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Feeling particularly old this evening....

Share in the feeling?

When I started enjoying the CBS Sunday morning news show.

I'm young.

But I LOVE it when I get IDed.

When I had kids.  They exhaust the hell out of me.

I should have added: "When my online crushes started referring to me as 'mom' instead of flirting with me." :weep:

Ah well. Better than "grandma", right? Right?!

:ph34r:

When Appetite for Destruction turned 20 years old.

I don't feel old.

I stopped getting carded for buying alcohol at the grocery store recently.  :(

I've always been old.

Greying hair.

Quote from: katmai on November 30, 2012, 11:26:24 PM
I don't feel old.

Denial is the gift you give yourself :hug:

When famous people started being my age.

I'll let you know when it happens.

I injured my wrist recently doing a 450 lb bench. I went to a fairly respectable physician my wife recommended and he told me I had a hairline fracture. When I asked the reason this happened, since I have essentially perfect form with free weights was: "a man your age, whatever you do your body just can't handle that kind of weight, you should continue to resistance train but you need to focus more or agility, lighg resistance workouts and you probably also need to lose some muscle mass as few men your age can maintain it healthily."  :mad:

When a woman in my class noted an article written in 1992 was as old as she was.  Ah man that blew my mind.

Quote from: Valmy on December 01, 2012, 01:27:18 AM
When a woman in my class noted an article written in 1992 was as old as she was.  Ah man that blew my mind.

Yeah, I'm the only one born before the fall of the USSR in my class on USSR's history.

Also felt old when I started losing my hair, unfortunately this was at 18. :weep:

It's not the years, it's the mileage, as someone once quipped.  Also, checking people's id's while bartending and realizing kids born in the '90's could legally drink.

I still consider myself young subconsciously, I think - I see myself as a "child of my parents" I guess.

The "I'm getting old" realizations occur when I encounter people who are famous, or doctors treating me, or national-level politicians and they are younger than me. :P

I've always, as far back as I can remember, felt that life is incredibly short and that we are being rushed through it to our inevitable demise  :hmm:

But I found my 30th birthday depressing, so at 30 I guess.

I constantly fool people by looking much younger than I am. No, I don't feel old.

I started getting grey hairs at age 13. Answer--I'm not old yet.

I got carded at the liquor store today! :yeah:

I was a teenage lookalike.

A few triggers: an MTV special for the 10th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Noticing that a lot of current sports stars are now younger than me. Realizing that movies that I consider "recent" are now 15-20 years old.

When I realized that I hated how kids dressed and would give them all a proper haircut.

Sitting in a 400 level political science course, and realizing that the instructor and I were the only ones that remembered the Reagan Administration.

I like the presumption in the poll that all Languishites regard themselves as old.  :bowler:

My hard on has an easier time getting out of bed than I do anymore.

When I realize that the World Junior Championship players were all younger then me by a good 2-3 years.

Quote from: mongers on December 01, 2012, 08:47:40 AM
I like the presumption in the poll that all Languishites regard themselves as old.  :bowler:

I know, I can't participate. :weep:

I used to be able to hang a full 5-gallon bucket on my hard-on but nowadays my back goes out on me...

I could check any of those boxes, but I don't really feel old. Besides obvious physical issues IMO it's most about attitude. There are people in their 20 that are old people at heart and there are people in their 30s and 40s who still feel good about their age and get out and do stuff. It's one thing not being young anymore, but that's different than being old.

Quote from: mongers on December 01, 2012, 08:47:40 AM
I like the presumption in the poll that all Languishites regard themselves as old.  :bowler:

Drunk poll-making FTW!!! :w00t:

Besides, I remember feeling "old" when I was 18. It was really just oldER but I still remember it.

When younger people start using the formal personal pronoun when addressing you, it's terrible  :(

Quote from: Maladict on December 01, 2012, 01:49:24 PM
When younger people start using the formal personal pronoun when addressing you, it's terrible  :(

Some punk-ass ~25 year old called me sir at the grocery store last weekend.  I was not pleased.

Quote from: sbr on December 01, 2012, 02:06:06 PM

Quote from: Maladict on December 01, 2012, 01:49:24 PM
When younger people start using the formal personal pronoun when addressing you, it's terrible  :(

Some punk-ass ~25 year old called me sir at the grocery store last weekend.  I was not pleased.

At the same lunch place, I've been greeted with "What up, son?" and "What can I get you, honey boo?" I wasn't pleased either.

Quote from: CountDeMoney on December 01, 2012, 08:45:39 AM
Sitting in a 400 level political science course, and realizing that the instructor and I were the only ones that remembered the Reagan Administration.

I get that all the time. Especially when the high school students are taking the course.

Quote from: garbon on December 01, 2012, 02:09:22 PM

Quote from: sbr on December 01, 2012, 02:06:06 PM

Quote from: Maladict on December 01, 2012, 01:49:24 PM
When younger people start using the formal personal pronoun when addressing you, it's terrible  :(

Some punk-ass ~25 year old called me sir at the grocery store last weekend.  I was not pleased.

At the same lunch place, I've been greeted with "What up, son?" and "What can I get you, honey boo?" I wasn't pleased either.

At least they didn't mistake you for Honey Boo Boo.

I think that would probably be a bit hard.

When people born in the 90s started having opinions.

Quote from: Maximus on December 01, 2012, 02:32:28 PM
When people born in the 90s started having opinions.

Sooo, when you were 20? :D

30 was a snap.  I had finally felt like I had everything in order.  Job I was doing well at (started at Crown's office at 29), had met a wonderful girl who I would eventually marry.

Two years ago I started feeling "old".  NUmber one of course was having a kid (and then two), and all of those responsibilities.  In 2010 suddenly people born in 1992 could vote, by alcohol, and be charged as an adult.  That's the year I graduated high school, which only feels like a moderately short time ago.  Hair is going more and more grey, but that's never bothered me (as long as I have it, and so far I'm good).

For the record, most bald men are sexy. :)

Hair started thinning.....body doesn't heal like it used to.  Knees and back ache constantly, but that's the army's fault.   I've always been old at heart, though.

Quote from: garbon on December 01, 2012, 02:17:42 PM
I think that would probably be a bit hard.

I dunno, your old blonde feminine pics wouldn't make it that much of a stretch.   :P

Quote from: merithyn on December 01, 2012, 03:53:36 PM
For the record, most bald men are sexy. :)

That's definitely false.

Quote from: Alcibiades on December 01, 2012, 05:35:06 PM

Quote from: garbon on December 01, 2012, 02:17:42 PM
I think that would probably be a bit hard.

I dunno, your old blonde feminine pics wouldn't make it that much of a stretch.   :P

Not that much of a stretch to a white child?

With some bleaching and that attitude?  I believe in you.   :hug:

:lol:

I don't feel old, body goes to hell over time, but I am really just a kid.  I mean, I still bike 100 miles a week from April-October, I am healthy enough, and I am good mentally.  I might bitch about the class I teach and having to try and get 18 year old kids to understand, but that is actually good.

Quote from: PDH on December 01, 2012, 06:11:14 PM
I don't feel old, body goes to hell over time, but I am really just a kid.  I mean, I still bike 100 miles a week from April-October, I am healthy enough, and I am good mentally.  I might bitch about the class I teach and having to try and get 18 year old kids to understand, but that is actually good.

Yeah not too shabby.  :cool:

My old college history teaching seemed to get a buzz out of teaching modern history to 16-18 year olds who all actually wanted to learn; I guess in its in part a bit similar with you and your 18 year old/undergrads (or what do you call them, freshmen?). 

QuoteWhen did you realize that you were old?

I havent.

But starting next spring I'm going to see.

Quote from: garbon on December 01, 2012, 05:39:41 PM

Quote from: merithyn on December 01, 2012, 03:53:36 PM
For the record, most bald men are sexy. :)

That's definitely false.

Speak for yourself, youngun'. :sleep:

Quote from: merithyn on December 01, 2012, 07:31:03 PM

Quote from: garbon on December 01, 2012, 05:39:41 PM

Quote from: merithyn on December 01, 2012, 03:53:36 PM
For the record, most bald men are sexy. :)

That's definitely false.

Speak for yourself, youngun'. :sleep:

It isn't that. It's just that a lot of bald men come with...a lot extra. ;)

For some years now, every morning at 0600 when the alarm goes off.

Quote from: lustindarkness on December 01, 2012, 11:40:52 PM
For some years now, every morning at 0600 when the alarm goes off.

You should feel pretty young sleeping in so late.

Quote from: sbr on December 02, 2012, 12:17:03 AM

Quote from: lustindarkness on December 01, 2012, 11:40:52 PM
For some years now, every morning at 0600 when the alarm goes off.

You should feel pretty young sleeping in so late.

When on duty its 0430, so deployments age me faster. LOL

I'm not old.

It's the kids that are TOO young.

I just have to get used to the fact that people will keep getting younger, thus giving me an experience edge.

And I get to have fun memories of stuff from my childhood that they will never have, like this one (that I suppose most of you will also have):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o29VoxtsFk


Of course, there ARE some things that irk me, like someone saying...

Quote from: Liep on December 01, 2012, 02:33:33 AM
Yeah, I'm the only one born before the fall of the USSR in my class on USSR's history.

As in 'born in the days of the Union' was a sign of age...

I mean, as an adult at the time, I have some rather... vivid... memories of the time when that upstart ex-leader of the Sverdlovsk region and current President of Russia, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, managed to stop the coup and moved to break the Union. :mad: