Do you feel old?

[pstokely]

You will after looking at this site

http://www.inthe80s.com/feelold.shtml

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Yes, at 36 I feel old even without the website.

[pstokely]

3. Don't look at that website if you don't want to feel any older

[trof]

2. Yeah, I have no idea who Daria is.

And I have MTV on 'ignore'.

[lizerdbits]

4. I remember when Burnin Down The House

was on MTV's classic show when I was in college. Seemed like just yesterday I was getting up first thing Saturday and running downstairs to our awesome VHS recorder (no one else I knew had one yet) to check out Friday Night Videos from the night before and watching that video.

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. I remember everything in that list....and no, I don't feel old.

:) I'm 44 (will be 45 in May) and I look back at the 80s very fondly...except, of course, for Ronald Reagan and mullets. :grr:

[GenDem]

6. Just turned 49.....

....but I don't feel 49. I still feel like a kid. Oh, I have few aches and pains, but my spirit is still young.

And the 80's -- well that's the decade of my children's childhood. That makes me feel OLD.

[tigereye]

7. only when some 20something calls me maam

or asks me if I get the senior discount. I'm not even 50 yet.... :scared:

[Critters2]

9. I'm not 50 yet, either. But I take those senior discounts when they mistakenly

offer them to me. If some business wants to make less money on me, who am I to be offended?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. No, actually.

Sometimes I'm frigging glad I missed the 80s. :D

[China_cat]

10. I'll probably feel old about 10 minutes before I die.

I'm over 60 and most of the stuff on that list is just pathetic. You can mark the fact that time has passed but feeling 'old' is just silly.

[Guava Jelly]

11. Sure do..

Fuuuckk!!!

[tpsbmam]

12. Why, oh why did I go there?

Jesus, I fall for those things every time. Yes, damn you, I feel old! :spank:

[pstokely]

16. Don't visit nostalgia websites if you already feel old

Those sites make me feel old and I'm not even 21

[tpsbmam]

18. Oh great.......

young enough to be my kid......or, technically, my grandkid. I feel better. Did anyone ever tell you that you have a touch of a vicious streak? :sarcasm: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Maestro]

13. Yes, and 40 is fast approaching.

I am no longer the svelt stud I used to be. :( Oh and I did my reports in college on a Commodore 64 along with some wicked games of golf!

[DarkTirade]

14. Well I didn't until I read this...

Gee thanks. :eyes:

[Deja Q]

15. Nearing 36 and with the things I like, I should be 46...

You new wave folks who graduated in 1981 had it all... And Dale Bozzio too! Oh yeah! :D


What's wrong with being called "sir" or "miss"?

And "Married with Children" was more controversial than "The Simpsons"...

I play Atari games via an emulator. 25 years ago, they rocked...

Tom Cruise is only 40? Dang, that's scary.

Want old: Watch the theme to "The Monkees". The money shot lyric, "We're the young generation and we have somethin' to say" is quite amusing. The 4 of them use zimmer frames these days...

We also recall when MTV was actually about music...

I don't recall pregnant teachers, but my high school yearbook has pics of pregnant students, with one very smiling father holding junioretta on one page. I wonder how long he stayed smiling...

[unsavedtrash]

17. well damn.

But I will share it with my friends. :evilgrin:
Be afraid- the 70's are back.

[nuxvomica]

19. Ever since that cashier offered me a senior-citizen discount

I had to explain that I was too young to qualify. To his credit, the young whippersnapper was embarrassed.

[Mike03]

20. Yeah, I feel old...

I don't get carded anymore for buying beer except at places that card everyone.

My hair seems to be growing thinner.

This is after years and years of trying to be extremely healthy, eat everything that's good, exercise hours a day, meditate, do yoga.

I'm beginning to wonder if it even matters.

[harmonicon]

22. nope, doesn't matter, mike

I'm going bald, and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it. I suppose I could lose weight, but I'm fat old man now, so what's the point? Now get the fuck off my lawn before I box your ears.

[harmonicon]

21. yeah, but only partly because of those reasons

A little over a year ago I had a job as a clerk at a video store, and I was talking to one of my coworkers about music. He asked what bands I liked, so I named the really big famous bands that I like: The Cure, New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, etc. - he'd never heard of them. Never heard of the The Cure. I couldn't fucking believe it.

What really made me feel old was a few years ago when my girlfriend and I were babysitting our friends' kid and took him to McDonald's playland. Now, our friends are about 15 years older than me, but people asked if the kid was our son.... man, that made me feel old. I am old enough to be his dad, but I'd never thought of myself as being "dad" age before. Now I realize that teenage girls probably look at me more like their dad than some guy who may actually have any sort of interest in 18 year old girls (for the record, parents don't have sex, and people of parenting age have no interest in sex apart from it's reproductive uses - this is teenager logic).

What's really made me feel old in a different way is all of my older friends and teachers who have died in the past few years. It's fucked up.... I feel like I need to go to these people for guidance and advice, that they're the authorities. Now I'm the old authority (and I'm NOT old).

*sigh*

[DemoTex]

23. Got the big 60th coming in three weeks .. but I don't feel old.

No, I don't really feel old. I AM old, but I don't feel it. Except when I get up in the morning. And when I take a hand-full of pills. And when I gag down a big glass of Metamucil every morning. And when I am more concerned about bowel movements than sex. And when I attend another friend's funeral. And when I yell at the neighbors' kids to get off my lawn (I don't really do that .. that's John McCain shit!). And when people honk at me to drive faster (dammit, my Prius gets better mileage when I drive ever so slowly). And when I'm first in line for the "Early Bird Special." And when I get a haircut and see all the pure white hair on the floor. And when I can't hear shit .. or see shit. And when my B/P is up, and other things are down. And when my back aches. And when I can't sleep.

Wait! Hell yes! I feel like I'm 85.