We're Getting Old

[Johnny Playert]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, please let me know if my previous post was too long, i'll break it up.

[Shyabang Shyabang]

 

Technically, most of us on here are "old".

 

According to historical documentation, humans weren't really meant to live beyond 40-50 maximum. There's a reason why old people are ugly; they're supposed to be dead.

 

In the early 20th century, the global life expectancy average was only 31. Today it has more than doubled to 67.2

It's because the quality of life is much better now. I heard that people didn't take good care of themselves back then. And polio was a big problem. And medical technology wasn't as advanced as it is now even in the most advanced and wealthy countries of that time. This was before the time of antibiotics such as penecilin. And I believe that a severe global influenza at that time had a huge effect on the life expectancy. There are other wealthy countries today that used to be poor during the early 20th century and some of those countries even faced famine. I know that Korea was one of them.

 

 

I still look like a teenager so I have no problem in befriending younger people. But I sometimes feel old when I talk to them. They're too young to remember the time before 9/11 and before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

My dad listens to classical music. I went from listening to his music and the children's tv programs to listening to trance and rave via my radio. I didn't know of most of the 90s music until I started to browse youtube for 90s music.

Edited January 18, 2013 by Shyabang Shyabang

[BabeRuth]

Nothing worse than driving by your elementary school everyday.

[FAH-Q]

 

Why did you even start an argument (Or try to) with Miami if you ended up contradicting that and having the same opinion? Do you realize how annoying you're being?

 

What the hell are you talking about? I never tried to start an argument with anyone. I said I "FEEL" old when I play COD, I never said it IS old. I was actually just being friendly when I told MiamiViceCity 25 isn't old. I'm so confused right now.

[trip]

This thread needs some Slamman.

[EscoLehGo]

This thread needs some Slamman.

I thought he was like Voldemort around here, you know, his name shall not be spoken. If he was around this thread probably would have been shut down on the third page.

 

@Playert aw man I forgot about that song lol, holy sh*t middle school galore, I'll match you with this:

 

A younger and wildly less popular Dane Cook appears

 

 

[TheGodDamnMaster]

 

^"Rock the Dragon" is hardly Bruce Faulconer's best work. If it is even by him.

 

And I hate to break it to you, but DKC2 was a far superior game.

Dude, i'm just trying to post stuff that's relevant to my experiences

Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as a dick.

 

Also, anyone remember this?

 

 

 

It's sad to look back at this because the Nerd has lost his magic.

[Johnny Playert]

^ No it's ok dude

 

@ EscoLehGo, that's a good one! Hank Azaria is even in it (VA for Apu, Moe & others). Never knew.

But good luck topping this. Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned even once:

 

 

 

[Johnny Playert]

Hey people, don't tell me this topic is already dying? Post some more stuff

[trip]

Hey people, don't tell me this topic is already dying? Post some more stuff

Really?

 

Ok...I now get my butt poked when I go in for a simple doctors visit. If I didn't trim back my gray eyebrow hairs I would look like a mad scientist. My knees hurt...my hands hurt...my legs hurt...my feet hurt.

 

If I wanted to I could pull off a bad ass comb over.

 

I actually pay attention to the price of basic sh*t like bread and juice...and get cranky about it.

 

My bank account pre-dates ATM cards and machines.

 

Oy Vey...

 

 

 

 

[Deffpony]

Whenever I hook something up to my television these days I always think about this and how much of a pain in the ass it was getting connected.

 

[Johnny Playert]

lmao, true, true.

 

I meant things like 90's pop culture, or things you were into when you were a kid, or whatever, you know.

 

Or those super recognizable songs, like:

 

 

 

 

I wanna see what you guys come up with...

[TheGodDamnMaster]

Whenever I hook something up to my television these days I always think about this and how much of a pain in the ass it was getting connected.

 

They were a pain in the ass. I had one for my SNES.

 

I used to play it on an old wooden-frame TV in my basement. Whenever my friends came over to spend the night, we'd camp out down there and play Donkey Kong Country all night.

 

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

When I was eight years old, I got my first TV in my bedroom. Back then, VHS was still somewhat mainstream and high definition television in Canada was almost non-existent. When I was six, we got a 50-something inch rear projection TV that took two strong men to get into the house and was the talk of the neighborhood. It costed nearly $5000 dollars not adjusted to inflation. Today, the manufacturing of rear projection TVs has almost ceased, even if they are HD models and are frequently found at the sides of roads and at E-waste recycling centers where they are shipped off to China to assist in the manufacturing of un-fixable throwaway garbage.

 

And BTW: It was standard definition, however he had access to American DirecTV satellite service which gave us access to about 400 channels, which at the time, was amazing by Canadian standards. Yes, we did and still do fully pay for it.

 

In September of 2007, it was replaced with a 52 inch Pioneer HD plasma with a DirecTV HD DVR which also costed about $5,000 dollars and was assembled in the United States using American and Japanese parts and is still going strong even though we're already exceeding the average time that people keep their TVs.

[Edward-Is-A-Flunky45]

Being serious most of the times. I mean, after I moved in to a new city, I'm very serious, I just to settle in, I'm still knowing things.

But yeah, A situation that makes me feel old is when I live around a people who never listened to 60's & 70's bands like Big Star, The Who, The Doors or Small Faces. I guess this happens to everyone who haves a great taste in music...... Or is it just me ?

[Vega LVI]

When I went away this summer, the resort I was at had this trivia game that requires four people to play. I sat down as the fourth player against kids who were all friends and were most likely sophmores or juniors in high school. I normally wouldn't play with people who are nearly eight or nine years younger than me, but I was waiting around to play the game for quite a while, so I decided to join on in. Most of the questions were relatively simple, most of them I answered correctly first before any of them, but they did a decent job on getting the questions. With that said, a few questions regarding pop culture they were either not born for or very young for popped up.

 

One question asked, "Which of the following Green Day songs are not featured on their 1994 album, Dookie?" and the options were, "Chump", When I Come Around", "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" and "Longview". Growing up with Green Day, I knew this like the back of my hand. It took me maybe three seconds to buzz in my answer and the three friends were all like, "What the f*ck is a 'Dookie?" They all got the answer wrong and after that was revealed, they one said, "I thought the only Green Day album was like American Idiot and that newer one." Right there, "I said to myself, there are eight (as of August, 2012) Green Day albums."

 

There were a few other questions similar to the one above that are too long to post, but hopefully you get the gist of what I'm saying. After that game, I won something like 20,500 to 11,300 to 10,500 to 5,000. I felt as if I should be escorted out of the arcade with a wheelchair and a cane for when I get up.

[fridaynightscream]

Being the only one in my school who saw Toy Story 2 in theaters. I know it only came out in 1999 which was only about 14 years ago, but it feels like a century.

[sivispacem]

F*ck this. Wrong topic, please ignore.

Edited January 19, 2013 by sivispacem

[Stinky12]

I feel old because these days most youngsters don't know Hungry Hungry Hippos, Mouse Trap, Connect Four, Life, Trouble, Battle Ship, and

many other great board games.

 

[EscoLehGo]

Here's another one that I used to hear getting a lot of spins at the suburban tween parties I attended back in the day

 

 

[gizmo]

sh*t, piss, f*ck, c*nt, cocksucker, motherf*cker, tits.

[Johnny Playert]

^ Really bro?

 

 

@ EscoLehGo Damn, have to admit i never heard that one.

 

How about this one though... such a great song:

 

 

[gizmo]

^ Really bro?

 

do you kno who george carlin is? if you do maybe we're getting old.

[EscoLehGo]

@Playert that's actually one that I haven't heard, nice song though. As long as we're educating each other on tunes from back in the day here's another middle school jam for you

 

 

[Johnny Playert]

@JuVeNiLe: Ohh, no of course i know the old fart! Great standup man, that guy tells the truth

 

@ EscoLehGo: Yeah of course man, Sum 41! Good one!

But you've got to be kidding about the No Doubt one man! I seriously don't believe you

 

How about this one though:

 

 

 

Keep 'em coming man

[ryuclan]

Being the only one in my school who saw Toy Story 2 in theaters. I know it only came out in 1999 which was only about 14 years ago, but it feels like a century.

I saw frigging Lion King in theaters....

[EscoLehGo]

@Playert you're sharing some good music, but we were obviously in different kind of cliques during middle school because I hadn't heard that one either lol. Here's another one I remember from the late 90s/early 2000s vault:

 

 

[trip]

do you kno who george carlin is? if you do maybe we're getting old.

I saw myself in the mirror and thought "I look the same as I did when I was 20...just a hell of a lot older".

-GC

[Algonquin Assassin]

Being the only one in my school who saw Toy Story 2 in theaters. I know it only came out in 1999 which was only about 14 years ago, but it feels like a century.

I saw frigging Lion King in theaters....

Although both films are from the 1940s I remember watching Dumbo and Pinocchio religiously when I was a youngin.

[FAH-Q]

Ahhh, the memories this brings back. I remember playing hours on GoldenEye 007 on N64, best game ever!!!