I was born in 1989 and the math is HARD some days.
The hardest is my parents’ age.
- 1965 to 2000 -> 35
- 2000 to 2023 -> 23
- 35 + 23 = brain leaking
I usually add 50 to their birth year and add/subtract the remainder from that date. So for 1965 I’d say they were 50 in 2015, so that makes them 58 in 2023. Makes the mental math easier for me.
But I never even realized that was how I did it until I saw your version written out and was like “huh, that’s really confusing”
It’s great. When people ask me how old I am I just ask them which year is this and repeat the last two digits.
If you’re born in '89 just add 11 to the current year and you have your age (34). This works for any year you’re born.
Born in ''83? Just add 17 to the current year. You have your age (40)
Try 77 sometime. The only reason I knew my mom’s age is she was born in 57. Occasionally I’d even have to work the other way to figure out how old I was!
My kids were exactly 18 months apart, same day, one in 1999 and one in 2001. Math made (mostly) easy, baby.
But you still have to know what year it is.
The entitlement of the younglins these days. I swear, they are getting soft. I have to take the current year, and add twenty, but the lazy ass youth just have to subtract their birth year from the current year. Maths will suffer because they don’t have to do addition. Pure insanity and liberal malarkey.
Oh yeah, /s
It changes once a year, how stupid are some people that this is an issue?
My exact age is almost never relevant in my day-to-day life, I pretty much only get reminded of it on my actual birthday and don’t think much about it for the rest of the year. So if somebody asks for my age, usually I’ll be off by a year or two and my wife will need to correct me, because for some reason she remembers.
Damn. You sure told us. May this be your shining achievement of the day ✨
If you think about your age every day, you are the stupid one around here. Or maybe you are just 13 and it’s easy because you eagerly await the next year so you can be treated a little bit more like an adult so you count the days.
Wait till you get a little older and start having a hard time remembering how old you are.
All becomes a blur at some point
And what year it is!
I was just telling a friend that being born on a decade makes it easy for me to keep track, whereas I’ve heard my brother ask his wife to confirm his age.
My aunt and uncle got married new years day of 2000. Very easy to remember.
Feb 2000 here, I agree 👍
I mean if youre within a couple years of it you would be like current year +5 or whatever
Y’all forget how old you are? Can’t imagine ever having to calculate my current age.
Wait until you get older. :)
Born in 80’ So in year 2023>20+23= I’m 43
What about before your birthday, when you have to subtract one? That’s the part I always have to think about
I was born in 79 and am also 43. Math is hard.
The math checks out.
Its not so bad for me, i was born in 96 so i just have to add 4
Unless you’re born in the middle of the year, in which case it’s constant “off by 1” errors
Array indexing still biting us in 2022
