Surge!!! Surge was the big drink in middle school youth group.

ALL 3 HANSONS MARRIED WITH KIDS. Those pictures aren't even totally up to date; they have 8 kids between them.

ALL 3 HANSONS MARRIED WITH KIDS. Those pictures aren't even totally up to date; they have 8 kids between them.

And they are thinking of making their own beer
"Their newest endeavor: a beer called, wait for it, MmmHops."

Yes, I feel old.

I learned just today that Adidas has issued limited edition "My Adidas" 25th Anniversary sneakers. Here is DMC at the launch party.

That was seriously depressing.

I just hit 31 on Sunday; already found my first white hair and woke up with unexplained hip pain. I may not be old but I don't need any help feeling like it.

Gah. Don't talk to me about old. I don't even know half the cultural references in that list. Seriously. JFK? Yeah. Marylin Monroe? Sure. The rest of those people? Not so much.





Now get off my lawn you rotten kids.

The only one I really resonated with was the first one. THe rest of it was pop culture for preteens and teens when I was already in my 20s. So, yeah, it made me feel so old I was actually too old to feel old from looking at that stuff.

I don't know who any of these people are:

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The stuff that really gets to me has been all the cartoon shows I watched as a kid having their 50TH ANNIVERSARIES. Next year The Jetsons turn 50, and it was supposed to be set 100 years in the then-future (2062)... so we'll be halfway there, right? HA.

(Also a reunion of the cast of Pete & Pete that was online a few weeks ago... THOSE kids look OLD.)

I was old when most of that stuff was new.

Glad to see some people from my generation in here. I thought it was just because I was raised in the UK, but now I see that - in common with Doohickie, Miko and octothorpe - I am just too old to recognize most of the references there. Apart from the first one, which really made me laugh.

Damn it! I had totally forgotten the existence of Sisqo.

Pretty much with you on every count, Doohickie. They left out "##. Climbing steps with this trick knee."

Yeah, I don't know who many of those people are either. They also left out "Getting out of bed in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and having to do the old-lady shuffle because your knees are so stiff."

I remember being astonished ten years ago when Macauley Culkin got divorced when he was 20 or so.

The first one was great. I've seen/heard a couple similar things over the last few years that really made me go 'hm.' Like, there was a RadioLab or maybe To the Best of Our Knowledge episode where they talked about the sound effect of a record scratching by dragging the needle to the end of the record -- the "Bbrrrrzzzzt!" effect that is used to indicate something fun coming to a sudden stop. This effect is still used all over the place to indicate that "everything comes to a stop" moment - and yet most people under a certain age have no idea what the sound is. They know it means "sudden halt" but they don't connect it with a record player.

An other one is this little meme which I've seen in a few places. It's captioned "Our kids will never know the connection between these two things."

Wow, I pride myself on my search skills, but even I can't believe I found the record-scratch thing because I remembered the completely wrong source.

It comes from a list of 11 sounds that kids have never heard (at least in their real form).

A somewhat related thing is the Big Board at the train stations in NYC and Boston. The Big Board is now fully digital. But up through my 20s or so, it was an electrically controlled flipboard. The numbers and letters flipped through when the times and train names changed, and the flipping was accompanied by a flap-flap-flap=flap sound that was your first indication that your train might have arrived. When you heard it you would go look at the board and see what changed. Today, there are no letters to flip as it's all a digital screen. But they still play a recording of the 'flap-flap' sound, which is totally cute. Except for in Boston where they seem to play it randomly for absolutely no reason which de-habituates people and defeats the signalling purpose, dammit.

I still have a percolator and have shown my four year old nephew how to use it. I like coffee technology!

I wonder how many people have the "pop culture things never make me feel old" reaction to this list? I'm one of them. I'm also generally unaffected by celebrity deaths--someone I know said, when Frank Sinatra died, that his death didn't change her life at all because all he had been in her life (records she loved) were still there.

Nonetheless, the other night, as we were watching Young Frankenstein, I noted "He's dead" (Peter Boyle); "he's dead" (Marty Feldman); "she died the same year as my grandmother and aunt." (Madeline Kahn). "And his wife is dead." (Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner). Of course, Chloris Leachman (85 y.o.) and Teri Garr (65 y.o.) are still alive, but Kenneth Mars died this year. It's much less emotionally draining to make a list like these of people in a movie that's about my age than it is to make the same list of people in my life (my family, my friends' parents)--the lists are both shockingly easy to populate. But both lists make me feel old.

Yeah, Buzzfeed is all about pop stuff (I was surprised about the inclusion of JFK and Marilyn Monroe).

I'm almost 32, and I've been silvering at the temples for a few years now, with a few silver/white hairs appearing elsewhere on my head. My son, now four months old, will always know me as having spots of silver hair, which made me feel old. That, and the tired-legs-shuffle I do at night when I change him. 30 was supposed to be the new 20!

Doesn't make me feel old. I'm not even sure what that's suppose to mean.
I don't think I ever "celebrated" being young.

There are plenty of things that make me feel old: how utterly and completely I fail to GET the hairstyles of young people, the desire to stay home and have a bath instead of going out dancing, the retro playlist when I do go out dancing that includes music I danced to at 14.

But this list didn't really do that, partly because it's aimed at people younger than I am (except for the JFK and MM bits, which seem to target people a little older than I am) and partly because even when I was young I didn't listen to mainstream music or tap into mainstream culture all that deeply.

This list doesn't make me feel old; it makes me feel like an out-of-touch fringe type, which is a perfectly familiar and not-at-all-uncomfortable feeling.

This list doesn't make me feel old, mostly because I pretty much ignore most of current pop culture anyway, so I have no reference points for most of the items. Although maybe that is what makes me old?

Anyway, I don't feel old, even though I should. As far as I'm concerned, I'm still 30 in all but actual age.

I was old when most of that stuff was new.

When Jones's ale was new me boys, when Jones's ale was new...

Yeah, what Doohickie said.