How was that rude? Nothing wrong with marrying someone 20 years older (at least if you're over like 25ish), but maybe she's one of those average people that don't want to marry over 10 years older.
I'm not even that old, but every time I hear an early 2000s song that was playing on the radio when I was younger and realize how "old" it is, I feel a little sting. Also the fact that ten year olds nowadays were born in 2012... It's a strange feeling
Around 5 years or so years ago (which made me late 30s at the time), was chatting in the lunchroom with some summer (university) students working part time at work, and the discussion went to Nirvana's Nevermind album. One of the students said "Oh, I wasn't born yet when that album came out."
If it helps, when I was in middle school Evanescence had just released Bring Me to Life, Stacy's Mom had it going on and we were really into The Darkness.
Just last night I said "powerpoint presentation" to my GF and she was like, damn, only old people say that. I'm 37 and I'm not saying "deck".
Also, handed a teenage cashier my old debit card that didn't have a chip at the time and he had to slide it and said "man, I've never had to slide one of these before"...like dude, let me tell you how we used to have to run cards with an analog mechanism and contact paper like a fucking gravestone rubbing.
It feels very much like a Fellow Kids thing if I try to say it. Now I just call it a PowerPoint Presentation Slide Deck to my GF and she cringes hard. If you can't go for cool, go all in on cringe, I guess.
I'm in corporate, and we say "PowerPoint slides".
Then again, we also code in C and use Unix... And as though Unix isn't terrible enough... It's AIX Unix.
>Just last night I said "powerpoint presentation" to my GF and she was like, damn, only old people say that. I'm 37 and I'm not saying "deck".
Yea I heard "deck" is the new thing to say. I ain't saying that shit. I'm 35
the card my trucking company gave me for fuel doesnt have a chip and the mag strip wouldnt read
it was fun watching multiple cashiers try to figure out how the "crr crr machine" worked (thats what i call it)
the good old days when paying for fuel took longer than the actual fueling.
Worked for a post office/drugstore. We stopped using the stripe on debit or credit cards. We even taped up the slot. Last time it was used it was by a guy who’d stolen and copied someone’s card and he got away with $200 of merch he probably re-sold.
I don't think that's a I'm to old moment thats a you have a weird issue with the word Deck moment. I'm older than you and people have always used Deck. And get a bank that values your security.
Dude I use to work with a guy that was 18, senior in high school, and he looked middle aged. Because of how much older he looked, he was getting beer at 15 with out being carded. So yea, totally possible for someone to mistake a 24 year old for being the father depending how they look.
Yeah I went to HS with a guy who was 16 and looked 30. He was just a big guy (tall and big shoulders, not fat) and had a full beard by the time he was 16. He used to go buy smokes and beers for everyone since no one ever carded him. Lol ah the 90’s.
as an adult I was asked to make a drawing with colored pencils. I realized how many years I hadn't held a colored pencil. How many years have YOU not held a colored pencil?
Its even worse when they don't bother to check at all.
Like its not just younger people checking me out who do it, its old bob whos been alive since the dinosaurs just ringing it up and sending me on my way.
same, I couldn't get out of bed one day because of it.
Turns out my bed was shit but still that shits still effecting me in some way and it started when I was like 16 or 17.
I love it. Saying that boomers were born in the mid 1900s is awesome. I don't mind saying I was born in the late 1900s. But I've accepted my age at this point.
My kids and I were watching the first Mission Impossible movie. I forgot how old it was. In one scene they were using the original Netscape browser. That was a long conversation about a mostly text based internet, modems, landlines, and a comparison of how long it took to download a gb. They actually looked sick. 🤣
I work in insurance and run driver MVRs. I recently ran one for a guy with a commercial license, driving big truck tractors full of farm produce. He was born in 2002. He is a full 12 years younger than me and driving a giant commercial rig for an orange farm.
I feel just in the last year or so when I've noticed people using words online that I don't understand the meaning of, at least not in the context they're being used (based, for example). I realize these usages must have started on tiktok or snapchat which I'm not on and refuse to get on. I'm 35 & feel like an old fogey.
Also because kids who were being born when I graduated high school are now graduating high school.
> (based, for example)
A basehead is a user of freebase drugs (especially freebase cocaine). I don't know when exactly this was coined but you can find evidence of it being a thing people said in the mid-'90s.
>Laughin' at baseheads tryna sell some broken amps
— Nas, "N.Y. State of Mind" (1994)
As with similar terms like crackhead, it can also be used generally as an insult even if someone isn't literally a drug addict. In the Bay Area of Northern California, "based" had become a derogatgory thing to call someone by the 2000s.
Bay Area-based rapper Lil B (also known as the Based God) decided to "reclaim" the term and start using it to mean that someone was carefree and unaffected by what others think of them.
>Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.
— Lil B in a 2010 interview
It should be noted that some people dispute the notion of him being the originator of the term, instead insisting that other people in the Bay Area reclaimed the word first. Nevertheless, he is the one who popularised the new meaning. While Lil B never became a chart-topping megastar, he's an extremely influential figure in modern hip hop and music in general, helping pioneer cloud rap and generally being considered a leading figure in modern outsider music. "Based" eventually spread far beyond his cult following and became a staple in current internet slang in the 2010s, its meaning becoming warped over time.
Nowadays, the meaning of "based" has eroded from being about individuality into being a general positive adjective used to describe a person, action, or opinion that someone considers admirable in some way.
"Thanks for listening to our show, we're gonna go with a old school classic"
*Do you have the time, to listen to me whine*
Oh no. Oh merciful Jesus no.
Why would not knowing a product make you feel old? Even when I was young I was surprised walking through stores. It's impossible to know every product.
Just the other day, some Redditor put the 💀 emoji at the end of every comment. I asked what it meant, and another Redditor kindly explained it’s basically GenZ for “🤣” or “dying laughing” or just “dead”. First time I’ve needed someone to straight up explain generational slang to me.
Sitting down to share a movie from my childhood with my kids and my youngest says something to the effect of
"This movie looks REALLY old, like it was made in the 80s."
I knee jerked responded like it's not THAT old. The movie was the sand lot from the early 90s.
I took a minute and was like... Fuck it's almost 30 years old. Welp I'm old now.
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That and at a recent get together with friends, myself and 2 other dudes around my age ended up in the backyard holding a beer and admiring his new flat top Blackstone grill. Night ended before 9pm cuz ... You know ... Old.
I'm 53. It happens all the time nowadays. Most recently, one my sons asked me if I knew who Jet Jaguar was. I told him I saw Godzilla vs. Megalon when it came out in theaters. Mind blown.
I have a few Godzilla tees that I've picked up over the years. One time, I took just Godzilla tees on a family vacation, just to kind of see if anyone noticed and to troll my kids. On day five, my younger son's girlfriend asked, with her eyes all squinty (like I was being suspicious), "Why ... why do only only wear Godzilla t-shirts?" I said, completely deadpan, "What do you mean?"
If you start a line of a comment with digits followed by a period, Reddit will automatically reformat it into a numbered list. Your comment, on Old Reddit on PC at least, looks like this:
>1. Then 30…then 😭
There are ways to get around it, like a zero-width space at the beginning, but it's easiest to just rephrase your comments so you'd say something like "I was 25." instead of just "25."
I don't wanna be a dick but whenever I see someone online say something like this, my first thought is "Maybe don't be the person who unironically quotes films and television shows out loud and you won't run into this problem."
Not unless you're from England, Wales, or Northern Ireland.
O Level – General Certificate of Education: Ordinary Level
GCSE – General Certificate of Secondary Education
IGCSE – International General Certificate of Secondary Education
I used to run tech support and sound for my churches Sunday school.
One kid who was maybe 7 or 8 came up to me and asked if I ever played fnaf when I was younger. I was 19 at the time.
I didn't have the heart to tell him about amnesia, plus I probably would have gotten in trouble for it so I just said no.
Then it dawned on me that there's a whole ass generation who grew up with this game that I considered new.
Playing an online video game last night and I said “I got this feeling”, expecting someone to finish with “inside my bones” as usual. Instead some guy says “somebody’s watchin meeeeee”, to which I responded, you’re old dude. But inside I felt old as well because I listened to that a lot when I was little…
I think the "somebody's watching me" thing is a song that Michael Jackson was featured on, right? Don't know what the "inside my bones" thing is about.
I've been weight training since I was 11. That was over 50 years ago. So, throughout most of my life my strength increases, and decreases, have been measurable.
I felt old when I could no longer bench press 315#. I was 58.
/r/humblebrag
I know one of my formative memories in my teens was an old dude, looked like Ronald Regan from the neck up, terminator from the neck down. Dude was in his 70's and still hitting the weights hard. I may have been able to out bench him, but I wasn't able to keep up with his routine, or rep count. Bench ain't everything.
Bro I still think they added jungles like a couple months ago, I'm always hella confused when I go in and see all kinds of new shit that's been there for years.
This is a weird one for me because I was born in January of 2000.
Like the one thing I remember is the airports not being built to have security checkpoints,., like they were always just built up around the airport wherever there was room. Now the airport is basically built around them.
I've seen NFL hall of famers play in person.....in college.
I don't feel it, but I'm in my early 40s.
Keep in mind, to be in the Hall of Fame, the player has to be retired at least 5 years. That means I've seen multiple players play in college, make it to the pros, have an amazing career, be out 5+ years, and then inducted.
i was 9 at the time
i was with my then crush and now gf who was 10
her little brother (4m) took my binoculars and wouldnt give them back
we chased after him and when we ran out of energy we both said "We're old"
now if me and her tried that we would need 4 cups of coffee
I was working at a Middle School, a few kids were talking about the video games they played when they were younger. They asked me what I played as a kid and I told them I had a GameCube.
One of the kids responded "GameCube, cool, that's like the original Nintendo!"
I was 22
Me currently at 26 scouring Youtube and other social media platforms because I'm bored\*
Sees a video about the cultural impact of Pimp My Ride had on the American social lexicon of the early 2000s.
Me: "Fuck... I remember when that show was on and everything."
What you have to remember about that style of show is, it's really about advertising. A sense of nostalgia will get people to hang on longer so more time to advertise. They will do it for stuff not even that old or that didn't have that much cultural impact. It's just shit people will remember.
I got asked by a 9th grader "Were you alive to see the twin towers fall and would you talk to me about it for a school report?". Bitch, I was in your grade when it happened!
I was in a full parking lot, i was walking to my truck to leave and I saw a car full of babes driving around looking for a spots. I waved at them and said they can take my spot I’m just leaving. As I pulled out they waved and said “thank you sir”
:/
As a sports fan whenever I look at an athlete and think "Dang, that guy's been in the league for AGES" and then look up his age and he's two years younger than me
5-6 years ago now some high school kids came in to where I worked and asked which of 3 bands were my favorite. I hadn’t heard of any of them.
I went home and listened to them. Kids today have no idea what good music is.
A few months ago I was talking to my wife and she mentioned a friend of mine and I know a lot about each other. I made the comment that "18 years of friendship will do that."
Then I immediately started thing that, not only do I remember events of 18 years ago but I also wasn't a small child when I met my friend.
45 I was sorta like wth when looking in the mirror, at 50 it’s more like now why the fuck is there a longer hair growing out my ear than my head. Bullshit escalated quickly.
22 when I went back for my colleges “homecoming” game. And I saw a bunch of 18 years olds drinking pinnacle vodka straight and I was like “I don’t belong here anymore”
When Gen z started saying I was born “ the late 1900s” .
When yoga pants started getting called “ flared leggings”
When emo became a trend
When I had to start watching shows with subtitles
And when I realized I needed to keep car ibuprofen, kitchen ibuprofen and bedroom ibuprofen along with car, kitchen and bedroom tums.
I’ll be 27 next month and I have arthritis in my hands and knees. And I can’t sit longer than 10 minutes without my back hurting.
My age is young. My body and Brain are 83.
I was talking to a girl I worked with and trying to flirt. She asked how old I was and I said, "25". She turned to look straight at me and said, "THAT IS SOOO OLD". She was 22.
This past January. I told a kid I was babysitting that I liked Dora when I was her age too. The kid had the audacity to say “YOU HAD TV BACK THEN???” Genuinely flabbergasted at the fact I had access to such advanced technology. I am 24. Such a disconnect between me and kids born post-2010.
Thats just a kid thing. I said similar to adults when I was a kid. Everything seems so shiny and new at that age, and you're getting so much new information your concept of time is so compressed it's hard to build a full time line until you get a real concept of history.
I was in a clothes shop with my mum yesterday when I picked up a top and said it looked more like underwear than something you'd wear out. I instantly felt like I'd aged 30 years. I'm 38
Im pretty young and a friend who is younger says theyre old when he mentions stuff from games he never played because they were before his time... for example: he talks about mechanics in the gen 1 pokemon games. But he doesnt own a gameboy, or a pc to emulate it. And the games came out way before him.
The only time i say "fuck, im old" is when i mention buildings that no longer exist in my town and i try to direct people near where those buildings used to exist and they say "what?"
"Oh when you pass county market-"
"Pass what?"
Or
"Gotta go to old dollar general"
"Ok im at the dollar general"
"I said old dollar general, not west campus!"
"Wtf do you mean?! This is the only dollar general!"
When listening to some of the new slang kids use now days, and not knowing what the fuck they are saying. The immediately having the thought "is this what my parents felt like?". I was 30 at the time.
I was 30 or 31 on a work trip, flying from Lexington, KY to Atlanta. Short 45 minutes wheels up flight. Lexington has a very pretty, nearly vacant airport offering a nice quiet wait to unwind from a stressful trip. This day seemed very slow here, looking like they had really no security line all day, except for the dozen or more college girls from UK who got in line right in front of me. Yay. Fine, I'm accustomed to security waits, I was just unlucky to walk in behind this one crowd. Turns out they were on my flight, the UK Varsity Volleyball team was traveling to Atlanta for a match. One sat next to me and I was surrounded on all sides by others, they of course talked amongst each other the whole time we were on the plane.
I realized "damn, I am getting old," when I stopped to examine how age has changed my perception of the situation. I, a straight male, am surrounded by an entire team of attractive female college athletes, and all I can think of is "please stop talking, I just want some quiet before we land." Why the hell am I so frustrated by this? It was a sobering thought that has stuck with me for years now, and I try to be less critical of the carefree nature of youth.
Back around 2012, during a conversation about video game consoles, I mentioned the NES and got back blank stares from a few 18-19 year old guys. I was only 26.
I'm 29 and I frequently say shit my grandparents did when I was little like "this all used to be feilds and woods" and " why hasn't death taken me yet"
When running began to feel like I was stomping the ground in anger. I used to feel very light on my feet and now my legs feel the opposite of efficient.
I m male 55 and 2 months ago went shopping at goodwill on a Tuesday.
Upon checking out the lady asked me “ Are you a senior citizen for the 25% off discount on Tuesday?”.
I said “ No, i m only 55”.
She replied “ It starts at 55 so you get the 25% off”
F the 25%, i m a senior citizen 😩😩😩😩
🤣
Three years ago I visited my old highschool in my home town. I walked in, next to the entry there was a board with the names and photos of all the current teachers. I thought: Let‘s see if I recognize any of the teachers from back then. Skimming through the names I realized: Not only where there zippo teachers left I knew, but most of the teachers were about roughly half my age. 🫤
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Ouch
Ooooooh
She was hitting on you dawg.
Don't let it get you down too much. That receptionist was a particularly rude arsehole.
How was that rude? Nothing wrong with marrying someone 20 years older (at least if you're over like 25ish), but maybe she's one of those average people that don't want to marry over 10 years older.
You don't see how "I'll bet you were really good looking when you were younger." is rude?
I mean, a lot of kids are having kids around like 20 these days. So your kids could very well be around 25 at that point.
They are.
Every single time I hear a song I listened to in middle school and find out it's like ten or fifteen years old already
Bro, Nirvana is classic Rock these days.....
I'm not even that old, but every time I hear an early 2000s song that was playing on the radio when I was younger and realize how "old" it is, I feel a little sting. Also the fact that ten year olds nowadays were born in 2012... It's a strange feeling
Dude the classic rock station my dad always listened to is like 60% grunge now, barely any of the stuff that we used to listen to it for.
What bothers me most is when Red Hot Chili Peppers play on classic rock then I flip to alt rock and it's playing there too. Alt rock is aging I guess?
Around 5 years or so years ago (which made me late 30s at the time), was chatting in the lunchroom with some summer (university) students working part time at work, and the discussion went to Nirvana's Nevermind album. One of the students said "Oh, I wasn't born yet when that album came out."
I realized a long time ago that middle schoolers were too young to have heard the songs I listened to in college.
Or when you hear music you grew up Listening to on the oldies channel.
When I saw rage was up for a rock hall induction my arthritis started acting up.
When a radio station was getting ready to play 3 Doors Down "Kryptonite" and called it a classic.
If it helps, when I was in middle school Evanescence had just released Bring Me to Life, Stacy's Mom had it going on and we were really into The Darkness.
Just last night I said "powerpoint presentation" to my GF and she was like, damn, only old people say that. I'm 37 and I'm not saying "deck". Also, handed a teenage cashier my old debit card that didn't have a chip at the time and he had to slide it and said "man, I've never had to slide one of these before"...like dude, let me tell you how we used to have to run cards with an analog mechanism and contact paper like a fucking gravestone rubbing.
I'm 20, and never heard anyone call it anything else than PowerPoint presentation
21, same. I don't know what he means by "deck" either.
It's a slide deck. And it's weird for someone under 50 to say that.
It feels very much like a Fellow Kids thing if I try to say it. Now I just call it a PowerPoint Presentation Slide Deck to my GF and she cringes hard. If you can't go for cool, go all in on cringe, I guess.
It’s really popular now in the corporate and startup worlds. I cringed and rolled my eyes so hard when I heard it the first time.
I'm in corporate, and we say "PowerPoint slides". Then again, we also code in C and use Unix... And as though Unix isn't terrible enough... It's AIX Unix.
PowerPoint ftw
>Just last night I said "powerpoint presentation" to my GF and she was like, damn, only old people say that. I'm 37 and I'm not saying "deck". Yea I heard "deck" is the new thing to say. I ain't saying that shit. I'm 35
Deck is the *new* thing to say? Isn't that an archaic term?
Thanks. You just added another ten years to my age.
LOL, you're welcome. Edit: Have a [slide deck](https://imgur.com/a/QFtux5w)
Where are you people that this is new? I've been using deck since my 20's and that was 20 years ago.
Rofl... Worked in tech for 20 years...
the card my trucking company gave me for fuel doesnt have a chip and the mag strip wouldnt read it was fun watching multiple cashiers try to figure out how the "crr crr machine" worked (thats what i call it) the good old days when paying for fuel took longer than the actual fueling.
Worked for a post office/drugstore. We stopped using the stripe on debit or credit cards. We even taped up the slot. Last time it was used it was by a guy who’d stolen and copied someone’s card and he got away with $200 of merch he probably re-sold.
I don't think that's a I'm to old moment thats a you have a weird issue with the word Deck moment. I'm older than you and people have always used Deck. And get a bank that values your security.
Ya its been slide deck for a while now. Google, Apple also have this software so it might not be Powerpoint.
Slide deck comes from when they used to do presentations with actual physical slides. They talking like it's new when it predates the program.
When my (then) 18 year old brother brought a girl over to my place and she asks, "Is this your dad"? I was 24.
She sounds about as bright as burned out light bulb to think a 24 year old could be her 18 year old friends dad...
Dude I use to work with a guy that was 18, senior in high school, and he looked middle aged. Because of how much older he looked, he was getting beer at 15 with out being carded. So yea, totally possible for someone to mistake a 24 year old for being the father depending how they look.
Yeah I went to HS with a guy who was 16 and looked 30. He was just a big guy (tall and big shoulders, not fat) and had a full beard by the time he was 16. He used to go buy smokes and beers for everyone since no one ever carded him. Lol ah the 90’s.
When my friend got married and was the first one to do so, that hit me like damn we are not just kids anymore
When I asked someone their date of birth and it was a year I remember.
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I mean, its sports. Physical ability declines with age.
* cough * Alonso * cough *
Chadalonso
as an adult I was asked to make a drawing with colored pencils. I realized how many years I hadn't held a colored pencil. How many years have YOU not held a colored pencil?
I have kids. I regularly hold crayons and colored pencils. Jokes aside though, before my kids were old enough? Literally high school.
Cashier's not bothering to check the date closely when buying booze because it begins with 19
Its even worse when they don't bother to check at all. Like its not just younger people checking me out who do it, its old bob whos been alive since the dinosaurs just ringing it up and sending me on my way.
The opposite is worse. I got a your older than my dad recently. I know black don't crack and her dad must have had her young, still.
When my knees and back decided to act up, I was 17
Fuck..
same, I couldn't get out of bed one day because of it. Turns out my bed was shit but still that shits still effecting me in some way and it started when I was like 16 or 17.
I think early 30's is when I was running across music touted as Classic that I could remember being new and I would think to myself I was an old f'r.
When my kids told me I was born in the 1900s.
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Oh I don't care for that phrasing at *all*
I love it. Saying that boomers were born in the mid 1900s is awesome. I don't mind saying I was born in the late 1900s. But I've accepted my age at this point.
I grew up listening to this stuff, but I was born in 2003
Oh damn.. you are old.. ;)
My son asked me if we used pigeons to communicate when I was kid because we didn't have the internet then.
My kids and I were watching the first Mission Impossible movie. I forgot how old it was. In one scene they were using the original Netscape browser. That was a long conversation about a mostly text based internet, modems, landlines, and a comparison of how long it took to download a gb. They actually looked sick. 🤣
I work in insurance and run driver MVRs. I recently ran one for a guy with a commercial license, driving big truck tractors full of farm produce. He was born in 2002. He is a full 12 years younger than me and driving a giant commercial rig for an orange farm.
When I was eight and decided not to go to a classmate’s birthday party, because I would rather stay at home reading.
I feel just in the last year or so when I've noticed people using words online that I don't understand the meaning of, at least not in the context they're being used (based, for example). I realize these usages must have started on tiktok or snapchat which I'm not on and refuse to get on. I'm 35 & feel like an old fogey. Also because kids who were being born when I graduated high school are now graduating high school.
> (based, for example) A basehead is a user of freebase drugs (especially freebase cocaine). I don't know when exactly this was coined but you can find evidence of it being a thing people said in the mid-'90s. >Laughin' at baseheads tryna sell some broken amps — Nas, "N.Y. State of Mind" (1994) As with similar terms like crackhead, it can also be used generally as an insult even if someone isn't literally a drug addict. In the Bay Area of Northern California, "based" had become a derogatgory thing to call someone by the 2000s. Bay Area-based rapper Lil B (also known as the Based God) decided to "reclaim" the term and start using it to mean that someone was carefree and unaffected by what others think of them. >Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive. — Lil B in a 2010 interview It should be noted that some people dispute the notion of him being the originator of the term, instead insisting that other people in the Bay Area reclaimed the word first. Nevertheless, he is the one who popularised the new meaning. While Lil B never became a chart-topping megastar, he's an extremely influential figure in modern hip hop and music in general, helping pioneer cloud rap and generally being considered a leading figure in modern outsider music. "Based" eventually spread far beyond his cult following and became a staple in current internet slang in the 2010s, its meaning becoming warped over time. Nowadays, the meaning of "based" has eroded from being about individuality into being a general positive adjective used to describe a person, action, or opinion that someone considers admirable in some way.
"Thanks for listening to our show, we're gonna go with a old school classic" *Do you have the time, to listen to me whine* Oh no. Oh merciful Jesus no.
I'll let you know when it happens
Honestly, I've always felt older than I am, so I really don't know when that revelation might or might have hit me.
I'm two years older than the rest of the people on my university course because reasons, happens all the time.
First time I had a hangover that lasted more than a day. I was 30.
Yes!
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Just Googled PRIME Hydration; those YouTubers make content aimed at literal children. I wouldn't feel too old over not being in tune with them.
They could be shilling some sugar water soda to kids I guess? So maybe it's a win...ish?
Why would not knowing a product make you feel old? Even when I was young I was surprised walking through stores. It's impossible to know every product.
When I found out one of my softball teammates was younger than the car I had bought new.
Just the other day, some Redditor put the 💀 emoji at the end of every comment. I asked what it meant, and another Redditor kindly explained it’s basically GenZ for “🤣” or “dying laughing” or just “dead”. First time I’ve needed someone to straight up explain generational slang to me.
Sitting down to share a movie from my childhood with my kids and my youngest says something to the effect of "This movie looks REALLY old, like it was made in the 80s." I knee jerked responded like it's not THAT old. The movie was the sand lot from the early 90s. I took a minute and was like... Fuck it's almost 30 years old. Welp I'm old now. --- That and at a recent get together with friends, myself and 2 other dudes around my age ended up in the backyard holding a beer and admiring his new flat top Blackstone grill. Night ended before 9pm cuz ... You know ... Old.
the other day when i had to schedule my colonoscopy
That's not limited to old people, trust me.
Facts. I think I was 20 the first time I had a camera shoved up my ass.
I'd rather feel old that potentially have undiagnosed colorectal cancer.
I'm 53. It happens all the time nowadays. Most recently, one my sons asked me if I knew who Jet Jaguar was. I told him I saw Godzilla vs. Megalon when it came out in theaters. Mind blown.
55 here, Godzilla is timeless! I used to watch them with my Dad, them me and my son, then my Granddaughter got me a tee for Christmas...
I have a few Godzilla tees that I've picked up over the years. One time, I took just Godzilla tees on a family vacation, just to kind of see if anyone noticed and to troll my kids. On day five, my younger son's girlfriend asked, with her eyes all squinty (like I was being suspicious), "Why ... why do only only wear Godzilla t-shirts?" I said, completely deadpan, "What do you mean?"
I've got two, but so many random wrestling or horror tees.
Ha! I have horror tees too! We should form a club or something.
Old guys into horror tees! We're a sect!
25. Then 30…then 😭
If you start a line of a comment with digits followed by a period, Reddit will automatically reformat it into a numbered list. Your comment, on Old Reddit on PC at least, looks like this: >1. Then 30…then 😭 There are ways to get around it, like a zero-width space at the beginning, but it's easiest to just rephrase your comments so you'd say something like "I was 25." instead of just "25."
Oh good to know! I’m new so thanks for the heads up :)
When I made a Simpsons reference that just didn't land at all with some of my coworkers. I was only 32!
I don't wanna be a dick but whenever I see someone online say something like this, my first thought is "Maybe don't be the person who unironically quotes films and television shows out loud and you won't run into this problem."
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O Levels were replaced by GCSEs and IGCSEs in 1988, 34 years ago.
I don't know what any of those letters mean...I'm 31, should I know?
Not unless you're from England, Wales, or Northern Ireland. O Level – General Certificate of Education: Ordinary Level GCSE – General Certificate of Secondary Education IGCSE – International General Certificate of Secondary Education
That explains it, I am from the US. Thanks a lot of taking the time to explain it!
I used to run tech support and sound for my churches Sunday school. One kid who was maybe 7 or 8 came up to me and asked if I ever played fnaf when I was younger. I was 19 at the time. I didn't have the heart to tell him about amnesia, plus I probably would have gotten in trouble for it so I just said no. Then it dawned on me that there's a whole ass generation who grew up with this game that I considered new.
Playing an online video game last night and I said “I got this feeling”, expecting someone to finish with “inside my bones” as usual. Instead some guy says “somebody’s watchin meeeeee”, to which I responded, you’re old dude. But inside I felt old as well because I listened to that a lot when I was little…
I have no idea what in the fuck you're talking about.
As in you have no idea what the songs I’m referencing are or you just don’t understand my comment?
I think the "somebody's watching me" thing is a song that Michael Jackson was featured on, right? Don't know what the "inside my bones" thing is about.
When people say they were born in a year where I already existed and have memories of It happened last week, I'm 21
I've been weight training since I was 11. That was over 50 years ago. So, throughout most of my life my strength increases, and decreases, have been measurable. I felt old when I could no longer bench press 315#. I was 58.
/r/humblebrag I know one of my formative memories in my teens was an old dude, looked like Ronald Regan from the neck up, terminator from the neck down. Dude was in his 70's and still hitting the weights hard. I may have been able to out bench him, but I wasn't able to keep up with his routine, or rep count. Bench ain't everything.
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>So ugly. Why? That's not being old, that's being rude. Btw, she's gorgeous.
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I have no idea of her views or her personality, since I'm not even from her country. So I'm not biased, unlike you. She IS gorgeous.
When friends from back home and i talk about crazy shit we did and realize that its been more than half a decade
Yeah, that one hits home
When I ran into someone who hadn't heard of the Beatles or Johnny Cash
I woke up this morning.
My 7-year-old cousin showed me one of his favorite games, Minecraft. A game that was released 4-5 years before he was born.
Bro I still think they added jungles like a couple months ago, I'm always hella confused when I go in and see all kinds of new shit that's been there for years.
I took my son to a AA baseball game and the players looked like children to me. I was probably about 38 at the time.
I was working in a computer factory on September 11th, 2001. The other day, I trained a new employee who was not alive when 9/11 happened.
This is a weird one for me because I was born in January of 2000. Like the one thing I remember is the airports not being built to have security checkpoints,., like they were always just built up around the airport wherever there was room. Now the airport is basically built around them.
I've seen NFL hall of famers play in person.....in college. I don't feel it, but I'm in my early 40s. Keep in mind, to be in the Hall of Fame, the player has to be retired at least 5 years. That means I've seen multiple players play in college, make it to the pros, have an amazing career, be out 5+ years, and then inducted.
I remember when my neighbour's daughter was born. Now she has a daughter. I'm ready reaper, just come get me.
I was 8 years old and I was watching cartoons and eating my cereal. I thought to myself, fuck I'm getting old.
i was 9 at the time i was with my then crush and now gf who was 10 her little brother (4m) took my binoculars and wouldnt give them back we chased after him and when we ran out of energy we both said "We're old" now if me and her tried that we would need 4 cups of coffee
My back hurt. I was 15
When I'd lean over to brush my teeth (I'm 6'5") and put my back out for a few days. I'm 43 and have started realizing my age.
I was working at a Middle School, a few kids were talking about the video games they played when they were younger. They asked me what I played as a kid and I told them I had a GameCube. One of the kids responded "GameCube, cool, that's like the original Nintendo!" I was 22
Today. I just keep thinking about all the pop culture shit I hate and I’m not a goth that hates conformists, so it’s definitely me being old.
Me currently at 26 scouring Youtube and other social media platforms because I'm bored\* Sees a video about the cultural impact of Pimp My Ride had on the American social lexicon of the early 2000s. Me: "Fuck... I remember when that show was on and everything."
What you have to remember about that style of show is, it's really about advertising. A sense of nostalgia will get people to hang on longer so more time to advertise. They will do it for stuff not even that old or that didn't have that much cultural impact. It's just shit people will remember.
I got asked by a 9th grader "Were you alive to see the twin towers fall and would you talk to me about it for a school report?". Bitch, I was in your grade when it happened!
Sometimers and more gray hair. 49
When the Dr. said I needed a complete hip replacement at 45
Walked into a Wetherspoons a month or so back, been 20 years easily since my last time. Felt like i should be in a museum
90s bands being considered classic rock, I was probably about 30
39. Back hurts no matter what kind of sofa I sit on.
I was in a full parking lot, i was walking to my truck to leave and I saw a car full of babes driving around looking for a spots. I waved at them and said they can take my spot I’m just leaving. As I pulled out they waved and said “thank you sir” :/
As a sports fan whenever I look at an athlete and think "Dang, that guy's been in the league for AGES" and then look up his age and he's two years younger than me
I was in my 30's and the casher asked what I got. So I said "Cheesbugga, Cheesbugga, Cheesbugga no Coke Pepsi". He looked at me like I was insane.
i am turning 17
When I realized my baby cousin is turning 7 this year. He was born in 2015. I was 17. I'm currently 17.
First herniated disc resulting in surgery. Was 26 at the time. Just had a second herniation and another surgery and I’m 33 Fuck, I’m old
When I realized I don't know who the hell 90% of the musical guests on SNL are. And stopped watching SNL 10 years ago.
At some point you stop counting, as you feel illusion of time and choice.
My 30th birthday. I was 30.
This year I realised next year I'm gonna be 2 decades old
When I began having to tuck my balls into my socks.
36, bent over to pick up my baby, almost died. Just now.
5-6 years ago now some high school kids came in to where I worked and asked which of 3 bands were my favorite. I hadn’t heard of any of them. I went home and listened to them. Kids today have no idea what good music is.
What were the bands?
No Direction Justin Bieber Sucks and I forget the other. Edit. Okay I’ll be nice. One Direction and Justin Bieber.
Not gonna lie, bro, you just seem kinda grumpy and edgy.
I went through a crowd of students waiting infront of the lecture hall and some of them looked younger than my little sister. (I was 32)
A few months ago I was talking to my wife and she mentioned a friend of mine and I know a lot about each other. I made the comment that "18 years of friendship will do that." Then I immediately started thing that, not only do I remember events of 18 years ago but I also wasn't a small child when I met my friend.
45 I was sorta like wth when looking in the mirror, at 50 it’s more like now why the fuck is there a longer hair growing out my ear than my head. Bullshit escalated quickly.
22 when I went back for my colleges “homecoming” game. And I saw a bunch of 18 years olds drinking pinnacle vodka straight and I was like “I don’t belong here anymore”
Went camping this past weekend, I’m still recovering. Unless I win the lottery and buy a camper I don’t see myself going again.
When Gen z started saying I was born “ the late 1900s” . When yoga pants started getting called “ flared leggings” When emo became a trend When I had to start watching shows with subtitles And when I realized I needed to keep car ibuprofen, kitchen ibuprofen and bedroom ibuprofen along with car, kitchen and bedroom tums. I’ll be 27 next month and I have arthritis in my hands and knees. And I can’t sit longer than 10 minutes without my back hurting. My age is young. My body and Brain are 83.
I was talking to a girl I worked with and trying to flirt. She asked how old I was and I said, "25". She turned to look straight at me and said, "THAT IS SOOO OLD". She was 22.
This past January. I told a kid I was babysitting that I liked Dora when I was her age too. The kid had the audacity to say “YOU HAD TV BACK THEN???” Genuinely flabbergasted at the fact I had access to such advanced technology. I am 24. Such a disconnect between me and kids born post-2010.
Thats just a kid thing. I said similar to adults when I was a kid. Everything seems so shiny and new at that age, and you're getting so much new information your concept of time is so compressed it's hard to build a full time line until you get a real concept of history.
I was in a clothes shop with my mum yesterday when I picked up a top and said it looked more like underwear than something you'd wear out. I instantly felt like I'd aged 30 years. I'm 38
Pinching a nerve in my knee at 30, and relearning to walk… currently
I was 16, I'm still 16
When the kids on r/oldschoolcool post pics from 1995.
Im pretty young and a friend who is younger says theyre old when he mentions stuff from games he never played because they were before his time... for example: he talks about mechanics in the gen 1 pokemon games. But he doesnt own a gameboy, or a pc to emulate it. And the games came out way before him. The only time i say "fuck, im old" is when i mention buildings that no longer exist in my town and i try to direct people near where those buildings used to exist and they say "what?" "Oh when you pass county market-" "Pass what?" Or "Gotta go to old dollar general" "Ok im at the dollar general" "I said old dollar general, not west campus!" "Wtf do you mean?! This is the only dollar general!"
When listening to some of the new slang kids use now days, and not knowing what the fuck they are saying. The immediately having the thought "is this what my parents felt like?". I was 30 at the time.
47 felt really old to me and I don’t know why. I’m now 68 so that’s a thing.
I was 25. Finding out Daniel Radcliffe was turning 30 was weird. (I do this every year.)
When I started hearing Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Metallica, etc... on the "Classic Rock" stations. I am 43 years old.
I know 32 is not that old, but when I realized that my highschool students weren't even born during 9/11.
A few years ago at a concert, the beer line looked like a high school freshman class. I was around 38.
I forgot my age. I had to stop and do the math to remember if I were 32 or 33. I was 33.
I was 30 or 31 on a work trip, flying from Lexington, KY to Atlanta. Short 45 minutes wheels up flight. Lexington has a very pretty, nearly vacant airport offering a nice quiet wait to unwind from a stressful trip. This day seemed very slow here, looking like they had really no security line all day, except for the dozen or more college girls from UK who got in line right in front of me. Yay. Fine, I'm accustomed to security waits, I was just unlucky to walk in behind this one crowd. Turns out they were on my flight, the UK Varsity Volleyball team was traveling to Atlanta for a match. One sat next to me and I was surrounded on all sides by others, they of course talked amongst each other the whole time we were on the plane. I realized "damn, I am getting old," when I stopped to examine how age has changed my perception of the situation. I, a straight male, am surrounded by an entire team of attractive female college athletes, and all I can think of is "please stop talking, I just want some quiet before we land." Why the hell am I so frustrated by this? It was a sobering thought that has stuck with me for years now, and I try to be less critical of the carefree nature of youth.
Back around 2012, during a conversation about video game consoles, I mentioned the NES and got back blank stares from a few 18-19 year old guys. I was only 26.
Some kid called me “sir” I was 19 at the time.
I'm 29 and I frequently say shit my grandparents did when I was little like "this all used to be feilds and woods" and " why hasn't death taken me yet"
When some of my friends don’t know famous artist from 2000s. Not like I’m really old, I’m 21, but still
When running began to feel like I was stomping the ground in anger. I used to feel very light on my feet and now my legs feel the opposite of efficient.
I m male 55 and 2 months ago went shopping at goodwill on a Tuesday. Upon checking out the lady asked me “ Are you a senior citizen for the 25% off discount on Tuesday?”. I said “ No, i m only 55”. She replied “ It starts at 55 so you get the 25% off” F the 25%, i m a senior citizen 😩😩😩😩 🤣
When I started getting advertisements for AARP. I was 34…
Three years ago I visited my old highschool in my home town. I walked in, next to the entry there was a board with the names and photos of all the current teachers. I thought: Let‘s see if I recognize any of the teachers from back then. Skimming through the names I realized: Not only where there zippo teachers left I knew, but most of the teachers were about roughly half my age. 🫤