Society & Culture Things that Make You Feel Old

[Scotland]

Awkward.

Especially if it's a family business.

 

[WA ROO]

Especially if it's a family business.

No
Son is 13,woman is mid 20's

 

[raskolnikov]

but the music was worse.

Wash your mouth out.

 

[raskolnikov]

When I traveled when I was younger I loved visiting the big cities. In Europe at the moment and apart from a couple of smaller cities I haven't really enjoyed the cities that much and preferred the villages and national parks.

 

[Scotland]

21 & 22 year olds drafted into the AFL being described as "mature age".

Down to Burgoyne, Hodge, Ablett, Simpson left who are older than me and still playing.

 

[JackOutback]

Wash your mouth out.

I'll take '90s grunge over '80s hair metal any day of the week.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

I remember the 80's pretty well , been scanning a lot of photos, bringing back a lot of good memories

And the music and movies was better

TV was shit?

 

[Bomberboyokay]

"The music was better". Then they list bands everybody knows anyway.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

If "movies" means "movies at Hoyts and Village", they have gotten worse. Most good movies aren't there anymore. So-called independent cinemas (that most people don't live near) or straight to home release.




Cinemas have become where you go to eat a big bag of crap and drink litres of Pepsi.

 

[MatthewB]

TV was shit?

give me 80's TV any-day, shows were formulaic, but lighthearted and enjoyable

 

[Scotland]

'The music was better in the <insert era>' usually relies the fallback argument of everything since being derivative.

 

[perthblue]

21 & 22 year olds drafted into the AFL being described as "mature age".

Down to Burgoyne, Hodge, Ablett, Simpson left who are older than me and still playing.

You're a mature age student if you start studying at or after the age of 21. The term mature age student to me always meant that 37 year old at the front of the class who always had something to say.

 

[Scotland]

You're a mature age student if you start studying at or after the age of 21. The term mature age student to me always meant that 37 year old at the front of the class who always had something to say.

12.01pm
Lecturer: 'Are there any questions?'
Everyone (internal monologue): 'STFU don't say anything it's lunch time'
Mature age student: 'On the topic of...'
Everyone: FFFFUUUU

 

[NaturalDisaster]

You're a mature age student if you start studying at or after the age of 21. The term mature age student to me always meant that 37 year old at the front of the class who always had something to say.

The most comment start of a sentence for s mature aged student “As a mother...”

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

21 & 22 year olds drafted into the AFL being described as "mature age".

Down to Burgoyne, Hodge, Ablett, Simpson left who are older than me and still playing.

Just wait until the first coach is appointed that's younger than you....I'm still clear by about half a year (Dew).

Bit worried about what's coming next year.

 

[JackOutback]

'The music was better in the <insert era>' usually relies the fallback argument of everything since being derivative.

Music was better in the '80s... the 1780s. Mozart represent.

For mine, the '90s and '60s the clear standouts for music. The '80s had some of the best films. TV shows might have been fun in the '80s but it's been on another level since the mid 2000s.

 

[Jobe Watson]

The popular music was definitely better a few decades ago.

Go listen to a compilation of the top songs from the 90s - even early-to-mid 00s - and I guarantee (unless you're, like, 14 years old) you'll remember more of those songs than a similar list of the popular 2010s songs. Britney Spears, Mariah Carey and Madonna might have been annoying at the time but they'd shit all over any of today's pop artists.

People who say that modern music in general sucks are idiots, because there's still a lot of great artists around today. But the music that gets forced fed to us on the radio and television is definitely worse. What will be this decade's defining genre that people will still listen to in 10 years' time?

 

[Scotland]

Music was better in the '80s... the 1780s. Mozart represent.

For mine, the '90s and '60s the clear standouts for music. The '80s had some of the best films. TV shows might have been fun in the '80s but it's been on another level since toe mid 2000s.

I think it depends on the genre. Without rock and roll pioneers in the 40s and 50s you don't have the 60s and 90s rock. Each new genre had to start somewhere. The 70s had disco, the 80s was really the start of hip hop. Etc. A lot of 80s music to me seems to be style over substance. You can be subjectively better than The Beatles or Elvis or, but you can never be The Beatles or Elvis.

As far as TV goes I think people expect more OR less from producers over time. People lap up MAFS. Why I have no idea, couldn't think of anything worse. But trashy reality TV is a money spinner. On the flip side you have people hanging out years in advance for Game of Thrones, analysing every development in excruciating detail etc. Every tiny plot hole or scene blooper is discussed somewhere on the internet. TV is also a lot harsher these days. Roseanne was a show that pushed boundaries in the 80s and 90s. Wouldn't even register now, save for the title character's off screen comments. Graphic violence, nudity, language, adult themes are wayyy more common than they were in days gone by. Nothing is off limits, so the subject pool has really opened up.

I could watch Terminator 1 or 2 any day, but all the ones that came later despite having more advanced CGI bore me shitless.

 

[Billy ray]

Tv peaked with Alf

 

[Gough]

I spent every sodding year of the 80s going to school, started in 79, finished in 90. It was a shit decade apart from the few good days in September and a three glorious months in 1989.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

These songs are 20 years old.

 

[Herbie_53]

My signature is a song almost as old as me

I'm just a singer in a rock 'n' roll band

 

[Perth gal]

12.01pm
Lecturer: 'Are there any questions?'
Everyone (internal monologue): 'STFU don't say anything it's lunch time'
Mature age student: 'On the topic of...'
Everyone: FFFFUUUU

Every time.

 

[emuboy]

Thinking about the TV show Friends and how old the kids of the characters would be now:

BEN (Ross's Son) - 25
EMMA (Rachel and Ross's Daughter) - 17
FRANK JNR, LESLIE & CHANDER (Phoebe's Triplets) - 21
ERICA & JACK (Monica & Chandler's Twins) - 15

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

Thinking about the TV show Friends and how old the kids of the characters would be now:

BEN (Ross's Son) - 25
EMMA (Rachel and Ross's Daughter) - 17
FRANK JNR, LESLIE & CHANDER (Phoebe's Triplets) - 21
ERICA & JACK (Monica & Chandler's Twins) - 15

...wait, what? They had families? Last episode I remember Ross flew around the world to ruin Rachel's wedding (or something)

Just how long did that show run for?