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You kids would not remember. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 47 points 3 years ago (15 children)

Slightly on topic, but yesterday I discovered that I'm the same age as Rishi Sunak, and it's fucking with my brain that I'm the same age as the Prime Minister. Something about that just ain't right.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Rob Ford was in his thirties when he was mayor of Toronto but if you look at pictures of him you'd never believe it.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Crack is a hell of a drug.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I'm actually remembering wrong, he was 41, but still looked a hell of a lot older.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    May that oversized bowling ball rot in hell.

    Source: Toronto Resident.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I agree. The things he did! As an aside I don't know how someone who smoked crack in his own home didn't have CPS remove his children into foster care. How is it poor people do, but that fuck didn't?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Idk... I feel like that's okaish...you don't want to end up on Biden/Trump age for a leader.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Older age isn't necessarily a negative factor in leadership, but I know what you're saying. However, I can't deal with the fact that I'm 43 and don't feel like a grown up, so does that mean our Prime Minister feels the same way about himself? I can't square that circle, y'know?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think it just something about public figures and that they can't possibly live a life like us or something.

    I have the same thing, but opposite direction with the stranger things cast. Still can't belive they're the same age or older than me.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    I think it also ties in with the "olders and betters" mentality that we're brought up with. There's a sense of gravitas to the office of Prime Minister, and even if they're doing stupid shit there's a monkey bit of my brain that's like "ah, but they're old enough to know better than me". But now the PM is only four months older than I am, and my mum worked for his dad for a few years, so we could have (theoretically) turned in the same circles*, and he's up there in the highest office in the land, doing stupid shit and I'm looking at him and wondering who let this idiot kid be in charge.

    *We really couldn't have though, he went to a very fancy school and was already married to a billionaire by the time my mum started working for his dad. His dad's actually sound.

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