• Snapdragon @lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Can’t believe I’m now old enough to be lumped in with people born in the 1900s 😭.

    Edit: I’m only 22 years old; why am I lumped in with people who are getting close to 50 years old?

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      3 days ago

      The 1900s!? 😂 That is simultaneously the funniest and most painful thing I have read today.

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          The thing is, I am still a young adult. I was only born in '04 and turned 22 a couple of months ago. Can’t believe I’m lumped in with people who are nearly 50 years old. I have nothing in common with people who are old enough to remember some type of technology called floppy disks.

          As a teenager, being shown a cassette tape for the first time was a history lesson. Even being shown a rotary phone felt like looking a piece of technology from the 1800s.

          Edit: people born in the 1980s are literally old enough to be my parents.

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            You have more in common with people nearing 50 than you might want to believe. The main difference is that they’ve experienced things that you haven’t yet. But you will, sooner than you probably think.

            One thing my dad always said about adulthood was “the days are long but the years are short.” And boy was he right. Now he’s an old man, I’m staring directly ahead at my 40’s, and the list of dead people I used to know continues to increase in number and velocity.

            Sometimes it feels like I was 22 a few years ago but then I blinked and now I’m here.

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            As an older millennial, I felt the same way when media outlets were lumping my 30-odd year old ass in with 16 year olds not even out of high school and calling us a cohort.

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            I graduated high school the year you were born. I agree with everything you said. I feel like this was written by an older millennial still self-deluding themselves about being in the olds now.

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              Someone who’s 46 is old enough to be my dad. Actually, my dad isn’t much older than that.

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                    And therefore you’ve got way more in common with those 46 - 50 year old then you realize bud. You’re a Gen Z just like the rest of us “oldies”. Don’t worry, you’ll understand it when you get older :).

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        I heard my hip make a pop noise earlier. It doesn’t hurt yet but I’m sure it’ll be the most painful thing I’ve heard today. And I just know it’ll be my back that paid the price.

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      3 days ago

      bro got pressed over a twitter reply 😭 no one lumpin you in with the adults bro ur good

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      2 days ago

      Well, just like millennials, you’ll never be able to retire. So good for you for still being young I guess?

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      You’re almost old enough to get your own “that time I pooped my pants” story

      Maybe it’s the flu, or you trust a fart after extra spicy Thai. But either way, you never forget or trust your sphincter the same.

    • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
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      The 1900s are 1900-1909, like how the 1990s are between 1990-1999. No one is lumping you in with them lol

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        2 days ago

        As in the century, obviously. The same way people don’t literally mean 1800-1809 when they say the 1800s