What's your 'old person' trait?
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I've started noticing birds, and worse, I've started recognizing them.
If you haven't tried Cornell's "Merlin" app, I highly recommend it.
Bird watching is peaceful. I love it.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
The noises I make when I sit down and stand up lol
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If you can stick a magnet to your current cookware, no.
Mine is all cast iron so I'm good, but aluminum or copper pans won't work.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I always get printed boarding passes for domestic flights.
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I've started noticing birds, and worse, I've started recognizing them.
I volunteered over the summer to track birds at a plot of local conservation land. Went out there at the crack of dawn with binoculars and everything. That's when I knew I was really getting old.
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If you can stick a magnet to your current cookware, no.
Mine is all cast iron so I'm good, but aluminum or copper pans won't work.
Well I have cast iron, stainless, and glass, so...
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I cannot correctly say my kids' names when I'm stressed out in a hurry. I just end up saying both of their names. Eventually I will be right.
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My biggest decision of the day is usually whether I get to have alcohol or pain meds that day. Pain meds usually win.
Blood pressure meds have relieved me of that choice.
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Paper mail is so underrated.
I need to get a wax sealing kit.
And a fountain pen. Or six.
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Complaining most music sucks and sounds the same nowadays. The 90s had the best music.
70s. Maybe some 80s, too.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
Suspenders for my pants. They are really life-changing. The usual rotund American male over-60 physique leaves no purchase to hold up pants without constant attention.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I scowl and scoff at randos that park on my street or longer in front of my house.
Tools and furniture are exciting!
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I enjoy carbonated water, my friends say it's a weird old person thing
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You mean, like, other than twice my age being statistically dead?
Many.
Let's start with neo-Luddite tendencies, e.g. deep suspicion of, and wanting very little to do with: devices with planned obsolescence; devices that basically spy on the user; this push for LLMs and similar generative artificial "intelligence".
Or rather, the people who are pulling the strings, so to speak, behind those technologies. The technologies themselves have great potential, but that cannot be reached under those who presently control them.
Also a strong dislike of people, usually kids, making noise or worse, actually being on my property because they have no respect for certain boundaries, or they don't even know those boundaries exist. Classic "damn kids, get off my lawn" old man attitude.
And finally: I still have a flip-phone and have no other computing devices beyond the one desktop PC I'm writing this comment from.
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If you haven't tried Cornell's "Merlin" app, I highly recommend it.
Bird watching is peaceful. I love it.
That app is awesome!
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I enjoy carbonated water, my friends say it's a weird old person thing
Add a splash of lime and a salted rim to make suero.
Add lime with muddled mint for fauxjitos.
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I would think so. Given how obsessed people have become with AI and how pretty much everyone and their mother has ingrained themselves with AI. It's harder to find someone who doesn't use it at all than those who do. I hate it and everything that comes with it.
Gen Z here. I think you'd be surprised to find that gen z generally hates ai slop. Specifically the slop, most people are ok with some AI use.
For llms It's seen the same way I imagine search engines were (I was born after Google existed). People can just find an answer for their problem instead of searching for it in a book or asking someone. This can either be amazing for learning new things, or for cheating. My professors even tell me to USE ai to learn, just know how to actually use it to help learn rather than get the correct answer and be done with it.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I look out the window to see what's going on down the street and who the hell is on my lawn
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Most of my friends don’t even have my phone number, let alone a messaging service. We do postal mail or just go to each other’s houses. I mail out about twenty letters a week and get that much back, on nice stationery.
It’s good to feel loved.
that's awesome but my God my ADHD ass could not wait weeks for a response
id leave them on read for like 4 months because I can't find a stamp or something and forgot about it -
The streak of white in my beard?
The fact that 75% of my media consumption is things I've already seen before?
I can maintain eye contact in a conversation and at no point do I want to fuck/fight the other person nor do I believe they want to fuck/fight me?
I can maintain friendships with people who do not share all of my views on things, with a select view even having opposing views?
Comfort wins over style every time, with zero exceptions?
Why is every sentence a question? This comes off as defensive.
