Things that make you feel old.

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Really liked Paris Paloma's recent single, Labour, and its quite rare for a current artist to make an impression on me so I listened to some of her other stuff, liked it, thought maybe I'll get the CD, but her work is only available on MP3 :old:
 
"How do I love thee I feel old? Let me count the ways."
 
The youth and all their young things.

TV shows. Recording artists. Streaming, just in general. Any computer game newer than Civ III or Morrowind. Anime.

That's why I want the lot o' ya off my lawn, ya hear? :old:
 
Return of the Jedi turns 40 this year.

And Aerosmith released Get a Grip 30 ******* years ago.

:cry:
 
Recent photos of Russell Crowe. The guy who played Hando, Bud White and Maximus could play Santa Claus now.

Seems like a lots of pro athletes and Hollywood actors today are the children of actors and athletes I remember from, like, last week.
- Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) is older than her mother was in Pulp Fiction.
- Zoe Kravitz (The Batman; Kimi) is older than her mother was in High Fidelity.
- Jack Quaid (The Boys) is the same age his father was in Dreamscape, and older than his mother was in When Harry Met Sally.
 
Finally realizing that the current young adult/middle age adult generation in Canada has never heard of the Irish Rovers and can't figure out why the older generations of us loved The Beachcombers.


Seeing nuWho fans trying to relabel the 2005 version of Doctor Who as "classic".

Sorry, no. Classic Who is Hartnell (1963) through McGann (1996). Everything after that is nuWho, including the War Doctor (8.5).
 
I own this.

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When eating at lunch at the office with a new colleague, I told something about the September 11th and the guy answered me that he can't really tell as he wasn't born then.
 
I own this.

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i played sonic 1 when it was new...

another thing that kind if hit me was when discord friends (who have graduated college) told me how they used to watch my civ videos...when they were in middle school.
 
Time flies by. I recall, when I was 8-9, one summer, thinking that this means I will have 9 times more of the amount of thoughts/emotions/experiences I had at the time, by the time I reach the end of my life (assuming an average lifespan of a bit over 80). This made me feel joy, since already I had amassed a titanic reserve of such and ten times that almost equaled something infinite.
Reality is, though, that the child makes far more rapid connections and examinations of acquired knowledge. By your early 20s, you have likely already reached the maximum of your abilities on those fronts.
 
None of the young people remember 9/11, that time when two skyscrapers collapsed on thousands of people.

Ancient history now.
 
It was 22 years ago. The very young weren't even born so there's nothing to remember. Even if they were born but in mid elementary - I was that when the Chernobyl meltdown happened, and only thing I recall from it is from a photo.
So, essentially, if you are a few years younger than 30, it is unlikely 9/11/2001 meant anything to you.
 
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