07-20-2011, 09:10 PM | #1 | ||
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Here
|
Things that make you feel old
I was listening to music when Killing Me Softly came on. I remember listening to that song religiously on our 8th grade trip to DC. That song is now 15 years old. Then Color Me Bad came on. I Wanna Sex You Up is 20 years old.
Having a kid didn't make me feel old, but realizing that a song I grew up with is 20 years old makes me feel old. Basically, the distance between Killing Me Softly and now is the same as the distance between Sgr. Peppers and my birth, which seems like an entirely different epoch. It's only going to get worse, isn't it. |
||
07-20-2011, 09:12 PM | #2 |
Bounty Hunter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
|
What makes me feel old is that you mentioned the song "Killing Me Softly" and I thought only of the one that is most certainly NOT only 15 years old.
__________________
No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor. |
07-20-2011, 09:15 PM | #3 |
College Prospect
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Barnegat, NJ
|
Realizing that someone born in 1995 is actually old enough to work.
|
07-20-2011, 09:19 PM | #4 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2009
|
I hate you, easy mac. Killing me softly - Roberta Flack is what went through my head.
Granted I only heard that in repeats on the radio. That's it. |
07-20-2011, 09:20 PM | #5 |
Bounty Hunter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
|
I remember when I was a kid, I'd buy some kind of baseball magazine that The Sporting News would put out during spring training. It listed all the spring training rosters and had previews and all kinds of stuff. I used it to get rosters so I could enter them into MicroLeague Baseball. Anyway, back then, I remember thinking "Wow, some of these guys were born in the '70s and they're already in the majors." Most of the players at the time were born in the late '50s and '60s. Ugh. Now I REALLY feel old.
__________________
No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor. |
07-20-2011, 09:21 PM | #6 |
College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Midwest
|
Realizing this school year will be the first that all my students are born in 2000 or later. No more students from the 1900s. That made me feel old.
|
07-20-2011, 09:22 PM | #7 |
Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
|
Shorty
|
07-20-2011, 09:24 PM | #8 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
|
I was feeling fine until I noticed I'm older than Mac.
|
07-20-2011, 09:39 PM | #9 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Wisconsin
|
Realizing that the car that my daughter will probably learn to drive in is going probably be a car made in 2020.
__________________
You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its... |
07-20-2011, 09:42 PM | #10 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
|
For me it's sports. When I see a 28-29 year old player and think "well he's getting old, only a couple years left". Then realize I'm 31.
|
07-20-2011, 09:50 PM | #11 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
|
There are only a handful (if that) of guys on my favorite sports teams that are older than me and that kind of hits it home for me.
|
07-20-2011, 10:50 PM | #12 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: In the thick of it.
|
I've always had a dream of somehow making it into professional baseball. I'd think, if I could just get a hot streak in semi-pro, maybe someone would notice me. Even if I putted around in the minors for a couple years and then hung up my cleats, I'd be happy.
This year I turned 29, and it occurred to me that even if I hit .500 in semi-pro and ran the basepaths like Rickey, I'd still be considered too old to sign to a developmental contract. That made me feel old...very old.
__________________
I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon. Last edited by Sun Tzu : 07-20-2011 at 10:51 PM. |
07-20-2011, 10:53 PM | #13 |
College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Edmonton, AB
|
The kink in my neck that I get if I lay on the couch for too long. Fuck.
|
07-20-2011, 11:01 PM | #14 | |
World Champion Mis-speller
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Covington, Ga.
|
Quote:
Realizing no one on my favorite sports teams are older than me. Heck, hearing Chipper referred to as an "aging vet" when I still have a hard time thinking of him as anything but a kid. But the number one thing? My 15 year old daughter. |
|
07-20-2011, 11:29 PM | #15 |
H.S. Freshman Team
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Pistol City
|
That Baby Spice is 35 years old now.
And that my students are studying US history from the 80's and 90's and I'm the one teaching them (I'm 37). |
07-20-2011, 11:30 PM | #16 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
|
I was at a party a few weeks ago talking to a girl who was dressed like an 80s rocker, and she said to me "It's sorta strange how much I love 80s rock, considering I was born in the 90s". Straight away I felt like an old, old man.
__________________
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. --Ambrose Bierce |
07-20-2011, 11:30 PM | #17 | |
Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
|
Quote:
Yeah, this too.
__________________
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. --Ambrose Bierce |
|
07-20-2011, 11:43 PM | #18 | ||
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
|
Quote:
Quote:
+1 |
||
07-20-2011, 11:47 PM | #19 | |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Las Vegas
|
Quote:
27 yet I feel pretty much the same way.
__________________
Xbox Live Gamertag: k0ruptr My Favorite Teams : Chicago White Sox - Carolina Panthers - Orlando Magic - Phoenix Suns - Anaheim Ducks - Hawaii Warriors - Oregon Ducks |
|
07-20-2011, 11:50 PM | #20 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
|
A few things:
My youngest neice turning 24... she was born on the day I graduated from high school. Seeing a sports star that is older than me as a rarity. Going from idolizing the men that played when I was a kid, to seeing players my age to now seeing those kids that play. Listening to the crap that passes as music. Having a doctor that is only two years older than me, plus she is hot. Though 10 years ago when I first went to her she was even hotter. |
07-21-2011, 12:36 AM | #21 |
College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Amarillo, TX
|
Smells Like Teen Spirit is as old now as Stairway to Heaven was when Smells Like Teen Spirit came out.
Stairway to Heaven is as old now as Minnie the Moocher was when Stairway to Heaven came out. And for Bucc, Minnie the Moocher is as old now as Camptown Races was when Minnie the Moocher came out. |
07-21-2011, 05:32 AM | #22 |
High School JV
Join Date: Oct 2006
|
I took my kids to see the Easter bunny wearing 2 different shoes.....and it didn't bother me. Also, I sat in the waiting room at the hospital recently with a giant hole in my khaki colored shorts. Luckily, I was wearing black underwear so it wasn't so obvious.
__________________
XBOX Live Gamertag: bignej |
07-21-2011, 05:59 AM | #23 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Pittsburgh
|
We had a kid interning with us, now staying on part time.
He turns 21 next week and wants me (35) to go out with him and his friends. I keep getting this image of them asking him why he brought his dad.
__________________
"Do you guys play fast tempos with odd time signatures?" "Yeah" "Cool!!" |
07-21-2011, 06:37 AM | #24 | |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
|
Quote:
I didn't know there was another one. I'm beyond the point of feeling old. I've always felt older than I am, so now my age is just catching up to my mental state.
__________________
M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete." |
|
07-21-2011, 06:56 AM | #25 |
Bonafide Seminole Fan
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Miami
|
Babies.
__________________
Subby's favorite woman hater. |
07-21-2011, 07:03 AM | #26 | |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Keene, NH
|
Quote:
oddly enough, that song reminds me of DC as well. I wasn't in 8th grade, though.
__________________
Mile High Hockey |
|
07-21-2011, 07:06 AM | #27 |
Go Reds
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
|
realizing i can legally hook up with people born in 1993... weird
|
07-21-2011, 07:28 AM | #28 |
College Starter
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sweden
|
When one of my favorite players retired almost two years ago at an age of 38, and I realized he actually was 10 months younger than me.
__________________
San Diego Chargers (HFL) - Lappland Reindeers (WOOF) - Gothenburg Giants (IHOF) Indiana: A TCY VC - year 2044 - the longest running dynasty ever on FOFC! |
07-21-2011, 08:14 AM | #29 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
|
This forum is over 10 years old.
|
07-21-2011, 08:14 AM | #30 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
|
|
07-21-2011, 08:23 AM | #31 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Massachusetts
|
I don't feel that old honestly, which is nice. I went the other day to look at the new puppy my family is getting, and when we were chatting and I mentioned my age (it came up) I mentioned that I was 31 and the breeder said "Oh - I was thinking you were in your early 20s."
So that made me feel real young I guess. Although I suppose it could be taken both ways... Last edited by DaddyTorgo : 07-21-2011 at 08:47 AM. |
07-21-2011, 08:32 AM | #32 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The scorched Desert
|
Hearing Grandpa in connection with my name...
|
07-21-2011, 09:01 AM | #33 |
Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
|
Heh. I worked at the Dayton Mall Cinemas the summer that T2 came out. Long time ago. "Would you like butter-flavored topping on your popcorn, sir?" I'm 41, but have always looked and felt younger than I am. I attribute it to my general immaturity, and the fact that I generally stay out of the sun. Less toll on your skin over the years. Last edited by Kodos : 07-21-2011 at 09:02 AM. |
07-21-2011, 09:15 AM | #34 |
College Prospect
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: An Oregonian deep in the heart of Texas.
|
|
07-21-2011, 09:18 AM | #35 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
|
Hell, ...And Justice For All will be 25 years old in a couple of years. I'm still holding out hope for an anniversary edition/remastering where they find Jason Newsted's long-lost bass tracks and add them to the mix.
__________________
M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete." |
07-21-2011, 09:54 AM | #36 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
|
When one is older than every single professional sports player. Growing up, I too marveled at active players that were born in the 30s and 40s.
|
07-21-2011, 10:00 AM | #37 |
College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: La Mirada, CA
|
When someone of legal drinking age didn't know that The Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith was a remake.
__________________
ABC's Game Giveaway list |
07-21-2011, 10:01 AM | #38 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mass.
|
My body the day after a softball game makes me feel old!
|
07-21-2011, 10:11 AM | #39 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2002
|
I can't believe it's been almost 30 years since the California Raisins wrote "Heard It Through The Grapevine".
__________________
Down Goes Brown: Toronto Maple Leafs Humor and Analysis |
07-21-2011, 10:17 AM | #40 |
Go Reds
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
|
|
07-21-2011, 10:17 AM | #41 | |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: In the thick of it.
|
Quote:
Or when someone of legal drinking age doesn't realize that the background for "Pump It" by Black Eyed Peas (or, almost any of their other songs) is completely lifted in it's entirety from other songs several decades prior.
__________________
I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon. |
|
07-21-2011, 10:33 AM | #42 |
College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: La Mirada, CA
|
__________________
ABC's Game Giveaway list |
07-21-2011, 10:40 AM | #43 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Where Hip Hop lives
|
It's funny, because I work a serving job as my second source of income, so I work with a lot of college age kids, and count some of them among my better friends. So I am constantly reminded when I bring up something that ages me--I can see the glaze starting to film over their eyes when I mention a song from the 80s, lol.
That said, I still feel young and in touch, despite being 38 (which could also mean I am delusional and just prepping myself for senility).
__________________
. . I would rather be wrong...Than live in the shadows of your song...My mind is open wide...And now I'm ready to start...You're not sure...You open the door...And step out into the dark...Now I'm ready. |
07-21-2011, 10:47 AM | #44 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
|
We got to talking about the movie thing at work, and came to the conclusion 1989 was one of the best movie release years...ever.
|
07-21-2011, 10:49 AM | #45 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
|
|
07-21-2011, 10:53 AM | #46 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: In the thick of it.
|
__________________
I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon. |
07-21-2011, 10:54 AM | #47 |
Go Reds
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
|
You guys are making Coffee Warlord's point
|
07-21-2011, 10:56 AM | #48 |
College Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
|
Going out early on St. Patrick's day with friends and realizing that *we* were the old people in the bar now.
Realizing that one of my cousins that followed me around the house all day at one of the last family X-mas' before my grandparents passed as a 2 year old toddler had her graduation party this year. |
07-21-2011, 11:12 AM | #49 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Madison, WI
|
|
07-21-2011, 11:35 AM | #50 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
|
A few weeks ago, I found out my brother-in-law's fiancee, who is 23ish, had never heard of Tears For Fears.
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
|
|