When did you know you've become OLD..

[tp4tissue]

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

I prefer my proletariat silver springs.. mm hmm...

[tp4tissue]

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...

[tp4tissue]

When I started to take the elevator instead of the stairs even to go up just one floor.

This is like, every other American..

[tp4tissue]

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

[Krogenar]

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!

[demik]

my car's radio is all NPR stations from the different cities i work in.

[bear95]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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..

[Badwrench]

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. 

[daerid]

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

[SpAmRaY]

my car's radio is all NPR stations from the different cities i work in.

NPR FTW!

[Glod]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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..

[Glod]

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

[tp4tissue]

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

[Glod]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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..

[Glod]

who knows, maybe wanting to play video games will come back to me and so will my youth.

[tp4tissue]

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

[hashbaz]

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.

[fohat.digs]

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.

[iri]

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.

[DarSee]

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.

[DarSee]

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...
 

[tp4tissue]

This morning, woke up, back pain... ugh.........................

[dante]

beef doesn't taste as good as I remember

[HaaTa]

Try better beef?
Had some Kobe in Kobe the other day. It was tasty

[sth]

Try better beef?
Had some Kobe in Kobe the other day. It was tasty

we can't get 'real' kobe in the US... only imitations. kobe process is not up to usda regulations i guess.

[Input Nirvana]

When the only 20-something girls I can rarely get attention from anymore are 29.

[The_Beast]

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

[fohat.digs]

Here it is:

Today is my 61st birthday!


PS -

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.

[CPTBadAss]

Here it is:

Today is my 61st birthday!


PS -

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!!

[Krogenar]

Here it is:

Today is my 61st birthday!


PS -

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!

[kurplop]

Happy Birthday from me too. It's great for us younger GH'ers to be able to glean wisdom from your mature perspective.

[Input Nirvana]

Fohat.digs = Happy Birthday

Now I know exactly how old dirt is.

[mkawa]

Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!

[damorgue]

The saddest thread ever just got a bit happier. Happy birthday fohat.digs

[Leslieann]

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.

[rowdy]

Here it is:

Today is my 61st birthday!


PS -

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!

[tufty]

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

[iri]

Mick Fleetwood is still amazing on drums!

which is strange bearing in mind how he learned to play.

[tp4tissue]

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.   

[SpAmRaY]

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.   

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....

[tp4tissue]

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.   

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....

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....

[noisyturtle]

Hitting on a girl in school today. "You remind me of my dad." 

[rowdy]

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.   

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....

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).

[tp4tissue]

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.   

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....

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.