It's well known in my house that "old" means "4 or more years older than my mum". Whenever my mum gets a year older, the definition of "old" moves one year up.
Also, my dad is 5 years older than her.
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My mom is in her 70's, but she doesn't want to live in an elderly community because "they're full of old people". To be fair, my mom does act younger than other people her age, other than the complaining about health issues part.
When I was in grade school in the 60s, we had a math problem... "how old will you be in the year 2000?" I calculated 42 and thought "OMG, I'll be nearly dead by then"...
That definitely makes you one of the older Lemmy users. How was life in the 60's? Was it as fun as it seems looking back?
Everything looks better looking backwards. But now is easily better. We had to go to the library and check out actual books, we had to research in the physical encyclopedias, cars were less comfortable... Heck, I'm on a hand-held computer we call a smartphone... :)
We had to go to the library and check out actual books, we had to research in the physical encyclopedias
That was true into the very late 90's. Heck, even in the 00's a lot of professors wouldn't accept internet sources for reports.
I was pretty young in the 60's but I always think that I'd going back to that time. Even if I could bring a laptop with me, I could use it to compile local applications but can't use it for any communications.
I always think that I'd going back to that time
I think you accidentally a word.
Years ago my dad and I were working on something and he stood up after having been kneeling on the ground. He made a series of moans and grunts on the way up and I asked "Dad how old are you?". "Thirty" he said. After that I thought life was over after thirty. Boy, was I wrong. Also I've been making the same groans when I stand up for the past twenty years regardless if something hurts or not
A couple of my favorite aging quotes.
"A man has three ages; childhood; young adult; don't worry you look fine." No idea who said it.
"A man isn't old until there are no women his own age he finds exciting. A woman is old the first time she looks for a dress to make her look younger." Xaviera_Hollander
I had a pakt with a friend in high-school, that we are going to jump out of a plane without a parachute when we turn 35. We couldn't imagine wanting to live being that old. I'm kinda glad we lost touch, although it might be that she didn't make it till 35.
I remember as a child having more than one family member who were in their 90s. So old to me was 70s+
I remember my grandfather's 50th birthday party and all the balloons and such saying "over the hill", and I took that to mean that 50 was when you turn old. Had no idea how long most people lived, but I probably would have guessed somewhere in their 60s (fairly accurate for the time).
When I was 5, I thought the teenagers bagging groceries were old. But old is always grandma's age (while you have a grandma)
I don't remember but my kids say:
Under 30 is young
30-60 is middle aged
60-90 is old
Over 90 is fucking old
I don't plan to be old until 70 though, afraid I'll live till over 90 and don't think it makes sense to say you are old until close to the end.
As a really young kid I thought everyone was born their age. I was not a smart kid.
I like to call anyone older than me old because it's funny and I perpetually feel like a child.
When I was little I thought my parents were old, now they are in their 60s and I think they are young, and I am the age they were and still feel like a child. Otherwise I'm not sure I really had a concept of age as a tie to mortality when I was younger.
Everybody older than me is old and basicly dead, while everybody younger than me is a child.
Old old? Was my great grandmother who got to...80 or 90. Must have been at least 80, given my mother's and grandmother's ages. She was old old.
Grandmother was old, but not so much.
Mother and everyone in her age range were "adults" but not old. Adults did things. Old people cut out papery dolls for me and my twin, that was their jobs!