Society & Culture Things that Make You Feel Old Part 2, 7 years older

[Gough]

We got our first computer partly because my handwriting is so bad teacher's complained that they couldn't read my essays.

 

[Shell]

I remember typewriters. Year 7. Typewriters

 

[Gough]

I had typing classes at high school, why do I need to learn to type I'm not a woman may have passed my lips at the time.

 

[Shell]

I can remember the seat I had too in the class. Very back, right hand typewriter. Would have been the final year the school had them circa 1992

Had a computer room tho as well.

 

[Andre]

Typewriters were out by the time I learnt to type thankfully. School had BBC computers when in Year 8 (1986), but had progressed to PC’s by time were one of the first to get to do a dedicated computer subject in Year 11.

At least at my kids high school every kid needed/needs to bring a laptop, so I’m surprised typing isn’t part of the curriculum in year 7 or 8. Learning to touch type around the time starting University, has saved many times more hours over the years, then learning it took. I don’t have a need to type fast enough, often enough, to improve from my pedestrian 60wpm, but that sure beats typing things out slowly, even for posting places like BigFooty.

 

[Gralin]

So I can have bald eyebrows?

Yeah and some people even do it on purpose

 

[Chief]

She's 57 now. Still looks good to me, which is a sign I am getting older, clearly.

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You haven't heard divorced people talk about Tinder... ?

 

[Scotland]

I feel old seeing late night reruns of The OC pop up n TV.

With the sort of realistic casting you expected from Hollywood in those days high school kids were played by 25 year olds and their parents were played by 30-somethings. The age gap between Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke is 12 years, and between Adam Brody and Kelly Rowan is 14 years. Looool.

Was never a huge fan of the show but seeing it 20 years later the hot "teenagers" look like kids and the hot mums are roughly my age.

 

[raskolnikov]

When I did my undergraduate degree all I has was an electric typewriter. Measuring out how much I needed to leave at the bottom of the page for footnotes was such a pain in the arse.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Spotify threw in a nice tune I hadn't heard before. I was thinking who is this upcoming band? Turns out it was Embrace's cover of Cold Play's song Gravity. It's 23 years old!

 

[GreyCrow]

Tony Leonard still calling footy on the radio

 

[GreyCrow]

Apparently its World Simpsons Day

There are 2 generations now who have never not known Simpsons



I remember when viral meant water cooler or work coffee area - and there was a lot of buzz in the first season about that rude boy and murderous father

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Apparently its World Simpsons Day

There are 2 generations now who have never not known Simpsons



I remember when viral meant water cooler or work coffee area - and there was a lot of buzz in the first season about that rude boy and murderous father

HAHA yep yet my Grandma bought me all the Simpsons toys hahaha

 

[Andre]

Apparently its World Simpsons Day

There are 2 generations now who have never not known Simpsons



I remember when viral meant water cooler or work coffee area - and there was a lot of buzz in the first season about that rude boy and murderous father

And a whole generation, if they've only watched stuff as released and no old episodes, that have barely seen a decent episode. It's crazy that 'old' Simpsons (Seasons 1 - 10), when it was a clever show with jokes aimed at multiple levels, with something for both kids and adults is over 25 years ago. Over a quarter a century of 'phoning it in' with crude slapstick as almost it's only means of humour.

 

[Shell]

I visited my old Hoyts I worked at yesterday

The young new cinema worker at the candy bar could have picked up her jaw off the floor a bit when I told her I worked there in 1996 ffs

 

[GreyCrow]

I visited my old Hoyts I worked at yesterday

The young new cinema worker at the candy bar could have picked up her jaw off the floor a bit when I told her I worked there in 1996 ffs

''omg this grandma come in today and said she worked here before my dad was born ''

 

[Shell]

''omg this grandma come in today and said she worked here before my dad was born ''

**** off I'm not that old

 

[Shell]

She was lovely actually she asked me alot of questions about how the cinema was back in the olden days

 

[The Dice Man]

She was lovely actually she asked me alot of questions about how the cinema was back in the olden days

In Black & White obviously.

 

[MatthewB]

iAnd a whole generation, if they've only watched stuff as released and no old episodes, that have barely seen a decent episode. It's crazy that 'old' Simpsons (Seasons 1 - 10), when it was a clever show with jokes aimed at multiple levels, with something for both kids and adults is over 25 years ago. Over a quarter a century of 'phoning it in' with crude slapstick as almost it's only means of humour.

i watched the Simpsons all the time until the movie, then barely watched it and probably been 10 years since I have seen an episode, they didn't seem as funny to me anymore

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

In Black & White obviously.

Hoyts. Circa 1996

 

[the_interloper]

She was lovely actually she asked me alot of questions about how the cinema was back in the olden days

Yeah my son uses the “back in the olden days” if I ever tell a story from my youth, real Smartarse

 

[Shell]

Hoyts. Circa 1996

I never worked bio thankfully.


That huge corridor was creepy as hell

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Yeah my son uses the “back in the olden days” if I ever tell a story from my youth, real Smartarse

My son asks me about 'life in the 1900s', little turkey.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

My son asks me about 'life in the 1900s', little turkey.

Glory days