h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The New Beloit College Mindset List is up:

http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/index.html

Feeling pretty old, by those standards.

Lists? Lists? I don't need no steenking lists to make me feel old signor!

All I have to do is wake up in the morning and feel the aches and the twinges

History is an odd thing...140 years since the American civil war...65 since Pearl Harbor...40 since the thick of Vietnam and the first moonwalk...how quickly we fade into history...

You know...those things *don't* make me feel old. One attitude to change is "It will/must never happen." Another is "Ooh! That's novel!" I guess I fall into the latter. It's not so much that I try desparately to keep up with trends - more that I recognise that the world is always in flux.

One thing that *did* make me feel old, some years back now, was when we had a student at work. The Sex Pistols came up in the conversation. She thought they were "...one of those sixties bands - like The Beatles."

(Mind you...I do go into fuddy-duddy mode sometimes when I hear some of the 'young pesrons' bands, like Coldplay, Keane, Sandi ing Thom:
"What's that racket? Listen to them!...they've got tunes, you can here the words, and they even know how to play their instruments. Pah!")

Ooh, now I'm feeling particularly young again since I like Coldplay and Keane

The list doesn't necessarily make me feel old, but I am amazed every year by some of the items on the list. A few years ago one was that the incoming freshmen had never known a world without AIDS. I remember that. And for this year, there has never been a USSR! Next year's list will mention that the Berlin Wall has never existed in their lifetimes.

It's hard to imagine a world where those things were never realities.

Old? I have no idea who any of those groups are that you all mentioned. I've heard of the Sex Pistols, but am not really familiar with them. Old? Age is relevant. I don't feel old.

Feeling old?

I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I got my doctor's permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over.

Feeling Old?

My memory's not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.

Feeling old?

THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.

Amen to Hyp's post--especially the last one.

Coldplay...Keane...Young people playing old peoples' music! It don't mean a thang if it don't go 'Kerrang!'

(We mean it...maaaaaan)

Ah yes... Snow Patrol too. What one of my former housemates used to refer to disparagingly (and accurately) as 'mumrock'.

Or, as Alan McGee called them...'bedwetting bands'.

Why don't we have a smiley? Would have endless uses, I think

I'd like to have a "Why I oughta..." smiley...