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.

Me neither WalkofShame, in my day we had Duran Duran and Wham!

When I joined Mumsnet because the forums have more relevance to my life than Buzzfeed articles.

When I was listening to the radio, and heard someone criticise the youth of today, and was marshalling a furious mental defence, when I realised they were very much not talking about me.

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

I am in this boat too - very happy to adjust my language to not offend, but having trouble keeping up (not complaining, just saying). Another sign I am getting old. I am NOT saying "it's PC gorn mad" - I mostly agree with a PC approach - in fact it's just a slightly modified version of what we used to call good manners when I was young.

When you realise that being a YouTuber is an actual job now and that some of these people receive vast amounts of money for exploiting their young viewers. I was reading on the BBC site about the problem of kids and young people donating money to these people who have more money than they do.WTAF?

"When I started listening to Radio 2."

Same! I resisted for years and my bf has it on in the car, raves about Ken Bruce. He's 48.

I now listen avidly everyday at work...but even the music selection on there is pissing me off, it's all modern shit

People have been making comments about everything being ‘vacuous shite’
Comments about how women look/dress, people’s bodies, eyebrows etc

Those dimwitted, surgically enhanced gym bunnies

Comments like this aren’t really very lighthearted they are just unpleasant

Underboob did it for me. I loathe the fashion for underboob and come over all pearl clutching and twinsetty every time I see fugly bikinis or tops with underboob hanging out.

Eye brows and farrrrrrr toooo much make up! That’s what I’m clearly not getting! Tbf I wouldn’t have followed this 20 years ago either

When I find myself wanting to write to my former school about the disgusting trail of littler that their pupils leave behind during lunchtime. Which reminds me I really must do that when they return to school because it really is ridiculous.

I was reading on the BBC site about the problem of kids and young people donating money to these people who have more money than they do.WTAF?
I read about that - in a way nothing's changed much - my parents probably felt me spending so much on records was the same issue in a way. In those days a cut of it went to some rich child-abusing former public schoolboy who ran the record label, now it goes to some Californian tech billionaire tax-dodger. Plus ca change as the French don't actually say.

When DD1 asked me for advice about private pension plans.

I used to wear blue mascara and eyeliner. I am sure had there been MN then and my DM was on it she would have been rolling her eyes at the fashions of the day.

I watched an episode of love island with my niece and the underboob thing was not only shocking but really unattractive. Niece says it’s because they aren’t allowed to show nudity so this is how they expose even more of themselves within the boundaries. No idea if this is true.

If I didn’t wear a bra, my underboob would should out of the bottom of my tshirt I reckon, I wonder if anyone would want to see that

When I heard that song with the lyrics ' hey mama don't stress your mind' and I instantly sided with the mum.

@Sparklingbrook

Rimmel peacock blue?

I think we are the same generation!

At least you had the record to show for it though familycourt! If you just donate money you have nothing.

Sounds about right WalkofShame, and a bit of Heather Shimmer lippy with stingy Lipcote on the top. Outfit usually v v short and from Clockhouse at C&A.

I don't understand instagram and I don't "get" influecers at all it baffles me

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenickie

Actually a good example of generations moving on - Lauren Laverne and her chums called their band Kenickie in 1994 because of the character from a 1978 film that was set in the 1950s.

And the easy access to drugs and the resulting violence

au contraire @leckford

where I’m from may have bucked the trend and after 14 years away I’m back and impressed at how community minded and sporty the regular teens are here. NOT IN MY DAY. It was all “spliffy” jackets and pills at the weekend and all the joyous casual violence therein

Listening to radio 1 and thinking all of the music sounded the same.

I also think Love island is a terrible example to set young people

I don't think Love Island is generational - apparently it's the talk of the House of Commons and they are mostly not spring chickens.

I don't care for it but I reckon I'd have thought it was shite when I was 19.

At least with a record/cd you get a product that you enjoy listening to and can play over and over again I have no problem with that it's little different to buying a book, but children donating to twenty somethings for basically bugger all is completely different.

I can understand the use of Patreon for adults who want to have a short film/book/game/documentary etc made but these people taking money directly from children and teens is so incredibly wrong. I can't imagine feeling good about myself if I did that.