Questions that make you feel old.

[noone]

You know, when someone asks or says something that just makes you realize how much older than them you are?

What kind of questions make you guys feel old?

Examples)

Who's David Bowie/Dr. Kevorkian/Marx Brothers?

Judy Garland was in movies OTHER than the Wizard of Oz?

What's A Cougar? (referring to women, not animals)

Isn't <Insert famous singer/actor/person here> dead already?

On a side note, I'm only twenty, so my 'feel old' moments don't happen often, yet they still do show up.

[Zellie Crescent]

Sadly I'm only 25 and those moments happen to me alot.

[Midorikawa]

(in the car) "What do you mean, 'crank down the window'? where's the button?"

(pointing at my "play old games" shirt that depicts a face blowing into a nintendo cartridge) "What does that shirt mean? I don't get it."

"Seriously? Who uses film any more?"

I'm only 24, but these are happening more and more often. It's frightening to realize the NES came out 25 years ago, stick shifts are becoming hard to find, as are hand crank windows, and don't get me started on the increasing cost of film development.

[r2cagle]

It's the reverse for me. I can't keep up with new stuff happening or trending.
I spend less time reading news/magazines or watching tv, and very little surfing the net. I feel old and out of the loop. Oh well, guess I'll go take a nap.

[Crossbow]

"Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

or better yet

"Paul McCartney was in a band?"

[Exaspera]

"Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

or better yet

"Paul McCartney was in a band?"

*begins to sob*

"We're going to do a project in class Thursday, so if you have a CD you really like bring it in and we'll play it!"

*class looks at me blankly*

"We don't use CDs anymore."

[Aut]

In college, I had a really old tv - the kind with a dial you had to turn and had to pull the knob out to turn it on. My cousin was over one day (she was about 12 at the time) and told her to turn it on and she couldn't figure it out.

[Evil Queen]

I feel old any time some of my younger friends start talking about when they got "recent" game systems.

"Yeah, I got my PS2 in 2003, I was 13!"

....I was graduating highschool.

(The secret is I graduated at 16 but they don't know that)

[Sheldonrs]

Not so much questions as situations, but I feel my years when i hear how students are allowed to bring in their laptops to class.

When I was in school, we didn't even have DESK tops!
Or copy machines
Or calculators
Or fax machines

[ShinyGreenApple]

"Who is Garth Brooks?"

"Tim Allen is still alive? I thought he was old!"

"Who is Michael J. Fox?"



I'm only 26.

[BookstoreEscapee]

On a side note, I'm only twenty, so my 'feel old' moments don't happen often, yet they still do show up.

This and the fact that you are posting this thread makes me feel old.

(pointing at my "play old games" shirt that depicts a face blowing into a nintendo cartridge) "What does that shirt mean? I don't get it."

We had a Texas Instruments game console; we had to do that all the time. As far as crank windows, my driver side window has seemed to get stuck a couple times recently and I'm terrified it'll die on me and get stuck open. Makes me wish for a crank.

"We don't use CDs anymore."

I got my first CD when I was a sophomore in college...

In college, I had a really old tv - the kind with a dial you had to turn and had to pull the knob out to turn it on. My cousin was over one day (she was about 12 at the time) and told her to turn it on and she couldn't figure it out.

I had one of those, too! (My parents still have it somewhere...it still works. It was downstairs by the treadmill but they recently got a new little flat-screen down there.)

[cewfa]

I remember when our cable system only went up to 36 and then 98 and 99. Now I have 900 channels.

I'll be 25 in October.

[Bardmaiden]

I was talking to a girl at the place I was working at when it was the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down and mentioned that I had seen it on tv at the time. She looked at me and said "I wasn't born then."

[Seshat]

I remember when our cable system only went up to 36 and then 98 and 99. Now I have 900 channels.

When I was a kid:
Four channel broadcast TV.
Black and white TV.
AM-only radio.
The moon landings.
The immediately-post-Vietnam furore.

Came out in my childhood/early teens:
VCRs and cassette tapes.
Slip-n-slides.
Pong, Space Invaders, & Simon.

Late teens:
The space shuttle program.
AIDS (just starting).
Madonna's early career.
CDs.


Basically, if you're born after "We didn't start the fire", you're a baby. Heck, I only arrived in the second last verse!

[McGoddess09]

Gonna be 19 at the end of the month.

What is Tetris?

What are game cartridges?

McDonald's had plastic bucket Happy Meals for Halloween?

Disney movies were hand drawn?