A warning from Norm Macdonald

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Norm Macdonald on NASCAR.

  Norm Macdonald on crossing lights.

  Norm Macdonald on TV shows under 20 minutes.

  Norm Macdonald on sex.

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• Takashiro@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Besides what people already said relating to the amount of time making time size relative , and memory affecting perception

  I also like to think adult life is full of too much work, the amount of time you are actually living your own life is way shorter compared to when you were a kid, a teenager and even young adult in some cases. Not forgetting that the time working isn’t only the hours clocked, there is a lot of indirect work time, for example commuting .

  I wish I could work 30 hours a week, probably 6 per day, and still get a good salary/ money.

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t say “never”. Eventually, some of them will get old and understand it firsthand.

  Though the worst part is how perception of time is inversely proportional to enjoyment of said time.

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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Something I heard once is that days go slow, years go fast.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I once heard the years start coming and they don’t stop coming.

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    • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Somebody once told me…

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• AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s the “pie of life” idea. When you’re 4 years old, you have a pie sliced into 4 equal peices, 1 for each year. Each slice represents what a year feels like. Pretty long at first.

  But then at 20 years you have 20 slices, now imagine that same pie is sliced into 80 peices, each slice is so thin, that’s what 1 year “feels like” to you.

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• plutopos@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well of course youth seems like a blink when all that’s left of it is memories

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• mrodri89@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well heres the thing Norm. I think being dead is more peaceful than going to work a majority of my life. Doesnt scare me to take a prolonged dirt nap.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

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  • iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Life cums at you hard

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• Imperious_melange@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There is actually some science behind this. People’s perception of time literally speeds up as they age. Our youth feels like forever, our young adult years still feel long and at that point it all feels like it will be forever, and then you blink and you’re 56 wondering where the time went. It’s a really well known phenomenon.

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think a lot of that comes down to our ability to make personal comparisons. When you're 10 years old, a year is 10% of your entire lived experience. When you're 50 years old, a year is just 2% of your life. Life feels like it goes faster as we age, because we have so much more to compare it to as we grow older.

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    • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think you just inspired me to take more pictures. I think it’d be nice to look back at my camera gallery every year to see what I had going on.

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  • Anberibaburia@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s memory related imo, we forget so many things daily and over the years we just cant remember it all and so it doesnt feel like it was all lived.

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    • Imperious_melange@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Essentially yeah, it’s heavily linked to novelty. For instance the drive to somewhere new or unusual is always longer than the drive home because we’ve already seen it so our neurons just dump all the information that’s familiar aka not novel. If someone does the same thing in the same place for years then time flashes by but if they are having many novel experiences then it feels like a lot more time has passed.

      So in short the longer we live the more we have seen, the more we have seen the more is familiar aka auto dumped information by our neurons before it even touches the level of our conscious mind.

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I do understand the truth. That’s why I am too terrified every day to get anything done. 👍

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• remon@ani.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cheetah sure are amazing!

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• HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And that’s why we always wear a condom.

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• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This short clip of Norm is infamous. Dennis Miller is blown away www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhCeYjeDv2A

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also: “DON’T GAMBLE SO MUCH.”

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No no no. This is just bad advice.

    The real advice is to get the sports betting almanac, take it back to the 1980s, and gamble even MORE!!!

    Then somehow become president.

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    • Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Crime, the “somehow” is crime

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