During my teens I used to love attending business meetings and conferences with my father. I have no idea why, but I felt comfortable attending them and I also felt that I was gaining "experience" from them so that I could understand how the "real world" works.
It was odd, very odd indeed since I preferred to do that over going to a party or doing something that a regular teen would do.
Nah, I'm going to be studying videogame development this August (it's what I really like), but I will have to take charge of my father's business sometime in the future... So there's that :P
Yup! I'm glad I was able to learn a bit about the business world during those trips with my dad! It'll really help me if I want to start a game company and get into the business side of games :D
For example, I am a thirty-something and I love rainbows. They make me happy and if I see something with a pretty rainbow on it, I am hard pressed not to buy it (funds willing).
I'm in my 30s. I love cartoons and animation in general. I know it's not too strange for someone on an internet community, but in a lot of circles of people my age, it's doesn't appear to be incredibly common.
I've always liked news/current events/politics since I was in high school, which is not totally abnormal... but I still know people in their mid 20s that could care less.
Candy. I'm not talking adult candy. I'm talking electric raspberry blue and lime green kind of candy. The stuff that you by when you're a kid from the corner store. I don't know why but I absolutely love that stuff.
Hair color. I will be 47 tomorrow and I have light pinky violet hair. It makes me just happy. I wish I had the nerve at 16 to have done it years ago but when I hit my 30's I started coloring my hair with streaks of pink and purple and haven't looked back.
I'm pushing 60 and I still love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Kraft Mac and Cheese with Hot Dogs still floats my boat too.
I'll still laugh out loud at the old Warner Brothers cartoons with Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, and Daffy Duck, as long as they are the original unedited versions.
Good to see someone else who gets Senior discounts! How could I forget about Moe, Curly, and Larry, just thinking about them makes me laugh. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!
When I was growing up, I always listened to my parents' music instead of what was on the radio. So as someone in her 20s, my love for a lot of music from the 50s and 60s gets some surprised looks.
Oh, that's a good one. I listen to a lot of "old" music too. I like the rhythm and blues from the twenties and thirties and I also like crooners like Sinatra and Tony Bennett. (Just to name a few genres) What bands/singers do you like?
I have a great love for old time radio shows. I have bought CDs of hundreds of old Jack Benny and Sherlock Holmes radio shows and they are an absolute blast. It was really funny, how it came about. I remember old Disney movies, and seeing the name Phil Harris from a few of the movies. He had a distinctive voice and was in more than one Disney movie. The my Dad for tapes of four old shows, and one of them, Jack Benny, featured Phil Harris, and that distinctive voice made it clear it was the same Phil Harris.
That stuck with me, and when I started looking it up again as an adult, it was amazing to find CDs with hundred of old Jack Benny radio shows. As a history nut, it was fascinating to hear references to historical events or politicians in a current sense, hearing about the war in a "realtime" sense, rather than historical, hearing about older products, and jokes which would be very unacceptable now. Jack Benny is such a fun show and was amazingly popular, I really don't know how he was forgotten so quickly. But being an OTR guy starting in my 20s was very unusual.
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During my teens I used to love attending business meetings and conferences with my father. I have no idea why, but I felt comfortable attending them and I also felt that I was gaining "experience" from them so that I could understand how the "real world" works.
It was odd, very odd indeed since I preferred to do that over going to a party or doing something that a regular teen would do.
So are you now a high-powered executive?
Nah, I'm going to be studying videogame development this August (it's what I really like), but I will have to take charge of my father's business sometime in the future... So there's that :P
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For example, I am a thirty-something and I love rainbows. They make me happy and if I see something with a pretty rainbow on it, I am hard pressed not to buy it (funds willing).
I'm in my 30s. I love cartoons and animation in general. I know it's not too strange for someone on an internet community, but in a lot of circles of people my age, it's doesn't appear to be incredibly common.
Crochet and breeding rats. Barely into college here.
Neat. I've heard that rats are actually really sweet little pets.
Rats are amazing pets. My sister had one and he was the sweetest thing.
I've always liked news/current events/politics since I was in high school, which is not totally abnormal... but I still know people in their mid 20s that could care less.
Candy. I'm not talking adult candy. I'm talking electric raspberry blue and lime green kind of candy. The stuff that you by when you're a kid from the corner store. I don't know why but I absolutely love that stuff.
Hair color. I will be 47 tomorrow and I have light pinky violet hair. It makes me just happy. I wish I had the nerve at 16 to have done it years ago but when I hit my 30's I started coloring my hair with streaks of pink and purple and haven't looked back.
I'm pushing 60 and I still love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Kraft Mac and Cheese with Hot Dogs still floats my boat too.
I'll still laugh out loud at the old Warner Brothers cartoons with Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, and Daffy Duck, as long as they are the original unedited versions.
I guess I'm just a kid at heart.
Hi There; I'm so glad that I'm not the only old guy here. (66) Don't forget about the 3 Stooges...
Good to see someone else who gets Senior discounts! How could I forget about Moe, Curly, and Larry, just thinking about them makes me laugh. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!
Cooking. I don't think a 22 year old male is the first demographic people think of when they think of someone who enjoys cooking/cuisine.
I make Lego almost every day. I'm 25.
When I was growing up, I always listened to my parents' music instead of what was on the radio. So as someone in her 20s, my love for a lot of music from the 50s and 60s gets some surprised looks.
Oh, that's a good one. I listen to a lot of "old" music too. I like the rhythm and blues from the twenties and thirties and I also like crooners like Sinatra and Tony Bennett. (Just to name a few genres) What bands/singers do you like?
Oooh, there's a lot, but off the top of my head The Platters, Pre-disco Bee Gees, Don McLean, and The Zombies.
Cool! I didn't know the Bee Gees were ever pre-disco, I'll have to look up some of their earlier songs.
Late 60's Bee Gees were awesome..
Best of Bee Gees is a pretty good representation of that period.
Oh awesome thank you!
Glitter.
Soul music, I go to a few northern soul, funk and straight up soul nights - most people there are in their 50s/60s.
Contemporary music. The xx, RJD2, Crystal Castles.
I have a great love for old time radio shows. I have bought CDs of hundreds of old Jack Benny and Sherlock Holmes radio shows and they are an absolute blast. It was really funny, how it came about. I remember old Disney movies, and seeing the name Phil Harris from a few of the movies. He had a distinctive voice and was in more than one Disney movie. The my Dad for tapes of four old shows, and one of them, Jack Benny, featured Phil Harris, and that distinctive voice made it clear it was the same Phil Harris.
That stuck with me, and when I started looking it up again as an adult, it was amazing to find CDs with hundred of old Jack Benny radio shows. As a history nut, it was fascinating to hear references to historical events or politicians in a current sense, hearing about the war in a "realtime" sense, rather than historical, hearing about older products, and jokes which would be very unacceptable now. Jack Benny is such a fun show and was amazingly popular, I really don't know how he was forgotten so quickly. But being an OTR guy starting in my 20s was very unusual.