I just read a sentence that referred to “the decades since” 2005 and I feel personally attacked.

[overholt@glammr.us]

I just read a sentence that referred to “the decades since” 2005 and I feel personally attacked.

[kevin@doyle.boston]

@overholt I hate to break it to you John, but that car from 2001 can get antique plates now

[beecycling@wandering.shop]

@overholt I'm still getting over the moment in Captain America:Civil War when 1991 flashed up on screen and I was all, "right so, oh, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO! WTF?"

And now it's 35 years and I am NOT OKAY! 😁

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@overholt And this is why I like to remind folk, from time to time, of the things I’ve seen over the millennia.

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@overholt there's nothing quite like going through college in the 1900s to age a person

[hnapel@mastodon.social]

@overholt

Time flies when you are having fun (NOT).

[vivtek@indieweb.social]

@overholt Could be worse; my boy's book club found out he was *born in the twentieth century* and started calling him "Unc".

[rastal@mastodon.social]

@overholt

Student: "Is it ok if I cite a paper from the last century?"

Teacher: Yes.

Student: "Williams and Jones' landmark paper in 1999 stated..."

Teacher: 😳

[malachy@mastodon.nu]

@overholt And it's been decades since I first read that - about the 1980s - and winced.