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Have you guys ever had a sudden realization that you were getting older when you looked at a younger generation? You don't even have to be "old" to have one. I'm seventeen and I recently had one when I realized that the sophmores at my school were born in the 1990's.

You get used to it. What sucks is that you end up hearing 'sir' a lot, and I hate that.

Have you guys ever had a sudden realization that you were getting older when you looked at a younger generation? You don't even have to be "old" to have one. I'm seventeen and I recently had one when I realized that the sophmores at my school were born in the 1990's.
Yes. :(

You get used to it. What sucks is that you end up hearing 'sir' a lot, and I hate that.
:mad: :mad: :mad: I know what you mean!!!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:
At kickboxing training these 16/17 years old kids call me sir. I literally have to beat it out of them. "Call me sir again and I will punch your lights out." At least they have learned now to not call me sir during sparring.

Oh yes. I first felt that way when I was 17 as well. Freaky.

You get used to it. What sucks is that you end up hearing 'sir' a lot, and I hate that.
That won't happen for a while, or hopefully ever. Now, when people start calling me ma'am, then I'll go crazy.

That won't happen for a while, or hopefully ever. Now, when people start calling me ma'am, then I'll go crazy.
Well, six of one half a dozen of the other. I just don't feel ready to be referred to in public by an honorific. I don't think I'll ever be ready.

I had that sudden awful feeling of age creep today when I pulled a nose hair out (don't ask why) and saw that it was white.
White nose hairs!
Oh god, I am old!

Well, six of one half a dozen of the other. I just don't feel ready to be referred to in public by an honorific. I don't think I'll ever be ready.
You could always do something really amazing and get yourself knighted. That way the honorific won't make you feel old. Just pompous.

You get used to it. What sucks is that you end up hearing 'sir' a lot, and I hate that. <sings> To Sir With Looooove. </sings> :D

The list of indignities is long and frequently updated. :)

You get used to it. What sucks is that you end up hearing 'sir' a lot, and I hate that.
You, sir, are a nutball, and deserves to be locked in a box with 2 breathing holes and fed sunflower seeds...sir.

You get used to it. What sucks is that you end up hearing 'sir' a lot, and I hate that.German's worse. They start using the formal "sie" instead of "du" and it takes a while to get used to.

Have you guys ever had a sudden realization that you were getting older when you looked at a younger generation? You don't even have to be "old" to have one. I'm seventeen and I recently had one when I realized that the sophmores at my school were born in the 1990's.

It is going to get even better than that. After about age 24 to 27 you are going to start realizing that you are a completely different person than you were 5 years ago. Your beliefs, priorities and basic outlook on life will entirely different than they were. What's more spooky, is that this will continue for the rest of your life, but you will realize that you become much much wiser than you were the 5 before.

THE SOPHOMORES WERE BORN IN THE 1990S?! Oh, crap, I am truly ancient.

You get used to it. What sucks is that you end up hearing 'sir' a lot, and I hate that.
I wouldn't mind being called that. But everyone here in Denmark is so impolite...

Oddly enough, I'm getting younger. But that's due to me being from Orc...




(thus proving how old I'm getting by making such a dated reference...)

German's worse. They start using the formal "sie" instead of "du" and it takes a while to get used to.
Still, less conspicuous than the Romanian "dumneavoastră" (replacing "tu").

Pfft ... just wait until you hit 30 ...

Look at it this way: At least getting older beats the alternative.

Have you guys ever had a sudden realization that you were getting older when you looked at a younger generation? You don't even have to be "old" to have one. I'm seventeen and I recently had one when I realized that the sophmores at my school were born in the 1990's.
Oh? Ever think how I feel? When I was born, WWII was still in full swing. FDR was still President. I've seen the Korean war, the war in Vietnam, the military actions in Dominician Republic, Panama, etc. The first music I remember deliberately listening to was Elvis Presley ... I saw his first appearance on TV on the Ed Sullivan Show, where they blocked the view of his hips and legs because they thought he was too "suggestive!"

Oh yeah ... and I remember when gas was less than 40 CENTS per gallon! :eek:

TALK to me about "realizations!" :D

Oh? Ever think how I feel? When I was born, WWII was still in full swing. FDR was still President. I've seen the Korean war, the war in Vietnam, the military actions in Dominician Republic, Panama, etc. The first music I remember deliberately listening to was Elvis Presley ... I saw his first appearance on TV on the Ed Sullivan Show, where they blocked the view of his hips and legs because they thought he was too "suggestive!"

TALK to me about "realizations!" :D
What was it like to fend off saber toothed tiger attacks?

Look at it this way: At least getting older beats the alternative.
Hell YEAH! :D

Oh? Ever think how I feel? When I was born, WWII was still in full swing. FDR was still President. I've seen the Korean war, the war in Vietnam, the military actions in Dominician Republic, Panama, etc. The first music I remember deliberately listening to was Elvis Presley ... I saw his first appearance on TV on the Ed Sullivan Show, where they blocked the view of his hips and legs because they thought he was too "suggestive!"

Oh yeah ... and I remember when gas was less than 40 CENTS per gallon! :eek:

TALK to me about "realizations!" :D
Yeah, but now you lead a Church.

What was it like to fend off saber toothed tiger attacks?
Ha. Ha. Ha. Never had the opportunity, but I suspect I could have held my own ... probably still could! And there you are ... making fun! Mwahahaha! :D

Yeah, but now you lead a Church.
I do??? Strange. I never realized that. :p

I do??? Strange. I never realized that. :p
They love you over here: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=474389
But I guess you already knew it, All-Knowing One.

Ha. Ha. Ha. Never had the opportunity, but I suspect I could have held my own ... probably still could! And there you are ... making fun! Mwahahaha! :D
hey, with the founding of a new church around you, someone has to keep that ego in check. And so what if I get some sick pleasure out of it?:D

They love you over here: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=474389
But I guess you already knew it, All-Knowing One.
ROFLMFAO!!!! OMG! Aahahahahahahaha!

No, I hadn't seen that! LMAO!

Looking at the results of the poll, it's not much of a frakking "Church!" Twenty-six people said NO! :eek:

Hell ... TEN people said they ARE Eutrusca! ROFLMAO!

Oh, God! That's toooo frakkin' MUCH! :D

hey, with the founding of a new church around you, someone has to keep that ego in check. And so what if I get some sick pleasure out of it? :D
Never let it be said that I got between a man ( or woman ) and his or her pleasure! :D

BTW ... WHAT ego? It's all about experience, mah man! ;)

Never let it be said that I got between a man ( or woman ) and his or her pleasure! :D

BTW ... WHAT ego? It's all about experience, mah man! ;)
haha...in that case, you won't mind this in the least!
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I'm seventeen and I recently had one when I realized that the sophmores at my school were born in the 1990's.

Whoa. I was born in '86 and I remember my sophomore year (3 years ago) like yesterday. The first time it really hit me that I was getting older was when I realised there were more people in my old high school I didn't know than I knew. It was a small school, pretty much everyone knew everyone else, and now there are so many people I don't know, it's like a completely different place.

haha...in that case, you won't mind this in the least!
http://forums.cube-media.com/images/smilies/icon_poke.gif
LOL! WTF, over? :D

LOL! WTF, over? :D
I've been waiting to use that smiley all day. And I blame it on the fact that it is 4 AM and I took tylenol PM an hour ago.

Oh yes. I first felt that way when I was 17 as well. Freaky.
What he said.

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Have you guys ever had a sudden realization that you were getting older when you looked at a younger generation? You don't even have to be "old" to have one. I'm seventeen and I recently had one when I realized that the sophmores at my school were born in the 1990's.
i'm steadily approaching my 21st. i don't feel old except when i realise that a) 21 year olds are supposed to be all mature and able to deal with things... i still live with my parents:(; and b) definatley not a teenager anymore :(

i'm steadily approaching my 21st. i don't feel old except when i realise that a) 21 year olds are supposed to be all mature and able to deal with things... i still live with my parents
In their basement?

Meh, I still wish my high school had a sandbox >_>

you know what makes me feel old? songs that came out in the decade I was born being on the local 'oldies' radio station.

Growing up it was "hits from the 50's" then it was "hits from the 50's and 60's" which was still okay........but now it's "the best music from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's"

the 80's?!

OMG!

those aren't oldies.......they are still retro right? but not oldies:eek: then I get to talking to someone on IM the other day and they tell me about singing a song when they were 5 that I listened to in highschool:eek: :headbang: I am old.......:(

you know what makes me feel old? songs that came out in the decade I was born being on the local 'oldies' radio station.

Oh, yes, that one definitely gets you. You're rocking hard to great music and then you realize you've been listening to the Oldies. :)

The first time I was called 'sir' I was 11 or 12. The other guy must have been around 7 or 8 and took him three or four tries before I realized he was talking to me.

It always weirds me out when I'm talking to someone who was born when 'Smells like teen spirit' first hit the airwaves... or who were born years after the Nintendo Entertainment System came out...

Jeez... where's my walker?

Just wait until your friends start getting married and/or having kids.

you know what makes me feel old? songs that came out in the decade I was born being on the local 'oldies' radio station.

Growing up it was "hits from the 50's" then it was "hits from the 50's and 60's" which was still okay........but now it's "the best music from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's"

the 80's?!

OMG!

those aren't oldies.......they are still retro right? but not oldies:eek: then I get to talking to someone on IM the other day and they tell me about singing a song when they were 5 that I listened to in highschool:eek: :headbang: I am old.......:(


I damn near died when they started playing 80s stuff (my adolescence) on oldies stations. I refuse to accept that "Kharma Chameleon" is an oldie.

"Getting old isn't that bad when you consider the alternatives"
(Maurice Chevalier)

You know the game Now or Then on The Price is Right? The one where you have to guess whether the shown prices are from Now or some point in the past. The last time I saw that one the Then was 1996. I was suddenly like "Holy crap, 1996 was 10 years ago!"

I think I had my first true realization of my age when I turned twenty. I remember sitting on the hood of a car, looking out at the ocean thinking. Suddenly, I cried out, "Holy shit! I'm two decades old! I'm OOOOOLLLDDD!"

I remember when Nintendo was the hottest thing out. Then the first GameBoy. Those were the classics! :D

I remember when CDs came into existence...now THAT was something to behold!

Have you guys ever had a sudden realization that you were getting older when you looked at a younger generation? You don't even have to be "old" to have one. I'm seventeen and I recently had one when I realized that the sophmores at my school were born in the 1990's.
I just taught a couple of 8th graders in an internship at a German highschool. They had a chapter about American highschools, so I dug out my old yearbook (good memories!!!) and showed it around.
I graduated in the States in 1995. Then I realized that most of the students in that class were born in 1992. Guess how I felt after that...
Yes: http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/opa2.gif

Just wait until your friends start getting married and/or having kids.
Been there.

I think I had my first true realization of my age when I turned twenty. I remember sitting on the hood of a car, looking out at the ocean thinking. Suddenly, I cried out, "Holy shit! I'm two decades old! I'm OOOOOLLLDDD!"

I remember when Nintendo was the hottest thing out. Then the first GameBoy. Those were the classics! :D

I remember when CDs came into existence...now THAT was something to behold!

There was an NES in my life as long as I can remember (which is from the age of four and on) VIVA NINTENDO!

i felt like that when i was 18 just before university started. I thought wow, im 18, that went fast, the rest is likely to go faster. Now Im 20, in my final year, and ive got that feeling once again except ill be old in a few years rather than just being 20 as it was so when i was 18.

That won't happen for a while, or hopefully ever. Now, when people start calling me ma'am, then I'll go crazy.
Would you rather be called Miss? All kidding aside, I always address men I don't know as sir, and women as ma'am. "Yes, ma'am" always sounds better than "Yes, you ignorant slut". It's just manners and it doesn't have much to do with age or station, either.

bah im 16 and i felt old last night when i picked a kid up and threw them out of school for being stoned... (PTA band fest thingy... weird night)

I've never had to realize it; I've always been waiting for it or digging in my heels against it, but very aware either way.

I really didn't want to turn sixteen, because that would mean my older friends would be seventeen and eighteen and everyone would be going off and being adults and I would know I'd have to get serious about that. Then that started happening anyway so I thought fuck it, I might just as well turn sixteen if fifteen's no protection. And good thing I came to peace with it 'cause my birthday's in about two weeks.

In their basement?
attic. we don't have a basement :(

though that would be awesomely stereotypical :p

I think I had my first true realization of my age when I turned twenty. I remember sitting on the hood of a car, looking out at the ocean thinking. Suddenly, I cried out, "Holy shit! I'm two decades old! I'm OOOOOLLLDDD!"

I remember when Nintendo was the hottest thing out. Then the first GameBoy. Those were the classics! :D

I remember when CDs came into existence...now THAT was something to behold!



I remember Pong and 8-tracks.

I remember Pong and 8-tracks.

Galaga?

Incidently, the first sign in men that they're getting older is teenage girls no longer even give them a second glance.

There is no worse feeling in the world than the first time a man gets referred to as "so and so's dad". Don't get me wrong, being a father is the pinnacle of manhood, but the second you're seen as nothing more than "sir", it's a little disconcerting. Especially when just a few years before, you'd be takin' a girl like that home and hittin' it doggie style over your piano.

...

Enough.

Incidently, the first sign in men that they're getting older is teenage girls no longer even give them a second glance.
In my case it's been worse. Although I've never been handsome, I look younger, so teenage girls from time to time still give me a second glance (perhaps thinking I'm in College or something)... it's me who doesn't give them a second glance!!! :eek:

All I can think is "that one's cute. she'll probably be hot when she grows up"

What's wrong with me? :confused:

You know what's old? My first (DOS-based) computer was an 8088, and I was 28 when I got it. I used to teach hardware support to students who were BORN when that computer was already obsolete. (And those sophomores? Their parents -might- have had a 486, but probably the first computer they remember was a Pentium 2 or better.) THAT makes you feel old.:headbang:

THE SOPHOMORES WERE BORN IN THE 1990S?! Oh, crap, I am truly ancient.
Be glad, almost everybody born past the 90s seems to be going the way of emo, fast. :eek:

Although I've never been handsome

Ah ... well I've always been a sexy beast.

I am 6'4, baby blue eyes, charming as hell, have an accent that drives women insane, I play drums in bands, have long hair and tattoos ...

I have had many a woman (and man, for that matter) throw themselves at my whim.

Nowdays, the hair is long, but way gray. The eyes are still a baby blue, but so are the eyes of the kids I have with me. I play the drums still (as well as many instruments), but I do it for love of the craft rather than love of getting laid.

Such is the curse of age. At least, though, I have things I can look back on fondly from my youth when I am a toothless old man sitting in the nursing home wondering if there'll be tapioca with lunch.

Galaga?



Sure, but Pong is way older. I think we got ours about '76 or '77.

You know what's old? My first (DOS-based) computer was an 8088, and I was 28 when I got it. I used to teach hardware support to students who were BORN when that computer was already obsolete. (And those sophomores? Their parents -might- have had a 486, but probably the first computer they remember was a Pentium 2 or better.) THAT makes you feel old.:headbang:

Been there, done that (but programming not hardware support). The question is, do you remember computing before home computing. My first experience of using a computer was learning to program Fortran 66 (the most recent available at the time) on an ICL 1900A running under an operating system shell called George III (I assume it was Unix underneath the shell). I supported Chelsea with Osgood and Hutchinson (and still support them) I am not old, I am ancient.

Sure, but Pong is way older. I think we got ours about '76 or '77.
ATARI?

I still have my ATARI 2600 and the 31 games that I aquired to go with it, it still works, although the paddle controlers are a little loose due to excessive pong, the joy sticks work fine though.....:D

My first experience of using a computer was learning to program Fortran 66 (the most recent available at the time) on an ICL 1900A running under an operating system shell called George III (I assume it was Unix underneath the shell). I supported Chelsea with Osgood and Hutchinson (and still support them) I am not old, I am ancient.
It must have been fun sorting through all those punchcards and debugging.

This thread is having the opposite affect on me. Looking at some of these posts, I now feel younger than I did before reading this! Thanks guys!

ATARI?

I still have my ATARI 2600 and the 31 games that I aquired to go with it, it still works, although the paddle controlers are a little loose due to excessive pong, the joy sticks work fine though.....:D


I had an Atari 2600 back in the early '80s, but the Pong I was talking about predates it. It was black and white, had knobs on the console rather than joysticks, and all it played was Pong. There were no cartridges for it. This was back before you were born, Smunkee.

Been there, done that (but programming not hardware support). The question is, do you remember computing before home computing. My first experience of using a computer was learning to program Fortran 66 (the most recent available at the time) on an ICL 1900A running under an operating system shell called George III (I assume it was Unix underneath the shell). I supported Chelsea with Osgood and Hutchinson (and still support them) I am not old, I am ancient.


My High School offered its first computer course in my senior year (graduated in '86). We learned to program in BASIC and PASCAL on Commodore 64s.

Have you guys ever had a sudden realization that you were getting older when you looked at a younger generation? You don't even have to be "old" to have one. I'm seventeen and I recently had one when I realized that the sophmores at my school were born in the 1990's.


17? And you're already feeling older? Wait until your 31. I remember when pants didn't hang five miles down from a guy's ass, back when 13 year old girls looked like they were 13-year old girls not 25 year old hookers. When rock was rock and rap was rap and the two didn't intermingle. I used to have to walk 20 miles in the snow... barefoot... uphill both ways... I forgot what I was talking about.

i feel old when i talk to gamers about kings quest, leisure suit larry, space quest. and they have no idea what im talking about,

or when they get suprised that there was an era before point and click computer gaming

i feel old when i talk to gamers about kings quest, leisure suit larry, space quest. and they have no idea what im talking about,
Not too long ago I said "They should make another remake of 'Seven Cities of Gold' That was a good game." And then they looked at me as if I was a three headed monkey... and they didn't get that one either.

When rock was rock and rap was rap and the two didn't intermingle.


I remember when there was no such thing as rap. I remember really old school rap like "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang. (I also remember "Rapture" by Blondie)

I had an Atari 2600 back in the early '80s, but the Pong I was talking about predates it. It was black and white, had knobs on the console rather than joysticks, and all it played was Pong. There were no cartridges for it. This was back before you were born, Smunkee.
yeah. My husband had that set up, talking to him makes me feel young LOL (something may or may not be wrong with that)


I was reading the other conversation about computers and I feel a little younger, I mean my first computer was a brand new TRS 80, so at least I had a desktop (sorta) :D

(I still have the TRS 80 too, I am thinking of digging it out to freak out my kids, and to also show them a program I wrote when I was about 5)

I've yet to be called "sir" by anyone younger than me (though I have been called "miss" before --- if I had a pic of myself, you'd see why).

I guess it's mainly because I don't look like the type to weild authority. :p

Just wait until your friends start getting married and/or having kids.
Even worse: Two of my ex-girlfriends are married now. One even had her first baby over a year ago. That makes you feel old indeed...

Our first PC at home was a Zenith with 2 5.25 floppy disc drives (anyone remember those 360k wobblies?), a 19MB harddrive, and a Hercules graphic card (of course with CGA emulator).
But classics like Larry, Space Quest, or Police Quest still looked great in black/yellow :D

Or, for that matter, Xenon 2 Megablast - the best game ever made! (Aside from Loom)

This thread is having the opposite affect on me. Looking at some of these posts, I now feel younger than I did before reading this! Thanks guys!
You're welcome! Enjoy it while it lasts.

Actually, I feel very young. It's only when I think about how old I truly am that I feel anything like other than about 23. :D

Been there, done that (but programming not hardware support). The question is, do you remember computing before home computing. My first experience of using a computer was learning to program Fortran 66 (the most recent available at the time) on an ICL 1900A running under an operating system shell called George III (I assume it was Unix underneath the shell). I supported Chelsea with Osgood and Hutchinson (and still support them) I am not old, I am ancient.

In college, I took a programming course using keypunch machines and and old IBM System 36 (I think- been a while). You'd wait two hours for a punch machine, type it all in, hand your cards to the guy and go away for 2-3 hours while it sat in the queue, then come back and wait another 2 hours for another punch machine because you made 1 typo. And then when it ran again, you'd find the NEXT type, and....

Have you guys ever had a sudden realization that you were getting older when you looked at a younger generation? You don't even have to be "old" to have one. I'm seventeen and I recently had one when I realized that the sophmores at my school were born in the 1990's.
I'm a sophomore in high school (born 1990)

I realized that earlier this year when all the new freshmen joined out waterpolo team. :(

In college, I took a programming course using keypunch machines and and old IBM System 36 (I think- been a while). You'd wait two hours for a punch machine, type it all in, hand your cards to the guy and go away for 2-3 hours while it sat in the queue, then come back and wait another 2 hours for another punch machine because you made 1 typo. And then when it ran again, you'd find the NEXT type, and....

Tell me about it. Ahh the good old days (they were crap)

And for anyone here complaining about getting old, it is better than the only alternative.

attic. we don't have a basement :(

though that would be awesomely stereotypical :p
Well, the attic works too.

I'm a sophomore in high school (born 1990)

I realized that earlier this year when all the new freshmen joined out waterpolo team. :(

Puh, I was born in '88. I still think of people born in the 90's as small children. What's really scary is the fact that children born in the year 2000 are now six.

Puh, I was born in '88. I still think of people born in the 90's as small children. What's really scary is the fact that children born in the year 2000 are now six.
Holy crap, I know. I remember watching the T.V. after 01-01-00 at midnight and watching all the news reports on children who were born at/around midnight. :eek:

Now they're in the first grade?!?!?!?!

And for anyone here complaining about getting old, it is better than the only alternative.
Getting you head frozen next to Walt Disney's?

Holy crap, I know. I remember watching the T.V. after 01-01-00 at midnight and watching all the news reports on children who were born at/around midnight. :eek:

Now they're in the first grade?!?!?!?!

They will be in the fall. It's 2006.