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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Goadstool@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

You are not a "boomer" if you aren't in your twenties. You are not irrelevant if you aren't in your twenties. You don't go straight from being a kid to being "old". Stages of life are fluid and vary for each person, and should be savored to the fullest of your means to do so.

Stop letting internet memes about age, height, and general state of being have an actual impact on your mental health. They mean nothing, and don't benefit you in any material way.

edit 1 part 1: this is the worst comment section I've even seen in any Hexbear thread in all my years, except for @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net who is as always the best of us

edit 1 part 2: generationalism is also made up, don't let people put you into boxes and further don't put yourself into a box that someone else made up for you

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[-] Babs@hexbear.net 54 points 9 months ago

When a woman turns 30, she enters a chrysalis to begin her metamorphosis from "teen" to "milf".

[-] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago

It's wild how they basically turn into goop and reform entirely, but will somehow still retain memories from their teen years. Like if you get a teenager to associate electric shocks to a certain smell, even when they become a milf they still associate that smell with pain. Crazy!

[-] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

Female adult film stars hit a point after about 25 where they're too old for teen stuff but too young for milf and its harder for them to find work

[-] PurrLure@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

My friends were literally making milf jokes at me when I turned 30. burgerpain

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

You girls look your best past 30 and that's just a fact

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[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 51 points 9 months ago

farquaad-point lmao look at this old mf

[-] nemmybun@hexbear.net 43 points 9 months ago

I don't get older. I just get hotter every year. I'm projecting that by 80, I will be the hottest woman to have ever lived

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago
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[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

I've lived through so many weeks where decades happen that I'm now approximately 240 years old

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

People hit "old" at different times. Tim Rogers had an anecdote in one of his video reviews where he was talking about his two co-workers at Sony Entertainment Japan that were around the same age - one was cool AF and doing gigs in a jazz fusion band and the other was a boomer.

I gotta say that having a kid definitely speeds up the aging process a bit. All that extra responsibility tacked on at once is some "weeks where decades happen" shit lol.

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

The bit you're talking about is from his Boku no Natsuyasumi video--full anecdote begins @44:47 but the specific thing you're talking about is @51:40.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

rat-salute 谢谢

You put timestamped links in, too :)

[-] dannoffs 30 points 9 months ago

I'm in this weird limbo where my whole body aches but I still get carded buying alcohol

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

I've been Old since I was 25 and lost my hair

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

All jokes aside, wholesome post wholesome

[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago

I’m a not at all secret third thing

Middle aged

(I’m 40)

[-] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

By American male life expectancy, I am also middle aged.

[-] 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Middle aged includes many boomers. The earliest Boomers are just starting to get “elderly”, if you’re going off of 70 ish. It’s all arbitrary anyway but just thought I’d point it out. The middle is by far the biggest part for everyone that dies of old age

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[-] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

No I literally woke up one day and looked in the mirror and saw tequila-sunset

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[-] dualmindblade@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

Oldness can come in big lurches. I suddenly went from being carded for alcohol every time to maybe 2 times a year. During the last 20 months I added 1:30 to my mile time, my cognitive activities decreased significantly, I lost a 3" patch of hair off the top of my head and the rest thinned 75%. I have to stop myself from telling my adult kid to make sure they're getting regular sleep whenever they tell me they've been up late studying. I haven't been asked by a stranger if I have any weed for several years.

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

Do you have any weed?

[-] ped_xing@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

Age is just a number until you look up a condition you have and the internet is all "primarily affects middle-aged . . ." and that's when you become old. That and realizing that they're playing "Complicated" at the grocery store because you're the target demographic and it's on the oldies station meant for you and will stay there for as long as stores can play music at people.

[-] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

At 33 I feel much younger than at 23.

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

based post

death to the Internet

death to social media

Death to America

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

There was literally a 1 year period where i went from "young" to "okd". Like in 2016 i was young and virile and then the next day i woke up and it was 2023 and i was old. And it'll happen to you!

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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago
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[-] Strayce 17 points 9 months ago

I feel like I've aged 20 years in the last four. I'm so fucking tired.

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[-] Sasuke@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

it probably feels that way because our lives have been so commodified

[-] logflume@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

You are not a "boomer" if you aren't in your twenties.

tru ur a boomer as soon as u hit 20

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago

I'm already dead but my body disagrees. 🤷‍♀️

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[-] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

My knees hurt, my kidney stones are acting up again, the image of that guy in the mirror is like a badly cut hair loss commercial, the damn kids bug me with thier minecraft every day but suuuure tell me again how age is just a number and it's the internet memes that make me feel bad Mr. Chapo.

Turning 40 really is like hitting a brick wall. You stumble, remember how easy it was to smoke a blunt, drink some beers and then go for a run the next morning just 10 years ago. And you can see where it's all gonna end up just 10 years from now. Fuck.

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[-] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Im 32 and i'm fuckin old i got old man hip problems, hair going white, ear and nose hair going crazy

but I can also row 1500 strokes in 30 minutes at max resistance on the ol' rower so don't fuck with me youngins

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[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago
[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

Disagree. I instantly became an angry old man at like, 27

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[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

There is that beach that makes you old

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago
[-] pooh@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

But what if I want the senior discount at IHOP???

[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Just put on your meme war veteran hat. Thats how I do it these days.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

stealing valor for pancakes is the kind of troop shit I'll salute

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[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

Then why do old men and babies look so similar:

capitalist-laugh

Me: “awwwwee look at those chubby little cheeks”

Him: “your bank loan has been denied”

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[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

also being old isn't bad or a mark on your character it literally just happens to everyone that lives a long time

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

i've been old man since i was young boy.

chomsky-yes-honey

but why seek you me?
met you your match?
met you your match...
with the eaters of the dead?

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