Old-Fashioned
There's never been a more appropriate time to feel old-fashioned than when your younger relative, who is, I might add, only 5 years younger than you, makes you feel incredibly antiquated and old-fashioned because apparently 'emails have become a thing of the past, we of the younger generation don't use email anymore'. When did this happen? Did I miss some public announcement? Surely "social media" hasn't replaced proper channels of communication entirely?! I still remember when we had to write letter by hand! What happens if you need to send someone a formal letter via email? Or if you want to receive email newsletters? Can you do all those things on Twitter and Facebook now? Does that mean that even being here on LJ is something of the past clung to by those who should'vec "upgraded" to something else a long time ago?
On a related note, this is just another example of which, I'm starting to see, there are many. I like listening to BBC Radio 4. But, as it turned out, that is a 'special' radio station which caters for a very specific and, apparently, very old audience. "Young people" these days - and to clarify, I mean young people as in people who are middle-aged - do no listen to Radio 4. I cannot understand why they don't. There is a whole lot of shit out there on TV and radio these days, and my only ray of sunshine aside from the Australian ABC on Wednesday nights, is Radio 4. Shows like I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and The News Quiz and The Unbelievable Truth are so brilliant in their humour and comic timing that it can have me chuckling uncontrollably on the train or laughing till me sides split when I'm at home. I'm starting to feel like an old soul in a younger-ish body. My idea if fun is staying in on a Friday night and listening to a new episode of radio while sipping a nice cup of tea, and then settling down to a good book or a nice TV show. No clubbing, no thank you. There are 4 things I don't like: loud (and bad) music, drinking a whole lot of alcohol (and let's face it, they taste disgusting and cost heaps), crowded places with sweaty people dressed like prostitutes (I like sneakers for the comfort) and smokers. Clubs have all 4 of those things, and people who take drugs. Why would I subject myself to that? What part of that is fun? You dress up to catch pneumonia, get dehydrated and who knows what else by drinking copious amounts of alcohol, can't hold a decent conversation with anything for the lour noise banging in the background and your sanity is also compromised so that can lead to all sorts of bad decision making situations you may later regret.
And now for something completely different, I have caught up till episode 196 of DGS. I now sort of get a lot of the in-jokes they talk about. It's pretty funny. I really wish I can go to the live event in Feb, but it would take a miracle to a) get tickets to the event, b) get tickets to Japan, and c) get any sort of approved leave, since I've already applied to have time off during Christmas ... sigh. Such is life.
On a related note, this is just another example of which, I'm starting to see, there are many. I like listening to BBC Radio 4. But, as it turned out, that is a 'special' radio station which caters for a very specific and, apparently, very old audience. "Young people" these days - and to clarify, I mean young people as in people who are middle-aged - do no listen to Radio 4. I cannot understand why they don't. There is a whole lot of shit out there on TV and radio these days, and my only ray of sunshine aside from the Australian ABC on Wednesday nights, is Radio 4. Shows like I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and The News Quiz and The Unbelievable Truth are so brilliant in their humour and comic timing that it can have me chuckling uncontrollably on the train or laughing till me sides split when I'm at home. I'm starting to feel like an old soul in a younger-ish body. My idea if fun is staying in on a Friday night and listening to a new episode of radio while sipping a nice cup of tea, and then settling down to a good book or a nice TV show. No clubbing, no thank you. There are 4 things I don't like: loud (and bad) music, drinking a whole lot of alcohol (and let's face it, they taste disgusting and cost heaps), crowded places with sweaty people dressed like prostitutes (I like sneakers for the comfort) and smokers. Clubs have all 4 of those things, and people who take drugs. Why would I subject myself to that? What part of that is fun? You dress up to catch pneumonia, get dehydrated and who knows what else by drinking copious amounts of alcohol, can't hold a decent conversation with anything for the lour noise banging in the background and your sanity is also compromised so that can lead to all sorts of bad decision making situations you may later regret.
And now for something completely different, I have caught up till episode 196 of DGS. I now sort of get a lot of the in-jokes they talk about. It's pretty funny. I really wish I can go to the live event in Feb, but it would take a miracle to a) get tickets to the event, b) get tickets to Japan, and c) get any sort of approved leave, since I've already applied to have time off during Christmas ... sigh. Such is life.