What makes you feel old

Tim Tellean · 03-31-2011, 10:12 AM

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

rowech · 03-31-2011, 10:14 AM

Back To the Future is 25 years old.

Rizon · 03-31-2011, 10:15 AM

rowech makes me feel old.

molson · 03-31-2011, 10:15 AM

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

muns · 03-31-2011, 10:18 AM

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

JonInMiddleGA · 03-31-2011, 10:19 AM

Damned near everything.

FrogMan · 03-31-2011, 10:23 AM

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

Butter · 03-31-2011, 10:28 AM

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

CleBrownsfan · 03-31-2011, 10:50 AM

Seeing a sign at the gas station

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

DougW · 03-31-2011, 10:52 AM

Looking at my 20 y/o son

tyketime · 03-31-2011, 10:53 AM

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

JediKooter · 03-31-2011, 11:03 AM

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

Izulde · 03-31-2011, 11:13 AM

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

gstelmack · 03-31-2011, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Izulde

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.

Toddzilla · 03-31-2011, 11:52 AM

my daughter

EagleFan · 03-31-2011, 11:59 AM

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.

JPhillips · 03-31-2011, 12:01 PM

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

Autumn · 03-31-2011, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by molson

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

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.

Chief Rum · 03-31-2011, 12:27 PM

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.

Chief Rum · 03-31-2011, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Autumn

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.

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

bryce · 03-31-2011, 12:30 PM

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...

Autumn · 03-31-2011, 12:33 PM

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.

Suicane75 · 03-31-2011, 12:37 PM

Having to explain to someone who Markie Post is.

Chief Rum · 03-31-2011, 12:38 PM

lol...good pull on Markie Post.

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

Wolfpack · 03-31-2011, 01:27 PM

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.

SackAttack · 03-31-2011, 01:46 PM

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

Swaggs · 03-31-2011, 01:48 PM

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!"

jeff061 · 03-31-2011, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by bryce

College freshmen were born in 1992-3 - yikes...

Things like this get me every time.

GrantDawg · 03-31-2011, 02:25 PM

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!

Autumn · 03-31-2011, 02:28 PM

http://tv.gawker.com/#!5421731/kids-...e-you-feel-old

Autumn · 03-31-2011, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by GrantDawg

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!"

jeff061 · 03-31-2011, 02:32 PM

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.

cougarfreak · 03-31-2011, 02:34 PM

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

BillJasper · 03-31-2011, 02:50 PM

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

thesloppy · 03-31-2011, 02:51 PM

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

Coffee Warlord · 03-31-2011, 02:53 PM

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

GrantDawg · 03-31-2011, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by thesloppy

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

Wait till you can start braiding your ear hairs.

johnnyshaka · 03-31-2011, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by GrantDawg

Wait till you can start braiding your ear hairs.

Just plucked my first one last week. Fuck.

Mac Howard · 03-31-2011, 06:21 PM

The rate at which I seem to be getting even older

SteveMax58 · 03-31-2011, 06:32 PM

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").

tarcone · 03-31-2011, 07:04 PM

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

Comey · 03-31-2011, 07:08 PM

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.

Dutch · 03-31-2011, 07:20 PM

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

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I'm looking for some new music for my iPod. The Top 10 at iTunes are songs by Jennifer Lopez, Lady GaGa, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Pink, Dr. Dre, Cee Lo Green and Adele...Dr. Dre and I are getting to old for this crap.

DanGarion · 03-31-2011, 07:25 PM

Old porn stars that I used to enjoy.

Dutch · 03-31-2011, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by DanGarion

Old porn stars that I used to enjoy.

Ugh, GMILF's...

JediKooter · 03-31-2011, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DanGarion

Old porn stars that I used to enjoy.

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

DanGarion · 03-31-2011, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by JediKooter

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!

NorvTurnerOverdrive · 03-31-2011, 07:50 PM

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Dutch · 03-31-2011, 07:53 PM

Nice.

hawk4669 · 03-31-2011, 08:01 PM

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

03-31-2011, 10:18 AM	#5
muns Pro Starter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Baltimore MD	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 Last edited by muns : 03-31-2011 at 10:19 AM.

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JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	Damned near everything. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

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FrogMan Hattrick Moderator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Pintendre, Qc, Canada	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 __________________ A Black Belt is a White Belt who refused to give up... follow my story: The real life story of a running frog...

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Butter Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dayton, OH	Reds last World Series title was 20 seasons ago. Doesn't seem like that long, but in other ways it seems like an eternity. __________________ My listening habits

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rowech Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2006	Back To the Future is 25 years old.

03-31-2011, 10:15 AM	#4
molson General Manager Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Mountains	Thinking about how long ago even the 90s were at this point.

03-31-2011, 10:52 AM	#10
DougW High School Varsity Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Downriver, MI	Looking at my 20 y/o son

03-31-2011, 10:53 AM	#11
tyketime College Benchwarmer Join Date: Nov 2003	The little aches & pains that I didn't care or worry so much about years ago that now drive me absolutely frickin crazy!

03-31-2011, 11:03 AM	#12
JediKooter Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego	It's not the age, it's the mileage. __________________ I'm no longer a Chargers fan, they are dead to me Coming this summer to a movie theater near you: The Adventures of Jedikooter: Part 4

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Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	Having both my classes have no idea who the Budweiser Clydesdales were. __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

03-31-2011, 11:52 AM	#15
Toddzilla Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Burke, VA	my daughter

03-31-2011, 11:59 AM	#16
EagleFan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA	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. __________________ The EagleFan YouTube Channel - Reactions Soarin' & Scratchin' YouTube Channel - We react to music, videos, TV, we talk, we are planning some field trips Soarin' & Soothin' - Meditation, Relaxation, and Sleep Aid; mental health is important

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JPhillips Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Newburgh, NY	Getting close to where everyone in the four major sports is younger than I am. __________________ To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.. - Mr. Rogers

03-31-2011, 12:27 PM	#19
Chief Rum Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Where Hip Hop lives	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. __________________ . . I would rather be wrong...Than live in the shadows of your song...My mind is open wide...And now I'm ready to start...You're not sure...You open the door...And step out into the dark...Now I'm ready.

03-31-2011, 12:30 PM	#21
bryce High School Varsity Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Dallas, TX	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... Last edited by bryce : 03-31-2011 at 12:30 PM.

03-31-2011, 12:33 PM	#22
Autumn Head Coach Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Bath, ME	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.

03-31-2011, 12:37 PM	#23
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	Having to explain to someone who Markie Post is.

03-31-2011, 12:38 PM	#24
Chief Rum Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Where Hip Hop lives	lol...good pull on Markie Post. How do I remember 1999? That's when I found a little game called Front Office Football. __________________ . . I would rather be wrong...Than live in the shadows of your song...My mind is open wide...And now I'm ready to start...You're not sure...You open the door...And step out into the dark...Now I'm ready.

03-31-2011, 01:27 PM	#25
Wolfpack Pro Rookie Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Raleigh, NC	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.

03-31-2011, 01:46 PM	#26
SackAttack Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Green Bay, WI	Realizing that I have teenaged cousins younger than the last version of Sierra's BBPro.

03-31-2011, 01:48 PM	#27
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03-31-2011, 02:25 PM	#29
GrantDawg World Champion Mis-speller Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Covington, Ga.	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!

03-31-2011, 02:28 PM	#30
Autumn Head Coach Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Bath, ME	http://tv.gawker.com/#!5421731/kids-...e-you-feel-old

03-31-2011, 02:32 PM	#32
jeff061 Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: MA	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. __________________ Last edited by jeff061 : 03-31-2011 at 02:32 PM.

03-31-2011, 02:34 PM	#33
cougarfreak College Starter Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Out of Grad School Hell :)	Hell, most of the kids I teach are freshmen in high school, they make me feel old everyday. __________________ “I don’t like the Cubs,” Joey Votto said. “And I’m not going to pat anybody with a Cubs uniform on the back."

03-31-2011, 02:50 PM	#34
BillJasper Pro Starter Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Northern Kentucky	My daughter... who I'm sending off the college in the fall. __________________ The Confederacy lost, it is time to dismantle it.

03-31-2011, 02:51 PM	#35
thesloppy Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: PDX	The rate at which my eyebrows now grow makes me feel old. __________________ Last edited by thesloppy : Today at 05:35 PM.

03-31-2011, 02:53 PM	#36
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	Just looking in the 'what are you listening to' thread.

03-31-2011, 06:21 PM	#39
Mac Howard Sick as a Parrot Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Surfers Paradise, Australia	The rate at which I seem to be getting even older

03-31-2011, 06:32 PM	#40
SteveMax58 College Starter Join Date: Dec 2006	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").

03-31-2011, 07:04 PM	#41
tarcone Coordinator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Pacific	Today a student asked me how long i have been teaching. I responded "13 or 14 years." The response "I wasnt born yet."

03-31-2011, 07:08 PM	#42
Comey College Starter Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: CT via PA via CA via PA	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. __________________

03-31-2011, 07:25 PM	#44
DanGarion Coordinator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: PNW	Old porn stars that I used to enjoy. __________________ Los Angeles Dodgers Check out the FOFC Groups on Facebook! and Reddit! DON'T REPORT ME BRO!

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