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- Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Man, Natsumi is 28 and I'm 23. I guess I'm still the youngin on these boards.
"An old man dies, a young girl lives, fair trade." - Bruce Willis from Sin City.
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ALRIGHT!!! I'm not the youngest!
"An old man dies, a young girl lives, fair trade." - Bruce Willis from Sin City.
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Tessian was like 14 I think. I think he was our youngest member.Barret wrote:ALRIGHT!!! I'm not the youngest!
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Tessian was a student at Penn State, if I recall correctly. Probably was at least 18.The Seeker wrote:Tessian was like 14 I think. I think he was our youngest member.
And I just turned 27 three weeks ago. I think 30 is my "scary year".
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Wasn't Anarky a baby?The Seeker wrote:Tessian was like 14 I think. I think he was our youngest member.Barret wrote:ALRIGHT!!! I'm not the youngest!
BTW, I'll be 30 on Jan 23, the day we all vote up here. Freakin' politicians....
I was there on that fateful day, were you?
Hah! 25!!!
I am 26, sir, going on about 4, so I understand your dilemma...
However, two things come to mind. One is that humans are living way the hell longer than ever before, and there's no way to accurately predict life expectancy by the time we're old. Average U.S. life expectancy when my grandparents were born was around 65, or so, I think, and it's now something like 72 for men and 79 for women - but that gets skewed by a large number of people who get taken out young by alcoholism, drug abuse, or just general rough living, so if one makes it to 60, life expectancy within that subset goes way up, I believe. My grandparents are all in their 80s, and three of them are very, very healthy. It's not unreasonable to believe that by the time we all get to be very, very old, medicinal advances will have put the life expectancy up in the 90s, I believe.
The second is that this long life expectancy, I think, tends to create a longer period of "adolescence" in general for people. Most people now don't enter the workforce and become "adults" in a societal-economic sense (taxpayers, producers, etc.) until their early or mid-twenties. (I think this is a valid point even past my own ability to use it as a rationalization about how immature I still am, even at the age of 26.) So if you don't feel emotionally as old as you think you ought to be, there may be an actual reason for that which is not your fault in any way.
If you just want to whine about how you're not a teenager anymore, I'll get out the case in which I store the world's smallest violin...
Life's too short to feel old, anyway, even if one is!
I am 26, sir, going on about 4, so I understand your dilemma...
However, two things come to mind. One is that humans are living way the hell longer than ever before, and there's no way to accurately predict life expectancy by the time we're old. Average U.S. life expectancy when my grandparents were born was around 65, or so, I think, and it's now something like 72 for men and 79 for women - but that gets skewed by a large number of people who get taken out young by alcoholism, drug abuse, or just general rough living, so if one makes it to 60, life expectancy within that subset goes way up, I believe. My grandparents are all in their 80s, and three of them are very, very healthy. It's not unreasonable to believe that by the time we all get to be very, very old, medicinal advances will have put the life expectancy up in the 90s, I believe.
The second is that this long life expectancy, I think, tends to create a longer period of "adolescence" in general for people. Most people now don't enter the workforce and become "adults" in a societal-economic sense (taxpayers, producers, etc.) until their early or mid-twenties. (I think this is a valid point even past my own ability to use it as a rationalization about how immature I still am, even at the age of 26.) So if you don't feel emotionally as old as you think you ought to be, there may be an actual reason for that which is not your fault in any way.
If you just want to whine about how you're not a teenager anymore, I'll get out the case in which I store the world's smallest violin...
Life's too short to feel old, anyway, even if one is!
Why the hell do people in their 20s whine about being old? Your parents should slap you around a bit.
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Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
