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[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago

This works for celsius, too.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then the fifties come and you're like.

Source: Am 51yo

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Death: Sooon. Sssssssoooon.

Me: Come at me, bro!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Death eight years ago: Fall off a literal mountain while snowboarding and had to climb back out before I froze to death.

Death six years ago: Four stents in the heart because two arteries were 99% blocked and a third 85%.

Death two years ago: "Fine! I cast, stage III Cancer!"

Me, in proper Gen-X fashion: "Whatever."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm scared to ask, but how old are you?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I'm feeling like I'm doing this in reverse. I was way more terrified of life in my 20's. Now in my 40's I'm way more stable and happy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

can confirm; turning 45 next month, and that's my face when i'm not fighting falling asleep at work

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stub your toe in the dark while fighting through the back pain when you have to pee at 4:00am. 47 here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Bless work from home

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Relax, it’s only your impending death. 🤪

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eh. Death is fine. It's all the bullshit before death we call life that worries me.

You gotta remember, back in 1993 the new york times claimed that my generation as kids were the first generation more afraid of living than they are dying.

I'd say as adults now, that's still true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

what are you afraid of

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

true horror is thinking about living in various way where you would prefer to have died prior to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Ive been frame 3 my whole life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm 29 and have been at that last panel since 16

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I burned myself out in high school so I could burn myself out in undergrad so I could burn myself out in graduate school so I could be unemployable at 27.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Without units or context:

Historian: Yeah the 1940s were bad. Meteorologist: 40 degrees is piping hot indeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eh, my 30s were definitely better than my 20s, which were alright.

The body starting to break down in the 40s sucks though. Not too bad yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Pretty good so far. Expecting that to change in my 50s.

Yours?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If you swap 20's and 30's, you have the 'panik kalm' meme.