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You know you're old when... ?

What makes me feel old are people who are young enough to be my children posting about what makes them feel old..... :)

However, with age comes wisdom - and knowing how to fight dirty.

So, to any and all of you who are turning 25 this year, remember this.... you are just days away from being a Quarter Of A Century Old - so better start counting those glory days before you are a Quarter Of A Century Old. And as you contemplate the years yet to come, muse on this.....

A century ago:

  • Living Veterans of the US Civil War still walked the streets.
  • Women had not yet been given the vote in the US or the UK (and other places too).
  • The Royal Canadian Navy was formed.
  • The US Boy Scouts was formed.
  • Oreo Cookies had yet to be introduced.
  • Piltdown Man had not yet been discovered.
  • The Traffic Light had not yet been invented.
  • The South Pole had not yet been reached.
  • The Titanic had not yet sunk.
  • William Taft was President of the US.
  • Edward VII died as King of the UK, and was replaced by George V.
  • Asquith was PM of the UK.
  • Sir Wilfrid Laurier was PM of the Dominion of Canada.
  • Edward Patrick Morris was PM of Newfoundland.
  • There were only 46 states in the USA.
  • The First World War was still a few years away.
  • The Panama Canal had not yet opened.

Now, how old are you going to feel on the eve your quarter century?

bwahaahaa ;)
 
I don't feel old mentally--but my body lets me know that I am indeed getting old. Not any real aches and pains but things just don't work as well as they once did--it just seems that things do not work at their peek once you hit 50--and they just continue to work a bit less efficiently from then on--at least that is how it has been for me. I didn't really think much of it until I turned 50.
 
I had a teenage nephew complaining to me about acne once....He couldn't wait to grow up and be rid of it....I told him the truth....that acne never goes away it just moves south and around the corner to retire. That'll teach the lil bastard to talk about his ****ing zits while we're at the dinner table.
 
You know you're old when you walk past the bathroom and think "I might as well go now so I don't have to come back later."
 
I remember going off to college and living in the dorms and most of us were 17 or 18 as it's for the freshmen entering school. One guy, who had a career but then decided to go to college, was a whopping 23. We all thought he was as old as the hills. :) At the same time, I was dating a lady who was 27, and though very pretty, I thought she was way too old for me.

Later, old caught up with me. I was about 26 and I was teaching guitar on the side and one girl came in as a student with her father. I showed her some of the basic chords on guitar using the music of the Beatles. She asked, "Who are they?" I had to tell them they were a very good band from Liverpool, England.

She knew about English rock bands, though popular at the time like Duran Duran, Def Leppard, and The Human League. They and their peers were the only cool music from England!
 
63dot said:
I remember going off to college and living in the dorms and most of us were 17 or 18 as it's for the freshmen entering school. One guy, who had a career but then decided to go to college, was a whopping 23. We all thought he was as old as the hills. :) At the same time, I was dating a lady who was 27, and though very pretty, I thought she was way too old for me.

Later, old caught up with me. I was about 26 and I was teaching guitar on the side and one girl came in as a student with her father. I showed her some of the basic chords on guitar using the music of the Beatles. She asked, "Who are they?" I had to tell them they were a very good band from Liverpool, England.

She knew about English rock bands, though popular at the time like Duran Duran, Def Leppard, and The Human League. They and their peers were the only cool music from England!
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What? How could you not know who the Beatles are? I don't care if you were born after their time, how the hell could you not know? My brother was born in 1990 and has know who the Beatles are for as long as he could talk.
 
yg17 said:
I still can't believe (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, which IMO is the best album of the 90s, is 15 years old. I remember when it first came out. I remember watching the video for Don't Look Back In Anger when it premiered on MTV.

That's another way to know you're old...when you remember when MTV showed music videos.
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Isn't that the truth.. or you remember when MTV wasn't a 24 hour music tv station and they only played the same 30 video's over and over. Also, you know you are old when you remember watching MTV and remember watching the first video they ever showed!

Or you know you are old when you go to work, and there are people there who were born when you started at the company!
 
yg17 said:
What? How could you not know who the Beatles are? I don't care if you were born after their time, how the hell could you not know? My brother was born in 1990 and has know who the Beatles are for as long as he could talk.
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Easy, try and name the big stars of the last 5 years, 10 years, 25 years, 50 years, or 100 years. There were icons so big it would have been unimaginable to have anybody in the future forget them.

When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s through secondary school and high school, I have to admit I had no real idea who Frank Sinatra was or how big he was as a star. I knew he was a singer from the big band period but I didn't know he was "the" singer, as far as popularity and record sales (150 million). I think American Idol this week introduced a whole new generation of young people to Ol Blue Eyes and just how amazing his music was. Many songs we hear were hits of his that we take for granted. To put it into scale, Elton John has sold 200 million albums so Frankie was no fly by night. Also consider when Frank Sinatra lived and did his body of work and that 150 million in sales really gets put into perspective. It could be argued in his formative and peak years, he was as big a star as Michael Jackson was in his peak.

Back in junior high school and high school, my idea of a large pop star was Elvis and I truly thought he was the first. He may have been the King of Rock and Roll, but Frank was the first King of Pop Music. The whole thing about out of control, screaming girls and sold out shows was something I only thought was a phenomenon of Elvis and company. When I saw the Beatles or Micheal Jackson rockstar type hype that Frank Sinatra generated before rock and roll, I was shocked.

Little did I know.

And many years from now, young teenagers will have no idea who Elvis, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, or (Elton John, the 200 million selling artist and perhaps the act with the longest selling career, 39 years, of chart toppers/billboard hits), are as artists outside of that they were once famous, and it's music that their grandparents liked. Even if Sir Elton hits the charts 10 and 15 years from now with a new song, album or DVD, he will become largely forgotten given enough time.

That being said, I think Elton will be the first artist who will be able to claim he had significant billboard hits in six different decades. And he may be 60+ years old, but he's as good as he as ever been.
 
Another vote for MTV here. I was at a friend's house for a New Years Eve party around 1988. Videos were running on the TV and I heard my friend's young daughter call out "Mom! Come watch this song!". It wasn't as much feeling old as becoming aware of a major change in entertainment that had happened behind my back. Or so it seemed.

I wish my Dad was still alive to answer this post. He was born in '08. 1908. He passed on in 1990.

Dale. Born in 1947.
 
mscriv said:
You never forget the day you get your first gray hair. And I'm not talking about on the top of your head. :eek:
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I'm fairly old but don't have any gray yet . . . anywhere . . . haha. I forgot that you can get gray in other places.

Inside I feel young but sometimes I'll see myself in the mirror and get reminded . . .
 
sushi said:
I never think I'm old.

However, my body at times tells me different. Ha ha! :D
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Same boat here. I've been tested recently and the results shows that I've got the personality of a 8 year old;), the mental agility of a 28 year old:cool:, but the body of a 58 year old.:( I'm only how dare you ask!:D Not exactly old, but I ain't a spring chicken anymore, as the saying goes. I need to get back in to a shape that isn't round.:p
 
Designer Dale said:
Another vote for MTV here. I was at a friend's house for a New Years Eve party around 1988. Videos were running on the TV and I heard my friend's young daughter call out "Mom! Come watch this song!". ...
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Our then 10 year old niece, while visiting gramma's house, asked to use the phone. While gramma was in fact comfortable with current technologies, they happened to be in the basement where the phone was one of the rotary dial types. The kid was completely baffled on how the phone worked, and had to go upstairs to use the cordless phone when gramma declined to work the thing for her.
 
mscriv said:
You never forget the day you get your first gray hair. And I'm not talking about on the top of your head. :eek:
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I pick a lot of those out of my beard, luckily I still have a full head of copper orange hair on the top. Has anybody had their first heart attack yet?
 
i started to feel really old while i was watching the new freddy krueger movie and the character starts searching boxes in the attic from 1997.
i was in jr high then. :eek:
 
yellow said:
My guess?

Still having a punch card and forgetting why you have it! :D
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HEY! When I was in college you programed the punch cards and waited a week to run them in the main frame that was the entire 3 story building...that was 1967. My first laptop was a Kaypro with 8" (?) floppies. That is old.
 
When it took me forever to know that Hannah Monatana and Miley Cyrus were the same person

When I have no idea what people are talking about when they ask me if I like Lady Gaga's songs (finally googled her this last week)

When all my music is from 2003 and earlier for the most part (the year I went to college)

When video games are too complicated for me (give me a snes anyday)

When my car is older than most college students (1990)

When I look at baseball stats leaders and not know the majority of the names (I grew up with 90's baseball...griffey, bonds, chipper, sosa, etc)

When I remember lines at gas stations when gas was an insanely high 1.75 a gallon on the onset of the war

When I remember walkie talkies were cool as you could talk to people outside......before cell phones lol
 
Tomorrow said:
I've had a white patch on my right cheek in my beard since I was 16.

(um...you weren't talking about facial hair either, were you?)
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When people you went to high school with show you pics of their kids... in college.

When the weekend means more time to sleep rather than party

When at University, more people think you are a prof not a student :eek:
 
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