When did you realize you're becoming "old"?

Noo · 19-04-2016 10:46PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

When I relies the kids in school now can't remember/weren't born when 9/11 or the 7/7 bombs or Irish stories such as Rachel O'Reilly murder, Catherine Nevin, John Gilligan being jailed or the Omagh bomb.
When I relies that programmes such as Lost and Desperate Housewives first aired nearly twelve years ago!

I never thought of that 9/11 one! One of the most historic events in recent times and i can't even comprehend that there are people who don't remember it, and probably don't know much about it. And these wouldnt be little kids either, theyd be teenagers by now. Wow.

19-04-2016 10:56PM

The last 8 months or so. I'm 35, and I'm doing a college course. There are a few mature students on it but mostly 18-22 year olds. I still get on with them fantastically and fit right in, but I realised I actually LOOK 35. I never noticed that before. I was always getting mistaken for being much younger than I am, but when I'm beside people actually much younger than me, nope, I'm 35 alright.

HalloweenJack · 20-04-2016 12:23AM

As a kid in the 90's, the 70's seemed soooo far away, it felt like an eternity.

Now, the early nineties are further away than the late seventies were then.

The Sidewards Man · 20-04-2016 12:28AM

When the riding is now down to one day a week, Sunday after mass.

La.de.da · 20-04-2016 01:10AM

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

When the riding is now down to one day a week, Sunday after mass.

Ya lucky bastard.! That's a feast to some of us.

rainbowdrop · 20-04-2016 01:26AM

Saw a picture on facebook recently of a lad I went to school with, and his 21 year old daughter. I just thought to myself 'He's getting old looking, he has grey hair and everything. Can't believe he has a daughter that old'.
Then I remembered, he was actually a year below me at school, and my own daughter is 19.... Felt very old that dayðŸ˜

Esel · 20-04-2016 01:31AM

poa wrote: »

That moment in a pub when I looked at a girl I would have chatted up, then thought I am old enough to be her father.

Start of chat-up line:

Is your Da in jail?

You'll have to guggle the rest of it, 'cos I'm barred.

20-04-2016 02:56AM

Having beers with my college mates, they said that the Bataclan massacre was the marking point for our generation. I said I was 20 on September 11th, 2001, and they said "that was ages ago". Also, me and a classmate who is two years older than me, talking about using payphones, arranging to meet people, and staying put for hours if that person didn't show up, even my 28 year old boyfriend doesn't understand the struggle! I'd say to him "I was outside the train station for three hours wondering where my friend was" and he asks "why didn't you text them?"..... The age gap usually isn't apparent but the odd time, it shows up. Especially when he asks me "Do you remember back when Nickelback were popular?" or "Remember looking up Leaving Cert results online?"

I'm very, very glad to have grown up in an internet free childhood, tbh.

Greys0n · 20-04-2016 08:43AM

'cause of Simpsons, it is already 27 season

Noo · 20-04-2016 10:04AM

Greys0n wrote: »

'cause of Simpsons, it is already 27 season

17th season too many

Edit: And remembering the ads for upcoming new episodes, which are now the classics from the 90s.

mrk85 · 20-04-2016 12:51PM

When kids say to me "good morning" not "hi"

Irish Halo · 20-04-2016 02:09PM

Deleted User wrote: »

"Remember looking up Leaving Cert results online?"

Leaving cert results online? I remember checking the CAO/CAS (as it was) points on teletext

intheclouds · 20-04-2016 02:14PM

Irish Halo wrote: »

Leaving cert results online? I remember checking the CAO/CAS (as it was) points on teletext

You must have been fancy, it was the Irish Times for me.

bottlebrush · 20-04-2016 04:30PM

Irish Halo wrote: »

Leaving cert results online? I remember checking the CAO/CAS (as it was) points on teletext

I'm so old I had to get my mother to drive me to a payphone three miles away (we didn't have a landline at the time) to phone the school to get my leaving cert results....

chakotha · 20-04-2016 04:57PM

When I think that we are now as far after 1990 as 1964 is before it.

Or that I was born just 25 years after the end of WW2, the same as here back to 1991. Fook.

5star02707 · 20-04-2016 05:00PM

Usher's confession album think about it 2004..
12 freaking years ago dang son!

HalloweenJack · 20-04-2016 05:00PM

bottlebrush wrote: »

I'm so old I had to get my mother to drive me to a payphone three miles away (we didn't have a landline at the time) to phone the school to get my leaving cert results....

I'm so old I got my leaving cert results on papyrus.

howamidifferent · 20-04-2016 05:04PM

When I realised I was thinking it was too much hassle to have a **** and I'd just have a beer instead....

fryup · 20-04-2016 06:14PM

when i look in the mirror and i see i'm developing...man tits

Mister Vain · 20-04-2016 07:36PM

When I started getting the morning wood in the afternoon.

Melodeon · 20-04-2016 07:38PM

It's a bit US-centric, but all this stuff is 'current affairs' as far as I'm concerned:
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/04/30-years-ago-a-look-back-at-1986/478947/

fryup · 21-04-2016 10:45PM

when famous people from your youth die on a weekly basis

Arghus · 21-04-2016 11:05PM

When you say, "So who's taking the horse to France?", and everyone around you looks at you like they have literally not got a single idea what you are on about.

laugh · 21-04-2016 11:20PM

When Kurt Cobain's daughter got a divorce.

CaraMay · 21-04-2016 11:23PM

When I realised I had 'now that's what you call music' 1 !!!!

Now because I plan ahead a lot. I like to get to places early. I'm not as confident as I used to be in new cities etc. Also because I now prefer to sleep than go out. I think the cops look young...

Oh and when I was out with work in Dublin and Andrew Ridgley was there and none of my younger colleagues knew who he was :O

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 22-04-2016 12:33AM

Laying in bed listening to showtek and tiesto playlists.
When it dawns on me, when I loved this scene, this music, the kids now the same age as I was then would think I was lame as hell:(
Which got me thinking about my birthday. 2.5 years til I'm 30
No more raves. No more going out on a Friday and coming home on a Monday afternoon. All those birthdays are behind me.

Now it'll be going out for dinner, drinking wine from a glass. Being home by 2am, complaining about the lack of seats and loud music and the inability to have a decent conversation.

Talk about having a chapter of your life being banged shut on you

Arghus · 22-04-2016 12:38AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Laying in bed listening to showtek and tiesto playlists.
When it dawns on me, when I loved this scene, this music, the kids now the same age as I was then would think I was lame as hell:(
Which got me thinking about my birthday. 2.5 years til I'm 30
No more raves. No more going out on a Friday and coming home on a Monday afternoon. All those birthdays are behind me.

Now it'll be going out for dinner, drinking wine from a glass. Being home by 2am, complaining about the lack of seats and loud music and the inability to have a decent conversation.

Talk about having a chapter of your life being banged shut on you

You think your days of going out and getting thrashed are over? At 27? In Ireland?

I think you've got time.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 22-04-2016 12:45AM

Arghus wrote: »

You think your days of going out and getting thrashed are over? At 27? In Ireland?

I think you've got time.

All good things come to an end when you get to my time of life. It's all about the civilised nights out now.

take everything · 22-04-2016 12:48AM

Nevermind will be a quarter of a century old this year. That makes me feel old.

Arghus · 22-04-2016 12:52AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

All good things come to an end when you get to my time of life. It's all about the civilised nights out now.

I'm 30 and, while I don't go out with the same wild abandon as I did during my early twenties, I still feel like I can rage against the dying of the light with a fair bit of enthusiasm.

When did you realize you're becoming "old"?

Comments