a gray-haired man with a beard. Ugh.

[britrock88]

Tim Hardaway.



Junior.

:D

[Matthean]

Watching a Ferris Bueller 25 Years Later special the other night and seeing Cameron as a gray-haired man with a beard. Ugh.

I just looked him up. He turns 56 this year.

[Lathum]

Whitney Houston we hardly knew ye - Front Office Football Central (http://operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=83423)

[Icy]

I'm 36 years old.

- That i don't need to fake my age when I create myself as coach in Football Manager as my real one looked too young for a coach.

- That most of pro sport players are too old to keep playing and usually retire at my age, when i feel i'm stronger and healthier than ever and i reurned to play organized soccer past year.

[Lathum]

The Grammys

[larrymcg421]

http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-091130-family-ties/ss-091130-family-ties-Brian-Bonsall.grid-6x2.jpg

[B & B]

Fucking Larry.

[RomaGoth]

Selling your hockey card collection and you remember when some of these guys were rookies. Now, a box of unopened 1990 cards is 22 years old.


:(

[Coffee Warlord]

When Marty went back in time 30 years he went from 1985 to 1955. In the sequel he went 30 years into the future 30 years to the year 2015 where there was a professional baseball team in Miami. We are three years from that date.

Just remember, all we have to do is get Miami moved into the AL, and all the pieces are in place for the Cubs to win the World Series in 2015.

At which point I'll celebrate on my hoverboard.

[larrymcg421]

Just remember, all we have to do is get Miami moved into the AL, and all the pieces are in place for the Cubs to win the World Series in 2015.

At which point I'll celebrate on my hoverboard.

We can also expect 15 new Jaws movies within the next 3 years.

[cartman]

All of the tweets last night asking "Who in the hell is Paul McCartney".

[JediKooter]

All of the tweets last night asking "Who in the hell is Paul McCartney".

If they were serious, that's like asking "who in the hell is Beethoven?"

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

more of a random thought, but... it still boggles my mind that dave coulier was the impetus for jagged little pill.

[Ksyrup]

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l146/mon_montrose/--/001/2pIG1.jpg

[Easy Mac]

Just remember, all we have to do is get Miami moved into the AL, and all the pieces are in place for the Cubs to win the World Series in 2015.

At which point I'll celebrate on my hoverboard.

Yes, yes you will

Mattel's hoverboard keeps McFly planted on terra firma, away from water -- Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/14/back-to-the-future-mattel-hoverboard-replica/)

[Passacaglia]

Things that make you go hmm.... is over 20 years old.

[Grover]

more of a random thought, but... it still boggles my mind that dave coulier was the impetus for jagged little pill.

Did you know Coulier shaves his balls?

/Saget

[JediKooter]

Did you know Coulier shaves his balls?

/Saget

So does Kathy Griffin.

[RomaGoth]

Did you know Coulier shaves his balls?

/Saget

So does Kathy Griffin.

Kathy Griffin shaves Coulier's balls? :eek:

[JediKooter]

Kathy Griffin shaves Coulier's balls? :eek:

Yes. But, don't tell Pumpy.

[PilotMan]

When you're looking for answers on the internet and come across a web board and one of the options is transfer using a floppy disk.

Yeah, and then you remember when a floppy disk was the shit. That's when.

[stevew]

Steve Nash is in his 8th season with the Suns. It seems like he switched teams just a few years ago.

[molson]

Gary Carter passing away at 57. 57!

[Suicane75]

Giving the new Life Alert, "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady the once over and thinking to myself, "yeah, I would".

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Was asked by a teenage girl yesterday to help her buy spray paint because they won't sell it to anybody under 18 without a parent.

So after checking out she says "See you later Dad." I replied "Say hi to your mom for me."

Then I get carded because I am buying canned air.

[Julio Riddols]

The american version of dubstep.

[Peregrine]

Gary Carter passing away at 57. 57!

ESPN Classic was showing some classic Gary Carter games, like the last game of the the 1986 world series. I used to be a huge baseball fan but haven't been since the mid 90s, so the fact that I undoubtedly knew the names of those mid-80s players better than the current ones, sure made me feel old.

[PilotMan]

ESPN Classic was showing some classic Gary Carter games, like the last game of the the 1986 world series. I used to be a huge baseball fan but haven't been since the mid 90s, so the fact that I undoubtedly knew the names of those mid-80s players better than the current ones, sure made me feel old.

Remembering that Bruce Bochy was a backup catcher for the Padres. Ron Gardenhire was a so-so utility infielder. Mike Scoscia was a Dodger catcher, and so on and so on and so on.

Also, 1981, the strike shortened baseball season when Fernandomania ran wild and the Dodgers knocked off the Yankees in the Series, is as far away from now, as the end of WWII was when I was born. That's painful.

[cartman]

A quote from a UT football recruit that is a junior in high school:

Noted Seals-Jones: "When I was little, I used to watch guys like Vince Young, Kevin Durant and D.J. Augustin play for UT and I became a fan. I was looking for a school with great academics and great people to be around, and I saw that at Texas."

[Grover]

Hell I'm 28 and that quote from the UT recruit makes me feel old.

[JediKooter]

I remember John Elway refusing to sign with the BALTIMORE Colts, when he was drafted.

[Ksyrup]

Vulgar Display of Power is 20 years old. I mean, we're not talking high school here - this was middle of college for me. Damn.

[Buccaneer]

Vulgar Display of Power is 20 years old. I mean, we're not talking high school here - this was middle of college for me. Damn.

Raiders of the Lost Ark was middle college for me and now over 30 years ago.

[Lathum]

Raiders of the Lost Ark was middle college for me and now over 30 years ago.

The movie or the actual Ark being created?

[JediKooter]

The movie or the actual Ark being created?

So are you saying he was in the crowd in the chariot race scene of Ben Hur? When it was really Ben Hur?

[JonInMiddleGA]

My son went to his first school dance tonight

[Draft Dodger]

driving through town yesterday, spotted a young girl waiting on the sidewalk. as a parent, my first thought was I wonder if I should top and wait with her until her parent shows up because I hate seeing her standing all alone like that.

then I realized she in college

[Matthean]

Tim Hardaway.



Junior.

Next year Michigan adds Glen Robinson III.

[EagleFan]

driving through town yesterday, spotted a young girl waiting on the sidewalk. as a parent, my first thought was I wonder if I should top and wait with her until her parent shows up because I hate seeing her standing all alone like that.

then I realized she in college

It could have been quite entertaining for us if you had stopped.


Either:

A. She goes off on you for thinking she needed you to wait with her because she is insulted.

B. She ridicules you for what she sees as a lame attempt by an old guy to pick her up.

C. She panics and calls the police.

D. She panics and pepper sprays you.

E. Dear penthouse forum...



Either way, it makes for a fun thread. :D

[Ksyrup]

Jeerry Gaskill, drummer for KX, had a heart attack this weekend. My favorite band of all-time. This sucks. Looks like he's going to be OK, but apparently had to be given CPR. He's not even the oldest guy in the band, either. I'm getting old.

[Matthean]

What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? - Super User (http://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for)

[Shkspr]

Raiders of the Lost Ark was middle college for me and now over 30 years ago.

Discovering Buccaneer may be as little as 10 years older than me.

[fantom1979]

Looked up Barry Sanders yesterday and realized that he has been retired for 14 years.

My 15 year old nephew is a Foo Fighters fan and has no idea what 'Everlong' is. He also has no idea what Nirvana was.

/oldmanrant
I kind of miss my $4.95/month pager, instead I have a $99/month phone that mainly just send texts on.
/endrant

[Edward64]

In no particular order


Remembering playing the first Pirates game on C-64 (and MULE, 7 Cities of Gold). Remembering playing the first Civ game (and other Microprose games)
Thinking about my first car, a hand me down red 77 Chevy Caprice
Seeing an old 300ZX (early 90's) parked and remembering that was the sports car I always wanted (the newer Z cars seem wide load heavy)
Once in a while, I read something in the news about the past ... thinking it was only x years but find out it was really much longer ago
I have Millennium kids on my team
Watching my kids grow up, they are both 10+ (wife and I were talking about how our lifestyle changed after they were born)

[Grover]

Looked up Barry Sanders yesterday and realized that he has been retired for 14 years.

My 15 year old nephew is a Foo Fighters fan and has no idea what 'Everlong' is. He also has no idea what Nirvana was.



Even these things make me feel old.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Although I haven't yet asked any of the young folks I know, I imagine that there's probably a whole generation of kids out there who have no idea what the Brady Bunch was.

[Jughead Spock]

The Brady Bunch *MOVIE* is 17 years old.

[fantom1979]

Remembering playing the first Pirates game on C-64 (and MULE, 7 Cities of Gold). Remembering playing the first Civ game (and other Microprose games)


I had a guy in at work ask me if I remember when the first Diablo came out. :(
Not only do I remember buying the first Diablo, but I bought it from the computer store that I worked at, and I remember the computer I played it on (Packard Bell Pentium 100mhz, 16mb ram, 1.6gb HD, 14.4k modem/sound card). This computer was a beast compared to the IBM XT I had before it.

[Buccaneer]

First computer game I played was in 1978 called Adventure (later Colossal Cave). Some of you remember that..."You are standing at the end of a road next to a building...". Since I was never into consoles (I wasn't a kid when they came out), I waited until SimCity came out 1988 to play my first real PC (Mac) game, and then it was mostly Microprose on the Mac for the next 6 years.

[Matthean]

The Brady Bunch *MOVIE* is 17 years old.

Ok, this got a "Holy sh..." comment out of me.

[IlliniCub]

When the adult entertainment starts you grew up watching are now in the MILF category

[Matthean]

When the adult entertainment starts you grew up watching are now in the MILF category

Also going through the process of accepting the fact you could see yourself dating a mid-40 year old woman if she wasn't dating somebody.

[Wolfpack]

We recently added a fresh-out-of-college guy to our staff. If he's 22 as most graduates would be, that means he'd be born at the earliest sometime in the fall of 1989. That means he won't remember the first Gulf War or GHW Bush's presidency and only has a good recollection of Clinton's second term.

I'm pretty sure I have a few shirts that are older than him that have survived in a box somewhere (or at least nearly as old...I've got quite a few from my high school years when he would have been a toddler or Pre-K).

[Grover]

We recently added a fresh-out-of-college guy to our staff. If he's 22 as most graduates would be, that means he'd be born at the earliest sometime in the fall of 1989. That means he won't remember the first Gulf War or GHW Bush's presidency and only has a good recollection of Clinton's second term.

I'm pretty sure I have a few shirts that are older than him that have survived in a box somewhere (or at least nearly as old...I've got quite a few from my high school years when he would have been a toddler or Pre-K).

I've dated a girl born in the spring of '89 ;)

[BYU 14]

Also going through the process of accepting the fact you could see yourself dating a mid-40 year old woman if she wasn't dating somebody.

Or when that woman suddenly falls into the younger woman category :)

[TCY Junkie]

I've dated a girl born in the spring of '89 ;)

I'm 33 and I dumped a girl because she was no longer under 21, so thats not why but it did coincide.

I went out with this 25 year old and liked her intelligent banter, that makes me feel old. Usually just go out again with really sarcastic girls, I don't know whats happening.

[Matthean]

Or when that woman suddenly falls into the younger woman category :)

Gonna be a while.

I'm 33 and I dumped a girl because she was no longer under 21, so thats not why but it did coincide.

I went out with this 25 year old and liked her intelligent banter, that makes me feel old. Usually just go out again with really sarcastic girls, I don't know whats happening.

That's what I like about these high school girls; I get older, they stay the same age.

[EagleFan]

What makes me feel older?

Watching 30 somethings bitch about getting older...

[Autumn]

I'm attending college half-time. Most of the students are nontraditional students, like me (I'm 37). But there is a girl in one of my classes who was born the year I started dating my wife. Which makes sense, but I had to look at that sentence like three times, thinking I was misreading it, it just seemed so wrong.

[Buccaneer]

When I go out to lunch, it's usually Chipotle downtown. Our city's original high school is in the downtown area as well and I get to see (and observe with amusement) all of the teens coming into Chipotle for lunch. I believe the freshmen are just about young enough to be my grandchild (funny since I have a 15 yr old kid).

[AENeuman]

Just gave the Mr.Hand my-time, your-time speech to my class.

[heybrad]

Just gave the Mr.Hand my-time, your-time speech to my class.
If you're here, and I'm here, isn't it our time?

[molson]

Just gave the Mr.Hand my-time, your-time speech to my class.

And that movie's 30 years old now. So if you were a kid in the 80s, that would be like a teacher back then making reference to 1950s pop-culture. To kids now, the 80s are what the 50s were to us.

[CraigSca]

And that movie's 30 years old now. So if you were a kid in the 80s, that would be like a teacher back then making reference to 1950s pop-culture. To kids now, the 80s are what the 50s were to us.

Yep, I used to put in baseball terms. Growing up in the 80's, the 60's were absolutely foreign to me. Guys like Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda, Roberto Clemente, etc. I knew of them, but had never seen them play. Well, that era is now the 1990s for kids growing up now - Frank Thomas, Bo Jackson, the Bash Brothers from the A's - never heard of them!

[Matthean]

And that movie's 30 years old now. So if you were a kid in the 80s, that would be like a teacher back then making reference to 1950s pop-culture. To kids now, the 80s are what the 50s were to us.

I have thought about this with music before and it depresses me.

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[Drake]

I have thought about this with music before and it depresses me.

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This video has been cracking up all the women in my office this morning. Thanks for sharing.

[Ksyrup]

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The long-lost Jedi: Meatloaf Skywalker

[Matthean]

The Mindset List: 2016 List (http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2016/)

Beloit University's annual listing for the mindset of a college freshman.

[Kodos]

Heh. I totally thought that was Meat Loaf.

[JPhillips]

College freshmen were only 7 on 9/11.

In two or three years freshmen will have no memory of 9/11. It will be just another historical event.

[Dutch]

College Freshmen were 4 years old when Front Office Football v1 was released.

[saldana]

i had to explain to my girlfriend's daughter (who is 16) what happened during the munich olympics

[JeeberD]

At work yesterday one of my employees asked how long I had been working for OG. I told her that it will be 12 years in January, and she responded with, "Dang...I was 6 when you started."

[Rizon]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/movie_ages.png

The Little Mermaid one seriously blows my mind.

[miami_fan]

The Mindset List: 2017 List (http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2017/)


When the Class of 2017 arrives on campus this fall, these digital natives will already be well-connected to each other. They are more likely to have borrowed money for college than their Boomer parents were, and while their parents foresee four years of school, the students are pretty sure it will be longer than that. Members of this year’s first year class, most of them born in 1995, will search for the academic majors reported to lead to good-paying jobs, and most of them will take a few courses taught at a distant university by a professor they will never meet.

The use of smart phones in class may indicate they are reading the assignment they should have read last night, or they may be recording every minute of their college experience…or they may be texting the person next to them. If they are admirers of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, they may wonder whether a college degree is all it’s cracked up to be, even as their dreams are tempered by the reality that tech geniuses come along about as often as Halley’s Comet, which they will not glimpse until they reach what we currently consider “retirement age.”

Though they have never had the chicken pox, they are glad to have access to health insurance for a few more years. They will study hard, learn a good deal more, teach their professors quite a lot, and realize eventually that they will soon be in power. After all, by the time they hit their thirties, four out of ten voters will be of their generation. Whatever their employers may think of them, politicians will be paying close attention.

Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. Prepared by Beloit’s former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief and Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride, the list was originally created as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references. It quickly became an internationally monitored catalog of the changing worldview of each new college generation. Mindset List websites at themindsetlist.com and beloit.edu, as well as the Mediasite webcast and their Facebook page receive more than a million visits annually.

The Mindset List for the Class of 2017

For this generation of entering college students, born in 1995, Dean Martin, Mickey Mantle, and Jerry Garcia have always been dead.

1. Eminem and LL Cool J could show up at parents’ weekend.
2. They are the sharing generation, having shown tendencies to share everything, including possessions, no matter how personal.
3. GM means food that is Genetically Modified.
4. As they started to crawl, so did the news across the bottom of the television screen.
5. “Dude” has never had a negative tone.
6. As their parents held them as infants, they may have wondered whether it was the baby or Windows 95 that had them more excited.
7. As kids they may well have seen Chicken Run but probably never got chicken pox.
8. Having a chat has seldom involved talking.
9. Gaga has never been baby talk.
10. They could always get rid of their outdated toys on eBay.
11. They have known only two presidents.
12. Their TV screens keep getting smaller as their parents’ screens grow ever larger.
13. PayPal has replaced a pen pal as a best friend on line.
14. Rites of passage have more to do with having their own cell phone and Skype accounts than with getting a driver’s license and car.
15. The U.S. has always been trying to figure out which side to back in Middle East conflicts.
16. A tablet is no longer something you take in the morning.
17. Threatening to shut down the government during Federal budget negotiations has always been an anticipated tactic.
18. Growing up with the family dog, one of them has worn an electronic collar, while the other has toted an electronic lifeline.
19. Plasma has never been just a bodily fluid.
20. The Pentagon and Congress have always been shocked, absolutely shocked, by reports of sexual harassment and assault in the military.
21. Spray paint has never been legally sold in Chicago.
22. Captain Janeway has always taken the USS Voyager where no woman or man has ever gone before.
23. While they've grown up with a World Trade Organization, they have never known an Interstate Commerce Commission.
24. Courts have always been ordering computer network wiretaps.
25. Planes have never landed at Stapleton Airport in Denver.
26. Jurassic Park has always had rides and snack bars, not free-range triceratops and velociraptors.
27. Thanks to Megan's Law and Amber Alerts, parents have always had community support in keeping children safe.
28. With GPS, they have never needed directions to get someplace, just an address.
29. Java has never been just a cup of coffee.
30. Americans and Russians have always cooperated better in orbit than on earth.
31. Olympic fever has always erupted every two years.
32. Their parents have always bemoaned the passing of precocious little Calvin and sarcastic stuffy Hobbes.
33. In their first 18 years, they have watched the rise and fall of Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriquez.
34. Yahoo has always been looking over its shoulder for the rise of "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”
35. Congress has always been burdened by the requirement that they comply with the anti-discrimination and safety laws they passed for everybody else to follow.
36. The U.S. has always imposed economic sanctions against Iran.
37. The Celestine Prophecy has always been bringing forth a new age of spiritual insights.
38. Smokers in California have always been searching for their special areas, which have been harder to find each year.
39. They aren’t surprised to learn that the position of Top Spook at the CIA is an equal opportunity post.
40. They have never attended a concert in a smoke-filled arena.
41. As they slept safely in their cribs, the Oklahoma City bomber and the Unabomber were doing their deadly work.
42. There has never been a national maximum speed on U.S. highways.
43. Don Shula has always been a fine steak house.
44. Their favorite feature films have always been largely, if not totally, computer generated.
45. They have never really needed to go to their friend’s house so they could study together.
46. They have never seen the Bruins at Boston Garden, the Trailblazers at Memorial Coliseum, the Supersonics in Key Arena, or the Canucks at the Pacific Coliseum.
47. Dayton, Ohio, has always been critical to international peace accords.
48. Kevin Bacon has always maintained six degrees of separation in the cinematic universe.
49. They may have been introduced to video games with a new Sony PlayStation left in their cribs by their moms.
50. A Wiki has always been a cooperative web application rather than a shuttle bus in Hawaii.
51. The Canadian Football League Stallions have always sung Alouette in Montreal after bidding adieu to Baltimore.
52. They have always been able to plug into USB ports
53. Olestra has always had consumers worried about side effects.
54. Washington, D.C., tour buses have never been able to drive in front of the White House.
55. Being selected by Oprah’s Book Club has always read “success.”
56. There has never been a Barings Bank in England.
57. Their parents’ car CD player is soooooo ancient and embarrassing.
58. New York’s Times Square has always had a splash of the Magic Kingdom in it.
59. Bill Maher has always been politically incorrect.
60. They have always known that there are “five hundred, twenty five thousand, six hundred minutes" in a year.


[AENeuman]

Asked my students for their favorite movies, here's one from a 16 year old:

1. Phantom Menace
2. Revenge of the Sith
3. All other Star Wars movies, except New Hope

[DaddyTorgo]

Asked my students for their favorite movies, here's one from a 16 year old:

1. Phantom Menace
2. Revenge of the Sith
3. All other Star Wars movies, except New Hope

That's just an indication of poor taste.

[Qwikshot]

Meh,

My twelve year old helps keep me relevant. That being said, I just realized that music turned to poo this Summer. I endured top 40 while she was up from the confines of Texas and other than that tolerable Daft Punk song, there was nothing remotely enjoyable.

But then again, I did manage to earn cred for liking Kanye.

Having a 18 month old concerns me though, I feel like with my daughter I was in-step with things, but when my son is twelve, I'll be 50.

It's just so weird, I'd always thought I'd be a young dad, I hated the idea of being an old dad, and yet, here I am, and my wife and I talk about adding two more...

So forget retirement...

I don't fear of losing my edge, I just fear we fall into an Idiocracy type state.

[molson]

I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you too.

[molson]

I saw these on facebook recently.

Ralph Macchio is now the same age that Pat Morita was in the original Karate Kid.

And Will Smith is now two years older than the actor who played Uncle Phil was during the first season of Fresh Prince.

[ColtCrazy]

We hired a new tutor this year at school. Cute, intelligent, and a great dry sense of humor….and 14 years younger than me.

My contract I signed this year says this is my 16th year.

A young mother dropped off her daughter to kindergarten. She came through school (I teach elementary) just 10 years ago.

I used to be one of the 4 or 5 youngest teachers in the building. Recent upheaval and retirements now make me the 5th most tenured teacher in the building.

Statis Pro Football, my favorite game growing up, hasn't produced a card set in 22 years.

My old babysitter (current bikini model..just fyi) is now married. She was born into the Clinton administration.

The last children born in the 20th century will be 14 this year. :eek:

[DaddyTorgo]

Who is this bikini model you speak of?

[Qwikshot]

I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you too.

GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

[britrock88]

Who is this bikini model you speak of?

Quoted for urgency.

[Wolfpack]

The Mindset List: 2017 List (http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2017/)
51. The Canadian Football League Stallions have always sung Alouette in Montreal after bidding adieu to Baltimore.

Mildly related thought: they've always known Baltimore had an NFL team and that Cleveland was an expansion team (no matter what the history books say).

[ColtCrazy]

Quoted for urgency.


Haha. I posted her sometime ago, but she's moved to Florida with husband and has been doing new stuff there. Every once in awhile my wife shows me her FB page and acts appalled at her poses. I think it's a trap to see what I'll say. :D

Anywhere, here you go. Model Mayhem (http://www.modelmayhem.com/2101932)

EDIT: Just remember, this is the make us feel old thread…so she was born in 1993.

[aknott]

Heh. I worked at the Dayton Mall Cinemas the summer that T2 came out. Long time ago.

"Would you like butter-flavored topping on your popcorn, sir?"

I'm 41, but have always looked and felt younger than I am. I attribute it to my general immaturity, and the fact that I generally stay out of the sun. Less toll on your skin over the years.

It's been awhile since there were even cinemas at the Dayton Mall. I remember seeing Rookie of the Year there.

[JonInMiddleGA]

EDIT: Just remember, this is the make us feel old thread…so she was born in 1993.

Hell, the fact that I remember when she was your babysitter kinda makes me feel old at this point :)

[finketr]

It's been awhile since there were even cinemas at the Dayton Mall. I remember seeing Rookie of the Year there.

Of course, there also used to be a Salem Mall...

[Kodos]

It's been awhile since there were even cinemas at the Dayton Mall.

But who will provide folks with their buttery-flavored topping for their popcorn?!


They must not have been able to carry on after I left.:D

[JPhillips]

By the 2016 election anyone under fifty will be too young to have cast a vote for or against Reagan.

[ColtCrazy]

Hell, the fact that I remember when she was your babysitter kinda makes me feel old at this point :)

Haha! :D


Speaking of movies, I remember seeing A View to a Kill in the theaters with my dad on my first trip to England. That movie is only 28 years old. :(

[Matthean]

By the 2016 election anyone under fifty will be too young to have cast a vote for or against Reagan.

To be fair, Reagan being the President was a really long time ago.

This might be one of the few times that list doesn't make me feel old. It just reads like a bunch of odd facts.

[chadritt]

Having someone who worked under me say "I don't know what you guys are talking about, I loved Jar Jar Binks when the movies came out. Of course I was 10..."

[TCY Junkie]

Jerry Jones, he seems like he's 110. Why can't he die so the cowboys can have a team again that can win 2 playoff games .................................................................. I don't understand how he gets people excited about crappy teams. I used to watch the braves when they were always in last place before David Justice, but I had hope maybe next year the team will turn around. With Jerry Jones there is no hope, what I don't understand is how the Cowboys are the highest value franchise in Football. I watch less football because how bad they suck.

[Matthean]

Jones is the new Al Davis.

[Rando]

And that movie's 30 years old now. So if you were a kid in the 80s, that would be like a teacher back then making reference to 1950s pop-culture. To kids now, the 80s are what the 50s were to us.

Was talking to my ex-wife just today and we somehow came upon the topic of John Carptenter's The Thing, one of her favorite movies of all time.

I had to mention that The Thing came out 31 years after the movie it remade, 1951's The Thing from Another World. It has now been 31 years since The Thing was released.

[Suicane75]

Was just watching a shoot interview with JJ Dillon, and at the end they show a picture of him from the 80's heyday of the Horsemen. It occurred to me that the normal thing is to be shocked by seeing someone who has aged, and that makes you feel old. But as I'm looking at the old pictures of him, I feel old in the sense that the current JJ Dillon is the one I'm now more used to, so seeing him younger, the one I should remember more vividly, is now the shock. If that makes any sense.

[Butter]

It's been awhile since there were even cinemas at the Dayton Mall. I remember seeing Rookie of the Year there.

Saw Spacecamp there. And Back to the Future, oddly enough.

[Matthean]

The movie School of Rock is ten years old. I knew it had been awhile, just not ten years.

[LaStarza61]

Realizing that I was in college 32 years ago when John Lennon was killed.

[AENeuman]

Local alternative radio station is doing an "old school" weekend... Nothing but music from the 90's

[terpkristin]

I guess not "old" as much as "mortal" but found out today that a great guy I met in college died this weekend. He was only a few years older than me, and was easily one of the nicest people I've ever met. The news isn't reporting his cause of death...one site says it could be suicide. But he was also 350 lb. so it wouldn't surprise me if it was other causes.

Josh Burdette, the face of the 9:30 Club, has died (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/09/02/josh-burdette-the-face-of-the-930-club-has-died/)

/tk

[miami_fan]

The Mindset List: 2019 List (http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2019/)


Students heading into their first year of college this year are mostly 18 and were born in 1997.

Among those who have never been alive in their lifetimes are Princess Diana, Notorious B.I.G., Jacques Cousteau, and Mother Teresa.

Joining them in the world the year they were born were Dolly the sheep, The McCaughey septuplets, and Michael “Prince” Jackson Jr.

Since they have been on the planet:

1. Hybrid automobiles have always been mass produced.

2. Google has always been there, in its founding words, “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible.”

3. They have never licked a postage stamp.

4. Email has become the new “formal” communication, while texts and tweets remain enclaves for the casual.

5. Four foul-mouthed kids have always been playing in South Park.

6. Hong Kong has always been under Chinese rule.

7. They have grown up treating Wi-Fi as an entitlement.

8. The NCAA has always had a precise means to determine a national champion in college football.

9. The announcement of someone being the “first woman” to hold a position has only impressed their parents.

10. Charlton Heston is recognized for waving a rifle over his head as much as for waving his staff over the Red Sea.

11. Color photos have always adorned the front page of The New York Times.

12. Ellis Island has always been primarily in New Jersey.

13. “No means no” has always been morphing, slowly, into “only yes means yes.”

14. Cell phones have become so ubiquitous in class that teachers don’t know which students are using them to take notes and which ones are planning a party.

15. The Airport in Washington, D.C., has always been Reagan National Airport.

16. Their parents have gone from encouraging them to use the Internet to begging them to get off it.

17. If you say “around the turn of the century,” they may well ask you, “which one?”

18. They have avidly joined Harry Potter, Ron, and Hermione as they built their reading skills through all seven volumes.

19. Attempts at human cloning have never been federally funded but do require FDA approval.

20. "Crosstown Classic” and the “Battle of the Bay” have always been among the most popular interleague rivalries in Major League Baseball.

21. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny has never been the official song of the Virginia Commonwealth.

22. Phish Food has always been available from Ben and Jerry.

23. Kyoto has always symbolized inactivity about global climate change.

24. When they were born, cell phone usage was so expensive that families only used their large phones, usually in cars, for emergencies.

25. The therapeutic use of marijuana has always been legal in a growing number of American states.

26. The eyes of Texas have never looked upon The Houston Oilers.

27. Teachers have always had to insist that term papers employ sources in addition to those found online.

28. In a world of DNA testing, the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington has never included a Vietnam War veteran “known only to God.”

29. Playhouse Disney was a place where they could play growing up.

30. Surgeons have always used “super glue” in the operating room.

31. Fifteen nations have always been constructing the International Space Station.

32. The Lion King has always been on Broadway.

33. Phoenix Lights is a series of UFO sightings, not a filtered cigarette.

34. Scotland and Wales have always had their own parliaments and assemblies.

35. At least Mom and Dad had their new Nintendo 64 to help them get through long nights sitting up with the baby.

36. First Responders have always been heroes.

37. Sir Paul and Sir Elton have always been knights of the same musical roundtable.

38. CNN has always been available en Español.

39. Heaven’s Gate has always been more a trip to Comet Hale-Bopp and less a film flop.

40. Splenda has always been a sweet option in the U.S.

41. The Atlanta Braves have always played at Turner Field.

42. Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic have always been members of NATO.

43. Humans have always had implanted radio frequency ID chips—slightly larger than a grain of rice.

44. TV has always been in such high definition that they could see the pores of actors and the grimaces of quarterbacks.

45. Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith have always been Men in Black, not their next-door neighbors.

46. The proud parents recorded their first steps on camcorders, mounted on their shoulders like bazookas.

47. They had no idea how fortunate they were to enjoy the final four years of Federal budget surpluses.

48. Amoco gas stations have steadily vanished from the American highway.

49. Vote-by-mail has always been the official way to vote in Oregon.

50. ...and there has always been a Beloit College Mindset List.

***

In fairness to the class of 2019 the following are a few of the expressions from their culture that will baffle their parents, older friends, and teachers …with translations.

1. They need to plan ahead so they don't find themselves "dankrupt."

One of a variety of painful declarations that we are out of weed.

2. A heavy dose of "Natty Light" has always caught up with them in the morning.

It may taste great and be less filling, but there are limits.

3. As long as they can find a ballpoint pen they can use their "redneck teleprompter."

The bigger the back of your hand, the more notes you can include, but don’t get caught looking.

4. "Smartphone shuffles" have always slowed down traffic between classes.

One can avoid all eye contact as one moves through the madding texting crowd.

5. "Vatican Roulette" has always been risky but acceptable.

If you’ve got rhythm and like your planning natural, then Vatican Roulette is the game for you.

6. A significant other who is a bit "too Yoko Ono" has always created tension.

A partner too hard to handle…hard for your friends to compete with perfection.

7. “Quiche” has everything to do with hot and nothing to do with food.

Turn down the heat. Some people are just so hot they enhance the appetite.

8. “Trolling” innocents on social media has always been uncharitable.8.

Cynical and bullying attacks on happy campers, preserved on the internet, may come back to haunt you.

9. They'll know better than to text their professors "TL DR" about assignments.

…and just hope their professor doesn’t scribble back to them, about their own papers: “TOO LONG: DIDN'T READ.”

10. Slurring “textroverts” have always been a fact of social life.

If you're too drunk to say it face to face, you probably should wait until morning before you start texting.

Copyright© 2015 Beloit College

[Icy]

Chosing my player age when playing sport games modes like "be a pro" Road to the show" etc and realizing I'm 40 years old and would be already retired so I need to fake it.

The other way around in football manager, I still remember when I had to fake it because I was too young to be a coach when I started playing it 20 years ago.

[Kodos]

The Mindset List: 2019 List (http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2019/)

43. Humans have always had implanted radio frequency ID chips—slightly larger than a grain of rice.

:confused:

[cartman]

5. Four foul-mouthed kids have always been playing in South Park.

Kick ass

[thesloppy]

2. A heavy dose of "Natty Light" has always caught up with them in the morning.

You're like 20 years too late on the Natural Light train Beloit College. Whether that counts for or against your favor I'm not sure.

[cartman]

I'm going to see Guns 'n Roses a week from tonight at AT&T Stadium. It dawned on me that GnR has been around now for longer than the Rolling Stones were when I saw them on the Steel Wheels tour in 1989.

[Kodos]

Been around, but not been together.