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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you become middle aged, not only do you feel silly for taking a selfie, you feel silly about all those people who are going to look at your awkward ass photo and be like “this dude looks awkward” and, so, with your head filled to the brim with these apparitions of doubt, you fulfill the ancient prophecy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A Middleaged man is like 38, so a Millennial? This looks more like a typical Boomer selfie.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I always thought "middle aged" referred to someone in their 50s. I get that the average person doesn't live to 100, but I thought that was the connotation that the phrase has.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is the average life expectancy really 76? That's lower than I expected

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know I and most people I know won't last until 70.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

3 packs of cigarettes a day'll do that to you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just general unhealthy lifestyle is enough, but cigarettes could contribute.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Depending on where you live. And it usually higher once you make it to adulthood.

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

I just checked, in the US it is 73 years, Europe it's 77. I just eyeballed it, but yeah, I'm almost a middleaged man now. Crazy.

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

You’re middle aged when your growth hormones still exist, but the levels are starting to drop. You know you’re middle-aged when you twist your ankle and it doesn’t heal for a really long time.

When you start getting the injuries that don’t heal, that’s when you know.

It’s not a numerical thing. It’s a phase of human life. As we extend lifespan with new medical technologies, the stages won’t stretch out to fill the lifespan; we’ll add new phases at the end.

Those phases will be very strange, because they will involve drastic steps to maintain cognitive function in an aging brain. It could involve increasing top-down control of biology, or it would involve replacement of biology with machinery. Either way the new later stages of life will be stranger and stranger, and will feel different than any human experience does now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't mind me at age 25 finding out my body makes an incredibly tiny amount of testosterone.

I refuse to accept your criteria!

[–] pantyhosewimp 1 points 1 year ago

“Welp, time ta git meh tell-o-mearz screwed back own.”

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you forgot the car seat background and the 90s shades

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

nah that's a chud

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

My brother took his dog out of town and now I can't pet him :(

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

OK, how Lemmy comment links work might make this chain harder to follow.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better than an anime pic tbh..

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

At least that way you know who you are talking to, and you didn't see just a non-binary anime profile pic 🤣🤣.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why did you have to specify it being nonbinary?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a lot of non-binary anime characters..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I like anime and I have seen far more binary anime characters than non-binary. Japan is pretty traditional, and anime from Japan is pretty rare to feature a character that is non-binary. Ive seen a lot of movies, shows, and OVAs stretching all the way back to the late 1970s, and I think the amount of non-binary characters I have seen is like five or less, and almost exclusively from shows released in the past two years.

That's not to say there weren't characters that disguised themselves as men or women opposite to their gender (for various reasons, some because its a legitimate spy disguise, some because they want to, etc), but this would be considered cross-dressing, which is not the same as non-binary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, right. I wish I still had that much hair.

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

We should be doing Myspace poses. With the duck face

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

No young person has ever taken a photo like this.

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

Young faces don't look like this dog.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this meme is from like 10 years ago, so it would have been true( r) then

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I feel targeted by this. But yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But he's not in a car wearing speed dealer sunnies...?