- My knee still doesn’t feel right after that hiking trip two weeks ago.
- I started listening to really old music.
Have I crossed the threshold?
When the barber asks: do you want me to do your eyebrows?
youre over 16, youre old.
You’ll start growing hair in even weirder places than you did during puberty.
I have one weird hair that grows out of my neck. Why on earth?!
Why, ear lobes? Why?!
And start losing hair on top of your head
nose hair trimmer attachment works well around the ears I’ve found (but it’s loud!)
Dude I’m hairy ass a gorilla since puberty.
How are the ouside parts of your ears and the bridge of your nose tho?
Just fine hair like the one most women have on their face
Well, in a few decades you’ll see what “even weirder places” means…
He just said “hairy ass”, well after hearing that I hope it’s “he” anyways for his own sake
What’s really old music? Like Greenday?
I mostly listen to music from my parents’ youth. Growing up I listened to the oldies station a whole lot (Oldies 98.1 used to be so good!). I’m Gen X, they’re boomers. So classic rock is definitely in the mix, but also artists like Petula Clark, the Supremes, Tommy James and the Shondells, etc. There’s a great station on SiriusXM called '60s Gold that I listen to pretty much every day.
And then when I need a change, I switch to New Wave / post-punk or Grunge.
I’m late Gen X but I’m really enjoying Gen Z music. Some of it’s so chill.
Oh you mean music from the 1900s?
You are a menace and must be stopped.
So, you mean music composed before 1800? Bach and Mozart should be fine, whereas Beethoven is way too modern.
I start my day on 1960s English prog and ska, and end my day on 1970s Italian and Turkish prog and pop. I dunno what’s out there
No no like, that classic golden oldies singer, Britney Spears!
Then there are those of us who were already adults when she was on the Mickey Mouse Club.
Bro don’t
Someone in here will say The Weeknd and cue mass existential crisis.
I didn’t even know who the weekend was until a couple years ago. Green day I do because I like the band a lot.
I had never heard of them until a Letterkenny episode mentioned them multiple times.
When you go onto a website with one of those cheesy self assessment age restrictions boxes and you’re still scrolling to get to your year.
As far as any of those sites are concerned, I was born January first, [the earliest year they allow].
I’m too lazy to enter my correct birthday anywhere, I just scroll to random places and klick something. Plus I hope it confuses the data krakens, at least a bit.
My knees have been going out since I was like 16, so I’ve felt pretty old for a long time. I think my biggest old person thing is being very particular about my bedtime each night and always getting up at the same time. I definitely did not do that in my twenties.
Yeah same boat here.
Testosterone got the better of me weight lifting in high school and I fucked up the ligament that holds my left kneecap down.
I pop and crack like a 70 year old and I’m 29 (been happening since I was 17) and I can’t keep my left knee bent for long periods of time without it aching.
I’m trying to stay young by playing video games (primarily rocket league) but they don’t feel the same as when I was younger. That was my actual sign.
Yes, yes you have.
When young people talk about the video games you played when you were their age as if they were written in hieroglyphics and relics of a forgotten age.
are you telling me you don’t remember Dune the videogame?
I threw out my shoulder trying on shirts at the store the other day…
I pull my shoulder every fucking time I try to reach for anything that’s a bit more than an arms length away
- A general feeling of alienation from society. Particularly younger people.
- Dislike of ‘modern’ music.
- Nostalgia over the way things used to be as you have lived long enough to witness the enshittification.
I like the enshittification one. Old(er) people say how much better things were back in the day, but we just say that’s rose tinted glasses because actually e.g. violent crime was much higher.
Then we tell the younger generation that the web used to be so much better and they are all “yes, grandpa, that’s great grandpa”.
But it was better! I swear it was!
Instagram is always the one that springs to mind for me. It was amazing in the early days before Facebook bought it and turned it into the monstrosity it is now. I was an early user of it. It was quirky, it was fun, the community was much smaller and people didn’t care about how many likes they got. It was actual photography and was more personal. Not the ad-infested self-promoting shallow bullshit it is now.
Old Instagram > New Instagram is the absolute peak of enshittification for me. It’s genuinely awful now.
Remember when Instagram said you reached the end of new posts?
Except you feel this even if you’re in your 20s. It’s not exactly an old thing lol
Hell, even over the last 3 years it’s super obvious
Hmm, I think back to say the early 2000s, before digg and reddit but after static websites. I never got the opportunity to use Usenet but random forums all running on PHPBB and later, Invision Power Board, with some other software thrown in.
Ok, that might be rose tinted glasses, as that was the first experience of user-led content rather than static sites (unless you count geocities).
Digg, and later Reddit, was a sort of bringing together of these different forums into one platform. It was great at the time, but so was 1GB of free email when other free email providers were doing 5MB and we all know how that turned out…
Man, I’m feeling half nostalgic and half old talking about seeing the birth of Gmail and the first mainstream social media and the first iPhone. My kids hear my stories about the days before smart phones and the days before aeroplanes and think of them as the same kinda time frame.
Forums are starting to make a comeback, reddit is shit for a lot of historical style discussions(like on going threads) and Facebook groups and discord are completely trash for it as well. I’m seeing a lot of the forums I used to visit start to pick back up.
Oh that’s good! Positive signs!
Yep, I don’t see them getting massive like they used to be, but definitely not as dead as they have been for the last 10 years or so. I don’t know if it’s just the generation that grew up with the old net or if there is a sprinkle of the new younger generation helping though.
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I dunno, I think a second “not dead” condition needs to be added.
Same. I’ve had shit joints since I was a kid. Sometimes I feel like I got a head start on aging 😛
I turned my head to the right to look at something and sprained my neck.
So when just existing hurts, you’re old.
Hey! We’re not getting older! The young kids are getting younger!
Sometimes between 25 and 40, you’ll realize you “can’t drink like you used to.”
From here, you’ll almost never be out til last call again. Certainly not without regrets. And it’ll dwindle to where you’re learning to cook instead of asking the Uber driver to swing through McDonald’s on the way home.
You’ll find you’re amid a new hobby, and an old hobby is in the rearview.
Welcome to midlife. You’re probably as old as your parents were when they had you, if not older.
25 … Uber …
This comment alone makes me feel old. I don’t think Uber Eats was a thing when I was 25. Certainly not where I lived (in a fairly large metro area)
When the doctor scrolls through your files, then scrolls some more, then scrolls more.
When the doctor asks you about ozempic.
When the doctor recommends your first colonosopy.
