Your Most Disturbing Realizations

[vitanola]

Excuses, excuses. I would think that rendered Senators would make a fine substitute for Mastodon Lard. They are currently available in superabundance, and since they are doing absolutely nothing anyway...

 

[MisterCairo]

This June will be my 30th anniversary of high school graduation.

In perspective - 30 years before my grad, Elvis was starting out.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I know how you feel. I was setting my phonograph shed in order and found a whole box of mouldy brown wax cylinders!.

My smoke signal blanket turned up the other day!

I ran out of ochre for my cave paintings.

Im so poor I don't have two rocks to pound together.

 

[vitanola]

Im so poor I don't have two rocks to pound together.

Well, if you haven't got the rocks you can always pound sand...

 

[Zombie_61]

Im so poor I don't have two rocks to pound together.

I'm so poor I can't afford to pay attention.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Well, if you haven't got the rocks you can always pound sand...

I live at the southern tip of Lake Michigan. That's easily doable.

 

[MisterCairo]

My daughters, 9 and 7, have never been in a record store.

But they will see their first shortly - we just had a vinyl place, new and used, open up in Stratford!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Is selfmade milk-Kefir celebrating a comeback in the U.S., too?

 

[plain old dave]

Doctor Who stuff.

Matt Smith, the Eleventh Doctor, was about one when I started watching.
David Tennant, the Tenth, is roughly MY age.
Jenna Coleman was negative three when I started watching.
Peter Capaldi AND David Tennant are sort of second generation Whovians; they grew up watching and have been ON the thing.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

When I first started to watch Dr. Who, William Hartnell was the doctor ..................apparently, I hid behind the sofa during most of the episodes. They made 'em really scary back then.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I started watching Who in the mid-70s on PBS, when the Third Doctor was just wrapping up his tenure. It disturbs me to realize that the young hippie-bohemian scarf-wearing guy who replaced him is now a puffy old gentleman in his eighties.

It disturbs me even more to realize that Mr. Hartnell, the doddering old First Doctor, was only fifty-seven years of age when he took on the role. That's only four years older than I am now, dear boy, hmmm? Dear dear, this is most disturbing.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

This June will be my 30th anniversary of high school graduation.

In perspective - 30 years before my grad, Elvis was starting out.

Thirty years before I graduated from high school Elvis WAS still in high school.

 

[magnolia76]

Every time I see a "retro" anomaly like a video rental store or a pay phone, I make sure to take a picture of my 1 year old in front of it so he can know they once existed!

 

[Fading Fast]

It's probably been covered in this thread, but what is really disturbing is that kids today see DVDs as ancient technology - VHS tapes are fossils as far as they are concerned and not being able to record TV was Adam and Eve's second biggest problem.

But DVDs, my God, it doesn't seem that long ago that they were the "new" thing that killed VHS tapes.

 

[tonyb]

Doctor Who stuff.

Matt Smith, the Eleventh Doctor, was about one when I started watching.
David Tennant, the Tenth, is roughly MY age.
Jenna Coleman was negative three when I started watching.
Peter Capaldi AND David Tennant are sort of second generation Whovians; they grew up watching and have been ON the thing.

Doctor Who?

Who dat?

 

[Zombie_61]

It's probably been covered in this thread, but what is really disturbing is that kids today see DVDs as ancient technology - VHS tapes are fossils as far as they are concerned and not being able to record TV was Adam and Eve's second biggest problem.

But DVDs, my God, it doesn't seem that long ago that they were the "new" thing that killed VHS tapes.

With the increase of electronic music media and the ability to download, upload, and otherwise share such media through the Interwebz in recent years, you could almost say the same of audio CDs.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Two of the kids I work with -- 22 and 28 years old -- not only still own VCRs, they still use them. And they didn't even pick it up from me.

 

[Stearmen]

Doctor Who stuff.

Matt Smith, the Eleventh Doctor, was about one when I started watching.
David Tennant, the Tenth, is roughly MY age.
Jenna Coleman was negative three when I started watching.
Peter Capaldi AND David Tennant are sort of second generation Whovians; they grew up watching and have been ON the thing.

Tennant was only alive for a couple of years before I watched my first and only Dr. Who back in the 70s. Ironically, he is the one, I actually watched on Disney a while back, I thought he was good, but I am not a DWAS!

 

[BlueTrain]

Well, let's see here; I find it more remarkable than disturbing that I see so many death notices and obituaries in the newspaper (we still get the paper) who were younger than I am. But typically it's the older people who have the more interesting obituaries. More likely, though, it's just those who had interesting lives who have obituaries in the first place.

 

[2jakes]

^^^^^
Newspaper obituaries = $$$$$$$$$$

Most likely, I won’t see one .

Literally or otherwise.