Makes you feel old?

[Crystal]

Other than being told that 2009 was forever ago, what makes you feel old?

How about knowing that Sean Astin's daughter, who was featured at the end of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King just graduated Harvard...damn!

 

[Foxy]

Seeing my Gameboy and Disney Videos are considered "collectables" now, not to mention toys and games I still have from my childhood which are now officially classified as antiques! Geez, I'm older than dirt.

 

[Crystal]

Seeing my Gameboy and Disney Videos are considered "collectables" now, not to mention toys and games I still have from my childhood which are now officially classified as antiques! Geez, I'm older than dirt.

No you're not

 

[Ben]

Kids. Kids make me feel old. Not just the obvious fact of being a parent, but when you compare what things were like for you at their age and have a direct comparison... It's wild. Especially technology wise.

There were about 32 years between this picture of me and of my daughter.


But I at least find it makes you appreciate being the generation that spanned the Millennium and saw the world before the Internet and after it's pervaded everything...

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I think I've posted this before but, there was an anime that aired earlier this year. A character was browsing through a fashion magazine that was stated to be 20 years old. They showed some contents of the magazine, and I thought to myself, "That doesn't look like 1980s fashion." Then I realized it.

20 years ago was 2003.

 

[Crystal]

I think I've posted this before but, there was an anime that aired earlier this year. A character was browsing through a fashion magazine that was stated to be 20 years old. They showed some contents of the magazine, and I thought to myself, "That doesn't look like 1980s fashion." Then I realized it.

20 years ago was 2003.

I do that all the time. Thinking the 80s or 90s we're just a few years back. Ugh.

 

[turkey]

Usually my shoulder reminds me I’m old.

I also work with people who are teenagers/early 20s. They remind me I’m definitely not very young anymore.

 

[A Slightly New Used Server]

Other than being told that 2009 was forever ago, what makes you feel old?

How about knowing that Sean Astin's daughter, who was featured at the end of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King just graduated Harvard...damn!

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Fun fact, his daughter was taking classes in the department my wife works for.

 

[Crystal]

Fun fact, his daughter was taking classes in the department my wife works for.

Well that's cool!

 

[Tubby23]

Looking back at my cricket statistics and realising that some of the kids I'm now captaining who are 17-18 weren't born when I first started playing senior cricket at 13. That made me feel old as dirt

 

[canadaguy]

I think you can appreciate this one @Crystal

My wife was watching a clip and they were asking a bunch of current nhl players who was their favorite player growing up and so many said Sidney Crosby.

It felt like a personal attack

 

[Crystal]

I think you can appreciate this one @Crystal

My wife was watching a clip and they were asking a bunch of current nhl players who was their favorite player growing up and so many said Sidney Crosby.

It felt like a personal attack

Oh geez. That one definitely hurts.

 

[Foxy]

Looking at pictures of my parents who seemed so old to me when the photos were taken and realizing that I am currently many years older than they were in those pictures!

 

[Kattastical]

My daughter turned 30 this year. How??? Just how? She was a baby only yesterday.

 

[Quagmire]

I have my first couple grey hairs pop up

I've been playing video games longer than my students have been alive

Next year will be my 15th year in teaching, I teach some freshman (14-15 years old)

 

[Lunar Kreskents]

Kids. Kids make me feel old.

I came here to say this but it was already said. I don't even have kids haha.

Also Gen Z slang makes me feel old. I have no idea what they're saying.

Also when a younger person recently said they felt "old school taking these notes with a mechanical pencil" and I said "Back in my day we had to actually get up to sharpen our pencils"

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I have my first couple grey hairs pop up

I recently found out that I have grey hairs on my mustache.

 

[canadaguy]

Also Gen Z slang makes me feel old. I have no idea what they're saying.

My wife and I play on a coed soccer team, and we have some players that are upper range of gen Z/lower range of millennials so they've taught us some, like rizz and punching

 

[Lunar Kreskents]

My wife and I play on a coed soccer team, and we have some players that are upper range of gen Z/lower range of millennials so they've taught us some, like rizz and punching

I just learned rizz after our social media person had a TikTok go viral and I read the caption like, what the hell is a rizz?

No idea what punching is

OLD

 

[Kat]

I saw a screenshot from a paper referring to "the late 1900s". Perhaps better known to us as the 90s.

A couple months ago, my girlfriend's nine year old picked up a cordless landline and asked "what's this?" He didn't even recognize it as a phone!!

How the heck do kids call their friends nowadays anyway when nobody has a landline anymore?

 

[Crystal]

...what the hell is rizz? Kids today...

 

[Fool's Requiem]

ChaRIZZma

it's fucking stupid

"drip" is worse. It makes absolutely no sense.

People like to use "mid" alot but don't seem to know what it means because many just use to mean "bad", but it's supposed to mean "middle of the road" or mediocre.

 

[Ben]

"drip" is worse. It makes absolutely no sense.

One time an ice cream truck went by our place, leading to my son insisting we run outside at that very instant. I had to go buy ice cream wearing matching orange sweatpants/hoodie with the Jurassic Park logo all over it.

The ice cream man told me he 'liked the drip', and I was too baffled to know what to say other than "thanks?"

I think if an ice cream man has drip, he needs new freezers.

 

[Crystal]

ChaRIZZma

it's fucking stupid

"drip" is worse. It makes absolutely no sense.

People like to use "mid" alot but don't seem to know what it means because many just use to mean "bad", but it's supposed to mean "middle of the road" or mediocre.

Charizzma? Are they serious?

One time an ice cream truck went by our place, leading to my son insisting we run outside at that very instant. I had to go buy ice cream wearing matching orange sweatpants/hoodie with the Jurassic Park logo all over it.

Now that's a dedicated parent right there.

The ice cream man told me he 'liked the drip', and I was too baffled to know what to say other than "thanks?"

I think if an ice cream man has drip, he needs new freezers.

Yeah, I don't want to hear about someone's drips...

 

[Foxy]

My BFF's daughter received a collection of Shirley Temple DVD'S from her Grandmother when she was a little girl (early 2000's.) Her Mom popped one in and her daughter began to sob because it was "broken" - translation: the movie was in black and white. She had never seen a black & white movie.

 

[Crystal]

My BFF's daughter received a collection of Shirley Temple DVD'S from her Grandmother when she was a little girl (early 2000's.) Her Mom popped one in and her daughter began to sob because it was "broken" - translation: the movie was in black and white. She had never seen a black & white movie.

Oh geez, lol. That's funny and scary at the same time!

 

[Quagmire]

I recently found out that I have grey hairs on my mustache.

Are they grey, or have they lightened out due to sun? I know when I dont shave some of my hairs turn white after awhile

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Are they grey, or have they lightened out due to sun? I know when I dont shave some of my hairs turn white after awhile

I only grew it for "Movember", so not a sun thing.

 

[Ben]

Are they grey, or have they lightened out due to sun? I know when I dont shave some of my hairs turn white after awhile

Hah! That'll be my excuse from now on. I'm not getting old, I'm just lightened out due to the sun!

I think if every hair isn't turning equally white, it's unlikely to be the sun.

Thankfully I've only noticed my beard/mustache turning, but it's only a matter of time. Still, I'm very okay with going gray as opposed to bald.

 

[Gloom-is-good]

Having hair that lightens in the sun is actually a genetic thing! I have it (according to 23andme). But also I've started getting grays when I was 22

 

[Ben]

Having hair that lightens in the sun is actually a genetic thing! I have it (according to 23andme). But also I've started getting grays when I was 22

But individual hairs?

I am too lazy to go find the actual clothing items, or put more than 5 minutes into this... But this is the drip that ice cream men appreciate.

 

[Mark]

I saw a screenshot from a paper referring to "the late 1900s". Perhaps better known to us as the 90s.

A couple months ago, my girlfriend's nine year old picked up a cordless landline and asked "what's this?" He didn't even recognize it as a phone!!

How the heck do kids call their friends nowadays anyway when nobody has a landline anymore?

They don’t. How many teenagers in public do you actually see speaking to each other? Every time I see a herd of them in the wild, they have their necks craned into their phones nearly bumping into obstacles on their path.

ChaRIZZma

it's fucking stupid

"drip" is worse. It makes absolutely no sense.

People like to use "mid" alot but don't seem to know what it means because many just use to mean "bad", but it's supposed to mean "middle of the road" or mediocre.

Nah, dude… nah… you need to start clonking people in the head with a shovel anytime you hear that. It’ll be therapeutic.

I recently found out that I have grey hairs on my mustache.

I begged my old lady to take me out back and put me down when I saw a random gray chest hair sticking straight out of the crowd. It’s just a matter of time…

I absolutely love how some of them like to materialize stick straight, so it’s painfully obvious.

As far as what makes me feel old… I got an email about my high school’s 20th reunion. Virtually every joint in my body makes noise at some point. Half the left side of my beard is gray (thanks, years and years of driving for a living). When y’all first “met” me I had a widow’s peak, now my hairline is receding like our hopes and expectations of the federal government. I was telling @Jon yesterday that 100% of everything I’ve done here has been on my phone, that makes me feel old as fuck because there was a time I had to cycle through several access numbers to get “the best” dial-up connection I could out of my 56.6k modem that was showing a connection at 28kbps but really ran at around 16kbps.

Another thing? Moving televisions. Man, has that technology gotten lighter. I remember when I first got my license, my buddy asked me to help him move a television into his third floor apartment because I had a truck. It was a 47in tube model with a built-in VHS and DVD player, as if it didn’t have enough weight already. Him and I ended up throwing it out of the second story lobby into the dumpster behind his building because we couldn’t make the turn on the stairwell. It was too awkward to lift over the rail, and too wide to basket carry it yourself. Fast-forward to the end of last month, and I’m helping @Tirithmove a 75in and 65in with one hand while we’re running wires to the back with the other.

 

[Jon]

Every single thing Mark said is true.

We're old as fuck guys.

 

[Mark]

Apparently that wasn’t the only time I was involved in an incident with a television…



Went searching for the one I was talking about, found a completely different one from 2010.

 

[Ben]

that makes me feel old as fuck because there was a time I had to cycle through several access numbers to get “the best” dial-up connection I could out of my 56.6k modem that was showing a connection at 28kbps but really ran at around 16kbps.

I vividly remember trying to smother my 56k modem with a pillow at 1am, when I got kicked off while on Gamewinners, to try and avoid waking my parents up with the tortured machine screams. It adds to the "Crrruuunerrrggggggrrrkkkkkkkskkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk" when you can grip the pillowcase tighter and whisper "shhhh, go to sleep..."

Apparently that wasn’t the only time I was involved in an incident with a television…

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Went searching for the one I was talking about, found a completely different one from 2010.

Ah yes, when entertainment centers had to be wider than a single bed, and dropping it from even a few inches up will shatter your toes.

 

[Mark]

I vividly remember trying to smother my 56k modem with a pillow at 1am, when I got kicked off while on Gamewinners, to try and avoid waking my parents up with the tortured machine screams. It adds to the "Crrruuunerrrggggggrrrkkkkkkkskkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk" when you can grip the pillowcase tighter and whisper "shhhh, go to sleep..."

Mannn… my modem was quiet, so I had to play the guessing game based on how long it was taking to connect as to whether or not I was going to get decent access. The computer before that? You’d hear a call coming in before you got kicked. No middle ground back then.

Ah yes, when entertainment centers had to be wider than a single bed, and dropping it from even a few inches up will shatter your toes.

Funny you say that… I ended up losing a toenail for half a year because of a television back then.

 

[canadaguy]

we couldn’t make the turn on the stairwell.

 

[Mark]

…until you realize you gotta take 1/16th of an inch off of the wall to clear it like we would have had to do. At one point, the set was upside down and on an angle trying to maneuver it. It just wasn’t in the cards for the tight ass hallway.

 

[Jon]

…until you realize you gotta take 1/16th of an inch off of the wall to clear it like we did. At one point, the set was upside down and on an angle trying to maneuver it. It just wasn’t in the cards for the tight ass hallway.

That episode of Friends taught me to never, ever, help a friend move.

 

[Mark]

That episode of Friends taught me to never, ever, help a friend move.

Eh, I’ve never seen it, but I’m always that friend that ends up helping people move. I can pick stuff up, and I’ve had several trucks over the years.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I think you can appreciate this one @Crystal

My wife was watching a clip and they were asking a bunch of current nhl players who was their favorite player growing up and so many said Sidney Crosby.

It felt like a personal attack

Omg

He's still a kid!

Right???

 

[canadaguy]

Omg

He's still a kid!

Right???

I am sorry to say Vash, but if he were reading this thread, he'd be agreeing with us

 

[VashTheStampede]

I own one hockey sweater.

It's a Sidney Crosby.

I got it in Pittsburgh.

I literally can't remember how long ago I was in Pittsburgh.

 

[Ben]

I helped get a king-sized mattress to the second floor of an apartment in Boston once, where the stairwell was shorter than the mattress from any angle and there was a 180° turn at the top.

After 30 minutes of struggling and having two women try to direct the top-end of things, I got annoyed and set the mattress onto my shoulder, grabbed both hand rails and just heaved that fucker up a foot at a time. I ended up feeling like I'd dislocated my shoulder for the next few weeks, but fuck if I didn't make that bitch bend in half towards the top.

I did not offer to help get the mattress out.

 

[Fire Queen]

i teach in a high school so theres a lot that makes me feel old but also i'm one of the youngest GW vets there is so my feeling old is nothing compared to everyone else's. i can't even legally run for president yet!

i do pick up a lot of lingo, and i know it well enough to precisely craft the cringiest sentences and phrases imaginable. the other day i hit my students with "she gyatted me up with the rizz, and that's on cap" and everyone groaned SO loud

anyway boy howdy am i paying the price for my extremely poor posture during my peak GW years

 

[VashTheStampede]

i do pick up a lot of lingo, and i know it well enough to precisely craft the cringiest sentences and phrases imaginable. the other day i hit my students with "she gyatted me up with the rizz, and that's on cap" and everyone groaned SO loud

This is literally my favorite thing about getting old. No

 

[Tirith]

Eh, I’ve never seen it, but I’m always that friend that ends up helping people move. I can pick stuff up, and I’ve had several trucks over the years.

At least it was me helping you this last time, not the other way around for once...

What makes me feel old? Everything, man. Everything.

 

[Ben]

I found this on a hard-drive from 2008, I think from some GW 'post your literal desktop' thread. I'm positive I thought I was fancy with all this crap back then, now it looks like the kind of set up a grandma has. Those PC specs.



Back when I gave a shit about Xbox, before my first red-ring-of-death.

 

[canadaguy]

I found this on a hard-drive from 2008, I think from some GW 'post your literal desktop' thread. I'm positive I thought I was fancy with all this crap back then, now it looks like the kind of set up a grandma has. Those PC specs.

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Back when I gave a shit about Xbox, before my first red-ring-of-death.

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Bag of capacitors

 

[Mark]

Bag of capacitors

Pairs well with Mountain Dew.