Anonymous wrote:All the young newscasters. CNN, ABC, etc. I grew up with old man Cronkite. So reassuring!

He was about 48 when he started anchoring CBS (though probably older when you watched him). Jake Tapper, for instance, is currently 54.

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Anonymous wrote:I watched Caitlin Jenner win a lot of gold medals as a guy.

Why anyone would want to trade aging as a man and former Olympic athlete for the life of a middle aged and aging woman is beyond me. Regardless of gender orientation it’s a clear step down. I’m a straight woman and I would age as a man if I could.

No matter what Caitlin Jenner wants to believe or do, Caitlin Jenner is still aging as a man because that's the boy. Can't fight biology.

Anonymous wrote:I watched Caitlin Jenner win a lot of gold medals as a guy.

Why anyone would want to trade aging as a man and former Olympic athlete for the life of a middle aged and aging woman is beyond me. Regardless of gender orientation it’s a clear step down. I’m a straight woman and I would age as a man if I could.

Started college in 1978 and occasionally some classes met at the local bar, or professors would hang out there with students after classes. Relationships between professors and students were not unheard of.

was this Chagrin falls?

love that place

I went back to my hometown recently, first time in forever. It's a really cute square with a waterfall and this popcorn/ice cream shop. I had one of my first jobs in high school at a store in town, and we used to make fun of the "tourists." We're like, what the hell, it's a waterfall, big deal, popcorn, so what....

So what did we just do? Spent time at the popcorn shop then down to the waterfall. I turned to my friend and said, "holy crap, we're the people we made fun of for so long!!!" And we liked it.

visited my alma mater last fall

wondered what students thought of me walking around campus

would've been like me as a freshman seeing an alum who started in 1945

ouch!

Anonymous wrote:Boys don't wear jeans anymore. So many boys are wearing athletic pants. I think they all look awful and sloppy.

Oh, yes, clothing has definitely changed from the 1990s. No one wears sweaters anymore except for lightweight merinos. I had dozens of gorgeous wool sweaters and at some point I must have stopped wearing them and they lingered in boxes for a decade before I finally got rid of them. It's all polar fleeces in the winter these days. Our modern clothes are much lighter than the clothes of the 1980s and 1990s thanks to new fabric technology. I saw an episode of Will and Grace the other day from their first season and even I could see that Will's suit is, by modern eyes, too big and loose and heavy looking compared to the modern suits. If you wear suits these days. In my fancy consulting firms most men don't wear suits any more unless it's an important client meeting and half the time they wear upscale sneakers with suits! Formality in clothing really has faded away, with some regret.

But I'm glad the cargo shorts died out. I never liked the cargo shorts look.

Boys don't wear jeans anymore. So many boys are wearing athletic pants. I think they all look awful and sloppy.

I echo the observation that in 1995, 1979 seemed like an ancient world inhabited by strange people wearing ugly fashion and using primitive technology, but now I'm much further away from 1995 than I was from 1979 in 1995! Kids must think my 1995 was a strange world inhabited by people wearing ugly clothes and using primitive technology! I did ask my 11 year old nephew if he thought we looked weird in photos from the 1990s and he said yes. It made me both pause and laugh!

Smoking is the one thing that utterly transformed in terms of perception and noticeability. I remember smoking on planes and being stuck in the last row of the non-smoking section in front of a cigar smoker. I remember smoking in malls and restaurants and the smell on teachers when they came in from a cigarette break. I am HS class of '98 and it seemed like at least half my senior class at a fancy prep school smoked. But today? I recently happened to be at a gas station buying a bottle of water and it occurred to me that the cigarette rack is a lot smaller that it used to be. And I never see youths smoking. At all. Not even sneaking a contraband cigarette. And the less people smoke, the more those who still do stand out and the sharper the smell is.

On the other hand, the sight of all the young people with tattoos seems so very bizarre and weird to me.

But what really has changed is technology. In the 1990s we didn't have to keep track of innumerable passwords and deal with two step verifications every time we logged online. Or chatbots. Healthcare is much more complicated and bureaucratic. Everything is one step forward but also one step backwards. Everything that was meant to make things easier for humans has only ended up making life more complicated and a hassle.

Landlines installed by the phone company.

There’s an instagram account called Washingtonianprobs and last week there was a post about “list servs” and a ton of posters had never even heard of the term—weep!

I read that post thinking: “I was one of the first DCUM list-serve members”….#OLD

In my small town, we only needed to dial the last 4 digits of a phone number on the landline.

My kids couldn't understand that AT ALL

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Anonymous wrote:I recently started using Apple pay on my phone to make purchases because I started to feel old swiping my actual card.

I only recently started scanning my card on top of the device rather than pushing and pulling it out of the slot.

My son has Apple Pay as he doesn’t have a credit card. What’s the benefit to me using that instead of a credit card? Easier because my phone is already out?

It's more secure. You need your Face ID to complete the transaction. Anyone else can just swipe your card

Anonymous wrote:I was watching a rom-com last year and the heroine goes inside a house and says hey to a guy. I think he’s cute as the love interest, and it turns out he’s her DAD. He was around my age, 49.

Lol!