Things you don't understand, because you are old.

2. myspace

I actually made this thread cause I found a hamburger cell phone charm while googling "cute hamburger" in order to bump the "Have You Ever Seen A Cuter Burger?" thread.

Which I would say is something an older person mightn't understand, but I can't really picture people my own age understanding it, either, and can't really blame them.

3. PSP hacking

Not to be Tuomas, but I used to not understand de.li.cio.us.

Oh!

4. RSS feeds

(less of an age thing and more of a computer illiterate one)

2a. Facebook

5. Generation Y

Pokeman

7. Teal

PP's answer is so cuet!

8. I heard a lot of teenagers using the phrase "go totally boaty"

9. instant messaging

God, how the fuck old are y'all?

i dont believe any of you guys dont understand these things

although for a while when they first hit my sister was convinced that pokemon were just something my brother in law made up to mess w/her

he was all there are cards and video games and the kids they pit their pokemon against each other in battles and she like nuh uh not this time guy

10. Fat dudes in emo bands.

for the longest time i thought pokemon was actually some superhero named "PokeMan"

i understand IMing as a concept (duh) but i don't get why anyone would want to do it

non stop double bass

15. CaptainLorax

16. $2 coins

I really don't understand any of mine.

I don't know what a cell phone charm is, what it does (I would guess it looks cute, but I'm not sure), or where it goes. And I don't care.

This Charming Cellphone?

id go out 2nite but i hvnt gt a fone credit to txt

I know someone with a wee katamari damacy guy hanging off his phone, Is that what a cell phone charm is?

I guess. I would ask where it attaches, but I am relishing the mystery a little too much.

i have the katamari prince cellphone charm. he lights up when the phone rings. also when hes near a computer or pretty much anything electronic. if you look close at your phone youll see a little metal bar. you string charm through there. im sure im way older than you guys. WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT YOU/ME?

I had a Hello Kitty charm many years ago. But she broke when I was reaching into an ice cream cooler. I don't think she lit up though. But this was about 7 years ago. Technology marches on.

That thing sounds cool, sunny. But I do not see a metal bar.

i understand IMing as a concept (duh) but i don't get why anyone would want to do it

-- jergïns, Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:09 PM (Yesterday)

that goes double for myspace and facebook

podcasts

apparently

for the longest time i thought pokemon was actually some superhero named "PokeMan"

That is so cute, Heave!

i am very metal (7:53:07 PM): i dont understand
roxymuzak (7:53:46 PM): what
roxymuzak (7:53:50 PM): well i dont either
roxymuzak (7:53:54 PM): if ilx is what you mean
i am very metal (7:54:14 PM): yah
i am very metal (7:54:20 PM): why are people acting like its normal
i am very metal (7:54:22 PM): on the sandbox
i am very metal (7:54:24 PM): explain
i am very metal (7:54:25 PM): help
i am very metal (7:54:28 PM): halp ME
roxymuzak (7:54:21 PM): i dont know
roxymuzak (7:54:24 PM): i dont understand it at all
i am very metal (7:55:09 PM): wtf
i am very metal (7:55:12 PM): i dont get it
i am very metal (7:55:19 PM): i dont understand whats happening
roxymuzak (7:55:09 PM): i dont eithyer!!!!!!!!!
roxymuzak (7:55:10 PM): shit
i am very metal (7:55:26 PM): me neither!
roxymuzak (7:55:21 PM): you know what i just dont understand it
i am very metal (7:55:41 PM): whats that
roxymuzak (7:58:54 PM): what
roxymuzak (7:58:56 PM): ILX
roxymuzak (7:58:57 PM): i dont get it
i am very metal (7:59:16 PM): i know whats going on ?
i am very metal (7:59:21 PM): is it there?
i am very metal (7:59:24 PM): is it broken?
i am very metal (7:59:28 PM): why is it on the sandbox?
i am very metal (7:59:31 PM): isnt it monday?
i am very metal (7:59:34 PM): i think its monday
roxymuzak (7:59:23 PM): i dont fucking know
roxymuzak (7:59:25 PM): i dont get it at all
roxymuzak (7:59:31 PM): so many questions
i am very metal (7:59:48 PM): i do believe that things are going haywire
roxymuzak (7:59:43 PM): yes i dont understand it
i am very metal (8:00:01 PM): what i dont get
i am very metal (8:00:02 PM): is
i am very metal (8:00:07 PM): why everything is so cuckoo
roxymuzak (8:00:26 PM): i dont know
roxymuzak (8:00:29 PM): i dont understand it

^^^^
that conversation

there's a new IP address and stet still has to link to original URL to it

*link the original

hi dere, i am old

i'm OLD (Mid twenties)

i don't understand why any adult would celebrate their birthday

i dont understand why any adule

adular: To flatter

things i do not understant because i don't speak Portuguese

people having their Sims (?) act out things from pop culture

omg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPjG7inTsJg

there is no excuse for the sim inside the sims to not be playing the sims

sims

limitless recursions

ringtones

why roxymuzak doesn't do these threads on ILE

(its jokes!)

why people spell arse incorrectly

why people who aren't north american say ass

'usage' for 'use' is often retarded also.

i think i do this. and am old.

Limited-edition sneakers. How is it that grown men now consider these to be high style?

2a. Facebook

-- am0n, Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:17 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

arent u like my age? if you have an objection to that its got nothing to do w/ age am0nymous

Paying $4 for a bottle of the Vitamin Water.

(THE vitamin water! lol)

lol u old

i just found out sparks has alcohol in it.

sparks is gross and it makes your teeth orange for the whole night

http://community.livejournal.com/fbr_secrets/16687.html?thread=1512495#t1512495

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/153/imageuploadimagemy5.png

Mic sex = TMI or classic?

i don't understand postsecret but many my age are totally captivated by it

Mic sex = TMI or classic?

Well, they can hear you coming from a long way off.

i just found out sparks has alcohol in it.

lolololololol

the economics of podcasting

Why people go to a hair salon to have someone wash and dry their hair for them

^that are not physically capable of performing the task

Ugh … people who are physically capable of mf washing their own hair and using a blowdryer if they think that actually improves their hair …

mookieproof at 1:25 6 Sept 24

the economics of podcasting

btw tombot if you're still having trouble with myspace I can explain

the whole first bit of this thread is now things young people don't understand

I saw a fairly interesting thing today about how older people often assume that because they don't understand young people stuff it must work both ways, and that young people must be utterly baffled by technology from anything more than 15-20 years ago.

It leads to those boomerish memes about how "Gen Zers are all confused and angry about basic punctuation because they only understand text speak"; "kids these days don't know the struggle of plugging in a scart lead" (as if that was ever difficult); "I'm old enough to remember the quiet scratching sound heard on a record player before the music starts - beat that!" etc...

podcasts

― roxymuzak, Monday, October 22, 2007 1:38 PM (sixteen years ago)

the economics of podcasting

― mookieproof, Thursday, September 5, 2024 8:25 PM (yesterday)

ilx is slow but we get there eventually

"kids these days don't know the struggle of plugging in a scart lead"

Things you don't understand, because you are American

music fanatics and revisionist history. How retro forms or at least music blending recognisable earlier forms have to be divorced from that legacy. Instead of basking in picking up on the earlier forms. young whippersnappers. or is that brats?

sending someone a series of sentences, each in an individual text message, instead of one longer text

but the individual profundity may just be too much for the normal mind to take. & you don't want people to be too mindblown innit

x-post - I do that. I didn't realize it wasn't normal until recently.

on the contrary, in my experience it is totally normal! and yeah maybe it's not right for this thread, I was just going by own world of young people

music fanatics and revisionist history. How retro forms or at least music blending recognisable earlier forms have to be divorced from that legacy. Instead of basking in picking up on the earlier forms. young whippersnappers. or is that brats?

― Stevo, Friday, 6 September 2024 14:42 (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Do you mean, like, trying to sneak retro in through the back door? If so, that's an interesting thing. So like with 70s and 80s revisionism in the 90s/00s people very much wore those influences on their sleeves.

Whereas, I dunno, current Gen Z revivalism, while outwardly being in thrall to 90s and Y2K music and fashion, seems cagey about directly celebrating those influences, to the point where I've seen them called the "Christopher Columbus Generation", i.e. they think they discovered everything first, like baggy jeans etc.

There are young producers out there who are making music that is a carbon copy of the kind of bloghouse stuff we heard in 2006, but they're rebadging it as "Indie Sleaze".

I might be wrong, but I'm not seeing the current gen celebrating specific artists in the same way that say LCD Soundsystem might have raved about Gang Of Four in 2003 - it's more about looking to have accessed a specific vibe rather than admitting to listening to their parents' CD collections, I'd say; it's more about aesthetic, because maybe retro-nostalgia is considered uncool?

xp
and tbh in a one-on-one conversation I don't mind it so much. it's more of a problem to me when it's a group chat that's important enough that I can't turn notifications off

sending someone a series of sentences, each in an individual text message, instead of one longer text

tbh I labour over my texts to a likely abnormal extent lol

x-post - I do that. I didn't realize it wasn't normal until recently.

Things other older people don’t understand… iMessage when you don’t have an iPhone AND an apple computer… boomer dudes I work for have both and will basically send me long detailed emails via text … they don’t grasp that I can’t reply on my PC …

I don't like it when my parents try to ring me over Whatsapp as opposed to just normal phone. They're the only people I know who do it. I think it comes from the days when it cost money to call people but Whatsapp over wifi was free or something

lord how I hate email-by-text, disgustingly savage behavior

sending someone a series of sentences, each in an individual text message, instead of one longer text

― rob

people who spend an hour working on a response to a discord DM so for an hour you see a message saying "(username) is typing..." :)

what "skibidi toilet" is supposed to mean

lord how I hate email-by-text, disgustingly savage behavior

― pink-haired Marxist (sleeve)

i on the other hand welcome anything that allows me to avoid having to check my email

unless it's at work and people send me a Teams notif instead of an email

sending someone a series of sentences, each in an individual text message, instead of one longer text

Surely this has always been the norm for texting?

I've had difficulty trying to educate some older folks regarding when to text vs. when to email, especially in the smartphone era when the distinction of "one goes to my phone, the other goes to my computer" is lost now that I can get both in both places. Also, some people new to email (mostly years ago) would write in overly formal style with business-letter headings, salutations, and sign-offs.

Surely this has always been the norm for texting?

not when you had to pay £0.06 per text!

it's more about looking to have accessed a specific vibe rather than admitting to listening to their parents' CD collections, I'd say; it's more about aesthetic, because maybe retro-nostalgia is considered uncool?

This would probably be a good topic for another thread, but yeah I wonder if it's more about a lack of information/context about the sources? Just a bunch of youtube & spotify playlists and recommendations, so it gets smeared into the most surface-level commonalities. Although I do know at least one kid who will spend the day going on wiki dives about old bands he gets into, which warms my heart.

The Stoner Rock orthodoxy that has it appearing fully formed in California in 1990 with no prior use of the name. & is dismissive of the bands the music is a blend of.
I thought the formative influences had always been recognised and celebrated. Not dismissed cos too old.
But noticed a bunch of comments that dismiss its roots and think any reference to them makes one a boomer.
Hoping that's just a blinkered few. But am aware of comments from Aquarius Records over last couple of decades that would suggest it was a longer term myopia.

Btw I would also appreciate a good breakdown about podcast economics, specifically how much those ads pay for a small to mid level podcast. Essentially, is it real money or are podcasts still a loss leader to get exposure, or to get a dedicated enough audience to sign up for a Patreon?

There was a podcast called Podcast Graveyard which interviewed the creators of failed podcasts about the economics of all this and much of the intangibles: marketing, booking guests, etc. I can't quite recommend it, because Podcast Graveyard itself became a failed podcast and completely missed the opportunity to interview itself about its crash.

those clips on instagram etc where a girl says something maybe vaguely mildly amusing but it's not her own voice! it's a man's voice! HAHA HA HAHAHA HAHAHA OH MY ACHING SIDES,right?