Without units or context:
Historian: Yeah the 1940s were bad. Meteorologist: 40 degrees is piping hot indeed.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
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I'm 29 and have been at that last panel since 16
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.
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.
Ive been frame 3 my whole life.
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.
How are your knees?
Pretty good so far. Expecting that to change in my 50s.
Yours?
I look like the 40 in my 20s.
This comic is only true maybe in the sense of time passing, really.
I’m in my mid-30USD feel 20. D: When does I be mature?
Well I think you're a million bucks.
I mean, to be fair, 20 years ago was a FAR more peaceful time for 20 year olds. Back then, the only dangers we had were worrying about standing in tall buildings in NYC, worrying that a draft would be instituted, and worrying that somebody would catch you actually enjoying the song "A thousand miles" by Vanessa Carlton.
It was a far less stressful time than today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire
"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song written by American musician Billy Joel. The song was released as a single on September 18, 1989, and later released as part of Joel's album Storm Front on October 17, 1989. A list song, its fast-paced lyrics include brief references to 119 significant political, cultural, scientific, and sporting events between 1949 (the year of Joel's birth) and 1989, in mainly chronological order.
Joel conceived the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a 21-year-old friend of Sean Lennon who said "It's a terrible time to be 21!". Joel replied: "Yeah, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful". The friend replied: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's different for you. You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties". Joel retorted: "Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?" Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song.
Relax, it’s only your impending death. 🤪
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.
what are you afraid of
true horror is thinking about living in various way where you would prefer to have died prior to it.
Really? My true horror was that one time I accidentally replaced my Preparation H with superglue.
Man, thats what I call a STICKY SITUATION!!!!
big cheesy grin, and 80s sitcom freeze frame
Then the theme song plays without the vocals, but only for 3 seconds before cutting to commercials.
Then the fifties come and you're like.
Source: Am 51yo
Death: Sooon. Sssssssoooon.
Me: Come at me, bro!
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."
I'm scared to ask, but how old are you?
51
can confirm; turning 45 next month, and that's my face when i'm not fighting falling asleep at work
Bless work from home
Stub your toe in the dark while fighting through the back pain when you have to pee at 4:00am. 47 here.
Bro.
This works for celsius, too.