Stuff That Makes You Feel Old

[North East Goon]

Isnt the #1 song on the pop charts right now a song called "Moves like Jagger"? I guess that doesnt necessarily mean the kids know the Stones music however.

[Cowperson]

The kids who once wore these buttons on university campuses are now in their 60's.



Cowperson

[troutman]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

"A quarter to a raping" would have been the appropriate answer.

The big hand is on the little hand.

[Bonded]

This

[TheyCallMeBruce]

You know you're old when you're out on a date and while bringing up movies from your childhood, your date references "ID4 and Jurassic Park."

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

The kids who once wore these buttons on university campuses are now in their 60's.



Cowperson

Didn't realize you had the internet back then.

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

Didn't realize you had the internet back then.

Not only didn't "they" have internet back then, they hadn't invented 8-Tracks yet, there was no cable television, 70% of Canadian males were smokers and the Vancouver Canucks hadn't been born yet.

The author of the quote "Don't Trust Anyone Over 30," first uttered in a newspaper interview in 1965, is actually 70 years old this year.

A story from 2000,

Don't trust anyone over 30, unless it's Jack Weinberg
Daily Planet Staff
Thursday April 06, 2000


The man who coined the phrase “Don’t trust anyone over 30” turned 60 years old Tuesday.

Jack Weinberg uttered the phrase – which became one of the most memorable expressions of the turbulent 1960s era – during the height of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. The Free Speech Movement was a struggle by students over the right to engage in political speech on campus, which helped to catalyze broader political activism on campuses around the country over student rights, civil rights and the Vietnam War.

In a news release recently distributed by a Chicago public relations agency – owned by his wife, it should be noted – Weinberg says he made the statement primarily to get rid of a reporter who was bothering him. He doesn’t even regard the statement as the most important thing he’s ever said.

“I was being interviewed by a newspaper reporter and he kept asking me who was ‘really’ behind the actions of students, implying that we were being directed behind the scenes by the Communists or some other sinister group,” Weinberg recalled.

“I told him we had a saying in the movement that we don’t trust anybody over 30. It was a way of telling the guy to back off, that nobody was pulling our strings.”

A columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted the quote and other newspapers across the country picked it up.

“It went from journalist to journalist, then leaders in the movement started using it because they saw the extent it shook up the older generation,” Weinberg said.

Weinberg, who currently lives in Chicago and works for the Environmental Health Fund on international toxic pollution issues, has remained an activist since his student days.

He worked for Greenpeace, the international environmental organization, for the past 10 years. In January he left to join the Environmental Health Fund, a Boston-based organization that works with public interest groups to protect public health from injury caused by chemical pollution and other forms of environmental disruption.

Weinberg works with organizations around the world – especially in developing countries – to build a global, activist network that challenges many of the policies and practices of the international chemical industry.

Following his student days, Weinberg was a union activist for many years.

In 1982, an organization of unionists, community members and environmentalist led by Weinberg successfully defeated a nuclear power plant proposed in Indiana on Lake Michigan.


http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2000-04-06/article/759?headline=Don-t-trust-anyone-over-30-unless-it-s-Jack-Weinberg

Cowperson

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by TheyCallMeBruce

You know you're old when you're out on a date and while bringing up movies from your childhood, your date references "ID4 and Jurassic Park."

yup.. the girl that was in Jurassic Park is now 32.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

yup.. the girl that was in Jurassic Park is now 32.

Yes, but did she do soft-core porn when her career bagan to falter?

[Huntingwhale]

Originally Posted by Methanolic

Knowing what "Never trust a fart" means.

That doesn't mean you're old. If anything, this should be taught at a young age.

[wookster]

My first truck didn't have seatbelts, airbags or safety glass...
I remember how mad everyone was when the seatbelt law came into effect.

I was at the 88 olympics...
I miss the drive-in theatre and the original A&W drive-in where they would bring your meal out to your vehicle for you

Im also old enough to remember when harass was two words....)

[saskflames69]

I know I get beaked on this thread for being the youngest guy on here but a few nights ago I went to a blades game and looked at the roster and they had guys born in 96 on the team.. Next year there will be 1997 born rookies on the roster even younger than me..

and like 4 years ago those guys on the blades were my heroes

I know.. I should just shut up

[worth]

I wish that drive in was still around. I went there when I was a kid. That was fun.

[habernac]

20 and 30 year olds thinking they're old makes me feel old

[CaptainCrunch]

The girl in the 80's movies that you totally fantasized about




Is probably a GILF now

[flamesfever]

I tend to feel old(er):

- when getting together with friends, the main topic of interest seems to center on aches and pains.

- when it won't be long before the grandkids start thinking about which University they hope to attend.

- when you look forward to an afternoon nap.

- when the police look like teenagers.

- when everyone you meet addresses you as "Sir".

- when you look in the mirror, and the image doesn't jive with how you think of yourself.

- when you don't leave the paper without checking the obits.

- when you think of your youth, and you can remember things like Foster Hewitt doing the NHL ply-by-play, Syl Apps as the Captain of the Maple Leafs, and George Armstrong the captain of the Marlies.

- when you can also remember watching Joe Louis fight Jersey Joe Walcott, looking through a store window at a the latest new device called a television.

- when you can remember listening on the radio to Lux Family Theater, Boston Blacky and the Inner Sanctum.

[metallicat]

I felt old when I found out that Britney Spears is, or is turning, 30.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

The girl in the 80's movies that you totally fantasized about

Kristy McNichol is 49.

[Bagor]

When you hear that tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the release of "Nevermind".

[lazypucker]

When I can't eat more than 2 slices of pizza or 2 pieces of KFC in a single sitting...