A definite sign that you're getting old.

[Snowdog]

Originally Posted by Alcuin

1. I eat my vegetables first, and often take seconds if I can.
2. In high school, we all used slide rules for a couple of years before (expensive!) hand-held calculators became available.
   • We couldn’t use calculators on competitive tests: only slide rules.
3. Math teachers actually graded homework and tests by hand rather than using multiple-choice sheets they run through an automatic counting machine like so many voter ballots.
   • We all learned from our mistakes.
   • Some of us really learned math rather than becoming innumerate, easily brainwashed NPCs.
4. I remember when the people who ran Western countries were actually proud of their countries and tried to make them better and stronger. The British were proud of Britain; Americans of America; Canadians of Canada; Australians of Australia; and so on, rather than constantly declaring how ashamed they are of their own countrymen and doing their best to ruin their economies and their societies.
5. I remember when American national holidays actually occurred on the holiday rather than on the nearest Monday.
6. I remember when graduating medical students swore the Hippocratic Oath, including the (now considered in)famous line,Anyone who broke his oath lost his medical license.
7. I remember when it was legal to smoke tobacco in the office and illegal to smoke marijuana anywhere.
8. I remember when “journalists” actually reported what had happened instead of whatever they made up out of whole cloth.
9. I remember when Google was still a reliable search engine that didn’t skew results according to the whims of a gaggle of loud-mouthed louts and busybodies who insist on telling everyone else how to think.
10. I remember when the main stream media warned we were about to enter an ice age.
    • Winooski, Vermont, was so alarmed that it petitioned Congress to build a dome over the entire town. The rest of the country thought they were nuts, and it became something of a running joke. Not long after, the global warming scare began.
11. I was in college when the first, animated Hobbit movie was released by Rankin/Bass.
12. I remember when conservative college administrators tried to reign in Marxist students rioting on campus rather than Marxist college administrators stirring up riots to terrorize conservative students.
13. I bought a copy of The Silmarillion the year it was published.
14. I first read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in 1973, finishing LotR right about the time JRR Tolkien died.
15. I remember when adults (my parents’ age and older) thought Tolkien’s work was “satanic” and refused to even consider that it might have been informed by Christian or (gasp!) Catholic belief.

Yeah we're roughly the same age. Graduated High School in 1976 and attended tech-college until 1978 after which I got my first full-time job with a corporation. We manufactured line and serial printers whose test programs were run by loading paper-tape program strips into a Nova 1200 mainframe. They were coded in octal...

I embraced the gadgetry of the mid-later '00's, but have slowly gone the other way, with my abandonment picking up the pace around 2015 when the toxic tea party & trumpism arose. Originally I signed up on fecebook to stay in touch with the kids and grandkids, but it developed into the opposite and two of three of my kids have made it clear how shiddy of a dad I was. Oh well.