Old

[clevermanka]

I'm not gonna lie. Today's xkcd did make me feel old. That last one? Ouch.

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[miischelle.livejournal.com]

but you did it!

nvmnd. i am so stupid. i thought you were posting somethign else without chekcing the link...

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

=D

[hippie-mamabear.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahahhahaha.

*ahem*

I mean, booooooooooooo!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Pretty crazy to think about, huh?

[solan-t.livejournal.com]

And I try not to think about Labyrinth, too.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Labyrinth doesn't bother me so much, because I was in high school. Sot that really does seem like another life to me. But I was in college for Little Mermaid, so...yeah.

[hippie-mamabear.livejournal.com]

Umm yeah. i'm between "The Little Mermaid" and that last one. So it could be worse, but not much. It was nice of them to stop it there!

[orrin.livejournal.com]

That kind of stuff always manages to make me feel old, too. And I'm not even into the range for that last one yet!

curmudgeonly expostulation

[femfataleatron.livejournal.com]

I remain unfazed. Matrix is the only movie I remotely liked on this list. Mermaid? Lion King? Hard to feel some sort of weird reverse nostalgia over something I thought was a complete waste of effort... The Masque of Comus is like 400 years old, I have trouble giving a fuck about it's age too. Not that they have to be things I like, but how is their age relevant?
Maybe if I tried harder to fit myself into someones marketing scheme, I would be happier, and therefore sadder. On command, of course.

Re: curmudgeonly expostulation

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

The Masque of Comus is like 400 years old, I have trouble giving a fuck about it's age too. Not that they have to be things I like, but how is their age relevant?

I suppose if you remember The Masque of Comus being released, the release dates of these later things probably don't have the same impact on you.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I mean...the moon landing? yeesh.

Re: curmudgeonly expostulation

[femfataleatron.livejournal.com]

Released. Ok, I can see where the timing of Home Alone in my mental and cultural landscape might help me resolve... Nope, still can't do it.

Re: curmudgeonly expostulation

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

How about..

"I saw Star Wars in the theater.
The FIRST one."

The first Stars Wars, that is,
not the first theater, Methuselah.

Re: curmudgeonly expostulation

[femfataleatron.livejournal.com]

Is your experience of it that much more valuable as a result? Or is it just some sort of bragging rights? I contend the fantasy created in you by the film, is no more or less than when, or if, I, or you, saw it on a small color Tv ten years later. There are differences, of course, but the value both experiences have, and what they have in common, is not a trick of time, but a trick of the imagination.
Film, despite some makers attempts at revisionism, is a great example of how asynchronous experiences can be similar and vice versa.

Re: curmudgeonly expostulation

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I think you're missing the point of this cartoon. How about:

Back when I was a teenager, it was a legitimate plot point when the protagonist couldn't find a telephone booth.

Surely you've encountered such an experience! The world is a different place now because of the changes we've seen in our lifetimes. Even college kids can point to stuff like that.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I think you're missing the point of this cartoon.

I think he's just being grumpy.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I was a sentient human being when NASA killed the Apollo program. I remember when the Space Shuttle protypes were undergoing flight tests. This is the last year the Shuttle will fly, and it's considered OLD.

Re: curmudgeonly expostulation

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

What? No, "my experience of it" is that
I'M THAT OLD. It came out the same year fucking VHS was introduced to the American Public.

Wasn't that the entire point of this posting?
Wurzya sensa yuma?

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I was a sentient, literate human when the Apollo program *began.*

*grin* Mine's bigger than yours, nyahh.

The world is a different place now because of the changes we've seen in our lifetimes

[femfataleatron.livejournal.com]

Different, yet somehow not. I bet I can find some Oxford Don from the 16's who said the exact same thing, in more florid language of course.
400 years ago the world changed as people watched too. We look upon those changes as irrelevant or trivial or at best atmospheric. 400 years from now? For some reason I can't help feeling that they are simply atmospheric right now.
Maybe I don't understand the cartoon at all.

Re: The world is a different place now because of the changes we've seen in our lifetimes

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Maybe I don't understand the cartoon at all.

I think this is a fair assessment of the situation. You're looking at it on way to grand a scale. This is a very microcosm joke.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Yeah, got me there. Pyrrhic victory? ;-D

[femfataleatron.livejournal.com]

I'm not tryin' to keep you from being all old and stuff.
I'm just saying that, for whatever reason lists of movies don't put it in perspective for me. At all. To me it seems like if we glorious VCR creators have invented anything that remotely transcends age, it's movies. I suppose one might say that of any art but I'm saying movies in particular.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Undoubtedly.
Old age, treachery, and all that.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I get you.

Books are in a similar vein for me, mainly because I didn't read most of them at the "standard age" for whom they were written. Or else I discovered "children" and "young adult" books at a much later point in life, so the timeline is way skewed.

[femfataleatron.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's 'cause that Lucas bitch made all his movies out of order. It jacked me up for life! maybe i could sue...

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

That's the spirit!


We're mad and we're not gonna take it anymore!

(depending on your age, that's either a movie or a song reference).

Great.

[wyckedgood.livejournal.com]

Now I feel old too! LOL

Re: Great.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Misery loves company!

[bluetourmaline.livejournal.com]

Since I very rarely see movies when they first come out in theatres (even when I lived in a city with movie theatres), when a movie comes out and when it made an impact on me are two dates completely independent of each other (well, almost completely; one generally precedes the other). So this list is incapable of making me feel old. "Singin' In The Rain" just made an impact on me the other day... And the Bach Toccata in D minor, gee, that is old...

If "Snakes on a Plane" came out half a decade ago - well, I've accomplished a lot of things in that half-decade, methinks. It's not how much time you've spent here, it's how you use it.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I think you're in the same camp as femfataleatron in not quite getting the point of the comic.

[bluetourmaline.livejournal.com]

Then it is one of the many XKCD comics I do not find amusing. This does not trouble me very much.

[stuology.livejournal.com]

Yup. The very last one got me as well.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I would fistbump you, but we might injure our ancient arthritic knuckles.