• CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    34 minutes ago

    I’ve been having fun watching this happen with my father. He gets really frustrated with those he refers to as “my fellow old people”. He’s 70 and in better shape and more mobile than some 50 year olds I know.

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    Whats weird to me is how teenagers look like kids to me. As a youngling I used to love 18-20 porn stars. I saw some the other year and thought “Holy fuck theyre basically children”. That was pretty shocking.

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      4 hours ago

      old gets younger every generation. My dad became arthritic and unable to work a decade earlier than my grandpa and I’m looking like I’ll be out of comission two earlier than my dad.

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        I feel like there’s been a dip. Historical photos show people looking old as fuck but really they’re young. Millenials sort of changed that. Now gen-z is reverting.

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    Age is a matter of mentality. If you look at a tree that looks fun to climb and you think “too old for this”, you’re old.

    If you wanna try something new but “you’re too old for this”, you’re old.

    If some kid starts using weird lingo and instead of decyphering it you think “kids are weird”, you’re old. And a hypocrite.

    Of course there’s magic number of 60 year old when your mentality doesn’t matter as your body starts being held with glue, spite and will. I mean you can certainly try to be young but…

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      Age is a matter of how debilitating your age-related diseases are. If you’re over 30 and got backpain or bad knees you’re old.

      I am old.

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        Hm. Right. I think I could replace last part with what you wrote to be less of ableist piece of work. Well, people learn all their lives, thanks for pointing this up <3

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    11 hours ago

    As George Carlin put it, there are two kinds of men; useless punks who are younger than me, and worthless coots who are older than me.

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    Nah, I said 30 was old until I reached 30, joined a voice chat, and someone said “you sound like you’re 30”. I felt vindicated as I turned to dust.

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      I got told once that I sounded like I had a standing desk. This was from a random in Siege

      I laughed and then after I was done playing I stood up and moved five feet to my left into my ‘office’ and kept working at my standing desk