How you know you're old
 

I could have titled this thread, "What's making you feel old today" but the mug has already been made, and I would have no shot of getting on it. SO.


Here's how I know I'm old:

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All these douchey kid singers with upside down hair. What the hell is going on with that? Beiber is corny enough.... but this? and there are a lot of them running around in skinny jeans and hoodies.

Who are they supposed to be?

Barber college dropouts.

Barber college crash test dummies.

Shooting up a school gymnasium somewhere near you soon.

The Back Chute Boys.

Gay is the new hetero.

HAGGIS!

By the way, I know I'm old when I look in the mirror. Those darn whippersnappers with their fancy hair and accessorizing jackets, and their Dan Fogelberg and their Zima. ;)

A few of the girls who go to school with my big boys are mad about 1D (you only know to call them that if you're a really cool, hip parent), who happen to be in Oz at the moment.

Here's a picture taken by one of the boys a couple of weeks ago.

We call this group 'Mis-direction'

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(this is a picture of one of my boys and few of his mates for those who can't figure out the relevance)

I recognize yours from FB. ;)

I don't know why we are looking at a picture of 5 children going to the beach.

Stroll around on Main Street in a college town like I did today. It was a nice day and the kids were out in droves. College? They looked like 8th graders cutting class. I felt like Methusalah's grand ma. But I enjoyed watching them - like a bunch of exuberant puppies they were. :)

Those boys aren't going to the beach. That's just standard street wear around our area.

Here too. My kids were telling me about them just a week or two ago.

In my son's math class, the teacher kept saying the phrase "one direction" as part of the lesson, and all the girls were giggling and the boys were groaning. Teacher apparently had no clue.

Thongs, boardies, shirt .. done! Love Queensland.

1D. How appropriate.

I don't get it. What is 1D?

Ohhhhh...The New Kids on the Block. Gotcha!

(Yeah, I'm old!)

OMG Zima the worst concoction known to man but you were cool if you drank it gah! :greenface

I never tire of that quote from BASEketball (so I borrowed it for a second):

Denslow: Now wait a minute, hear me out! Now you kids with your loud music and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zima, hula hoops and Pac-Man video games, don't you see? People today have attention spans that can only be measured in nanoseconds.

Never a Zima fan, but people would put Jolly Ranchers in them to flavor.

You forget that somebody else already started a "how do you know you're old?" thread?

say what? speak up.

I foolishly tried that once when a bar I went to was giving it away free. After having one I assumed it was because they weren't able to actually sell it.

Blah.

As I mentioned over in The New Nuthouse, I had to explain why a bench was cool, and these kids today, they didn't even get it.

I do have one friend under 40 who knew about Gia and Sid & Nancy, but her parents were cool, and that is how she knew of such things.

I've found myself disapproving of untidy haircuts lately.

At least the kids are pulling their pants up properly these days.

now, see.. I friggin searched for one before I started this one... because I half remembered one.

where the hell is it?

I am disappointed that you don't have a cross-referenced listing of all my threads at hand.

http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=4649

ah.. I used 'know' and 'you're' as my search terms.

and, I hate to break it to you... but you know you're old when you reference a thread you created 9 years ago!

here... you dropped your teeth. put them back in the glass on your nightstand, now pappy, you're late for your nap.

You know you're old when you notice that you are the source of the cookie at the bottom of the page.

If only... I haven't taken a nap in.. umm... months at least, possibly years. And I sure as hell could use one!

old people groan when they haul their asses from sitting to standing. I don't do that. At all. really. i am young!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Between the ice skating and the swimming, you probably get way more exercise than all of us desk jockeys!

OMG, I just got that Zima is drink and not one of these.

I wish that had been a rick roll. would have totally got me.

My daughter tells me she was standing in line today for tickets
to the Jimmy Fallon + Obama show at UNC this coming Tuesday,
and the kids around her were talking to their parents complaining
about all the "old people" standing in line.

Is 44 is the new 74 ?

Coming from traditional-age college students, my guess is 24 is the new 74.

When you're in high school, 35+ is old, but 25 is beyond your scope of reference so you dont know what to make of them. when you're in college, 30 is old, but 25-30 is almost your own age. As soon as you graduate it jumps to like, 40 is old, but that raises two or three years for every year you live, a lot faster than you age, until "old" is always about five years older than you are.

math fail.

That's how we know you're old. ;)

When your kids start graduating ... from college!
Well hat and when you need to take off your glasses to read.
And your arms aren't long enough.

35 is the oldest age you can be to play original music. Past that age you can only play songs written by other people.

I heard someone describe Styx or someone like that the other day as a "self-cover band" - so far gone that even their original songs are cover songs when they play them now.

I'm sure Styx could do a Foreigner or Journey or REO fuckin' Speed wagon song in their set and nobody would notice.

When I say Styx or someone... Yeah, in fact, i think it may have actually been REO. Maybe Foreigner. What's the difference anyhow, right?

...they’re the famous UK band (One Direction) that placed third on X-Factor seventh season. Also, they are the first UK group in the history to debut at number one with their first album.

If you know what this is you are old.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rpmadapter.jpg

If you know what bunny ears were, you are old.

If the gas cap to your first car was behind the rear license plate, you are old.

If you remember when rock music was only on the AM dial, you are old.

I feel like I should know what that is. My long term memory clearly recognises it, but damned if I can place it...


[eta] hang on...is that the little cutout bit from the inside of a record?

Either that or those things that went into bike spokes

I pretty much only know it from quizzes like this one.

I had three record players at different times growing up, and my parents had one. None of our 45s used those. There was always some sort of adapter that came with the record player. A more permanent thing that lived on top of the turntable and you just placed it on the spindle, and the 45 over it. I seem to recall that when I would visit my grandmother and use my father's old teenage record player, it had this little spring loaded pop-up device that would come out of the turn table when you pushed on it, and it would accept 45s.

But I think I saw one of these things over at a friend's house once when I was a kid.

It looks like that thing that goes in the middle of a record so it fits on a spindle of the record player.

My father's old record player was a lot like this. I was wrong, it didn't have a pop up spindle. But you could stack 45s and it would play them one after another. And that whole spindle thing could be removed to put a 33 on there.

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And on my record players, they all had something like this.

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Maybe I'm not old.

I have a very vague recollection of trying to play some records that had that big central hole but not having the spindley thing and trying to pack it down with tissue:p

I thought it was needed when records were sold from jukeboxes!

My next door neighbour had an older sister with a record player and a huge box of records.
When it was raining, during the school holidays we were allowed in her room (she was already working by then) to play them. We had an insert for those records with holes.

I don't know how I came to that conclusion. Seems an odd one for me to draw. Someone might have said something similar that I misunderstood.

We whiled away many hours choosing records at random and having to dance to them.
I remember Brontosaurus Stomp coming up surprisingly ofen given the size of the box.
Cheating?
Well, I was anyway.
Better then getting stuck with Please Release Me!

I'm OLD! My gawd those 45 record thingies were like an integral part of my childhood! I still have some whereever my 45 record cases are (with really mod 70s wacky geometric shapes.) :D

Here are exact replicas of both 45 holders I had:

They have ... COMB-OVERS ... lol

We had both 33s and 45s, but they all had the same small hole in the middle, no adaptor needed.

You know you're old when you hear an add for tickets to a Flyers super box that include an open bar and a private bathroom, and you think the best part is the private bathroom.

:lol2: