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When you go to bed at Sunday's morning after a busy Saturday with friends all tired and remember how you used to pull the same but from Friday's noon to Sunday's noon.

 master of ordinance wrote:


Nah, ill always dress like this

And yeah, i may be using a little humor in my post. Re-read the gamers point.
The laws bit? Personnaly i dont get half of them these days.
And angst? How come everyone expects teenagers to have angst? I dont. Leastwhys, not much. Ive just got a headache from this work im meant to be doing..... But Dakka is sooo addictive

Well that was the single most teenaged post I've seen on dakka to date... And I knew GES.

- When my friends ask if I want to go to the bar, and I decline saying "I have work in the morning."

- When I had to start wearing ear plugs at concerts in small venues.

- When a new guy I was training said he had Yu-gi-oh cards in grade school, but never heard of MTG

- When my knees started popping and grinding every time I stand up.

- When I started considering 8:30am as "sleeping in."

When I wonder if my daughter's grade school teacher is old enough to be out of high school, let alone teaching a class.

 mega_bassist wrote:


- When I started considering 8:30am as "sleeping in."

This.

I remember when the teletubbies were invented, the only time I ever saw them was when I'd been drinking all night and watched the sun come up.
Now, 7am is a lie in...

And this.

 mega_bassist wrote:

When I had to start wearing ear plugs at concerts in small venues.

I've seen so many signs in this thread that I'm old, I think I may as well just sit and wait for death.

 Corpsesarefun wrote:

 master of ordinance wrote:


Nah, ill always dress like this

And yeah, i may be using a little humor in my post. Re-read the gamers point.
The laws bit? Personnaly i dont get half of them these days.
And angst? How come everyone expects teenagers to have angst? I dont. Leastwhys, not much. Ive just got a headache from this work im meant to be doing..... But Dakka is sooo addictive

Well that was the single most teenaged post I've seen on dakka to date... And I knew GES.

MoO, Dakkas (un)steryotypical teenager

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
You remember what "dial up" sounds like.

I'm only 20 and even I still remember the piercing shrieks of dial-up.

I don't think many people who heard it will forget it.

Imagine if, for a day, Wi-Fi made the same noise when connecting as dial-up; nobody would dare turn their phones or laptops on.

If you could tell how fast a connection you were getting based on recognizing the noise. I used to connect to the 'net with a 300 baud acoustic modem. Dial the phone manually, set it on the cradle, and listen to the noise. And then watch the characters… show… up… one… at…a… time… on… the…screen… The only pictures we got were ASCII art. Going to 1,200 or 2,400 baud was luxury.

The hobby ones that hit me personally are "I've got miniatures older then you" and the scrolling down to find the year. Most of the stuff in this thread is applicable though. Of course, I'm feeing it a little hard today; it's my birthday. I'm 39. The fact that I have a cold is not helping the feelings of being old and decrepit.

The "I'll ALWAYS dress like this! IT'S NOT JUST A PHASE, IT'S WHO I AM!" was the cherry on top.

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
The "I'll ALWAYS dress like this! IT'S NOT JUST A PHASE, IT'S WHO I AM!" was the cherry on top.

I've been told once I was on a phase on how I dressed, but the phase has been going on since I'm 16 and now I'm 29 xD

You know you're old when you remember the hideous noise a tape player made when you were loading a game into your BBC micro and you knocked the lead out of the tape player so it played the game through the speaker on the tape player...

 PredaKhaine wrote:
You know you're old when you remember the hideous noise a tape player made when you were loading a game into your BBC micro and you knocked the lead out of the tape player so it played the game through the speaker on the tape player...

Do kids these days even know what "magnetic media" is? Much less that it used to be cassette tapes and not floppy disks (which used to actually be floppy!)

These days your average digital wristwatch has more processing power then the computers we used growing up. And that's not even talking about phones. I'd have to look up the numbers, but I'd guess NASA put a man on the moon with computers less powerful then kids these days have in their back pocket that they use to look at cat pictures and update their Facebook profiles.

 PredaKhaine wrote:

2)When you make random effort noises when you stand up. Or sit down.

So much this. 25 yo and I feel like an ancient every time I have to stand up. Extra points if knees start popping.

An N64 was approximately 1000 times more powerful than the computers that put man on the moon.

Re. clothing: Why do you think I always wear a t-shirt and jeans? That never gets old or inappropriate. Sunny day? T-shirt and jeans. Cold day? T-shirt and jeans. Funeral? Black t-shirt and jeans.

My first computer was 32k. We looked up to the BBC Master (48k) but laughed at the acorn electron (18K).

Kids these days don't use k as a memory abbreviation.
Kids these day don't even use the term megabytes anymore, nor do they need to know that there are 1032k in a MB. This was deemed fit to be learned when I was at school.
Nowadays, they're up to Giga and Tera...

32K? Humbug. This was the first computer I ever used...in all its 4K glory.

is that ...


http://io9.com/5835188/that-stupid-time-superman-shilled-computers-for-radio-shack ?



... Noises and the like aside...... got called "Sir" by some of the uni students for the first time.

First genuine doubletake of my life.

I was a politicians honesty away from doing the old " No, that's what they call my father" line.

Halloween I was invited out with some younger work mates. After having a large meal I decided I would rather sit on the couch then go out an drink and dance. I knew at that point I am getting old.

I think I vaguely remember Superman selling TRASH-80s.

The posted picture was for a Commodore PET, though. Some had the cassette tape drive built in. You haven't lived unless you've waited 20 minutes to load a 4K game from a cassette tape.



Woo-hoo!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 PredaKhaine wrote:

2)When you make random effort noises when you stand up. Or sit down.

So much this. 25 yo and I feel like an ancient every time I have to stand up. Extra points if knees start popping.

Yup, I also noted this...my girlfriend always give me "old man points" every time I groan when getting up/sitting down

...When you make the same noises as your dad when picking suff up/sitting down/standing up/loosening your belt after Sunday dinner.

...When you Loosen your belt after Sunday dinner.

...When you go Rugby/training to loose weight and not just drink with your mates.

...When you can't remember the last time you went drinking with your mates.

...You anticipate your pension statement arriving.

...You don't mind going to bed at Ten, indeed wish you could go to bed earlier.

...An early night just means sleep....and you don't mind that!

...You suddenly realise you used to be the youngest person in a given situation but are now the oldest - this happened again last week at training, it was most fething scary.

...You watch strictly come dancing/dancing with the stars to appreciate leg flicks and turns and not so much the stunning women and their less than complete outfits.

...You have your first prostate exam.

Read the other stuff but this is what I find applicable:

When you are young, moving too much hurts you, when you are older, not moving enough hurts.

You remove the picture of your wife from your desk when asked if she is your daughter (girlfriend at time of picture, was 18 some 20 odd years ago).

Yes, you no longer find the teenage form attractive, feel like an "under construction" sign needs to be displayed.

You still can clearly remember the handshake tones for the 2400 and 14400 bps modems.

You played Dungeons and Dragons and scared the hell out of your parents when they realized it.

You still know what good clothing looks like and what to get but cannot "justify" spending the money so you dress from Walmart.

You are now at the stage of forgetting that "kids" (<25yrs) can be smart as heck and can know/quote rules as good or better than you. They just sometimes lack the "wisdom" of people skills or the depths of evil you have knowledge of from hard won experience. You may flame now...

You have no idea what you did with all that free time prior to kids.

Witnessed the vinyl record, 8-track, tape cassette, 5 1/4" floppy, 3 1/2" floppy as media.

Laughed when the present generation cousin had to use a rotary phone for the first time... thinking about today, it is a completely alien means of entering numbers.

When you hit 42-44 you get a gift; your vision goes to heck and you need glasses.

Going to the washroom requires preparation with lots of reading material and the softest bathroom tissue you can find (and post on dakka).

This list is getting too big...

Plus the all time favorite: There is a kid leaning on the no parking sign in front of my house for hours on end multiple days and I realize he is using my neighbor's unprotected wireless and tell him to "get off my lawn!", plus he was using up the bandwidth I was using...

 mega_bassist wrote:
- When my friends ask if I want to go to the bar, and I decline saying "I have work in the morning."

- When I had to start wearing ear plugs at concerts in small venues.

- When a new guy I was training said he had Yu-gi-oh cards in grade school, but never heard of MTG

- When my knees started popping and grinding every time I stand up.

- When I started considering 8:30am as "sleeping in."

im 21, and it is always like that with me.

So many of these are ringing true, and I just hit 30

I'm currently at my third university (back again as part of a work training program ) and even when I went back to university for the second time every time I went on to campus (my department was at a research institute in town) I thought there must have been an open day for school children thinking of going to university as everyone looked horrifically young

At least I mostly only see medical students now so they are all a bit older... though some of the trainees look far too young

But I realised that I was getting old again yesterday when I was talking to one of the other trainees on the course and we were talking about lumbar support on the various trains and coaches we use to get into london each day and having to roll up a coat/jumper so that our backs did not hurt

When you get your first assistant - that's a real landmark. You no longer have to do the gak jobs; they do them keenly and you get to be all sage and wise about the true meaning of photocopying/getting notprop a bacon sandwich!

Silver reminds me of one I do all the time - anytime you see a student related topic on the news you shout "wasters/get a job" at the tele despite having been a student at one time too.

Also just shouting at the tele and I don't means at the footy. Nick Knowles/Richard Madely/reality TV/Topical discussion shows will all get me in a right rage at their utter banality.

Using the phrase "catch up with myself" when describing what you are doing now/earlier/later and actually think this means something (other than sitting about doing feth all).

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
So many of these are ringing true, and I just hit 30

Damn... all of you are making me feel old.

At least I ain't ancient like frazzled.

 whembly wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
So many of these are ringing true, and I just hit 30

Damn... all of you are making me feel old.

At least I ain't ancient like frazzled.

…posting in "You're getting old when" threads, and there not being many people who can one-up you're "I'm old" tales...

 notprop wrote:
When you get your first assistant - that's a real landmark. You no longer have to do the gak jobs; they do them keenly and you get to be all sage and wise about the true meaning of photocopying/getting notprop a bacon sandwich!

Having your own minion is great fun. In another year I will get the department's new first year trainee to manage

 notprop wrote:
...You have your first prostate exam.

I think that's the only true way of knowing when you're old. I count down the days until the most action I've seen in months will have been the Doctor's probing fingers in my two-hole.

Finger dude, f-i-n-g-e-r!

If he's using more than one you want to get a second opinion!