Stop being a prick and give us those damn ZPM!!!
When did you realize you were old(er)?
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When I noticed I have grey hair and I'm only 32.
I knew a girl that was going grey in Junior high school.
I guess personal attitudes toward aging also have to do with just how you yourself age. We cant control it. Some people look great when they reach 40, others look very old at that point.
I always looked older than I was which was a plus in my teens and 20s. Once past 40 it became a liability.
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You're old when you find that you can't do things that you once did, because of age.
Depending on how I measure that, I was either elderly at 20 or haven't crossed that threshold. I'll go with the latter for now.
Depending on how I measure that, I was either elderly at 20 or haven't crossed that threshold. I'll go with the latter for now.
I'm only 27 so I'm not really old but it's starting to feel that way more than it used to. When my mom died a couple years ago I started to feel my actual age instead of like a perpetual teenager. Also, lately a lot of my friends and family that are my age or a little younger are either getting married or are pregnant.
And then, of course, my girlfriend and I moved in together a couple months ago. I feel all domestic and adult. It's kind of scary.
And then, of course, my girlfriend and I moved in together a couple months ago. I feel all domestic and adult. It's kind of scary.
You're old when you find that you can't do once, things that you did, because of age.
When you get out of a comfy chair and you make a noise.
Don't sweat it, people in my family start going gray around 19. I was 22 when I noticed my first gray hair.
These days, I'd be HAPPY to have gray hair.......
I started to go grey at 17-18.
I started to go grey at 17-18.
I had lost a lot of my hair by the time I turned 32.
So, whenever people complain about going grey, I feel like the prisoner in Life of Brian--dreaming of being spat at in the face!
Beyond that--the fact that I've reached middle age has really come home to me in the last couple of years.
First, I realized that every single one of my students had been born after the end of the Cold War. The fall of the Berlin Wall was no different to them than the fall of Rome.
Then, I mentioned the "dot-com bubble" in class--and none of my students knew what I meant. When I explained, one of them replied: "I was ten."
So, don't ever become a history professor if you want to feel young.
A rather arrogant 21 year old I know told me yesterday in his best instructing the old person voice that "there was no internet 12 years ago". He seemed to assume that the internet was too new fangled for me and was holding forth on how life was now different because of it. I really should have said "dude, I was writing html when you were in the first grade" but I was too amused to stop his little lecture.
I wish you had.
When my youngest (4th) child turned 18 this year. Even worse when her eldest brother turned 26 this month. I was doing a grad dip a couple of years ago (2008/09). 17 of the students in our 20 person tutorial group were younger than my sons. Plus I was older than some of their parents.
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When you see a cute girl and realize that your checking account is older than she is.Sucks doesnt it
Also, when I found out that all the clichés about getting older were true. Like the policemen and the firefighters looking like kids.
I am not old. I am 26 in base 12
An old nerdgeek, so to speak.
