Age of the FC Community plus a lot of nostalgia

[grokit]

53 checking in, repping the last gasp of the baby boomer generation

 

[TeeJay1952]

53 checking in, repping the last gasp of the baby boomer generation

63 Say what youngster?

 

[NorVape]

Oh, and some people are a lot older than i thought, and some are younger.

@herbivore21 Whaaat, are we the same age?

This is fun

 

[WakeAndVape]

Oh, and some people are a lot older than i thought, and some are younger.

@herbivore21 Whaaat, are we the same age?

This is fun

Who was the biggest surprise to you?

 

[GSH]

34 here, another 80s child. I remember lots of beige and large shoulder pads

 

[Superhans]

31 here. I thought I'd be one of the younger ones.

 

[ragnorokk]

Not surprised at the demographics; it seems like the Venn diagram of "internet users," "vaporizer users," and "cannabis users," who are social enough to seek out others.

 

[Enchantre]

Child of the 60's . . .

I remember watching Apollo moon capsules splash down into the ocean on very large, wooden, console television sets. Even had a console "Hi-Fi" that played 45 and 78 RPM vinyl records. Rotary dial telephones were all we had. Being a kid in the 70's was great. A completely different world . . .

I was born in '60. That wood console TV had gold fabric behind the scrollwork speaker covers... and I was not allowed to sit on the furniture. It all had the clear plastic wrap on it all the time... lamp shades were NEVER removed from their plastic (like cellophane) wrappings. Never.

I'm 48.

See, I KNEW I was the older sister. You have to listen to me! Get better, and it was MY SWEATER...

43

So close. 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

25 here and very grateful for the older crowd at FC. Compare here to Vaporents on Reddit or to Grasscity .

You're welcome.

53 next month
Think like I'm 18, feel like I'm 100

In my case, 55, 27, and about 80 some mornings.

It has been done before. The thread was called What's The Average Age Around Here?

I am old enough to really appreciate the WICKED sense of humor/humour the mods have here.

Ahh.............my name up in lights.



Repeating one's self must be a sign of old age, eh? Been happenin' a bit more lately.

And I see someone else in my age bracket in that poll. What I want to know is......WHO ARE YOU ????

I'm 55, feel/act like I'm 27, and my body is still feeling a bit 80-ish at times.

I started MMJ 2 years ago when I was 50. Prior to that the last time I used was in the 70s in high school. FC has saved me from a bunch of bad decisions, and pointed me towards some stellar choices in vapes! I'm learning so much from the members in here regarding everything including concentrates, cooking, storage, new ways to try things - it's all great fun with reasonable, intelligent, and even sometimes cogent people!

I was driving a few weeks ago and Aerosmith 'Walk this way' came on, and I realized that I had that album, and the 8track, and the cassette, and maybe the CD, although with a bunch of travel and work moving over the years I was an early adopter of digitization and wound up with a huge swack of MP3s.

This would be me with books...

 

[Joel W.]

So close. 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Yes, life was best when I was 42 just last year. Now that I am 43, everything's in the crapper!

Studies do show that those who have the most birthdays, live longer! True fact..

 

[Mister G]

True age is mental but my regenerating biological cells are 46 and I still get carded the rare times I buy alcohol. I started out with cannabis 27 years ago as a 100% recreational user, but the older I get the more it swings towards medicinal.

 

[mvapes]

Lwein told me once I was a third his age.

 

[lemmeadem]

Just curious what you consider "old people" music? Beatles/Kinks era, Michael Jackson/Police era, steve wonder/eagles, pogues/pink floyd. I actually have no idea of popular music for several decades. I didn't know where to find interesting music. I think I started again in the 90s

Anything before the 70's has a pretty distinct sound - live instruments and the like - but most decades of the past have a greater focus on music in pop culture than consumerism in pop culture that I think, starting with the 00's, has been the driving force behind pop music.

Like in the 90's, rebellion dominated the airwaves in the form of emerging hip-hop/rap artists (N.W.A winding down, TuPac stepping up, Biggie, Redman, RZA) and grunge/rock/punk artists (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Radiohead), the 80's had alternative music that sort of kicked back at the 70's, moving away from psychedelia and into a more female-oriented sound with Madonna, Whitney Houston, etc., but also gave way to R.E.M. and hardcore punk that grounded most of what was to happen in the 90's (Black Flag, The Pixies, NIN). The 70's were all disco and European-influence glam-pop and although they focused on style a lot, it was all about love - The Bee Gees (R.I.P to all the fallen brothers, Andy especially), Abba, Wings - but they also had your rock/metal guys like Queen, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Pink Floyd and really early punk stuff. And then the 60's were all Stones and Beatles and Sex Pistols.

The oughts (as far as I can remember - most of my oughts music has been relegated to collecting dust on shelves) came with the emphasis on money and possessions and how much money and possessions could be bragged about in a three-minute song and emphasized hyper-sexuality over everything. Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, the Disney kids all grown up (and some yet to grow up - Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana), Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown (deplorable human being), etc. And that era has sort of continued into this decade of music with a more electronica-oriented sound coming out now.

That's all in terms of popular music, of course. Every decade has great music, some just need more attention to find - Immortal Technique is a brilliant rap artist, Bon Iver is a fantastic artist in whatever genre he chooses to pursue, Brand New came around as a rock band and there are still a whole bunch of the usual suspects around to entertain, producing great music year after year even though a lot of public interest has waned.

The 'socially conscious rapper' is seeing a bit of a resurgence with Kendrick Lamar (his Taylor Swift feature and Taylor Swift changing from eloquent country music to pop both angered me to no end), J. Cole, etc... But yeah, generally popular music has moved from a sort of "The People's Music!"-focus to a "The Music That The People Will Buy Music!"-focus.

All this is subjective, though - those artists are just off the top of my head and some of them I don't even like (I really don't understand the musical appeal of Black Flag or, really, any of the really hardcore early punk bands) so this is just a really narrow view of popular music through my eyes.

>.> Sorry about how long-winded that got. I'm a bit of an Air-head.

I really should get a profile picture if I'm gonna keep doing these Tolkien-esque posts. XD

EDIT: OH! And anyone who's interested in soul, R&B or funk should check out Betty Wright and The Roots' album from a few years ago - The Movie. It's pure, unadulterated, old-school throwback music.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Turning 24 soon. Real thankful that FC is a lot more mature than other forums. Most of the drama here ends up being manufacturer-related instead of members shitting on each other everywhere.

 

[WakeAndVape]

Turning 24 soon. Real thankful that FC is a lot more mature than other forums. Most of the drama here ends up being manufacturer-related instead of members shitting on each other everywhere.

24 you say?
Pop quiz dude...what's this?

 

[NickDlow]

24 you say?
Pop quiz dude...what's this?

Lol a Walkman...

 

[WakeAndVape]

Lol a Walkman...

That shit was an ipod back then...lol

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

24 you say?
Pop quiz dude...what's this?

Tape player, duh! I don't have one in my room but I'm about 95% sure I know where it is in the garage. I used to be hot shit when my portable cd player didn't skip if it bumped on something! My parents used to have a vinyl cabinet, got rid of it during a move and now my sister has one that I borrow occasionally. I actually still have a bunch of tapes and CD's in folders and a few vinyls I collect. Last one I played actually was a vinyl of The Chronic my cousin got for me

 

[CarolKing]

1980s pic
Now this guy actually had a strap to carry his boom box. I would see folks walking around with these big huge boom boxes balancing them on their shoulders. Kinda funny the different fads.

 

[RUDE BOY]

Lwein told me once I was a third his age.

Oh, but he was so much older then ...

 

[Bravesst]

I grew up in the 60's and 70's in Brooklyn NY. Smoked, and SOLD pot on the street corners when I was 16. It was barely a crime... everyone else was on Heroin or Barbituates (qualudes), or hard core drunks. I did no drugs and barely drank because of cannabis.

 

[Delta3DStudios]

31 here, but I barely look 21 Hell I've even been carded recently for buying my wife cigarettes!

But seriously, who's older than @lwien??

 

[Mr. Me2]

31 here, but I barely look 21 Hell I've even been carded recently for buying my wife cigarettes!

But seriously, who's older than @lwien??

God

 

[stickstones]

God

Don't tell lwien that!

 

[killick]

But seriously, who's older than @lwien??

Dirt?

 

[Bravesst]

Hey maybe it's the cannabis that keeps you looking younger. I was on the cover of my book, "The Firefighter's Workout Book"... search it on amazon, I was 40 in that pic. Currently, my website is all about kettlebells and fitness, and has a few pictures of me.

I'm now 57. My website: ----> http://kbgym.com

An old girlfriend once told me she thought pot was a preservative of human tissue. I know if I would have been drinking this heavy for 40 years, I would not look and feel like I do today.

Thank God for pot!