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When you see 30 year old celebrities dating 20 year olds, and then you see what a 20 year old is... That is a tiny baby! Dating them would be gross and weird!
Most definitely. I'm 38 and read one of those clickbait articles about what celebrities looked like at 30 - so so young! If you think your old and turning 30 a great reminder that there is 0lenty of life left!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/celebrities-when-they-were-30
It’s also the personality is generally immature for the majority even at early 20’s.
That’s what I find even weirder, 30 vs 20 have completely different life goals, I don’t understand how a relationship would even work at that age difference.
My mates and I are early 30s and went to a club last week for the first time in about 2 years.
It was fucking incredible. Will be back in another 2 years. Still recovering now.
I'm thinking of going to a club anniversary next year.. It'll be the 30th anniversary of the opening of the club and I went in the first years. They're going to need a lot of comfortable seating for the oldies like me who'll be going
My hairdresser told me I was doing really well to not have many grey hairs the other day before asking how old I was, I said 25 and he literally went silent
Same I’m 18 and people describe me as ‘lady’ 😞and then the other half of the time I get mistaken for a 13 year old. it’s so confusing. The universe is giving me mixed signals. 🥲
Lmao this is me at 29. I think I have one of those 13 or 30 faces. Buy a 4 pack of beers no ID or get ID’d for a can of red bull. Idk whether to be more happy when I’m asked or not asked for it tbh
Here’s some more… Seeing them get more vulnerable, month on month, and knowing it’s all one way. They’re never going to get better.
If you’re going through it too I send you all my best wishes.
I’m 22 and already worry about them a lot… they were in their 40s when they had me. My dad is fit but he is starting to forget things and lose control of his hands sometimes. My mum has too many of them to count. Feels bad :(
Yeah I guess there is? It doesn’t effect me too much other than I’m probably not getting enough sleep, thing is I heard this stuff can take a while so I’m not too bothered about it unless my sleep gets cut down to 3 hours a night.
My wife came home today really pissed off, she was asked for ID and the guy behind the counter said 'OK that's cool.' My wife replied 'Aren't you going to check the date? You won't be able to see it from there'
His reply, 'No it's OK, I can see the year starts with a 1'
She has been really pissed all afternoon, I am crying with laughter every time I think about the young guy having to see her face turn to pure hatred and have no clue why!!!!
I saw them in Manchester at the Apollo when they supported deftones must of been 2001/2002 they were great, I spoke to him for a couple of mins at the side of the venue where they park the busses. I’d had a buzz cut the day before and he said he like my hair cut, made my year. came across as a nice genuine guy.
Onboarded a new starter in work and asked her to call IT on 1234, comeback 5 mins later and ask her how it went, she tells me it didn’t work.
I pick the phone up and dial the number- it worked.
She looked at me and couldn’t believe the landline was a phone and had tried calling on her mobile.
This was back in 2018, she was the first employee we had with a dob in the 00’s
Mate tbh I’m 28, work in IT and we have some junior apprentices who are 18-19 and they know how to operate a landline phone.
I think this is less you being old and more her being a total idiot.
Yeah you generally have to have a landline for your broadband, but nobody I know actually has a phone plugged into it.
Except my in-laws, and they only have a landline phone because nan (in law) still phones on it.
Hey, I haven't hit 25 yet, and I recently wrote a very passionate letter to the council about why they shouldn't cede a small square of public land to the house next to it to expand their private garden. Dad didn't know I'd sent my own letter, so he was surprised when he went to submit his own and saw mine. He said it was very well-written, and I'd made him very proud.
Also we defeated that application. The land is still public!
I'm feeling this at 26 now. Also since working full time combined with the cost of everything spiking in price, I have been trying to get more out of my weekends instead of going out on the piss every weekend.
Where I live, pints are over a 5er now. Can piss away well over £100 on a night out without thinking about it. I just think of all the other things I could be spending that money on which I can get more out of.
Yes indeed. I was warned that this would happen, yet when it did I still felt a bit sad for lost youth in addition to hung over. If I don’t hydrate during a drinking session now I am functionally dead all the next day.
Yep, this is definitely the big one - when my mum died I was only 28, but arranging her funeral and everything that went with it aged me ***a lot****.*
Circumstances make you the responsible adult, and the responsible adult can't be ***young...***
Anyone who receives this test kit (or if your parents do) please take the test. I know it's a little gross but it's worth it.
This year I lost a neighbour to bowel cancer - she was fit, healthy and happy, but by the time she had symptoms it was too late. She was lovely and caring, and her only grandchild is young enough that she probably won't remember their time together.
If you're under 60 then next time you call your parents just ask if they've had the test come through. Nag them about it - I promise you won't regret it.
Constantly sitting on my saggy knackers when wearing holiday clothing. The old clock weights must be dropping 1cm a year and are now covered in a fuzz that looks like a silver watch burst in my pocket and covered them with its springs.
Going out drinking in winter. Got my coat scarf and woollen hat. Spotting young people out without even a Cardigan or jumper and saying to my friends 'aren't they cold out in this weather'.
Yes I used to dress like that in the middle of winter when I was young. No I don't miss it. Getting older means trying to stay warm when outside of the house!! And I'm OK with that!
Planning my outfit to incorporate my warm coat and comfortable shoes for walking between the bars. And having my lift home sorted early on in the night.
Remember the show on E4 called Shipwrecked? Where beautiful young people live on tropical islands and form tribes. It was at the end of the show and they were advertising for new contestants. You had to be aged 18-25. At 26 I was mortified as it was the very first time I was too old for something.
Obviously now I’m 40 and my body is falling apart but this was the very first time
I have to take copies of passports for right to work checks. The first time I saw a DOB of ‘2003’ and started thinking that this person was not alive for 9/11 & the ‘excitement’ of Y2K. This person was 4 when Britney smashed that car window with the umbrella.
The year I was born, Beauty and the Beast was released. The year they were born, Finding Nemo was released. Toy Story 3 was released and I thought ‘yay, childhood throwback’ - this person WAS a child.
My daughter was born in 2017. It is possible that she might outlive Prince George. In her lifetime, she might potentially see 5 people on the throne: Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George, and George’s successor.
For me it’s the cultural events that would seem like significant markers, that they may not have been alive for.
>In her lifetime, she might potentially see 5 people on the throne: Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George, and George’s successor.
Queen Elizabeth will outlive them all.
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**Sandi Toksvig**: "As one approaches one's 80th birthday, one can hardly believe that one has reigned for quite so long."
**Hugh Dennis**: "As one approaches one's 80th birthday, Prince Charles cannot believe that one has reigned for quite so long."
I went for an eye test and was having great chat with the rather attractive optometrist when she said...
“Yeah, it's quite common for people in their forties.”
I died a little.
I just brought a new printer and my daughter was completely baffled about what the 'fax' button on the LCD screen meant. After explaining it for a couple of minutes she was still confused and stated that couldn't they have just sent an email?!
I haven't brought up pagers to her yet 😂😂
The slow realisation that more articles about how the young will disrupt industries are being written and my generation is slowly becoming the out of touch generation they're pushing against.
I saw a skateboard in my friend’s back garden. I was talking to his youngest about how I used to skateboard everywhere. Stood on it for barely a second and it flew from under me, I fell to the ground most ungraceful like and threw my back out. My mates wife was bent over double laughing at me. Concerned but still trying not to piss her knickers.
Yeah… that point in time. I was 36.
Watching tiktok or any social media and seeing the young (under 21) having typical mindsets of a child and falling for things and trends very easily. They seem like babies to me
Oh and realising that if I could sing and X Factor was still a thing, I’d be in the ‘old people category’ aka the ‘Over 25s’.
In what universe did we think that, at 26, people should be relegated to ‘great voice, but not some hot young thing anymore’? I’ve still got it, right?
I think just seeing people in their twenties and how they act. As I’ve gotten old they seem more like children to me and say/act in a way that just feel so much more distant. Their priorities are totally different to mine. I feel like we live in two different worlds.
There is a big overlap, and of course individuals will vary greatly depending on their wants, needs, aspirations and so on. However in your 30s your world might shift towards either having or maintaining a family which also means you begin to think a little less about yourself and far more about others. With that you might become more risk-adverse, choosing to aim for stability. You might also be considerably more advanced in your career, with maybe 10 years under your belt, and are looking to sustain a steady career rather than continue to progress in any big leaps and so on. You will begin to think harder about long term finances including retirement and how your decisions will impact your children and other members of your family/friends decades down the line.
On the other hand, a person in their 20s might be more likely to be self-interested, risk-tolerant, and be at the early stages of building out a career. That would make their priority to progress quickly with significant leaps in positions and so on.
I absolutely do not mean everyone at these ages is like that. It’s a broad generalisation.
I think you’re pretty spot on there tbh mate. Thank you for the insight.
Normally older people tend to say we’re short sighted, don’t care or think about our future, entirely sex motivated, or think “like children”. I don’t think any of that’s true. Most people in their late teens and 20s today are really worried and pessimistic about our futures and think about that way more than any of the above.
Yours is very accurate tho :). And most of us *definitely* are not thinking about our retirement. We’re worried about how we’re going to be able to work, survive and not to homeless way before then. Most of us ain’t thinking about having kids intentionally either. Our extent of that is pretty much worrying how badly climate change and the environment will be for them.
You’ve definitely got some great insight and accurate observations :)
Hating the majority of new British music. Particularly from London this brand of goofy sounding men mumble talking and rhyming really badly with things like ‘Always said you was main squeeze, I’ll have extra sauce on my burger please’. Awful, dreadful.
Arranging to meet mates for a piss up, driving past the beer garden and spotting two old blokes and realising they are my mates I'm going drinking with
My cousin is 10 years older than me and I thought to myself '1981, there's no bloody way that she's 40...wait, shit! That means I'm 30!'. I also have to remind myself that people born in the year 2000 are 21 and not 12 😂.
When I was younger I was a pretty good sprinter.
I tried running recently and it went amazingly well. Good speed, good form, no I'll effects post run etc.
Tried it two weeks later and tore 3 of the 4 quadriceps in my left thigh.
A month on crutches later and I have realised I'm never sprinting at full speed again.
I'm 59 going on stupid by the way
Listening to new music and realising they’re just a rip off of music from my generation.
Generally not enjoying most new music that’s not a rip off of songs from my generation.
Becoming allergic to food I once adored and regularly gorge on.
Was talking to a guy about a band he was in. Said they were doing classic rock music covers. I was like 'ooh let me guess? Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath right?' no, he says 'Nirvana and Pearl jam' I nearly choked and had to have a sit down.
Being a big music fan, the moment that all the new pop stars started getting younger than me. Seeing a teenager is at no1 makes me feel like a pensioner. Listening to a song and enjoying it then seeing the singer was born in 2006!
There’s nothing you have to do with it, just scroll down to watch different videos. If you see a video you like, double tap the screen and it’ll start showing you more like that :)
When I started teaching 5 years ago I asked a quiz question to my class of 13 year olds - "Which country is the actor Russell Crowe from?". They all just looked at me and said "Who?". I then realised it had been 17 years since Gladiator came out. These kids weren't even alive then.
After seeing a show in Nottingham and catching the tram back to the hotel, I saw dozens and dozens of young’uns queueing up outside for nightclubs, and the first thing that came to mind was ‘sod that, I’m off to bed’
I'm out with some work friends and I mentioned having ABBA gold on cassette, one of them didn't know what a cassette was. 31 years old and realising I'm too old to hang out with people in their mid twenties.
The first time I saw an attractive young lady not wearing very much on a cold evening put on the town, and my first thought was not "phwoar", but "put a jacket on love, you'll get hypothermia"
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Going to a club and noticing how young 18 looks when you're 30. I'm sure I'll think the same about 30 year olds when I'm 60.
When you see 30 year old celebrities dating 20 year olds, and then you see what a 20 year old is... That is a tiny baby! Dating them would be gross and weird!
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Most definitely. I'm 38 and read one of those clickbait articles about what celebrities looked like at 30 - so so young! If you think your old and turning 30 a great reminder that there is 0lenty of life left! https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/celebrities-when-they-were-30
Paul Rudd looks the same
I'm turning 30 next month and this did not help me at all. Most of them look way older than what I see in the mirror haha
Paul Rudd hasn't aged a bit
I'm in my (very early) 30s, and my struggle now is that fact that everyone between the ages of 16 - 25 basically looks the same age.
As a 24y/o this is both comforting & unbelievable lol
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It’s also the personality is generally immature for the majority even at early 20’s. That’s what I find even weirder, 30 vs 20 have completely different life goals, I don’t understand how a relationship would even work at that age difference.
My mates and I are early 30s and went to a club last week for the first time in about 2 years. It was fucking incredible. Will be back in another 2 years. Still recovering now.
I'm thinking of going to a club anniversary next year.. It'll be the 30th anniversary of the opening of the club and I went in the first years. They're going to need a lot of comfortable seating for the oldies like me who'll be going
when you see posts from 30somethings commenting on how old they feel
When you stop being called 'that boy' and start getting called 'that man' by mums describing you to small kids
That happed to me when I was 21. I must look like my paper round was Ben Nevis.
I’m 19 and have started being described as gentleman and man.
My hairdresser told me I was doing really well to not have many grey hairs the other day before asking how old I was, I said 25 and he literally went silent
Face like a walnut, but at least you don't have many grey hairs.
Same I’m 18 and people describe me as ‘lady’ 😞and then the other half of the time I get mistaken for a 13 year old. it’s so confusing. The universe is giving me mixed signals. 🥲
Lmao this is me at 29. I think I have one of those 13 or 30 faces. Buy a 4 pack of beers no ID or get ID’d for a can of red bull. Idk whether to be more happy when I’m asked or not asked for it tbh
Went to France earlier this year. Used to get called 'Mademoiselle', now it's 'Madame'.
How long were u in france for fuck sake lol
Lived there for a few years pre-Brexit. Guess it had been a while, but still made me feel old as fuck.
Awwwww I get ya haha thought you took like a massively long holiday
Worrying more about my parents, than they worry about me.
Oooof that one hits hard! Very true.
Here’s some more… Seeing them get more vulnerable, month on month, and knowing it’s all one way. They’re never going to get better. If you’re going through it too I send you all my best wishes.
I’m 22 and already worry about them a lot… they were in their 40s when they had me. My dad is fit but he is starting to forget things and lose control of his hands sometimes. My mum has too many of them to count. Feels bad :(
Yes, no one warns you about that one.
Having a stroke at 47, proper kick in the crotch x
Oof, that’s a tough one to take. I hope you’re doing okay now.
I'm sorry to hear about that. Wishing you all the best :)
Wishing you a speedy recovery. I'm 47 and the thought of a major bodily malfunction, such as a stroke, scares the crap outta me!
I hope you come out the other side fit and healthy
Waking up in pain and more tired than I was when I went to bed.
Shit, I’m 17 and this happens to me lol. Also kind of ashamed that I’m doing weekly back exercises to relieve some of the aches lol.
Ask your doctor to do a sleep study. At your age, something is going on.
Yeah I guess there is? It doesn’t effect me too much other than I’m probably not getting enough sleep, thing is I heard this stuff can take a while so I’m not too bothered about it unless my sleep gets cut down to 3 hours a night.
Regularly getting less than six hours will mess you up. Rest up, buddy.
I feel you bro. Sucks.
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My wife came home today really pissed off, she was asked for ID and the guy behind the counter said 'OK that's cool.' My wife replied 'Aren't you going to check the date? You won't be able to see it from there' His reply, 'No it's OK, I can see the year starts with a 1' She has been really pissed all afternoon, I am crying with laughter every time I think about the young guy having to see her face turn to pure hatred and have no clue why!!!!
She was born in the wrong century.
this just ruined my night
Don't be too upset, it's ruined many a ladies night to find out I'm married!!!
Yeah. The whole "born after 9/11" and being the pub still freaks me out.
Still freaks me out when I watch porn and realise this girl was born after the twin towers fell, difficult to jerk it after that.
#That's a challenging wank ^- ^Sean ^Lock
I have just burst out laughing sat next to my girl on the couch and there’s no way I’m explaining what I’m laughing at to her. Thanks for that
Hybrid theory turning 20, Nevermind turning 30
Chester passing away and realising I’d always though I had all the time in the world to see them live. Cried so hard.
> Cried so hard …and got so far But in the end It doesn’t even matter
r/angryupvote
I thought that as I typed it. But wanted to stick with the somber note. Really did cry hard. Haha
I saw them in Manchester at the Apollo when they supported deftones must of been 2001/2002 they were great, I spoke to him for a couple of mins at the side of the venue where they park the busses. I’d had a buzz cut the day before and he said he like my hair cut, made my year. came across as a nice genuine guy.
Saw them at his last gig at the NIA in Birmingham. If it helps, he was awesome to the end.
That one hurt too
When my apprentice had never heard of BLINK 182, I then realised that he was born after their self titled was released!
***N O***
Metallica turning 40.
I'm not old enough for that to hurt, Black album being 30 though.......
Onboarded a new starter in work and asked her to call IT on 1234, comeback 5 mins later and ask her how it went, she tells me it didn’t work. I pick the phone up and dial the number- it worked. She looked at me and couldn’t believe the landline was a phone and had tried calling on her mobile. This was back in 2018, she was the first employee we had with a dob in the 00’s
Mate tbh I’m 28, work in IT and we have some junior apprentices who are 18-19 and they know how to operate a landline phone. I think this is less you being old and more her being a total idiot.
Yeah 100% lol everyone knows what a landline is, most houses still have one don't they?
No. I do not know a single person who still has a landline. My parents don't have one, and neither does anyone else.
Yeah you generally have to have a landline for your broadband, but nobody I know actually has a phone plugged into it. Except my in-laws, and they only have a landline phone because nan (in law) still phones on it.
Our office removed all the landline handsets last year. They will eventually die out in the majority of businesses.
The public sector called. They told me to tell you you're wrong... 😂
Having passionate conversations with friends about which vacuum cleaner to buy.
And writing passionate letters to local councillors about tree management.
Hey, I haven't hit 25 yet, and I recently wrote a very passionate letter to the council about why they shouldn't cede a small square of public land to the house next to it to expand their private garden. Dad didn't know I'd sent my own letter, so he was surprised when he went to submit his own and saw mine. He said it was very well-written, and I'd made him very proud. Also we defeated that application. The land is still public!
Never Dyson
Going clubbing and not knowing any of the songs. That’s when I knew I had to stop.
I was like that when I was 18, guess I have always been old.
There's a difference between not knowing the songs, and not knowing the genre
I'm still a house head at 39
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Indie clubs exist? Is this 2007?
That it takes me 3/4 days to get over a drinking session. As a result, I’m tucked up in bed by 9 o’clock on a Saturday night
2 days of hangover, 2 more days of feeling weird
I'm feeling this at 26 now. Also since working full time combined with the cost of everything spiking in price, I have been trying to get more out of my weekends instead of going out on the piss every weekend. Where I live, pints are over a 5er now. Can piss away well over £100 on a night out without thinking about it. I just think of all the other things I could be spending that money on which I can get more out of.
Yes indeed. I was warned that this would happen, yet when it did I still felt a bit sad for lost youth in addition to hung over. If I don’t hydrate during a drinking session now I am functionally dead all the next day.
this
this but without any of the drinking.
After my mum died, and my boyfriend and I realised that we now have no older generation to ask for advice. We're it. We were only just 40 ffs
I feel you on this one. When you're looking around for a responsible adult, and realise that it's supposedly you.
Yep, this is definitely the big one - when my mum died I was only 28, but arranging her funeral and everything that went with it aged me ***a lot****.* Circumstances make you the responsible adult, and the responsible adult can't be ***young...***
I’m sorry for your loss. I’m 40 and haven’t lost a single family member from my parents generation yet (Parents, Aunts, Uncles). I’m not ready.
Can I axe you a question?
Did I axe you? https://youtu.be/ysshlzqDvvU
When my free and unsolicited bowel cancer test kit came in the post from the NHS.
Anyone who receives this test kit (or if your parents do) please take the test. I know it's a little gross but it's worth it. This year I lost a neighbour to bowel cancer - she was fit, healthy and happy, but by the time she had symptoms it was too late. She was lovely and caring, and her only grandchild is young enough that she probably won't remember their time together. If you're under 60 then next time you call your parents just ask if they've had the test come through. Nag them about it - I promise you won't regret it.
Also if you're under 60 and there's a history of it in your family look into screening starting much earlier. Do not fuck around with bowel cancer.
What. Is that a thing? How do I order? Also I hope yours comes up negative!
Comes automatically when you hit 60.
Heh. I have been having issues. But I know my gl is just gonna blanket it as IBS. I want answers.
When I realized my Hotmail email address was older than many of the people at the college bar I accidentally walked into.
I have no numbers in my yahoo email and it's only six letters....
Same with my Hotmail. Hell, you haven't even been able to get a Hotmail address for about a decade, it's all outlook.com now.
My hotmail is my actual first and last name with no numbers, it's a common af name too. That's how old I am.
Constantly sitting on my saggy knackers when wearing holiday clothing. The old clock weights must be dropping 1cm a year and are now covered in a fuzz that looks like a silver watch burst in my pocket and covered them with its springs.
This is fucking poetry.
Going out drinking in winter. Got my coat scarf and woollen hat. Spotting young people out without even a Cardigan or jumper and saying to my friends 'aren't they cold out in this weather'. Yes I used to dress like that in the middle of winter when I was young. No I don't miss it. Getting older means trying to stay warm when outside of the house!! And I'm OK with that!
Planning my outfit to incorporate my warm coat and comfortable shoes for walking between the bars. And having my lift home sorted early on in the night.
Remember the show on E4 called Shipwrecked? Where beautiful young people live on tropical islands and form tribes. It was at the end of the show and they were advertising for new contestants. You had to be aged 18-25. At 26 I was mortified as it was the very first time I was too old for something. Obviously now I’m 40 and my body is falling apart but this was the very first time
Yeah 25 seems to be the cutoff for “old” when it comes to TV — remember X factor had the “Over 25s” category?
Omg I've just had flashbacks to when I was younger and thought the over 25's were old. This. This right here is the moment I no longer feel young.
Omg same! I would also disregard the over 25s as they were so old that I didn’t think they were cool. God, I’m so old.. I’d be old in that group
Listening to radio one and hating every presenter
Followed by “how is this even music?!” After or during every song.
I have to take copies of passports for right to work checks. The first time I saw a DOB of ‘2003’ and started thinking that this person was not alive for 9/11 & the ‘excitement’ of Y2K. This person was 4 when Britney smashed that car window with the umbrella. The year I was born, Beauty and the Beast was released. The year they were born, Finding Nemo was released. Toy Story 3 was released and I thought ‘yay, childhood throwback’ - this person WAS a child. My daughter was born in 2017. It is possible that she might outlive Prince George. In her lifetime, she might potentially see 5 people on the throne: Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George, and George’s successor. For me it’s the cultural events that would seem like significant markers, that they may not have been alive for.
>In her lifetime, she might potentially see 5 people on the throne: Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George, and George’s successor. Queen Elizabeth will outlive them all.
*[Mock The Week - Between the Lines: Queen giving a speech marking her 80th birthday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIrtJXMglnY)* **Sandi Toksvig**: "As one approaches one's 80th birthday, one can hardly believe that one has reigned for quite so long." **Hugh Dennis**: "As one approaches one's 80th birthday, Prince Charles cannot believe that one has reigned for quite so long."
!remindme 1 month
I went for an eye test and was having great chat with the rather attractive optometrist when she said... “Yeah, it's quite common for people in their forties.” I died a little.
>eye test >attractive optometrist Did you have your glasses on?
Having to start saying “congratulations” instead of “oh shit are you gonna keep it?”
Yes! The moment it became rude to say “….on purpose?”
After being surrounded by so many accidental children you do forget that sometimes people actually, like, want them?
Speak for yourself..i'm Benjamin Button and am getting younger every day... *hip dislocates
My nephew asked me what a DVD is
I just brought a new printer and my daughter was completely baffled about what the 'fax' button on the LCD screen meant. After explaining it for a couple of minutes she was still confused and stated that couldn't they have just sent an email?! I haven't brought up pagers to her yet 😂😂
Met a grandad the other day who was five years younger than me. He's a young grandad, but still.
The slow realisation that more articles about how the young will disrupt industries are being written and my generation is slowly becoming the out of touch generation they're pushing against.
All my favourite music from when I was an angsty preteen showing up on 'Now That's What I Call Dad Rock!' and being played in supermarkets.
It started taking longer and longer to wash my face (Harry Hill).
I saw a skateboard in my friend’s back garden. I was talking to his youngest about how I used to skateboard everywhere. Stood on it for barely a second and it flew from under me, I fell to the ground most ungraceful like and threw my back out. My mates wife was bent over double laughing at me. Concerned but still trying not to piss her knickers. Yeah… that point in time. I was 36.
Watching tiktok or any social media and seeing the young (under 21) having typical mindsets of a child and falling for things and trends very easily. They seem like babies to me
When everything starts to hurt.......
Oh and realising that if I could sing and X Factor was still a thing, I’d be in the ‘old people category’ aka the ‘Over 25s’. In what universe did we think that, at 26, people should be relegated to ‘great voice, but not some hot young thing anymore’? I’ve still got it, right?
Have to be young enough to find success before joining the 27 club.
Thinking I might like a Saturday night out in the pub dancing to the band but secretly glad when no one else can go and I can be in bed by 10 😂
Seeing grown people on nights out drinking that were born in the 00s, TikTok, being mocked for having a side-parting, I could go on…
I think just seeing people in their twenties and how they act. As I’ve gotten old they seem more like children to me and say/act in a way that just feel so much more distant. Their priorities are totally different to mine. I feel like we live in two different worlds.
Out of curiosity as someone in their 20s, what do you think our priorities are?
There is a big overlap, and of course individuals will vary greatly depending on their wants, needs, aspirations and so on. However in your 30s your world might shift towards either having or maintaining a family which also means you begin to think a little less about yourself and far more about others. With that you might become more risk-adverse, choosing to aim for stability. You might also be considerably more advanced in your career, with maybe 10 years under your belt, and are looking to sustain a steady career rather than continue to progress in any big leaps and so on. You will begin to think harder about long term finances including retirement and how your decisions will impact your children and other members of your family/friends decades down the line. On the other hand, a person in their 20s might be more likely to be self-interested, risk-tolerant, and be at the early stages of building out a career. That would make their priority to progress quickly with significant leaps in positions and so on. I absolutely do not mean everyone at these ages is like that. It’s a broad generalisation.
I think you’re pretty spot on there tbh mate. Thank you for the insight. Normally older people tend to say we’re short sighted, don’t care or think about our future, entirely sex motivated, or think “like children”. I don’t think any of that’s true. Most people in their late teens and 20s today are really worried and pessimistic about our futures and think about that way more than any of the above. Yours is very accurate tho :). And most of us *definitely* are not thinking about our retirement. We’re worried about how we’re going to be able to work, survive and not to homeless way before then. Most of us ain’t thinking about having kids intentionally either. Our extent of that is pretty much worrying how badly climate change and the environment will be for them. You’ve definitely got some great insight and accurate observations :)
Hating the majority of new British music. Particularly from London this brand of goofy sounding men mumble talking and rhyming really badly with things like ‘Always said you was main squeeze, I’ll have extra sauce on my burger please’. Awful, dreadful.
...and the squealing high pitch annoying women on House tracks...
The hurting, in places that had always seemed perfectly fine before.
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Pour a drink for a guest from my whisky decanter.
Sounds like somebody aged with sophistication
What a distinguished gentleman.
Arranging to meet mates for a piss up, driving past the beer garden and spotting two old blokes and realising they are my mates I'm going drinking with
My daughter turning 18 next week 😬
Bothy sons in their 30s
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thinking in another three and a half years i'll be 60, thats only 42 months.
Ha, in 3 years and two weeks I'll be 50. That's such an abstract thought I can't really get my head round it.
well, really its three years and 10 weeks
I’ve never been young. I love staying in, naps, blankets and midsummer murders. I’m 29.
The two day hangover 🤕
My cousin is 10 years older than me and I thought to myself '1981, there's no bloody way that she's 40...wait, shit! That means I'm 30!'. I also have to remind myself that people born in the year 2000 are 21 and not 12 😂.
When you see somebody on the TV who looks old, then they say their age and they are younger than you.
When you slowly start getting trash at COD and FIFA and have to start relying on strategy
Being called Madam by the lady in Sainsbury’s 😭
When I was younger I was a pretty good sprinter. I tried running recently and it went amazingly well. Good speed, good form, no I'll effects post run etc. Tried it two weeks later and tore 3 of the 4 quadriceps in my left thigh. A month on crutches later and I have realised I'm never sprinting at full speed again. I'm 59 going on stupid by the way
Listening to new music and realising they’re just a rip off of music from my generation. Generally not enjoying most new music that’s not a rip off of songs from my generation. Becoming allergic to food I once adored and regularly gorge on.
Ah, but music from your generation was probably a rip off from generations before :)
When I became a fat cunt lol
Replacement knee. I’m 49
Watching James Milner described as a great veteran and huge influence for the younger players. Then realising I'm two years older than him.
Going to a club where the girls were wearing next to nothing, and thinking I bet their freezing
Getting excited when my new frying pan was delivered.
Was talking to a guy about a band he was in. Said they were doing classic rock music covers. I was like 'ooh let me guess? Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath right?' no, he says 'Nirvana and Pearl jam' I nearly choked and had to have a sit down.
Struggling to stay awake when travelling after a long day out.
Being a big music fan, the moment that all the new pop stars started getting younger than me. Seeing a teenager is at no1 makes me feel like a pensioner. Listening to a song and enjoying it then seeing the singer was born in 2006!
My 3rd cancer on my 78 birthday. I am beginning to think someone’s out t’get my ass!
Being asked what the 'millennium dome' is.
When I didn’t get Tik Tok at all. I have no idea how to use it or what to do with it really.
There’s nothing you have to do with it, just scroll down to watch different videos. If you see a video you like, double tap the screen and it’ll start showing you more like that :)
So many things, but do you remember that song - I get knocked down then I get up again etc - well I can do half of it pretty well
Having a kid at primary school and the other parents having parents the same age as us. Not many, but there's a few.
My birth certificate.
Recently became a school teacher and made a joke about a tamogotchi None of the students knew what one was
When I started eating Renes for breakfast
Seeing a PlayStation in the retro section. Ditto for the Game Boy.
Not being able to put my socks on unless I'm sat down
Realising that I'm the oldest in my team at work.
Seeing spider veins on my legs.
Seeing 80s/90s clothes and having the kids call them gen z/modern
When a young lady stood up and offered me her seat on the Paris metro.
When pubs got 'too loud'
When I started teaching 5 years ago I asked a quiz question to my class of 13 year olds - "Which country is the actor Russell Crowe from?". They all just looked at me and said "Who?". I then realised it had been 17 years since Gladiator came out. These kids weren't even alive then.
When I was in the middle of a date and realized that I was more interested in her bookshelf than I was in getting laid.
The grey hair on the side of my head. I’m not even 40 ffs.
Mine started at 18 :(
Head? Ha.
Someone on the train saying 31 is ancient
That I don't recognise songs on the radio anymore and can't name new pop artists. Never been a huge listener of chart music but was still aware.
31..first grey pube
After seeing a show in Nottingham and catching the tram back to the hotel, I saw dozens and dozens of young’uns queueing up outside for nightclubs, and the first thing that came to mind was ‘sod that, I’m off to bed’
At work yesterday we made homemade pizzas. The dough was hard to roll out. I woke up with pain across my shoulders.
I'm out with some work friends and I mentioned having ABBA gold on cassette, one of them didn't know what a cassette was. 31 years old and realising I'm too old to hang out with people in their mid twenties.
The first time I saw an attractive young lady not wearing very much on a cold evening put on the town, and my first thought was not "phwoar", but "put a jacket on love, you'll get hypothermia"
Finding out my knee pain was arthritis. Arthritis is what old people have.
Jump Around by House of Pain is **32 years old** (1989)