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havic626:
you know how i know im old?  cause guys now adays think its cool to look like a girl with the beyond tight pants and shirt and long hair with make up. back in my day you wanted to be tuff and overly baggy cloths was in.  im only 28 by the way.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: Ummon on October 17, 2008, 07:05:14 pm ---Kids are funny these days. I remember when I was a kid that 30 was considered mature, 50 was middle-aged, and 70 was getting old. Nowadays it seems like kids have shifted the scale down twenty years accompanied by harsher sentiments: you're old at 30, ancient at 50, and 70 you're a walking corpse. I don't think it's necessarily a matter of 'experience' at a young age because in the past more so than in recent times youngens had far more responsibility in just surviving. So what is it?


(Incidentally, I'm not pointing at anyone in particular. This has recently been a general topic in my mind.)

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I don't know if I fully agree with the assertion.  I think it may be more of an individual thing.  I know people younger than myself who are much "older" than I am.

But if you are looking for a reason, I would say that it has a lot to do with a greater generational disconnect than we experienced with our parents.  In other words, I believe that our kids see their world far differently relative to how we view ours, than our world view relative to our parents'.  As such, we tend to have less in common with our kids.  Hell, the way technology is progressing (and general outlooks on the future are "sucking") 70 year olds today might as well have grown up on a different planet as far as the younger folks are concerned.

You are only as old as you feel......as long as you break all of your mirrors  :laugh2:

RandyT

Necro:
The current 30 year old people are going to have the biggest disconnect with the previous generation...those of us in the 26-36 range will remember 'with and without' the current level of technology.  Those below 26 it gets a bit more foggy.  Below 20 and your talking not remembering a time when there was no internet.

Personally, I'm 30.  I consider myself still really young but...well...guess I'm not.  I'd go with 50 being middle age still...(until I get there) and 80 being old.

I plan on living forever though, so not sure how that'll pan out with how people consider me relative to them ;)

RayB:

--- Quote from: Ummon on October 17, 2008, 09:30:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: RayB on October 17, 2008, 08:35:49 pm ---I disagree with your claim Ummon.
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Which one?
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The entire claim. It's an opinion and you didn't support it with facts other than your own fuzzy memory. I remember being 18 and thinking a woman over 30 was definitely OLD, and not even attractive. (for the record I'm in my late 30's now). When I was a kid, I certainly didn't think 50 was middle aged. Heck, when I was 10, my grand parents were barely 50, and they seemed like OLD PEOPLE. They were grand parents! That made them officially old in my eyes. Never mind the fact that they were still in the workforce, to my kid eyes they were OLD! And my great grand parents... WOOO! Walking corpses like you said...

Any little wrinkle to me looked OLD. The slightest hint of crows feet around even a 28 year old's eyes, looked OLD. I dunno, I think things are the same as always, but your perspective has changed.

Ginsu Victim:
I hear ya. When I was 8, my uncle was 23 and had started balding earlier. I thought he was an old man.

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