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Old 04-07-2014, 11:09 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Knowing what a rotary dial telephone is and knowing how to use one.

When you realize your arms are no longer long enough for you to be able to read most books and restaurant menus without a pair of reading glasses.

When you think back on some memorable events from your 30's and 20's, that seem like they happened 6 or 7 or 8 years ago, and you realize they actually happened two to three times longer ago than you first thought.

When you make a pop culture reference to someone in their teens or twenties and they have no idea what you're talking about.

When someone in their teens or twenties makes a pop culture reference to you and you have no idea what they're talking about.
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Old 04-07-2014, 11:44 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Knowing what a rotary dial telephone is and knowing how to use one.

When you realize your arms are no longer long enough for you to be able to read most books and restaurant menus without a pair of reading glasses.

When you think back on some memorable events from your 30's and 20's, that seem like they happened 6 or 7 or 8 years ago, and you realize they actually happened two to three times longer ago than you first thought.

When you make a pop culture reference to someone in their teens or twenties and they have no idea what you're talking about.

When someone in their teens or twenties makes a pop culture reference to you and you have no idea what they're talking about.
Armitis affects those over the age of 40 I heard.
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Old 04-08-2014, 12:37 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Seeing Twitter-based things get turned into movies/tv shows, like Shit My Dad Says and That Awkward Moment.

That kind of thing really seems to turn me into this


Same. I was having a conversation with one of my customers (a senior citizen) the other day about how people my age (mid 20s) are so hooked on technology, so connected to everyone and everything, all the time, and we both agreed that it's strange, unnecessary, and slightly horrifying.


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Seeing a paper marking the 20 year anniversary of the (mysterious) death of Kurt Cobain - that made me feel old.
Realizing that my baby sister was born in 1994, and uh, she's obviously not a little girl anymore.

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I laughed so hard when I saw this. (Then I had to explain it to Ki.)

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stuff that makes me feel old (part 1, pocket edition) -
  • Pretty much my entire front-end staff at work (and the fact that I take the youngest ones under my wing because they're practically overgrown children)
  • The fact that you can't say "here's a dime; call someone who cares" anymore, because nobody would understand you/if pay phones still exist somewhere, they're probably super expensive now.
  • The fact that I enjoy drinking but I don't want to get drunk.
  • My little sister (who I practically raised myself) is 20 years old. TWENTY. WHAT THE HELL.
  • The fact that my significant other is a couple years younger than me, and I consider him somewhat sheltered in contrast to all the adventures I've had in the past 10 years. (But it makes me happy that I can teach him necessary things about being an adult.)
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Old 04-08-2014, 04:44 AM   #24 (permalink)
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What a cryptic way of saying your old.
No, it's a "thing that makes me feel old". Seeing a comment about driving made me realize it's been 21 years since I got my license, which is the drinking age here.
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Old 04-08-2014, 05:34 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Same. I was having a conversation with one of my customers (a senior citizen) the other day about how people my age (mid 20s) are so hooked on technology, so connected to everyone and everything, all the time, and we both agreed that it's strange, unnecessary, and slightly horrifying.



... as you were both checking your Twitter feeds....
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Old 04-08-2014, 11:36 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Knowing what a rotary dial telephone is and knowing how to use one.


i remember those, i kinda miss them actually i liked the sound the little number wheel made.

plus back then you had to memorise somebody's phone, nowadays if i lose my cellphone i can't call most of my friends cause i don't remember their number!
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You know how camera work and picture quality all kind of look the same for whatever decade they're in so you can pretty much date any TV show/movie you watch just by how it looks? It makes me feel old when I realize that I remember a time when TV looked different.

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Just spoken to one of my sister's carers who didn't know what "Gone with the wind was" and had never heard of "Casablanca"! Oh man I feel old! What sort of things make you feel old when you hear them, assuming you're not young, and if you are, **** ya!
That's not being young, that's being stupid.
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Old 04-08-2014, 01:02 PM   #28 (permalink)
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You know how camera work and picture quality all kind of look the same for whatever decade they're in so you can pretty much date any TV show/movie you watch just by how it looks? It makes me feel old when I realize that I remember a time when TV looked different.
Been catching up on the Rockford Files, and Barney Miller?
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Old 04-08-2014, 01:04 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Been catching up on the Rockford Files, and Barney Miller?
Dude, even Friends looks dated these days. Scary stuff.
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Just spoken to one of my sister's carers who didn't know what "Gone with the wind was" and had never heard of "Casablanca"! Oh man I feel old! What sort of things make you feel old when you hear them, assuming you're not young, and if you are, **** ya!
That's just not being cultured or not that into movies in general.

Not so much about being old.

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plus back then you had to memorise somebody's phone, nowadays if i lose my cellphone i can't call most of my friends cause i don't remember their number!
I am glad that I don't have to waste space remember random people's numbers. Also back in those days people just ended up either using a phone book or having your own personal phone book that you wrote their numbers down in. You didn't have to remember them back then either.
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