I was born in 1989 and the math is HARD some days.

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[–] 50 points 3 years ago (4 children)

'84 here. For years now I just round myself up or down to the nearest 5 and call it a day lol

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

    its just 11 + the current year.
    I am 1988 so i am 12 + the current year.

    Didn't think of it like that until your post but it is pretty easy.

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

    You're 2035 years old? Wild..

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    [–] 32 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    On the other hand, it makes it easier for the people who have to check your ID when buying alcohol. Any birth year that begins with 19 is automatically old enough.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    Do you guys not remember how old you are year to year? Are you frequently calculating your age from your birth year instead of just adding 1 to it on your birthday?

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

    I always thought it was nuts that people don't remember, then I turned 30 and got married to someone who has a birthday less than a year before mine. Now I have two ages to remember (that are sometimes the same) and it takes a second for me to remember which is me when asked.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    I find that the older I get, the less I discuss or think about my age throughout the year so it gets more difficult to remember. Also, my birthday is in January so it's over pretty quickly and I don't tend to think about it again while I'm busy thinking about my 4 kids birthdays that are coming up, instead!

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    [–] 27 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Does anybody need to calculate their age? It's not a hard thing to remember :|

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    As someone who is well out of the range where people need to ask for ID when I want something, I don't concern myself with my age and frequently forget since nobody asks.

    On official forms, they want to know my date of birth, not my age. Everyone I know socially, doesn't care or already knows an approximation of it, thus I'm never asked. All my work colleagues are interested in is getting the job done, not how many years I've been in the workforce/how many years till I get to retirement age/whatever.

    I don't think about my age for more than a few hours a year at most. I don't even celebrate my birthday. So the years come and go, and I think about how old I am so little that I often don't even know how old I am.

    You're not wrong that it's not hard to remember, but when you think about it as little as I do, you tend to lose track.... So when someone asks me how old I am, I often don't reply because I'm too busy doing math in my head to try to figure it out, quietly hoping they'll move on from the question and I won't have to answer it.

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    [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not too long ago, I was filling out a medical form and I had to ask my wife how old I was. She had to think about it. We're the same age.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    It's great. When people ask me how old I am I just ask them which year is this and repeat the last two digits.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    You'll get people ridiculing you for not remembering your own age but believe you me, you're not alone in the struggle. My husband and I started dating in 2000 so that's awfully convenient.

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    [–] 17 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    how do you not know how old you are?

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

    I was lucky and was born in 1990. I've always appreciated that all you have to do to figure out my age is add 10 to the year. Like, when it's 2054, I know I'll be 64.

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    The entitlement of the younglins these days. I swear, they are getting soft. I have to take the current year, and add twenty, but the lazy ass youth just have to subtract their birth year from the current year. Maths will suffer because they don't have to do addition. Pure insanity and liberal malarkey.

    Oh yeah, /s

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

    There's still the part of the year before the birthday and the part of the year after the birthday.

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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    But you still have to know what year it is.

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

    The hardest is my parents' age.

    • 1965 to 2000 -> 35
    • 2000 to 2023 -> 23
    • 35 + 23 = brain leaking
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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Why do people even calculate this? It's an integer you only have to increment once a year. Just remember your age.

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Just Google "Taylor Swift age" like the rest of us creeps.

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I understand that people are scared of "new" math, but for a 1989 birthday just take the last too digits of the current year, add ten, then add one if you've already had a birthday this year, e.g. 23+10+1=34. Almost the same math I used to count change when I worked retail.

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Trying to do this mentally:

    1989 + 1 = 1990
    2023 - 2000 = 23
    2000 - 1990 = 10
    23 + 10 = 33
    

    33 - 1 = 32 Ha! Easy!... Wait.

    33 + 1 = 34 Shit. Double+1. Ok, I thought the -1 at the end would undo the +1 at the beginning. But, I guess the 2000-1990 messed me up.

    Maybe

    2000 - 1990 = 10
    1990 - 1989 = 1
    2023 - 2000 = 23
    23 + 1 = 24
    24 + 10 = 34
    
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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Math like that is really simple if you take it in easy chunks.

    For example, to calc your age, just take the years from birthday to 2000 (11) and add it to the years since 2000 (23). 11 + 23 = 34.

    Best part is the first calc never changes - so if you remember thst number it's just like having a 2000 birthday. Just add 11.

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Today year - 2000 + 11 is that hard?

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Born in 99. Can confirm I just take the year and say I was that age for most of it

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

    I thought I had it easy. Born in 1990. 2022? I'm 32. 2023? I'm 33.

    But now I am married. Dec 2019. So it's always hard to calculate how many years.

    And to add to it. My daughter is born Nov 2021.

    Good luck to anyone that asks me how old she is. You gotta wait until I count on all my fingers.

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    [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I forgot how old I was a couple months ago and had to pull up an online age calculator cuz I could not make it make sense. Yes, I'm stupid.

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