Shark
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Post by Shark on Oct 27, 2020 3:27:38 GMT -5
I hurt my back from laughing too hard. That has to be a sign I'm getting old.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 27, 2020 3:30:02 GMT -5
I'm 35 and I still feel like some weird cross between an old man and a child.
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The Ichi
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 27, 2020 5:11:08 GMT -5
I'm 36 and haven't really experienced many "f*** I'm old" moments besides when I realise that the song I really like is now two decades old.
Also I have no idea what buzzword category I belong to.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 27, 2020 8:06:08 GMT -5
I'M GEN X DAMMIT!!! And I can still demolish a bag of Skittles. Well the small ones anyway. Yea when did Gen X=Boomers? Don't they teach these kids anything in school anymore. I did tell my father Ok Boomer 2 weeks ago,but he is a legit baby boomer LOL. They don't. To be fair a lot of older people think millennial are like 20 years old when the youngest of them are pushing 30 and the oldest are over 40 now.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 27, 2020 9:51:20 GMT -5
Im 33, my next birthday is the age I stopped signing players on Football Manager because they're too old.
That is an annoying thought.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 27, 2020 11:04:14 GMT -5
Yea when did Gen X=Boomers? Don't they teach these kids anything in school anymore. I did tell my father Ok Boomer 2 weeks ago,but he is a legit baby boomer LOL. They don't. To be fair a lot of older people think millennial are like 20 years old when the youngest of them are pushing 30 and the oldest are over 40 now. I lost track of that shit once I hit 22. I figured 40 to 55 is Gen X. But I was born near the end of Gen X,1974. Might just be my area but never heard anyone over the age of 30 use the term millennial in converstation. But then the town I live in is close to 50% people over 65.
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Post by Cyno on Oct 27, 2020 11:07:19 GMT -5
I'm 45. In college classes w/ 18-23 year olds. I'm even a couple years older than my instructor. Some days I feel old because they weren't born during some major events. But we do have common interests. And these kids aren't punks. They are smart. And silly in a good way. When I was in college, there were people in their 50's and 60's in some of my classes. Never too late to go back.
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Post by eJm on Oct 27, 2020 11:15:15 GMT -5
I'm 45. In college classes w/ 18-23 year olds. I'm even a couple years older than my instructor. Some days I feel old because they weren't born during some major events. But we do have common interests. And these kids aren't punks. They are smart. And silly in a good way. When I was in college, there were people in their 50's and 60's in some of my classes. Never too late to go back. Same. When I was at uni, there was a group of older women who spent most of their time together and it felt like I was an extra in a UK Golden Girls remake.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Oct 27, 2020 11:33:52 GMT -5
This thread is really streets ahead
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Post by Cyno on Oct 27, 2020 14:46:37 GMT -5
They don't. To be fair a lot of older people think millennial are like 20 years old when the youngest of them are pushing 30 and the oldest are over 40 now. I lost track of that shit once I hit 22. I figured 40 to 55 is Gen X. But I was born near the end of Gen X,1974. Might just be my area but never heard anyone over the age of 30 use the term millennial in converstation. But then the town I live in is close to 50% people over 65. I think Gen X goes from the late '60's to like '81-'82? It gets a bit nebulous, especially as late Gen X and early Gen Y/Millennial overlaps.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 27, 2020 14:52:11 GMT -5
I lost track of that shit once I hit 22. I figured 40 to 55 is Gen X. But I was born near the end of Gen X,1974. Might just be my area but never heard anyone over the age of 30 use the term millennial in converstation. But then the town I live in is close to 50% people over 65. I think Gen X goes from the late '60's to like '81-'82? It gets a bit nebulous, especially as late Gen X and early Gen Y/Millennial overlaps. Millennials are people that came of age in the new millennium so 1982 is generally considered the starting point ending in like 1996.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Oct 27, 2020 14:59:15 GMT -5
I think Gen X goes from the late '60's to like '81-'82? It gets a bit nebulous, especially as late Gen X and early Gen Y/Millennial overlaps. Millennials are people that came of age in the new millennium so 1982 is generally considered the starting point ending in like 1996. I also like to argue that at least in America, different "decades" happened at different times. Like here in Iowa, you could be born in the late 80's and you are very much more likely a Gen X'er than a Millennial, because you grew up in basically the 80's. At least where I lived, the 80's ended in like 1994, and the 90's ended on Sept 11, 2001.
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Post by Cyno on Oct 27, 2020 15:10:16 GMT -5
September 11 felt like an end of an age of innocence here. Though I grew up in New Jersey about an hour away from Manhattan, and you can see the NYC skyline from here on a clear day. Hell, I was born in New York and my grandparents still lived in Brooklyn at the time. So it felt more than a lot of other places that our home was being attacked.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 27, 2020 15:13:36 GMT -5
I lost track of that shit once I hit 22. I figured 40 to 55 is Gen X. But I was born near the end of Gen X,1974. Might just be my area but never heard anyone over the age of 30 use the term millennial in converstation. But then the town I live in is close to 50% people over 65. I think Gen X goes from the late '60's to like '81-'82? It gets a bit nebulous, especially as late Gen X and early Gen Y/Millennial overlaps. See I always heard GEn x is the childern of the baby boomers. Which would be like 65 thru 78 or so.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Oct 27, 2020 15:30:51 GMT -5
September 11 felt like an end of an age of innocence here. Though I grew up in New Jersey about an hour away from Manhattan, and you can see the NYC skyline from here on a clear day. Hell, I was born in New York and my grandparents still lived in Brooklyn at the time. So it felt more than a lot of other places that our home was being attacked. I believe I told this story before, I lived in the city and went to school in Manhattan To give you the gist, everyday when I went to school you could see the Twin Towers in the middle of the city. That day we came out after we got the news, all you saw was a big hole and nothing but smoke Shit was surreal. Until the pandemic happened, I have never seen the city so dead with no one on the streets
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Post by Mid-Carder on Oct 27, 2020 17:47:08 GMT -5
I'm the opposite actually. I would never want to go back to teenage/twenties. When a lot of my friends turned 30 they freaked out and didn't want anyone to know. When I turned 30, I realised I'd been wasting my adult life worrying about what other people think or spending time with people who bring me down. The older I get the less of a shit I give and it's completely freeing. I also have two major life goals, neither of which has a time limit, which is great.
I also hate the 'ok boomer' thing. I don't know anyone of "boomer" age who "had it easy".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2020 21:57:10 GMT -5
I would just like to say I hate this OK boomer bullshit. If you don't listen to advice of someone who has more experience at life than you and at least take it into consideration, you are a complete moron. Or maybe boomers should stop being so f***ing entitled when the majority of them had it easy: you could drop out of high school, get a decent job, get a house, have a family, not worry about the planet killing them. Absolutely, some of them are like that. But I know quite a few baby boomers that are very liberal and think very highly of the young people of today for being more intelligent than their generation. All I'm saying is that you judge people based on their age any more than you can judge someone based on their skin color, sexuality, gender, religion, etc. You can't just stereotype an an entire generation because some of them are dickheads.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2020 22:04:25 GMT -5
Or maybe some of them are disconnected and some of them aren't. That's why I said you should consider what they say instead of dismissing them. I didn't say to blindly follow their advice. So basically what you’re both saying is f*** young people? Absolutely not. This world belongs to the young. I'm in my 30's so this isn't even my world anymore. It's the world of my nieces and nephews that are in their teens and twenties. The world should progress into what they want it to be. All I'm saying is that when an older person is giving you some type of life advice that isn't insane bigotry of some type, you should think about it. The entire human race is completely worthless if it doesn't learn from the past in both good and bad ways.
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LastCall
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Post by LastCall on Oct 27, 2020 22:56:29 GMT -5
I wish I was in my 20s again. Before all the sore joints and the vertigo.
Well, at least my liver is still in tip top shape.
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Post by toodarkmark on Oct 27, 2020 23:15:47 GMT -5
I'm 45 and I have pain and I'm like "Is this allergies, a pulled nerve or a heart attack?" Like daily. I just had a daughter so I want to live!
When I was in my 20's I would drink a bottle of Jack Daniels and just get into fights at White Castle in Brooklyn if someone looked at me funny. Now I'm like moving out of the way for people at the supermarket if they need to get to the cucumbers first. Social distancing etiquette.
The worst is thinking about music. Like NIN is my favorite group ever, and Downward Spiral came out in 1994, 26 years ago. 26 years before 1994 is 1968, right before Woodstock. WTF. Like seriously, when DWS came out, Woodstock seemed like a million years before.
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