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jlf1961 -> You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 5:02:55 AM)

I have had the unfortunate experience this past weekend when I was sitting having a wonderful conversation with my children and grand children about music, and television shows.

It dawned on me that I had lost touch when I was hit with the following questions.

1) What are you talking about, who was Gilligan?
2) What do you mean that 'Enterprise' is not a remake of the first Star Trek Series?
3) There was another Battlestar Galactica?
4) I thought Styx was a mythical river......
5) What do you mean that KISS was a heavy metal band?
6) Why would anyone sing about a free bird?
7) ZZtop? Nugent? Stevie Ray Vaughn? Janis Joplin? The cars?  What the hell are you talking about?
8) The Brady Bunch? Sounds like some western.....
9) You have never heard of ICP?
10) Grandpa, what do you mean you never heard of 'Five finger death punch?'


Now I have been informed that ICP stands for Insane Clown Posse, and that they are a band, as is the 'five finger death punch.'

And, after listening to some of the music that these groups have made, if you can call yelling and screaming music, as well as being told I havent lived until I have had a Faygo shower.....

I have come to the conclusion that the world has little hope from the current 20 somethings, and civilization is doomed.



hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 5:11:10 AM)

Jlf, you give me the comfort of knowing that I'm Not the ONLY seriously old fuck still floating around wondering whatinhell happened to the concept of Music.....
 
(My GODS - they'd never heard of Stevie???????? BLASPHEMY!!!!!!! I should hope you remedied that Post Haste.)



Roselaure -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 5:41:53 AM)

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And, after listening to some of the music that these groups have made, if you can call yelling and screaming music...



That's what my Dad used to say about Led Zepplin.  You know you're getting old when the music of the younger generation sounds like nauseous noise.  It sounds like that to me too!

I overheard a girl in a coffee shop yesterday who didn't know who Jack Benny was. Made me a little sad.



bondagelover1950 -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 5:44:42 AM)

[sm=agree.gif] "if you can call yelling and screaming music". My usual description is along the lines of "That {Insert device here} sounds like it is trying to digest itself".

I get the same reaction you did when i start talking about how things were when I was a kid.
no motorcycle helmet laws

* no seat belt laws (just toss the kids in the seat and off you go)
* $.25 a gallon gas
* Cigarette machines
* NO satallites (until I was 7)
* SILVER coins in general circulation
* telling an ethnic joke got either laughs or a punch in the face but either way it was over with then and not in the courts for years
* an election was settled when the votes were counted (the first time)

I could go on but I think I made my point and reinforced yours [sm=bury.gif]

Let me close with this cheerful thought:  in about 30 years we will see old fat guys and girls with tattos sitting around doing the latest designer drug and listening to RAP/acid rock/death metal and thinking THAT is "Golden Oldies"[sm=evil.gif][sm=evil.gif]




SavageFaerie -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 5:44:53 AM)

now mind you this was back when my 29 year old daughter was a teen

REO came out with a new song

Mom I love this new group

I had to inform her I listened to him when I was bout her age, and I wasnt even at the old stage I am now.



hejira92 -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 5:53:04 AM)

Yesterday, I was reminding my students not to use text-speak in emails or assignments. One girl looked at me in wonder and asked "YOU Text??" I said- "No, I never heard of it and I ride to school every morning in a horse-drawn carriage."
 
Sadly, many of them never heard of sarcasm, either.....



frazzle121 -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 6:02:33 AM)

Had to laugh at comment about text speak. 

My worry is when the kids ask "whats text speak". They think that's how to spell.

As to music, its my son whos baffled, not me. The stuff i listen too, is too modern for him and he's only 20.



frazzle121 -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 6:14:20 AM)

Having had a rare thought. 

I recall taking above mentioned offspring to the science museum in London.  Too my horror i recalled owning an awful lot of the stuff there, and if honest still do own.

Thought museums used to be about stuff at least 100 years old.  And no im not that old. LOL



DarkSteven -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 6:23:04 AM)

Tel 'em to get off your lawn.



DesFIP -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 7:49:27 AM)

If it isn't on guitar hero, they've never heard of it.

And ICP is definitely not my cup of tea.



rubberpet -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 8:00:29 AM)

You know you're getting old when you fart and pause for a concerned second because you were unsure if it was a wet one or a dry one.  Just sayin'...



housesub4you -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 8:09:03 AM)

When you watch Apollo 13 with people (college students) and they all look at you and say "Wow come to think of it... you where alive when man had nevered walked on the moon"



MsFlutter -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 8:12:09 AM)

when you're all dressed to scene and have to don your reading glasses to handle the intricate close-work !



MissMorrigan -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 8:25:23 AM)

When you wake up with a 'morning after' head and hadn't been drinking the night before.

When you turn to your toyboy and say, "You wouldn't understand, back in my day..."

When you have a conversation about drugs and you're referring to prescription medicines and vitamin supplements




becauseisaid -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 8:34:25 AM)

LMAO, great read, keep them coming. Im a tween I guess, In between them and ya'll (39 and holding). How about party lines, and ice boxes?



sirsholly -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 8:37:55 AM)

you know you are getting older when you have the sense to realize keeping your mouth shut is the best thing to do. [:(]



kiwisub12 -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 8:42:46 AM)

Old is when you play "Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" and the kids steal it because it's such a cool new CD!!!!
Ditto with Pink Floyds "Dark Side of the Moon".

*sigh*  limps off to find walker, glasses and hearing aide.



MissMorrigan -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 8:59:55 AM)

getting old is when you get cramp trying for an unrealistic position during sex and your partner thinks your loud shouts are exclamations of excitement

... when parting your legs could mean a hip displacement

... when you opt for BIG knickers instead of sexy thongs

... when you get housemaid's knees and you haven't worked to get them

... when you start lying about your age



lusciouslips19 -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 9:11:33 AM)

When everything hurts. When your body aches if you stay in bed too long. WHen everything hurts and you havent even worked out. When you have foreplay but fall asleep before the act. I could go on and on and on.......



CalifChick -> RE: You know you are getting old when: (1/25/2009 9:11:48 AM)

Yes, my teen was also flabbergasted the first time I told her about cigarette vending machines.  It hasn't been THAT long since they were around.  I told her they were always in the entry of places like Dennys or other coffee shops (back when the term "coffee shop" didn't mean Starbucks).

And the other day, I said something about Led Zeppelin.  Another friend's teenager said "who"?  And I said, "The Who were a different group"... and come to find out, they had never heard of either group.  Sigh.

And that launched me into the story of how the fans got crushed and killed at that Who concert in 1979, which was the beginning of the end of general seating (no reserved seats) or festival seating (which is actually standing room) at concerts.


Cali



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