Sh*t that makes you feel old

[Denny Crane]

I remember watching this on TV.

Sadly, everything he warned of happened with little resistance, giving us our present-day enslavement.

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Military industrial scientific complex.

 

[julius]

Don't know if this was already posted (and I don't care)..but...

We are closer to January 1st, 2030 than we are to December 31st, 1998.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Fuck all ya. I'm 40 tomorrow and had to drag a firm mattress from an upstairs bedroom for my back. FUCK

 

[jlprk]

I miss great news personalities like Walter Cronkite.

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/10/5411754/in-our-news-mediatwitter-culture.html

 

[crandc]

Ah, to be 40 again....

 

[Denny Crane]

I remember a time when there were payphones all over the place. I saw one a few weeks ago at a shopping mall; the first one I've seen in maybe 5 years.

I remember when phones had to be connected to the wall. If you had a long enough cord, you could pace or go in the next room while on the phone.

I remember when TV screens and computer monitors were these big clunky picture (cathode ray) tubes. Today, most everything is flat screen.

I remember when mostly secretaries used typewriters to create or respond to correspondence.

And I bet jlprk still uses one of these:

 

[crandc]

I remember all that too, Denny.

Also vinyl records (which I still have). And a time when interracial marriage and birth control were illegal.

 

[Denny Crane]

I remember all that too, Denny.

Also vinyl records (which I still have). And a time when interracial marriage and birth control were illegal.

There's probably a whole generation of people who've never seen those things.

"You had phones attached to the wall? GTFO!"

 

[Sedatedfork]

My doctor is younger than me.

 

[Sedatedfork]

I remember five cent ice cream cones. How freaked I was when a postage stamp went to 13 cents. Fighting the cops in 1967 when LBJ (the president, not basketball player) spoke at Century City Plaza when I was 13.

I feel old when I say someone sounds like a stuck record and kids don't know what I mean. I felt old at my local Pride last year with my trusty Nikon F when a young girl said she'd never seen anyone change film before. I LOVE my Nikon!

Remember when gas was less than a $1 a gallon?

 

[julius]

Remember when gas was less than a $1 a gallon?

That wasn't THAT long ago. Just the mid 90's.

 

[Boob-No-More]

And I bet jlprk still uses one of these:

Nah, more likely one of these:

BNM

 

[Denny Crane]

I used to know how to work one of these:

 

[julius]

I remember a time when there were payphones all over the place. I saw one a few weeks ago at a shopping mall; the first one I've seen in maybe 5 years.

I remember when phones had to be connected to the wall. If you had a long enough cord, you could pace or go in the next room while on the phone.

I remember growing up, my parents had to rent their phones, and they had two.

A wall phone (yellow) and a desk phone (green).

 

[donkiez]

this thread should be about shits that make you feel old, because I have those all the time. Also my morning breakfast of vitamins, fiber, fish oils and medicines make me feel old. I get all misty eyed for a day when frosted flakes weren't a dessert.

 

[crandc]

I refused to buy a calculator in college because I saw too many people forget how to do simple arithmetic. I did have a circular slide rule for use in chemistry. Even now, whenever I use a calculator I double check with pencil & paper - I trust my brain more than my clumsy fingers!

Barack Obama is the first president younger than me.

Maris, speaking of telephones, remember they used to have to be installed, you'd move and be incommunicado until the phone company arrived. I wonder what today's young people would think of that 70s song, Telephone Man? The woman singing in double entendres about her phone being installed?

He hung it in the kitchen and he hung it on the wall, he hung it in the bedroom and he hung it in the hall. I got it with the buzz and I got it with the ring. And when he told me what my number was I got a dingaling.

 

[Eastoff]

Remember when most people actually knew how their appliances worked? No? Me neither...

 

[Minstrel]

 

[santeesioux]

Forrest Gump, as well as Jurassic Park are the two oldest movies i remember watching when they were new when i was a very young kid. I'm feeling pretty old now.

 

[Sedatedfork]

Oldest movie I remember watching was empire strikes back.

Here is an old moment I had recently. My dad insists I take his car, which is s Buick. I have my car parked outside my house on a hill. All of a sudden, I hear this loud noise. I look outside and I see some kid who is to my left and probably 10 years old running up the hill with his longboard to catch up with his dad who is crossing the street to my right. I go outside and look at the front of my dads car and there is this huge dent near the license plate that wasn't there before. I am not exactly sure how the longboard would have made the dent, but I can't explain the evidence before me. I get in my car and chase them down, yelling at them for hitting my car. They profusely deny they touched my car. I cant really proove anything so I speed off. Fast forward a couple of weeks and I am visiting with my dad and I tell him the story, and he tells me that he hit something a while back and caused the dent.

So, there you have it. Yelling at a 10 year old kid on a skateboard for hitting my Buick, and he didn't even do anything wrong.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Forrest Gump, as well as Jurassic Park are the two oldest movies i remember watching when they were new when i was a very young kid. I'm feeling pretty old now.

You saying that makes me feel old; one of my earliest movie experiences was The Fox And The Hound.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Metallica's album "Ride The Lightning" will be 30 years old tomorrow.

 

[Minstrel]

Metallica's album "Ride The Lightning" will be 30 years old tomorrow.

Guns'n'Roses' "Appetite For Destruction" is almost as old (27 years) and was a seminal rock record of my childhood when I was in elementary school...

 

[Denny Crane]

The first LP I ever owned was Help! by the Beatles when it first came out.

 

[riverman]

I remember when there was no FM radio. AM radio was the one choice and there was no musical segregation. You'd hear the Beatles, Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra back to back. A good song was a good song. You had a choice to buy albums in mono or stereo and 45s or LPs were only sold in furniture stores where coffee table record players were sold. My first LP was probably Paul Revere and the Raiders or the Beatles first LP. When I was a child we had phones with the mouthpiece on the wooden box and the earpiece on the side. Phone number was one long ring and two short rings, party line and no numbers.

 

[Denny Crane]

You'd have to ask jlprk what it was like when they first invented radio.

 

[riverman]

You'd have to ask jlprk what it was like when they first invented radio.

I already know Denny, it was real crackly and the audio sounded like it was a tin can

 

[oldguy]

The first movie I remember going to was Days of Wine and Roses.

Go Blazers

 

[TehChad]

Metallica's album "Ride The Lightning" will be 30 years old tomorrow.

Wow. Still one of my favorite albums of all time...this definitely makes me feel old, well played sir

 

[crandc]

My first LP was Meet the Beatles

Had such a moment yesterday. I was at a memorial for a good friend who died just before July 4 weekend. I met a woman there and we decided to exchange phone numbers (business, not social). I had pen & notebook in my bag but it was in another room. She had her bag with her but no pen. A young woman nearby said "don't you have phones"? Duh! My phone was in the next room with the rest of her stuff, but my new friend had her phone, called me, left message, voila! we now have each other's phone numbers. No pen and paper needed.