What makes you feel old
 

Man I feel all my 46 years. Just heard Jack & Diane from John Cougar Mellencamp and realized the song is 29!! years old.

Back To the Future is 25 years old.

rowech makes me feel old.

Thinking about how long ago even the 90s were at this point.

having some college kids show me how to do something I couldn't figure out on my work computer or my work phone..... I used to be up on or think I was up on technology and am realizing that's no where near the case anymore

Damned near everything.

going to karate and training with some cute 18-20 year old girl in the instructor's class then realizing they could be easily be my daughter...

FM

Reds last World Series title was 20 seasons ago. Doesn't seem like that long, but in other ways it seems like an eternity.

Seeing a sign at the gas station

You birth date has to be xx/xx 1993 to buy cigs

Looking at my 20 y/o son

The little aches & pains that I didn't care or worry so much about years ago that now drive me absolutely frickin crazy!

It's not the age, it's the mileage.

Having both my classes have no idea who the Budweiser Clydesdales were.

Do you teach preschool? These have been in Super Bowl commercials very very recently.

my daughter

The pains that I get in my back and knees when I pllay lacrosse with my daughter (or tennis, or anything else that I used to do for hours at a time 20 years ago with little setback).

Hearing the birth date of some athletes and realizing that they were not born yet when I graduated high school.

Getting close to where everyone in the four major sports is younger than I am.

This is basically it for me. I still think of the '90s as recent history and when I realize it's been 20 years I have this surreal moment.

It hits me most at my second job, my serving job, where most of my co-workers were born after the 1984 LA Olympics and get a glazed-eye look if I mention a band from the 80s.

To be fair, 1990 was 20+ years ago. 1999 was "only" 12 years ago. ;)

Add me to the list of feeling that the '90s were more recent than they actually are. College freshmen were born in 1992-3 - yikes...

Yeah, I suppose I mostly think of the early '90s because that was when I graduated high school and back when I still paid attention to things. I couldn't tell you much of anything that happened in '99, I was busy with life by then. I think that's what adds to feeling old, everything from like '97 through now is kind of a blur, it's hard to imagine that it was as long as it was.

Having to explain to someone who Markie Post is.

lol...good pull on Markie Post.

How do I remember 1999? That's when I found a little game called Front Office Football.

I guess I'm also in that born-mid-70s, came-of-age-90s camp who still has to take a moment to register that the 1990s were a lot longer ago than I realized, and that somehow the 1980s are even further back than that. My four-year-old's popping DVDs into the DVD player with confidence, something that didn't exist as a widely available home technology until the very late 1990s, and yet she'll never know things any other way (don't even get me started on the computer stuff). My older daughter, who's seven, always is curious whether this show or that show or this thing or that thing was around when I was a kid. It's still seems a wonder to me that neither of them ever experienced the 20th Century at all.

Realizing that I have teenaged cousins younger than the last version of Sierra's BBPro.

I had a moment where it hit me yesterday, when I felt like yelling at a girl for letting her dog use the bathroom in my front yard.

I caught myself before I yelled for her to, "Get off my lawn!"

Things like this get me every time.

When I was a kid, we used rotary phones to call people. Connected by wires to the wall. And we only dialed 7 numbers. And we liked it! Because we didn't know any better!

We only needed to dial four or five numbers, they knew who you wanted to call anyway!

And if you wanted to change your UHF station without it taking forever you'd crank the dial so fast your mom would yell downstairs, "You're going to break it if you turn it like that!"

What the fuck is a rotary phone? You people are old.


Actually I do remember a neighbor having one when I was 5 or 6.

Hell, most of the kids I teach are freshmen in high school, they make me feel old everyday.

My daughter... who I'm sending off the college in the fall. :(

The rate at which my eyebrows now grow makes me feel old.

Just looking in the 'what are you listening to' thread.

Wait till you can start braiding your ear hairs.

Just plucked my first one last week. Fuck.

The rate at which I seem to be getting even older

My age makes me feel old.

But on a more serious note...having my son tell me (definitively with no doubt in his voice) that I have been married twice. Knowing I've only been married once, I asked how did he come to that conclusion. He responded that me & mommy got married twice, thats how him & his brother are here.

Conversations like that make me laugh but also realize I'm not a young guy any more (or at least a young guy with "babies").

Today a student asked me how long i have been teaching. I responded "13 or 14 years." The response "I wasnt born yet." :(

I saw a magazine cover today and didn't know a single person on it. Granted, it was Us Weekly, but I usually have some idea as to who the people are, even if I don't know much about them. These people were completely foreign to me.

My FB status on March 6th seems to sum it up well enough...

Old porn stars that I used to enjoy.

Ugh, GMILF's...

There's still some that I enjoy...others call it a fetish.

I'm waiting for the "What makes you feel young" thread so I can use, Young porn stars that I enjoy!

Nice.

Music. My kids. Officially being one of the "old" guys at work. Ugh. ;-)

i started looking at women like i was looking at farm equipment. "sturdy. strong motor. should be the last tractor i'll ever need."

manager Don Mattingly.

My Grandson

In a good way though :)

oh yeah, me too. Fucking disgusting.

Barry Sanders Jr. being a top recruit.

All the second generation players in the NCAA tournament.

When guys I remember from their college days are now retiring after long careers.

juliette lewis playing the lolita in cape fear. goddamn.

at least the underappreciated songs thread makes me feel young. or as i like to call it, k-tel's freedom rock: deep cut edition

Listening to a song on the way into work this morning, and the lyrics reminded me of this thread:

She has a man, says he's just a boy
She won't bite unless it brings me joy
I don't know where all the time has gone
I don't know where all the years have gone

I should leave
Put your clothes back on now
I should leave
You're too young for me

.... and Manager Kirk Gibson. Already saw Manager Alan Trammel.


I was looking up Bryce Harper on ESPN the other day and noticed that he was born in 1992!!

Seeing a headline today that Kurt Cobain committed suicide 17 years ago.

Playing Smash Bros. with my 6 year old over the weekend. He was beating me, then I started trying, and he still beat me!

It's Smash Bros. An epileptic monkey suffering from crack withdrawal could beat you.

My Sirius Radio always makes me feel old. When I hear a song that I know well, only to look down and see the song is 20+ years old.

When a former student that has stayed close to the family and is now our nanny said I'm like her dad (her real dad is a no show).


Oh, she's 18. Yep, I feel old.

Dating a 24 year old, while being 34.. ;)

Listening to an interview with Bobby and Cindy Brady on RTE, and Mike Lookinland (Bobby) is 50 years old, and Susan Olsen is late forties.

Realising that you are one of the few in your office who saw the original Tron in the movie theaters.

Or that a number of them had no idea who Mork was.

So basically all the young'uns I work with on a near daily basis.

Beloit College publishes an annual "mindset" of incoming students, which helps staff and faculty to understand the cultural soup in which these evolving humans were swimming before going off to college. The link for the Class of 2014 (incoming freshman from last fall) is: Beloit College Mindset List.

A few highlights are blow. For these students:

12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.

13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation.

19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.

33. Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.

38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

39. Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.

67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.

Going to a baseball game and seeing how young all the college-aged/early 20s kids look.

A new and somewhat depressing though on a couple of fronts: the fact that my oldest daughter is roughly the same age I was when NC State won the men's NCAA basketball championship in 1983 (I would have been a month older on the same date since I was born in October and she was born in November). Oddly enough, this year's championship game was on the same day (April 4) as that game was.

Hemorrhoids.

30 years since Fernandomania

I'm a grad student at Fairfield, and often before class, I go get a bite to eat. They have a pretty good commons area, so I like to frequent it when possible.

Now, I'm 31, but I feel totally out-of-place there. One, I'm only there two days a week, and I drive an hour to campus. So I don't really spend any time there. But everyone is just so much younger than me...though I have to admit, it does have some perks (college women).

Anyway, I was getting food last Wednesday after a stressful (and expensive) afternoon, and information came along to me that this woman right near me was in the middle of her 21st birthday. My first thought was, "Be safe!"

Now I've never been a drinker (didn't have a beer until I was 25), but if that's not a sign that you're getting older, I don't know what is.

My 10 year old saw a payphone at Targer and asked what it was :eek:

Mowing on a Friday night.

I too would have to ask what a Targer is.

I had a friend die last night, same age as me. From a heart attack. That makes me feel old.

:(

When I think how songs that were remakes back in the 80's of old 60's songs are now actually older than the originals were at the time. Case in point: Kim Wilde's now unlistenable rendition of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" was 1986, or 25 years ago. The Supremes' was 1966, or 20 years before that.

For some reason the last 25 have gone a lot faster...

Oops darn itouch autocorrect :/

Same 10 year old asked what an Atari was. I'm with everyone else about the 90s; seemed like I graduated high school 5 years ago but my 20 yr reunion is coming up.

That's how you say Target in Texas. :D

Another example that I think of is the song "Faith". George Michael did it in 1988, Limp Bizkit covered it in '97. Can't believe that was 14 years ago.

When they start remaking movies where you remember seeing the original when it came out.. like Arthur.

This board is reflective of everyone getting older. It's sort of crazy to watch it happen in real time.

I feel old when I realize that there are people literally half my age who think I'm awesome.

This part makes me remember a time I've always thought was my over-the-hill moment.

My wife and I were at a Less Than Jake/Reel Big Fish show. We were probably about 27 or 28 (35 now). Wife goes to get a drink or something...we were not quite down in the pit, but right on the fringe.

As soon as she leaves, these two girls (I am guessing around 18) move closer to me. First I am thinking I am seeing things...then the one turns to me and says "Can I ask you something?"

She wanted to know if it was OK if she and her friend "stood near me...we want to be up close to the front, but are afraid of getting hit by someone in the pit."

So not because she really wanted to be near my, but because I looked safe in a protective sort of way.

:(