My hairdressers didn't know a spice girls song...when did you realise you were "old"?

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I'm 39.
She's 21
She said "oh yeah I've heard of them but not sure on songs they sang"

Spent the rest of the two hours feeling like a fossil and mentally singing every song from their first album 😂

They are back! Alive and well in east London. 🤣

Went to something that passed as a nightclub (you know, the cheesy Club Tropicana type, not an actual serious club night) about 15 years ago, with some slightly younger friends. Suddenly realised that every song I liked and wanted to dance to was being played ironically. Have never felt older.

Apart from when I worked out that I was old enough to be the mother of one of the other women in my line team and that not even be scandalous. Also felt very old then.

@Globules talk about rubbing salt into the wound😂I know, I know, I can't believe I've failed so badly, he likes French rap too - I may as well just hand in my parenting credentials right now. 😁Still, I have another son he might redeem me yet, he was always my favourite to be honest.

Now everyone younger than me seems to look about 17. Like I've no concept of the difference between anyone if they appear they are more than 10 years younger than me.

I used to think everyone looked really old. Now I realise people who I think look old are the same age as me!

I think because young people don't grow up listening to the radio anymore, they only hear songs that they have chosen to put on. It is such a different way of hearing and discovering music. I was born in the 90s, but I knew songs from the 70s and 80s because I heard them on the radio, that my mum played. It's a really different culture with music now.

My DD didn't know who Max Headroom was. To be fair,she was only 3/4 years old, when he was on the TV! But gosh,did it make me feel old.

I remember the morning after the Brexit referendum. I worked at a University and a student asked me how I voted.

Me: "I voted remain, I'm pro EU."
Them (surprised) "Really? That's interesting because I heard lots of old people voted to leave...."

I was 42 ffs.... 🤦🏻

Ollie Bearman's hot dad.

I grew up lusting after F1 drivers. Now the new ones make me feel all maternal with their sweet little acne covered faces, and their dads are very attractive indeed.

Also, I'm a university lecturer and all my students were born post 2000. Some of them are even decent approximations of adults.

I started feeling old when our Prime Ministers were younger than me. David Cameron was the first one,by 4 years,then Rishi Sunak by nearly 23 years! 😱 We're back to normality now with our current PM being just over a year older than me!

My aunt complained to a client that she felt really old because her youngest child had just graduated from uni. He replied “Count your blessings. My youngest child has just retired!” 😂

A few years ago a new teacher at school has never heard of Abba🤣

One of my younger colleagues had never heard of "the millennium bug" and he had thought it was a conspiracy theory! I felt a bit silly explaining that everyone was worried that their computers would stop working at the stroke of midnight when clocked ticked over from 1999 to 2000, but it was quite a big deal at the time!

There's time.

Spotify the crap out of the This is Kylie playlist for the next few years. Should be fine.

I can't suggest anything to move past the French rap though...sorry that you have to carry that one alone. 😉 😁

😂🤣

It may be a while before they get to the west country but I'm looking forward to it!😀

I think for me it was when I tripped over at the train station and instead of people laughing or ignoring it everyone looked concerned and several asked if I was ok or needed a chair.
But perhaps people are just more polite nowadays???

Not to the young ones, she's not!

When has she last had a song out?

At parents' evening, I was suddenly made aware that I had taught the father of a child in my class 😯

fancying Dua Lipa's Dad!
Or Dad's/Grandad's in general!

I sometimes find it hard to talk to people in their 20s, as they know so little about the world!

When the last Frozen movie had a song in it spoofing the boy bands of my childhood as a fun throwback for the parents and I realised shit, I'm the parents now.

My ds listens to them and he is 26

Seeing teens do the nsync "byebyebye" dance on tiktok and thinking it is a new tiktok trend.

Seeing their parents explain to them, that the song has actually been out for a long time

That's very true

My dcs had to listen to all my 60, 70s, 80s stuff and I also listened to the chart stuff as well

I had a similar conversation.

I said to a young male coworker:
^"I remember watching Kurt Cobain playing live on MTV"
He said:
"Who?"

He was wearing a Nirvana T Shirt.
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