r/AskReddit • u/Nakatomi2010 • Jan 26 '23
[Serious] What's your barometer for realizing how old you're getting? Serious Replies Only
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u/SlapDatBassBro Jan 26 '23
Making a noise when I sit down.
Dunking myself into a sofa, or chair and making the “ahhh” noise is something I’ve noticed old people do a lot. More and more as they get older.
It’s also something I notice myself doing too…
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u/Legaxy3 Jan 26 '23
I’m still in high school, and I started doing that as a joke AND NOW I CANT STOP
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u/SlapDatBassBro Jan 26 '23
Ahhh, yes. The action of doing/saying something in the name of irony, and the action becoming habit. I feel you dude. 😂😂
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u/Ayamehoujun Jan 26 '23
I call beer - bear, Soda - soder, and rubarb - ruebob. All because I heard someone else say it and it was hilarious to me once upon a time. But I just cannot stop myself!!!
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u/todaythruwaway Jan 27 '23
Ah my grandpa always used to say (when asked the difference between wash and warsh) always said “if you warsh it it gets cleaner. I sometimes still say it in accident
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u/BlottomanTurk Jan 27 '23
That's exactly how I ended up with "oh snaps!" as a permanent fixture in my vocabulary. It was funny for like a month after whatever movie it was in. But now, nobody (self included) remembers the movie and I'm stuck with it anyway.
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u/ElkBitter8013 Jan 26 '23
The fact that teenagers now are wearing what I wore in the 90s
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u/SexySadieMaeGlutz Jan 27 '23
And they even have a “That 90’s show” now. I haven’t watched it. I’m almost afraid to.
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u/A_Prickly_Cactus Jan 27 '23
I’m 42, and I feel like if I watched that show, it would be either amazing or rage-fuel, and very little middle ground.
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u/Kosherlove Jan 27 '23
You aren't missing much, red is the nice one (relatively) fez fucks the neighbor, and Leo replaces his Clerks VHS with his audition tape to mtv real world.... Also pot
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u/YounomsayinMawfk Jan 27 '23
If you want that 90s nostalgia, check out Derry Girls!
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u/MeatShield12 Jan 27 '23
Not even 90s nostalgia, it's a fucking amazing series. That nun is a diamond.
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u/American-pickle Jan 27 '23
I just now watched 4 episodes of it and felt bad that it was 9pm and I missed out on some sleep because I got too into the show.
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u/Will0w536 Jan 27 '23
Fanny packs are in... Like what the fuck? That shit got you humiliated off you write something like that if you were older than 7 when I was a kid.
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u/Pretty-Balance-Sheet Jan 26 '23
The number of heroes from my childhood who have died.
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
Yeah, this is one of the ones that prompted me to make the post...
Arnold is getting up there, among other actors and celebrity figures.
Alex Trebek stung quite a bit.
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u/xXHomerSXx Jan 27 '23
I just know Christopher Lloyd is going to be a heavy hitter for me
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u/drumwolf Jan 27 '23
For me, it's specifically the musical artists I grew up listening to who are dying off one by one.
Van Halen and Rush were two bands that I listened to when I was a little kid but haven't listened to for many decades now. That didn't stop the deaths of Neil Peart and Eddie Van Halen in 2020 from being a huge punch to the gut.
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u/InternationalFig400 Jan 27 '23
Yes!
The passing or seeing of old friends, celebrities, family members, pro athletes, etc.
And it seems to pick up speed as time unfolds.......
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u/stooges81 Jan 26 '23
Remembering my parents at my current age.
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u/dat_oracle Jan 27 '23
Yep, just had a photo from my dad in my hands when he was 30. That hits hard
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u/mynextthroway Jan 27 '23
Saw a picture of me from 30 years ago. I spent a couple of seconds wondering who the young guy was holding the baby. Then it hit me. Me.
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u/HELLOhappyshop Jan 27 '23
Yeahhhh this year I'll be 6 years older than when my mom had me. It's a weird thing. I have memories of her at this age.
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u/Marisa_latex Jan 26 '23
My knees, they are a literal barometer at this point. I always know when a storm is coming
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u/silk_mitts_top_titts Jan 27 '23
I complained of some shoulder discomfort to my Dr and he said it's tendinitis. I ask how I should fix it and he said go back in time to when you were 22. So I had a tough choice to make. Slap the shit out of him right now or wait to hear the rest of the reports first.
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u/Alexanderdaw Jan 27 '23
I can't even get off a step anymore. One knee just buckles out and I can't do anything with it. I have one knee left that has to support me.
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u/KingRokk Jan 26 '23
I have no idea who is a famous person anymore. Also music, it's alien to me now.
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
The music one is a bit rough, agreed. I'm finding it harder to find "current" music that I like.
Spotify has been handy for the weekly discovery list, but even then....
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u/crochetquilt Jan 27 '23
It's worse when you mention a famous person in front of a teenager and they have no idea who you're talking about. I had to explain who David Beckham was which was a surprise.
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u/CrazypantsFuckbadger Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
The 17yr old apprentice at work yesterday swore blind that Freddy Mercury died of herpes.
He'd also never heard of Elvis.
I'm only 49 and now feel ancient
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u/Painting_Agency Jan 27 '23
teenager
Happens with me and the 20-something graduate students I work with. It's ok, I can't tell the difference between machine gun kelly and uh... that other machine gun kelly looking guy 😄
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u/JigsawZball Jan 27 '23
I can so relate to this! I used to know so many movie stars and movies. Now? I have no clue and that makes me feel really, really old :(
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u/callmejetcar Jan 26 '23
I watch birds. It’s called birding. Anyone else old knows.
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u/panerad Jan 27 '23
I’m 22 and I just started birding! I can feel the wrinkles starting to form
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u/Jesuswasstapled Jan 27 '23
Start watching your hands. One day you'll have that youthful skin and then the next day it will be gone forever. Not really sure when it happened. I just remember looking at my hands and my skin was old. And, yeah. That's how it goes.
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u/MissPeppingtosh Jan 27 '23
Do you talk to them? I’ll look out my window and see a birdie on my porch and say “ hey birdie!”. Also do this with bunnies. 20 year old me would be so embarrassed
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u/Drakmanka Jan 27 '23
I'm 30 in a few months. I've finally hit the point of not giving a fuck. I meow at the cats in the park, I say "birdie!" And "squirrel" etc when I see them. 20 year old me would be mortified. 20 year old me worried too much!
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u/PumpkinOnTheHill Jan 27 '23
If it's any consolation, I have a 4 year old who talks to his vacuum cleaners. He kisses them sometimes and thanks them for a job well done.
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u/LeisurelyLoner Jan 27 '23
I just turned 40 a few weeks ago. I had this come on very suddenly last summer, before which I barely noticed birds' existence. I got an app that identified birds by their sound and everything. Now today I got a bird-themed wall calendar. Don't ask me.
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u/jaywhs Jan 26 '23
I turned on my zoom camera today for a meeting and tried to fix the lighting. I quickly realized it was just my face.
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u/adamcn78 Jan 26 '23
Songs from my childhood on the oldies station, wtf?!
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u/sfjc Jan 27 '23
Yes! It kills me when I hear the alternative music of my youth playing on the soundtrack of a grocery store. I make my kid crazy when I'll notice the music and exclaim "not this too?!?!".
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u/LeisurelyLoner Jan 27 '23
Heh. Just heard "Bittersweet Symphony" at the grocery store today. Really fed into the "Where did the years go? I'm wasting my life" mindset I've been in as of late.
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u/KiwiNo2638 Jan 26 '23
Number of medical visits. Used to be once a year or less often to the doctor. Now feels like once a month.
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u/Parking-Journalist-5 Jan 26 '23
How difficult it is becoming to clip my toe nails . It is turning into a fucking ordeal
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u/NumberFinancial5622 Jan 27 '23
This one gets me. It’s so fucking hard and frankly dangerous if it do it in the wrong setting lol. Need to start budgeting for pedicures
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u/chair_caner Jan 27 '23
I recommend pedicures. You don't have to get polish. They give your feel a hot bath and a massage and trim your nails. Quite nice to be honest.
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u/rogue1206 Jan 27 '23
This! My mom (62) forced my Dad (64) to the spa to get pedicures, his nails are old man nails - thick and yellow. He loves his pedicures now.
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u/h20rabbit Jan 26 '23
I am now one of those people who always have a tissue in their pocket ☹️
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u/Watermelon_ghost Jan 27 '23
And one tucked in each sleeve for later, and a pocket pack in every purse. I can only describe it as nasal incontinence.
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u/AllTheWeedz Jan 26 '23
Hangovers last like 4 days now.
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u/Myzx Jan 26 '23
This. The 40 year old bod cannot handle it like the 20-30 year old bod. It’s just a fact.
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u/One_Loose_Thread Jan 26 '23
Music that was released after I finished high school is now playing on the oldies station.
Also, I’m only 33…
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u/OhWhyNotMarie Jan 26 '23
You heard the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the classic rock station too, didn’t you?
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u/Stickaxe Jan 27 '23
There are kids in college right now that are too young to remember 9/11.
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u/BlackShadow2804 Jan 26 '23
I enjoy going to bed
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u/KatKaleen Jan 26 '23
It's just the best part of the day.
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u/partaylikearussian Jan 26 '23
Specifically, the part where the door is locked, everything from dinner is tidied away, you’ve brushed your teeth, and you can just lie and read or mindlessly scroll until you get drowsy. Like me, right now.
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u/notsurewhattosay-- Jan 26 '23
And it's only like 630 pm..
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u/timbotheny24 Jan 27 '23
Dude, I considered going to be at 6:30 tonight. It felt like it was fucking 9pm.
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u/notsurewhattosay-- Jan 27 '23
Especially in winter. And I wake up at like 5am...lol.like 9 pm is late ..lmfao
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u/loomdog1 Jan 26 '23
When you set doctors appointments for your maladies and you don't picture yourself ever really recovering from it, but that they can manage it a little bit before you die.
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u/DobermanWillie Jan 26 '23
When you or your friends start losing parents. That hits hard.
(You asked for serious).
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
I hear ya.
My wife lost her grandmother recently, and her parents aren't far behind.
My dad had to have heart surgery lately.
I hadn't been visiting much because we lice so far apart, but now I'm making an effort to visit way more often.
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u/bearded_charmander Jan 26 '23
How much music changes gets me. Also when kids call my music old.
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u/Jendashab Jan 26 '23
It’s my hip hop music journey for me specifically: Teens: I am getting this album the day it comes out! 20s: This is a new album? I didn’t know it was out - I like it… 30s: I’m trying to like it - I want to like it - maybe I’m just not getting it. 40s: Fuck this new shit. It’s the kids who are wrong. I’ll just play the older stuff.
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u/JustKittenAroundHere Jan 27 '23
The shit that used to be "DJ wants everyone on the dance floor" is now "background music a grocery store"
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u/Squigglepig52 Jan 27 '23
Side note - my local grocery store keeps playing these weird riffs off songs like WAP, but all food innuendos or double entendres. They've got a few of them, they're actually kinda funny, but they sound like basic radio play type songs.
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u/PGHMtneerDad Jan 27 '23
Doctor Carroll: "Oh dear. I think I know what this is. You see Stan, as you get older, things that you used to like start looking and sounding like shit. And things that seemed shitty as a child don't seem as shitty. With you, somehow, the wires have gotten crossed and everything looks and sounds like shit to you. It's a condition called 'being a cynical asshole.'"
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u/boredbigfoot Jan 26 '23
Hurting your back from sitting wrong playing video games
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
I've been playing a lot more Xbox lately, and holy shit does my right thumb hurt if I play the games too long...
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u/boredbigfoot Jan 26 '23
I feel ya bro i got these little gel things for my sticks cuase my thumbs were killing me playing back 4 blood
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u/AnEven7 Jan 27 '23
I threw out my back once while leaning over ever so slightly to pick up my keys off the table.
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u/Ignitus1 Jan 27 '23
My back hurts if I get too much sleep. Less than 6 hours and I feel tired. More than 7 hours and my back hurts.
Gotta hit that sweet spot.
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u/Fracture_98 Jan 26 '23
Knowing what a barometer is, and how one works.
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u/Away-Picture-925 Jan 27 '23
I’ve been literally looking for a good barometer. Seriously, the best weather predictors. So probably my barometer for being old is shopping for a barometer.
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u/HyperionPrime2023 Jan 26 '23
I am more sensitive to cold. I used to not care how cold it was outside, but now when it is under freezing, I avoid going outside at all costs.
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u/stfunoobcopter Jan 26 '23
Mine was when I had to move something further away from my face to read it.
Like those "old people" that hold a menu at arms length while saying "I forgot my glasses!!" When I did that for the first time I knew I was old.
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u/Antha_A Jan 26 '23
I've just noticed myself doing this and my daughter and fiance said that I had been doing it for months. They just didn't mention it to me. Getting farsighted at 41. Sigh.
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u/Mp32pingi25 Jan 26 '23
My birthday
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u/AllTheWeedz Jan 26 '23
I love how long it takes me to scroll down when something asks for my birthday.
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u/breadyforthis Jan 27 '23
I asked someone in our IT Support team how he figured out the solution to a malfunctioning laptop without even looking at it (or even reviewing the support ticket). He replied with “my experience and intuition”… he’s not even 23 years old. He didn’t last long in that role…
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u/frunxio71 Jan 26 '23
How everything hurts after doing absolutely anything. I could work on a construction site every day of the week without breaking a sweat. Now i can't even use a shovel without having sore muscles the next day
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u/DeathSpiral321 Jan 26 '23
Regular exercise helps a lot with preventing aches and pains. Doesn't have to be intense activity either, some light aerobics and stretching can do wonders.
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
I was doing work on my lawn mower the other day and when I was done my back hurt so bad my wife had to help me get my legs into the car when we went to urgent care, where I got a Toradol shot.
I was just squatting trying to fix the backing of the lawn mower so grass wouldn't shoot out the back....
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u/frunxio71 Jan 26 '23
Oh shit hope you're feeling better now. It's so hard doing things now... no matter what i do i have to be wary cause im way more prone to getting hurt It sucks.
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
I'm better now.
I've found if I lay on my back and rotate my hips side to side that I can make my back pop and be fine.
Sometimes I need a muscle relaxer though for it to work.
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u/RatedMforMayonnaise Jan 26 '23
Back health is god. I have stretcher and a foam roller. That combined with twists and stretches.
Put a thick pillow or something soft between you needs and try to press your knees together.
Hip pop
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u/FluffyNegotiator Jan 26 '23
People are now concerned when I trip or miss a step, instead of laughing.
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u/RatedMforMayonnaise Jan 26 '23
The amount of new slang that I hear.
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u/Ayamehoujun Jan 26 '23
And that I don't understand what it means at all. Like ok if you explain to me that "no cap" means legitimate, my brain makes the connection, but otherwise it makes no sense.
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u/life-is-a-simulation Jan 26 '23
Used to sneak out of my house to go to parties, now I sneak out of parties to go to my house.
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u/CuntentsOfHerSpeech Jan 26 '23
When I fill out something online and they have a drop down for what year I was born.
The older I get, the further down I have to scroll.
I call it the Elder Scrolls
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u/Independent_Pace2796 Jan 26 '23
I realized I was old when people that I grew up with's kids started working at my job. Not like summertime employment. Full time employed...
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u/peruvianblinds Jan 26 '23
*I realized I was old when the children of my childhood friends started working...
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u/Shortsleevedpant Jan 26 '23
The older I get the more interest I have in my ancestors. I didn’t give a shit in my 20s I’m now in my 40’s and I’m colorizing old black and whites from the early 1900s and it’s somehow a total blast trying to pick out facial similarities.
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u/chair_caner Jan 27 '23
YES. 10 years ago I did the same. 100 years doesn't sound that long ago to me anymore. I'm 47 and my sense off time is compressing.
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u/zanderktown32 Jan 26 '23
While watching That 90s Show and not only sympathizing with Red but realizing I now act like Red.
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u/tplgigo Jan 26 '23
Other people's ageism.
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u/f4snks Jan 26 '23
I was looking for a job around when I was around 40 and the interviewer looked at my resume and said 'oh you graduated college in ....., I was in second grade then!'
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u/tplgigo Jan 26 '23
Yup. Perfect example. To bring age into a job interview is definitely illegal too.
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u/watermelonprincess12 Jan 26 '23
My body’s inability to metabolize anything I used to regularly enjoy without gaining weight - alcohol, ice cream, junk food, unhealthy food of any variety. Hangovers are several days long and miserable, my stomach is a mess for days after treating myself, so it becomes not worth it to eat certain things. My “sweets” have become healthy replacements for foods I love.
My hair - it’s still long, but its for sure thinning.
Friendships as well. They have changed so much since my 20s and I’m in my early thirties now.
And how many weddings / showers / kids birthdays I get invited to vs. Any other social situation
General energy and valuing sleep more than I ever did as a kid / young adult
My patience
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u/Muted-Piece-5384 Jan 26 '23
I now own orthopedic slippers and shoe inserts and could not be happier.
I have reading glasses in most rooms of the house because I am too stubborn to get glasses.
I see the value in triple ply toilet paper and a bidet.
Driving at night? Nope
I really do not care what people think of me anymore. I would never consider going out without makeup 10 years ago, now I could care less.
I'm only 47 going warp speed into eccentric old lady and I am excited!
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
The driving at night one I feel you on.
Admittedly my windshields are tinted, which can compound it, but thankfully I have a car that has a driver assist that keeps it between the lanes, so it helps a lot at night
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u/InvaderZimSokali Jan 26 '23
The day after I turned the same age my father was when he died.
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u/Outside-Shock7105 Jan 26 '23
The satisfaction you get when your banking is balanced, your house is clean, your chores are done, the dogs have been walked, and you get a few hours to just zone out in front of the TV.
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u/Tonderandrew Jan 26 '23
"Sir, can I help you carry your grocerys to the car?"
"Teacher, how many grandchildren you have?"
"Mister, were you at Woodstock?"
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u/Sew_mahina Jan 26 '23
I work with high school so words I don't know or movies they call "old."
- They asked me what the Brady Bunch was the other day
- I was talking about the movie, Fear (Mark Wahlberg) with a kid, "I don't watch old movies" was the statement
- I do complain about "kids these days"
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u/LogSouth2717 Jan 26 '23
My deadlift… due to various injuries, all of my weights have dropped, but deadlift always comes back for a hug.
Bench was 420 5 years ago; now I can barely hit 315 for a couple reps. Tore the long head of my bicep and it was down to 225 about 2 years ago but it’s slowly climbing.
Squat was 570 5 years ago and I could do 225 30 times; now it’s around 450 and I can only hit low 20s. Tore my IT band 4 years ago and it tanked my numbers.
Deadlift though…deadlift was 620 5 years ago and now it’s 660. Once that starts going in the opposite direction, I will be very sad and have to admit I’m old. I’m 37 now so hoping I still have another decade.
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u/nomadProgrammer Jan 27 '23
I think your tendons are weaker thank your muscles. Train eccentrics, isometrics and mobility work out. The real longevity strength is in the tendons and ligaments.
Read: Built from broken. for more info
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u/HarrySatchel Jan 26 '23
How angry I get at the newfangled slang terms the kids are using.
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u/Antha_A Jan 26 '23
Based. No cap. Chad. I like to make the slang uncool to my teenage daughter by using it myself, sometimes used correctly and sometimes not. I tell you, saying "hot goss" or "spill the tea" can quicken how fast that lingo becomes uncool.
Sometimes, I act "cringey" (her word) and say a bunch of my high school slang to her like, "That's straight" and "fo shizzle" and "word" (sometimes "word to ya mutha").
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u/HarrySatchel Jan 26 '23
Haha, that's great.
Also chad is one that I find very strange. It came from the incel community, one of the most universally despised groups on the internet. But now their lingo is completely mainstream.
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u/Squigglepig52 Jan 27 '23
I want to start using "raw doggin'" to mean not having an Ad-blocker running, to inflict 3rd party embarrassment to young uns.
Be like "So, I was raw-dogging some K-Pop the other night"
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
Some conversations with folks online is tricky because they'll use terms and words I don't know, and lack context to extrapolate meaning.
Sucks
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u/BambooRollin Jan 27 '23
Not even the kids, really.
I can't stand when I hear someone use the word "learnings", it's "knowledge" you fools!
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u/dragonbeorn Jan 26 '23
My hair.
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u/Custom_Destination Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23
Looky here people, fancy u/dragonbeorn still having hair.
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u/_demidevil_ Jan 26 '23
Seeing peers milestones. I saw a girl from my year at school got her kid a car for her birthday. You have to be 17 here to drive. To be fair she had her kid very young, but it’s shocking to think I’m old enough to have a kid that can drive!
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u/KiwiNo2638 Jan 26 '23
Reminds me, my school friends are grandparents. One of them, his grandchild is older than my child.
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u/Orb-Masori Jan 27 '23
How far away the floor feels when I drop something. That think just keeps getting further and further.
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
Saw a video on YouTube with Alyson Hannigan in it and realized she's looking a little older than I remember.
Today is apparently 20 years since the Columbia disaster, when when I was reading the article initially I was associating it with the Challenger disaster, before realizing that no, Columbia was 20 years ago....
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u/bluecar92 Jan 26 '23
Visit a college town and see how young the students are these days
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u/n0lefin Jan 26 '23
When you’re filling out some kind of form online and you hit the year portion of your birthday and you start scrolling, and scrolling… and scrolling…
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u/mgmason287 Jan 26 '23
Lately it is the grey hairs spreading in my beard
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
Pretty sure my hair is just tapping out before it goes grey and falls out.
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u/dd_phnx Jan 26 '23
The hair I lose every time I comb my hair. I'm actually afraid of going bald.
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u/YouAreAllSofties Jan 26 '23
Those aches and pains aren't going away as quick as they used too.
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u/dragonrose1371 Jan 26 '23
Hey buddy, enjoy it while you can, soon they just won't go away at all.
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u/FirmWerewolf1216 Jan 26 '23
Cartoons. Animation has changed a lot since the rugrats
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
Yes, but some of the cartoonists we've grown up with have started doing more adult themed stuff. Like the Gravity Falls people doing Inside Job and the like
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u/Defiant_Chemistry966 Jan 26 '23
When filling out an online form on your phone that asks for your year of birth and you gotta spin that bitch like you’re on wheel of fortune.
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u/rubbery_magician Jan 26 '23
Pretty good shape most of my life…pulled a muscle in my back lifting my 20 pound pup onto the bed.
It was so bad that deep breaths would hurt, and I had to sleep a certain way for two days. I’ve done this three times since getting him.
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u/Kylie754 Jan 26 '23
That I have 2 kids old enough to drive. I still feel quite young… until my kids grab the car keys.
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u/Kaiser93 Jan 26 '23
Music.
I just don't get it. I can somehow understand how my parents felt when I was a teenager and listened to the popular songs back then.
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u/napministry Jan 26 '23
Seeing people I graduated with and exclaiming “god they look old” knowing they are saying the same about me
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u/jdisnwjxii Jan 26 '23
I work in a hospital. My patients are starting to be younger than me
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u/acmethunder Jan 26 '23
Two things, both completely without thinking and completely naturally, 1) tucked my shirt in. 2) after a shower dried in between my toes with a paper towel.
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u/MostRadiant Jan 26 '23
I am 42 and have improved my health, been constantly improving and wondering when I will level off and decline. For context, all my life I have been eating foods I was allergic to or had sensitivity to. Now the pendulum is swinging the other way.
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u/msgreennotsage Jan 26 '23
When I was younger I hated sleeping. Now I can’t get enough.
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u/MikittaLabs Jan 26 '23
how old my childhood games are, which in itself makes other people feel old. right now i'm grappling with the fact fire emblem awakening came out almost 12 years ago. meanwhile my mom is dealing with the music she grew up with (80s) being "the oldies"
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
My son discovered a game I played the hell out of when I was younger, and he loves it!
I offered to play against him and ultimately kicked his ass, hard.
He's loving it though.
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u/Flunkyoo Jan 26 '23
Don't really care about what age I am but noticed I've gotten older when I said to my best friends little girl in surprise "wow, you've grown so much" .... that's when I noticed ... whooops, I always thought what are you on about when someone said it to me back in pre-teens xD
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u/piska_hisoki Jan 27 '23
start checking shelf life of products. idk i used to not pay attention on this
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u/Individual_Basil3954 Jan 27 '23
I hurt myself in less cool ways.
16 YO me: I sprained my angle trying to do a varial flip down these stairs on my skateboard.
30 YO me: I slept wrong and now my back hurts. I hurt myself sleeping. Also sneezing is becoming higher risk…
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u/deltavim Jan 27 '23
The distance from the year 2000.
As a kid, the year 2000 seemed so far off in the distance. And then it came and it was a big deal. It probably has something to do with being a teenager in the 2000s, but mentally I still feel like it is 2006/2007 inside, even though the world is so vastly different from what it was like then.
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u/kyleireddit Jan 26 '23
Sean Connery is still playing James Bond, right?
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u/Nakatomi2010 Jan 26 '23
What makes this comment worse is that fact that Sean Connery has been dead for a couple years now...
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u/FormalWare Jan 26 '23
The decline in my sex drive. As little as ten years ago, I would be crawling the walls if I hadn't "had any" in a couple of weeks. Now, a month or more can go by and I'm fairly "meh".
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