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You know you are getting old when:

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2jakes said:
Every favorite movie star or television actor is dead.

Not knowing 99% of the movie stars at the
Oscar telecast! :(
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On the news a couple of days ago, I heard that a one, Ed Sheeran, was the highest earner in the UK according to the Forbes rich list.
Ed Who? I didn't know if he was a singer, actor or sports star, absolutely no idea. Curiosity got the better of me and I found out that he is a songsmith.
 
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2jakes said:
Every favorite movie star or television actor is dead.

Not knowing 99% of the movie stars at the
Oscar telecast! :(
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While there are several actors today that I greatly respect, yes, the majority of my favorites from the GE are gone. And the "feeling really old" part comes from the fact that when I first started watching "old" movies from the '30s - '60s in the early '70s, those movies were ~10-40 years old and many of those stars were still alive.

Now those movies are ~50-80+ years old and, sadly, all but a very few of the stars from the '30s and '40s - and, more often now the '50s - are gone. Growing up, not infrequently, I'd see these "old" stars pop up on talk shows like Merv Griffin, etc., and while they looked old to young-kid me, they were there discussing their careers. Now, the closest thing to that we have is their kids or grandkids (not looking that young themselves) popping up on TCM's "In Their Own Words" series.
 
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LizzieMaine said:
It was always sad to see somebody like Benny Goodman show up on those shows with big fuzzy sideburns trying to look "relevant." Artie Shaw had the right idea when he said "the hell with nostalgia" and let his career speak for itself.
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Oh God yes. Or some Golden Era star in a leisure suit - it happened (can't remember who, but I remember it happened).
 
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Oh God yes. Or some Golden Era star in a leisure suit - it happened (can't remember who, but I remember it happened).
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Yesterday & today :(​
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The exception::D​
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With every year that passes, Sir Paul looks more and more like a short-tempered middle-class old white woman about to complain to me in a shrill voice that the person sitting in front of her is blocking her view of the subtitles. And she's also too cold, so could I turn off the AC.

Jagger, on the other hand, is a dead ringer for the kind of skeevy grandpa who is always trying to convince one of my seventeen-year-old concession kids to come down after the show to see his boat. I can smell the odious drugstore cologne from here.
 
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IMO, Sirs Paul and Mick needed to retire from the stage long ago. For the love of humanity, there needs to be an age limit for old rock 'n rollers getting on stage and shaking what they no longer have or now have too much of (the latter comes to mind after seeing K.C. - of K.C. and the Sunshine Band - doing a promo for a disco cruise :eek:). After all, no one wants to watch their favorite guitar god break a hip on stage.
 
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One thing that will make me feel that I'm getting older is when the media nostalgia train reaches the 1990s. When I was in my 20s / 30s the media was all about reminiscing about the 1950s and, especially, the 1960s. In my 40s it seemed like the 1970s were being rehashed. Now, as the senior management who commissioned shows and books about their coming of age eras have retired or died it is the turn of my generation getting their hands on the nostalgia bandwagon and I see more books and shows about the 1980s, the era that I came of age. So, in a funny way I feel it is 'my time' at the present. Once it hits the 1990s rehash I guess that I will feel left behind and hence older!
 
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The 90s nostalgia train is in full swing among the young people I know, and there's even an early wave of '00s nostalgia going on now.

Not that there's anything particularly new about all this. The 1930s were full of '90s nostalgia too -- moustache cups and beer gardens and singing waiters and Lillian Russell calendars until you wanted to go out and shoot McKinley all over again.
 
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Based on the Netflix 2018 TV show we watched earlier this year, "Everything Sucks!", which is set in an Oregon high school in the '90s, the nostalgia wave is hitting the '90s.

Using the 1998 start date of the "That '70s Show" as a guide, 2018's releaser of "Everything Sucks!" is right on the TV nostalgia timeline.
 
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Tiki Tom said:
You know you are getting old when you catch yourself ending sentences with “but that was before you were even born.”
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Said that yesterday in a conversation with couple of dudes who must've been in their 30s as they were hauling away one of my trucks.
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In my neck of the woods, there's still young folks that appreciate things of the past as they
used to be and not hot rodding them. :)
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2jakes said:
Said that yesterday in a conversation with couple of dudes who must've been in their 30s as they were hauling away one of my trucks.
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In my neck of the woods, there's still young folks that appreciate things of the past as they
used to be and not hot rodding them. :)
(original 1930s Burgundy color)
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I hope they were "hauling it away" to a restorer's shop, and not to an ignoble end.
 
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