Author Topic: When did you start feeling old? (Read 4549 times)

Cerveza mas fina · « **on:** May 03, 2012, 08:52:40 AM »

American Pie: Reunion? I was just 16 yesterday when it came out.

Del Piero is retiring? Wasn't the hot new player, future of Italian football this morning?

Eminem is 40?

These things more then everythig have put my age into perspective, moving in with my gf wasn't a biggie, but American Pie Reunion... :'(

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #1 on:** May 03, 2012, 08:55:54 AM »

This is my Bill Murray

not this one

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #2 on:** May 03, 2012, 08:59:02 AM »

Stop whining. Getting older is fine. You stop caring about what other people think and care about and you get some perspective as you realize the world doesn't revolve around you.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #3 on:** May 03, 2012, 09:00:40 AM »

Oh Im not complaining, I totally like being chilled out and not having that teen angst.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #4 on:** May 03, 2012, 09:10:03 AM »

The first time you realize you are an old dude is when the news or some article starts talking about what young people feel or think about something and you have no clue what they are talking about. Not the actual thing. But the attitude towards it. I like talking to young people because its like visiting another planet often. Hell entering certain threads on here is like entering a new planet.

All the other stuff is just like surface markers of age. The bands, the movies, the songs, the sports stars etc all change like every 5 years to mark the next mini-generation.

Mupepe · « **Reply #5 on:** May 03, 2012, 09:18:31 AM »

I feel old whenever I listen to a modern radio station. I flip through the stations going "crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap..."

Mupepe · « **Reply #6 on:** May 03, 2012, 09:19:20 AM »

oh wait. Or when Scott Pilgrim the movie came out. Or when I saw some preview about some kid documenting his love life on youtube or something.

Himu · « **Reply #7 on:** May 03, 2012, 09:29:23 AM »

scott pilgrim is directed at young adults and teenagers though as it starred people around our age - early 20's.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #8 on:** May 03, 2012, 09:44:04 AM »

See all that stuff doesn't matter. The fact that you like a particular musical artist and some young person likes one of his generation instead has and will always happen. That's sort of the boring part of noticing stuff about getting older. It's purely just generational and time based and observational. It literally happens to everybody every 10 years or so. It's just the Beatles all over again.

The attitude changes are more interesting. Purely anecdotal but one increasing change I notice from younger people is a decline in the interest towards history. Don't get me wrong. I don't want to make it sound like my generation were history fiends or something. But I notice if you mention something to a lot of young people from the past, they dismiss it by saying that was before their time. I honestly hadn't heard that defense until a few years ago. That's not an appropriate dismissal of something. Especially in a world with Wikipedia. Hell that's what history is about. For them though its like what came before doesn't matter. They don't quite get that link that stuff from the past effects things from today. And it goes beyond just a sort of I'm not interested in that. The fact that it was before their time allows a convenient way to dismiss even caring about it. Its a more blanket thing that the past doesn't matter. And by history I'm not talking about just things hundreds or thousands of years ago. I mean even recent history. Like 20 years. Things they should legit know about.

This isn't a wholly new thing of course. Young people have always hated history. It's just increasing and like I said I hear the defense that "its before my time" a lot more than I ever heard it before when I was young. So as not to be overly negative of course there are things about young people that are absolutely better than when I was young.

Rman · « **Reply #9 on:** May 03, 2012, 09:54:35 AM »

I've enjoyed getting older, to be honest.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #10 on:** May 03, 2012, 10:42:12 AM »

Stoney, I noticed this too. I think it's because there is too much distractions now, kids also don't know anything about world affairs etc nowadays.

Maybe it also has to do with the fact that after the fall of the communism news isn't put into historical perspective anymore.

25 years ago every side had its own history by which news was judged, maybe it wasn't perfect but it got across some basic knowledge of fucking events.

Now news is in some vacuum.

Diunx · « **Reply #11 on:** May 03, 2012, 10:58:15 AM »

When I got fat.

Mupepe · « **Reply #12 on:** May 03, 2012, 11:06:08 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on May 03, 2012, 09:29:23 AM

scott pilgrim is directed at young adults and teenagers though as it starred people around our age - early 20's.

Sorry. I couldn't relate to most of it. The style and story made me feel old. It seemed more like something my younger cousins would enjoy. It wasn't offensive (I still liked it), just not for me.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #13 on:** May 03, 2012, 11:08:16 AM »

I feel pretty old most of the time

Mupepe · « **Reply #14 on:** May 03, 2012, 11:10:10 AM »

Quote from: Spencer on May 03, 2012, 10:52:43 AM

Naw, kids have never cared about history, you're just getting crotchety.

I was a history nerd when I was younger. But I guess I was the exception, not the rule.

I have friends that still don't know shit about history. They know dick all of what the Korean or Vietnam war was about. They act like it happened centuries ago. Even most adults end up needing to be corrected. The average person doesn't care about history. They only care that what they've heard reinforces their current idea about the world.

Edit: For example, "The middle east has always been a shithole! They never evolved past barbarians herpa derp." and then they continue to ignore all the fallacies of that statement.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15 on:** May 03, 2012, 11:12:13 AM »

I have a passing interest in the Napoleonic wars just because it was that era where classical warfare techniques had kinda reached their peak before WWI hit and everything got stupid with new tech no one really knew how to use or fight.

Robo · « **Reply #16 on:** May 03, 2012, 11:18:18 AM »

old Bill Murray > young Bill Murray

cool breeze · « **Reply #17 on:** May 03, 2012, 11:25:50 AM »

I'll feel old when people born in the new millennium become legal adults

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #18 on:** May 03, 2012, 11:32:32 AM »

Quote from: Linkzg on May 03, 2012, 11:25:50 AM

I'll feel old when people born in the new millennium become legal adults

Imagine fapping to someone born during the GWB presidency.

Eric P · « **Reply #19 on:** May 03, 2012, 11:42:22 AM »

when kids a decade younger than me started complaining about feeling old

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #20 on:** May 03, 2012, 11:57:43 AM »

Quote from: Eric P on May 03, 2012, 11:42:22 AM

when kids a decade younger than me started complaining about feeling old

bork · « **Reply #21 on:** May 03, 2012, 11:59:46 AM »

Recently, when I got diagnosed with sciatica. Have pain when standing up/walking/sitting at times throughout the day. Totally sucks but the medicine I got has really helped. Definitely explains why my fat ass has had trouble getting exercise the last few years. :'(

I feel old when I'm at work and the people 8-10 years younger don't know about the stuff the people my age are talking about.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #22 on:** May 03, 2012, 12:34:10 PM »

I felt old-ish when my daughter was born a few months ago. I don't feel like an old fogey or anything, but bringing a new generation into the world really puts things in perspective.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #23 on:** May 03, 2012, 12:35:16 PM »

I feel young whenever I read one of Stony's posts

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #24 on:** May 03, 2012, 12:49:36 PM »

I started balding at 22 and started getting gray hairs (in what was left of my hair) at around 28, so all of you can just fuck right off.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #25 on:** May 03, 2012, 12:50:41 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on May 03, 2012, 12:35:16 PM

I feel young whenever I read one of Stony's posts

You should feel young and distinguished mentally-challenged when you read your own posts about disliking Diablo 2 because your friends started playing it instead of Pokemans. At least your friends have good taste.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #26 on:** May 03, 2012, 12:50:52 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on May 03, 2012, 11:32:32 AM

Quote from: Linkzg on May 03, 2012, 11:25:50 AM
I'll feel old when people born in the new millennium become legal adults

Imagine fapping to someone born during the GWB presidency.

Himu · « **Reply #27 on:** May 03, 2012, 01:00:38 PM »

Positive Touch · « **Reply #28 on:** May 03, 2012, 04:46:39 PM »

i feel out of place when i go see some new artist i really like and the whole crowd is full of young kids yelling all over the place and not paying attention and all i can think about is how pissed i am that there's not more chairs out because my back hurts and i need to sit down NOW

Positive Touch · « **Reply #29 on:** May 03, 2012, 04:49:23 PM »

also i see where stoney is coming from but i do think its really cool how more young people that grow up with the internet are exposed to so much more, and how their social habits/rules have changed so much from the older generations. "these kids need to stop putting all their business all over the internet! they don't know what they're doing!" actually, they do know; they're able to communicate and share much more than we ever could, and much faster too.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #30 on:** May 03, 2012, 06:25:55 PM »

I have a theory that time speeds up the older you get, because it goes downhill quicker/ or death is manipulating the timension that we currently inhabit to draw us quicker into his depth.

It also could have something to do with the LHC.

Himu · « **Reply #31 on:** May 03, 2012, 06:34:18 PM »

I cared about history growing up. It was one of my favorite subjects.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #32 on:** May 03, 2012, 08:19:59 PM »

When I looked at my six pack and saw a healthy foundation for a shed.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #33 on:** May 03, 2012, 08:35:16 PM »

Quote from: lyte edge on May 03, 2012, 11:59:46 AM

Recently, when I got diagnosed with sciatica. Have pain when standing up/walking/sitting at times throughout the day.

i know that feel, jacked my back up a few years back and busted a disc

it's mostly normal now, but there are days when i wake up and it feels like white hot needles shooting down my leg

i started really feeling/noticing my age about a year ago, when i had to buy a pair of reading glasses

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #34 on:** May 03, 2012, 08:40:36 PM »

My body is such a defective piece of shit that I slipped a disc when I was 16 doing manual labor on the weekends for some easy dough. Fortunately my family had good health insurance that covered chiropractors.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #35 on:** May 03, 2012, 08:44:35 PM »

i feel like a goddamned idiot having to put on those glasses to play games on the vita

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #36 on:** May 03, 2012, 08:49:22 PM »

I've had to wear glasses since I was 9, so I don't even really notice it anymore. I really should get a separate pair for computers, I hear that there's something different about them that can save strain on your eyes. Although, for the first time ever my eyesight got BETTER in between eye doctor visits, so who knows.

Bebpo · « **Reply #37 on:** May 03, 2012, 09:07:41 PM »

When I had to stop going on dates with girls in college because it would be awkward.

Quote from: Borys on May 03, 2012, 01:28:49 PM

When the girls I'd like to fuck are half my age.

How old are you again?

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #38 on:** May 03, 2012, 09:28:44 PM »

When there were girls I wanted to fuck and have fucked who are of legal age and born after 1990. I don't want to hear any shit about how that year is arbitrary but to me, it is a new decade, so might as well be an entirely different generation to me.

Personally, I feel I'm on a slow decline and I was never up that high so that is even more concerning. At this rate, I'll be shouting "four more years!" at the TV when they are televising the GOP convention when President Romney is up for re-election in 2016

Inspector Thatcher · « **Reply #39 on:** May 03, 2012, 10:06:06 PM »

Age is a state of mind. By that logic, I'm 112.

chronovore · « **Reply #40 on:** May 04, 2012, 03:16:18 AM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on May 03, 2012, 09:44:04 AM

See all that stuff doesn't matter. The fact that you like a particular musical artist and some young person likes one of his generation instead has and will always happen. That's sort of the boring part of noticing stuff about getting older. It's purely just generational and time based and observational. It literally happens to everybody every 10 years or so. It's just the Beatles all over again.

The attitude changes are more interesting. Purely anecdotal but one increasing change I notice from younger people is a decline in the interest towards history. Don't get me wrong. I don't want to make it sound like my generation were history fiends or something. But I notice if you mention something to a lot of young people from the past, they dismiss it by saying that was before their time. I honestly hadn't heard that defense until a few years ago. That's not an appropriate dismissal of something. Especially in a world with Wikipedia. Hell that's what history is about. For them though its like what came before doesn't matter. They don't quite get that link that stuff from the past effects things from today. And it goes beyond just a sort of I'm not interested in that. The fact that it was before their time allows a convenient way to dismiss even caring about it. Its a more blanket thing that the past doesn't matter. And by history I'm not talking about just things hundreds or thousands of years ago. I mean even recent history. Like 20 years. Things they should legit know about.

This isn't a wholly new thing of course. Young people have always hated history. It's just increasing and like I said I hear the defense that "its before my time" a lot more than I ever heard it before when I was young. So as not to be overly negative of course there are things about young people that are absolutely better than when I was young.

I hear you. However, willful ignorance isn't limited to young people. Actually, I feel they've been given permission by the example older people have shown them in recent years.

And to answer the question, I first felt old when checking out a Playboy magazine, thinking how hot the centerfold was, and then seeing that she was born the year I graduated high school.

So I started feeling old... 9 years ago.

CrystalGemini · « **Reply #41 on:** May 04, 2012, 04:23:55 AM »

Some kid told me I look like I'm in high school.

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pilonv1 · « **Reply #42 on:** May 04, 2012, 07:45:15 AM »

Usually when I listen to a song or watch a movie/tv show and I think "wow that was from 1993", and it dawns me it's no longer 2003 and 1993 was 18 years ago

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #43 on:** May 04, 2012, 01:02:39 PM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on May 04, 2012, 07:45:15 AM

Usually when I listen to a song or watch a movie/tv show and I think "wow that was from 1993", and it dawns me it's no longer 2003 and 1993 was 18 years ago

Hehe. I was talking to my old college roommate about this a couple months back. When someone says "10 years ago," I think of the 90s, not the 00s.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #44 on:** May 05, 2012, 02:23:25 AM »

I don't think I've ever seen Jurassic Park on DVD. Saw it the day it came out on VHS, and multiple times afterwards on that and on television lol

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #45 on:** May 05, 2012, 03:33:06 PM »

Quote from: CrystalGemini on May 04, 2012, 04:23:55 AM

Some kid told me I look like I'm in high school.

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CajoleJuice · « **Reply #46 on:** May 05, 2012, 03:36:40 PM »

Quote from: CrystalGemini on May 04, 2012, 04:23:55 AM

Some kid told me I look like I'm in high school.

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chronovore · « **Reply #47 on:** May 15, 2012, 12:43:23 PM »

I also started feeling old when I was told I have a compressed nerve in my neck. It's a kind of hernia. Hernias are for old folks.

Bildi · « **Reply #48 on:** May 15, 2012, 06:46:46 PM »

The point in my life when I realised I was getting older - a kid saw David Hasselhoff in Knight Rider and said "hey, that's the guy from Baywatch!"

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #49 on:** May 15, 2012, 08:16:01 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on May 15, 2012, 12:43:23 PM

I also started feeling old when I was told I have a compressed nerve in my neck. It's a kind of hernia. Hernias are for old folks.

I don't know, a coworker back when I worked at the grocery store had to have hernia surgery at the age of 21.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #50 on:** May 15, 2012, 08:20:11 PM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on May 05, 2012, 03:36:40 PM

Quote from: CrystalGemini on May 04, 2012, 04:23:55 AM
Some kid told me I look like I'm in high school.

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Shadow Mod · « **Reply #51 on:** May 15, 2012, 11:43:48 PM »

Not old but I find myself being disgusted by the current pop stuff, I guess that means something?

tiesto · « **Reply #52 on:** May 16, 2012, 08:50:42 AM »

When I went to a festival and the dubstep candyraver kiddies standing in front of me were like "who is this digweed guy?"

Hock · « **Reply #53 on:** May 16, 2012, 09:02:35 AM »

Quote from: Borys on May 03, 2012, 01:28:49 PM

When the girls I'd like to fuck are half my age.

Can we go by this metric?

Cause that gives me about 14 more years of not being old.

Eric P · « **Reply #54 on:** May 16, 2012, 09:26:13 AM »

Quote from: tiesto on May 16, 2012, 08:50:42 AM

When I went to a festival and the dubstep candyraver kiddies standing in front of me were like "who is this digweed guy?"

i am highly amused at someone who loves trance and prog house dismissing dubsteps kids as candyravers.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #55 on:** May 16, 2012, 09:30:42 AM »

Do guys ever not feel like beating off ever? I guess if you were in a primary school or a gay club that might dissuade one.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #56 on:** May 17, 2012, 10:25:35 PM »

Quote from: Needs More Cowbell on May 15, 2012, 11:43:48 PM

Not old but I find myself being disgusted by the current pop stuff, I guess that means something?

I find myself understanding more of the pop stuff than 5-6 years ago when emo* was the "in" thing. I never understood that genre of music. Also there was that really shit post-crunk period of stuff like Mims, whoever did that really shitty Lip Gloss song, etc. Things have improved quite a bit from those days.

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Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #57 on:** May 17, 2012, 10:35:59 PM »

I must admit I felt kind of old last night around 2AM when I was too tired to keep playing Diablo 3

tiesto · « **Reply #58 on:** May 18, 2012, 08:58:54 AM »

Quote from: Eric P on May 16, 2012, 09:26:13 AM

Quote from: tiesto on May 16, 2012, 08:50:42 AM
When I went to a festival and the dubstep candyraver kiddies standing in front of me were like "who is this digweed guy?"

i am highly amused at someone who loves trance and prog house dismissing dubsteps kids as candyravers.

Back then it seemed like most of the candy ravers stuck with happy hardcore and Florida breaks, not so much trance and especially not prog. I have nothing against candykids, but I'm definitely not a fan of brostep or some of the "tourists" the music brings in.

Eric P · « **Reply #59 on:** May 18, 2012, 09:06:58 AM »

In the DC area the candy kids were all prog and trance fans. There was a contingency that loved Florida Breaks which, lets face it, is Trance with half the kick drums missing. But the people who liked Progressive Breaks? Freaks in button down shirts and chinos.

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Author Topic: When did you start feeling old? (Read 4549 times)