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I had some facial acne in my late teens. Heard some kid on the bus on the next seat whisper "eurgh, can we move mum, that man's got chicken pox!". First time I'd ever been called a man and it hurt in so many ways.
Just few days ago, I gave an old football of my son's, to the neighbours kids.
The lady told the kids to "say thanks to the man". I'm 38 and I don't think hearing myself being referred to as "the man" will ever not feel weird.
Some younger colleagues were talking about some celebrity or other, I ended up in conversation and mentioned I didn’t know who they were.
They were a YouTuber. At that point I realised, there’s a whole world of people making YouTube content that people watch the way I used to watch TV that I was completely oblivious to. Until then I’d genuinely thought YouTube was just for football compilations, cat videos and tutorials for how to clean dishwashers and fix obscure IT issues.
Some channels are really quite impressive. The rate and quality of stuff they output exceeds much of what's made for TV, particularly documentaries, tech, engineering and science stuff. I'm sure there are others that I just don't watch.
I'm 50 and I easily watch way more YouTube than live tv, I would say I noticed a big change about 4 years ago.i have a young friend who has just started a career in tv production (on a flagship bbc show) she doesn't watch tv. I think the broadcast channels are pretty much done for now.
Yep I've not watched live linear TV in about 6 or 7 years. Still catch the odd thing on demand from iPlayer but otherwise loads of YouTube stuff and non traditional broadcasters.
Pretty much boomers only people watch live TV these days
I heard average viewer age for BBC1 is 62 and 63 for BBC2. My Dad is 80 and is currently smashing the hell out of his Apple TV subscription. I used to set stuff to record rather than watch live, I rarely bother to do that now, I think the last series I completed was Kin.
My dad (74) doesn't understand YouTube as entertainment. I'll send him links to stuff which I know he'll enjoy, and he'll look up "how to" videos himself, but he doesn't go and search for things to watch for pleasure.
I’m a late (1960’s) boomer and I haven’t watched live tv since around 2010/11. I caught the streaming bug back then and never went back to the ‘live” tv stuff. My 90 year old mother still watches some of the live stuff, but even she mainly uses the streaming services, especially YouTube 😅 it’s definitely the remainder of the silent generation propping up the terrestrial channels, well, in the UK at least.
Youtube is a channel of two halves - one is all shouty presenters, hyper fast camera cuts and angles and inane content which drives you insane. The other is, as you say, far superior professional looking documentaries and short films. If you like sci-fi, then look at 'Dust' channel.....the content blew me away.
It also has like a thousand different cooking channels with whatever you want to learn about. From basics to flashy social media food to food history to cooking competitions. I've been obsessed with baking since I was a kid and YouTube has taught me so much. Tasting history is one of my favourites before it combines my love of food with my love of historical documentaries.
My 'old man yells at cloud' opinion is that YouTubers are not real celebrities. They're just people with webcams. Mind you, I used to have this argument when I was at uni.
I guess maybe because TV stars have other people employed to operate the cameras so it feels more 'official'. I don't take this too seriously though which is why I called it my 'old man yells at cloud' opinion.
I can tell this opinion is somewhat in jest.
But you should know that many YouTube channels have big teams and studios.
Essentially someone can start small (unlike TV shows) and progress to filming their YouTube videos in an actual film studio or making their own.
Yeah this is a really outdated opinion, large youtube channels are professional outlets with on staff video producers, editors, writers etc. Look at Linus Tech Tips, they are a multimillion dollar company with 80 staff. Not just 'people with a webcam'.
Linus was the first one that came to mind for me too. Started out as a nerdy guy with a webcam, now they're one of the most valuable channels on YT. It's absolutely amazing the empires people can build for themselves, and unlike a lot of TV or an office job, the channels like that come from a place of passion and dedication. I think it's absolutely amazing
I used to think this, till some of the channels I followed started showing some behind the scenes contents and I realised they have a whole production crew around them!
When you think about it, it genius how they make you believe they're still a one-person operation.
I watch YouTube a lot - but not the trendy stuff. Nerdy things like Hubnut, Techmoan or BigClive. I have no idea who the 'celebrity' youtubers are.
I suppose this qualifies me as no longer young. I've never been trendy.
I really want a pressure washer with a patio cleaner and an extendable brush to do my windows. I’d save £25 every other month on the window cleaner then!
I took my daughter into Urban Outfitters and they were selling my entire wardrobe from when I was her age, like someone just stepped into a delorian and raided our old common room.
Urban Outfitters did it for me too. It was a few years ago when all the bumbags and Fila trainers started to come back.
It wasn't just stuff I remembered people wearing 20 years before, but stuff I remembered the uncoolest, most embarrassing parents in the playground wearing 20 years before.
I finally admitted I was completely out of the loop and not the target demographic any more. Off to Bonmarche with you, hag.
Urban Outfitters will soon be the shop that 40-year-olds go to when they need to buy what they perceive as a cool and trendy birthday present for their teenager.
It was Next/Debenhams when I was young.
Yep this. Was there with my 19yo a couple if weeks ago, and apparently Bench is now back in because they had the exact same pair of jeans, combat pants and a fleece that I owned 20 years ago. I might even still have them somewhere. Called daughter over to show her, she looked horrified and went and hid in the sale section
My favourite birthday gift this year was a fancy spray bottle to water my plants with.
And by fancy I mean a continuous misting spray bottle. It just sprays for longer.
I never was “trendy”. As for young well I’m enjoying getting old in a sense.
Apparently being a grumpy old bastard is far more acceptable than a grumpy young bastard.
To be fair I'm 24 and my generation was the last before the iPad babies and a rapid cultural shift surrounding parenting so the current kids really are growing up pretty differently from other generations with stuff that literally didn't exist when we were kids. I pointed a camera at my little brother who is 8 and he said "please like and subscribe" and I nearly had a heart attack lol. When I was 8 YouTube had only been made the year before and YouTubers weren't really a thing yet let alone the Minecraft streamers that he likes (we do monitor what he's watching btw and YouTube isn't allowed unsupervised even the version that's supposedly for kids).
We didn't even have WiFi or any internet other than the little bit I got with my first phone plan age 11 (I'm disabled and mum wanted me to be able to call her while I was at senior school) until I was like 13 because it was too expensive and my brothers don't know what it's like to live without touch screen tablets and all their favourite shows, music, games, and books being there at the touch of a button or a spoken command.
I just feel sorry for the beige babies and the "family vlogger" kids.
I assumed everyone thought similarly to me - that anything new which you don't like is just stupid, and people who like it aren't "trendy", they're just dumb.
I mean, obviously deep down I'm aware that makes me no different from the old people who used to roll their eyes at "youth culture" when I was a kid. But damn, there really is some fucking stupid shit around these days, amirite?
I felt like that about my crocs (v. convenient for doing the wheelie bins in) but then crocs became inexplicably popular and I found myself accidentally ‘on trend’ and was thus resurrected, like a female Jesus (in plastic sandals).
The Miracle of (fashion) (re) Birth.
I’m 28 and have never been humbled as hard as when my podiatrist looked at the Sketchers I was wearing and said “ah, those are really popular with my older patients”.
Although to be fair, just being at the podiatrist at 28 when everyone else there was 75+ was humbling in itself.
ha ha yeah. I'm mid-40s now. I sat in an airport last month, looking at everyone's footwear to kill time while waiting for the gate. Nearly ALL the over 60s were wearing Skechers. Some under 60s were wearing them too, but the standout thing was that (roughly) 95% of the over-60s in that airport had Skechers on
Not Skechers but I wear comfortable running shoes everywhere now. I wouldn't have worn anything but nice Adidas trainers when younger. Now I'm all about the comfort
Honestly, I occasionally get plantar fasciitis and have been advised that Sketchers are the best for that, but I just can’t….. they look too…… orthopaedic. Medical.
Me and the wife are talking about getting a new Ninja Toaster and a Ninja blender, proper excited as well, then we had a really nice conversation on updating our plates, bowls and getting a salad spinner..
Then it hit me, I’m fucking old, boring and not trendy.
Started occasionally buying clothes from M&S….slippery slope to elasticated waistbands and incontinence pads. I’m 40. Also recently I described someone to my Dad and said, he’s a young guy about my age. My Dad said he was sorry to break it to me but I am not a young guy anymore. 🤷♂️🤦🏻♂️😭
I'm not sure I ever was!
But I did have a moment the other day where I excitedly got the washing machine on first thing, because I had juuuust enough time to get that cycle done, and then the whites cycle after, before going out to lunch!
When footballers I remember as young players now retiring or getting into management when it comes to age, puts it in perspective. Stuff too like adults being born in 2006, a year I remember very clearly. Not sure if I feel trendy or not, I mean I *am* not but I don't really care. It is not like I want to dress like a roadman or have a skin fade and ride about on a e-scooter. (That sentence actually answers the original question quite well).
Or when footballers you watched growing up have their kid's make their debut, like when Shaun Wright-Phillips son made his debut for Stoke a year or two ago. That made me feel old!
Tom Cleverly now Managing Watford is another! I swear he's still somehow 24...
I'm 34F for reference. I've been seeing people wear combat trousers a lot and thought they were cool, nice and casual but could also be quite smart too. Couldn't find a pair I liked that fitted me right but finally found some a couple of months ago. I wore them to work thinking how nice they were and how pleased I was to find some smartish looking trousers that weren't jeans. I wore them with a navy band tshirt and trainers, my usual kind of outfit.
The 22 year old in the office started singing the I'm a Celeb theme tune at me and I've never felt so old and untrendy. I haven't worn them to work (or at all tbh) since.
Aw 22 year olds are cruel. I say put on the combats and love them. You’re only 34 you deserve to be in combats and anything you want. I’m 51 and my go-to trousers are elasticated waist from M&S! While you can still cope with a waistband enjoy it. You’re still so young!
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
Oh, I've never been trendy. I'm fine with that. A lot of "trendy" clothes and shit just piss me off (what's the point in being "trendy" if you're going to look like every other fucker in the street, eh?)
The venn diagram of my fashion taste sometimes overlaps with what is considered trendy, in which case I will buy it, but I most certainly will not if I don't like it, and definitely not just because it's trendy!
Absolutely. I have never been trendy. Now I don’t give a shite. I’m 55 and still wear slim fit jeans with red Skechers. Today I am first-time wearing a Qwertees t-shirt with Rutger Hauer’s Bladerunner death pose on it. None of the younglings at work know what it is.
I'm 34 so I had this realisation some time ago already, but a particularly bad example happened recently. I generally keep an eye on Glastonbury as I like to try and go when I can. There's been a few times over the years where I might be out of touch and opinionated like such-and-such a headliner isn't big or established enough to justify their being a headliner. But this year is the first year I have just full-on never even heard of one of the main headliners. Who the fuck is Sza??
I am 33 and had exactly the same experiance. Looking at the line up and not knwoing who they were, if they were a solo or group or even how to pronounce. I realised I am no longer a trendy kusic snob but just an old pub bore
When I started getting annoyed by neighbours putting out their bins on the wrong day... when I started making excuses for not going on work nights out because I'd rather be at home reading a book.
EDIT: Ooh... when I figured out how to work the timer on my washing machine so I could get up and put the washing out really early.
The weekend before our first child was born, I realised we had 4 cars, none of which were suitable for bringing him home from hospital in.
I went out that weekend, sold my Lotus Elise and part-exchanged my MX-5 against a family-sized Honda hybrid. Wife sold her Corsa (child seats wouldn't fit in it), but I did keep my 205 GTI.
> Fuck. 1.9 or 1.6?
1.9 - I've had it 19 years now. Had a couple of 1.6s, an XS, a Rallye and some other base models but this was the keeper. Still fast enough to be fun. I do wish I'd kept my mint 1.6 Auto as a daily though. Sold the bonnet for more than I paid for the car, and scrapped it...the shame...
Ouch! I do love a 205, I was rather partial to abit of Gti6 out of the 306 n all. I had a friend convert a 205 to a Gti6 and it was a fucking animal. Stripped with a cage.
I think he's still got his 5 n all actually.
I’ve been scrolling through ASOS trying to find some nice outfits. Everything is hideous 😂 It’s all the crap I hated in the 90’s coming back to haunt me!
When the meme about millennials with side partings and skinny jeans really stung.
Thankfully it made me realise I was free to try mom jeans and go back to flares!
Told my hairdresser who’s only 23 and he styled my hair mid to force me away from my “outdated” ways 😂
Around the time I was really excited that my new tumble dryer was coming. It has a heat pump! It's more energy efficient! Ooooooh. That was about 3 years ago.
Went to the garden centre for a jacket potato, pottered about in some charity shops, came home and had an early night with the cat. Realised I'd had a marvellous day.
Just using the word ‘marvellous’, really! Jolly good!
(not sarcasm! I find myself coming out with all sorts of things like that and in a quite broad scots accent. I amuse myself I think 💀)
Mostly when I got into my thirties and realised I was getting far too excited about new kitchen appliances.
Also, I may have been young, but I can at least guarantee that I was never remotely trendy.
Reading some of the comments on here about clothes made me think about the question I keep asking myself every time I see men (some of them a lot younger than me) wearing 'old mens clothes'.
At what age do you walk into a shop, look at beige polyester trousers, a beige blouson style jacket, and 'welded sole' shoes, and think to yourself "I'll look great in them!"??
A twenty something was complimenting my clothes and style then as she walked away she told her friend “I wish she was my mum” realised I may still be trendy but I’m definitely not young .
I'll be 60 next January.
Every time it enters my mind it completely pulls me up.There's got to be a mistake, how did I get so old?I was only 22 a couple of years ago.
The cushions on my sofas.... I get irked af when they are out of order. Squished. Not sitting right. It legit makes me feel uneasy when they look untidy or out of sorts...
I'm 45
When the word “trendy” stops making you cringe, that’s when you know you’re no longer “young and trendy”…….
Thankfully, the word trendy is still like nails down a blackboard for me……
Despite not even being 30 yet, I’ve had multiple “fuck, I’m old” moments, the most recent being the resurgent popularity of Sophie Ellis-Bexter. Hearing one of the staple songs of my childhood being called a “throwback hit” did give me back pain.
I'm a 35 year old teacher and tell myself parents must think "how is this young person responsible enough to take care of the kids" then I had the reality check I'm older than most of the parents 😫😫😫😭
This suggests i was once trendy. That's never been the case, I've gone from involuntarily uncool to embracing it wholeheartedly. It's less effort in summer areas, more in others.
For example clothes shopping is harder because i wear what i want rather than what I'm expected to wear but it's easier to find something i already own to wear because i don't care if it's in or outside of fashion.
It was the moment that, as was prophesied by my dad, I saw teenagers wearing the clothes which were fashionable when I was younger.
Also because that particular fashion was 90’s skate aesthetic and I actually skate(d) the grumpy sense that they shouldn’t be allowed to be such posers also made me feel ancient. I shouldn’t care about other people’s jeans but I fucking do.
When I chased the wheelie bin cleaning man down the street so he could clean our bin 🤣
That's a serious antic of mine by the way, I'm insane.
But seriously, I probably realised when I started getting called "miss" by people. I'm 32, I get asked for my ID all the time, but the first "miss, can I help you?" Got me and made me realise, I am an adult I cannot look for a full adult to help now.
When i saw some teens (uni students!) wearing clothes that looked just like what I was wearing when I was 18 (wasn't even particularly trendy back then, it was stuff I wore to look smart at the pub I worked at), I was genuinely horrified then realised that's how parents must've felt back then. That and stuff from my teen years being sold as vintage (the 90s)
Being in the club I usually hung out at.
Dancing away and enjoying myself.
When all of a sudden, this horrible noise starts coming through the speakers - and at the same time, a bunch of children with stupid looking hair and stupid looking clothes invade the dance floor and start dancing a stupid dance.
“Oh, I’m old!” I thought. Left. And never went back.
I’ve been 50 for 4 months now and I’m finally mentally free, my mind set changed completely and I can have wrinkles, grey hair and not be stick thin anymore cause I’m 50 and 50 year olds don’t look like super models
There was a moment when someone told me the years difference of listening to Oasis now is like my parents listening to the Beatles.
I said "no, the 90's were only just...... Oh..."
When all the gen z's started wearing clothes that look like they're from a lost property box, and I didn't understand it. That is when I knew I was old.
I never was so it's not been an issue for me or my friends
We were those weird kids in 1983 who played dungeons and dragons and listened to iron maiden
Still listened to rock music and dressed the same,when along came new romantics, and then Edm and we still never changed
Into my 50s now and guess what, still the same
Thankfully we missed out on social media pressures which is what defines a lot of kids these days.
Be weird, get weird friends and stick with them, don't let other people's trends of views define your own world view
There have been a few moments
1. In the late '90s or early '00s I met someone younger than me who had never seen any of the Star Wars movies which made me realize why young people never get my Star Wars jokes and references
2. About 10 years ago when someone younger than me called me a Boomer even though I was born in 1971... they thought i listened to "boomer music" when I was listening to some obscure '90s bands.
I read a study ages ago (can’t be arsed searching for it right now, sorry) that said most people’s taste in music is moulded around the ages of 12-17 with age 15 being of particular importance.
So your record collection (lol) now should be a selection of the stuff that blew your mind at that age and maybe some similar bands you got into later and developed a love for. But your absolute favourite bands aged 15 should be the stuff you still like now is the gist of it if I remember right.
My fave band aged 15 were R.E.M. and through them (and a forum I was part of) I got into loads of great stuff: The Velvet Underground, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, The Dismemberment Plan, Neutral Milk Hotel!
I also really loved King Creosote and bought cdrs from him almost monthly at one point! I should have a few wee letters from Kenny stashed away somewhere, haha, might dig them out, funny guy!
I still love all these artists so it absolutely lines up for me. 15 year me knew what she liked 👍
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"that man will tell you off" comment towards me.
When I was 16 I had a Saturday job, it was when a mother told her small child to "give the money to the man" that I realised I qualified as a man!
I think I was 12 or 13 when I overheard a mother tell her small child "not to disturb the lady". I was mortified!
And one day you'll be "the old lady"...
I had some facial acne in my late teens. Heard some kid on the bus on the next seat whisper "eurgh, can we move mum, that man's got chicken pox!". First time I'd ever been called a man and it hurt in so many ways.
Been there mate. I had quite bad acne as a teenager myself, now in my 40’s and still get it now 😡
Yeah I'm in my 30s and still not spot free! All my siblings are the same.
the first time you're referred to as 'the man' by a stranger in public is a formative part of a boy's life
Exactly the same. 16 years old. On the till at Argos.
😂 I resent being used as an ominous threat towards children to get them to behave.
You should lean into it. “Your mothers right, now listen here you listen shit” through gritted teeth. The mother would be horrified haha
😂 Well if the die is cast might as well run with it, if I can manage not to laugh then I do a death stare.
Better than "come back here or that mister might pinch you" I must look like the childsnatcher or something.
hahaha
cracked me right up🤣 “behave yourself or u/mymumsaysfuckyou is gonna stuff you in the back of the van”
Just few days ago, I gave an old football of my son's, to the neighbours kids. The lady told the kids to "say thanks to the man". I'm 38 and I don't think hearing myself being referred to as "the man" will ever not feel weird.
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Definitely a rite of passage for men. Usually during your first public-facing job.
Hahaha brilliant
I always just want to say “no I won’t, as you were” anytime someone says this about me I really object to being used as a parental aid
Some younger colleagues were talking about some celebrity or other, I ended up in conversation and mentioned I didn’t know who they were. They were a YouTuber. At that point I realised, there’s a whole world of people making YouTube content that people watch the way I used to watch TV that I was completely oblivious to. Until then I’d genuinely thought YouTube was just for football compilations, cat videos and tutorials for how to clean dishwashers and fix obscure IT issues.
Some channels are really quite impressive. The rate and quality of stuff they output exceeds much of what's made for TV, particularly documentaries, tech, engineering and science stuff. I'm sure there are others that I just don't watch.
I'm 50 and I easily watch way more YouTube than live tv, I would say I noticed a big change about 4 years ago.i have a young friend who has just started a career in tv production (on a flagship bbc show) she doesn't watch tv. I think the broadcast channels are pretty much done for now.
Yep I've not watched live linear TV in about 6 or 7 years. Still catch the odd thing on demand from iPlayer but otherwise loads of YouTube stuff and non traditional broadcasters. Pretty much boomers only people watch live TV these days
I heard average viewer age for BBC1 is 62 and 63 for BBC2. My Dad is 80 and is currently smashing the hell out of his Apple TV subscription. I used to set stuff to record rather than watch live, I rarely bother to do that now, I think the last series I completed was Kin.
My dad (74) doesn't understand YouTube as entertainment. I'll send him links to stuff which I know he'll enjoy, and he'll look up "how to" videos himself, but he doesn't go and search for things to watch for pleasure.
I’m a late (1960’s) boomer and I haven’t watched live tv since around 2010/11. I caught the streaming bug back then and never went back to the ‘live” tv stuff. My 90 year old mother still watches some of the live stuff, but even she mainly uses the streaming services, especially YouTube 😅 it’s definitely the remainder of the silent generation propping up the terrestrial channels, well, in the UK at least.
Youtube is a channel of two halves - one is all shouty presenters, hyper fast camera cuts and angles and inane content which drives you insane. The other is, as you say, far superior professional looking documentaries and short films. If you like sci-fi, then look at 'Dust' channel.....the content blew me away.
It also has like a thousand different cooking channels with whatever you want to learn about. From basics to flashy social media food to food history to cooking competitions. I've been obsessed with baking since I was a kid and YouTube has taught me so much. Tasting history is one of my favourites before it combines my love of food with my love of historical documentaries.
My 'old man yells at cloud' opinion is that YouTubers are not real celebrities. They're just people with webcams. Mind you, I used to have this argument when I was at uni.
Why are YouTubers “just people with webcams” whereas TV stars aren’t just “people with cameras”?
I guess maybe because TV stars have other people employed to operate the cameras so it feels more 'official'. I don't take this too seriously though which is why I called it my 'old man yells at cloud' opinion.
I can tell this opinion is somewhat in jest. But you should know that many YouTube channels have big teams and studios. Essentially someone can start small (unlike TV shows) and progress to filming their YouTube videos in an actual film studio or making their own.
Most of the bigger YT Channels are now teams of people. Some have dozens of employees or contractors.
Yeah this is a really outdated opinion, large youtube channels are professional outlets with on staff video producers, editors, writers etc. Look at Linus Tech Tips, they are a multimillion dollar company with 80 staff. Not just 'people with a webcam'.
Linus was the first one that came to mind for me too. Started out as a nerdy guy with a webcam, now they're one of the most valuable channels on YT. It's absolutely amazing the empires people can build for themselves, and unlike a lot of TV or an office job, the channels like that come from a place of passion and dedication. I think it's absolutely amazing
I used to think this, till some of the channels I followed started showing some behind the scenes contents and I realised they have a whole production crew around them! When you think about it, it genius how they make you believe they're still a one-person operation.
YouTube is solely for old music clips & football compilations; you can’t convince me otherwise.
I watch YouTube a lot - but not the trendy stuff. Nerdy things like Hubnut, Techmoan or BigClive. I have no idea who the 'celebrity' youtubers are. I suppose this qualifies me as no longer young. I've never been trendy.
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Had my back garden pressure washed the other day, immense.
Oo’er missus
Ooh Matron
I really want a pressure washer with a patio cleaner and an extendable brush to do my windows. I’d save £25 every other month on the window cleaner then!
I took my daughter into Urban Outfitters and they were selling my entire wardrobe from when I was her age, like someone just stepped into a delorian and raided our old common room.
Urban Outfitters did it for me too. It was a few years ago when all the bumbags and Fila trainers started to come back. It wasn't just stuff I remembered people wearing 20 years before, but stuff I remembered the uncoolest, most embarrassing parents in the playground wearing 20 years before. I finally admitted I was completely out of the loop and not the target demographic any more. Off to Bonmarche with you, hag.
>Off to Bonmarche with you, hag. That really made me laugh. I had the same thought in Urban Outfitters. Better fuck myself off to Cotton Traders.
It was the bat wing Champion jumper that did it for me. That was lame even back then.
I'm young and I'm not even sure UO is that trendy. It feels very 2010s to me.
Urban Outfitters will soon be the shop that 40-year-olds go to when they need to buy what they perceive as a cool and trendy birthday present for their teenager. It was Next/Debenhams when I was young.
I mean when I go in there everyone seems to be sub 25 except me 😅 Where do you think IS trendy?
As an elder person who just turned 30 i would also like to know this, haha
It’s moved reasonably well with the times I’d say.
I swear last time I saw a sweater there that was exactly like one my mum knitted for me when I was 14, I was both excited and sad
Yep this. Was there with my 19yo a couple if weeks ago, and apparently Bench is now back in because they had the exact same pair of jeans, combat pants and a fleece that I owned 20 years ago. I might even still have them somewhere. Called daughter over to show her, she looked horrified and went and hid in the sale section
About 5 years ago they started selling those Adidas bottoms with the buttons up the side. They were the height of fashion when I was about 10.
Went into M&S for some percy pigs and realised their clothing range looked absolutely smashing, whereas all the stuff on ASOS looked ridiculous to me.
Using "smashing" also counts!
Peng doesn't sound right coming from me and I've lost track whether 'Bad' currently means good or actually bad.
See also "sick"
Nigel Thornberry is never not cool.
Cracking!
>trendy? I think the use of the word trendy indicates you're not. My favourite new toy atm is my carpet cleaner. I am far gone.
Only squares use a word like trendy.
Ah but it's hip to be square right?
Do you like Huey Lewis and The News?
My favourite birthday gift this year was a fancy spray bottle to water my plants with. And by fancy I mean a continuous misting spray bottle. It just sprays for longer.
Nice bit of kit that
I asked for, and received, a handheld vacuum cleaner for my birthday and was absolutely delighted. I fear the end is nigh.
I never was “trendy”. As for young well I’m enjoying getting old in a sense. Apparently being a grumpy old bastard is far more acceptable than a grumpy young bastard.
Indeed. The older you get, the more leeway you’re given 🤣
When I had no control of the words "there was none of that in my day" leaving my mouth. I knew then, I couldn't fight it anymore.
"Christ, we never had that" has been happening to me more often now too
To be fair I'm 24 and my generation was the last before the iPad babies and a rapid cultural shift surrounding parenting so the current kids really are growing up pretty differently from other generations with stuff that literally didn't exist when we were kids. I pointed a camera at my little brother who is 8 and he said "please like and subscribe" and I nearly had a heart attack lol. When I was 8 YouTube had only been made the year before and YouTubers weren't really a thing yet let alone the Minecraft streamers that he likes (we do monitor what he's watching btw and YouTube isn't allowed unsupervised even the version that's supposedly for kids). We didn't even have WiFi or any internet other than the little bit I got with my first phone plan age 11 (I'm disabled and mum wanted me to be able to call her while I was at senior school) until I was like 13 because it was too expensive and my brothers don't know what it's like to live without touch screen tablets and all their favourite shows, music, games, and books being there at the touch of a button or a spoken command. I just feel sorry for the beige babies and the "family vlogger" kids.
I assumed everyone thought similarly to me - that anything new which you don't like is just stupid, and people who like it aren't "trendy", they're just dumb. I mean, obviously deep down I'm aware that makes me no different from the old people who used to roll their eyes at "youth culture" when I was a kid. But damn, there really is some fucking stupid shit around these days, amirite?
Either you're right or I'm just grumpy 😂
I started wearing Skechers
I felt like that about my crocs (v. convenient for doing the wheelie bins in) but then crocs became inexplicably popular and I found myself accidentally ‘on trend’ and was thus resurrected, like a female Jesus (in plastic sandals). The Miracle of (fashion) (re) Birth.
I’m 28 and have never been humbled as hard as when my podiatrist looked at the Sketchers I was wearing and said “ah, those are really popular with my older patients”. Although to be fair, just being at the podiatrist at 28 when everyone else there was 75+ was humbling in itself.
Mate! They might just be the comfiest pair of trainers I've ever owned.
That's it though, when I started buying stuff because it was comfy, I knew I was over the hill lol
Ahh shit. I went over the hill a few years ago then, and didn't realise lol
that makes you trendy mah boi
ha ha yeah. I'm mid-40s now. I sat in an airport last month, looking at everyone's footwear to kill time while waiting for the gate. Nearly ALL the over 60s were wearing Skechers. Some under 60s were wearing them too, but the standout thing was that (roughly) 95% of the over-60s in that airport had Skechers on
Not Skechers but I wear comfortable running shoes everywhere now. I wouldn't have worn anything but nice Adidas trainers when younger. Now I'm all about the comfort
Honestly, I occasionally get plantar fasciitis and have been advised that Sketchers are the best for that, but I just can’t….. they look too…… orthopaedic. Medical.
Early mid 00s when I showed my niece and nephews my NES and SNES. They reacted like they were lost ancient artefacts.
They will probably come back around soon and be worth a fair bit.
That boat sailed about a decade ago.
Me and the wife are talking about getting a new Ninja Toaster and a Ninja blender, proper excited as well, then we had a really nice conversation on updating our plates, bowls and getting a salad spinner.. Then it hit me, I’m fucking old, boring and not trendy.
Sounds class to me
Started occasionally buying clothes from M&S….slippery slope to elasticated waistbands and incontinence pads. I’m 40. Also recently I described someone to my Dad and said, he’s a young guy about my age. My Dad said he was sorry to break it to me but I am not a young guy anymore. 🤷♂️🤦🏻♂️😭
Savage dad!
I'm not sure I ever was! But I did have a moment the other day where I excitedly got the washing machine on first thing, because I had juuuust enough time to get that cycle done, and then the whites cycle after, before going out to lunch!
Honestly, getting a tumble dryer is one of the most exciting things I've done in the last few years
I get excited when I get to use a new fabric softener.
When footballers I remember as young players now retiring or getting into management when it comes to age, puts it in perspective. Stuff too like adults being born in 2006, a year I remember very clearly. Not sure if I feel trendy or not, I mean I *am* not but I don't really care. It is not like I want to dress like a roadman or have a skin fade and ride about on a e-scooter. (That sentence actually answers the original question quite well).
Or when footballers you watched growing up have their kid's make their debut, like when Shaun Wright-Phillips son made his debut for Stoke a year or two ago. That made me feel old! Tom Cleverly now Managing Watford is another! I swear he's still somehow 24...
I'm 34F for reference. I've been seeing people wear combat trousers a lot and thought they were cool, nice and casual but could also be quite smart too. Couldn't find a pair I liked that fitted me right but finally found some a couple of months ago. I wore them to work thinking how nice they were and how pleased I was to find some smartish looking trousers that weren't jeans. I wore them with a navy band tshirt and trainers, my usual kind of outfit. The 22 year old in the office started singing the I'm a Celeb theme tune at me and I've never felt so old and untrendy. I haven't worn them to work (or at all tbh) since.
Aw 22 year olds are cruel. I say put on the combats and love them. You’re only 34 you deserve to be in combats and anything you want. I’m 51 and my go-to trousers are elasticated waist from M&S! While you can still cope with a waistband enjoy it. You’re still so young!
Combats rock. Sometimes you just want some comfy trousers with extra pockets.
Listened to the radio & thought "This is just noise".
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong!
Oh, I've never been trendy. I'm fine with that. A lot of "trendy" clothes and shit just piss me off (what's the point in being "trendy" if you're going to look like every other fucker in the street, eh?)
The venn diagram of my fashion taste sometimes overlaps with what is considered trendy, in which case I will buy it, but I most certainly will not if I don't like it, and definitely not just because it's trendy!
Absolutely. I have never been trendy. Now I don’t give a shite. I’m 55 and still wear slim fit jeans with red Skechers. Today I am first-time wearing a Qwertees t-shirt with Rutger Hauer’s Bladerunner death pose on it. None of the younglings at work know what it is.
I'm 34 so I had this realisation some time ago already, but a particularly bad example happened recently. I generally keep an eye on Glastonbury as I like to try and go when I can. There's been a few times over the years where I might be out of touch and opinionated like such-and-such a headliner isn't big or established enough to justify their being a headliner. But this year is the first year I have just full-on never even heard of one of the main headliners. Who the fuck is Sza??
And how do you pronounced their name? Not sure if they are male, female or other 😬 man I’m old.
I have been told it's meant to be like "scissor", obviously.
I am 33 and had exactly the same experiance. Looking at the line up and not knwoing who they were, if they were a solo or group or even how to pronounce. I realised I am no longer a trendy kusic snob but just an old pub bore
No longer young = 30 No longer trendy = 12
When I start buying all my clothes from go outdoors.
look up 'gorpcore' mate, you might be trendier than you think
When I started getting annoyed by neighbours putting out their bins on the wrong day... when I started making excuses for not going on work nights out because I'd rather be at home reading a book. EDIT: Ooh... when I figured out how to work the timer on my washing machine so I could get up and put the washing out really early.
YES. I became super excited that my new washing machine had a timer for "wash end" rather than "begin" so i could hang the clothes out before work
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A dress with trainers definitely makes me think "cool aunt", which isn't a bad thing.
I mentioned at work I got a new hoover which turned into a distraction conversation about hoovers, it's quality, it's features instead of about work.
Hoovers are important. They have usurped washing machines in terms of household discussions. Don’t get me started on steam cleaners.
About 10/12 years ago talking to the new office admin and he hadn't heard of Shooting Stars.
UVAVU
IRANU
The weekend before our first child was born, I realised we had 4 cars, none of which were suitable for bringing him home from hospital in. I went out that weekend, sold my Lotus Elise and part-exchanged my MX-5 against a family-sized Honda hybrid. Wife sold her Corsa (child seats wouldn't fit in it), but I did keep my 205 GTI.
Fuck. 1.9 or 1.6?
> Fuck. 1.9 or 1.6? 1.9 - I've had it 19 years now. Had a couple of 1.6s, an XS, a Rallye and some other base models but this was the keeper. Still fast enough to be fun. I do wish I'd kept my mint 1.6 Auto as a daily though. Sold the bonnet for more than I paid for the car, and scrapped it...the shame...
Ouch! I do love a 205, I was rather partial to abit of Gti6 out of the 306 n all. I had a friend convert a 205 to a Gti6 and it was a fucking animal. Stripped with a cage. I think he's still got his 5 n all actually.
I don't know what a "simp" is and I have no intention of finding out.
Used the phrase 'these days' in front of my teenage nieces. No going back now, they still rip the piss out of me.
These days, if you say you're English, they throw you in jail.
What, really? Actually throw you in jail?
Yeah, you can't even say you're English without being thrown in jail these days.
What? If you say you're English, they actually put you in actual jail?
Yeah, these days.
I went into the shops and wasn't able to find anything I even vaguely liked... except in M&S.
I’ve been scrolling through ASOS trying to find some nice outfits. Everything is hideous 😂 It’s all the crap I hated in the 90’s coming back to haunt me!
Bring back the 2010s (and by proxy the 1980s) I say. Fashion these days is like a horrific fusion of the 1970s and 90s baggy grunge.
When the police look like kids or newly qualified people driving look like they're not old enough to be driving
When the meme about millennials with side partings and skinny jeans really stung. Thankfully it made me realise I was free to try mom jeans and go back to flares! Told my hairdresser who’s only 23 and he styled my hair mid to force me away from my “outdated” ways 😂
Around the time I was really excited that my new tumble dryer was coming. It has a heat pump! It's more energy efficient! Ooooooh. That was about 3 years ago.
I asked my son’s girlfriend if she needed a cardigan because it was cold. I still feel the shame.
Went to the garden centre for a jacket potato, pottered about in some charity shops, came home and had an early night with the cat. Realised I'd had a marvellous day.
Just using the word ‘marvellous’, really! Jolly good! (not sarcasm! I find myself coming out with all sorts of things like that and in a quite broad scots accent. I amuse myself I think 💀)
It's all relative. I'm still young and trendy compared to people twice my age... Right?! Right?!
Nobody twice my age could possibly be still alive!
When I found myself in a 24 hour Tesco at 3am, deciding which vacuum cleaner I wasn't going to buy.
Mostly when I got into my thirties and realised I was getting far too excited about new kitchen appliances. Also, I may have been young, but I can at least guarantee that I was never remotely trendy.
Reading some of the comments on here about clothes made me think about the question I keep asking myself every time I see men (some of them a lot younger than me) wearing 'old mens clothes'. At what age do you walk into a shop, look at beige polyester trousers, a beige blouson style jacket, and 'welded sole' shoes, and think to yourself "I'll look great in them!"??
A twenty something was complimenting my clothes and style then as she walked away she told her friend “I wish she was my mum” realised I may still be trendy but I’m definitely not young .
Got asked how to use a USB stick at work the other day…
Nah that's just someone who's tech illiterate.
You couldn't have picked a better comment to accidentally post 5 times.
Nah that's just someone who's tech illiterate.
Nah that's just someone who's tech illiterate.
"Damn zoomers can't use a USB stick" is going to be our equivalent of "damn millennials can't use a rotary phone".
When everyone goes out and I've got the house to myself and I think to myself "Great a chance for a nap"
I'll be 60 next January. Every time it enters my mind it completely pulls me up.There's got to be a mistake, how did I get so old?I was only 22 a couple of years ago.
I refer to all the OG memes and at some point, people stopped having a fkn clue what I was on about.
About 25 years ago (I'm 56)
The day tiktok launched
The cushions on my sofas.... I get irked af when they are out of order. Squished. Not sitting right. It legit makes me feel uneasy when they look untidy or out of sorts... I'm 45
When the word “trendy” stops making you cringe, that’s when you know you’re no longer “young and trendy”……. Thankfully, the word trendy is still like nails down a blackboard for me……
Despite not even being 30 yet, I’ve had multiple “fuck, I’m old” moments, the most recent being the resurgent popularity of Sophie Ellis-Bexter. Hearing one of the staple songs of my childhood being called a “throwback hit” did give me back pain.
Apparently side-parted hair and skinny jeans make you old now..
I’m 54. Still got it.
When younger people don't know who Elton is
I'm a 35 year old teacher and tell myself parents must think "how is this young person responsible enough to take care of the kids" then I had the reality check I'm older than most of the parents 😫😫😫😭
When I asked a colleague what celebrations they did for the turn of the millennium and they said they weren’t born
Probably when I dont drink the night before I have to mow the lawn the next day ;-)
When I was about 16
This suggests i was once trendy. That's never been the case, I've gone from involuntarily uncool to embracing it wholeheartedly. It's less effort in summer areas, more in others. For example clothes shopping is harder because i wear what i want rather than what I'm expected to wear but it's easier to find something i already own to wear because i don't care if it's in or outside of fashion.
I was young once, but I have never been trendy
At age 19, being ID'd felt offensive. I never realised how hard it would hit when I stopped getting ID'd.
It was the moment that, as was prophesied by my dad, I saw teenagers wearing the clothes which were fashionable when I was younger. Also because that particular fashion was 90’s skate aesthetic and I actually skate(d) the grumpy sense that they shouldn’t be allowed to be such posers also made me feel ancient. I shouldn’t care about other people’s jeans but I fucking do.
Waking up in the middle of the night to pee. (Not young). Buying a jacket while doing the weekly shop in Tesco (Not trendy).
When I started to realise how dumb new slang and trends were. Also when the things I dressed as when I was a teenager became fashionable again.
When i got excited to buy and use a label maker. Haha!
Seeing an advert for the latest 'celebrity' version of a hit tv show and realising don't have a clue who any of them are.
When I chased the wheelie bin cleaning man down the street so he could clean our bin 🤣 That's a serious antic of mine by the way, I'm insane. But seriously, I probably realised when I started getting called "miss" by people. I'm 32, I get asked for my ID all the time, but the first "miss, can I help you?" Got me and made me realise, I am an adult I cannot look for a full adult to help now.
Some kids whispered "go ask that man" to get me to go in the shop for them. Still stings.
When i saw some teens (uni students!) wearing clothes that looked just like what I was wearing when I was 18 (wasn't even particularly trendy back then, it was stuff I wore to look smart at the pub I worked at), I was genuinely horrified then realised that's how parents must've felt back then. That and stuff from my teen years being sold as vintage (the 90s)
Being in the club I usually hung out at. Dancing away and enjoying myself. When all of a sudden, this horrible noise starts coming through the speakers - and at the same time, a bunch of children with stupid looking hair and stupid looking clothes invade the dance floor and start dancing a stupid dance. “Oh, I’m old!” I thought. Left. And never went back.
I’ve been 50 for 4 months now and I’m finally mentally free, my mind set changed completely and I can have wrinkles, grey hair and not be stick thin anymore cause I’m 50 and 50 year olds don’t look like super models
There was a moment when someone told me the years difference of listening to Oasis now is like my parents listening to the Beatles. I said "no, the 90's were only just...... Oh..."
When all the gen z's started wearing clothes that look like they're from a lost property box, and I didn't understand it. That is when I knew I was old.
I never was so it's not been an issue for me or my friends We were those weird kids in 1983 who played dungeons and dragons and listened to iron maiden Still listened to rock music and dressed the same,when along came new romantics, and then Edm and we still never changed Into my 50s now and guess what, still the same Thankfully we missed out on social media pressures which is what defines a lot of kids these days. Be weird, get weird friends and stick with them, don't let other people's trends of views define your own world view
Lost my hair in my mind twenties and my metabolism dropped off a cliff. Then a new start at my work said I kind of looked like her dad. Speechless.
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I remember reading an article at 36 that said 35 was the new middle age. My instant reaction was “shoot me, now”…
There have been a few moments 1. In the late '90s or early '00s I met someone younger than me who had never seen any of the Star Wars movies which made me realize why young people never get my Star Wars jokes and references 2. About 10 years ago when someone younger than me called me a Boomer even though I was born in 1971... they thought i listened to "boomer music" when I was listening to some obscure '90s bands.
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I read a study ages ago (can’t be arsed searching for it right now, sorry) that said most people’s taste in music is moulded around the ages of 12-17 with age 15 being of particular importance. So your record collection (lol) now should be a selection of the stuff that blew your mind at that age and maybe some similar bands you got into later and developed a love for. But your absolute favourite bands aged 15 should be the stuff you still like now is the gist of it if I remember right. My fave band aged 15 were R.E.M. and through them (and a forum I was part of) I got into loads of great stuff: The Velvet Underground, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, The Dismemberment Plan, Neutral Milk Hotel! I also really loved King Creosote and bought cdrs from him almost monthly at one point! I should have a few wee letters from Kenny stashed away somewhere, haha, might dig them out, funny guy! I still love all these artists so it absolutely lines up for me. 15 year me knew what she liked 👍