• @Tujio@lemmy.world
    8•2 years ago

    I was at Warped Tour many years ago, talking with randos in the campground. I mentioned which bands I was there to see, and this guy gave me a huge smile and yelled ‘You’re old’ in my face.

    • Lem Jukes
      2•2 years ago

      I went in 2018 and only went for/recognized reel big fish… Wuf

  • Electric_Druid
    8•2 years ago

    Well, throwing out my lower back bending over a table a couple weeks ago sure didn’t help…

      • shastaxc
        2•2 years ago

        Yep. It hit me at 32. I literally wasn’t even bending over. I walked about 30 feet in my house and by the time I got to the couch I was in terrible pain

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      2•2 years ago

      IMO fuck everyone who doesn’t care about good quality appliances. They are to blame for how common shitty ones are these days. Especially developers who just get something that looks nice but actually sucks when you use it.

      Glares at oven that takes forever to preheat, doesn’t keep the temperature even once it does, and has a drawer oven that takes even longer to preheat than the shitty main oven takes to preheat and COOK things

      • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
        1•2 years ago

        I’ve been quite poor my whole life. For me simply having the appliance, in my own apartment, is amazing. One year I lived in a little place with a little washer and dryer in the closet. It was incredible. The washer didn’t drain right, and the dryer would go for hours without drying the clothes, but it was still amazing because it was the first time ever I’d had a washer and dryer of my own that I didn’t have to go outside to use.

      • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
        1•2 years ago

        I sell appliances and the number of times I hear “It’s for a rental”, as a reason to get the cheapest thing, is depressing.

  • @egonallanon@lemm.ee
    6•2 years ago

    I was speaking to someone at a party recently and realised they where both in their 20s and born after 9/11. Was quite a moment.

  • @charlytune@mander.xyz
    6•2 years ago

    At my BF’s cousin’s 18th birthday party, a small family do at the uncle and aunt’s house. The living room was full of people 60+, so as 30 something young people we naturally headed out into the hallway to hang with the cousins and their friends. All these young people barely registered us and just moved aside to let us past, they didn’t even look at us, just carried on talking to each other. We got to the kitchen and looked at each other and just went oh shit, we’re old aren’t we. Grabbed drinks and headed back to the old folk, at least they would speak to us!

      • @Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        For me it was “Why are they remaking Metroid Prime? The original looks fine and it was only released in… 2002? Oh god… that’s 21 years ago…” One of my favorite games in college is old enough to drink.

        • @bozo@lemmy.world
          2•2 years ago

          Want to really feel old? In just a little over two years from now, the Xbox 360 will be 20 years old.

  • maegul (he/they)English
    5•2 years ago

    When I honestly felt that what my homemade juice/blended smoothie thingy needed more of was celery and that without enough celery it was too sweet and lacked body. That was the day there was no more pretending. Only a year before had I suffered through my first back injury, so they can go together.

    Otherwise, the beginnings of it for me were when I noticed warming up for physical exercise took longer. 10-15 minute bicycle commutes used to require no warm up at all. Then I’d feel warmed up only by the end of them. That’s when I knew I was turning the corner.

  • GumbyEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Within the past few years, once my neck problems started getting worse and I finally went for an MRI and was diagnosed with arthritis.

    0/10, do not recommend.