Things that make you feel old (having this thread revived in 5 years maybe?)

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1) Les Savy Fav's first album being reissued. :ohttp://wizardishungry.com/m.gif

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Yea, I clicked on Pitchfork to laff at their Tony Allen dum dum

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

2) Interns have never heard 'Control', 'Nasty Girl' or 'Pleasure Principle' before; refer to Janet as "old".

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

3) Watching baseball games where the managers & coaches are players I watched while a wee barren git.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

4) "baby" sister being legal drinking age

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

5) Meeting people born after 1990.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

5 otm - i spent last week staffing a camp for high schoolers, some of whom were born in 1992! people born that late are supposed to be small babies!

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

6. my cousin (born in 1992) is into kurt cobain as a retro thing

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

7. THE 90S COLORING BOOK

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

8. I JUST TURNED 30 ;_;

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I GOT ONE MONTH LEFT BRO. HELP.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i turn 30 in november. suicide pact, anyone?

― Jonas Bronck (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

don't kill yourself for turning 30, 31 is AWESOME. after that find a length of rope and an exposed ceiling beam.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

i was more anxious about turning 29, for some reason. after that freak-out, 30 was smooth sailing.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

25 soon :(

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, boo hoo.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i can barely remember 25. almost everything before 27 is a blur, i'm unsure if something happened when i was 18 or 24 or what.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i 30 at end of October. it's looming.

― heavyweight grebt (sanskrit), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

5b) 16 year old who likes Hanatarash and Takako Minekawa messaging me on last.fm

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

4) "baby" sister being legal drinking age

OTM OTM OTM OTM OTM OTM OTM

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

If 31 is awesome, then fuck 32.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

NOTHING MAKES ME FEEL OLD

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

people born in the '80s

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

throwing out all those 1984-94 indie-rock magazines before I moved.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh no THAT WILL BE ME (in a few weeks)!

9) Your older sister is turning FORTY.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

10) thinking about buying cream for my eyes so I don't seem tired all the time

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

11) NOSE HAIR

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

1a) The reish of Spoon's 1st and Pavement's THIRD

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

WTF MORBS YOU BETTER NOT HAVE THROWN OUT CONFLICT!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, I just bought some eye cream actually. boots botanics

I also got a 19" flat panel monitor so I'm not staring at a tiny screen all the time, maybe that will help

wow, I'll be 29 before the end of the year. eek. see, I figure eventually I should move to NYC because people don't get old there as fast as they do in DC, right?

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i "bought" some eye cream awhile back too ye gods. shit works btw.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Am I the only one in this bitch w/ gray temples, BTW?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes sir, Mr. Jameson, sir.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The GIS for "spider slayer" blows.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

i have eye cream and i'm 24, so i don't know if that counts. unless 24 is old. u_u

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

c on eyes

― nazi bikini (harbl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

oh whatever gray temples rule. what i wouldnt give for a little distinguished gray up in this piece

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i got this amazing skin lotion (caudalie, apparently made from grape seed polyphenols) as a free sample when i ordered from sephora. i looked it up on the site and it was like 60 bucks!

― Jonas Bronck (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

remembering that this month is ten years from when i started high school

― de latebloomer's 2015 youth crew revival (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

OH SHIT ME TOO DAMYO

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

stenc, I saved a few Konflicks (maybe I'll bring one to the ballgame).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

32 was a lost year in almost every sense. 33, feh.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

lol @ me leaving high school 11 years ago ;_;

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

A decade ago I lost something important.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Something you can only have once.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

It was a bittersweet parting.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

oh cryptic

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.tamma.com.mx/data/phoo/2005_07_29/gameboy.jpg

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I still know where mine is, you want it?

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

lol at daver becoming hal jordan

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

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going abed at 10pm on a Saturday

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Dreamt I had a toddler.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Looking @ myself in the mirror wearing shorts and my work socks.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

the concept of "work socks"

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

the concept of "work"

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"socks"

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"self"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

http://usuarios.lycos.es/lupidangame/images/screensZelda/22-04-2006%5B1%5D.PNG

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

hearing a replacements song at the bar and realizing that Ian put it on a mix for me in 97 or 98. awww I got weepy

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

looking at a copy of stink in acadamy and remembering i bought it in tape in 1990/1...but not really thinking about it untill jon got weepy about '97

next....

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

realizing that kids born while the first George Bush was president can now drive with a permit. (or am I one year off?)

― dottie nuttie dach nach dtnt hhhhhhhh (donut), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Totally fucked up my knee loading out amps yesterday....

...Hobbling around like an old man today.

― Songbirds of Darker Florida (cprek), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Incessant cracking and creaking of all joints in my body. Also, grey hairs in beard upsetting.

― John Justen, Tiny Fancy Lungdancer. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

not getting stoned at band practice

― Wuffy the cat-rescuing dog (superultramarinated), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link

being mad at squirrels for digging up my garden again

― Wuffy the cat-rescuing dog (superultramarinated), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link

those signs at the gas station that say anyone born after $DATE can't buy cigarettes

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

not getting stoned at band practice

OTM

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

seatmate at ballgame texting ppl for 7 innings

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Were any of the texts, "lol@oldmetsfan"?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link

not getting stoned at band practice
last night, not only did i not even think about getting stoned but i didn't even drink any beer! worse yet, i didn't drink beer for Health Reasons! And i was tired by 11pm!
ohnoes.
but but band practice is fun anyway. (and we have a lot of keyboards now.)

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I've quit doing anything except drinking and smoking cigarettes.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Are there multiple keyboardists in your band rrrobyn? I almost started a band once with another keyboard player; this was in the peak of my gearmongering, between the 2 of us and all that Rhodes and Farfisa etc we had almost a literal TON of gear.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

see the happy face emoticon 2 thread.
we only have small/light keyboards (except for the wicked noise organ but that's not moving anywhere), balanced by heavy amps.

― Wuffy the cat-rescuing dog (superultramarinated), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i am keyboard person (sixtrak and moog, latter not actually mine) but richard just got this casiotone, which he might play sometimes even though he's mainly drums and sometimes guitar. it is possible that if i actually practice, i could play some drums OR drum machine and he could keyboard. multi-instrumentalists!

there is a montreal band called Unireverse and they are ALL KEYBOARDS (plus tapes and things), and they are good.
xpost

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

That Casiotone looks so kickass!

MORE THINGS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL OLD:

When you start settling for the organ/piano sounds on Alesis/etc keyboards because your back says "no" to hauling the Farfisas Wurlitzers et al anywhere.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

hah.

Cheap-o Yamaha SY-22 has suprisingly good basic combo organ sound that can be nicer w/ tweaking.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i love the hammond sound on my ROLAND JUNO 60!

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

when i purchase cigarettes, and the person at the till requests ID, and upon inspection goes, "Oh - yeah, you're WAY older" -- :(

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Aja is driving age now, isn't she?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 August 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i want this.

― Ari El-Pincus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:55 (eighteen years ago) link

(xp) he has been for some time

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:00 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG electroland. the close-ups are great. i want that too.
maybe not the disembodied hand.

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Friday, 11 August 2006 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

My high school newspaper adviser asked a bunch of us to come back to hang out and impart wisdom to the current staff. The alumni went around in a circle talking about what we did during our tenure on staff. I started

"Well 01-02 I was a staff writer mainly. When 9/11 happened we put out an Extra issue and I designed the double-page-spread on that--"

From the back of the room:

"I was in like 4th grade when that happened!"

fuck you little girl. fuck you.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 December 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link

I was ten years out of high school, so no. Fuck you, little man.

― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 19 December 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link

(<3)

― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 19 December 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link

"M'am, we reserve the right to refuse to impart wisdom to anyone. My alumni, myself, and my high school newspaper adviser will not tolerate your hate speech on our property. I'd rather not call the principal, but if you insist on continuing to disturb our discussion I will. Please leave."

― craig sager (eman), Friday, 19 December 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Interviewing undergrad applicants and realizing they were born after Nevermind came out and that they don't really remember 9/11

― caek, Friday, 19 December 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link

My dick doesn't work after just 4 or 5 pints of beer

― how pretty of me (wanko ergo sum), Saturday, 20 December 2008 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...

I wanted to make some mnemonic flashcards so I went to a large stationery shop and asked if they had index cards, then realised from the look I was getting that there's no reason for anyone born in the Microsoft Office era to have any idea what an index card is.

also it will make someone feel old that I have felt free to post such a dull post on noize borad instead of pretending I wanted index cards to make sleeves for a series of 3" cd-rs featuring the sound of my fridge and the output of a perl script plugged into 37 big muffs and an akai headrush

― still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 10 September 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link

they didn't know what an index card was in a stationary store? that's kinda crazy. i don't care how old you are. they still sell them everywhere.

― scott seward, Monday, 10 September 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link

yeah that sounds really weird to me. everyone knows what index cards are!

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link

they didn't have any! once I finally found an over-30 shop assistant to ask. and they weren't even on the computer at Argos (UK catalogue shop which sells everything, or used to). I bought some overpriced "blank wedding placecards" instead which I am going to cut along the fold and then write really small on I guess.

I'll probably go into a corner shop tomorrow and fall over a giant pile of index card packs for a tenth of the price.

― still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link

i always feel hopelessly old when i order mr. pibb in a drive thru and realize mr pibb has been pibb xtra for so long that the person working drive thru thinks i'm some weirdo that likes to anthropomorphize soft drinks. still not calling it pibb xtra.

― balls, Monday, 10 September 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link

wait waht

― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link

PiBB XTRA, what the shit is that

― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link

what the shit is Pibb anything?

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link

it's a clone of Dr Pepper

― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link

Pibb Xtra has xtra cinnamon flavor, something I didn'threalize was present in the orignal formula.

― OK CLARABELLE PART 3: The Return of the MOO! (how's life), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 09:57 (twelve years ago) link

A brief Lexis-Nexis search reveals that "Pibb Xtra" has been mentioned 69 times in news media since August 2001. "Mr. Pibb"? 514 times.

― OK CLARABELLE PART 3: The Return of the MOO! (how's life), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 11:01 (twelve years ago) link

I'm amazed that stationary stores still exist

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 11:06 (twelve years ago) link

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