What has recently made you feel incredibly old?

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you_aint_seen_me-@reddit

Younger than my boss, by quite a few years, who is older than his boss by a couple or so. Yeah, she's young for a C-Suite, but I still feel 'mature'.

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SoggyWotsits@reddit

Realising that I’ve been working at the same place since before some of the new employees were born.

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montyrattus@reddit

I feel old when I find out I am working with people not even born when I left school in 2000.

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I was 24 in the year 2000, and now it feels weird that 2000 is equal distance between 1974 and 2026. Working with people who young then is one thing, but when it’s people who weren’t even born, it just shows you how time flys.

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YchYFi@reddit

I was 11 then and was in year 7.

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W51976@reddit

Born in 1989? lol even that age group is starting to feel old.

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YchYFi@reddit

Yes 37 next month.

Best part is I have been telling people I was 37 since my last birthday and only realised the other day I had been ageing myself up.

Because what is time these days?

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W51976@reddit

Oh stop, I’ll be in a retirement home before we know it lol.

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YchYFi@reddit

You are closer than I am. And it looks like it might be a good time.

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W51976@reddit

I’ll let you know how it goes in 2046 lol.

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YchYFi@reddit

Only 20 years from now. The last 20 just flew by.

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W51976@reddit

Thanks for the cold reality check lol

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YchYFi@reddit

It's mine too. Don't sweat it. We are sound.

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W51976@reddit

That’s the way the cookie crumbles 👍

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W51976@reddit

Happy birthday next month, I turn 50 this Sunday lol.

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YchYFi@reddit

Thank you. And I hope it's a good 50. Friends get fewer at this age but you spend quality time with those that mean the most I find.

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W51976@reddit

Yes. Less acquaintances, and more quality time with people who share your interests.

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W51976@reddit

Cheers mate👍

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W51976@reddit

I have one or two close friends now and a loving partner from the last 12 years. That’s all I need, then I just fill
My time with hobbies.

The circle of friends I had back in the 2000s and early 10s came to an end when I stopped going out, and they all moved on.

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W51976@reddit

It’s a long time ago to be fair.

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YchYFi@reddit

It was a great time before phones were as they are now. We had it good.

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W51976@reddit

Yes those early 00s years were still a time when it really was just your immediate environment. There was no connection to people elsewhere in the world.

You left home and nobody knew where you were.

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YchYFi@reddit

I miss that feeling. It was quite freeing. You weren't on someone's beck and call.

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W51976@reddit

Yeah and internet is as very slow back then. It was still very much like the 80s and 90s until about 2005.

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W51976@reddit

I have started to live like that recently. I turn my phone to airplane mode when I’m in the park and don’t want to be disturbed.

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Christian-Metal@reddit

And working with people born in 2006. I was 21 then and that was only about 6 years ago. And yet here they are, these individuals who are equals with me at work (meant in a positive sense on their abilities). I really struggle to get my head around this.

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W51976@reddit

They will think the same in the mid 2040s.

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YchYFi@reddit

When they tell me Bring me To Life by Evanescence was made before they were born. Cry in a corner.

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geth1962@reddit

I left school in 1979

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GardenDuck88@reddit

I realised yesterday that I have tattoos that I got before one of my co-workers was born.

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MaltDizney@reddit

Got a pair of shorts that are 25 years old

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WeeBo2804@reddit

A lot of my co workers are much younger than me. One today commented that I couldn’t possibly be old enough to be her mum. Well, actually, some of my tattoos are older than you and I could have conceived you in the first year of my relationship with my now husband- so yes, I very much could be your mum.

But thanks, I guess?

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GardenDuck88@reddit

I once said to mine "I'm probably around the same age as your mother." He said "Nah, my Mums old."

I didn't dare ask how "old" she was 😆

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This_Palpitation6617@reddit

I had a apprentice who I’ve now adopted as such and now I’m his work dad. I do all dad related things and look after him in work before he goes home to his real dad. We get in like a house on fire though he’s a good lad so I don’t mind.

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RBII@reddit

If I were you, I'd take this as "You're too cool to be old enough to be my mum", and ask no further questions.

Asking no more questions is critical to this strategy working.

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This_Palpitation6617@reddit

I’m with you on that most of mine are older than the people coming to work these days

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montyrattus@reddit

Great, now I will be thinking the exact same thing 😢

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BasualdoTheTiny@reddit

Christmas University Challenge always gets me. Someone with a long, successful career....graduated in 2003.

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Spottyjamie@reddit

A lad at work saying “my mum used to listen to we are scientists when she was younger”

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ellasfella68@reddit

I work in a Police Custody block here in the UK. Booking people in and doing fingerprints/photograph etc on them when their birthday is, like, 2013. Most of my T-shirts are older than that…

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Gone_For_Lunch@reddit

You need new T-shirts.

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DeemonPankaik@reddit

Good luck with that on police wages

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ellasfella68@reddit

Vintage is *in* mate…🤓

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Christian-Metal@reddit

Metal band shirts?? 😛

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YchYFi@reddit

This came up on my timeline.

Made me laugh.

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YchYFi@reddit

It feels like yesterday.

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lordghostpig@reddit

Booking 13 year olds?

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Gone_For_Lunch@reddit

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alfa_omega@reddit

That's like the council estate version of Harry Potter and the sorting hat

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duke_of_germany_5@reddit

22nd of February…every year

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campbelljac92@reddit

That's peak drinking white storm and twoccing cars years in certain areas

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lordghostpig@reddit

That's where I went wrong. I was banging frosty jack's and not being a twat.

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Screaming_lambs@reddit

I don't see why not, 13 and 14 years olds are in the news here (Nottingham) for stabbing each other. I assumed they'd be booked for that.

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lordghostpig@reddit

I'm not saying it as 'too young to book', more as in 'that's fucking grim.'

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Screaming_lambs@reddit

Ah OK. Thought you meant you disbelieved it happens!

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propsta84@reddit

Wait till you start booking THEIR kids, it won't be long. I know people who have been in jail only for their offspring to be also jailed...

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Mediocre_Sprinkles@reddit

Talking about bluey one guy pipes up "Robert Irwin voices a character in that, I think he had a famous dad?"

He wasn't old enough to know the brilliance of Steve Irwin.

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TheBlakeOfUs@reddit

In 2017 a girl at my work said

“We learned about 9/11 in history class”

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thethirteantimes@reddit

This post that asked if streetlights really used to be amber: https://www.reddit.com/r/90s/comments/1tkbiun/did_street_lights_really_use_to_be_orange_amber/

The thing that makes me really feel old is... I can remember when they were white, the first time around...

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Street-Frame1575@reddit

My bones

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Aggressive-Fee-6399@reddit

Aching, aching bones :(

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eldunenorap@reddit

Frankly, being incredibly old seems to have done it.

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sjw_7@reddit

I saw a clip of Steve Irwin yesterday. Couldnt remember how long ago he died so looked it up. It was 20 years ago 😞. I thought it wasnt that long before covid.

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Aggressive-Fee-6399@reddit

I read your comment, shook my head, and said “nonsense”.
I then had a little look online and oh my! Where has the time gone? Also, I’m now having a moment where I’m missing Steve Irwin, he was a wonderful human being.

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TenaStelin@reddit

Being diagnosed with progeria.

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I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS@reddit

Twice in the past week I've begun to tell an anecdote, gone to mention someone's name, and instead come out with 'oh it was, y'know, that girl ummm ohh I can picture her you know the one' while clicking my fingers.

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-Londoneer-@reddit

A colleague asked me if I was born in the 1900s. I laughed then realised...actually, yes.

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

See even now after reading your comment I thought “are you some sort of mentor to young workers/apprentices”?

And then I realised they could be as old as 26.

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notthatbluestuff@reddit

This is a pet peeve that makes me seem old and also pedantic. To me, “1900s” means 1900 to 1909.

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YchYFi@reddit

1900s makes me think of Titanic.

I'm an 80s baby I am not 114 years old yet.

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Logical_Bake_3108@reddit

I think they do it deliberately. You could come in wearing a big top hat with a fancy moustache if you want to play up to it.

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YchYFi@reddit

Hate that feeling when you realise your colleagues were born the year you left school in 2005.

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walkunafraid7@reddit

Born in the 1900s.

There's my weekend ruined 😭

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Warngumer@reddit

I find it's better to say that I was born in the last century, it certainly adds an element of grandeur

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gapyearwellspent@reddit

I mean…millennia is right there

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-Londoneer-@reddit

Oh very nice, very fin de siecle

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External-Praline-451@reddit

If you want to feel really old, we were born in the last millennium 😱

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VOODOO285@reddit (OP)

Haha you’re old too.

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-Londoneer-@reddit

I have survived the longest and know dirtier tricks in a fight, true

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DevilishlyHandsome63@reddit

Sciatica. I'm 62 and have never felt old, but his has certainly made me!!

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Old_Bat282@reddit

I had temporary sciatica when I was pregnant, and combined with being permanently breathless and weighed down, it definitely made me feel old! (Also, they dont let pregnant people have painkillers, so ouch! 😭) I'm sorry you're going through that, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

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DevilishlyHandsome63@reddit

Wow this and pregnancy? I couldn't even imagine how horrendous that must have been!Makes mine seem minor!

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RBII@reddit

If it's any comfort, I'm 32, popped my L4/L5 disc last October and joined the sciatica club - putting jelly in our spines was a bad call by evolution!

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YorkshireMan7273@reddit

Knees.

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DogtasticLife@reddit

Fellow sciatica sufferer, yep being one those grey haired people who sometimes walks with an odd gait

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ArtichokeChemical26@reddit

Holds up surprisingly well you say? If only Bill Pullman was half as presidential in his portrayal as the modern day grifter in chief.

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LadyMirkwood@reddit

Recently, the 30th Anniversary of 'Everything Must Go' by the Manics.

An album i distinctly remember queuing up to by with money from my first part-time job.

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Taucher1979@reddit

My birthday two weeks ago. 47 now.

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Tollowarn@reddit

Had my first age related discount, I'm in the UK and they don't start until you are over 60. OMG I'm now officially old! My state pension doesn't start until I'm 67, can't wait till I get my free bus pass.

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mrbios@reddit

My son just finished school. So yea, that makes me feel old.

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CountryBlue87@reddit

One of my colleagues was born after the Doctor Who reboot. It feels impossible.

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RBII@reddit

This and 9/11 are the two events that freak me out when people can't remember them because they didn't exist

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WowThisIsAwkward_@reddit

I didn't exist on 9/11. I’m now a grown adult with a Masters degree.

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teerbigear@reddit

They didn't half make a fuss

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user-captain@reddit

I work with a lot of millennials and I am Gen X. I feel that every pop culture experience I know, cannot be shared. So I feel old all the time. Plus they over share. I don't know if that's a millennial thing but it makes me feel old because I don't.

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montyrattus@reddit

I am a millennial but also old enough to be a grandad.

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Ambitious-Bat237@reddit

A reel on Facebook of a lad playing cds he inherited from his grandad. The cd was the first Rage Against the Machine album.

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Taramafor@reddit

MS-dos. Windows 95.

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ab00@reddit

OS/2 Warp.

AmigaOS.

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HotBlueberry91@reddit

A student nurse I work with, 18 years old, didn't know who Craig David is.

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ab00@reddit

Lucky her.

That was a dark period for UK music.

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Fair_Wedding_1131@reddit

My Year of birth

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sharpied79@reddit

Remembering how token ring worked on the Premier Biscuits network running a couple of Netware 4.11 (Intranetware) servers from back in the day says I'm old...

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ab00@reddit

I'm interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud internet connection to a 1.5 megabit fiber optic T1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatible with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?

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DavidJonnsJewellery@reddit

Try Jaws. That's 51 years old. Whenever I think of Spielberg, in my head he's still young. Whenever I see him in an interview, I'm faced with a little old man. What the hell happened! It's like I just stepped out of the Tardis

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Anon_on_internet@reddit

"What has made you feel ancient of late?"

Every-bloody-thing. But then I AM old 😉

Realising that we're now as far away from the release of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as it was from the start of WWII,

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ThePodd222@reddit

Eh, no we're not. That was released 1989, “only" 37 years ago and it was released 50 years after the start of WWII (1939).

I remember seeing it in the cinema (the film, not the war) so I'm old too.

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Anon_on_internet@reddit

Ugh, my mistake. Thanks.

We'd been having a general conversation about older films and it must've been another one. That and crap maths 😉

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_Isosceles_Kramer_@reddit

Maybe they meant Raiders of the Lost Ark. (We're actually further away with that one..)

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ThePodd222@reddit

Yeah probably meant Raiders or Temple of Doom. Another reason to hate Short Round 😂

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BlackCatWitch29@reddit

That I'm genuinely older than Rita Ora.

She would have been in the year below me at school but yet there are times when I feel like she looks older than is, which does not help.

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Mother_Ad7869@reddit

Realising it's now 30 years between England's dubious 1966 football World Cup win and the whole 'Three Lions' 1996 song palaver, and another 30 between that song and this year's World Cup! 🥲

60 years of hurt, if you prefer lol. 😆🤭

I'm not even a football fan btw!

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Time_Economy8962@reddit

Don’t say that, they’ll bloody re-record it.

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ab00@reddit

Vindaloo 2026!!!!

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wordsfromlee@reddit

Homer Simpson is supposed to be in his late 30s in The Simpsons.

He was 34-36 in the early seasons, then they aged him up to 37-39 after a while.

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ab00@reddit

Not Bart, Lisa or Maggie though.

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Ready_Structure8115@reddit

Oh fuck

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Christian-Metal@reddit

D'oh!

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Fruitpicker15@reddit

Seeing young people wearing the same fashion we had in the late 80s and early 90s. I told a younger colleague I used to wear that stuff 35 years ago but I don't think she believed me.

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neverarriving@reddit

Went to a gig the other night by a band I last saw play 22 years ago.

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Inoffensive_Comments@reddit

We’ve been watching ‘Race Across the World’. The two young guys, Jo & Kush, both from Liverpool, struggled to remember the 4 names of The Beatles.

Surely that’s literally impossible?

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

Loads of things.

I have a 5 year old and she had a friend over after school.

Her parents are in their early to mid 20s, I am 40.

I could be their parents.

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bumbleb33-@reddit

Eminem is a grandad. Damn we are old

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YchYFi@reddit

He really is twice over.

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This_Palpitation6617@reddit

My son is getting into old school music as he calls it. Eminem is one of his favourites at the minute I don’t mind as used to listen to it 20 odd years ago. Fuck man I remember it all coming out

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

Yeah, bands like oasis to teenagers today like band like the stones were to me as a teen

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msbabc@reddit

Definitely Maybe is ten years older now than Exile On Main Street was when Definitely Maybe came out.

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bumbleb33-@reddit

Vintage fashion....that I wore new the 1st time. Kids today never knowing what it was like in the "Be kind. Rewind" era of a weekly outing to blockbuster on a Friday

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W51976@reddit

When nobody can remember songs you remember from your childhood or teen years, and you realise they were born after 2000.

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InviteAromatic6124@reddit

I'm pretty much the only person out of all my colleagues that remembers Diana's death

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blueantioxygens@reddit

I went to watch my little brother play football on the pitch me and my best friend last played against each other on at under 16s. I’m 32 now, so it dawned on me that the same amount of time has passed SINCE that game as my ENTIRE LIFE up until that point. Genuinely freaked me out

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geth1962@reddit

My younger son is 38 in October

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Angelsomething@reddit

Met with friends of the same who look much much older than me. Or so I thought.

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W51976@reddit

Realising the year 2000 is 26 years ago, and I’m working with people who weren’t even born then.

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andyff@reddit

One thing I've noticed several times across several different sports; players that were popular in the 90s and 00s when I was growing up now have their children playing. Feel so old even though I'm still in my 30s.

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duke_of_germany_5@reddit

Had a 17 year old cut my hair and he didn’t know i was 25/26

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Fabulous_Function666@reddit

Shriek being shown at the cinema for its 25th anniversary 😭 I was 13 when it came out and I refuse to believe that was 25 years ago

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MaltDizney@reddit

I'm an ex-athlete, still in pretty good shape, but I'm now limping from doing the dads race at sports day.

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duke_of_germany_5@reddit

Shaun of the dead is 22 years old…

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Realistic_Pickle2309@reddit

You are definitely not old if you were 4 in 2004 😭 I was 19!

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duke_of_germany_5@reddit

I may not feel old but holy shit i can’t imagine how quick time has passed so fast

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msbabc@reddit

Someone posted in a thread about feeling old about how they were 4 when Shaun of the Dead came out.

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Frequent-Frosting336@reddit

Realising me being a kid in the 70s watching a WC Fields film ,is the same a someone watching

a Will Smith film today.

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AdaandFred@reddit

We're going away next week for our niece's wedding (which in itself makes me feel old) but I got excited today because we're going to be near a Booths (a supermarket so posh it makes Waitrose look like a dodgy cornershop).

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Logical_Bake_3108@reddit

Going to the Scotmid (co-op) self service which gives the minimum date for someone being 18 that day.

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NotEvil_JustBritish@reddit

I recently bumped into a woman whom I used to babysit, back when she was 3 and I was 14. She told me she's about to become a grandmother.

Like, I know I'm getting on...I'm 50 this year. But that just messed with my head.

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OhWhatADaaay@reddit

When someone born in 2008 is 18.. 2008 feels like a couple weeks ago

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CelebrationSimilar11@reddit

At work recently I denied sale to someone before I realised that those born in early 2008 are legal enough to drink. It felt so wrong for some reason.

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genxerrr@reddit

Eye of the Tiger came on the radio and I started singing to it and pretending I was Rocky Balboa. Came out in 1982.

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jurwell@reddit

There’s an equal number of years between the millennium and me finishing university, to me finishing university and now. Also, I’ve been employed at my current job for the same amount of time from me starting reception to finishing my A-levels.

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SplodgySplodge1@reddit

Seeing old pics of bands in the 80's and 90's who looked much older than me back in the day... and who now in those same pics look like teenagers.

Also, life before mobile phones.

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Christian-Metal@reddit

I agree with your thoughts on the film. It blew my mind as an 11 year old, and it still holds up very well. It's great fun.

I'm 40. A mate in our group who lives some distance from us recently had his 40th birthday. He suggested two options: He would be happy to travel you'd for a night out in our local town, and set over. Or we could meet up for a night out in London like we used to and go somewhere like Camden or Shoreditch, even the west end.

5 years ago I would have jumped at the chance to go to London: a brilliant and expensive night out, but really it's the place to be if you fancy it. We have had so many great nights out some of which are the stuff of legend in our group.

Yet for some reason, my first thought was immediately: Oh buggar that, I can't be arsed, too far (45 minutes trian ride) too expensive, too busy, can't be bothered navigating the transport home when drunk (despite doing this hundreds of times) and the very idea itself just exhausted me.

And that was it. That was the "oh shit, I'm not 23 anymore" moment. But hold on, I was only 23 about three years ago, wasn't I?

No.

We went out to our local town instead. And it was perfect.

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Weylane@reddit

I’m older / similar age than the parents of the shows I watched as a teen. The OC, Dawson’s Creek, One Tree Hill, …

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wastrelbaggins@reddit

I hate to say it, but James Van der Beek dying was a bit of a moment for me. We're about the same age and I used to watch Dawson's Creek 'cos Katie Holmes.

The initial thought was "He can't be dead, he's about 20 something", then reality hit.

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Weylane@reddit

Yeah, that was really tragic. Michelle Williams organised a cast reunion to support a charity researching Cancer, they were all reading their lines from the Pilot Episode. Lin Manuel Miranda was the one who read James' as he was unable to attend due to his health 🥹

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Mobile-Stomach719@reddit

Music normally. Whenever I hear Motorcycle Emptiness by Manic Street Preachers, which I first heard them play live in 1991....

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The_Perky@reddit

31 years since Richey Manic disappeared 😞

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Suspicious_Field_429@reddit

No way😯 I was shocked to learn "Everything Must Go" was 30 on Wednesday just passed 😭 I also seen them on their first tour in 91 😭

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Mobile-Stomach719@reddit

Scary!

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Away_Swim1967@reddit

Realising my favourite album, that I bought when it came out, is over 40 yrs old.

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Dramatic-Energy-4411@reddit

Last September was the 30th anniversary of passing driving test. While that's horrifying enough, I mentioned to someone today who replied "I wasnt even born then".

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Mukatsukuz@reddit

I mentioned to a colleague that, when I got a Japanese driving licence I had to show them my British one and it was falling apart, held together with sellotape, etc and they couldn't understand what I was talking about until I realised they didn't know driving licences used to be made of paper.

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Ergophobe470@reddit

A few years ago I was getting car insurance quotes and was surprised that the drop down menu for year of birth went into the 2000s. That's when I realised there were now people old enough to drive who weren't born when I passed my test.

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GlumAd9856@reddit

The first time I think I felt old was when I was talking to a work colleague and they were too young to have heard of Waynes World.

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Enough-Ad3818@reddit

I made a joke about BA Baracus at work, and barring one person, the rest of the team just stared at me. My similar aged colleague and ai then had to explain what The A Team was, who BA Baracus was, who Mr T was, and finally the reason why Snickers was involved.

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horse_course@reddit

Nothing less funny than a joke you have to explain. The longer the explanation takes, the worse it is.

We should just ship ourselves off to the old folks home already, where can watch A-team repeats and argue about micro machines.

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qwogadiletweeth@reddit

Sept 11th is now to many working age people what Pearl Harbour was to us.

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Salt-Trade-5210@reddit

Telling some of the kids that I teach that my 13th birthday present was to go and see the movie Grease that had just come out. That was almost 50 years ago 😭

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Scary-Star4998@reddit

Realising at 51 that I’m about to become a Dad again, yet when this newbie is 18 and starting out in the world I’ll be a couple of months away from being 70! If it’s a Girl I may never be able to walk her down the aisle or meet my first grandchild!

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Time_Economy8962@reddit

My parents had me in their late 40s. Aside from people believing that my siblings were my parents and that my parents were my grandparents, it was pretty normal! It did lead me to believe that my best friend’s mum was actually her older sister for several years though, because I thought siblings just…were 18+ years older by default.

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rileydaisydoggywoggy@reddit

Congratulations! My Husband became a Dad again at 52. You get to have lots of fun and he says that these have been the best days of his life.

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Scary-Star4998@reddit

I’m sure it’ll be a great time for me! Luckily I don’t look 51 so won’t be the guy that gets the “look Granddad has come to pick you up” comment. It’s impossible not to have these situations play on your mind. I’m excited and hopeful that after 3 boys this will be the Daddy’s girl I crave

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rhetnor@reddit

Films are one of the worst things for this

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Mukatsukuz@reddit

I find films vs computer games released at the same time really freak me out because the computer games look way older than the films. The Matrix came out around the same time as the original Half Life and Rollercoaster Tycoon.

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FortunateOrchanet@reddit

Mirrors.

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ThisMomIsAMother@reddit

I took my daughter out for lunch the other day and as the waitress handed me the bill she commented that she applied one discount to the bill. We were confused and looked at the bill to discover she gave me a SENIOR discount without even asking because it was so obvious! This was a crushing blow.

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Antergaton@reddit

Similar as it's a film thing. I was watching The Tigger Movie with my niece. It has been longer since the Tigger Movie to now, than it was from Adventures of Winnie The Pooh film to the Tigger Movie.

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leenoc@reddit

I saw a pack of these on the shelves and made a joke to my 28 year old co-worker that it had to be a Prodigy reference.

I get maybe not getting a Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd reference but she had never even heard of the The Prodigy. One of the biggest bands of the 90s/early 00s (in the UK at least) and they headlined Glastonbury last year.

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unbelievablydull82@reddit

I've woken up in absolute agony in my thighs, and I have no idea why. I have whole days where I can't remember what happened, and cannot remember the beginning of a 30 second conversation by the end, even my kids names slip my mind, and I forget we have a dog that we've owned for 8 years. I'm only 44

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Howard1981@reddit

One of my colleagues and his co-workers had never watched (nor heard of) the Back To The Future films. I don’t talk to them any more.

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LazyBarracuda@reddit

I tried to explain to a colleague what a floppy disk looked like.

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apokrif1@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/9r5b3a/the_release_of_jurassic_park_1993_is_closer_to/

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Competitive_Test6697@reddit

I forgot my birthday. Went around all day until my aunt sent me happy 42nd birthday.

On top of that I thought I was 42 for the past year

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Tompsk@reddit

I realised I’m old when I remember I had an ash tray on my desk in my first office job. And no computer.

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SatisfactionMoney426@reddit

In 1980 at my first job we had a computer terminal that had a C60 cassette to record incoming data and I had to transfer the tape to a printer - no screen. If I wanted to then write a letter a typist took it down in shorthand and brought it back for signing ...

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paper_truck@reddit

The Smith’s ’Queen is Dead’ album came out 40 years ago. FORTY. YEARS. Does not compute.

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Terrible_Bluebird540@reddit

Any mirror 😭

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Jimi-K-101@reddit

At the end my wife commented that’s it’s a good film for one that’s so old and I said yeah 1994. Then it appeared on the screen and it was released in 1996. My brain then realised that it was 30 years old.

So you first thought it was 32 years old, then were shocked to find it's 30?

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Bipolar03@reddit

My son when he turned around he asked what was life like before the Google. I miss them days

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Naive-Age2749@reddit

They say, you're only as old as the woman you feel.

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Justvisitingfriends1@reddit

On line forms for birth date. Having to spin the year dial like it is the wheel of fortune. Every time it says pick your year and it is a big scroll back, didn't used to be. 🤣

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Unlucky-Public-2947@reddit

The invention of grunge is further away from today’s music than the invention of rock and roll was when grunge was invented. .

Note: this was worked out as Elvis’ 1st single for R&R and Nirvana first single for grunge.

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Outrageous_Pool_2529@reddit

BBC Archive is now uploading videos from the 2000s

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Mithent@reddit

It was striking how comparatively recently they were considering whether mobile Internet would catch on.

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Peac0ck69@reddit

I was watching Off Campus on Amazon prime last week and the band in the show played U + Ur Hand by P!nk. The main character then turned around and said “I love a throwback!”.

I googled the song and it came out 20 years ago.

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Worth_Gap4226@reddit

I'm now the age my mum was when she gave birth to me.

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FIREBIRDC9@reddit

Halo 3 was released more than half of my life ago.....

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Xmarksthestitch@reddit

Going into Hollister and realising all the clothes are for teens and now M&S is more my style

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AndyTheSane@reddit

Not quite recently, but when I tried to play Fortnite with the kids. Suddenly my first person shooter reactions have gone..

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Far-Adhesiveness3763@reddit

You feel old when you're cultural references create silence

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IDKBear25@reddit

Exmples?

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quite_acceptable_man@reddit

Or when you're moving a large item with the help of a much younger colleague, and you say "to me!" and they look at you blankly.

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Far-Adhesiveness3763@reddit

You quote a popular line from a TV show such as red dwarf or Alan partridge and people stare at you blankly, so you say it's from red dwarf and they reply, what's that?

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Psychological-Ad1264@reddit

This smegging country!

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Far-Adhesiveness3763@reddit

Exactly, youngsters would probably think it's a reference to a fridge

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Sea_Pomegranate8229@reddit

Steve Jobs died 15 years ago.

When you have finished feeling old - think on the fact that I was born 15 years after WWII.

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Alasdair91@reddit

The fact that people who are almost 20 now were born when I went to University. And the fact that that is ~20 years ago… 😫

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LazyEmu5073@reddit

This thread...

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1tkm2pw/til_aluminium_cans_used_to_be_opened_by_pulling/

People who've never seen a ring-pull can!!

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VolcanicBear@reddit

I... I'm 40 and I've never seen one tbh.

I had no idea the kind of can I've interacted with my entire life is apparently the hip new version.

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RoleMysterious8756@reddit

You should check out the old push button style cans, another gem you’ve probably missed.

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Bum-Sniffer@reddit

‘The ring came off my pudding can?’

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usernameinmail@reddit

Take my penknife, my good man!

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LazyEmu5073@reddit

Drinks cans, specifically. I'll add that to my post.

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VOODOO285@reddit (OP)

I still remember them being steel and everyone being annoyed they were replacing it with aluminium. Never understood why.

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jungleddd@reddit

I’m 50. The 80s will always be 20 years ago. The 70s is 30 years ago. Time stopped about 2005 and I don’t care what anyone else says.

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zer0c00l81@reddit

Me n the mrs talking about media and film last night, I reminded her I graduated uni in 2003, she was like I was still in high school...great 😄

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Sackyhap@reddit

I realised the other day that Shrek came out 25 years ago.. even the new fourth one actually came out 16 years ago!

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quite_acceptable_man@reddit

I saw Clarkson, Hammond & May Top Gear referred to as 'Old Top Gear' on one of the UK car subs.

I still think of that as New Top Gear.

Old Top Gear is Jeremy Clarkson, Tiff Needell and Quentin Willson talking about Ford Mondeos, and the motorbike guy Steve Berry talking about Dyoo-KAT-ees

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Notwhoyouthink_Iam03@reddit

Two things: Growing up, 'oldies' music to me was music of the 60s, so, 20ish years before my teen years. Which means for kids of a similar age now, music of the early 2000s would be 'oldies.'

Second thing: Being aware of 'new' things at the time - internet in people's homes, going from word processors at work to actual computer, but now being surpassed by technology to the point where my cell phone is something I only use for texts and calls and my Lidl app, even though I know it does squillions of other things, and that many people basically live all their 'life admin' stuff through theirs.

My dear old godmother once said in frustration, after trying to get through to her bank, "The recording kept asking me to choose from a menu, but I'm calling the bank, not a restaurant!" At the time us youngsters had a good laugh about that but honestly, I'm starting to feel just like that, when faced with how things work today!

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Screaming_lambs@reddit

I'm 42. I remember going to see that at the cinema.

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Emergency_Bridge_430@reddit

When my company first employed someone whose year of birth started with a 2. That was when middle age really kicked in for me

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No-Pause6574@reddit

I was sat around the table at a team dinner recently and the CEO said to one present "You are the only one here not born in the 60"s" (she was born in 1980). I slowly shook my head. He looked at me and said "59?" I said "58"... and that led me to announce my retirement!

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davehemm@reddit

Rewatched Dragonslayer the other day - one of the first films my uncle took me to see at the cinema. Yeah that sucker is 45 years old ... (First one he took me to was Empire strikes back in 1980 - i was too young for him to take me to A New Hope)

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Ergophobe470@reddit

Already a few years ago, on a rare visit to my old university city, I happened to walk past my old hall of residence. I saw a group of students walking in, and realised they would not even have been born when I was there.

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Scott-Cheggs@reddit

A 40 year old painter & decorator working at my house had never heard of Steve McQueen or watched the Great Escape.

I made my self scarce & then was doing maths in my head to clarify this madness.

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theocrats@reddit

Im 39 and that guy just lacks culture

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ThePodd222@reddit

That's not even that young, he might just be an idiot.

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Gingy2210@reddit

Having a grandchild in Y7 at secondary school makes me feel old.

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Repulsive-Note-112@reddit

I have many decades experience in not getting killed, it has allowed me to live in two millenia.

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coleslawontoast@reddit

Family friends son is 18, sure he was like 4 last week

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dvb70@reddit

A friend of mines kids had no idea what a DVD was. They are both teens and they have grown up in a world with streaming media and never used physical media. I used to think people who had never used a tape deck must be very young and now it's got to the stage where even DVD's are becoming an unknown technology.

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MidnightRambler87@reddit

I showed an image to my teenage nephew of me as a baby with over ear headphones on connected to a hi-fi. He had zero clue,

I’m pushing 40.

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JeremySausage1@reddit

I was born when the Beatles were just taking off 😂

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This_Palpitation6617@reddit

A lad at work was on about buying a old car to mess about in and something sporty but cheap. He said there’s a good old fiesta st for sale but it’s older than me. I bought one of them brand new on the same year he was going to buy. Anyway my back hurts I hate getting old

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ToManyTabsOpen@reddit

When my doctor said "it's common in people your age". I'm in my mid-40s

I also took some comfort to work out the approximate time I can retire, at least to a 3 year window.

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Phospherocity@reddit

Somehow I was OK with the first Lord of the Rings film being 20 but am not OK with it being 25.

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Matrixblackhole@reddit

Realising I was born in 'the late 1900's' 🤢

I'm soon to be 27.

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merryman1@reddit

A few years ago I was still working at universities. I realized I was only a couple of years off hitting a point where the incoming freshers at 18 wouldn't even have been born when I started my own undergraduate. And that still almost feels like yesterday. That was genuinely terrifying.

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LockedinYou@reddit

We had an 22yr old start at my place of work.... he looked about 12. I was once 22 starting here aswell and now I'm not 😭

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bbqandgin@reddit

Was with a few friends, one younger. I was talking about how I was late because I forgot to wind up my watch. She asked what that meant. I'm a millennial fossil ☠️

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Illustrious_Brain788@reddit

Weird aches … what’s that about?! So now I need to beware of sleeping

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Super-Plantain-1169@reddit

Realising I'm now the same age as Patrick Stewart was when he played Cpt Picard in Star Trek... And I always thought he looked like an old man!

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MeasurementFew4314@reddit

I'd had only just gotten used to being older than all the players of the football team I support. That wasnt ideal but I could live with it.

Then within 2y they hired a manager who is younger than me.

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Ok-Error2510@reddit

Having to scroll down far too far to fimd my birth year on any date question.

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TroublesZoo@reddit

I consume a lot of retrogaming content, podcasts, YouTube shows and magazines etc.

A lot of them over the last year have started to do features on the Xbox360 and it's games, as it is now over 20 years old.

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ldn-ldn@reddit

ZX Spectrum games are not on these shows anymore, that's how you know you're really old - no one remembers the games you used to play.

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TroublesZoo@reddit

Ha, yeah when I started reading retrogamer magazine about 15 or so years ago most of the features were Speccy and C64 games.

It's been PS2 and Gamecube games for year now

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Derfel60@reddit

I saw a post the other day about Man Utds 2008 team and realised that was almost 20 years ago.

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nightfire_83@reddit

I love happy hardcore and rave, and i was listening to one of my favourite sets yesterday. It's also 30 years old. Fuck.

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Knitterwitter909@reddit

The Kylie Minogue documentary on Netflix

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BalasaarNelxaan@reddit

One of the baby lawyers on my team referred to a case from the 1990s as “a case from the late 1900s but it’s still good law”

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Arbernaut@reddit

I’m watching the original Star Wars in the cinema years old. Yikes.

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flip8t2@reddit

Thinking about it before I run up the stairs....

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hunsnet457@reddit

Had to recount a few medical procedures I had at the doctors and when talking casually I said they were about 2-3 years ago.

They were 9 years ago.

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Tight-Principle-743@reddit

Christian Fuchs the defender who won the premier league with Leicester in 2015/16 is not only retired, he’s in management with Newport County.

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IDKBear25@reddit

Very niche, I like it!

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hanwestwood@reddit

Someone told me they loved my winged eyeliner the other day, and asked how I did it, so I thanked them and said “Well, I’ve been doing it this way since I was twelve so I’ve had . . . 20 years to perfect it” and I had to do the maths more than once to make sure my internal freak-out was warranted

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melanie110@reddit

I’m rally quite close to a lass at work. She HR but shes 25. I’m 45. My son is 22

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Infamous_Care_5456@reddit

When I had a Vintage Clothes shop in 2010 and stocked it with merch only up to the 60s, and young people kept coming in expecting stuff from the 70s and 80s, aka my youth, and which, for me, was the week before last.

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snakeoildriller@reddit

Looking in the mirror after one of the rated-poor (Garmin) sleeps that I've been having lately.

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PARFT@reddit

a kidney stone

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VOODOO285@reddit (OP)

Had 2. The single worst thing I’ve ever had. I never understood the expression blinded by pain until that. Unbearable. I can’t fathom much worse.

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So_Southern@reddit

Googling football players and their year of birth starts with a 2

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GlueSniffingEnabler@reddit

Getting back into cricket again. I keep getting small injuries so I can’t move as athletically as I used too 😢

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AffectionateAd8377@reddit

I thought Jurassic Park was released around 1996 as I remember going to cinema to watch it as a child. Saw a YouTube video about it the other day and said it was 1993. I couldn't believe it. I know it's only 3 years but it made me realise just how old I was if I could remember going to see it.

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Disastrous-Place-846@reddit

On the radio the other day they mentioned how old the first toy story movie was, pretty sure they said it was 30 years old too or something close to that!

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EyeAware3519@reddit

When I started watching football all the players were older than me.

Then some of the youth team players got a shot in the first team and we're younger than me, that made me feel grown up.

Then the star players started getting younger than me and it made me feel old.

Then players younger than me started retiring from playing and that made me feel really old.

Then I became older than all the players and I felt ancient.

Now I am older than most of the managers and I am basically a vampire at this point.

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