What makes you feel old?

[Jetpack Stu]

I approached a woman at the bar last night and she waved me off complaining that she doesn't have daddy issues. I'm 19 years old. (to be fair though, men in my family have the older-looking gene)

I really feel old when I have to look in 3 different pawn shops just to track down a copy of starfox64.

or when the kids from the nearby highschool call me sir after each and EVERY sentence at my college because they get intimidated around confident old (looking) people.

or how the only reason i haven't kept up with great series like pokemon and legend of zelda is because i chose to buy an XBOX360/laptop rather than a WII & multiple handhelds over the years as MORE and MORE iterations of these platforms come out.

 

[lRookiel]

I feel old because I'm 18 and have a bad back....

I feel old because I say "Kids nowadays" and have been for a couple years.

I feel old when I play my sega mega drive for a few goes at beating "Zombies ate my neighbours!"

:3

 

[FalloftheLiving]

Yet only 17 i feel old knowing my dad played King Arthurs World with me

I remeber cheese tv (Aus)

And i hate smart phones and apple in general

I remeber loveing Jak and Daxter

I feel as if i have just left the public pool in the 90's with my rainbow icecream when certain song come on.

 

[AngloDoom]

Overhearing a child in GAME asking what a Gameboy was.

I almost fell into a pile of ash and dust just from hearing it.

 

[Commissar Sae]

Hearing all my colleagues saying how old being in a high school again makes them feel and knowing I'm 4 or 5 years older than them. Sigh, the downside of having chosen another degree before moving into education.

 

[kasperbbs]

When kids only about 5 years younger than me call me 'mister'.

 

[Catfood220]

Going to gigs and music festivals makes me feel old. Really old. I'm only 32 but sometimes waiting outside to go into a gig and looking around at the average age of the people there, I often feel like I should be on some sort of register.

For example, I went to see Greenday a couple of years ago and there were kids wandering around that could only have just been born around the time I was listening to Dookie. That made me feel really old.

 

[Carl The Manicorn]

This makes me feel old.

Good Lord. You've got to be shitting me.

OT: I feel really old when I when I watch the first episode of Spongebob and remember watching it when it premired.

Also playing my N64.

And when I make a Pokemon reference and young kids don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. *Le Sigh*

 

[Hemlet]

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My friend, I'm 18 and I remember using VHS, I miss those days, actually not really, but still, you don't have to be that old to have used it.

And this is true, seeing as there are still a few classes where the teacher/prof has to set up the old projector+VCR combo (although most profs now will just look up a few clips on youtube to make their point) as well as folks who still have their VCRs and VHS tapes kicking around. At the same time though, there are people who are likely only two to four years younger than you who will only ever see a VHS used in the classroom (maybe), and will never actually use one themselves.

 

[Estranged180]

What makes me feel old... THIS ENTIRE THREAD!

Seriously though, what does it to me is the screaming joints, where I decide to have dinner when my other half and I go out, my niece being exactly half my age (and 'knowing everything' while she really knows 'Jack Schitt' (a joke from another time)), people in their late teens to early 20's talking about 'back in the day'. Things like that either make me feel as ancient as I really am, or want to slap some people in the head. I can't quite figure out which.

All that being said, it's time for my puree'd steak.

 

[ProtonGuy]

That the Super Nintendo came out 21 years ago. Also the fact the any phone on the market today is more powerful then my family's first computer.

 

[GoaThief]

Many threads and people on this forum, surprisingly not this one so much (as there's plenty more "old" farts for balance).

Constant references to girls (not women?), losing virginity, weird teen trends, talk of school, rage at unrageworthy matters and the like make me feel so fucking old. I'm not even 30 yet you little shits, what have you done to me?!

 

[Zydrate]

I'm only 22 (almost 23 in March).

And yet, kids are starting to ask what that icon is next to "save" on various programs.

Hrrnnng.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

So what makes me feel old? Hearing (or reading) people much younger than me complaining about being old.

Oh believe me, I know I have no right to feel old. My sister's best friend plays in the local community band with me and she says I make her feel old because she used to change my diapers while she was in high school.

I just can't help thinking about when I was in Kindergarten when I see my nephew running around enjoying himself.

 

[Falseprophet]

I'll be 35 in a week, everything makes me feel old. But if I had to list a few specifics:

-Kids today will never understand that we had to go to dark, smoky, noisy arcades and drop quarters into primitive electronic machines to play the latest games.

-Dungeons and Dragons has gone through four editions and is working on a fifth.

-I saw Winona Ryder, the "it girl" of my generation in the new Star Trek movie, and she looked like the middle-aged woman that she is.

-"Classic rock" stations now play music from the 80s and 90s.

-And so do the PA systems at supermarkets and department stores.

 

[iseko]

my inabbility to play a game (any game mind you) for longer than 5 minuets without getting seriously bored and wishing it was more like something I played as a kid and could zone out for hours to. o.o

This!!! Couldn't have said it any better. I have to rent games or play it at a friends house first because 9 out of 10 times i'm bored after 5 minutes. Very rarely I actually enjoy them anymore.

 

[BENZOOKA]

This seems to be such a popular topic everywhere. People reflecting things in relation to their past and now, which goes on for basically all of us. Nothing bad in it I guess. It's just an interesting phenomenon.

I'm 23. I'm not old and I don't feel old.

 

[DirtyJunkieScum]

Generally it's realising that things that I thought of as being quite recent turning out to be 10-5 years old, film X being released in 1998 and realising that's 14 years ago. That always makes the passage of time hit home.

Also being on here and hearing all the young kids talk about classic bands or games of what have you, considered to be the progenitor of a genre and I realise that this was 20 years ago and I was their age when it came out. For example I was a young teenager and Nirvana and grunge was the new thing, the rave scene was at its height.

That's what really hits I think, hearing what was new when you were young being referred to as classic and being put into a social historical setting because it gives you a frame of reference for your own thoughts on older generations. I am to the younger generation what someone born in 1958 was to me. People who as young teenagers listened to The Doors, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest etc. Those were classic bands that, especially when I was a young teenager, felt like part of another era, old enough to be history...and now that's me.