We are vintage now? | TheaterFire

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sajaschi@reddit

A local radio station claims to be the "only classic rock station in the nation" and all they play is 90s rock/alternative. It hurts. I love it, but it hurts.

It makes ME feel vintage.

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WiscoMac@reddit

The 80s was 40 years ago. When I was 15 years old, 40 years previous would have been 1945. Yes, that was “vintage” to me. That was a whole ‘nother world to me just as it is to your daughter.

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East_Ad_2186@reddit

My brain says no, my body says “oh yes you are!!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Having_A_Day@reddit

I felt this in my aching back! But I'm also still surprised sometimes when I look in the mirror and I don't see 25 year old me.

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RalphWastoid319@reddit

Me too, now I see my dad staring back at me. Not what I was expecting.

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DontTreadonMe4@reddit

I don't even see my Dad in the mirror anymore now I see my Grandpa!

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FritzTheCat_1@reddit

I am laughing so hard. I'm not looking like my mom, but I know I am starting to soundlike my mom.

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Having_A_Day@reddit

I look way too much like my maternal grandmother. 😬

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TwistedMindEyes@reddit

Followed by being forgotten in history

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ElYodaPagoda@reddit

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings! Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

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1singhnee@reddit

If you have a kid past 35 they either call it a geriatric pregnancy or “advanced maternal age.” That was terrible to see on my chart.

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I-used2B-a-Valkyrie@reddit

Yeah that one stung like hell. My mother in law snapped at the doctor (I love her!) and said “so does that make ME “Jurassic?”

She wasn’t pregnant or anything, she just has a quick wit and a smart mouth and I love her!

Also I was 44 when my daughter is born. Most of her teachers are the same age or younger than my oldest!

I don’t like that.

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I-used2B-a-Valkyrie@reddit

😂😂😂

No, ma’am, you were definitely not. I’ll be 50 when she finished kindergarten. We have grandparents picking up the kids at preschool and I’m older than 2 of them! It really hurts my feelings.

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Yeah, I have a lot of trouble relating to my kid’s friend’s parents. They don’t like that I let her listen to music with “bad words” and watch “grownup” TV. I mean she’s going to do it anyway, might as well be part of it so I can make sure she actually understands it. Not the millennial mindset apparently.

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Wetschera@reddit

Pants have been wide for three years. Fashions change.

I have big calves due to my big flat feet. I hate skinny pants.

I got sick from medication side effects. It was a fight getting dressed.

I’m SOOO glad pants are comfortable again.

I still don’t get why anyone would want to wear those JNCO jeans, though. I only saw a pair in person for the first time yesterday. They’re a nightmare if you have to walk outside at all.

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MonoBlancoATX@reddit

I actually have zero problem with being called "vintage" or any of stuff referred to that way.

But call me or my music "classic" or "dad rock" and there might be fisticuffs.

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SuperCookie22@reddit

Never heard dad rock, that stings a little

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AdObvious1217@reddit

I was getting my hair cut recently and the background music was Soundgarden. “Ugh, not dad rock again today” said one of the stylists. First time I’d heard the term.

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SuperCookie22@reddit

Yowch

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BCCommieTrash@reddit

"lolsob", as the kids say.

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SuperCookie22@reddit

Sigma? Or Skibbidi? I think it’s worse when I try to keep up with the kiddos. I understand LOLSOB tho bc yep

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Turbulent-Island-570@reddit

Shit this new to me, can you help before I embarrass myself in front of youth?

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SuperCookie22@reddit

LOL no I am an enormous embarrassment and would never pose as an expert. Definitions are great on urban dictionary dot com tho…helps me all the time

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Initial-Depth-6857@reddit

Man I get it, but they’ve been playing GnR on the classic rock stations for well over a decade now.

And you would most likely have to explain what “fisticuffs” is to the youngins…

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alveg_af_fjoellum@reddit

Fisticuffs! 😁

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Antique-Ad-8776@reddit

I guess you wouldn’t like hearing it called Geezer Rock then

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MonoBlancoATX@reddit

Yeah, I'm actually fine with that one too.

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Typical-Swan-3500@reddit

Using the term Fisticuffs definitely gives off the vintage vibe.

And there'll be hell to pay if you say different.

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ubermartimus@reddit

When my daughter was maybe 11, she heard me listening to Nirvana, and said “Oh you’re listening to that old man music.” I couldn’t do anything but laugh a bit. She’s 20 now and listens to Nirvana, along with all the other stuff 20 year olds listen to now.

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HorrorQuantity3807@reddit

I went to a record store and had a convo with a guy about a record from my fav band. Figured out he was born after their first album drop. I guess that’s dad rock

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Queen-Marla@reddit

I will never forget the time my mild-mannered, never-yell dad got LOUD when I called Led Zeppelin “classic rock” (in the 80’s). “IT ISN’T CLASSIC, IT’S JUST ROCK!”

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Small-Tooth-1915@reddit

Why do they hurt us like this 🤣🤣

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1singhnee@reddit

I saw someone asking for classic rock suggestions, “from the 90s.”

Classic Rock is Led Zeppelin, not Nirvana.

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Minimum_Matter_4044@reddit

Idk. But can I buy a whole shirt.?

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ExaminationNo9186@reddit

The other week "smells like teen spirit" was plqying as part of the canned music at my locql major supermarket...

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WeHoMuadhib@reddit

Oh yes, very much vintage. Let me give you some perspective that’s going to bake your noodle.

We watched Back to the Future II when I came out in theaters in 1989. It showed the “futuristic” 2015. At the time, 2015 felt so far off. 2015 was ten fucking years ago at this point.

We old bitches.

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Ok-Perception8269@reddit

At some point, can we just accept that we're going to die? I don't have a problem with it. I'm in my 50s. It's coming. And I'm oh so cool with that. Next.

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MundaneAd8695@reddit

We don’t have that tech - but we have tech we couldn’t even imagine then. They got the future tech all wrong - but our actual tech now - out of the world.

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More_Craft5114@reddit

You know what freaks me out now?

Cheers today is as old as Leave It To Beaver was when I watched it on reruns.

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Ok-Perception8269@reddit

For that you get a Shelley Long slap

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Silly-Shoulder-6257@reddit

In the 70’s we watched Happy Days and Grease which took place in the 50’s…. A long time ago that is so old that we have theme parties such as 50’s or 60’s parties. That was a difference of 20-30 years. Now 20-30 years ago was Y2K, 9/11, Friends, and literally the same clothes, music, movies, etc, …. Swear it was just yesterday!

Also in the aughts, we had 70’s parties! So those 30 years were significant to us. And the clothes, music, movies and tv shows were different. Now it all blends into one decade.

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EngineersFTW@reddit

Back in Black is as old now as Glen Miller was when it was released

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DefiantViolette@reddit

Why would you say that.

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More_Craft5114@reddit

Because everybody else has to know.

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DefiantViolette@reddit

I don't forgive you.

I actually tried to watch Cheers not that long ago, and... wow. That Sam Malone is #metoo made flesh.

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AdObvious1217@reddit

I remember thinking Sam Malone was creepy and my mother telling me to lighten up

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hibou-ou-chouette@reddit

I was a little girl, and I remember being allowed to watch Three's Company. WTF were my parents thinking? Men ogling poor, sweet, not-too-bright Chrissy and Stanley being all homophobic to Jack. Yeah, I don't think I could stomach Cheers now, either.

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More_Craft5114@reddit

We watched it...oh... maybe during the pandemic? No... then we watched Star Trek....My wife made poor choices and the next thing she knew, after asking me to pause season 1 of Picard, she was watching TNG > DS9 > Voyager.

God Voyager kind of sucked.

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DefiantViolette@reddit

I haven't watched Voyager yet, but I did rewatch all of TNG again last year. I still really love that show.

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TurkGonzo75@reddit

Fuck

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Psychological-Art510@reddit

I hate you. 😭😭😭

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I_Am_Mandark_Hahaha@reddit

Yup, kids are bringing back the JNCO style

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MowgeeCrone@reddit

I saw a photo from 1992 listed under historical photos. Who knew our photo albums were historical artefacts?

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HarryHaywire@reddit

Our music is as old as big band music was to us. Classic rock was recent by comparison.

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More_Craft5114@reddit

The newest album I had in the 80's was Beastie Boys, Licensed To Ill...(didn't have much in the way of music growing up, but I made up for it now)....that's nearly 40 years old...

So, basically, 40 year old music then would've been....Elvis and Frank Sinatra.... When they were both young.

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DirectorDysfunction@reddit

That album still hold up.

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hibou-ou-chouette@reddit

And we're still listening to Elvis and Frank.

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More_Craft5114@reddit

You are. :)

But I'm still listening to Robert Johnson, loads of 60's artists, and forward.

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Queen-Marla@reddit

I wish I’d saved all my old clothes. I could pay off all my debt selling that shit as “vintage.”

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Academic-Ad6800@reddit

True. Just look at the Free People clothing website and the shit they are selling as "Vintage". It's hilarious.

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largos7289@reddit

LOL yes, first time getting the look like you just rose out of a crypt?

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vagabondoer@reddit

Lol the other day I caught my son browsing in my closet like it’s a thrift store.

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Forsaken-Cat184@reddit

Core mid 90s memory unlocked of me shopping in my dad’s closet through his cornucopia flannels to complete my grunge look.

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Silly-Shoulder-6257@reddit

If I wore the clothes I wore in the 90’s/ aughts, I’d look the same. Hair also the same. No one would bat an eye. I unfortunately had to go to a funeral and wore my “funeral suit” from 2001 which is what I would wear to a job interview now. Also, if I stayed at said job I’d be close to retirement! Now that’s old!

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Zestyclose-Pen-1699@reddit

My kids went through my rugby kit "borrowing old jerseys and work out clothes. I forced them to listen to stories about my playing days.

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No-Win-2741@reddit

That sounds like a fair price to pay.

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twirlingmypubes@reddit

I once heard "White Wedding" over the grocery store speaker. We old, homie

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SgtDoakesSurprise@reddit

In 20-25 years, imagine the music that’ll be blasting at the old folk’s home… 💀

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twirlingmypubes@reddit

Well be sitting in there listening to Slayer and 2 Live Crew

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DevinBoo73@reddit

I’m going to be jamming GWAR.

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BJoe1976@reddit

I’m curious to see how Branson, MO changes as Boomers age out and we start being the target age group there.

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ScienceMomCO@reddit

I heard she sells sanctuary by the cult!

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BCCommieTrash@reddit

Musak cover of Closer in a Toys R Us was surreal.

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typeo19@reddit

I'd be willing to pay to hear that! 🤣

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Typical-Swan-3500@reddit

That is when you go to the prune juice aisle, and contemplate your life.

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Maliluma@reddit

Ugh .. Sometimes when I am walking through the grocery store and a good song comes on and I start bobbing my head as I walk down the aisles. Now I realize my music is basically elevator music now.

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happycj@reddit

"Vintage" is actually appropriately applied to anything over 25 years old. I think officially it is the term for anything between 25-100 years old, then they become "antiques".

If the Twin Towers were standing when you bought those jeans... they are basically vintage.

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Silly-Shoulder-6257@reddit

But I don’t feel like the Twin Towers came down that long ago! Not enough to be called vintage! Although I was called ma’am recently and that made me feel old.

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Rodneybasher@reddit

In the new world 25 for an antique. In europe, where the history comes from, we claim 100+. The idea that I'm a living antique when I moved stateside was amusing and a bit odd.

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OGREtheTroll@reddit

A few years ago I was swimming with my brother and his kids. I was wearing some classic Ray-ban wayfarers. My 13yo niece said I looked like I was from "old-timey times." I said "what, from the 1980s?" And she said yeah, old-timey times.

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CleverNickName-69@reddit

I wore Ray-Bans for most of the '80s and they were very popular in movies and TV. But they were already classic by that time.

They were first made in 1952 and were worn by Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly long before we rediscovered them.

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No-Win-2741@reddit

I have worn Ray-Bans since the '80s. Though I will confess that now they are bifocal prescription Ray Bans. But I still wear them and I never stopped.

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Silly-Shoulder-6257@reddit

Lmao 🤣

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Silly-Shoulder-6257@reddit

Exactly and they came back maybe a decade or two ago. Just like the aviators that became popular after Top Gun became popular again. I like reminding them that they’re not the only ones! Lol

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XXxxChuckxxXX@reddit

Wayfarers are timeless

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CleverNickName-69@reddit

Well, I agree with you, but his niece doesn't.

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HoosierCheesehead@reddit

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humble_cyrus@reddit

I tried to find some old hoodies that I hadn't worn in a long time. I went through my closet - nothing. Checked drawers - nothing. About a week later my 17 year old is wearing one of several I'm missing. I didn't say anything to her but...maybe my clothes are cool? At least the old ones. 😂

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Beneficial-Shock5708@reddit

Jacob Dylan and The Wallflowers said it best in the song “One Headlight”…….”I ain’t changed, but I know I’m not the same “

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Odd_Distribution7852@reddit

I prefer being called Vintage to Old! Hopefully Gen X and Gen Z get along better the Boomers and Millennials!

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ganshon@reddit

not too far off I guess.... when I was in my mid-to-late 20s (around mid-90s timeframe), "vintage" to me was stuff from the 1960s and before. Now that I am older, "vintage" means stuff from the 1920s and below... lol

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lollroller@reddit

Our music was as old as classic rock growing up?

Hate to break it to you, but the time distance between today's music and 1985 music is FORTY years, but the distance between 1985 music and 1955 music was only THIRTY years

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PunkRockMiniVan@reddit

My teenagers routinely raid my clothes, particularly sweaters, t-shirts and jeans. Evidently I know how to thrift.

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

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Bushwazi@reddit

I get pushback every time I say it, but if something is 25 years old, it’s classic now. So yes.

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Successful_Sense_742@reddit

Yes I'm Gen X and yes I went through a hippy 1960's stage myself. My mom and dad met at Woodstock.

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BJoe1976@reddit

Reminds me of the leather jacked I bought the winter after I graduated from high school, was brand new when I bought it, but now I know adults that it has a decade on…….only had it 29 years now😭😄

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lsp2005@reddit

My child wore my 1987 guess jean jacket to the dress up as the 1980s event.

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Cyrus_Imperative@reddit

Did you cut the knees open with a razor blade when they were brand new? Those were 60 dollar jeans when budget jeans were 20.

I'd be flattered if someone wanted to borrow any of my clothing.

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lsp2005@reddit

My mom gave away the matching skirt while I was in college. I had taken the jacket with me. That is the only reason I have it. I never got the matching jeans.

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Open-Theme-1348@reddit

I have a Juno email address from 1997 and tell people "it's vintage!" if I have to give one and they look at me weird.

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Shinkai2008@reddit

I still use my Prodigy email address to this day. I can relate to the weird looks I get when I have to provide it.

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ChrisNYC70@reddit

yesterday i was coming out of a taco place and teens had thrown their bikes all across the side walk. i looked for a way to get to my car and one teen grabbed his bike and loudly in front of all his friends said “sorry. Daddy”. my head exploded.

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aabum@reddit

I may be vintage, but I haven't aged like fine wine. Rather, when I wake up, I have plenty of reason to whine as I try to get my body to keep up with my stuck in my 20s mind.

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paratrooper1997@reddit

I like to think no, but my arthritic shoulders and thumbs say otherwise. Love being 48 and staring at my first shoulder replacement in the next 2 to 3 years, according to my orthopedic..

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Nice-Zombie356@reddit

1985 was 40 years ago.

In 1985, if we looked back 40 years, WW2 was still going.

Yikes.

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GenXrules69@reddit

Like wine OP like wine.

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GrandMoffJerjerrod@reddit

To paraphrase a saying. My body wants to write checks my body can’t cash.

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stantheman1976@reddit

The music I loved in high school is now on the same station that plays Hall & Oates and The Cars. Sorry my friend. We're old now.

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PeyroniesCat@reddit

According to eBay, any item over 20 years old is considered vintage. We’ve been vintage for a while.

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TheRealRollestonian@reddit

As a high school teacher, yes, everything we did is cool again. Except saying cool.

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SgtDoakesSurprise@reddit

That’s cap

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discussatron@reddit

What cracks me up is a bunch of my senior boys (I’m a high school teacher) dress like extras in a Limp Bizkit video.

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SgtDoakesSurprise@reddit

They do it all for the nookie.

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mam88k@reddit

You need to explain that in our day "mom jeans" was not the flex she thinks it is.

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CleverNickName-69@reddit

I used to think that '80s music had gotten old, but '90s music is still modern.

Well, Weezer's Blue Album turned 30 years old last year.

If you go 30 years back from "our time" you're at 1955. Here is the list of the Top 30 songs from 1955. I only recognize seven of them, and I don't recognize most of the artists either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_year-end_top_30_singles_of_1955

It seems pretty weird that The Ballad of Davey Crockett is on there 3 times by 3 different artists.

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ElYodaPagoda@reddit

It just doesn’t seem that long ago! I remember hearing Nirvana’s Nevermind long before it hit it big, my friend had an EP dub of theirs so he got the CD on day one. I vividly remember playing paper and dice games while that album played in the background.

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CleverNickName-69@reddit

Yeah, mid-90s is post-college for me, so I had a real hard time accepting that was long ago.

"But it feels like yesterday."

Yeah, well, In Utero turned 20 years old.....12 years ago. Kurt would have turned 58 next month, but instead he has been dead for 30 years. These are harsh truths and I'm not happy about it.

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Jimathomas@reddit

My daughter has stolen two pair of my old jeans, literally older than she is. Apparently, men's loose fit boot cut is back in style?

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two_awesome_dogs@reddit

I heard a station play something the other day that they called classic rock and it was a song from the 80s 😳

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DreadPirateWade@reddit

I have a pair of original black & white wingtip Doc Martens, with the MADR IN ENGLAND sole that I paid $150 for in 1997 or 1998. They’re selling on auction sites for $400+. I told my 18 year old to not even think about it.

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Imaginary_Audience_5@reddit

Antique

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HorseyDung@reddit

Your daughter is stealing your pants...

Just leave it at that, you're still cool.

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afternever@reddit

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ArtBear1212@reddit

When the music you grew up with is playing as background music at the grocery store or mall…you are vintage.

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hownice4us@reddit

I have a favorite food store. I posted earlier but it still applies. Went out to pick up a few things from said market. Background music was Blue Oyster Cult..Cheap Trick..Zep..and Uncle Ted. Was explained to what an OG was by a PYT that heard me jamming along. She thought it was cool that I knew "the old tunes". Lol I was momentarily stunned.

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MundaneAd8695@reddit

My kid seriously and sincerely explained to me how the memory card works on the PS2.

My first game was pong.

👀

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jessek@reddit

20 years ago I remember a girlfriend’s dad wearing what I thought were skinny jeans and thinking “that’s kind of hip for an old guy” but they were a pair of vintage 70s jeans he’d had in a drawer for 30 years

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FlopShanoobie@reddit

When I was a junior in high school, Led Zeppelin IV was exactly 20 years old. It was 1991. That's the same year Nevermind came out.

Nevermind is 34 years old this year.

My 14 year old listens to Nirvana religiously. She's about to start learning guitar because of that band. I don't have the heart to tell her I never loved Nirvana... I was already wearing my This Is Not A Fugazi Shirt t-shirt at that point.

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StopSignsAreRed@reddit

Well if they’re 20 or 30 years old they’re objectively vintage. If they just look like 80s jeans then the style is a vintage style.

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theunixman@reddit

We have been for quite awhile now I'm afraid...

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BouquetOfPenciIs@reddit

I've heard our music referred to as oldies. OLDIES!

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ElYodaPagoda@reddit

What do they call the “oldies” we remember as such? Golden Oldies?

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tkingsbu@reddit

Lol… I love this sort of thing…

I’m did the same thing in the 80s with my dads old jeans etc…

Both my son and daughter have raided my and and their mom’s wardrobes for jeans, cool shirts and sweaters etc… I don’t mind at all…

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goalmouthscramble@reddit

If your music plays in a supermarket…

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cheesecheeseonbread@reddit

When it comes to clothing, "vintage" means 20+ years.

It makes sense if you think about how different fashion was between decades last century, and how fragile clothing is compared to most other consumer goods.

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Clavister@reddit

I bought a leather jacket in the late 90s. Was wearing it the other day in an elevator and a person complimented it, then asked, "Is it vintage?" I said "It is now!"

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Ok-Seaweed-4042@reddit

When my daughter was in the 5th grade,her teacher played all the "oldies", and my daughter knew them all because that's what the parents listened to

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Whatisthisnonsense22@reddit

Lol.. my teenagers found all my drug rugs and Hawaiian shirts. They even wore my letter jacket to school. They couldn't believe they used to have real faux leather sleeves on them.

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Grafakos@reddit

"Our music" (say 80s) is as old as big band music was when we were growing up. Classic rock was only like 10-20 years old at that time.

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Iamnotthatinvested@reddit

No, my parachute pants are not vintage, I just bought them a couple of years ago in 84. How can they be vintage?

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mzskunk@reddit

Yep! I've been making bank lately selling my "vintage" stuff. I can say "One Owner" in the ad, too, and tell the buyers how I bought it new in 1982 etc. They love it. Even 1998 seems ages ago to the modern kids.

Now I'm eyeing my MCM 1962 dining set and buffet. Lotta money there, I think. Can't take it with me, eh?

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Fun-Distribution-159@reddit

No. Just close to the expiration date.

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movingmouth@reddit

You are 37 year older than your kid.

When I was a kid in the '90s I was 24 years younger than my mom and that shit was definitely vintage!!!

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SubBass49Tees@reddit

Yep...vintage.

My 16 year old daughter has been wearing some of my old Levis corduroy pants and my JNCOs because they sell for like $300 on Ebay now. I'm just glad my mom didn't get rid of them, so I came across them while cleaning out her old house to sell.

Got some of the early Coachella tshirts in my closet still as well. Would let my kids wear them, but don't have the heart to sell them.

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OneFishTwoFish@reddit

I prefer to say aged for mellowness and taste.

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Motor_Struggle_3605@reddit

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RVAblues@reddit

Oh god no. In my city the college kids have been rockin’ Docs and flannels for like 5 years now at least.

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7_62mm_FMJ@reddit

My 17 yo daughter loves my Levi jacket from middle school. Wears it everywhere. Take far better care of it than her own more expensive clothes.

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nakerusa@reddit

Vintage? I'd say collectable

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cathy80s@reddit

Yes. Yes, we are. I still have some treasured clothing pieces from the 80s and 90s, legitimate vintage clothes that I happen to have also had when they were new.

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