• Dasus@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I have a backpack that’s over a quarter of a century old. Which I got new, and have been using actively for that time. Great fucking backpack.

  • BanjoShepard@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    A few years ago, I started a sentence in my class with “When I was born”. A student instantly chimed in and said “What in the 19’s?” And I thought in my head, of course you idiot, everybody is born in the 19’s. It still haunts me.

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    My dad told me recently, when he started practicing medicine the old people with heart failures he was treating were often born in the late 1800s, but now those are all dead, and the people he’s treating are more likely to have a birth years that are around 1940-1950. Which is also starting to become uncomfortably close to his own, 1960.

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      5 months ago

      A given person’s definition of “old” is usually about 15 years older than they are. My boss is 65 and calls 70 year olds “young”.

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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        5 months ago

        When I started using dating apps I found 24 year olds too old. I still have that impression memorized but it’s wild.

        • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          I’ve always had my lower limit for how young I’d date as “she has to be older than my brother”. But my brother is only 3 years younger than me so that’s becoming less and less relevant as he’s pushing into his mid 20s now haha

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m going to start saying that when asked about my birth year. “The late 1900s”