Post by biscoffcookies on Jan 10, 2013 13:19:23 GMT -5
A couple of Christmases ago, I guess they were trying to make "normal" rollerskates (not rollerblades, the kind with wheels set in a rectangle pattern) a thing again. I was at Target and heard some tween say "OMG what a good idea! Those will be way easier to balance in than rollerblades -- why did it take them so long to figure it out?" :-(
I am taking notes on "How NOT to raise my kid like a mindless A-hole"
Pop-culture references included. Who doesn't get a Top Gun reference??? It was on TV just the other night. DH's parents used to watch that movie ad nauseum and on level 11 (eh? EH? Anyone???) so I cranked the stereo to make him feel all nostalgic.
I was in line at a burrito bar and a group of college freshmen were commenting on MC Hammer pants and made a remark about him being on Arsenio Hall. From what I gathered, they'd Youtube'd his appearance on the show to see what the pants were all about. I gave them a pass for their age, but it made me feel old knowing they weren't alive when that interview happened.
My students have never heard of Charlie's Angels, not even the movie re-make, which in my mind wasn't that long ago. I just looked it up and it came out in 2000, the year most of my students were born. :-(
Post by krisandgrace on Jan 10, 2013 13:27:46 GMT -5
One of the grad students here was wearing a Grateful Dead t-shirt and I realized and then said that I had been going to Grateful Dead shows before he was born. He said his parents said the same thing. That was a bad day.
Pop-culture references included. Who doesn't get a Top Gun reference??? It was on TV just the other night. DH's parents used to watch that movie ad nauseum and on level 11 (eh? EH? Anyone???) so I cranked the stereo to make him feel all nostalgic.
Pop-culture references included. Who doesn't get a Top Gun reference??? It was on TV just the other night. DH's parents used to watch that movie ad nauseum and on level 11 (eh? EH? Anyone???) so I cranked the stereo to make him feel all nostalgic.
I'm 40. I spend a lot of time online with friends who are into musical theatre, most everyone is in their 30s but some are in their 20s. One girl I befriended a couple of years ago just turned 23. One day we were all joking around about how warped our senses of humor are, and this girl liked my reply so much she said, "Are you sure you aren't my real mom??"
Being an advisor to my sorority and seeing the pictures that some of the girls post on FB Like seriously, I don't know how much shorter their dresses/skirts can get. And the boobage that hangs out, gah! - (clutching my pearls!)
I remember wearing the uniform of black pants and cute shirts - circa 96-99 - when did it get down to practically nothing?
Working with new lawyers who were in MIDDLE SCHOOL on 9/11.
I was in law school.
*hurls*
I am disturbed. I did the math because I thought you must have been mistaken.
it's true!
I'm in graduate school and vividly remember watching coverage on 9/11 in my sixth grade classroom. we pulled down the world map and tried to decide who did it. those two years older than me would've been 8th graders.
I know I'm not old, but it does blow my mind sometimes how much things change. I'm reading neuro articles from the year I was born and I can't believe how much has changed in my lifetime. similarly, I remember being SO excited to get my first cell phone when I started driving. It looked like this: IT WAS AMAZING. I no longer needed to use the corded phone in the kitchen to talk to friends and boys!
preschoolers now have access to iPads and iPhones - the four-year-olds I work with are all obsessed with angry birds!
Post by heyrebekah on Jan 10, 2013 14:06:59 GMT -5
My HS boyfriend (whose family had a phone installation business) was the first guy I knew who had a car phone. Not a cell phone. A phone installed in the car. It had a cord.
I remember how my sister and I pooled our graduation money in 2001 (me from hs, her from elementary) to buy our first computer. It was a Dell desktop that cost over $1k. We were so excited to finally have AOL and profiles, and even moreso when we discovered the HTML codes that would change the colors and fonts.
I also remember hating Facebook when it first available to my college, and thinking how its simple format could never possibly replace MySpace.
And I was watching a friend's three year-old the other day and she fully understands how to use an iPad.