That "oh god I'm old" feeling :-)

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#3264598 26-Jul-2024 10:21

I accidentally signed up to the Hoyts Rewards program with the incorrect year of birth - 10 years erlier than I was born. As a result, I became eligible for seniors discounts - I tried to explain I'd made an error when buying ticlets over the counter, but the cashier just smiled as if I was some senile old man. I now pay senior rates for the movies.
I am not old enough by any stretch, but clearly look it.

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#3264603 26-Jul-2024 10:55

While talking about when I worked the night of Y2K one of my team said "What's Y2K?", unironically.

Time to retire.

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#3264604 26-Jul-2024 11:10

My Gmail address is xxxxxx@gmail.com, all characters and no numbers.

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#3264605 26-Jul-2024 11:11

gehenna:

While talking about when I worked the night of Y2K one of my team said "What's Y2K?", unironically.

That one will probably still be working when the 2038 bug rolls around.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” George Santayana, 1905.

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#3264608 26-Jul-2024 11:17

richms:

My flybuys card is old enough to drink and vote.

Unfortunately it’s terminally ill.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3264612 26-Jul-2024 11:19

larknz:

My Gmail address is xxxxxx@gmail.com, all characters and no numbers.

Likewise mine is the same as I use everywhere. Back when it needed invites to get it and you got a set number every so often.

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#3264614 26-Jul-2024 11:22

I must be old.

Been an AA member for 46 years and called them out twice.

I have been 30 years at my current job, which is before half my workmates were born.

Remember the leadup to Y2K that turned out to be pretty much a non-event.

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#3264622 26-Jul-2024 11:38

eracode:

I was early enough in the game when Xtra started around 1996 that I was able to get my three initials as my email address - xxx@xtra.co.nz. Thought nothing of it at the time. This is one reason why I am reluctant to move from Xtra.

On the plus side you can get your own domain so you have firstname@lastname.nz instead nowadays...

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#3264630 26-Jul-2024 11:44

Old enough to have had a jetstart "fast" internet connection?

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#3264650 26-Jul-2024 12:18

I recently caught up with my niece who I hadn't seen for ~5yrs (thanks COVID). She's 22yrs old and just caught the running bug so she asked me to join her for a run. Awesome I thought, something we now have in common and a chance for me to get to know the young woman she has become.

~75mins and 15kms of her telling me all the details of her and her friend's sex lives. All the details, nothing was left out and I mean nothing. It made me feel very old. When did young people become so open with that topic?

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#3264658 26-Jul-2024 12:37

Listening to 10cc Dreadlock Holiday on the radio this morning. Came out the year I was doing my 0-levels...

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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#3264662 26-Jul-2024 12:41

Senecio: ~75mins and 15kms of her telling me all the details of her and her friend's sex lives. All the details, nothing was left out and I mean nothing. It made me feel very old. When did young people become so open with that topic?

I'd guess ever since Instagram and TikTok happened.

(I never really watch either but occasionally see someone commenting on a TikTok video, based on that it should be called TMITok).

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#3264664 26-Jul-2024 12:44

Senecio:

~75mins and 15kms of her telling me all the details of her and her friend's sex lives. All the details, nothing was left out and I mean nothing. It made me feel very old. When did young people become so open with that topic?

So was it one way conversation then? 🤨

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