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I knew it distinctly when I had ice cream in place of dinner for a week straight, and still didn't have any acne. only old farts like me with low hormone fluctuations can do this. compared to when i was say 14
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I felt old when I hit 30, realized I had a job, a house, 2 kids and no money left for me!
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I felt old when I hit 30, realized I had a job, a house, 2 kids and no money left for me!
^^pretty much this!
Specifically when I catch myself saying things to my kids I know my parents told me.
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When I started losing my hair. RIP bangs.
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When I started losing my hair. RIP bangs.
Thankfully mine has not turned loose (yet) just turned gray!
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god, this is even more of a downer than I thought it would be... :D
Looking forward to ..... sigh...................
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When you walk into a liquor store and the birthdate on the counter [for purchasing] is when you graduated high school.
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When you walk into a liquor store and the birthdate on the counter [for purchasing] is when you graduated high school.
this is why i wish I could order booze online.. save myself the embarrassing trips
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When you realize that, almost without question, even if you are very lucky, that you are in the second half of your life.
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When you realize that, almost without question, even if you are very lucky, that you are in the second half of your life.
I think 130 is possible.. :D r u 65+?
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When my friends started having kids on purpose.
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I felt old the other year when my knees started hurting and I had trouble walking. The "feeling-old moment" happened in the subway when I couldn't get off the car before it filled with new passengers. My knees have improved since, though.
When I started losing my hair. RIP bangs.
I had noticed significant hair loss at the ripe age of twentyfour. I used to wear it long, at most as long as down to my waist, but I realized that I had to get it cut short or it would look ridiculous. It was a sad moment at the hairdresser. A year afterwards I noticed that my short hair was still too coarse for any nice hairstyles so I trimmed it short myself and have done so every week since.
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When pretty much all women started calling me sir.
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When pretty much all women started calling me sir.
oh god... i already get called Mister sometimes,, how old for SIR
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My wife and I are sitting on the couch with our newborn, and her wrists hurt, and I have a pair of tennis elbows -- we're both trying to manuever the infant around, and wincing from the pain. We look at each other and almost simultaneously say, "Pfft -- we're all f*cked up! LOL!"
Also, whenever I turn on the radio and realize I opted out of the culture a loooong time ago.
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Also, whenever I turn on the radio and realize I opted out of the culture a loooong time ago.
:)
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When I started using Viagra..
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When you start turning grey
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When you start turning grey
Do you mean your hair, or I think you show visit the doctor.
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When you start turning grey
That sadly was around 15 for me.
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When you start turning grey
That sadly was around 15 for me.
full on greying or just a few white hairs..
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I think 130 is possible.. :D r u 65+?
The oldest verified human life was just short of 122.5 years. I will hit half of that in early September.
The oldest verified male is still alive at 116 and I passed half of that a couple of years ago.
Maybe people will start living longer, but I have my doubts. My goal is 100+ and my realistic goal is 94.
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When I got heartburn for the first time....And every time after eating something with red sauce.
Sigh...
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The oldest verified male is still alive at 116 and I passed half of that a couple of years ago.
That guy died this week.
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When I first realized Miss World could be my daughter.
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When I found out our new hire at work was born in 1990...
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When I found out our new hire at work was born in 1990...
Then you start thinking about the movies you saw in theaters around that time...
Man.
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When I heard a song I listened to in high school in an elevator.
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There was this moment when I realized I was actually older than a good number of professional ice hockey players.
...and one more thing, the T-V distinction. I $#@!ing hate when kids talk to me using the V-form.
I hope I won't ever become old mentally.
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When I stopped caring about playing video games....
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yesterday?
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yesterday?
"All my troubles seemed so far away."
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the most recent one was last week i went to the post office and the lady behind the counter said "you kids, just like my daughter, you don't check your mail", i'm like "how old you think i am", and she's guessing i'm a "20 something"...
this made me happy to be thought of so young!
she had to do a double take and look at my dob (since i had my license out already to verify my address)
then she said "you asians what's your secret!"
i said "hair dye" i'm not even dying it funky colors, just black to hide the greys =(
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the most recent one was last week i went to the post office and the lady behind the counter said "you kids, just like my daughter, you don't check your mail", i'm like "how old you think i am", and she's guessing i'm a "20 something"...
this made me happy to be thought of so young!
she had to do a double take and look at my dob (since i had my license out already to verify my address)
then she said "you asians what's your secret!"
i said "hair dye" i'm not even dying it funky colors, just black to hide the greys =(
That's what they say about asian women; they look 18-20 years-old for what seems like forever, then at a certain age -- BAM! -- Yoda.
It's not true though. ^-^
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When I stopped caring about playing video games....
Says the 17 year old
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When I heard a song I listened to in high school in an elevator.
I can see a new horizon
Underneath the blazin' sky
I'll be where the eagle's
Flyin' higher and higher
Gonna be your man in motion
All I need is a pair of wheels
Take me where my future's lyin'
St. Elmo's Fire!!!
Really hard to hear this song in the elevator music version, with no lyrics, and then resist the urge to shout "St. Elmo's Fiiiire!" at the appropriate moment.
(Krog hangs his head in shame.)
Sure, the current generation has Psy and Ke$ha and other pop culture horrors, but dammit, so did my generation.
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When I stopped caring about playing video games....
Says the 17 year old
Bro I seriously feel old as ****.
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When I stopped caring about playing video games....
Says the 17 year old
Bro I seriously feel old as ****.
It's those gold springs wearing you down bro!
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When I stopped caring about playing video games....
Says the 17 year old
Bro I seriously feel old as ****.
Just wait until you hit my age :(
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the most recent one was last week i went to the post office and the lady behind the counter said "you kids, just like my daughter, you don't check your mail", i'm like "how old you think i am", and she's guessing i'm a "20 something"...
this made me happy to be thought of so young!
she had to do a double take and look at my dob (since i had my license out already to verify my address)
then she said "you asians what's your secret!"
i said "hair dye" i'm not even dying it funky colors, just black to hide the greys =(
That's what they say about asian women; they look 18-20 years-old for what seems like forever, then at a certain age -- BAM! -- Yoda.
It's not true though. ^-^
Sorry had to post this:
(http://i.imgur.com/BkBwv.jpg)
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For me it was when athletes approximately my age (30) started retiring. That is what really drove home that feeling of "Bwoy.... you gettin old".
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I had noticed significant hair loss at the ripe age of twentyfour. I used to wear it long, at most as long as down to my waist, but I realized that I had to get it cut short or it would look ridiculous. It was a sad moment at the hairdresser
exactly my story. ex-act-ly.
When you start turning grey
also this
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Once my mouth started emitting various unpreventable grunts and groans when bending over I knew my time was nigh. Two weeks ago I threw my back out for the first time doing nothing of any seeming consequence.
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Sure, the current generation has Psy and Ke$ha and other pop culture horrors, but dammit, so did my generation.
Steppenwolf
Whenever I consider complaining about the music that my kids listen to, I cannot help but think of Steppenwolf.
My father hated Steppenwolf.
"Born to Be Wild" had just been released as a 45 when I got my driver's license, so it was an ultimate anthem for me.
Dad loved some of my music (that is, Creedence Clearwater Revival) but he hated Steppenwolf most of all.
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When I noticed grey hairs. When I see crows feet forming around my eyes when smiling. When it takes longer to recover from anything. When I stopped caring about what other people think. Drinking and getting **** faced seems childish now. Started gaining weight so I have to watch what I eat. I could go on an on. haha
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When I started losing my hair. RIP bangs.
That was when I was 19.
:'(
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There are inklings here and there. When you can't handle your alcohol like you used to. When you can't sit through a movie without having to use the bathroom. When your kid graduates high school.
Being called "grandma" for the first time. It really hits home then.
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When I started to take the elevator instead of the stairs even to go up just one floor.
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There are inklings here and there. When you can't handle your alcohol like you used to. When you can't sit through a movie without having to use the bathroom. When your kid graduates high school.
Being called "grandma" for the first time. It really hits home then.
If anything I find alcohol has less of an effect as I get older.
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You know you're old when your wife tells you she's 'late' and it means she's constipated.
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When I stopped caring about playing video games....
Says the 17 year old
Bro I seriously feel old as ****.
It's those gold springs wearing you down bro!
oh no you didn't... careful there, he LOVES gold springs... HHAHAHAHAH :D
I prefer my proletariat silver springs.. mm hmm...
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You know you're old when your wife tells you she's 'late' and it means she's constipated.
hahahaahaha... this is the first I've heard of this...
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When I started to take the elevator instead of the stairs even to go up just one floor.
This is like, every other American..
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the most recent one was last week i went to the post office and the lady behind the counter said "you kids, just like my daughter, you don't check your mail", i'm like "how old you think i am", and she's guessing i'm a "20 something"...
this made me happy to be thought of so young!
she had to do a double take and look at my dob (since i had my license out already to verify my address)
then she said "you asians what's your secret!"
i said "hair dye" i'm not even dying it funky colors, just black to hide the greys =(
how old are you actually
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Sure, the current generation has Psy and Ke$ha and other pop culture horrors, but dammit, so did my generation.
Steppenwolf
Whenever I consider complaining about the music that my kids listen to, I cannot help but think of Steppenwolf.
My father hated Steppenwolf.
"Born to Be Wild" had just been released as a 45 when I got my driver's license, so it was an ultimate anthem for me.
Dad loved some of my music (that is, Creedence Clearwater Revival) but he hated Steppenwolf most of all.
They say everything old becomes new again, but... I don't see how 80's music is ever going to come back, certainly not the clothing or the hair. The 70's on the other hand have this weird classic feel that the 1980's just don't have. Eh, Video Killed the Radio Star. LOL, Steppenwolf!
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my car's radio is all NPR stations from the different cities i work in.
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I'm definitely not OLD at all but I know I'm becoming OLDER when the funerals I'm going to aren't only for relatives.
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I'm definitely not OLD at all but I know I'm becoming OLDER when the funerals I'm going to aren't only for relatives.
Ah funerals, the meeting of those who are saddened by the death of the victim and those who really wanted him to die.. HAHAHA... fantastic comedy..
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When I noticed grey hairs. When I see crows feet forming around my eyes when smiling. When it takes longer to recover from anything. When I stopped caring about what other people think. Drinking and getting **** faced seems childish now. Started gaining weight so I have to watch what I eat. I could go on an on. haha
I am with you. I was stoked that I beat my dad on the grey hair (his was completely silver by 27), mine is just salt and pepper at 35. My biggest thing is getting out of bed and having to throw my weight over because my joints are so stiff that I can't quite bend enough. :'( I blame riding dirt bikes since the age 3.
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I'm hitting 33 this year and I still don't feel like it. I still feel like I have the same personality I did when I was a teenager. Although I have a family now with the house and 2 cars and all that bull****. But I still don't feel old. Hopefully I never will
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my car's radio is all NPR stations from the different cities i work in.
NPR FTW!
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at 29, i certainly can't call myself old but i don't feel like i did a decade ago. My hairline moved, i gained 100lbs(!), and i don't feel like doing any youthful activities anymore, i own a $4k gaming computer but i don't feel like playing video games, i just work and work. i do feel old.
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at 29, i certainly can't call myself old but i don't feel like i did a decade ago. My hairline moved, i gained 100lbs(!), and i don't feel like doing any youthful activities anymore, i own a $4k gaming computer but i don't feel like playing video games, i just work and work. i do feel old.
4k?, is that with or without monitors..
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at 29, i certainly can't call myself old but i don't feel like i did a decade ago. My hairline moved, i gained 100lbs(!), and i don't feel like doing any youthful activities anymore, i own a $4k gaming computer but i don't feel like playing video games, i just work and work. i do feel old.
4k?, is that with or without monitors..
without man....without... http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36067.msg809084#msg809084
whole other conversation lol
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at 29, i certainly can't call myself old but i don't feel like i did a decade ago. My hairline moved, i gained 100lbs(!), and i don't feel like doing any youthful activities anymore, i own a $4k gaming computer but i don't feel like playing video games, i just work and work. i do feel old.
4k?, is that with or without monitors..
without man....without... http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36067.msg809084#msg809084
whole other conversation lol
very pretty build Glod...
you really shell out for visuals...
I'm surprised you didn't just get 7970s in february since just 1 of them would be twice as fast as a 6950
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at 29, i certainly can't call myself old but i don't feel like i did a decade ago. My hairline moved, i gained 100lbs(!), and i don't feel like doing any youthful activities anymore, i own a $4k gaming computer but i don't feel like playing video games, i just work and work. i do feel old.
4k?, is that with or without monitors..
without man....without... http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36067.msg809084#msg809084
whole other conversation lol
very pretty build Glod...
you really shell out for visuals...
I'm surprised you didn't just get 7970s in february since just 1 of them would be twice as fast as a 6950
again, whole other conversation lol but **** it ill bite. i already had 2 6950s i bought in early 2012, when i was building this i found 2 more 6950s on ebay with the exact same heatkiller waterblocks which they didn't sell anymore and they were only $400 for the pair with the waterblocks which was a great deal, the waterblocks themselves costed like 110$ each when new. i jumped on that and went the quadfire route, honestly i ****ing hate them because i hate amd and regret it but its unnecessary right now to get new cards when everything runs maxed (with a few crashes here and there of the ati driver), maybe late next year.
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at 29, i certainly can't call myself old but i don't feel like i did a decade ago. My hairline moved, i gained 100lbs(!), and i don't feel like doing any youthful activities anymore, i own a $4k gaming computer but i don't feel like playing video games, i just work and work. i do feel old.
4k?, is that with or without monitors..
without man....without... http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36067.msg809084#msg809084
whole other conversation lol
very pretty build Glod...
you really shell out for visuals...
I'm surprised you didn't just get 7970s in february since just 1 of them would be twice as fast as a 6950
again, whole other conversation lol but **** it ill bite. i already had 2 6950s i bought in early 2012, when i was building this i found 2 more 6950s on ebay with the exact same heatkiller waterblocks which they didn't sell anymore and they were only $400 for the pair with the waterblocks which was a great deal, the waterblocks themselves costed like 110$ each when new. i jumped on that and went the quadfire route, honestly i ****ing hate them because i hate amd and regret it but its unnecessary right now to get new cards when everything runs maxed (with a few crashes here and there of the ati driver), maybe late next year.
lol.. if you don't game.. I don't think you'll ever need to upgrade again, for the rest of your life..
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who knows, maybe wanting to play video games will come back to me and so will my youth.
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who knows, maybe wanting to play video games will come back to me and so will my youth.
I've heard good things about steroids aka hormone replacement therapy
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I'm hitting 33 this year and I still don't feel like it. I still feel like I have the same personality I did when I was a teenager. Although I have a family now with the house and 2 cars and all that bull****. But I still don't feel old. Hopefully I never will
This. I'll be 32 in December. Kids, mortgage, 9 to 5, etc. But I still feel more or less the same as I did when I turned 22.
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They say everything old becomes new again, but... I don't see how 80's music is ever going to come back, certainly not the clothing or the hair. The 70's on the other hand have this weird classic feel that the 1980's just don't have. Eh, Video Killed the Radio Star. LOL, Steppenwolf!
I think I disagree. Something really did happen in the 1960s, and it changed the world forever, but that was far more existential than clothing fashion or music (and, by the way, Steppenwolf pretty well came and went in the 60s, although I saw them play for free outside in the afternoon at a county fair in the early 1990s).
I don't think that 1980s music was that much worse than 1970s music, it is always 90% terrible and 10% good. The highs might not have been as high, but the lows were not lower.
Personally, I think that pop music hit rock bottom with disco, but that was more or less simultaneous with punk, so go figure.
PS - you already commented on "Ready Player One" and how it was celebrating the 1980s. Was that a bad thing?
But I still feel more or less the same as I did when I turned 22.
I did not even blink at 30, and sailed past 40 without a worry.
50 hit me pretty hard because I was getting out of shape physically, but I turned it around and improved myself a lot.
60 was huge and I can feel the deterioration continue and accelerate despite my efforts to hold it back.
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Sure, the current generation has Psy and Ke$ha and other pop culture horrors, but dammit, so did my generation.
Steppenwolf
Whenever I consider complaining about the music that my kids listen to, I cannot help but think of Steppenwolf.
yes, this book is a good read in such situations.
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I'm hitting 33 this year and I still don't feel like it. I still feel like I have the same personality I did when I was a teenager. Although I have a family now with the house and 2 cars and all that bull****. But I still don't feel old. Hopefully I never will
I get that. I still feel like I have the same personality as I always did. I never hit any point where I was like "I'm an adult!". It's more gradual than that. You're still you, it's just now you have heartburn if you eat pizza too late and then go to bed or you buy a firmer mattress so you don't wake up with back pain or wrinkles and grey hair shows up in the mirror. I have a family, house, 2 cars, 2 grown kids and a grandkid. I'm still just me. Every once in a while though something will click and it'll bring home that I'm not a teenager any more. That makes you feel old.
Then you go back to your life and forget for a while until something else brings it up again.
At least, that's how it is for me.
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at 29, i certainly can't call myself old but i don't feel like i did a decade ago. My hairline moved, i gained 100lbs(!), and i don't feel like doing any youthful activities anymore, i own a $4k gaming computer but i don't feel like playing video games, i just work and work. i do feel old.
I'm playing games on an old laptop (although to be fair it's still a good machine) and you own that beast and don't play???
That hurts...
;)
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This morning, woke up, back pain... ugh.........................
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beef doesn't taste as good as I remember
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Try better beef? :P
Had some Kobe in Kobe the other day. It was tasty :D
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Try better beef? :P
Had some Kobe in Kobe the other day. It was tasty :D
we can't get 'real' kobe in the US... only imitations. kobe process is not up to usda regulations i guess.
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When the only 20-something girls I can rarely get attention from anymore are 29.
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my car's radio is all NPR stations from the different cities i work in.
I like NPR because it's soothing while driving, keeps me up to date with local and national news and lets me explore new music. I love when they play folk on Sundays
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Here it is:
Today is my 61st birthday!
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My local NPR station is about all I ever listen to in the car, and that has been true for about the last half of my life.
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Here it is:
Today is my 61st birthday!
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My local NPR station is about all I ever listen to in the car, and that has been true for about the last half of my life.
Happy birthday fohat.digs!!
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Here it is:
Today is my 61st birthday!
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My local NPR station is about all I ever listen to in the car, and that has been true for about the last half of my life.
Happy Birthday fohat!
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Happy Birthday from me too. It's great for us younger GH'ers to be able to glean wisdom from your mature perspective.
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Fohat.digs = Happy Birthday
Now I know exactly how old dirt is. :)
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Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!
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The saddest thread ever just got a bit happier. Happy birthday fohat.digs
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They say everything old becomes new again, but... I don't see how 80's music is ever going to come back, certainly not the clothing or the hair. The 70's on the other hand have this weird classic feel that the 1980's just don't have. Eh, Video Killed the Radio Star. LOL, Steppenwolf!
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction
Metallica's Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightening, And Justice for All.
U2's Joshua Tree
Van Halen (not Van Hagar)
Bob Marley
John Lennon
Queen
Social Distortion
ACDC
Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Higher Ground was made in the 80's)
Black Sabbath Born Again (War pigs), Seventh Star (Paranoid)
Ozzy Osbourne
Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Nicks
All are still in heavy rotation and some Many of these bands are still making hits today (Mick Fleetwood is still amazing on drums!)
Then there are the ones who largely influenced today's music, such as Oingo Boingo, Crowded House, The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Devo, Soungarden, Mother Love Bone, Green River. There was also some good Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks solo stuff in there too.
I felt old physically in my 20's, I already had bad tendonitis in my knees.
I mentally felt old when I hired my first employee and had to cover my parents house payments when they were out of work. I went from nearly care free, to having several people relying on me in a very short time.
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Here it is:
Today is my 61st birthday!
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My local NPR station is about all I ever listen to in the car, and that has been true for about the last half of my life.
Happy birthday! :)
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Sure, the current generation has Psy and Ke$ha and other pop culture horrors, but dammit, so did my generation.
Indeed. Listening to commercial radio today drives me nuts, but it always did. Okay, "nostalgia" radio touches the periphery of what I was listening to as a younger adult, but hey. I'm going grey, my kids are older than some of the guys and girls I work with, and I'm still more punk than anyone I know :)
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Mick Fleetwood is still amazing on drums!
which is strange bearing in mind how he learned to play.
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Vacuum cleaned my computer today.
It wouldn't post
Half an hour later, I realized I didn't put the ram back in...
I didn't think this would be happening to me so soon. >:D
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Vacuum cleaned my computer today.
It wouldn't post
Half an hour later, I realized I didn't put the ram back in...
I didn't think this would be happening to me so soon. >:D
What's really bad is when you call tech support and the first thing they ask is, "Is the power cord plugged into the wall?", and you look over realizing it is not.... ;D
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Vacuum cleaned my computer today.
It wouldn't post
Half an hour later, I realized I didn't put the ram back in...
I didn't think this would be happening to me so soon. >:D
What's really bad is when you call tech support and the first thing they ask is, "Is the power cord plugged into the wall?", and you look over realizing it is not.... ;D
:D That i'm sure I would've picked up... but what threw me today was every thing looked like it was "running"... i just completely forgot I took my ram out while vacuuming the main cpu heatsink...
OH, and Freakin,, i made a huge mistake buying this heatsink.. the fans are so hard to remove for cleaning.. REGRETTTTT....
Thermaltake Frio everyone.. DO NOT BUY....
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Hitting on a girl in school today. "You remind me of my dad." :(
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Vacuum cleaned my computer today.
It wouldn't post
Half an hour later, I realized I didn't put the ram back in...
I didn't think this would be happening to me so soon. >:D
What's really bad is when you call tech support and the first thing they ask is, "Is the power cord plugged into the wall?", and you look over realizing it is not.... ;D
Or worse - that the computer's power cord is plugged in to the power board, but the power board's lead is also plugged into the power board (instead of plugged in to the wall outlet).
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Vacuum cleaned my computer today.
It wouldn't post
Half an hour later, I realized I didn't put the ram back in...
I didn't think this would be happening to me so soon. >:D
What's really bad is when you call tech support and the first thing they ask is, "Is the power cord plugged into the wall?", and you look over realizing it is not.... ;D
Or worse - that the computer's power cord is plugged in to the power board, but the power board's lead is also plugged into the power board (instead of plugged in to the wall outlet).
Call Nasa, You've discovered perpetual free energy...
then again.. it actually does work if it were superconducting.