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.

Weird too to be 55 and physically feel 65 and emotionally feel 15 and have friends who are 35 to 45 who will make me feel socially 25 until my practically guaranteed death at 75.

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...

the key is to not talk to people

Trolling all my friends who were born after 9/11 by showing them clips from "Love, Actually" and talking about how easy it was to get through airport security.

I've had a 40 year old body for like, 25 years. I'm not 40 yet.

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.

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.

The wee bastard had never heard of the Lost Boys, Nine Inch Nails, Father Ted, Twin Peaks, Boris Yeltsin, Thundercats, The Waco Massacre, to name a few recent ones.

Once you hit 40, you enter a whole new plateau of consciousness. You start dressing for comfort instead of looks. And the only friends you have are the people you’ve been talking to you for the past 20 years. And the prospect of making new friends Has absolutely no interest

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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 recent. 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.

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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.

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.

just wait til you hit 55 and there's no foolin' anyone anymore.

damn, Why ppl in lemmy has to be so old.

I feel like 55 but my gf makes me feel like 13

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.

Yeah, nah, you gotta talk to a 45yo to reset!

At what point does being carded go from “come on man” to “bless your heart”?

Normal. This is normal.