You know you're getting old when.....

joeboo_sl said:

Kids born in 2000 are currently driving on our roads. They almost all have learners permits at this point

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Stop talking. Dude. Seriously.

It's when the fucking 02ers arrive that I'll really be scared.

Jait_sl said:

Most of these things are not indicators of getting older as the thread title suggests. You are old. Fucks sake, we were getting old playing EQ. Now we are paying tuitions and yelling at other people to get off their fucking phones while I'm trying to drive behind them.

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Speaking of which, had a conversation the other day with some guy at my job who is probably in his mid 20s. The subject of video games came up and I asked him what types of games he likes. He says "MMOs", which piqued my interest. I say, oh yeah what do you play, to which he replies "well, I'm kinda old-school, I play World of Warcraft"

God

Damnit

Similar to above I was in Gamestop for no reason because fuck that place but there was three dudes mid 20s comparing consoles, the must have said fan boys more than 30 times in 2 minutes. I wanted to punch them.

I still feel like the 90's were 10 years ago.

Zhavric_sl said:

I still feel like the 90's were 10 years ago.

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Mainly because the 2000s sucked ass in almost every way possible, no one wants to remember them.

Music went to shit (rock died, nu-metal rap/rock and emo crybabies took over, country and pop music went to shit where you can't have a hit song unless you look like a model)
TV went to shit (reality TV took over, and it was all total ass)
movies went to shit(bastardizing every old idea you can think of, either terrible sequels/prequels or just bad remakes)
video games went to shit(franchise, franchise, franchise, screw new ideas, and EA bought & killed off damn near every good PC game studio)

The 2010s seem alright...so far

Mist_sl said:

"Which was worse, the 90s or the 00s?" could really be its own thread.

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How can that be a thread? One response: "90s>00's" and the thread is basically over.

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When you look at your music tastes and realize that the vast majority of artists are either retired, in their 50s, or simply can't handle the tone range that they did during the time you remember them. Hi Angel of Death and Tom Araya.

Thx, forum, for the double post. Ignore.

When talking with younger people, co-workers etc, I now realize that I'm doing a self censor check, before telling any story. To be sure I don't drop a reference that will highlight my age.

Back when I had my first job . . . this and this . . and of course no-one had mobile phones back then.

When I was in high school, there was a group of us that would copy C64 games, so easy back then with the games being on tape, just copy, tape to tape.

Will go see the new Star Wars, because . . . reasons . . . reasons . . . and I saw them all in the cinema . . .'whoops'

I dunno, the 2000s brought us The Wire.

The aughts were my 20s. I had a ton of fun.

The aughts were a pretty rough time for me. Ended up well, but a lot of energy was expended.

I couldn't remember what aughts meant so I googled it. Then I remembered I used that exact word yesterday in a discussion ??

Oh man...