Weird too to be 55 and physically feel 65 and emotionally feel 15 and have friends who are 35 to who will make me feel socially 25 until my practically guaranteed death at 75.
Weird
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Oh I hope I never lose the spark and stop feeling like I’m a 15 year old pretending to be an adult.
Doug@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Most of my friends are considerably younger than me, it’s great; I get to die first and have them mourn me vs. the other way around.
Suckerrrrrrrrs
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m a 51 year old (as of today) and I feel like I’m 25, and when I talk to people… Wait, I don’t talk to people…
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Happy birthday!
toynbee@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Thanks buddy.
Doug@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Make sure to lie about how old you are elsewhere so as to blur the digital footprint you’re leaving. My estranged twin taught me that when we grew up in Alaska.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
☝️(53)
AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
the key is to not talk to people
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I like you. We should talk.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
[scrambles off into the distance in opposite direction leaving a trail of dust]
ACindyDerg@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The real cause of the fall of society.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s a new party being born, the “People Who Hate People Party.”
People who hate people, come together!
“No.”
We’re kind of having trouble coming off the boards, you know.
“Are you going to be there?” “Yeah.” “Then I ain’t fucking coming.” “But you’re our strongest member!” “Fuck you!” “That’s what I’m talking about, you asshole!” “Fuck off!” “Damn, we almost had a meeting going.”
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Trolling all my friends who were born before 9/11 by showing them clips from “Love, Actually” and talking about how easy it was to get through airport security.
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The pre 9/11 world was truly a different place. I used to cross the border into the states as a 15 year old to go to concerts with nothing but an old red and white Canadian health card that didn’t even have a picture on it.
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was stationed in San Diego, and we would walk across the border to Mexico. To get back in, all you needed was to show a US drivers license and be sober enough to say you are a US citizen.
Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Once you hit 40, you enter a whole new plateau of consciousness. You start dressing for comfort instead of her looks. And the only friends you have are the people you’ve been talking to you for the past 20 years. And making new friends Has absolutely no interest
sakuraba@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
guess I have been 40 all my life
kinther@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ehhhh depends on the person really. Not everyone has a close circle of friends they have known for 20+ years. I have several but wpuld still be happy to make more.
brownsugga@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m 42, I dress fly as hell, and my employees are young models. I have no friends, lol- my life is all work and my family.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And the only friends you have are the people you’ve been talking to you for the past 20 years.
Mostly because it’s impossible to make new friends over the age of 40
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I think it’s because we are all “choosier” with prospective friends due to time being valuable. You don’t want to invest if you know its probably not a perfect match up.
Zaraki42@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Accurate.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I made friends with a 37 year old, and I love him so much! I’m adopting him, and not letting him go, ever!
Poor old man.
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve had a 40 year old body for like, 25 years. I’m not 40 yet.
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Speaking as someone whose in their mid 40’s, no you don’t have a 40 year old body, you only think you do. When you actually get there you’ll realize how wrong you’ve been.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh, from 40 upwards there are so much “oh shit” moments. The fuck around phase is over and the find out, final, phase starts.
“Told you so” starts trending in friend circles.
slackassassin@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I get that this is the common truth and it’s also what I believed growing up. But, honestly, holding up way better than previous me assumed I would.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
In the freezer?
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It gets much, much worse.
I don’t think I’ve felt young since I was like 12, body wise. I have next to no health issues or genetic issues.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Dude, I’m 44 and the 24 year old guy beside me seems like a child to me. He knows nothing of my cultural references of the halcyon days.
M137@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I’m 35 and just starting to see anyone under 25 as kids. Some look older, but as soon as you talk to them it’s like we’re from different planets.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m 51, I have several 30-something coworkers, one in particular gets all my cultural references, one in particular gets none of them. It’s fun to get them together…
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m 27, I know about Boris yetsin and the Waco siege
harmbugler@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
For real, pick people of all ages and the general knowledge is all over the place. “What city is the furthest away from Chicago?” “Florida” facepalm
space@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
My brother was telling the “What’s black and white and read all over?” joke to our niece, and she asked what a newspaper was.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
That’s a nun falling down the stairs, what does a newspaper have to do with it?
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s black and white and laughs?
The priest who pushed her.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is why it’s important to isolate your children from life as you speedrun them through YOUR childhood first. You’re not just giving your kids one good life, but two bad ones!
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
…that’s why I use “sunburned penguin/zebra” as my punchline
harmbugler@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That’s all well and good until you tell it to kids born after the global species collapse
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I always see this stuff and really it has nothing to do with age. I think its the kid or parents interest in teaching and learning. When I was 9 I knew what an 1899 Victrola was. I knew what typewriters were and had a couple. I knew what a john Deere single row plow was.
I’m not really a history buff though. I just figured throughout life that we should know about things that came before us. I keep learning more about old things and some new things daily.
I think its just ignorance. If you are 13 today and seriously dont know what a CD is, thats just idiocy. maybe if you dont know what a cassette is I’d get it, but still. Its not hard to learn.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Something similar has been hitting me recently. I’m 30. So I was born is the last millennium, but you know, not by a lot. Most of my life has been the 20XXs. But even though it’s been 26 years of that, it just all feels so recently. Like it’s hard for me to call anything that happened after 2000 “old” because… old was last century/millennium. “That can’t be old, it happened just a few years ago!” Checks when it happened: 2012, 14 years ago…
Thinking about how we perceive the time we live through is weird. When you think about it, the lives of everyone alive today has been radically different than the vast majority of human history. There were times when things might not meaningfully change in your whole lifetime, maybe even several generations of people living the same way. Post-industrial revolution everything has happened so fast. Tech and culture changes so often that we conceptualize each decade in the 20th/21st century as being it’s own thing. (Obviously that wasn’t entirely the case, there’s all sorts of bleed over, but I’m just talking about how we think about it.) We talk about almost any other time in our history in terms of centuries and some key historical turning points.
I have now written way too much for a comment on a shitpost. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah I get that. “Old” to me is maybe around the 80s. I grew up around a lot of 80s stuff.
The music i listen to (since I was little ) is usually 60s through 80s, because those are the records I had. Some 90s and select new indie artists now too.
An “old” car is a 1969 chevelle. A 1991 f 150 is not an old car. The Xbox 360 is new. Etc.
A huge thing about this is the tech. We went through insane technical revolutions in a super short period of time. Kids now dont have that. GTA 5 is how old, 14 years?
Tech basically peaked in 2012. Nothing has really been improving or groundbreaking for the common person since then. I think thats why when I think of 2012, I think oh yeah bout 4 years ago huh.
I mean my 2010 macbook still works perfectly. My 2001 windows 98 laptop, not as much.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I guess for music it also depends on the genres. For me 90s is ancient, since it’s basically the beginnig. 2000s is old classics with a sound that isn’t really produced anymore
darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, the tech thing makes sense. I used to get really excited by new pieces of tech. My first smart phone, a new game console, etc. Now? I couldn’t even tell you off hand what model iPhone I have nor what the newest one is. When will I get a new one? Probably when my old one breaks.
I think on the gaming side of things, the turning point might be around the Switch. Basically the point where Nintendo stopped experimenting with weird new things for their consoles. They basically just joined MS and Sony in releasing a standard console that could play modern games with the exception of it still having the motion controls from the Wii. The other companies also abandoned trying to do gimmick stuff like motion controls.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
As a I went from kindergarten to high school I saw adults around me aging.
To me, it looked as if they were gracefully descending a long staircase with dignity and elegance.
I had the staircase part right, but sometimes you’re falling down the steps. Four of five flights at a time.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
We were both 40 when our only son was born, and we didn’t have the patience for baby talk, so we always treated him like a little adult, and he responded as one.
So I was always surprised when I’d come in contact with his school friends, and they behaved like children! Luckily, his best friend was also super smart, and came from a neglectful situation, and responded to it by getting her shit together at an early age, so she was a good buddy for him. They’re still close friends, a decade after leaving high school, because they still can’t relate to people their own age, who only seem to be into Marvel movies and Anime.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 3 weeks ago
damn, Why ppl in lemmy has to be so old.
devaly@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I feel like 55 but my gf makes me feel like 13
farmgineer@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
I’m in my mid-40s. I simultaneously feel 20 and 70 and that becomes about 327 when I interact with anyone under tha age of about 30.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
At what point does being carded go from “come on man” to “bless your heart”?
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, nah, you gotta talk to a 45yo to reset!
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Normal. This is normal.
fraksken@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Ha! Wait until you’re 40 😁
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
I’m 52 but I feel like I’m 90 from responses I get. I wouldn’t even give a shit but I need to work at least 20 more years. I’m actually okay with the idea, but I’m not sure there will be many jobs left. I can always turn into a vigilante I guess.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I turned 37 and realised ive already become the grumpy old man down the road that i told myself i would never turn into when i was a kid. But honestly, WHAT IS WITH THE YOUTH OF TODAY!?
adarza@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
just wait til you hit 55 and there’s no foolin’ anyone anymore.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I feel a normal number of years old same as I always have. 23 was once too old, then it was normal, but these days I understand it’s quite young.
SparroHawc@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
The only part of me that feels in my 40s is my knees
Zannsolo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No cap this unc is cooking with this take getting old is cheeks
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Nothing makes you feel forty-five quicker than dating a twenty year old.
j4yc33@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
How weird it is to be 36 and read this meme and suddenly you feel 50…
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Whats the cut off though? Im early 40’s along with most of my friends within 5 years up or down. We do have some other friends that are mid 30s and they are and have always been just like us as far back as i can remember. Im sure if i saw a 25 year old it would be much different but i do wonder what the cut off is.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I no longer really care, 30, 20, 10.000, I knew my fate long ago, and I’m tired of feeling anything within this fake world.
Only thing that matters, is the hustle.
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I tried to explain to my 23 year old grandson’s co-worker that we used to have to jack off to magazines and he had no idea what the word magazine meant. What a sad little wanker.
vrek@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Did you tell him it’s what you reload if the police haven’t come into the school yet??
/s
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I mean, everyone has its kinks and I ain’t shaming anybody. But did you really jack off to the part of a gun that holds bullets??? /jk
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Modern porn is so much better anyway. Much better resolution.
JustRalph@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Magazines are/were 1200 dpi
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Tell me you don’t know what a magazine is without saying it.