Geezer Butler rock, no less.
My cousins that I babysat when I was in college are all now in high school – the oldest is in his senior year, and his younger sister is getting her learner’s permit. When I found that I out I wanted to cry. C’mon, didn’t she just have her first Communion last year?
I am a biological great-great aunt.
Mine’s getting married next month. Her kid sister got married 4 years ago.
Same here on all counts.
I must say that it is awesome to look younger. Last week someone told me that I look like I’m in my 30s. 
Taking claims for people who were born a full decade after me (yet are legal adults) makes me feel old. I’m not even 30 yet, but it’s still sobering. 
How time flies…
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We still remember friends from our time in Hawaii who were pregnant. It gives us pause to realize they may be grandparents now.
Listen to this: A few years ago my mother suggested that I go out on a date with someone whom I had babysat many years earlier. I remember her as the little girl daughter of a neighbor. My mother said she grew up into a nice looking woman, I should check her out. (We had moved away from that city so I no longer knew the family.)
It was way too creepy for me so it never happened.
My favorite nephew, who is still cute little five-year old Scotty in my mind’s default picture of him, is a hulking bear of a man with thinning hair and greying beard.
The default image is 30 years out of date.
Wait until you spend time lusting after three pretty girls, then find out you’re older than all three added together.
Today’s college graduates have no memory of a time before the World Wide Web.
Last year when Amy Winehouse died, the local university radio station did a special on the 27 Club She talked about many of the performers, including Kurt Cobain and she also referenced someone who played on Live through This, Courtney Love’s album.
Except she kept saying it “Live” (rhyme with dive) Through this." Like Live from Seattle, its “Through this”. I couldn’t figure out how she could get that wrong. I mean, the album was a bit old, but…the radio dj would have been around 10 or so when the album came out…
Then my husband pointed out that Nevermind had been released in 1991, and that was 20 years ago. Not ten. The girl doing the show was most likely not born when Nevermind came out, and was a toddler when the album came out.
Nirvana was a band my kid brother was into. I had finished university when the whole grunge thing was huge. Ya, rocking chair, lawn whatever…
KIds today are so unimaginative, so unoriginal and so unadventurous when compared with previous generations.
When we were young we used to shock and startle the older generations, nowadays the younger generation are more likely to bore us s***less.
They are just SO dependant well into later years.
We’ve had many nicknames for generations in the past, I think generation Bland, or perhaps generation Grey is appropriate to the current ones.
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Last night waiting for the bus, I encountered a bunch (what is the collective noun for law students?) of law students in togas. First year students, drunk on some kind of high test malt liquor, and for the gay one, really cheap fruity coolers.
(For the record the gay guy was most sober and least Douche baggy, but its not saying much.)
They were making fun of one guys tattoos and I said “Hey isn’t that the same kind of Tattoo Pamela Anderson Lee has?” Two of them didn’t know who she was. umm what?
Then there was the talk about how the Olsen twins were hot, for older women…
Somehow the bit that did make me feel old was on a thread (not on the SDMB) on animated shows, young posters were remembering fondly cartoons like Animaniacs or Pinky and the Brain.
Then one remarked: “Man, they do not make cartoons like they used to!” (Remember, this was them talking about cartoon shows from the 90’s) I had to resist the urge to post that that that line belonged to many middle age men that saw classic Warner Brother cartoons from the 40’s-60’s on TV in the 70’s * when those middle aged men compared them to the atrocious limited and simpleminded animation of the 70’s and 80’s.
- (If you remember them fondly from seeing them in movie theaters, **you **are old
)
One of my favorite artists, Billy Joel, hasn’t put out a Pop album in 20 years.
It seems like everybody looked older prior to about 1968. Everyone apparently stopped wearing jeans and sneakers at some point during high school if not earlier; it’s amazing to look at pictures of busy college campuses back in the early 1950s and before because all the men are walking around with jackets and ties, and in some cases, full suits. Except for the absence of hats, they could all be extras in films noir of the era. Similarly for the women–many if not most started wearing their hair up in “perms” and, like the men, they all looked like they were around 35.
I know that wasn’t always the reality, but it sure looks like it was in some of those old shots.
For some reason I needed my high school records for a job. When I called the school and told the girl who answered what I wanted she said, “Oh! Those would be in Archives.” Instant old.
Er… I haven’t even graduated yet (I will this semester) and I certainly remember that time, when I was really little we had a DOS computer. I’m sure around 92-93 (when I was 2/3, old enough to have a few memories) there were BBS boards up and running, but that’s not the same multifaceted beast as “the world wide web”, that didn’t really get its start until 97-98 at the earliest. Even then, most of my memories from elementary school involve Dial up and being told to get off the internet so my mom could use the phone, where browsing was slow and the sites weren’t very well made or interesting, it still took a few years for “the web” to really be interesting in any real way that kids would want to use it. Give it 3-4 years and then you’ll be right.