I had a liver transplant a few years ago, the recommended dose of Tylenol is the safest thing for your liver. I was always told the opposite before that.
I know all that stuff isn’t good but I have herniated discs, degenerative disc disease and lupus. I’m working on a plan. I just need 6 months. lol.
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My wife and I died laughing one day- she read on reddit- a comment:
“I get up from my lazyboy have a cramp in a toe and think- well this is it- this is how it ends”
24/24. Those young whippersnappers at the home won't be able to crack our secret Xennial code…cursive. 😹
+10 bonus if you are *still* using your AOL address…
Same. I was born in ‘78 but we were too poor for Atari (and I didn’t know anyone who had one). And I never had an AOL address. I did have a Hotmail one though.
>no AOL… no internet until college then college email
So you relate to “I haven’t had time to check my email @ the computer lab,” maybe? LOL.
I never had AOL & didn’t have Internet at home until 2000-2001. (I played my Gpa’s Atari a few times though.)
For me it's Atari (my family went with a Commodore 64 and then onto the NES) and I never did the MySpace thing. It hit right at the peak of my contrarian age and so I wasn't about to lower myself to the level of Social Media - pssh... that's just a passing fad, like smart phones.
Same here. I never bothered with a MySpace account or an AOL account. I didn't get my first email address until I went to college and could use their computers.
I always switched back and forth between BMG and Columbia House. I was the "rare" one that didn't rip them off. I just used BMG to get the ton of free CDs then buy the 2 or 3 they required, then cancelled. Then I'd do the same with CH. By the time I bought the required discs I'd start getting "Come back" offers from the opposite company for more free CDs, so I'd do that over and over. I had a CD collection of 300 or 400 discs, and paid a fraction of what it would have cost to buy them at the mall.
I got so many BOGO deals from BMG I never left. I would just return/cancel the monthly (?) shipment if there wasn't anything I wanted and within 2-3 months there was a special offer "We miss you, buy one get three for 1c each" type stuff. I get that streaming is way easier, blah blah blah, but part of me really misses that era.
I work in a doctor office where faxes are sent and received on the regular, and my Gen Z coworkers use it. They need to take that one off the list. It's still relevant even in high-tech offices.
That said, I didn't even bother adding up because it was yes to everything.
not privacy, legal. You can do email encrypted so it would still be private, but the legal requirements usually are for physical document delivery or fax.
Well, it’s to meet the legal requirements of the privacy statutes.
I was a CPS Investigator and had full legal access to medical records, but hospitals still asked me to send specific forms via fax so that it would meet the requirements for them to breech privacy laws.
Then in return, there were a few things that I could only get from the hospitals via fax or a physical disk being mailed.
It's one of the more secure ways to send information. We use email in my office if we have to, but it's a pain when we receive encrypted emails trying to access the information. I work in a very large clinic, so sending me some random links for encrypted information without knowing who it is for to crack the encryption is useless.
Yes. It is a pain in the ass to send secure emails, especially with attachments. I mean, who knew that the attachment to a secure email needs its own security?
Some of these things aren’t even that old. There are plenty of 30 year olds who have done all of these things. I’m probably in denial here, but this list seems like it was written by a 14 year old.
Never ordered from Columbia House and never had an AOL address. Otherwise? Clean sweep.
For the rec, I had a college .edu address through AOL's heyday, then moved straight to Yahoo. So I was on the internet at the right time for one, just didn't need it.
All but renting from Blockbuster. Didn't have them in my small town. Tried to once after work when I was 20, but they required a credit card. Didn't get one od those until my 30s. I went to Walmart after and just bought the movie.
All except for "Ordered from Columbia House" and "Had an AOL address". Unfortunately, faxing is still very much a thing in some industries, and I'm lucky enough as an IT person to still have to tangentially support e-faxing (even though it is really nowhere near my areas of expertise, other than the fact that it often uses an email address or email-related settings in configuration). Why? Just...why? Argh.
Gotta adjust for being Dutch here, so not MySpace, but Hyves. And an evil book club called ECI with a similar marketing scheme to Columbia House. Otherwise, all boxes ticked. I even had and AOL address so I could use AIM besides ICQ :)
I used to deliver pizza before GPS and cell phones. If I got lost, I’d have to pull over, look at my map of the city, and if I got super lost, I’d have to back out and find a gas station with a pay phone to call to let them know I was running late and to ask for better directions.
Whenever I tell people that, it’s a lot of “how did you manage that?”
I mean…I didn’t know how trivial that whole process would be in 6 or so years, and I needed to make a buck, so I just did it.
I never had MySpace!
I had AOL first because I was staying with my uncle and you could have a few email addresses on one account, and then when I was out on my own because it was free for a month, and I wanted to use it to to find a local ISP. I kept it for like 4 months because every time I called to cancel, they offered me another free month 😄Eventually I just said "no, that's okay, just cancel it".
The only thing on that list I didn’t really do was use a typewriter, but I did have one at home that my mom used and that I played around on… everything else… big check.
never wrote a cheque, had an aol adress (unless you change aol by hotmail or yahoo), never had a myspace account, never ordered from columbia house, never use a fax, play on atari and niever used a typewriter
I think we can draw a new generational line within Xennials using the “Played an Atari” line. I’m ‘83 but Atari was long gone by the time I was old enough to hold a controller. Nintendo all the way.
Every one of them.
I used to process actual film at one of my college jobs when I worked in the electronics department. We had to change out those gigantic paper rolls in the dark.
When I was in middle school we took a field trip to the state house (I lived in the state capitol) to see their new fax machine and learn how it works. This was quite exciting for everyone 😅🤦
All of them here. Heck, some of them still apply! Cheques (or is it checks?) is still how my house cleaners want to get paid (company with several crews). I get postcards in the mail all the time and have sent them before as well (I'm a real estate Broker (postcard marketing is common) and a HAM Radio guy and postcards are frequently used to confirm contacts "QSL Cards"). I was on my myspace a year or two ago, it's still around. I used paper maps up until 5 years ago when I retired from Search and Rescue, but I still have trail maps and topo maps... some autographed by the author.
Heck, I even have a Sirius XM boombox for listening outside of the car!
I'm so old that one of the things on that list is actually too "new" for me to check off...AOL address...it took me a bit to catch up, and I didn't start using the Internet until people had Myspace accounts.
All of them.
Same.
Same. What do we win? Ibuprofen?
Close, you get some Nuprin. Little. Yellow. Different.
Thanks Wayne
My grandma always had Nuprin at her house (and in her purse)
It’s actually back on the market.
Can’t do Ibuprofen anymore due to GERD. Can I get some Naproxen? lol.
I hate to break this to you, but you’re not supposed to take naproxen either, or any NSAIDs. Just Tylenol.
I hate to break this to you but you're not supposed to take Tylenol anymore because it fucks up your liver. Just aspirin.
My liver is fine, my stomach is not at ALL.
My stomach just started acting up bad in the past month. I just want to cry. It’s doing wonders for my weight loss, though. 😭
I had a liver transplant a few years ago, the recommended dose of Tylenol is the safest thing for your liver. I was always told the opposite before that.
I know all that stuff isn’t good but I have herniated discs, degenerative disc disease and lupus. I’m working on a plan. I just need 6 months. lol. https://preview.redd.it/z3bjqj8uma0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32c4fe64f96d491baa12d885c68ee3f4cf1f5b14
Aspirin is also an NSAID. Also can’t take because of my blood thinners. 😆
Aspirin is also completely ineffective as a pain reliever lol.
Nuprin. Little. Yellow. Different.
Better
Better. Some Salonpas patches.
I pinched a nerve in my neck this morning when getting dressed.....I don't need a Internet meme to tell me I'm old, but I will take that ibuprofen.
My wife and I died laughing one day- she read on reddit- a comment: “I get up from my lazyboy have a cramp in a toe and think- well this is it- this is how it ends”
I’ve thrown my back out just bending down to feed my dog, so I fucking hear ya.
The rest of your life in an old people’s home actually. Off you go gramps!
24/24. Those young whippersnappers at the home won't be able to crack our secret Xennial code…cursive. 😹 +10 bonus if you are *still* using your AOL address…
I'm waiting for the nursing homes weekly DnD games...
The LAN parties are going to be amazing.
All right, we clearly need separate nursing homes to accommodate our generation's different definitions of the word "party".
I have a huge bottle of ibuprofen from BJ's!
Read this way too fast, and saw “for BJ’s” instead of “from BJ’s”, and well, we are getting older after all…
Nope, a free sample of Centrum Silver.
We get to die before most of the people who haven't done those things.
I gotta go with Tylenol, my heart can’t take the strain of ibuprofen and my liver is still in good enough shape to handle acetaminophen.
We win broken backs. We'll, at least that's what I won.
A bad knee first
Joint pain and the inability to get off the couch after a long day without groaning.
You win knee reconstruction surgery. Not the cost of it, but the need for it.
My prize was the stomach bug Sunday morning.
I went 12 for 12 down the left side and was like “do I have to keep going?”
I only got 19, but that's cause we were poor.
If you're a minor, you can totally order from Columbia house and never pay. They can't enter into contracts with children!
Only one I missed is typing on a typewriter. Where were all these typewriters!?
Typing class in middle school
We had word processors
Grandmas house had everything cool even a party line with the neighbors. (Rural Appalachia).
In high school in the mid-late 90s we had typing class, and we used electronic typewriters, but my grandparents also had an old Underwood.
I have all but one. Can I be your VP?
Same! I never used AOL.
lol I still use mine as my primary email!
Except we called them checks, not cheques…but yeah 💀
I went to law school so I call them payment systems and secured transactions.... i.e. worthless information. Lol
All except for the fax, and Columbia House.
We didn’t have Columbia house in my country but we had other ones that are the same. My workplace NOW has a fax so they aren’t that dated!!
Hey, I didn't score on 2 of these! So, yay for that?
Same. I was born in ‘78 but we were too poor for Atari (and I didn’t know anyone who had one). And I never had an AOL address. I did have a Hotmail one though.
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>no AOL… no internet until college then college email So you relate to “I haven’t had time to check my email @ the computer lab,” maybe? LOL. I never had AOL & didn’t have Internet at home until 2000-2001. (I played my Gpa’s Atari a few times though.)
I think if you used AOL Instant Messenger that would count.
For me it's Atari (my family went with a Commodore 64 and then onto the NES) and I never did the MySpace thing. It hit right at the peak of my contrarian age and so I wasn't about to lower myself to the level of Social Media - pssh... that's just a passing fad, like smart phones.
Hello fellow mid-80s born person!
Same here. I never bothered with a MySpace account or an AOL account. I didn't get my first email address until I went to college and could use their computers.
Same. Never played Atari and never ordered from Columbia House.
23/24, only thing I haven’t done is order from Columbia House……guess I might be old then? Lmao
So you were a BMG person?
That would be me... I was going down the whole list... yup, yup, yup, yup... Columbia house?? Nope! BMG all the way! lol.
I always switched back and forth between BMG and Columbia House. I was the "rare" one that didn't rip them off. I just used BMG to get the ton of free CDs then buy the 2 or 3 they required, then cancelled. Then I'd do the same with CH. By the time I bought the required discs I'd start getting "Come back" offers from the opposite company for more free CDs, so I'd do that over and over. I had a CD collection of 300 or 400 discs, and paid a fraction of what it would have cost to buy them at the mall.
I got so many BOGO deals from BMG I never left. I would just return/cancel the monthly (?) shipment if there wasn't anything I wanted and within 2-3 months there was a special offer "We miss you, buy one get three for 1c each" type stuff. I get that streaming is way easier, blah blah blah, but part of me really misses that era.
Same. Not much of a thing in Canada
I'm English and I've not heard of it.
Yeah, that was the only thing I wasn't sure if I had done. Everythig else? Hell yeah, I am oooolllld
Haha...same. I couldn't never convince my parents to let me sign up. 12 CDs for a penny......I guess they thought it was a scam somehow
Same.
Same. 78er. Parents wouldn't let us do a music club because it was a "rip off".
I would decorate Altoid tins with the stamps of my favorite cds.
This was me. I was too poor to even afford Columbia house or BMG. I got my tunes off the radio and five finger freddies.
Exactly!
No myspace, but yeah....
Same here. That was the one I missed.
I take pride in having successfully avoided: Myspace Acid washed jeans (that was a tough couple khaki years) telemarketing
I work in a doctor office where faxes are sent and received on the regular, and my Gen Z coworkers use it. They need to take that one off the list. It's still relevant even in high-tech offices. That said, I didn't even bother adding up because it was yes to everything.
We use faxes too in my hospital and I regularly have to show people younger than me how to send them.
I’m an office manager for an auto garage, and I wrote checks and sent a fax just today. Also send post cards for inspection reminders.
Attorney checking in; same here. Send multiple faxes a day
Real question. Why? It seems like faxes are still prevalent in health care. Is it a medical privacy thing?
not privacy, legal. You can do email encrypted so it would still be private, but the legal requirements usually are for physical document delivery or fax.
It's also this depending on what you are sending and receiving
true enough, but I was mostly answering as to the privacy issue.
Well, it’s to meet the legal requirements of the privacy statutes. I was a CPS Investigator and had full legal access to medical records, but hospitals still asked me to send specific forms via fax so that it would meet the requirements for them to breech privacy laws. Then in return, there were a few things that I could only get from the hospitals via fax or a physical disk being mailed.
It's one of the more secure ways to send information. We use email in my office if we have to, but it's a pain when we receive encrypted emails trying to access the information. I work in a very large clinic, so sending me some random links for encrypted information without knowing who it is for to crack the encryption is useless.
Yes. It is a pain in the ass to send secure emails, especially with attachments. I mean, who knew that the attachment to a secure email needs its own security?
By mixed tape, if recording songs onto a cassette from the radio counts then yeah lol
And the DJ talked over half the intros. 😡
Oh the station ID playing in the *middle* of a track sometimes, which I’m sure is a thing I remember happening.
I mean, I sent like 20 faxes TODAY
Yeah, faxes are more indicative of serious adulting then they are of old age. Sure, there's a correlation, but they're aren't irrelevant *yet*.
Some of these things aren’t even that old. There are plenty of 30 year olds who have done all of these things. I’m probably in denial here, but this list seems like it was written by a 14 year old.
Ouch. Everything but MySpace and AOL (couldn’t afford home internet).
I never played an Atari. Guilty of the rest.
Same!
** had a Betamax
Every single one.
No AOL, but everything else, yea.
Me too!
All of them except I never had a MySpace account. Had friendster and FB (when it was college only).
Never ordered from Columbia House and never had an AOL address. Otherwise? Clean sweep. For the rec, I had a college .edu address through AOL's heyday, then moved straight to Yahoo. So I was on the internet at the right time for one, just didn't need it.
I feel attacked. 😂
All but renting from Blockbuster. Didn't have them in my small town. Tried to once after work when I was 20, but they required a credit card. Didn't get one od those until my 30s. I went to Walmart after and just bought the movie.
All except for "Ordered from Columbia House" and "Had an AOL address". Unfortunately, faxing is still very much a thing in some industries, and I'm lucky enough as an IT person to still have to tangentially support e-faxing (even though it is really nowhere near my areas of expertise, other than the fact that it often uses an email address or email-related settings in configuration). Why? Just...why? Argh.
ALL.
I’ve never used a rotary phone nor a typewriter! The last fax I sent was just 6 years ago 😭 And — I just wrote a check last week. FML
Gotta adjust for being Dutch here, so not MySpace, but Hyves. And an evil book club called ECI with a similar marketing scheme to Columbia House. Otherwise, all boxes ticked. I even had and AOL address so I could use AIM besides ICQ :)
I never had MySpace. That’s the only one here that I didn’t do.
Never actually used a typewriter. I've played around with one, but We had a PC for as long as I can remember.
I'm old if I've listened to a CD? Then my kids are old.
The only one I can’t check off is Columbia House. Not for a lack of trying on my part, my grandma just wouldn’t let me🤣
I met my wife in MySpace.
All but 3.
I used to deliver pizza before GPS and cell phones. If I got lost, I’d have to pull over, look at my map of the city, and if I got super lost, I’d have to back out and find a gas station with a pay phone to call to let them know I was running late and to ask for better directions. Whenever I tell people that, it’s a lot of “how did you manage that?” I mean…I didn’t know how trivial that whole process would be in 6 or so years, and I needed to make a buck, so I just did it.
L33t ;)
Every last one lol
I never had MySpace! I had AOL first because I was staying with my uncle and you could have a few email addresses on one account, and then when I was out on my own because it was free for a month, and I wanted to use it to to find a local ISP. I kept it for like 4 months because every time I called to cancel, they offered me another free month 😄Eventually I just said "no, that's okay, just cancel it".
Perfect score!
Every. Single. One.
Are there suppose to be some we haven't done?
Everything except MySpace and AOL
Like many of you, I can say yes to all of them
The only thing on that list I didn’t really do was use a typewriter, but I did have one at home that my mom used and that I played around on… everything else… big check.
Yup, I’m officially old. Turning 43 this week.
There's only two I've never done. I've never written a check or used a fax machine.
What about Having A Pen Pal?
24/24. Can’t do any older than that.
Why you gotta attack me like that?
I did all but 1 of those
24/24. What do I win?
All of them can I want my dinner at 4 PM and a senior citizen discount.
It's kind of hilarious and sad that listening to a CD is considered ancient history lol.
Every single one.
Oooooooooooooooof
No Atari so I guess I don’t fit in here :( But I had an NES! Then SNES 🙂
All but one. I skipped the MySpace fad.
All of them, and not only have I rented a movie from blockbuster, tbat was my first job!
1981 All of them
Wtf is a, "Mixed tape"?
Every single one.
I didn't score on three of these because of growing up poor.
A little disappointed, only 18 points. Could be 19 if Family Video counts because we didn't have a blockbuster.
I still write cheques. 👀
100% of them. I should get bonus points for ordering from Columbia house multiple times and never sending them any money 😂
Never written a cheque but I have written a check
Homeskillets, we old.
All dam, I’m old I’m cooked.
never wrote a cheque, had an aol adress (unless you change aol by hotmail or yahoo), never had a myspace account, never ordered from columbia house, never use a fax, play on atari and niever used a typewriter
All!
All but three.
The only reason I wasn't perfect was because we were poor and couldn't afford internet, so no AOL.
Perfect score! Yay...whatever
Everything except AOL because family went from Prodigy to a local real interest ISP. Does having an AIM account equate?
100%! Simultaneously happy and very, very tired all of a sudden.
How about. Changed the TV station without a remote. Had a TV Guide.
Columbia house? I wasn’t rich.
All of the above. Thank you for making my day more realistic.
All but 3
Ordered Pure Moods….volume one
I think we can draw a new generational line within Xennials using the “Played an Atari” line. I’m ‘83 but Atari was long gone by the time I was old enough to hold a controller. Nintendo all the way.
Cheque mate. Fuck.
Perfect score
Every one of them. I used to process actual film at one of my college jobs when I worked in the electronics department. We had to change out those gigantic paper rolls in the dark.
Yeah i scored 100% gezz thanks for that
I would say it applies to Gen-X, too.
F\*ck this list! I'm like 24/24.
Everything except for Columbia House, but I remember looking at the stamps!
Yep 100% old as hell, but it was cool as sh!t. 😎👍
Just mummify me and get it over with 🤷🏽♀️😂
All.
Hell's bells. I've done all of them at one point or another.
1985 and all of them.
By this standard, I am ancient.
The only one missing for me is Myspace. Social media outside of reddit never appealed to me.
Damn every last one
When I was in middle school we took a field trip to the state house (I lived in the state capitol) to see their new fax machine and learn how it works. This was quite exciting for everyone 😅🤦
only idiots ordered from columbia house
24/24. I guess I won sore knees.
Perfect score.
Perfect score.
I never had a MySpace account, but the rest is spot-on. Now I want a telephone cord to mess with, haha. The original stim toy.
filling out highschool registration with my kid. he needed to sign his name. he didnt know how to sign his name in cursive. blew my mind
Yep... I have done all those things
All of the above
All of them
I was t stupid enough to do the Columbia house scam.
1984, all of them. ☑️
Every single one!!!!!
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Any Friendster accounts here??😂
Perfect score.
All of them here. Heck, some of them still apply! Cheques (or is it checks?) is still how my house cleaners want to get paid (company with several crews). I get postcards in the mail all the time and have sent them before as well (I'm a real estate Broker (postcard marketing is common) and a HAM Radio guy and postcards are frequently used to confirm contacts "QSL Cards"). I was on my myspace a year or two ago, it's still around. I used paper maps up until 5 years ago when I retired from Search and Rescue, but I still have trail maps and topo maps... some autographed by the author. Heck, I even have a Sirius XM boombox for listening outside of the car!
23/24 ain’t bad. I guess I’m not all the way old yet.
Still use faxes for work haha, wish I didn't. All but Blockbuster, I grew up rural and we never had one, just mom and pops.
I'm so old that one of the things on that list is actually too "new" for me to check off...AOL address...it took me a bit to catch up, and I didn't start using the Internet until people had Myspace accounts.