To ask when/if you realised you were the out of touch older generation

[isitwhatitis]

This year more than any I've realised just how out of touch I am with changes to society, before I was part of it but now the younger generations are changing and I'm the out of touch older generation, it's a weird feeling.

I'm 45 and I still really like a lot of new music, but live music is too loud for me now. It makes my ears hurt and it bothers me. As for 'popular culture' it all seems like such vacuous shit. I was never one for reality TV, but on Woman's Hour the other day they had 20-something wittering on about Love Island and trying to make out that it's a microcosm of the real world and how fascinating relationship dynamics are in a goldfish bowl and I switched if off, because it felt utterly irrelevant to me. Those dimwitted, surgically enhanced gym bunnies have fuck all to do with anything that's relevant to my life and they never did. As for make up and how young women want to look nowadays - they all look like porn stars to me with their heavy make up and inflated lips. How is that progress? And they all call themselves feminists! If you looked less like a blow up doll love, I might take you more seriously. I'm definitely an old fart!

My teen who now has predrinks at someone's house then head into town about 11pm, coming back at 4am.
Because it's really £££ to drink when you are out.
The 17 year old not being able to go clubbing as too young.

I was clubbing at 15, no ID required, but we would head out about 8pm and come back about 2am.

Not going to see a good band because the tickets were for standing only

Not knowing what the sidebar of shame even is
Not being able to “get” Instagram
Getting cross at the sheer racket the Youtubers my sons watch make

When my 13 year old was mortified I was wearing the same shoes as her.

I'm 30 ffs

Apparently having your loyalty/reward cards on your car keys rather than having the actual card=old. they have just discussed it on Greg James' show.

Having to get the 13yo to come and switch off some gaming tech for me. That was a new low for me this week.

Not knowing who’s who on the sidebar of shame.

Ha, not caring who's on the sidebar of shame.

Yesterday, when I had to google who Lewis Capaldi is

When a trainee was discussing design decisions in tech and said: "but why they chose an abstract blue square for the "save" button, have no one had a better idea?"

Oh, I have another! Having spare reading glasses in the car/different bags. Shame!

I am happy being out of touch, society now is at times a drunken, drug fuelled, body exposing bunch of narcissistic idiots.

Leno Ventura

The Kardishans are an alien race, maybe not on Star Trek but they are definitely a bunch of weirdos.

Every time I read a festival list I sit there going who? Who? What? I know so few of the bands.

There was a moment in about 2007 where my slightly younger friends were routinely getting dick pics from potential suitors. That’s the moment I lost touch.

I agree with every post on this thread.

I’m 19

No matter what age you are sending pictures of your genitals to others is a really, really strange and not very intelligent thing to do.

When I watched Mamma Mia for the second time and related to Donna not Sophie 😢

when you start coming up will silly names for things and people - so the slug eyebrows and Billy Eyelash. But the very fact that I know about them.....

My teen is into 80 and 90's music, is playing Beatles back to back and asking for blank cassette tapes......

Realising whichever way you look at it Dirty Dancing is a very seedy story.

When I started listening to Radio 2.

Snapchat
Queer theory

Realising that what I was brought up with as good manners is no longer the way people do things. Yes, I can observe and obey the new rules, but because the old rules were ingrained into me, it will always feel strange when the exact opposite applies.

I'm thinking things like never knocking on someone's door unless you've made a pre-arangement, not emailing late in the evening because nowadays people have their emails on their phones, children not interrupting adult conversations, and offering their seats to older people.

When I noticed one of the teachers in the school used to go to the same Mums and Tots group as me but was the child (a couple of years older than my DC1).

Erm...... what is the sidebar of shame?????