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I frequently work with teenagers. I am but dust and bones to most.
Catched this piece of exchange white commuting:
You don’t have to Sir me lol
But, you smell like old people
Now listen here you little shits…
I know it’s ragebait, but I will beat him with my cane and a bag of Werther’s Originals.
I’m gonna apply extra adhesive so my denture doesn’t come loose when I bite him.
1950s here. Am I even allowed to reply, what with one foot in the grave and all.
Growing up in the 90’s, I was led to believe the 50’s were black and white.
Is this true?
(edit I’m still part of the “ancestors” the post mentions though)
Validation for me feeling old
I must be from the mists of prehistory.
My wife was born in 1993, her father was born in 1947, and his father was born in 1902.
My great-grandmother died last year at 100 years old. She was born in 1923. So when my great grandmother was born, my father in law’s dad was 21. My four generations back is less time than my wife’s two. My father in law retired from trucking before my wife graduated high school.
My father in law is still kicking. He turns 78 next month. We give him hell a lot for his age. I’ll ask him what it was like to see the creation of the world or if dinosaurs were cool.
30 is old, 40 is really old, 50 is really really old, so on and so forth. A lot of people get offended by this, but young is 20 or less and middle aged is ~37. Embrace it. Be and live your age. People pretending their 22 when their in their 50s are fucking sad. Be active if you want, but you’re not 22 and you will never be that again, and that’s cool.
I respect the tough love here.
Thing is, young people don’t get to tell me what I have to do. I don’t give a shit what younger people deem appropriate for my age. If I want to wear a hoodie at 50 then I’ll wear a hoodie. Now get off my lawn.
Wait, since when is wearing a hoodie a young person thing?
Sure, do whatever you want, but if you go to the club when you’re in your 40s, 50s, or 60s, you’re going to be the old person.
Have you heard that the over 50’s are doing day time raving. Back home by nine/ten to sleep.
Cool. Sounds like an old person rave.
He’s a fucking cheeky feotus.
I’m only 39 ☹️
This is the first time I’ve been called old, yet I can’t really dispute what they said.
Would someone who was old in 1990 even be alive today?
71, we are the ancients.
We’re fossils.
Nothing like actual young people to make a forty year old want to use the word “callow” like some kind of cane-waving coffin dodger
Ah, the arrogance of youth.
Ha. I knew the fediverse was full of you old bastards. … So who’s got a house that’s nearly paid off? I find that very hot.
🙋♂️
It’s also falling apart and needs a new roof and probably 50k worth of various repairs done on top of that. I am also getting slowly taxed out of my neighborhood.
Same here except the being tax out of the neighborhood part. Also we have new windows and roof. But still need siding, painting, and inside needs lots of work.
🙋♂️
Bought around 12 years ago. Original plan was to live there for about 5 years and then get something bigger, make kids and rent my small house. So I financed it with low payments that it would be no financial burden for me.
Then I got busy, did not find a house I liked until all prices exploded. Here I am now: Although I earn much more I’m too poor to buy something bigger, while feeling guilty knowing how cheap my house was back then. It’s really fucked up.
is 29 years from now “nearly”?
I think you’ll have to look in the retirement segment for that. Us millennials had a bunch of trouble getting into the housing market but I think were eventually able to with parental help; we’re likely currently managing some mortgages OK.
The generations after us seem less able to get into the housing market even with parental aid. I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about, it’s not like a housing crisis could destabilise politics in general or anything.
nothing like a little casual ageism to get my day started in the right direction.
