Hi, friends!
I had a coworker show me their new stickers for their laptop today and I was like huh, I don’t understand the reference there. I think one maybe is a Ted Lasso?
So anyways, have you had any recent reminders that you’re old?
We’re Old [NOT 25/11/24]
Yep, I looked in the mirror.  Won’t do that again!
That’s what you get for cleaning your bathroom mirrors.
My lower back got mad at me yesterday. I guess the good thing as far as aging is it was the same kind of thing that’s happened for a couple of decades, and fortunately the frequency and severity hasn’t increased. There just seems to be a flareup every 6-10 months and then it goes away. So maybe I’m not getting older?
This. I was at my brother’s wedding, and standing on a hard floor for hours had my lower back screaming at me.
Yuuuuuuup!!!
Dug myself a *giant* “old fogie” hole, at the after-school program today, asking one kid if his name was Mean Gene Okerlund, Jesse “The Body” Vebtura, Adrian Adonis, Rowdy Roddy Piper, or *maybe* Andre The Giant…
I *knew* the kiddo wouldn’t know any of the names!
But i didn’t realize my adult co-worker ALSO wouldn’t recognize any of them….
Not even ANDRE, y’all!!!
The Princess Bride evoked a, “Oh, *wait*, i thiiiiink i might have heard of that one?”
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Then, when I tried to explain that Andre, at 7’4″ was even taller than Shaq?
I also had to explain WHO Shaq is, and WHY he is famousđŸ« đŸ« đŸ«
Take me out to the pasture, and get me ready for the glue fastory, apparently!đŸ˜†đŸ˜‚đŸ¤£đŸ˜±
I saw Andre wrestle back in the day against a bunch of Samoans as part of a show called Wrestling Hawaii. Â I then saw all of them in Chinatown at an all you can eat Mongolian BBQ. Â They made the place close eventually because those guys would eat there almost every night!
Not the one I went to but it was crazy back then…
I’m not sure I can see how any restaurant could keep up with those guys.
I read the stories about how much beer he could drink and it was tough to open the bottles or cans fast enough for him.
Another Simpsons quote that is only understood by this generation.
There was a pub back in Kingston that had a 72oz burger challenge (finish the whole thing AND finish the fries then you can eat for free.) I don’t know who would really want to eat a 72 oz burger, but someone thought it was a good idea. The first time it rolled out, the Queen’s University football team Offensive line took it as a personal challenge and apparently they finished it off so the pub lost a lot of money so they increased the amount of fries till it was literally a mountain of fries.
A friend of mine decided to try his stomach at this… it didn’t go well as he couldn’t finish the fries and the burger. I helped him a little, but at this point in my early 20s I recognized the absurdity of eating that much food and stupidity of young males.
What’s the logic for a 4.5 pound burger? Or is that an imperial measurement thing?
I think someone realized 5 pounds is waaaaaaay too much meat.
Most of the steak house challenges I’ve seen around here are 72oz.
Again, not that I’ve tried. I love eating food, but I can’t wrap my head around eating that much food.
John Candy! I’m overdue for a rewatch of Planes Trains and Automobiles.
Oh, and another thing that makes (most of) us here old is that there’s now more than an entire generation statistically lacking in any knowledge whatsoever of John Candy.
But I think you’d have to feel sorry for them more than anything else.
Back when the workplace was sort of smart, they put together a team of mostly young guys together to pump out a particular drug. I applied and was put on this team and I was the old man of the group.
When we would go out for beers, I got asked what was it like to see Pangea, or where was I when WW1 started. At that time I was maybe 12-15 years older than most of my coworkers, but I was the “old” man.
Some stopped laughing when I openly flirted with one of the engineers supporting us during a presentation (she was about 15 years younger than me) and cockblocked all the younger guys who had the hots for her. I got a lot of jealous glares and side-eye even from my supervisor.
There was a similar team in my old neighborhood.
I have been practicing getting up out of my chair without making a noise after my daughter pointed out to me that I was making the old man sound whenever I arose from the La-Z-boy.
To be fair (“to be fair”) I do a lot of physical stuff so when the time of day for sitting in the La-Z-Boy comes around I am usually experiencing some general soreness.
But honestly, I mostly make the noise because it’s so satisfying.
I don’t know if you follow Drew Magary from the old Deadspin, but he regularly talks about his old man noises, and I’m not sure he’s even 50.
I cannot tie my shoes, sit down/get off the couch, or pick up something off the floor without making old man noises and I’m also years from 50.
My college senior nephew does not get my Beavis and Butthead references….
My 42nd bday last week? LOL. Pretty much anything that comes out of tiktok as a “trend.” I thank dog every day my generation didn’t have everything filmed.
my morning routine starts with clicking all my bits back into allignment….
thats probably a sign of old
goddamn are some of those clicks satisfying tho
course….sometimes i get one wrong and hobble around like fucking igor for a while…..