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ChadTower:
Indoor plumbing and municipal sewers are centuries apart, I think.
Ummon:
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Both of these make perfect sense, I think. You really don't get these paradigm-shifting inventions very often. I'm talking about things like the printing press, cotton gin, iron founding. That guy born in 1900 got to see a revolution in transportation in the early 1900s, and then in mass communication in the mid-1900's (TV). The telephone and electric lamp go in there in their respective spots too. Then we've got the computer chip which has caused such a paradigm shift that we're now out of the industrial age, into the information age.
No matter when you're born you get to see some cool stuff invented, but it seems like there are only a few REALLY big ones in any given century.
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Right, of which pretty much anyone under 20, maybe even 25, hasn't seen, so maybe it is a lack of that. Then again, it might be something else.
RayB: generally my experience was not like that, nor did I see it - however, I don't think it's the same anyways. Except for the perhaps obvious 'stranger-danger' situations, if an older person talked to you, you talked back. They weren't a freakoid because of their age. And though we talked about them, as we did anyone, behind their backs it wasn't to do with their age* but usually some circumstance.
*the caveat here was when we saw someone disabled/immobile/physically incapable, but that I think is simply a matter of being so vital and seeing someone who is not, and not being familiar with it, rather maveling at it.
Anyways, I'm not expressing my own ideas or feelings on age, my own age, etc. in this thread. I'm just relaying what I've experienced. I don't think it's absolute, though I do think it's wide-spread. Something I think related: high school graduates in my year book look far more mature than some recent ones I've seen pictures of.
shmokes:
It's no use looking back to how you viewed things when you were a kid. Your perceptions were SO distorted back then by inexperience and lack of wisdom. I look at 16-year-olds today (I'm 30) and think, "WTF? We're putting these little kids behind the wheel of a car? I was WAY older than that when I was 16!" Of course, I wasn't. I just felt older because I was a dumb 16 year old. Hell . . . I probably looked younger than the majority of 16-year-olds today, considering that people still consistently think I'm in my early 20's and I'm only 5'6" now, so I was probably only 5'5" when I was 16.
And think about all your teachers from your childhood, kindergarten through high school. They were all adults. They were old people, and you were a kid. That's how you perceived them. But I just graduated college in 2007 and I have quite a few friends that went straight out of undergrad into teaching positions, elementary, junior high and high school. These kids are like 21, 22 years old. It's hilarious. You've got 17-year-old high schoolers thinking of themselves as children and their 21-year-old teacher as an adult.
Singapura:
I can still remember the first time I felt old. It was at a Slayer concert in Rotterdam. I tattoed guy wearing all leather came up to me and asked me politely: "Sir, do you know what time it is?". I was 25...
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Singapura on October 20, 2008, 02:35:18 am ---I can still remember the first time I felt old. It was at a Slayer concert in Rotterdam. I tattoed guy wearing all leather came up to me and asked me politely: "Sir, do you know what time it is?". I was 25...
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That was actually a code phrase... if you had given the right answer you would have had the night of your life.
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