Do you ever say something that nobody around you understands because of age differences?

[HBARleatherneck]

Last night I told the kids I would put Herbie goes to Monte Carlo on. I was just finishing something up and I said "warm up the set, I will be right there" Nobody including my wife had a clue. I dont know why I said it because I hadnt even thought of that in decades. Needless to say we have an lcd tv now. no warm up needed.

[BushMasterBoy]

I remember the "boob tube". My favorite channel now is Nutlix.

[CO Hugh]

"Here's a dime, call someone that cares"

[theGinsue]

Talking to parents: I'll be PCSing to CO where me BAQ will almost double, which my LES will appreciate, but I won't get to enjoy it much since I'll be TDY a lot of the time.

Blank stares.

and

Talking to my kids: When I was a kid, my dad made me get up to change the channel when he wanted to watch another channel. I missed a lot of shows because I couldn't see the TV and still hold the rabbit ears to get better reception. It really sucked when my mom used the electric mixer because it scrambled the TV reception something fierce.

[Zundfolge]

I said "warm up the set, I will be right there" Nobody including my wife had a clue.

Ironically since new smart TVs have to boot up on startup you actually do have a "warm up" period now.

[TFOGGER]

"Dial a telephone number"

I had dial phones as a kid, and to this day remember phone numbers, rather than just store them in my phone.

[Irving]

I make a ton of jokes that people don't get, pretty much all the time.

[cstone]

I asked someone if they had ever scene the "Pat" skit on SNL. Crickets and a blank stare. No clue. The preceding discussion was about individuals who appeared androgynous and choosing the wrong sex in referring to the person could present difficulties at work.

I feel increasingly out of touch with the younger people I interact with.

[Scanker19]

I make a ton of jokes that people don't get, pretty much all the time.

This is my life as well. Usually followed by "if you have to explain it it's not funny."

no no it's even funnier now.

[sellersm]

"Rewind that like a VCR tape".

Trying to get a word in during conversation, "can I please use the party line?"


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[StagLefty]

"Rewind that like a VCR tape".

Trying to get a word in during conversation, "can I please use the party line?"


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I was just about to post a reference to "party lines" figured nobody here would remember that haha

[Great-Kazoo]

I asked someone if they had ever scene the "Pat" skit on SNL. Crickets and a blank stare. No clue. The preceding discussion was about individuals who appeared androgynous and choosing the wrong sex in referring to the person could present difficulties at work.

I feel increasingly out of touch with the younger people I interact with.

Go back more to.......... IT'S SHIMMER a dessert topping and Floor Wax.


speaking of phones ................................. when ph's were still rotary, and party lines, even in NY were not uncommon.
these are the grandparents
SH (Shore Road) 8- 0842
or TE (Terrace) 8 -2117
depending what block one lived on.

[Irving]

I asked someone if they had ever scene the "Pat" skit on SNL. Crickets and a blank stare. No clue. The preceding discussion was about individuals who appeared androgynous and choosing the wrong sex in referring to the person could present difficulties at work.

I feel increasingly out of touch with the younger people I interact with.

My favorite was when she's on a basket ball court with a bunch of black dudes and they say, "Are you a Brotha, or a Sista?" and she responds with, "I'm an only child." LMAO

[sellersm]

Go back more to.......... IT'S SHIMMER a dessert topping and Floor Wax.


speaking of phones ................................. when ph's were still rotary, and party lines, even in NY were not uncommon.
these are the grandparents
SH (Shore Road) 8- 0842
or TE (Terrace) 8 -2117
depending what block one lived on.

The number to call is BR 549...


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[funkymonkey1111]

"I taped that show...."

[sampson]

I make a ton of jokes that people don't get, pretty much all the time.
Get that as well. I told em' they are just for me. I crack myself up.

[JohnnyDrama]

"Locking the hubs" to coworkers....

[Gman]

Do you ever say something that nobody around you understands because of age differences?
All the time. Some of my co-workers are my age, and they get it. These millennials are unaware of ancient history that took place in the '80s.

"...not that there's anything wrong with that."

[MrPrena]

"Do you have a vhs or beta[max] at home?"

[blacklabel]

My son has no idea why I tell him "negative Ghostrider."

[BlasterBob]

Ironically since new smart TVs have to boot up on startup you actually do have a "warm up" period now.
Glad to hear that my new "smart" TV is normal in taking a while to warm up. Thanks.

"Hey, don't dump those pop and beer bottles, they are worth a whopping 2 cents each back at the store".

[Gman]

"Hey, don't dump those pop and beer bottles, they are worth a whopping 2 cents each back at the store".
Are you also saving up your S&H Green Stamps from the Five & Dime?

[BlasterBob]

Just today I mentioned, on another web site, that back in the 40's and 50's, we referred to those now called black folks, as "colored folks". Also said that once in a while I might slip and refer to them as colored instead of black because when I was a kid, calling them BLACK would be a prime way to get an ass kicking. Upon hearing this today, a lawyer called me ignorant for even mentioning the word "colored". I find it difficult to believe that using the term "colored" is now offensive. Boy, the times have sure changed. Not one word of this post should make me appear racist.[blaster]

[lex137]

Willoooow!!! Everytime I say that shit with a stick in my hand kids look at me like I'm a dumbass!

[funkymonkey1111]

Just today I mentioned, on another web site, that back in the 40's and 50's, we referred to those now called black folks, as "colored folks". Also said that once in a while I might slip and refer to them as colored instead of black because when I was a kid, calling them BLACK would be a prime way to get an ass kicking. Upon hearing this today, a lawyer called me ignorant for even mentioning the word "colored". I find it difficult to believe that using the term "colored" is now offensive. Boy, the times have sure changed. Not one word of this post should make me appear racist.[blaster]

If anyone gives you lip, ask them what the "C" in NAACP stands for

[Scanker19]

"Do you have a vhs or beta[max] at home?"

Yes, and I use it too. Also a SNES and a sega genesis....... And a record player....
.....my god.....I'm......a......HIPSTER!!!!

[Great-Kazoo]

OR.. When with kids or someones grand kids while making a cake.
You know when i was your age[LOL]. You could lick the bowl and beaters w/out worrying about getting sick

[gnihcraes]

I'd just put some old telephones away into storage, when a bit later the power went out for 8 hours. Welp, guess I'll get out the old POTS phone. A what phone?

I mentioned the Party line to my daughter, and I remember it from my young days visiting the grandparents. I'm getting old. :(

[Wulf202]

I must be out of touch in a big big way11 more steps to go

[Aloha_Shooter]

"Always with them negative waves ..."

"On the flip side ..."

Talking about seeing "Star Wars" in the movie theater a year after it first debuted and the line still went around the block.

"Put a quarter in the juke box"

Referring to pop tops and tape decks ...

[Bailey Guns]

Several years ago working in the city I stopped a car load of kids for generally being a neighborhood nuisance. I noticed a red, revolving light, like you'd place on the roof of a car, laying on the floor in the back seat.

Me: "What's the Kojak light for?"
Them: Blank stares...looking at each other.
Me (to myself): Dumbass. None of these kids ever heard of Kojak.

We had a party line for a short time when we moved to Bailey in 1992. Have locking hubs on my F250. We did finally get rid of all the remaining VHS tapes when we moved here. Still some cassettes floating around, though.

[Guylee]

Someone told me the other day that this is the first year high school kids will be learning about 9/11 as a historical event because they weren't alive when it happened. Freaked me out a little.

[roberth]

Yes. I love old sayings, trying to explain stuff to young, hip people or even some folks my age...well....that dog won't hunt.

"Warm up the set", I can't recall if my dad ever said that but I remember our Admiral TV needed time to warm up before we'd get a picture, all those tubes in there.

gnihcraes - I haven't heard of POTS in forever. BG - My F250 has manual hubs, 2 of my vehicles have manual transmissions, wish my F250 was a manual.

[birddog]

I always say things like:

-dont know shit from apple butter

-flatter than a plate of piss

-sounds like a cow pissing on a flat rock

-handier than a shirt pocket



im often not understood.......

[StagLefty]

Nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

[bryjcom]

While at Christmas present opening with my wife's family(uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents, etc) her grandparents gave my wife's mom and uncle a kitchen knife set. Someone made a joke about them having a "knife fight"...

I said, " Who going to be Steven Seagal and who's going to be Gary Busey?"

*Silence*

[O2HeN2]

I was having a phone conversation with a much younger co-worker who was trying to do the 1,375 work around to a problem (instead of just fixing the problem) and I said "I'm tired of putting my fingers in the dike".

The absolute dead silence alerted me to the fact that he had no idea wheat the expression meant, and he'd probably jumped to the other spelling of "dike".

To this day I think my explanation and links to the cliff notes of the story and descriptions of the expression kept him from running to HR about it.

O2

[Gman]

While at Christmas present opening with my wife's family(uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents, etc) her grandparents gave my wife's mom and uncle a kitchen knife set. Someone made a joke about them having a "knife fight"...

I said, " Who going to be Steven Seagal and who's going to be Gary Busey?"

*Silence*
Probably because the knife fight was between Steven Seagal and Tommy Lee Jones. Way to represent us old farts by being the poster boy for Alzheimers.[Bang]


http://youtu.be/ki4hl7NRjWs

[gnihcraes]

and speaking of cars. 3 out of 5 here are manual and two have locking hubs. I told my teens, you will learn to drive a stick shift. No question about it. 1 teen down, one to go. :)

[Gman]

You're older than Methuselah.

"I'll be out of the office for that meeting. Can you videotape it for me?" [Shock]

[Irving]

I've always wanted to tell someone "to take a piece of fat and slide off," but even I don't know what it means.

Blaster Bob might know though.

[StagLefty]

^ https://www.englishclub.com/esl-forums/viewtopic.php?t=60998

[BushMasterBoy]

As long as it doesn't cost me an arm and a leg.

[Irving]

^ https://www.englishclub.com/esl-forums/viewtopic.php?t=60998

Thanks, I spent time looking this up online before and never found anything. I can't remember if I first tried searching before 2009 or not though.

[StagLefty]

^ Ahhh you whippersnappers [Sarcasm2]

[wctriumph]

The only young people I talk to are in the shop and motorcycles are easy to understand by young on old. When I shoot my M1's at the range I am sometimes approached by young shooters and we speak the same language. I don't really hang out with young persons so I don't have to listen to the garbage that comes out of the face holes. If I do have to speak with them, they seem to understand perfectly what I am saying.

Although once my daughter showed me a photo she took of a sunrise and I said "neato, Kiddo". She questioned "neato?" I said sorry, baller and she got it. She even says neato now when expressing herself with her friends.

[osok-308]

I make joke references from 70's and 80's movies all the time. It's usually about 50/50.

[Great-Kazoo]

Although once my daughter showed me a photo she took of a sunrise and I said "neato, Kiddo". She questioned "neato?" I said sorry, baller and she got it. She even says neato now when expressing herself with her friends.

Bitchin !


Felonious

Skating on thin ice

Somethings rotten in demnark

KNUCKLE SANDWICH .........................Popped in me head after reading your pwt post ;)

[roberth]

Bitchin !


Felonious

Skating on thin ice

Somethings rotten in demnark

KNUCKLE SANDWICH .........................Popped in me head after reading your pwt post ;)

BITCHEN :) or TRIPPINDICULAR I say "groovy" often and "neato" or "neato mosquito" too.

HICKORY SHAMPOO is what #blm and #sjw deserve, then ride them out of town on a rail.

[TheGrey]

"Sit and wait by the phone for your call."

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

I asked someone if they had ever scene the "Pat" skit on SNL. Crickets and a blank stare. No clue. The preceding discussion was about individuals who appeared androgynous and choosing the wrong sex in referring to the person could present difficulties at work.


One coworker just had a baby named Patrick, and in a discussion, another mentioned "It's Pat!" Only half the people there understood. I later got to thinking about how with all the SJW for trans, this skit would never, ever fly today.



Anyway, another one I was reminded is that circular hand motion for rolling down windows. Kids just have no idea why people would do that.

And FWIW, my 95 had (converted) Warn manual hubs on it. I think I sold it in 2009.

[MrPrena]

"Do you have a floppy disk slot? This is 90s man! Use ZIP drive!"

-school year during 90s.

[SideShow Bob]

"Uptight, Outa Sight & In the Groove" come to mind.
I used that on a co-worker, and just got a blank stare in return...