• toofpic
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      39 here, same shit. I’ll roll right into the “how do you do, fellow kids” meme

        • zout
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          48 here. Had a minor heart attack earlier this year, so sometimes I’m starting to feel old.

          • Flying SquidM
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            You’re one year older than me and we’re the two oldest people here so far, which makes me feel super old.

            I hope the minor heart attack is the only one you ever have to suffer through.

            Fun thing about being this old: I thought I was turning 48 until my wife told me I was turning 47 a few days before my birthday.

            • zout
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              Fun fact about being 48; I’m turning 50 next year, which sounds a lot. But I only feel old-ish when mentioning my age.

    • AItoothbrush
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      55 months ago

      I think under 35 is kinda young. Maybe a few hundred years ago you would have counted as old but nowadays with modern healthcare people live much longer and healthier.

  • @PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    I still remember the day I grew old. After forgetting my change at a self checkout machine, an younger attendant ran after me and refered to me as ‘sir’. After that day, I was no longer young. I was 29.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      I realised I had become an adult when some woman told her kid “that mister” would tell him off if he didn’t behave, and gestured in my direction. I looked behind me. There was nobody there.

      I had become The Mister. The stranger based punishment of exasperated mothers everywhere. Fear me, little children, and despair.

    • @Katzastrophe@feddit.org
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      Damn, I turned old when I grabbed some coloring pages off the ground to give them back to a child and got called the “nice fat lady” afterwards by the child. Double whammy

    • @BigPotato@lemmy.world
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      I remember the day as well. I walked all through the store grabbing everything I needed and while waiting in the checkout I realized I forgot the milk. I laughed and said “Oh wow” then the guy behind me looked at me and I shrugged and said “I forgot the milk!” and left the line I’d been standing in for a few minutes to get the milk.

      My age at the time didn’t matter because it was on that day, I became old. Talking to strangers in the grocery store, forgetting to get the milk, and laughing about it? Old.

  • @glitchdx@lemmy.world
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    be like me. Can’t become old if you identify as an immortal god to whom age has no meaning.

    doesn’t stop my back from hurting through.

      • KairosOP
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        Yes. This. Speaks to the twenty-something crowd well.

    • @magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org
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      Same reason shitposts from 20 years ago use cartoons from 30 - 40 years ago.

      Most people in their 20s (who grew up with any sort of western cultural influence) have memories of watching spongebob as a kid.

      Its literally one of the most influential and popular children’s series of the past 20 years, if not ever.

      • @Squorlple@lemmy.world
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        05 months ago

        More effort for the creator to edit? Possibly isolates audiences unfamiliar with the franchise, particularly those who wouldn’t know that the fish is a newscaster or that the stylized TV is a TV? Also, the wojak is underwater and as a human presumably wouldn’t be able to breathe (boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder).

        I’m also just now noticing that a real life photo of clothes has been edited onto the cartoon wojak. It seems like there’s too much hyperstylization in the visuals in contrast to what is supposed to be a generic idea in the message.

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    The first time I can remember feeling old was when I was walking home behind a couple of kids and one said to the other in a cautionary tone that there was a “big ol’ guy” (or words to that effect) behind them. I guess I seemed menacing in some way? I was in my early twenties, which means those kids are older now than I was then.

    • @Snowclone@lemmy.world
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      I think mine was when I turned 30 and all my health fell apart, and I needed a lot of treatment you hear old people talk about.

    • @Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      I was about 17. Slapped the awing of a building for no particular reason. Little kid walkign with his Daddy says “That man is tall!”

      First time anyone called me a man.