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

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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.

3.... but when I hear NEW bands on 6Music think “ach what a lot of noise, I’m my day we had Kenickie”
...Remembering you sat next to the female part of Kenickie in most lessons in school for bloody years.

I put the radio on a few days ago and found myself tutting at the lack of "actual music" in the top ten!

When people started talking about "influencers" WTF even does that mean?? (Rhetorical)

I have noticed I speak in an antiquated way - a bit like the elderly aunts and uncles we used to visit when I was a kid who said quaint things like "five and twenty past".

It's not the same phrases and pronunciation but I speak in a similarly old-fashioned way because I have refused to adopt the phraseology
and pronunciation of am American teenager unlike 99% of people I seem to meet these days.

Vocal fry and that uptick makes me cringe and turn off the radio/tv - which is increasingly often as people everywhere are being infected with it.

Yesterday, when I asked dd (13) if she knew who BTS were. Of course she did.

They are a k-pop boyband. I didn't even know that was a thing.

Lots of things really, but it was the fact she knew and I didn't know she knew.

Never having heard of Kenickie other than being a male character in the film 'Grease'.

When you realise it's changed from your DC's teachers being your generation to being young enough to be your children.

I look at it the other way round. The younger generation will eventually grow up and they will be back in touch with reality. They will realise the enormous con that social media has perpetrated on them, and they will be aghast that they were sucked in.

I don’t think I am! And yes in a sad way. I listen to my DC music with an open mind, I will even watch the YouTubers they like and films, maybe I don’t always love them but I do try. I think it is nice to be able to talk to them about the stuff they like so I make an effort

I listen to Greg James every day, so I am hoping I get points back for that. I love him, and the music is good even though I don't always know who is singing.

I thought this was a lighthearted thread but by god there are some sneering arses on it.

There was a subtle 'shift' when my children each reached the age of around 22. Up until then, I was the 'adult', they were at Uni, students, still children.

When they left, got houses and jobs and partners, they became the 'adults' and I became 'older'. So it was once my children started giving me lifts to places or cooking me sunday lunch, 'taking me' to places that I realised I fell into the 'needs looking after' bracket that they had so recently vacated.

I thought this was a lighthearted thread but by god there are some sneering arses on it.

I was hoping it'd be lighthearted rather than sneering.

@BuzzShitbagBobbly

Agree

There are some wonderful things designed for/by and enjoyed by younger generations and I am ok with being part of that! Some of it won’t be to my taste but not everyone likes the same things.

There was sex drugs and rock and roll in the 60’s FGS

And they all call themselves feminists! If you looked less like a blow up doll love, I might take you more seriously

So women can only be feminist if they look how you think they should look? Ok.

Who is sneering?

ds meeting his girlfriend on tinder, i met my first serious boyfriend driving a bus !

I don’t see sneering.

When I go to our student’s graduation ball and I have never heard the music before.

When I realise that there are certain things we aren’t supposed to say anymore because of LGBTQ diversity (I have no issue with not saying these things but it was the point where I could relate to my nan when we told her that it’s not OK to describe someone as ‘a bit slow’ she was horrified that she’d been inadvertently offensive)

All the top ten well most of it i didnt know who they were-i used to love the charts

What sneering? Fucking hell some people are long way up their own arse.

Every few months I put snapchat or Instagram onto my phone with every intention of figuring out how it works. Within a day or two I've taken it off again because I'm still clueless.

I remember my very first moment: I was mid 30s, sat at the dentist, and realised my dentist is younger than me. It took me a while to come to terms with it .

Since then I also have the thing with new music... I just don't get it. It's just noise.

Recently my android phone did a few updates and it messed around with my volume setting (I think). I still havent figured it out...

Just IT things I used to know and easily keep track off... are now just alien to me. I catch myself frequently thinking 'oh wow, how is this even possible?. Example: if you go to a show and they have this thing of connecting your mobile phone to it... so that they all light up in the same colour at the same time. I also cannot imagine how this would work, while I'm pretty sure 15 years ago I could have worked it out instantly.

3.... but when I hear NEW bands on 6Music think “ach what a lot of noise, I’m my day we had Kenickie”
...Remembering you sat next to the female part of Kenickie in most lessons in school for bloody years

I don’t understand any of this

I haven't seen sneering either, I can't think what sneering there has been unless the PP took offence to the comments about modern music.

When you stop following who's at No.1 on the music scene, and your definitely getting old when you no longer recognise the popular names.
When reality shows start to become old hat.
When you wouldn't be seen dead in the latest fashion.
When you stop wanting to go out at night because there is something good on tv.