The day my boss, who asked for my help, said “That’s not what GPT said” and promptly ignored my input, wasted 2 days of a customer’s time and $700 of their money (refuses to walk back his time doing what GPT said), then finally allowed me to fix the actual problem using my meat popsicle intelligence’s output, which took 14 minutes.
We’re doomed. He votes.
Brother I have never once been “with it”, as the kids say, and the rock I live under gets comfier every year so I probably won’t try to change that.
i am an “old hat” in my fire dept. been here 21 years. know a lot. seen a lot. still learning a lot. trained a lot of the newbs. who are mostly 20-30 now. and definitely a cohort of their own. eager. but also dismissive of some of us old guys sometimes. lately i feel like it’s time. i kinda want to transition to a more academic life too. but am grappling with the fomo when the next big job comes in, though i have been at a lot of local history making fires. just kinda feeling invisible, so maybe it’s time to retire.
I started realizing I was out of touch musically when there were big festival lineups and I didn’t know 95% of the bands.
Probably always been a bit out of touch. Never really enjoyed pop culture. The first time was probably around 10 when everyone started getting into social media and I was like why the fuck would you ever put your real name and face on the internet.
When some actress died recently and there was like 30 posts on reddit and all I could think is who the hell is this? And to be honest, I realized I didn’t care and it’s time to leave reddit. Then I thought, I’m getting old, I don’t need a virtual obituary and just want to see cat pictures or something funny after work.
I think when I moved from not liking things younger people enjoyed to simply having no idea what they enjoy at all.
I’ve never been particularly with it on trends and such. When I was younger I knew the trends and rejected them in the spirit of youthful rebellion, aspects of my personality were defined by what and who I wasn’t.
Then I got a little older and rejected the things people slightly younger than me enjoyed. This came naturally, because I was no longer the target audience for these things it was easy to write them off as if I were.
Now I don’t even know enough to reject them. My knowledge of what younger people like seems to be about five years out of date. When something new comes along that seems irritating to me it seems to pass so quickly I don’t really have time to register it, and when I find something new I enjoy there’s apparently whole fandoms about it where (presumably… hopefully…) very young people fight about it, and they’re fighting about things I genuinely don’t have time to decipher. It’s like it all moves too fast for my vision to really gain focus, by the time I’m able to tell what I’m looking at everyone else seems to have already moved on.
I really tried to be the funny uncle for some time, but everything is already out for at least 2 years when I talk to my nephews. I recently found a funny video of people with toilet heads
At 40, I don’t think I really am. I’ve never kept up with pop culture, so if you asked me who the hottest musical act is right now, I wouldn’t have a clue. My MP3 collection is so eclectic that even Lemmy probably wouldn’t recognize half of what I listen to. So, if that’s what you mean by being out of touch, then perhaps.
However, I do make an effort to stay abreast of current events, political movements, and what’s happening in the world.
That said, I do feel myself becoming somewhat disconnected from the general cultural zeitgeist as I get older. I’m much more focused on my family these days than on keeping up with what my kids are into. For example, I genuinely don’t understand the humor behind things like Skibidi Toilet, nor do I have any idea what the hell MrBeast is doing. I couldn’t tell you what the most popular YouTube channels are, either.
So perhaps I’m not out of touch with the world itself, but I’m definitely becoming less connected to the culture of the younger generations. And honestly, I’m not entirely sure that’s a bad thing.
Literally never. Not once. I was your nerd at school who’d find joy in a science encyclopedia, and really thought everyone else my age acted like the dumbest people on Earth.
Today’s “67” was yesterday’s something else. And it’s never not made me cringe.
Did you listen to nerdcore? It’s a shame it died out, but I still listen to some of the songs.
I’ve always been into jazz and funk.
Solid choices.
If you have kids moving into their teens you figure it out fast.
They start speaking an entirely different language.
As you grown into an adult you follow your peer group and friends through whatever social life, maybe going to places like bars or events that keep up with music trends. You all like the new banger from whoever that shows up on the playlist or New Year’s Eve party. You talk about new series, what entertainer is in concert or on social media, you still remain connected to trends.
But at some point life intrudes, work starts wearing, maybe start a family, and you have less time for these excursions. Crowded, noisy, expensive bars get way less attractive and maybe you have a couple favorite chill spots that play music you like. You’ve got your playlists set. Your streaming music is “bestof” a decade a lot of the time. This is where diversion starts, you choose the familiar over seeking out the new and exciting. But you don’t really notice, you got shit to do.
But eventually you do. Younger coworkers start talking about entertainment and people more and more often you don’t know. They start using phrases and slang you have to figure out. And like I said, if you have kids, you’re gonna have to learn 6-7, gyatt, and the most irritating - the repurposing of words and symbols you already knew. # is number or pound, not just hashtag you illiterate heathens. Maybe your closet, too. You’ve now had the same jacket for 15 years, among many other pieces of clothing that have lasted; jeans, shirts, pullovers, whatever. That’s ok, why keep buying new throwaway fashion? They’re still good to wear.
So now you listen to “old” music, maybe some of your clothes are old enough to vote, and you spend time on Urban Dictionary or KnowYourMeme so you don’t feel lost when younger people sart talking about pretty much anything.
That’s when you know.
Ahem… # is Octothorpe
I see your octothorpe and raise you libra pondo.
All I know is there’s many printed on my romantic sheet music
I have always been “out of touch”. I used to reject pop-culture because I thought I was too cool for it. Now I avoid pop-culture because it’s a habit. Whenever I attempt to participate in pop-culture I quickly realize why I made avoiding it a habit.
I find myself actually going back and consuming pop culture from my time line that I looked down on as a hormonal teenager. I was extreamly judgemental of pop culture and hated specific genres of music, movies, how people dressed, whatever.
Its all my culture now and whatever personal bias I had due to precieved cultural differences are minimal. Now that we have matured its easier to appreciate the shared experience you have with someone in your age group and you’re more willing to branch out with that perspective.
I’m still out of touch and regressive holding on to nostalgia rather than trying something new, but I think thats just what’s supposed to happen. I think it would be more embarrassing if I tried to keep up and get into mumble ai rap or whatever’s cool now.
Usually when I go back and check something out that I have shunned I feel vindicated because it was indeed awful. Just because it was just popular at the time does not mean it was ever good.
For example Friends, Seinfeld, The Office or The Sopranos are all just unwatchable garbage to me. I did go back and watch Breaking Bad after seeing Better Call Saul, It (breaking bad) was no where near as good (as better call saul) but I didn’t hate it.
I also liked Dexter for a few seasons when I finally broke down and watched it though I admit I have never finished it because it just got so bad.
For the most part though I found I missed very little because what I skipped then still sucks now.
I mean much of it is still garbage but I am much more open to it than I was in the past. Maybe I made it sound all to encompassing but it has opened me up to more media I wouldn’t of listened to before, and is easier for me to get into than whatever spotifiy would suggest to me.
There’s a comfort in it even though its bad that feels safer than new. I found myself tapping my toe in line at the store when they had shania twian playing recently.
As soon as I cut everyone out of my life and just started going to work coming home and gaming. I just let life pass by because it seems like too much work to be involved in it.
Get some help big dawg! Life is dope and people are too 😎
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For anyone reading, this guy is a great example of why not to serve in a military. In case your normal human aversion to hierarchy and violence isn’t enough. The abuse they put you through to shape you into something willing to kill for them (and the killing etc itself of course) has lifelong consequences.
To “redditmodssucks”, you find what you look for and there’s a lot that makes life worth living. Always for love, never from fear. I hope you find some peace and maybe even a little joy. Hope is real, good luck out there.
There is always light at the end of the tunnel you just have to want to see it. These are useless words that mean nothing to you in the moment. But do know that in the end you will come to this realisation on your own time.
Your brain will get in depressive loops and you sort of have to fake it to be able to gain the function to do thing’s that move you forward. Its like when you start working out again after years of doing nothing. Its hard and sucks and you have to spend a lot of time forcing your body into a state it doesn’t want to be in. Your brains elastic and it needs to be in a state other than depressed to see anything other than depression. Your brain only has a hammer as its tool right now, and when something happens the hammer is the only thing it can reach for. And at some point you do unfortunately have to make a conceeded effort to push through the initial barrier. Much like working out it doesn’t get easier right away, but it doesn’t get better if you don’t try. The more you don’t try the harder it gets later. And remember that doesn’t mean it gets impossible to fix ever.
You know also look into therapy or medication, you could just be chemically imbalanced or could benifit/suffer from something else. I can guess from your personality therapy will feel stupid, a lot of it will be CBT and will make you feel like a child. Really it does help, and I wish I could sell you the idea of it but explaining it makes it sound dumb. Just remember your brain only really holds on to a emotion for 8 seconds and you have become neurotic from the traumas of life which is a natural response. Your brain keeps working in loops so when you get a emotional response your brain will dwell on it, and the more you think about it you just keep refreshing that 8 second timer keeping you in a state you can’t think of alternatives. If you play league of legends its like when someone is tilting and suddenly can’t play the game properly because of their mood state. Depression for me at least was partially breaking that cycle.
And listen man I don’t want to come off as preachy or pretend to know or try to compare our two struggles. I just want you to know it is possible and you gotta fight for it like they made you fight your way through boot camp. And i can tell you got a lot of fight left in you, so pick yourself up by your boot straps and what not.
I’m not reading any of that shit thanks for wasting your time all that makes me want to kill myself more please fuck off happy joy joy people like you make me fucking sick.
Alright man
Whenever there is some viral story about some youtube/ticktock celebrity.
It wasn’t the first time I’ve noticed, but a huge one for me was Weird Al’s album “Mandatory fun”. I had no idea who a majority of the artists he was parodying.
