- My ten year high school reunion is coming up soon. - In the past couple months I've seen kids get out of the car they were driving who I remember seeing right after they were born.
When you're out at the local pub and you notice a kid that was many years below you at school. My youngest brother will be at 18 next January so that will be another example of it.
That doesn't mean much to me - almost everything great he did happened before I was born anyway .... you're welcome.
Personal signs of growing older: I can't sleep for more than 6 hours & I enjoy mornings now. I hate it when people leave the lights on. I shake my fist at idiots drag racing down my street. What has really hit me is that I started a new job last fall that employs a large number of seasonal workers. I was checking out the talent & thinking about all the dirty things I could do with them when it hit me that I'm old enough to be their father. Not knock up your girl at 15 father either.
Not that old, but the last year or 2 was the first time I'd see most college freshman and think "damn they look young" as opposed to "schwing". On a similar note, my little sister will be a college freshman in the fall and I can distinctly remember her still being a little kid, more or less, when I left for college. Tons of kids/teens have never had to download porn with a 56.6k or, gasp, 28.8k dial up connection.
Focus: Posts like that. I attended my 15 year college reunion in 1999. Also: "Get more fiber" isn't a punchline anymore. "Staying up late" now means past 10:30 pm "Sleeping in" now means waking up later than 6:30 am Everything is too loud, yet I have a hard time hearing. I don't mind going gray, as long as the hair stays where it is.
As of tonight I will have two nieces who have graduated Highschool. One is old enough to drink legally. Both will be enrolled at Purdue this fall. I had my 15 year Highschool reuinon and some of my friends from highschool have kids that are teenagers already.
Dude, try BBS' and 2800 baud modems. Took an eternity just to see a set of tits. Heaven forbid they had videos. Dial up, set to download, go hang out at a friends house for a while, and then come back to spank it. Mind you, this had to be planned while your parents were at work, so not to disrupt it from downloading. Having to yell at your parents to not pick up the phone when you're online is something kids these days have no clue about. No kids today will know the song of my people when accessing things online. I also remember being a hot shit when I was younger because I had a pager, which meant I could be gotten a hold of by friends if I was out and they wanted to hang out.
Remember the Southpark episode of where all the new music kids were listening too sounded like nothing but fart noises and diarrhea? That's exactly what most dubsteb sounds like to me.
I got a kick out of this a while back: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/things-that-will-make-you-feel-old" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/things-t ... u-feel-old</a> My favorite is #47.
I didn't recognize half of the stuff on that list, presumably because it was because I had already moved into adulthood and didn't care about it at the time. You know what really makes me feel old? Looking at half of my rugby team and realizing that I played my first college rugby match before most of them were even out of diapers.
Oh man, I remember being, i dont know, like 8 or 10 when we got our first modem. There were all sorts of games to be downloaded. My dad would basically get a text file that I could scroll through and look at games and tell them what games I wanted, and then he would set them up to download overnight and I would wake up the next morning and they would be there. I guess it must have been some sort of ftp list or directory. I also remember he would tell me not to look at certain pages of the document cause they had "stuff for grownups", which I later realized was totally a porn directory.
I thought that just meant you were a drug dealer. Some of the clients I've had for a long time now have kids getting drivers licenses...when they had no kids at the point they started with me. My back hurts.
When I was in college, and would go out to the bars, I would see familiar faces all the time. Not even so much people I knew, but people I recognized from seeing out. I returned to my college town for the first time since graduating last week, and didn't recognize a fucking soul. All the bartenders were even different. No so much that I'm old, but amazing how quick shit changes in just a years time. EDIT: Back in my day, $2 Tuesday meant EVERYTHING was $2, with the exception of ultra premium shit like Johnnie Blue. Now Woodford Reserve and Hendricks gin have both been removed from the $2 list!
When I was a kid, we "downloaded" porn by sneaking into my neighbor's house and pilfering his stash of Penthouse & Playboy. We would have done the same with VHS tapes, but they weren't invented yet.
I've done this before, but: Punched cards? When I were a lad y'ad no fancy punch'd cards. Y'had to sit thur turnin' the 'andle with your left 'and to get the 'lectricity, like, whilst tappin' owt binary down't RS-232 line wi'tother. Ah saw one bloke 'is 'and dropped off from 'strain. Quick as a flash 'e start'd hittin' morse key wit' 'is 'ead, wi'owt missin' a bit. You lot 'ad it reet cushy. Focus: I made a reference recently to "Little Timmy and his case of chickenpox".... Got a lot of dumb looks before I remembered that there's a vaccine now, and no one gets chickenpox anymore. (And that's why youth culture is crap today).
The fact I can't tell the difference between boys and girls 50% of the time anymore. Seriously teenage boys, get just a little upper body strength and a fucking haircut, then maybe us gen X’ers wouldn't treat you with the utter contempt you richly deserve.