As a 52 year old that has been skateboarding since the 1970’s I take great offense with anyone that tries to gatekeep skateboarding. Skateboards are always cool.
Love this
Submitted 3 weeks ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Stop complaining… Oh wait
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think it’s all about perspective. Say the Patty Cake one. A 30 year old doesn’t seem “cool” doing it according to the chart. But a 30 year old who sits down with a 5 year old and does it… That kid thinks they are pretty cool.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I debate every week learning to skate at 45
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
do it
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I feel there is a big difference between being able to skate at 45 and learning to skate at 45.
I used to skate as a kid, but I never once managed to pop an ollie.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Tony??
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I actually had a picture with Tony Hawk from when I was ~11. I ran across him at the airport and I made my mom take.our picture.
Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
vala@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unexpected dinosaur jr
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Being at the bottom of the half pipe isn’t cool though.
bstix@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
I’ve been skating since 1986. The first time someone asked me if I was too old for it was in 1987. That question is really only in the eye of the beholder.
UnderFreyja@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
FYI (because I had to look it up) Juuling is just vaping with a smaller type of vape…
witchybitchy@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
like, say, a Juul?
UnderFreyja@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Sure but I don’t vape so the only thing Juul means to me is Yule…
AlexLost@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Na, juuls use a salt crystal delivery system, vapes use an oil base concentrate.
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Salt nic is not exclusive to Juul, and only weed vapes use an oil. Vape juice is propylene glycol and vegetable glycerol with flavoring and nicotine.
(Source here is me, went to vapes to successfully quit smoking back when there was more threading than a 510, when mods were a milled tube and a button or flashlight guts, with an rca connector on top so you could switch between different thread types. It sucks what its become, it was really helpful for me to quit nicotine completelt by having a vape.)
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Both look like you’re sucking a dick
terminhell@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bruh, seeing gam gam playing patty cake at 97 is priceless. Fix this graph lol
laranis@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
There are definitely patty cake cool bumps when you become a parent of a toddler and a grandparent of a toddler. In those moments your coolness is off the chart.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
of a 100 yo is still living alone he is metal as fuck. If a 100yo is breathing he is already cool, anything they do is already a win
Saleh@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Henry Kissinger…
abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There’s nothing cool about having to live alone because the person you been married to for 50+ years died and you can’t bring yourself to meet soemone else out of heartache, even after 10 or 20 years.
It is pretty cool though if you do manage to meet someone else, when you’re 90 and now you’re popping viagra like candy.
exu@feditown.com 3 weeks ago
Depends if they’re just wasting away alone or still active and healthy.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck yeah, juul it up old fart
TommySoda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
(Seeing the birthday spike.)
Nice.
Bernar_moustach@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Best infographic ever, I know what to do with my life now.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Drop in, let’s go
vala@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Skateboarding is never anything but maximum coolness at any age.
Owlboi@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I was wondering why there was a spike at 70 but then i realized
Tja@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Nice.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Oooh I didn’t get it
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nice
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nice
D_C@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
That half-pipe in the graph looks very tempting. I can’t wait until I’m 80 so I can be a cool skateboarder again.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
people can afford to live alone?
otacon239@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I did for about two months before COVID, then immediately needed a roommate to afford to live again.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m 62. I retired in January. In February, my 30-year marriage ended. I’m living alone for the first time in decades, and I never really did it very long before (a few years in my late 20s. It’s very strange. at this age.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Wow—that is a lot of major life events crammed into 2025. Be nice to yourself. Often.
Jerb322@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Juuling?
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Vaping.
Holyginz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not that old. Juul isn’t even that old. When I used vaping to quit smoking before stopping both, you had to have a basic understanding of electronics for mechanical and box mods to make coils and such. Tanks weren’t that great at that point so I used a drip tip which I did actually enjoy at the time. I recognize this might sound like being like hipster or something, but its crazy seeing where vaping is now.
cortex7979@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’m colour blind you ducker
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Quacking whippersnappers!
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I disagree with the “complaining about young people” line having coolness increase proportionally with age: when I was a young adult, I often joked about kids these days in a way that seemed to get a lot of laughs. The humour was in the fact that I was a young person talking about young people as if I wasn’t one of them (and beneath that was me making light of the text that, likely due to being autistic, I have always felt isolated from my peer group).
Anyway, I got good at leveraging this for humour, but as I aged, the joke potential expired: I was too old for there to be any irony in saying “kids these days”, but not old enough for it to be cool to complain about young people.
On the bright side, I am sufficiently old to be able to torment young people by misusing their slang. It’s most likely effective if you use the slang in a mostly right way, so I enjoy the challenge of needing to actually understand correct usage of new slang. Amusingly, studying current slang as an outsider is a skill I’m well versed in, given that I had to do this even when I was young.
mcqtom@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Patty-cake does not reach maximum coolness at about age 9.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I remember patty-cake games being super popular in elementary school, and it switched to hacky sack games in late middle school through high school. I think the graph is accurate.
rabber@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Divorced living alone at 30 and this meme just lifted my spirits a little bit
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Enjoy the dirty thirties as they are meant to be enjoyed
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a person who quit smoking before vaping was created, I wholeheartedly support anyone who vapes as a way to get off cigarettes. Those things’ll kill ya.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That is cool! Shocked to see an 8 wheeler.
Really putting the back in back in the day.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
A Toft design, 8 wheeler. Custom bearings, wheel wells, lifters, extended trucks. Was made for me to go faaaaast down hills but I could also do most tricks as well. Helps when your friend has a skateboard factory.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is drinking age not a big thing in other countries? In the US there would be a drop from 19/20 birthdays and a spike at 21 that drops down again for 22.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Drinking age is 18 in most of the world (with 16 also applying some places). Additionally, my impression is that it’s not as big a deal for 16-17 year olds to get ahold of alcohol in other places.
Where I’m from, the drinking age is 17, but it’s not uncommon or a big deal for people to get some beer or drinks for their 17th birthday party.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m just gonna go ahead and say it. The fuck is juuling
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I think it’s a type of vape, but it was popular a while ago and I haven’t heard much since. Maybe this is an old meme?
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It was SO popular I’m shocked at how many people dong remember it
pjwestin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you’re able to live on your own over the age of 90, you’re killing it.
Wilco@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
10-15 is a bit old for patty cake to be cool.
nuko147@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I would change the ‘complaining about young’ people with ‘complaining about everything’.
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Max level for human race leaked
JulieLemming@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I want this graph for all the drugs and substances used by humankind
AidsKitty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Id say those are all very accurate. Good job.
tkw8@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
The age spike at 69 is 🤌
double_quack@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I didn’t notice!!! Hahahahh
Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I thought that’s celebrating retirement.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nope.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nice