Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
then open in external browser
and click "Open in External Browser" 
Aging is a natural part of life—but we don’t necessarily have to look or feel our age. If you’re taking care of your body and mind, and have an active social life, then you probably feel on top of the world. However, even small reminders can shock you that you’re actually living in the year 20XX. Like someone pointing out that we’re closer to the year 2050 than 1995…
Redditor u/Halloween-365 served up a big dose of reality when they asked the internet to share all the things that make them feel old as heck. We’ve collected their answers to share with you, Pandas. Read on to check them out. Warning: Apparently, there are some inconsiderate youngsters who think that Harry Potter is an ‘old people thing,’ so just keep that in mind so you don’t faint, Pandas!
Bored Panda got in touch with Alan Castel, Ph.D., a UCLA psychology professor and the author of 'Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.' He shed some light on the shock that people feel when they realize that they're getting older, and shared his thoughts on why some people have a different sense of the passing of time.
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
Having to scroll and scroll and fecking scroll to find my birth year when completing an online form
Earl Grey 2 years ago
Let us know when we have upvoted you to your age so that we can stop it there.
Load More Replies...
Stacy R Phillips 2 years ago
At this stage you realize that scroll pattern is ineffective. Can we just type it in, thanks. Lol
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
Only if the programmer and testers thought of allowing manual input. Too many don't these days.
Load More Replies...
Caffeinated Hedgehog 2 years ago
By the time you finish scrolling, your age has gone up by one
Will Cable 2 years ago
I find it weird that dates start with the year it is, I'm sure they think 1 year olds and below must be trying to sign on to the sites!
Unnamed Hooman 2 years ago
Fr- except I hate when it limits it at like 2000 because then 20 year olds can’t even use the right year
Load More Replies...
Fussy1 2 years ago
Every. Single. Time. Still haven't landed on that fücking $1.00, no matter how much I spin!!
Load More Replies...
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
Not so much The Price is Right. More "The Age is Wrong!"
Load More Replies...
Dawn Thomas-Cameron 2 years ago
Would be nice if we could just type it in. They try to make it “user friendly” but it’s not.
Oerff On Tour 2 years ago
What bothers me the most, is that just about all the 18+ websites start with the current year.
RELATED:
#2
I recently stopped smoking… one of the lasses I work with asked how long I’d smoked for. She’s 21 and I’d smoked longer than she’d been alive :/ Positive news 3 weeks without a cigarette
Old Roadie 2 years ago
Hardest thing I ever did. Didn't start until I was in late 40s, only smoked a couple years, and quitting cigs was harder than quitting... um ...other stuff.
Load More Replies...
Seonag Udell 2 years ago
Gave up March 3rd this year after smoking 20-30 a day for 25 years. 6 months today without smoking.
Uncanny 2 years ago (edited)
15 years smober here after 30 years of smoking. 👍 Not one puff, ever again.
Tee Rat 2 years ago
I started young and quit mid 30's. Wasn't even paying attention to the money difference until I quit. Keep it up.
Mary Ellen McCarthy 2 years ago
Hey Tee Rat, don't know where you are, but corner stores in San Francisco are charging $14 a pack. So at a pack a day it's $420 a month. Reminds me of my druggy days...oh jeez, did I say that out loud?
Load More Replies...
Mary Ellen McCarthy 2 years ago
Just want to tell all the smokers out there that yes, I did start at 13 yo, and am now 68, but have quit 3 times over the last ten years and each time it gets easier. Please don't give up!!! Tho to be honest I'm not bouncing back like I did 3 years ago. So don't let it go too long.
Old Roadie 2 years ago
Golden Seal tea made it easier for me, since it's a blood 'purifier.' Can only use it 10 days or so. Also found a specific set of vitamins helps reduce cravings. Inositol and Choline were two ...can't recall others, but think all B vitamin category. If anyone is interested, I can look it up again.
Load More Replies...
AnnaRachelle 2 years ago
Well done. Not an easy habit to break,especially when you have smoked for over 20 years
Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
Good job! Stopping smoking is one of the best health choices you could make as you get older. COPD and emphysema are awful to have.
Ora Hall 2 years ago
i have COPD from other people's smoking. Indeed awful to have.
Load More Replies... Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
Wait til the end of the month when you realise you have surplus money and it takes you a while to realise why.
#3
The 90s wasn't actually ten years ago.
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
Yeah, my immediate response was, "oh p**s off!" ignorance is bliss!!
Load More Replies... 
Emily Caouette 2 years ago
I have to keep reminding myself of that..90s was the best in my opinion
Jordan Scott 2 years ago
'80s was best, but early '90s was a close second.
Load More Replies...
Kar Red Roses 2 years ago
My inner Scooby still goes “arooo?” when I’m talking to someone (an adult) and they talk about being born in the nineties… omg what year is this, am I dreaming….
Bored Panda wanted to get to grips with the fact that some people are shocked when they slow down and suddenly realize how old they actually are. Dr. Castel, from UCLA, shared his thoughts on this.
"It can sometimes come as a surprise when we notice some effects of aging, and often this coincides with life events such as having children, grey hairs, or the need to go to bed earlier," he told us via email.
"However, we can also interpret these changes as important milestones and stages in life that we adapt to (and enjoy) by focusing on what is most important, such as family, friends, staying active, and being involved in what interests us the most, especially when we become more aware that time is limited," the psychology professor said.
#4
I make a noise when I sit down/get up
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
More than one noise. There are the cracking sounds from the knees AND the encouraging vocalizations which sound like Klingon, but are really the brain saying, "Okay, let's do this - or not."
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
I have patellar tracking disorder, which means my kneecaps go off the rails, so to speak, every time I bend and straighten my legs. Makes for some crazy loud popping/crunching noises.
Old Roadie 2 years ago
Wait... that's an actual dysfunction?! Oh, my next VA appointment will be interesting.
Load More Replies...
Abel 2 years ago
I am 41 and when I get down on my knees I need an extra effort to stand up. Sometimes I feel my joints are oxidizing.
Maria B 2 years ago
Welcome to the "WTFeck is happening to me" phase in your life.
Load More Replies...
#5
TikTok. I'm too old for this s**t.
WonderWoman 2 years ago
TikTok is one of the WORST things to happen. I have never seen so many unattractive people gyrating body part with so little clothing lip synching (hardly) to the crappiest of crappy music ever. All I wanted was to follow that link about the cute puppies and EVERY time I get the blasting terrible music and people doing what they should be doing in private out there for everyone to look at.
Jackie Lulu 2 years ago
I'm old and I love TikTok. There's something there for everyone. Just like BP.
A B C the Third 2 years ago
Tikfuck is a goddamn chinese government-controlled propaganda machine that blocks posts that say anything bad about Mao, Xi, Putin (at least a while ago) or against communism in general, if you speak up for LGBTIQ+ rights, same-sex marriage or the likes, about how those fucktwats are trying to suppress HongKong's or Taiwan's independence etc. But oh hey, cute kitten videos, so what do I care, right?
#6
The fact that we're closer to 2050 than we are to 1995.
DadManBlues 2 years ago
The time between the day I was born and today is almost as long as the time between the day I was born and the last day of World War 1! WW One!!! 😱
DadManBlues 2 years ago
Just to clarify: I'm from '71, not the '50s or stg.
Load More Replies...
Eileen Schwab 2 years ago
First time I experienced this was when I read that the '80s were forty years ago. I'm still not over it.
In the meantime, we wanted to get the professor's thoughts on why some people may have a slightly warped perception of time, e.g. believing that the year 2000 was merely 10 years ago or being unable to fathom how it's already 2023 (hi!).
"It can often feel that time passes quickly, and that many older adults might remember dated events as feeling more recent," Dr. Castel, the author of 'Better with Age,' told us.
"This shows that our sense of time isn't always linear, and this might be because our memory provides a biased representation of the past," he explained.
"Sometimes more memorable life events become better consolidated and frequently retrieved, making them feel like they were not that long ago."
#7
I tried to pull something remotely similar to an all nighter recently and got about 3 hours of sleep.
I want to die.
Pandora 2 years ago
I may be one of the exceptions here. I'm 51 and recently went to a night club til 6:00AM, got home, took a shower and off to work I went. Felt s****y? Yeah, of course, but half the 20-ish brats I know would've called sick that day...
JM 2 years ago
Relish this, Pandora; you’ve got one foot in each time zone! 😎
Load More Replies... Stacy R Phillips 2 years ago
In my 20s at university there was a saying "Sleep is a concept" We'd pull all nighters or not sleep till the project was done. Not any more! At 40+ sleep is a force of nature and she conquers all.
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
I did that last week, just worked straight through the night to get everything ready for the teachers on September 1st, then showered and went to work for another 12 hours. Still regretting it now. >.<
Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
It’s hard but I can still manage. Some looooong shifts that run into the next one can be absolutely exhausting.
#8
When people say, "30 years ago", and they mean the 1990s, not the 1960s.
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
30 years ago doesn’t seem so long ago now too. The 60’s felt like an ancient, mythical time to me in 1990’s 🤦🏽♀️
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
i watched an documentairy about St Peppers album in 1987. "it was 20 years ago today" I was 13 and thought i was watching an indeed mythical, prehistoric, strange phenomenom. I was absolutely in aw that i was watching something so cool from SO long ago. Now, 20 years ago is yesterday.
Load More Replies...
SlightlyTarnished 2 years ago
When people say 60's, it's been 60 years since Kennedy was assassinated, 1963. I remember my high school English teacher in tears, announcing the news to the class, we were all sent home, my mother was sobbing in the kitchen.
Kat Rucker 2 years ago
Yep - I was in elementary school but Kennedy's funeral on television is one of the very first things I remember. Such a different time - indeed, people were just inconsolable - it was such an unusual thing to happen. Now we simply accept extreme acts of violence as the norm.
Load More Replies...
bentscissors 2 years ago
I heard the phrase “the late 1900’s” in reference to the “90’s” and wanted to shrivel up and die
Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 2 years ago
so apparently i am not the only person with this issue!! 30 years ago is 1970.....and always will be
#9
My Hotmail account is older than most of my coworkers
Zephyr343 2 years ago (edited)
Open Netscape navigator, go to Altavista, and type it in 😁
Load More Replies...
Irina Khruleva 2 years ago
Now that you've mentioned it... My first email address was created in 2000... And yeah, still using it as my main one.
A Dorkable 2 years ago
Same. And, mine is just my first name. Saying that out loud sounds old. LOL
Load More Replies...
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
I have my @msn.com account in use still. That was Hotmail's precursor.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Huh. I'd completely forgotten I had an MSN email address. I wonder what happened to it. (or even what it was...)
Load More Replies...
moody goody 2 years ago
My father has the same mobile number from 1996, he was from the first 100 people in the city to get it. Today's generation wouldnt even know what a dial telephone is.
Brian Droste 2 years ago
My parents still have wall phone with the same number for as long as I can remember. So that is 50 plus years.
Load More Replies... 
Babs Ishkabibble 2 years ago
I've had my hotmail account since 1998, ain't givin' it up either!
Charity Angel 2 years ago
I had an AltaVista email address. That got lost to the sands of time, but my Hotmail is still going strong.
No matter what anyone tells you, age really is just a number. What matters isn’t how many years you’ve lived but how you’ve lived them. With courage and curiosity? Passion and purpose? Energy and drive? It doesn’t matter that the younger generations think Nirvana and Harry Potter are ‘old as dirt’ when you’re having the time of your life.
But if you’re filled with regret, well, we genuinely believe that it’s never too late to learn something new, chase your dreams, and live to the fullest.
But in order to do all of that, it only makes sense to take good care of yourself. You’ve got to get the basic healthy habits right. Including getting enough sleep, drinking lots of water throughout the day, eating healthy and nutritious food, and moving a lot throughout the week. On top of that, it’s best to avoid smoking and drinking alcohol. And if you want your skin to look young, you’d best become fast friends with sunscreen.
#10
I showed my nephew the matrix. We are a few minutes in and he is frowning. I’m like, “what’s wrong?” And he asks, “why are the phones ringing?” M**********r was born after dial-up.
Jason Melvil 2 years ago
I'll easily top that... I had a kid ask me why do we call it "Hang up the phone". He didn't even realize there were times when you had to do that to actual phones.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
I sense that's a phrase that will be phased out over the next couple of decades. I do long for the ability to slam the phone down occasionally - it was so satisfying. Especially because it made such a horrific noise at the other end of the line too.
Load More Replies...
Leigh 2 years ago
My dad was a computer programmer so I was of very kids in my school with access to the magical internet! Sometimes my dad would be using the phone lines (dial up) to connect to the internet. Sometimes Us kids would unwittingly pick up the phone, hear the screech and knew we were doomed! I'm not talking about the screech from the phone but the one from my dad. We had broke his connection to work.
zububonsai 2 years ago (edited)
Yes, we even started to yell around in the apartment "Is someone using the internet?!" before we even picked up the phone to avoid TheScreamsOfDesperation™️ of another member of our family 🥹
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Everyone from my generation will try to tell you how mind-blowingly amazing it is. And it was at the time. It's still a really good movie, but it just cannot hit the same way today as it did when it was new. There are a lot of movies like that - they were astonishing at the time, but they have been copied, cloned, and the techniques used in them have become commonplace, so it's harder to understand why they were so adored. I would put Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, and Citizen Kane in this category of movies.
Load More Replies...
CrazyKnitter 2 years ago
My favorite memory of my now-husband was explaining The Matrix to me when it first came out.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
We had phones which had a cord attached to a opening in the wall. It connected to something called “phone lines”. The phone had the main part with a dial on it. On top was something you picked up, held to your ear and it also had a speaker part to talk into. You knew someone was calling you because there was an actual bell underneath that rang when someone called. Google phones 1960.
#11
Doctors are younger than me now
Mycroft1967 2 years ago
Boss at my last job, where I worked for 15 years, was a teenager. He called me into the office to dress me down for something but couldn't help staring at the acne on his face rather than listening to him.
Load More Replies...
Jaye Rodger 2 years ago (edited)
Me: *41 years old. Feeling young and energetic, minding my own business* Sports commentator: "And here he is, the oldest player in the league by quote some margin. At 35 years old, nobody knows how he is still able to run!" Me: "Fffffffuuuuuu..."
Steph 2 years ago (edited)
Yeah! Feels weird! Can‘t believe my little good child, whom I used to give health advice like „brush your teeth, don’t eat snow, don’t hold your peepee in, go to the toilet, don’t eat too much sugar, go to bed now…“ is a doctor now and constantly tells me how I could live a healthier life. I know how, but who is my little baby to tell me so?!? 😂🙈she‘s right, but she‘s not gonna be the one telling me! 😉 Edit: godchild
Melissa Gallo 2 years ago
The anesthesist I saw last week looked like he was straight out of high school
Maripat Webber 2 years ago
Because my doc of 30 yrs retired, dentist of 25 years ditto—and the most soul crushing one—the vet I’ve taken ALL my dogs to just retired. I started with her six months after she opened the practice.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
YES. I work at a front desk in a hospital. When we have doctors come in, like any other patient I have to check them in with their name and DOB. Some of them are babies in my eyes, but also doctors. Blows my mind every time.
Agamemnon O'Neill 2 years ago
And pilots! "Hi this is Taylor/Brayden/Jaxen and I'm your captain on this flight..."
#12
Listening to Nirvana today is the same as listening to The Beatles in the 90's
FrogMan 2 years ago
The worst is when the music you loved as a kid starts showing up on the Classic Rock station. Excuse me…Soundgarden is NOT “Classic Rock”!
Melissa42 2 years ago
This is a statement I have made way too often. Classic rock does not mean age. It means a type of music
Load More Replies... 
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
Friend sent a video of her 10yo kid slaying (not a typo) "In bloom" on a guitar 🤘
Load More Replies... VioletHunter 2 years ago
But what else to listen to? The autotuned, algorithm produced c**p they call music these days is torture.
JamezyJamez 2 years ago
I always found that interesting that the kids were watching D**k Van Dyke in Mrs Doubtfire and the ones in Full House were gushing over the Beach Boys. I guess a lil something for the parents who watched along.
However, the physical side of your body is only a part of living a healthy, happy, and long life. You’ve also got to take good care of your mental health. That means spending time in nature and meditating to unwind, getting in touch with a therapist to help you work through your issues, and generally creating a good work/life balance.
Not only that, but you’ve got to strive for a fulfilling career. Work is an important factor in our lives, so it only makes sense to do what we find purposeful and meaningful. If we’re constantly exhausted and feeling like we’re not making the world a better place or what we’re doing doesn’t matter, it will only have negative effects on our well-being. Career aside, don’t forget your hobbies, whether they’re physically active, entirely social, or meant to keep your mind sharp.
#13
Hearing songs that were popular when you were in middle school and high school playing in the supermarket
ThéveNinja (she/her) 2 years ago
Same. I was hearing a bunch of songs I’d liked from middle school, and then they announced/reminded that it was ‘throwback Thursday’
Load More Replies... 
Middlesister 2 years ago
Once in a while I'll hear it and think to myself "oh they're finally playing cool music, oh wait a second"
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
The musicians I listened to wrote songs that were so full of anger, lust, the rawness of youth at the height of rebellion. Lyrics were shouted as much as sung. I crochet to that music now.
Sue Denham 2 years ago
. . . and making a concentrated effort not to dance to them there and then.
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
Was in the movie theater this evening and Jump by Van Halen was the concession Muzak. Ouch
#14
Being the guy that owns the Gmail and Hotmail email address with just my first and last name together. All the other same named people have to add a number or something at the end to have their name.
Paul Scheermeijer 2 years ago
I have a hotmail account that I had to setup as an resident of the USA back in those days as otherwise "we" in Europe could not get one......
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
when was that? mine is from 1997, i cant remember if i had to do that
Load More Replies... James S 2 years ago
My Gmail is my first and last name. I was an invite only early adoptor of Gmail.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Hi, fellow invitee. I suppose that's another thing that dates us - I bet that would confuse Gen Z and Alpha.
Load More Replies... Jaye Rodger 2 years ago
I, an Australian, created a fake US university profile so I could get a facebook account when it was only made for students on College campuses
I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
I remember having fb when only college students could join..the good Ole days 🤣
Load More Replies...
Bec 2 years ago
That's why people are naming their kids such stupid things, so they can get better email addresses.
Lisa Taylor 2 years ago
When our daughter was born, we registered an email address in her name. She's now 22 and it's great on her cv for job applications. No numbers. No daft nickname. Just first name.surname@etc
Hannu Ala-Olla 2 years ago
I guess that depends on how rare name you have. If my name.lastname as username is taken, I know I've made an account earlier.
#15
i was talking with the daughter of a friend, she's 15, she told me "Harry Potter is an old people thing, I wasn't even born yet"
Sandra Gleeson 2 years ago
I listen to Mozart, pretty sure I wasnt born either when he was around
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
How about a little thing called Lord of the Rings. Or Star Wars. Come on. Good fiction is ageless.
Load More Replies...
cartoon ghosts 2 years ago
I'm 14 and read Harry Potter as a kid. The earliest fans are in their 30s now (I think) but a lot of kids are still consuming the material
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
I remember having to go the same day each book was released to get a hardback copy for the daughter who is now 31.
Load More Replies...
Littlehand 2 years ago
I'm 71 years old and read all of the HP books as they were published. I've re-read them over the years and enjoy them still. In these books, there are truths like loyalty, friendship, family and determination to defend good. It doesn't matter to me how the author conducts herself. She has written stories that matter and can be enjoyed for a lifetime.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
Yet I got death threats from teenagers for still liking HP, because "jk rowling is a terf" yeah, she is. But I'm older and therefore smarter enough to seperate it from it's creator. I bet they still watch disney despite walt disney himself practically being a n@zi. I'm not going to suddenly start hating a franchise that got me through suicide tyvm. Project your hate onto JK, not HP fans ffs.
Pascal’s Swagger 2 years ago
I was too old for HP when it came out so this makes me feel like a fossil lol
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 2 years ago
There is now a generation that knows Emma Watson as Belle from Beauty and the Beast and not as Hermoine...
The key thing to remember is that nobody is an island. We’re all social animals, and we need relationships to thrive and survive. Loneliness is as bad for our health as smoking nearly a pack a day.
A massive 85-year Harvard study found that it’s not our careers, exercise, diets, or massive amounts of money that truly make us happy in life. Instead, it’s positive relationships that help us live longer and make us not just happier, but healthier, too.
#16
When I see a photo of myself that looks my actual age, even though I feel 20 years younger.
OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 years ago
Just a little brag, I was buying whisky a couple of days ago and the checkout girl looked at me and said “I’m not sure you’re over 25” (we have a thing called challenge 25 in the UK where they’re supposed to ask for your ID if not sure you look over 25). Her colleague gave a second opinion which was welcome as I didn’t have ID on me! I’m 37, and was very flattered.
Load More Replies...
David 2 years ago (edited)
That feeling when you see an old person walking across the parking lot and you're having some pity thought like - they walk like they are kind of sore and stiff today - and then it hits you - WAIT A MINUTE - THAT OLD PERSON LOOKS ABOUT MY AGE! TLDR - my brain doesn't grok that I'm as old as I am.
Anne Jones 2 years ago
Upvote for using the word grok. Stranger in a strange Land.
Load More Replies...
DarkViolet 2 years ago (edited)
Many times I have looked at a group photo and wondered who that gray-haired, overweight person was. Guess who? 😳
Robert English 2 years ago
I completely concur. I walk around still thinking I'm a slender 30 something and then I pass a mirror and think "who's the old fat guy?"
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
I was in my 30’s when Glamour Shots came out. I found mine about 6 months ago. I look in the mirror and see how the mighty have fallen.
Jaye Rodger 2 years ago
Don't pay attention to the skin on the back of your hands. That was my first real visual indicator that I am over 40
Grace Noyes 2 years ago
The back of my hands now look frighteningly like my grandmother's did.
Load More Replies...
#17
Not knowing any of the newer artists at festivals.
Steph 2 years ago
And the music of the younger generation sound all the same to me…. is there something wrong with my ears or DID IN FACT music of the 90s offer more variety?
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Welcome to ‘Back In My Day’! A representative will be with you shortly to explain your new package. This includes tips on “shaking your fist at clouds, our pamphlet ‘How tutting works’ and a list of ailments coming your way.
Load More Replies...
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
Me while watching awards shows (music and television) "Who the heck is that?"
Paul C. 2 years ago
I'm 69 and so happy that I grew up with the music of the sixties, Seventies and beyond. Big rock fan, Stones, The Who, Small Faces (so underrated) and so many more. A friend was into soul music, so I had a love of that to, including Northern Soul. My Mum and Dad grew up with the Big Band sounds of Glenn Miller and the like so I listened and loved that. What I'm trying to say in a very long winded way is, give everything a fair hearing. You will be surprised, there will be some you don't like, (I don't get House music or Rap) but each to their own. My Spotify is a bit odd to some, Sam Fender followed by Heart followed by Aretha Franklin or The Foo Fighters or the Stones. Just give it all a go.
Norm Gilmore 2 years ago
I feel YouTube and platforms like Spotify have been a huge boon for finding new music. And I'm old enough to realise I don't have to be locked into one genre and can pick and choose what to have as a playlist. I like it, I'm damn well playing it, whether it was released in the 60s or yesterday😎
Dan Flo 2 years ago (edited)
I dont think it was that long ago I, by pure luck, discovered this "awesome new band" Ive never even heard about before at a festival in Sweden. It was Rammstein... Year was 1997.
Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago
A positive thing about not knowing the newer artists is I no longer care.
Sophie Greenfield 2 years ago
Yes, no idea who anyone is now, they all have weird names 🤔 and I'm only 30 🫠
#18
I dont like anything new coming out anymore. Feels like that south park episode when Stan turns ten and it’s all s**t.
MotherRobinson 2 years ago
You are not alone I feel the same way. It brings me comfort sometimes to look at old sitcoms and movies over and over again. I barely like the new stuff
Load More Replies... Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
That’s because much of it is just dumb reboots of old stuff for the sake of inclusion, representation, and other such things. I’m all for everyone feeling seen in the media we consume, but can there PLEASE be some original content????
not your average weirdo 2 years ago
Same, that episode hit a little too close to home
Load More Replies...
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Same, same. I miss the sitcom era where shows were either wholesome and comedic. Everything is so dark. You'd think in the world we live in today people would want to escape from suspenseful thrillers.
Edison Lima 2 years ago
I can trace the plot and twist of any new show or film to another older one. That's what makes me feel old.
#19
People driving by me when I'm riding my bike, beeping at me and giving me the thumbs-up like "you go, old man!"
Apparently someone of my advanced years riding a bicycle is *inspirational.*
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
If someone shouted out "old man" in my direction, my first instinct would be to turn around and see what person they are referring to before the realisation dawned on me...
Jackson 2 years ago
I use the gym at a college near my home. A female student stared at me every day for two months. Finally, she walked up to me with a nervous smile on her face and said, " You are really old like my parents, and you come here 5 or 6 days a week. What can I say to my parents to get them to come out and exercise?"
#20
The song Sweet Dreams Are Made of this is 40 years old.
StumblingThroughLife 2 years ago (edited)
I still have party dresses I bought in London in the early 80s & my granddaughter is over the moon.
Jay Cee 6 months ago (edited)
Annie Lennox was contacted by a US radio station. "Kylie" thought she had real potential and asked for an mp3 track of her latest single so he could spread the word . . . She commented "I think I'm in with a chance ??!!!" Screenshot...12-png.jpg 
#21
My daughter turning 40
Xenon 2 years ago
Mine did this year also. I am 60 and good with that. Much wisdom hard fought, never lost my sense of humor.
PandaGoPanda 2 years ago
My friend baked a cake for her son's birthday celebration. His 80th birthday.
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
Did I read your comment wrong, or is your friend in their late 90’s/over 100? If so good for them!
Load More Replies... 
Okido 2 years ago
My oldest son was born when I was 35, he’ll be 17 this Friday.
Load More Replies... 
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
So pleased to know I'm not the only "more mature" person who loves BP!
#22
I'm an older first-time parent. Ran into someone I knew from high school when I went to pick my son up from daycare. She was there to pick up her grandson...
Sandra Gleeson 2 years ago
My eldest is 26, my youngest is 13, along with 2 in the middle at 22 and 19 and I also have a grandchild, Im 54
Old Roadie 2 years ago
....aaaand all my grandkids are older than your kids. I'm going back to my rocking chair now.
Load More Replies...
Barbara Kayton 2 years ago
I’ve never had kids (not by choice). I have an incredibly skewed timescale of my friends’ kids ages, because it varies from school kids, to uni age, to grandkids, and great grandkids. I have no idea how this happened….
Doodles1983 2 years ago
Differences in your friends parents’ ages, divorce and re-marriages.
Load More Replies...
SCP 4666 2 years ago
I know someone who is my age who became a first time father at the age of 18. His daughter first got pregnant at about the same age. So he`s a grandfather at the age of 39
I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
My Aunt became a grandma before the age of 40 as well. Her daughter, my cousin, had her son shortly after turning 17. Now he's starting his first year of college in 2 days. Kinda crazy, I'm also going back to school in 2 days. I turned 38 yesterday, so I'll officially be 20 years older than many of my classmates. 🤯
Load More Replies...
VogueGal84 2 years ago
My friends' average oldest children age are 15yo. I just gave birth to my firstborn less than a year ago.
AnnaRachelle 2 years ago
My eldest is 28 then my middle child is 20. My daughter is 3...I have experienced similar
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
My mum had me when she was nearly 40… I’m an only child by the way
keyboardtek 2 years ago
Well having kids at a young age to me is irresponsible and does not often turn out well for the kids. Many of those early parents harbor resentment at having given up their dreams to care for an unplanned child.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I'm not going to intrude with rude questions, but I just want to ask; Do you get a lot of questions from people asking how old you are, your kids and grandkids are and then they ask how old you were when you had your child? I'm asking because my daughter is 21 and I'm 39 and it happens all the time. I find it rude and opportunistic for judgement.
Load More Replies... #23
I was watching a make-up tutorial on YouTube and the girl was using some butterfly clips to keep her hair away from her face and she said “Girls used to wear these in the olden days.” Also, a few weeks ago, I bought a bottle of wine and the cashier asked for my ID but literally only glanced at it for a split second before giving it back. I said ‘that was quick’ and she said ‘I just have to see the 19– at the start of your birth year and not 20–‘
CaliPanda 2 years ago (edited)
I still have mine and wear them often. And scrunchies, too!
Load More Replies...
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
“Olden days”??? For me, I consider everything before 1900 to be “olden days”…
Charity Angel 2 years ago
I remember reading about a teacher whose student submitted something with the phrase "the late twentieth century" - and it was within the teacher's lifetime. That's depressing. I had a similar level of cringe when I was a student teacher, sitting in with a newly qualified teacher (not supposed to happen, but you know, stuff happens), and we were working on solar eclipses. One of the students asked when the last one had been. We looked at each other, mused that it wasn't *that* long ago, it had been during the school holidays... We both remembered what we did that day. After class, we looked it up and realised that it was before the kids had even been born. The oldest in the class was 14 at the time.
Load More Replies... sturmwesen 2 years ago
There is a foto somewhere with butterfly clips and about 8 of thoses little twisted hair buns....
#24
My hips, my swelling randomly for no reason but the onset of menopause, my silver hair being more than 75% now, and the fact that I can’t eat most foods like I used to without some horrible side effects ( swelling, constipation ) AND my perfect natural teeth are starting to go bad. Oh and anytime I start a movie, I fall right to sleep. Damn, also waking up to pee like every 2 hours during the night. Like wtf is that about!!?😫
Tee Rat 2 years ago
My dad always told me "whoever called these the golden years was either lying or crazy".
Load More Replies...
ROSESARERED 2 years ago
A privilege, and for some a curse...I m hoping for the privilege side of the coin
Load More Replies... JM 2 years ago
Oh yes; it’s a dadgummit blah laugh-riot getting older! I used to LOVE spicy food - now I have to carefully plan and not eat too much of it, lest I writhe in the agony of acid reflux all night. Never, ever thought this would be my life. Young adults, please enjoy Every. Spicy. Food. You. Can. because, alas, someday, you can’t.
Lou Cam 2 years ago
Omeprazole and gaviscon are your friends there. I couldn't live without spice.
Load More Replies... 
LeeAnne B 2 years ago
51 here and it's just hit me. Word of advice - don't believe all the horror stories, it's different for everyone.
Load More Replies...
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 2 years ago
Ah yes! Falling asleep during movies, I’m starting to notice that. I love good movies (action, thrillers, sci-fi), they’re really an important form of entertainment to me. Just yesterday, I dozed off while watching The Equalizer 3 at the cinema. It wasn’t so long ago that I, while in university, binged through 6 movies at a stretch (12 hours), only getting up to shower or pee. That was 2004.
longlivethequeen554 2 years ago
I feel ya. Oh to have a body that didn't constantly let you down
#25
- Kids don't know what a house phone is.
- Kids do not know the world before internet.
- Kids trying to figure out a cassette tape.
- Kids think anything not touch screen is a touch screen.
- Knowing Millennials are the adults of the world now and boomers are the grandparents.
- Time appears to be going faster, but that's relative to how long you've lived.
I can go on...
cartoon ghosts 2 years ago
My art teacher is 6 years older than me and has a non-touch screen computer and since I don't really use electronics other than my phone I always think it's touch screen and he makes fun of me but seriously it's like engrained in me to tap on screens
JM 2 years ago
Please take my upvote. I’m not sure why you got down voted. I had As*s computers ( not sure if I’m allowed to name names here) for a while and the touch screens were amazing. I then switched to all (fruit that rhymes with ‘scrapple’) computers and it was quite difficult at first every time I wanted to touch the screen to make something happen!
Load More Replies...
Marie Dahme 2 years ago
Then the Gen Xer's will be quietly mumbling to ourselves about when are the nihilists gonna end all that. Lol
Phoenix 2 years ago
Right. I'm sitting here mumbling about how Gen Xers are the Grandparents and Boomers are the Great Grandparents, but whatever, lol.
Load More Replies...
Jessica Bertram 2 years ago
boomers are great grandparents. Xers are between 43 and 58. solid grandparent territory.
Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago
My guess is that in one or two generations, they won't learn handwriting in school any more, and slowly, over the course of the coming centuries, it will become a lost art, like cuneiform or hieroglyphs.
_mentally_insane_(she/her) 2 years ago
… they already don’t teach handwriting in school…
Load More Replies...
geordiemik72 2 years ago
My daughter, in her 30's, cannot figure out how I lived without a mobile phone. When I told her that when I was a kid we didn't even have a phone in the house she just couldn't figure that one out at all.
Mary Peace 2 years ago
I remember when we first got a house phone, downstairs by the front door. If I was upstairs I used to run down the stairs calling, "I'm coming!" I refused to believe the caller couldn't hear me.
Load More Replies...
April Pickett 2 years ago
I saw a video clip of two teenage boys being given a rotary phone and a phone number to call. It was pretty funny, they couldn't figure out how to call the number.
Mary Peace 2 years ago
I can see that would be funny, but I understand their problem.
Load More Replies... Frank Russell 2 years ago
When touch screens came out it was difficult for me to transition. I grew up in an era where the old man would scream bloody murder if you put your hand or finger on any glass: Window, TV screen, etc. I have a love/hate relationship with my smart phone because of this.
Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 2 years ago
My 96 year old cousin said life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it is to the end the faster it goes.
#26
I went to go see Janet Jackson and Ludacris in concert about a week ago and my 25 year old son said, “what retirement home did they break out of?” 😒
TheMagicOfBeingMia 2 years ago
Don't ever disrespect Janet Jackson like that ever again. I am a gen-z and I really like her music.
Jing Yi Xu 2 years ago
As a 25 yo I highly enjoy both Janet Jackson, Ludacris, as well as several other older singers and bands and performers including alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, Mario, the cars, the police, dire straits, Jimi Hendrix....I can go on forever baby
Steph 2 years ago
Oh gosh, Fiona Apple? I was around 20 when I bought her first CD…. to me, she‘s like one one of the newer superstars 🫢😂 My first pocket money (allowance) was spent on vinyl records!!! Still got „BAD“ from Michael Jackson. Terence Trend D‘Arby, Rick Astley, FALCO (!), the Bangles, Roxette…. Soundtrack of Dirty Dancing ( which I was Not allowed to see in the movies, when it first came out, because I was only 11!!! 😳)
Load More Replies...
#27
Channel 3 for video games
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
And channel 4 to play a tape in the VCR 😁
Load More Replies...
Kar Red Roses 2 years ago
Making copies of your games on floppy disk “for backup” but actually trading with friends.
#28
Watching movies from 2002 that once looked real and clear, and now they look fuzzy as old dog s**t
Barbara Kayton 2 years ago
And how movies from the 70s and 80s.look so fake, but they were back then they were the bees knees!
Red_panda 2 years ago
Like neverending story and labyrinth. Watching them now you can see how bad it was. But I will forever watch them!
Load More Replies...
Charity Angel 2 years ago
That's very, very true. There's a lot to be said for model work.
Load More Replies... 
SheHulk 2 years ago (edited)
Some old shows that were actually shot on film (not video) are surprisingly clear. Like Columbo.
Sean 2 years ago
Some other examples shows shot on film that I know of: I Love Lucy, the first Twilight Zone series, the first Star Trek series and Star Trek: TNG. I personally have the 1080p Blu-ray set of the Twilight Zone and it’s pretty amazing how good it looks for something shot in the late 1950s/early 1960s.
Load More Replies...
Giles McArdell 2 years ago
"28 Days later" was a shock when I tried to watch it recently. It was shot on an early digital camera, it's so low res it's virtually unwatchable by todays standards and as it's at a fixed resolution cannot be re-digitised like acetate.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
In theory it could. You'd run it through an AI based upscaler. It's a risky process though and you'd need to go over the movie carefully to make sure it looked right at the end. When I say risky, I don't mean dangerous, just that it risks introducing weird visual artifacts.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 2 years ago
For some strange reason, I tried watching three different movies last week (1975, 1982, 1997). Couldn't get through any of them. The audio, lightening, but especially the pacing, was off in all of them.
Baali Venomax 2 years ago
Must be just me but I'm not having this issue but then I've never owned a Ultra HD 4k Surround sound TV so maybe that's why.
Phil Vaive 2 years ago
I think old shows display less clearly on new TVs then they did in the past for a couple of reasons - one, they were shot to be displayed on a CRT tv, not a plasma or LED, which display colours and especially blacks quite differently. Also, they were meant to be seen on a much smaller display, so now they are being basically blown up to display on our current, much larger screens. It would be like taking a cell phone video and showing it on a movie theatre screen.
#29
People who were born when I started college are starting college.
Irina Khruleva 2 years ago
I still can't really believe that people who were born after 2000 are not little kids anymore.
Wesley Clifford 2 years ago
If your birth year starts with a "1" the person selling alcohol doesn't need to see anything else on your license.
Load More Replies...
Gabby Ghoul 2 years ago
People who were born when I graduated from college have graduated from college--even the ones that stayed for a master's or doctorate.
Jacqueline Mak 2 years ago
I just thought this one doesn't relate to me. Then I did the math and my jaws dropped.
Princess Mar-li Cathryn 2 years ago
People who were born when I was starting college are finished with college, and out rank me at work...
Disgruntled Pelican 2 years ago
People who were born when I started college are all turning 30 this year. Many of them have families of their own. There are people I went to high school with who are now grandparents. How did this happen?????
Load More Replies...
#30
Trying to pick something up from the ground.
Oleksandr Miliukov 2 years ago
and a pick-up claw 71E0NKX41L...074483.jpg 
StrangeOne 2 years ago
LOL i have to have my daughter help me up from crouching. One day in the book store I was looking at the books on the bottom shelf. When I got up I used a shelf to help me up. The shelf tipped and all the books fell off. The was mortifying. I didn't want to just leave it for the store clerk but she was insistent on putting them back herself. I guess the books have to be put away in certain order. Apparently the shelves are known to be unstable and it didn't surprise them that it happened. But still, from then on I've been careful not to the use the shelves to help leverage me.
Load More Replies...
Michael Largey 2 years ago
At my age, I find such a situation to be more of a philosophical question. "Do I really want or need that thing on the ground? And why do I want or need it?"
Lou Cam 2 years ago
I bet they love being a good boy/girl and fetching the dropped item too.
Load More Replies... #31
Went to a public library.
Told me that they no longer use USBs.
/Thumb drives.
Oh Gosh 2 years ago
I was just at a convention and was told I should get a CD of the speaker... yeah...I actually don't have anything to play a cd on. 😅
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
I recently had to get a new laptop and was really surprised that not many laptops have built in CD players anymore. It genuinely took me a while to realize why!
Load More Replies...
shawn mckinney 2 years ago
They no longer use thumb drives?? Then what do they use? What if I wanted to work on a document that I saved on a thumb drive? I am genuinely asking
Booker 2 years ago
I agree with Shawn. I would rather have some of my files where I know I can access without the need of an Internet connection. I've had too many experiences where the Internet is down.
Load More Replies...
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
When I went to the library, I had to use a card catalogue. That was a wooden hutch with little drawers. Each drawer had tons of cards about half a cellphone in size, with the name of the book, the author, and the subject. The card told you where the book was housed.
Mouse 2 years ago
One of my favorite lost smells. Up there with mimeographs.
Load More Replies...
Tiny Dynamine 2 years ago
They're actually called Flash drives. A USB is the type of input. It doesn't look like a thumb, certainly not a pen. I'm 51 tomorrow, btw.
Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago (edited)
The speed data media devices are reinvented with is beyond ridiculous now. You don't even know what to invest in, because in 5 years or so you will have to start all over again.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
In all fairness, Micro SD cards have been sticking around for a while now. But for something like in this post, cloud is the best bet. I can't see that going anywhere any time soon.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
We still have doctors who send us x-rays and pictures on CDs for consultations. Nobody has CD drives anymore.
Nevid 2 years ago (edited)
It's not so much that USB drives became obsolete technology, they are a very well known security risk for a computer network. What evolved in this case isn't the technology it's the computer security practices in large enough organisations.
#32
Hearing bands that I grew up with (Foo Fighters, STP, Soundgarden) on classic rock radio stations.
JM 2 years ago
Oh, just wait until you hear the music of your youth turned into Muzak! The first time I heard Led Zeppelin as muzak in a grocery store, I thought I’d faint.
A girl 2 years ago
Lighter shade of Pale. 5am, grocery store. I'm really barking old. Early 90s not musak, actually the song. Life choices
Load More Replies...
Panda-sized Potato 2 years ago
Our local classics station used to play 50's and 60's music. Now they play 90's and 2000's music.
Irina Khruleva 2 years ago (edited)
There was this radio station I used to listen to as a teenager, they played pop hits from the 70s and 80s. I came across this radio station not so long ago and it's now playing pop hits from the 90s and 00s. And my first thought was, wow, they're playing contemporary music now.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
There’s a radio station that calls it’s content “ The Music of Your Life”. I used to listen to it with my mom in the car. Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Vera Lynn. All my mom’s stuff. Now it has mine on it. Beatles and on from there.
Load More Replies... 
WorkAholic1 1 year ago
I recognize the Foo Fighters and Soundgarden, but STP? Don't recognize that one. Don't ask me to name any songs of these groups; I can't. Gotta go back another decade or two for songs/bands I know. lol. Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, Kansas, Boston, Asia, Journey, U2, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, R.E.M., Poison, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Van Halen, Eurythmics, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC...
Gary Chittenden 2 years ago
Those are all "new" to me. There isn't an oldie station as far as I'm concerned.
#33
All the s**t kids are into these days. All these mobile games and YouTubers and influencers and TikTok videos with the screaming. Seriously what's with all the f*****g screaming? I swear there's no way my childhood would have seemed this nonsensical and alien to my parents when I was that age
Stygtand 2 years ago
What i find weird is that it seems 90’s fashion is coming back. I mean off all the decades to choose from you went with the 90’s
Charity Angel 2 years ago
80s. There was no excuse for the 80s the first time around.
Load More Replies...
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
OMG yes why all the screaming?? just came back from supermarket, it was filled with screaming kids and ignoring parents. Neighbourkids same. Busride the other day, screaming contest behind me.
LovingKnuckle 2 years ago
This is the oldest thing I’ve heard on here. You really think you were quieter and were not nonsensical and alien to your folks? Kids are into weird shiît now, but our shiît was weird to your folks too
Julia Ford 2 years ago
No WAY did we scream like the idiots on YouTube and TikTok now. It’s literally all screaming all the time.
Load More Replies...
Ruthie R 2 years ago
I remember my parents asking me to explain the appeal of the Sex Pistols & the Clash similarly - "It's all just shouting and swearing", etc. And the hippies went through similar stuff with their parents, the teddy boys with their parents, the 1920s flappers with their parents... etc. And in 20-30 years Gen Z will be moaning about "young people today", & so on. We never really change.
Water dog 2 years ago
Yeah, but our hippy music didn't sound like dogs fighting.
Load More Replies... Jaye Rodger 2 years ago
90's had it's own kind of incessant noise. Comedy shows where the laughs came from characters just yelling loudly over the top of each other. And the audience screams and claps which dragged on throughout entire episodes sometimes. Our childhoods were as nonsensical and alien to our parents as todays is to us
Jackie Lulu 2 years ago
Never liked sitcoms. Characters just stand around yelling jokes at each other.
Load More Replies...
Jane Hower 2 years ago
Funny tho, that adults were complaining abou the 'youth of th day' in Plato's time.
Stymied Egan 2 years ago
Our parents were confused about what we were into. The thing to remember is it all changes. Screaming is going off trend.
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
Actually, I suspect it did. Music I was into was anathema to my parents, and I mean the 60s!
#34
Thinking about how my kids will probably never use a dark room in school. They have no idea what a cassette, floppy disk, or zip disk is. Basically, as a millennial, the fact that I got to experience and grow up during the tale end of the analog age, as well as the digital age. They will only get the digital age, & all of the societal ramifications that come with it.
VogueGal84 2 years ago
1984 baby here, I can completely relate to OP. But having an infant right now, I'm planning to teach him all about the 80s & 90s so he'll appreciate the 'evolution' of technology.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
first reaction for split second WHY DO KIDS HAVE BABIES then oh wait... 1984 is about 40 years ago.
Load More Replies...
blixten1982 2 years ago (edited)
I read a comment about a kid who was shown a floppy disk and said, "wow, you 3D printed a model of the 'save' icon."
The Scout 2 years ago
I frequently noticed that belonging to the "Ana-Digi"-generation can be very useful in technological contexts. Because in the "old days" you actually had to know how things work to operate them. You needed to know how the analog and digital puzzle parts fit together to get them to work. When all you have ever worked with is Windows 11 on a touchscreen, the concept of things like hardware drivers, network protocols or data formatting is quite exotic - they are all still there, but you usually do not notice them. If you encounter a problem and open a command line to get it done mroe quickliy, some of the younger coworkers will stare at you as if they have just seen some really, really ancient magic.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
I like having one foot in analog, the other in digital, but I do miss having access to a darkroom. I made the switch to digital years ago.
keyboardtek 2 years ago
Musician who grew up in the 60's here. I wish the digital music revolution happened back then. Music technology is light years better today. I do not miss a single thing about the tonal limitations of records, cassettes, reel to reel tape and mono radio.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
If you take photography in college, they probably have darkrooms.
Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
Wow, I haven't thought about a dark room in decades. I remember feeling like one of the cool kids for once when I joined the Photography Club in high school ('70s). Bunch of nerdy kids in a dark room with a bunch of chemicals and a teacher after school hours. Not a chance that would fly these days, eh?
#35
Going back to my uni and making Shrek jokes with students, then realising that they were all born after the first Shrek movie came out. Their introduction to Shrek was as a meme, not as a character.
LavenderHippoInAJar 2 years ago
I only ever read the books -- never watched the movies, never saw the memes
Load More Replies...
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
Good thing there's about to be a new Shrek movie. Also I have a fantastic Shrek shirt that says "Get Ogre It".
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
I again must be very strange because I was introduced to Shrek as the character, and when I was introduced to him I didn’t know what a meme was
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
I didn’t know what a meme was until 2021 or so
Load More Replies...
Panda Promise 2 years ago
Having watched Shrek when it came out with my toddler and thinking this was made for the parents, thankfully she didn't get it. Then telling her to rewatch it as an adult and shattering the glass for her that it's not really a kid movie....priceless. (and the priceless reference that she doesn't get either)
Bradford B 2 years ago
No Shrek books, movies, memes for me. Just watching the trailer of the first movie made me want to retch. CGI sucks, but it's getting better.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
During book week, two weeks ago, I printed out some names of book characters for the kids at work to play celebrity heads. One kid picked out a name and said 'that's inappropriate'. He had chosen Winnie the Pooh, and only knew it from that horror movie (?) and didn't believe me when I said it was a book character for kids!
#36
Realizing that kids born far after 2000 are like, functioning members of society now.
RamiRudolph 2 years ago
I dunno. I'm almost 36 and I wouldn't call myself a functioning member of society.
Dee 2 years ago
Here’s a question, if so many members of society are not ‘functioning’ could it be that the society itself is failing its members?
Load More Replies... 
Kelly Aitken 2 years ago
I'd rather describe my daughter as function-able, than truly functional... 17, and just bought her first car eeek
Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
You are functioning? Tell me your secrets!
Load More Replies... Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
i was born before 2000 and i don't think i'm all that functioning
Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 2 years ago
Most of us who are born after 2000 aren't actually functional either.
Load More Replies...
Omima mimi miki 2 years ago
2010 - age 13 2012 age 11 - they are functioning enough to constantly ask for money , get on my nerves, call me an idiot more than i like to hear , turn their rooms in to their layers that i am only allowed to clean when they deem fit , forget house chores, functioning....
D. Pitbull 2 years ago
Functioning? The OP is being rather kind. I'm finding that things which were thought of as "basic, normal human decency" are now considered "Life-Hack breakthroughs!" - like... the concept of "You are not the centre of the universe - try reading the room." - seriously... this is something some "kid" (adult, but, younger) was trying to "wow me" with their hyper-intelligence at figuring out this AMAZING concept.
#37
People romanticizing the 90s aesthetic.
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
BP apparently thinks the 90’s and 50’s/60’s aesthetics are the same
Load More Replies...
CindiLou Whoo 2 years ago
90's? This is a 1955 Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria -- showing at the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend Car Show. April 16th, 2022
Kristy Marion 2 years ago
I actually thought the 90s would the one decade that didn’t have a revival. It was SO bad! (The exception being the awesome music)
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
What an absolutely bizarre choice in photo. Art Deco theatre and a 50's diner do not create a 90s aesthetic.
#38
I recently went to the Museum of American History in Washington D.C. and there were numerous items from my childhood in there. Numerous items. Also, there is a plaque at our local lake from when it was built in 1986. My kids were all, "Wow, dad. You're older than this lake."
ThéveNinja (she/her) 2 years ago
Not saying this post is necessarily American. But, I reference a quote regularly, and it seems like no one else has heard it. Has anyone else heard the quote: “America, where a hundred miles is short and a hundred years is long”?
Leslie Gully 2 years ago
I've heard it as, "To an American, 100 years is a long time, and to a European 100 miles is a long way."
Load More Replies...
David 2 years ago (edited)
I went to our local fair this year. One building was full of classic and antique cars. Most of them were from my childhood. The 50s cars were made before me but were still all over in the early 60s. A few of the cars were new when I was in high school. One car was very close to the model of my first car. The next building over was about the history of farming or something like that and I saw a bunch of tools and household items that were the same as we had on our farm. Oh -and the month before I went to an antique tractor show and saw two of the tractors that were literally from our farm that I used to drive. Not just same models - same exact tractors. Was kind of weird seeing them all painted / restored.
Ru Bee 2 years ago
My best friend lives in a house that's older than"America," 1712 it was built.
Jay Cee 6 months ago
For Americans not used to the 24 hour clock 1712 means 12 minutes past five in the afternoon.
Load More Replies... 
TheStormIRide 2 years ago
hell. I am older than this plaque. where is my place in a museum, I ask...
#39
2 things: - Getting old enough to remember my parents at my current age. - Spent an evening shift with coworkers once, all around 20-21 (im 42). They were talking about 90s music the same way we were talking about 70s music. Playing Radiohead like it was the hottest discovery of the year.
David 2 years ago
In about 7 years / bit less I'll be the same age my mother was when she died.
Load More Replies...
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/hey you) 2 years ago
I clearly remember my grandfather’s 50th birthday. I was 10. Now I’m 52, and I don’t understand how it happened. Wasn’t I 10 ten years ago? Or was it a hundred years ago? Both seem accurate.
ROSESARERED 2 years ago
Hearing the age of someone famous who has died...I'll be that in.....the other side if 50 is fun
Jaye Rodger 2 years ago
I love the music one. It creates a real bond between myself and younger team members, instead of not having any idea about the new stuff. Plus, I get to impress them with the real knowledge about their "new discovery" that they won't learn through tiktok. They then get to go wow their peers
Irina Khruleva 2 years ago
I've recently seen photos of my parents in which they are adult but younger than me now. They had a child (me) at that point already....
Charity Angel 2 years ago
I had a conversation with my mother a couple of weeks ago, that was along the lines of when she was the age I am now. It loses a lot without the context, but it was an event that happened when I was 12. And it had already happened.
Load More Replies...
Baali Venomax 2 years ago
My parents had me much later in life so thats actually not that difficult. Im a Gen Xer, they were both Silent Gens and my Grandparents were Great Gen. My stillborn brother would have been the Boomer so I've always felt out of place. As a result, I adapted to this surreal sense of disconnect early in life.
Cactuar Jon 2 years ago
When I think of my mum at the age I am now, she so had her s**t together. I still feel like I'm in the tutorial of adulthood (i'm 37)
#40
Saw a FB post from a guy I went to high school with. He was holding a newborn baby. Thought, “Good for him, having a kid at 45.” Then read the caption. The kid is his SECOND GRANDSON.
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
From what I’ve heard apparently using Facebook automatically makes you old, because apparently Facebook is just for old people
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
I only joined it to join a support group for a specific rare disease my younger cat had XD I mean, I AM old, but apparently I don’t use FB in the “proper” way that us fogies are supposed to.
Load More Replies...
Šimon Špaček 2 years ago
I love when somebody talks about "young, entitled millennials" nowadays. Dude, oldest millenials are over 40, they have grandkids. And youngest are 28, that is not what I would call "young".
firecrackershrimp 2 years ago
Can anyone say birth control or education. To be a great grandmother at 50 is just ridiculous. Children having children.
Load More Replies... 
Jude Corrigan 2 years ago
Does anyone notice the double standard? A man of 45 having a baby, "Good for him!". If it was a woman of 45, "Isn't she a bit old??"
Water dog 2 years ago
I was visiting my brother, and we took a walk at the park. This really old man was out walking. He had a long white beard and looked older than Methuselah. He approached my brother and said, "Aren't you Jack Baker?" My brother replied "Yes, Sir." The guy said "You were my bus driver when I was in the second grade!"
Jeremy Bolanos 2 years ago
The only reason 'old people' use facebook is because it's very close to the old bulletin board services (BBS) we used to use.
Needmorecowbell 2 years ago
Sweetie I'm 52 and my kids are 14 and 16, so I was about your mom's age when I had mine!
Load More Replies... #41
None of my baby and childhood pictures are in color…
Robert T 2 years ago
My earliest photos were in B&W. I have a few of me as a small child in colour. Colour was expensive.
Load More Replies...
keyboardtek 2 years ago
Mine are in color but are on Kodachome slides and have all faded toward the red spectrum.
Ray Perkins 2 years ago
My baby pic (taken in a studio) is B&W that has been colored with color pencils by the photographer.
Bec 2 years ago
There just aren't too many pics of me, I was #3 and they just kinda didn't bother taking too many, I can remember film canisters sitting in a drawer for years before we'd develop them. I used to order pics from places like Shutterfly and Snapfish after we first went digital but I don't bother with that much any more either.
#42
The sudden appearance of my wizard eyebrows.
JM 2 years ago
I named my husband’s eyebrows Frank. Alas, after a few years, he decided the Franks had to conform through trimming…*sigh*…it was fun while it lasted but not everyone wants eyebrows like Andy Rooney or Leonid Brezhnev.
April Pickett 2 years ago
Will anyone young even know who you're talking about?
Load More Replies...
David 2 years ago (edited)
Prepare for the cross canon adventures. You may have wizard eyebrows but you will have Yoda ears. My brain froze for a second the first time a barber said, "Would you like me to trim the hair on your ears?" At that moment I learned I had hair on my ears. I had adjusted to them offering to trim my eyebrows. Ears was new.
Paul C. 2 years ago
Not had that, but my wife occasionally descends on me while I'm just sitting quietly minding my own business clutching TWEEZERS! Owww!
Load More Replies... 
Wm Paul Robinson 2 years ago
They start as wizard eyebrows, you tidy them up, and you still end up looking like Spock. What is this other c**p we have to shave our ears now? Sometimes I get Van Gough jokes after with the blood trickling from my lug holes, and most of the hairs spring back anyway.
#43
My anger at current teenage angst on here. Like I really need to be mad at these kids being kids? And people walking on grass, like why am I getting angry at this except for the prospect I am becoming a fuddy duddy.
James016 2 years ago
You live in Cantankerous Towers with the rest of us.
Load More Replies...
Riley Quinn 2 years ago (edited)
I'm having a really hard time getting angry at angry kids. Things are ramping up where I live. Droves of teenagers running rampant and adults are freaking out about it. I understand the adults' fear, but I really, really understand the teenagers' anger and frustration and desire to destroy the system. Felt the same way watching old white men ruining lives with their greedy politics, and that was before we destroyed the planet.
Jeremy Bolanos 2 years ago
When I finally got my first house at 50, I finally got the 'stay off my grass' thing. Like, I pay for that! Stay off, it's mine!
SmooshieFries 2 years ago
My friend is a new home owner at 45 and feels the same as you! She said "I work hard to keep my house and yard nice so keep your poopin dog, skateboard, bike and feet off my lawn!"
Load More Replies...
Alex Mosby 2 years ago
Similar note. My friends mom tore into me for not telling her I was coming over because she couldn't give me a ride home. I lived a 30 min walk away and just could not for the life of my 15 year old self figure out why she was so mad. Then 15 years later my nephew hid in a clothes rack for 15 seconds. Now I know.
Edison Lima 2 years ago (edited)
I mean, those clouds are not gonna yell at themselves, you know!
#44
Finding 30 year old women look like kids.
Lou Cam 2 years ago (edited)
When I was a teen I always used to wonder if old people were attracted to old people or if they really felt yuck about their similarly aged partners. Now I'm amazed that I consider my age "normal", I see pictures of my husband from when we met and think he looks like a fetus. I also can pick out people who are "our age" easily. It's like your concept of "us" changes as we age.
Alyssa 2 years ago
Then why do so many men prefer women who are much younger? I look at a guy in his early 20’s now and I just think he looks immature, not as behaviour way but as in hasn’t grown into himself yet and I’m only in my 30’s. Whereas you’ll get 50 yr old + men who will be salivating over 20 yr old girls. It’s gross. I’ll never understand why the 20’s are glamorised. I feel like the 20’s are the cringe stage for the human race and the 30’s are the hot stage.
Load More Replies...
Brainmas 2 years ago
Makes me seriously question people who date significantly younger people. I'm 40, and half the peope legally in bars look like children to me. The idea of dating a 25 year old is so unappealing! I have also been hit on by dudes older than my dad.
Alyssa 2 years ago
Yes! I was out on the weekend and I rarely go out to pubs anymore but some of them I actually thought were about 14!! I can’t imagine looking at them and being turned on, it’s so gross that some men (or women) think that’s hot.
Load More Replies... Jackson 2 years ago
My wife and I spent the winters in a retirement community in Florida for a few years. There was a huge scandal about one of the men living with an "under-aged girl". There were comments like, "Just look at that [expletive deleted]. There's no way she's 55. That little [expletive deleted] can't be a day over 50."
Load More Replies...
Snorkeldorf 2 years ago (edited)
My company used to share office space with a public accounting firm. Once a year they had a big event to attract their summer interns from local colleges. That day I ran into one of their firm's partners by the elevator. He said, "Hello, do you work here?". I explained I worked for the other company in the space. He laughed and said "Oh, OK. All the kids here today look so young. I thought maybe you were one of their mothers."
Matthew Fox 2 years ago
People aged faster back then. It's not just celebrities but normal people too.
Lady Lava 2 years ago
It appears so. When I see photos of my parents in their early forties (the age I am now), I find them looking so old. But it could also be because of the way they dressed.
Load More Replies...
Annita Stephanou 2 years ago
I find women in their late thirties looking older than me, although they are younger. Too much make p, too much work done on them.
Cooking Panda 2 years ago
But teenagers/20somethings these days look like they're 35 because of all the heavy makeup. I swear they're ruining their skin with all those products piling up on their fave
firecrackershrimp 2 years ago
My daughter's wear no makeup and can still pass for teenagers while in their thirties.
Load More Replies...
Graham Berry 2 years ago
I have never gotten this. As long as they are over 18, attractive, in good health, and willing then I say go for it.
#45
Breaking Bad finale was 10 years ago.
Tiny Dancer 2 years ago (edited)
There I was calmy scrolling through, having a little giggle now and then, and BAM! You hit me with this one. That hurt.
#46
Remembering how it was to see without glasses
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
I wore glasses from 1954 to 2019. Cataract surgery. Glasses-free (I think I do need to get some reading glasses, though. But distance is sharp and clear (at least, after the first half-hour after waking up - still have presbyopia).
Maria B 2 years ago
Cataract surgery was the best thing that ever happened to me because I was minus 10 with a huge astigmatism.
Load More Replies... featherytoad 2 years ago
I kind of like my glasses. I don't wear makeup and they hide my under eye dark circles.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
I started wearing glasses when I was ten, a lot of people did. This is not age-related.
Kar Red Roses 2 years ago
When I got my distance glasses I looked up at the moon and saw it without an aura for the first time in years. I’d always just assumed air pollution made the moon look foggy!
StrangeOne 2 years ago
That's not normal? I see light streaks coming from the moon as well as street lights and car lights.
Load More Replies...
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I remember reading out the bus numbers on the buses way down the street to my mom, and finding numbers on buildings. Now, I need my daughter's help or the poor cashier's help to figure out the words and numbers on the menus at the fast food diners. One 911 operator got upset with me because I couldn't make out, let alone remember all the digits on the license plate.
Robert T 2 years ago
I was in my mid-20s before I got distance glasses. I only recently had to have glasses to read the computer screen. I can still read a book or my phone screen without glasses. I used to still be able to read with my distance glasses on, but now I have to take them off. I struggle to find my glasses without my glasses!
Annita Stephanou 2 years ago
I wore glasses since elementary school, but yeah, presbyopia sucks right now. I use contacts so I really need to stretch my arm to read package instructions.
RaVen Sequoia 2 years ago
I complained when I started to need reading glasses at 49 years old - some younger friends snapped at me, “I had to wear glasses since I was a kid, don’t you complain!” Still not used to using reading glasses 5 years later. Sheesh…
#47
I'm in my 30s doing an apprenticeship for a new career and there's a kid in my class who was born the year before I graduated high school.
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
I regularly register new patients and am astounded that they're in their 40s and born after the year I graduated high school (1981). I'm literally old enough to be their mother - doctors too are young enough to be my kids. That really causes me to pause.
pamela nichols 2 years ago
When I worked my district manager would regularly bring people and say train them the way we do things. I train them to the best of my abilities, but seemed to get younger every year. They also seemed to be less inclined to learn the "way we do things".
Load More Replies...
T. 2 years ago
I started my studies last autumn at 38 and there are some classmates that are half my age.
Destiny Kruse 2 years ago
How's it going so far? I'm your age and thinking about going back to school.
Load More Replies...
What does this button do? 2 years ago
I've been at my company for awhile (a LONG while) and we've got several employees who weren't born when I started working there. When I tell them what it was like, back then when everybody smoked in their office - or in the cafeteria - it's just blank stares. :D
#48
I can't stay awake for more than 24 hours anymore
LovingKnuckle 2 years ago
But it was always a great way to trip out for free
Load More Replies...
JM 2 years ago
Amen. I remember wanting to stay up all night as a kid but now, fuggid about it! 😵💫
StrangeOne 2 years ago
But so many magical, exciting things were possibly going on at night.
Load More Replies... Almarako94 2 years ago
At 22:00 i head to the bed or else i have to fight the sleep for like 30 minutes until i give up and go to bed.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I don't bother trying anymore. Any chance I can rest my aching eyes I'll milk it. Came home from a shortened shift and too 7 hour nap. Idc. I put in my dues. Did enough all nighters and 24 hour go-go-go days. It's all catching up to me now.
#49
When 20 something year Olds call me sir
Celena Camps 2 years ago
I hate being called maam .. always have. But now i am too old to protest the word.
Barbara Kelly 2 years ago
I would rather be called "Ma'am" than the cloying, patronizing "Dear". Deer live in the forest; I live on Badass Boulevard!
Load More Replies...
Yeet_girl360 2 years ago
I call everyone younger AND older than me ma'am, or sir... just out of respect, but I suppose it could bother some people. Weird cause my sibling age as young as 5 years old rn, and still call people ma'am or sir.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
It's the tone and context, imo. Love it when a southern American says to me "Yes, ma'am. Have a good day, ma'am." Better than "Ma'am, excuse me, don't speak unless you're spoken to, lady."
Load More Replies... 
Tempest 2 years ago
When my friends are I wave at babies and the adults around them tell them to wave back at the “aunts” 😭😭 But technically some people my age do have babies now…
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
I am 68 and STILL confused when anyone calls me 'Mr X', because (to me) that is my father!
Wm Paul Robinson 2 years ago
Easier to take since I moved to France as everyone gets called Monsieur or Madame!
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I don't mind being called ma'am. I feel that my life experiences have earned me that much respect.
#50
Went to a museum in Seattle, and they had a video game section. A group of young teens are standing in front of a GameCube. One kid says to the other, 'I think this is the first Nintendo.' The other kid responds back, 'Isn’t it the first game system ever?' The first kid responds back, 'I don’t know. maybe?'
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
Wow this makes me feel like two teenagers just found me frozen in ice and thawed me to go to high school with them.
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
How? How do other kids not know what the NES is? Though I did just find out that Atari isn’t actually the first game system, that’s apparently the Magnavox Odyssey, but still. And also, the NES games are even on the Nintendo Switch, shouldn’t they know where they come from?
twilight (he/they) 2 years ago
excuse me this this is BLASPHEMY gamecube was the 7th console that nintendo made >:(
LeeAnne B 2 years ago
I still have fond memories of my Atari console. Pacman, Digdug, Arkanoid.
Brian Droste 2 years ago
Space invaders, Circus, BurgerTime, Galaga, Pitfall. and many others.
Load More Replies... I don't know who 2 years ago
Wasn't Nintendo GameCube the 6th or 7th console from Nintendo? Correct me if I was wrong.
RamiRudolph 2 years ago
You're right, it's the 7th one. 8th if you count the Color TV-Game that was only released in Japan.
Load More Replies... blixten1982 2 years ago
I think for anyone born around mid-late 70s, early 80s, this one is hard to read.
Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
My wife has a friend who's in her early 30's one of the first times I met her (probably 10 years ago) she was wittering on about "the first Donkey Kong game" and the "secret passage". It took a lot of tongue biting to let that pass.
#51
Ever wake up in pain from sleeping wrong? Don't worry you will and that my friend is when you know your old as s**t.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
went out like a light in a plain two months ago. Woke up from hellish pain. My head had tilted backwards against the window and couldnt get it up straight for a while. Pain was horrible. Bothered me for 4 days. I thought "well now ive got some serious s**t going on, this cant be from sleeping in the wrong position" and my BF said "honey you're just old" haha :-D
Kar Red Roses 2 years ago
Me, this morning. I think I need a new mattress. Or possibly a new spine 😣
longlivethequeen554 2 years ago
Most days to be fair. You know it's bad when you can't physically get out of bed.
Jack Smith 2 years ago
I'm 15 and I've woken up sore from sleeping wrong plenty of times in my life. I'm fairly certain I'm not old
#52
When I talk about things I did as a kid in the 90's and early 2000's and now people in their late teens and early 20's look at me like I'm an alien. I keep thinking, *"s**t, that wasn't that long ago"*, and then I remember it was 20+ years ago now!
Irina Khruleva 2 years ago
My mom often says about things we discuss: "that was 2 or 3 years ago". And then I say, "no mom, more like 8-9". And she won't believe me until I Google the proofs xD
Poison Ivy/Boo 2 years ago
My daughter was cleaning out the pantry and she was asking about an expensive set of food colourings I use for icing cakes. I said I bought them a few years ago and to leave them .....she said the expiration date was 2011. This was in 2021 🤦
Load More Replies...
Valerie Duenes 2 years ago
Well, try been a kid in the 70's. Becoming a teen in the 80's. Best time ever. You, all missed out on the funniest shows. No, holds bar on them.
Xander Man 2 years ago
First time I realized that I'm getting old was back when Jessica Simpson released her cover of "Take my breath away" back in 2003 and called it "an OLD song" and I was "wtf.. that's not and old song... Hey, wait a minute..."
#53
Waking up everyday feeling beat up, sore, like I had worked my a*s off all day doing manual labor when I just did my usual. Oh, and flexibility is for s**t too. Back hurts, muscles tight as a drum. I just need to be taken out back and put out of my misery. Don’t get old people. Or at the least, don’t every stop moving and stretching. Switching careers and going back to school at 46 ruined me. Now I work 12 hours shifts, overnights, when lots of my friends are starting to retire. -edit: I went back to school to become a nurse. Got my RN and the next month covid hit. I’m not a smart man
ThéveNinja (she/her) 2 years ago
OP is right: seriously, we CANNOT stop moving/stretching. It’s a compounding/exponential effect
Stephen Andrews 2 years ago
Totally agree. At 60 I go to the gym everyday to keep moving. Only about an hour each day but the deterioration is much slower since I started this a couple years ago. Young people at the gym seem to think it’s “inspirational”. They don’t realize it seems like yesterday, I was them.
Load More Replies... JM 2 years ago
Oh, geeze. This truly sucks. You couldn’t have foreseen the pandemic. I absolutely applaud your willingness/desire to go into a whole new career field. You had no way of knowing that COVID was around the corner. I sincerely hope you are able to find a way back to relishing your dream of nursing.
Pigeon (they/them) 2 years ago
I read “don’t get old people” and assumed you were telling me to not purchase senior citizens. I was very confused.
Irina Khruleva 2 years ago
My students sometimes ask me how it is possible to understand English sentences when there's barely any punctuation. Well, sometimes you don't.
Load More Replies... Almarako94 2 years ago
Just start stretching again, you'll feel be more mobile with every day.
#54
Remembering that I’ve lived long enough to see gas go from $1 a gallon to over $5.
Linda R 2 years ago
I remember when gas shot up to .50 in 1971. I was shocked!
Load More Replies... Jude Corrigan 2 years ago
I have lived long enough to see cigarettes go from £2.52 for 20 to £15.12.
Jon Lee 2 years ago
When I started smoking, 10 No6 were 25p which was the same as my dinner money. Sneak in past the dinner lady and then buy 10 f**s after school.
Load More Replies... Kar Red Roses 2 years ago
Living in a city where cars are unnecessary - The last time I owned a car gas was 99¢/gal.
Nicholas Kramer 2 years ago
Back in the day, 1998, I used to get $20/week. Of that $20, 10 went to gas and $2/day for lunch at school. Gas was $0.89 when I started driving at 15.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
golden oldie from my mom and my aunts, how my uncle swore he was going to stop smoking when cigarettes were going to reach the RIDICULOUS price of ONE GUILDER!! (about 45 eurocent)
Kar Red Roses 2 years ago
They were $1.10/pack when I started and $7 when I stopped.
Load More Replies...
#55
Student of mine coming in singing Teenage Dirtbag. I go "wow cool where did you hear that song?" She goes "oh on a golden oldies CD in my mom's car" That hurt a little not gonna lie.
cadena kuhn 2 years ago
My daughter was listening to it the other day and I was like wow you know this song. Then I was like wait this sounds wrong who is this. Apparently it was covered by waterparks
#56
My upper, inner thighs. As I’ve aged, they’ve become very flabby and wrinkly. It’s the signal that my skin is starting to lose its elasticity. I guess I don’t mind much, the important ones that see them don’t care either, but I don’t wear shorts anymore.
longlivethequeen554 2 years ago
It's my upper arms. I just didn't notice til my 12yr old pointed out I have "wobbly arms like wings"
Poison Ivy/Boo 2 years ago
I too suffer from the dreaded "bingo wing" look.
Load More Replies... Petra Schaap 2 years ago
please wear shorts!! this sounds harsh but... we dont care either :-)
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
Dad, huh? It sounds petty and stupid, but I used to live in short shorts and tube tops/bikini tops and now? No shorts except in my own house.
#57
Born before google also I can score high on old tech quizzes like what is a rotary phone kids when they see a floppy disk cool someone 3d printed the save icon blockbuster - you had to drive to store to rent a movie
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
I really miss Blockbuster. That was my family's Friday night - Blockbuster, picking up a couple of pizzas (or some other fast food), watching the movie and playing board games until midnight.
#58
Not being asked for my ID anymore when buying alcohol
Stephen Andrews 2 years ago
I go to one specific store for any age restricted purchases because they have a policy of asking for ID from everyone. Last shot at feeling that I look younger than I am.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
still happens to me once in a blue moon. seeing as I'm in my 40s, It makes my day every time
Lara Verne 2 years ago
Well people saying that I look younger than I am, but no one mistaken me for person under 18
S. E. in Indiana 2 years ago
Or looking at store receipt and seeing that the girl automatically gave you the senior discount without asking for I.D.
The Doom Song 2 years ago
I had my wallet stolen last year. Went to a concert that required ID and I have never been more thankful I look a bit older coz no one asked
#59
I have taught the children of my former students.
#60
Hearing a cover of a song you remember hearing when it first came out
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
And WHY do some idiots think that a song would be better with their "mark" on it? Tom Cochrane did the original (and by far best, imo) "Life is a Highway" then some some hayseed group (or perhaps producer) decides "hey, that would sound better with a (stupid) twang".
#61
When I heard Gen Z’ers refer to the 1990’s as “the late 1900’s”
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/hey you) 2 years ago
That was a shocker the first time I heard it. I knew my great-great-grandmother, and she was born in the late 1800s. Now people are referring to my birth era in the same way. But it’s okay. Life moves fast, 2060 will be here in flash, and all you whippersnappers will be wondering what the hell your grandkids are talking about. And you’re gonna hate their music!
#62
Constant visits to the doctor. If it's not one thing, it's another.
Jaaawn 2 years ago (edited)
I am at the doctors once a week because of a chronic physical health condition I have, hospital appointments, procedures and on top of that weekly appointments with various people from the mental health department. I miss the days of being young and healthy. Don't take them for granted younger people because your health can change for the worst when you get older and the recovery time is a lot longer, sometimes you can't even recover.
#63
I look in the mirror, and that 72 year old face looking back at me says it all.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 2 years ago
I'm 67 and I'm sure I look older in current photos than I do when I look in the mirror.
#64
Last week, hearing on thr radio that Carson Daly celebrated his bday, turned 50. I used to see him way back when on TRL. First dude, that I ever saw wearing nail polish before. Just amazing how much time has gone by, and how he has progressed.
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
That no one remembers Chris Hardwick as the old host from MTV’s singled out, but a major Gaming Industry player.
#65
All the things that I adored as a child either cause me shame or incidentally ceased to exist
Kathy Wilbourne 2 years ago
I loved being able to walk around town by myself. Could walk the several blocks to school on my own by the time I was 9. And we could even go outside after dark alone without Mom freaking out. We felt safe and nothing bad ever happened to me or my friends or my brother from being unsupervised. I feel sorry for kids these days having to be supervised all the time.
longlivethequeen554 2 years ago
Never be ashamed man. I own my love of OG Noddy and Care Bears
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
I still have some of my Care Bears and Care Bear Cousins plushies!
Load More Replies... Valerie Duenes 2 years ago
Not, a problem. In your memories. If, I could erase Barney. Only thing that I watched with my children I want to erase.
#66
I was listening to the radio, and I realized I didn’t like the new music on it…and, gradually, the realization and horror crept in
#67
I still use my AOL email account. I used to get made fun of for that. Like, 'AOL? How old are you?' Now, I don’t think many people under 30 even know what AOL is/was. No one says anything when I tell them my email address. I’m now too old to even be made fun of, I guess
Jinx (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
yea, I was talking to my neighbor (a complete adult) and mentioned AOL and he goes "what's AOL?" I was stunned into silence when he followed up with the death blow, "I was born after 9/11" 💀
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
I still have access to my original AOL screen name/email that I made in 1992 when I was 10! XD My dad told me not to use my real name so I used my initials plus the name of the wolf I’d sponsored in my WWF Adopt A Wolf kit. And thus I’ve been known as Lakota ever since XD
#68
My s****y knees
The Doom Song 2 years ago
My right knee will always tell me when it's gonna rain. I'm not quite 40 yet.....
David 2 years ago
Real talk if you have sore knees / other joints. Try turmeric. Got to where it really hurt to stand up from kneeling - like if I was looking at stuff on a bottom shelf in the library or a store. A friend pushed turmeric. I resisted for a while because most of the natural type stuff doesn't do much for me. But take / glad I tried it. I take 2,000 mg each morning (two capsules) because I'm just not into the taste of it in cooking. Been doing that for about a year now because within about 2 weeks or less I started hurting a lot less. My joints still feel old some days but in general I am in so much less pain than before.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
You can kneel? I haven't been able to do that in 20 years. Changing the water filter cartridge under the sink is a true chore.
Load More Replies... Blondieybat 2 years ago
My left knee tells weather, because I ice skated once- at the end of 8th grade. 40+years ago (sigh)
#69
games with s****y graphics but incredible story lines
Agfox 2 years ago
Text-based games ie. no graphics, I used to play Hunt the Wumpus. I looked it up, it was released in 1973...sob!
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
I spent a large portion of my childhood playing the original Zork! I loved MUDs and MUCKs as well.
Load More Replies...
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
Just today I was talking about a game I really loved as a kid - Betrayal in Antara. Objectively speaking it wasn't a particularly good game; even for the time the graphics were pretty bad, the tank controls were clunky, and just about everyone encountered the same glitch where everything turned fluro pink at night. But I loved it anyway because I really liked the story and the characters and I enjoyed exploring the world. It was probably the first RPG I ever played, and I played it for hours on end.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
Oh my goodness. You’re the only other person I’ve spoken to who has also played Betrayal at Antara. I played its predecessor Betrayal at Krondor as well. I remember that at that point, I played pretty much EVERY game Sierra made. I loved the Quest for Glory series and the King’s Quest games too.
Load More Replies... Kar Red Roses 2 years ago
I was super into Sierra’s Kings Quest and Space Quest games. I wrote stories based on the games a decade before I learned the term fanfic from the internet
Lara Verne 2 years ago
Remember Undertale? Pretty retro graphics for year 2015, but it was successful
#70
“What’s a DS?”
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I haven't touched my 3DS in years but I refuse to sell it for sentimental reasons - I was there at the official midnight launch party when I got it.
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
I have a DS in a drawer in my tv stand, I haven’t played it in a while, I would always play Mario Kart and Nintendogs on it
#71
People sharing pictures of their grandfathers and they are like photos from the 90s of dudes I went to college with…ouch.
Jaaawn 2 years ago (edited)
Seeing comments like 'this is my mum and dads favourite song' under YouTube videos of music you loved when you were younger. Also, was watching videos of Amy Winehouse performances and people were saying they were only young kids when she died but love her. Makes me so happy to know she has new generations of fans. Oh and comments under 9/11 documentaries that say 'even though this happened before I was born, I still feel the horror.' Makes you realise how fast time really goes.
Kar Red Roses 2 years ago
Love the looks on their faces when I say I think their grandads are cute/hot!
#72
Stairs
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
When I was in my 40's I (willingly) climbed a bazillion steps to a carillon tower. I wouldn't make that mistake again no matter what.
#74
When Gen Z'ers tell me what year they were born after I've had an adult conversation with them
#75
My younger brother-in-law walked in the room a few months back while I was watching Alf, and he asked me if I was watching The Muppets
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
I love Alf! I haven’t seen too many episodes but I’ve seen many of them and they’re very funny
#76
I’ve been in the Navy for 14 years now and I had on of the new boots(Barley Out Of Training) ask me how old I was and I told him I was 35 and he reply “Dang you were born in the late 1900’s. My world has been shook ever since.
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/hey you) 2 years ago
Huh? 35, so serving since age 21, and born in 1988.
Load More Replies... #77
Doing half an hour of any kind of work that I used to be able to do all day long. Also, standing up after sitting for an hour.
Sandra Gleeson 2 years ago
You need to move more to be able to keep moving as you age. My husband is 62 and still runs, goes to the gym and works hard in his business (he owns a demolition company so no office for him) at 54 I spend at least 30 hours a week doing physically demanding work, and about the same doing lighter stuff. Gotta move it or you will lose it
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Am a school custodian, cut 8 lawns, and try to bike 30 miles/wk. Not sure what will happen next year at 62, but I'm getting out.
Load More Replies... #78
When I remember people only by their surnames
#79
I went to the science museum in london a couple months ago and they had an iPhone 3 there... in a museum. Made me feel ancient
Jason 2 years ago
I had switched to the og iPhone after being on BlackBerry forever. My friend broke it under a couch
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago (edited)
I went from a Nokia 3310 to a Motorola Razr to an iPhone. It was a huge shock both times. My older sister had a BlackBerry for the longest time before switching to an iPhone XD
Load More Replies... 
#80
Quoting Seinfeld to my students who sit there with vacant eyes.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
And also realising that Seinfeld started more than 30 years ago. I am such an avid rewatcher of it that I am shocked when I see what the stars from it now look like
#82
Pearl Jam is considered classic rock. Shoot me. Please. Also, watching Kevin Love hobble up and down the court but knowing he is 12 years younger than me.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
I remember when my favorite local “oldies” station added music from the 80s (the decade when I was born) to their repertoire. That was bad enough. Then a little while later, they added music from the 90s to their repertoire. Music from the 90s is now considered “oldies”. I feel positively decrepit.
#83
That people born in 2009 are freshmen in high school now
Stephen Andrews 2 years ago
Yep, going to watch my oldest grandson next month. He made the football team. I had kids really young and raised them as a single dad but it occurred to me last visit that my oldest son and his wife are older than I was when they first started dating.
Firefly1617 2 years ago
Why are the men fresh? Why are American years not numbers but words? Why is this confusing me so much
#84
Getting an invitation to my 25th high school reunion
Blondieybat 2 years ago
Waiting to see to see if my 40th HS reunion will.be a reality. Already looking like a couple of years will be combine.
Debrina Blackmoon 2 years ago (edited)
Right?! Never went or cared. Class of May '89
Load More Replies... Amanda Rose 2 years ago (edited)
My 20th is two years away. I found myself struggling to even remember what high school was like when I was talking to a friend about it recently. It has been so long that I barely have any memories of it left anymore.
#85
Johnny Knoxville has white/silver hair now….
Fred L. 2 years ago
Has been around for decades but in my opinion you've missed nothing.
Load More Replies... #86
The Nintendo wii(my childhood console) was first published almost 17 years ago. That's pretty damn long if you ask me.
James016 2 years ago (edited)
I still have mine. Just need to replace a controller. My first console was the Atari 2600 followed by the mighty Intellivision. Edit: I got the Wii for my 30th birthday
Jason 2 years ago
Hah same here but reverse order. I remember being surprised I got a Wii without having to camp out for it with a preorder.
Load More Replies... grotesqueer 2 years ago
How dare you. My childhood consoles were NES and PS1. The Wii represents the newer generation of consoles!
V 2 years ago
I can't remember if we had the Commodore 64 or Atari 2600 first as I couldn't really play them. The first one I got excited about was Sega mega drive.
Jaaawn 2 years ago
We had a commodore 64 and would use the programme where whatever words we typed would flash across the screen. We used it as a backdrop when filming our very own Saturday morning kids show with the camcorder lol
Load More Replies... Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
I had an Acorn Electron, where you loaded the games from cassettes. used to love Frogger and Chucky Egg. later, had a Game Boy and a Megadrive
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/hey you) 2 years ago
Atari 2600 for Christmas in 1983. My mom picked it up used with 17 games! I felt like the luckiest kid alive.
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
I have a wii that I haven’t played in a while, my siblings love playing wii sports and Wii play on it, though
#87
Zoomer humor
#88
So I was at the checkout yesterday, and the girl who is about 16 or 17 running the register hands me my receipt and says, "Have a good day sir. I'm only 26, but I felt ancient in that moment. I'm to the point in life where teens are calling me, sir.
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
Yeah. I remember the time some teenager at the store called me ma'am and wanted to take my one bag of groceries out to the car. I was like 33.
cartoon ghosts 2 years ago
Some kids call anyone older than them sir, I personally don't cause it feels weird
Almarako94 2 years ago
You know, when older people than you start calling you in formal ways. That's when you're officially old.
#90
knowing my little sister is now 15 years old. i used to give her her bibber (milk bottle, not sure what's the good word for it).
Explore more of these tags
What do you think ?
Rob Chapman 2 years ago (edited)
Star Trek: The Next Generation is more than a decade older than The Original Series was when TNG premiered. As a Trekkie, that REALLY makes me feel old.
The Other Guest 2 years ago
Really want to feel old? Wil Wheaton is older than Patrick Stewart was when ST:TNG premiered. Yer welcome.
Load More Replies... Delta Dawn 2 years ago
A sudden abiding interest in birds and birding appears out of nowhere in middle age. Also, I still like to use periods at the end of my sentences.
Amelia Jade 2 years ago
When I became content to spend my mornings gardening, with my cats nearby. Grunge loving, tattoo and piercing covered Gen X, wearing my gardening duds, gloves, and a sun hat. I can talk people's ears off about soil, roses, companion plants, etc. If 20 year old me saw me now, they'd never believe it.
KombatBunni 2 years ago
When you tell people that you’re older than google as a joke, and they don’t get it..
T5n 2 years ago
I'm rather young(mid 20s), but I work at a placer that I volunteered as a teen.I mentioned that I had been there 10 years(9 of volunteering and 1 of working with more to come) and One of our new teen volunteers told me that they were 4 when I started. That was the first time I truly felt old.
Elizabeth Basinger 2 years ago
When I quote classic lines or phrases from movies or TV I watched as a child. The teens/twenties/ some thirties ask me what I'm talking about. When I tell them the source, they ask, "What was that?!"
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
When I was informed that my "baby cousin" had just graduated from university. When did he suddenly become a young man?? Then, just to rub it in, my younger sister went and had a baby.
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
What makes me feel old and sad is when I lose access to simple technology and I strongly suspect it’s only because the replacement is in the service of data mining. The Cloud knows who I am, and it knows the current air pressure in each of my tires.
Rob Chapman 2 years ago (edited)
Star Trek: The Next Generation is more than a decade older than The Original Series was when TNG premiered. As a Trekkie, that REALLY makes me feel old.
The Other Guest 2 years ago
Really want to feel old? Wil Wheaton is older than Patrick Stewart was when ST:TNG premiered. Yer welcome.
Load More Replies... Delta Dawn 2 years ago
A sudden abiding interest in birds and birding appears out of nowhere in middle age. Also, I still like to use periods at the end of my sentences.
Amelia Jade 2 years ago
When I became content to spend my mornings gardening, with my cats nearby. Grunge loving, tattoo and piercing covered Gen X, wearing my gardening duds, gloves, and a sun hat. I can talk people's ears off about soil, roses, companion plants, etc. If 20 year old me saw me now, they'd never believe it.
KombatBunni 2 years ago
When you tell people that you’re older than google as a joke, and they don’t get it..
T5n 2 years ago
I'm rather young(mid 20s), but I work at a placer that I volunteered as a teen.I mentioned that I had been there 10 years(9 of volunteering and 1 of working with more to come) and One of our new teen volunteers told me that they were 4 when I started. That was the first time I truly felt old.
Elizabeth Basinger 2 years ago
When I quote classic lines or phrases from movies or TV I watched as a child. The teens/twenties/ some thirties ask me what I'm talking about. When I tell them the source, they ask, "What was that?!"
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
When I was informed that my "baby cousin" had just graduated from university. When did he suddenly become a young man?? Then, just to rub it in, my younger sister went and had a baby.
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
What makes me feel old and sad is when I lose access to simple technology and I strongly suspect it’s only because the replacement is in the service of data mining. The Cloud knows who I am, and it knows the current air pressure in each of my tires.
You May Like 49 Fascinating Photos Revealing What The World’s Capitals Looked Like Way Before Modern Times People Share 94 Things To Do While Young To Avoid Regrets In The Future People Are Sharing The Things They'd Learned Too Late In Life, And These 51 Ones Are Eye-Opening
Viktorija Strelciunaite
Eligijus Sinkunas
Viktorija Ošikaitė
Related on Bored Panda
