" Seeing how young everyone in this thread is makes me feel old. "
This.
I remember coming from band practice with my first girlfriend in one hand and a beer in the other, dressed in my black jacket with Axl Rose printed in pink on the back, when I heard Kurt Cobain had died. Think it was the same year I saw Metallica live for the first time.
I'm guessing you have to be a Daft Punk listener to get it. Didn't really make me feel old either. Now if someone said, "It's been nearly 20 years since Kurt Cobain killed himself," that might make me feel old. "
What if you're in your 30s and listened to both extensively? I am old. :P
@example1013: FYI for this to work you have to actually remember the things mentioned when they happened, then you look back at that time, feel it close, but a lot of time passed, finally you take a whole perspective of your life, the age you were then, the time that passed since then and the things that happened in your life, with that perspective some people feel old. But the point is, it is not going to work with anything before you were born.
Melcene explained it very nicely in the first page, and then fattony missed the point.
@melcene said:
" @Unknown_Pleasures: And if you grew up listening to Ian Curtis I imagine it would make you feel old. Though I doubt there are people here that were listening to West End Blues upon its release. Personally, it's odd to think that it's been nearly 20 years since Cobain's suicide because I was in high school at the time, and it's odd to think that its been nearly 20 years since I was in high school. "
@Fattony12000 said:
" Well, it's nearly 151 years ago to the day (April the 9th, to be precise) that the first man made recording of sound was created. By a Mr Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, no less. NOW HOW OLD DO YOU FEEL!? "
" Huh, I had to look up who Kurt Cobain was. Turns out he died a year before I was born, almost to the day. Creepy stuff! "
best response ever? I think so... "
Successfully eliminating the possibility of feeling old for not having been born at that time while stating that the time you have been living is a superset of the time he has been living, quite a good response for a thread like this one, indeed.
In April of 1986, 25 years ago, the US bombed Libya. Who needs nostalgia when history repeats itself anyway?
20 years ago (1991) this forthcoming summer, Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's 10 arrived on store shelves.
Also 20 years ago this past March, Street Fighter II appeared in arcades.
Oh, and 35 years ago was the US bicentennial. If you can remember that, then you can feel old. It was also the year Apple Computers was formed for you tech-historians.
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