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[–] [email protected] 261 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A few years ago, I started a sentence in my class with "When I was born". A student instantly chimed in and said "What in the 19's?" And I thought in my head, of course you idiot, everybody is born in the 19's. It still haunts me.

[–] [email protected] 228 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The scary part is that this comic is 15 years old.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Updated hover text: "I'm teaching every 22-year-old relative to say this, and every 28-year-old to do the same thing with Toy Story. Also, Pokemon hit the US two and a half decades ago and kids born after Aladdin came out will turn 32 next year."

[–] [email protected] 150 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, tbf that was admittedly last millennium.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Over a quarter century ago!

God I feel old.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (3 children)

TBF, the veracity of the information is relatively field dependent. Structural engineering? Yeah, probably still as relevant as the day it was published... Quantum computing or astrobiology theory? Far more likely to be superseded or debunked.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I have a backpack that's over a quarter of a century old. Which I got new, and have been using actively for that time. Great fucking backpack.

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 2 months ago (4 children)

My dad told me recently, when he started practicing medicine the old people with heart failures he was treating were often born in the late 1800s, but now those are all dead, and the people he's treating are more likely to have a birth years that are around 1940-1950. Which is also starting to become uncomfortably close to his own, 1960.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (5 children)

A given person's definition of "old" is usually about 15 years older than they are. My boss is 65 and calls 70 year olds "young".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

When I started using dating apps I found 24 year olds too old. I still have that impression memorized but it's wild.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Cause as you get older, you realize that a lot of the hype about people being "old" is manufactured. I'm closing in on 30 and I'm squarely in a zone I thought was "old" when I was 18. But I feel like I still have my whole life ahead of me. And despite a lot of fear mongering, I still feel healthy and ready for anything.

And although I definitely feel like 45 is pretty old, I know that when my parents were that age they were scoffing and telling me "45 is not that old". I'm sure when I'm 60 I'll be looking at retirement and think about how it's actually not too bad to be 60 and it's the 80 year olds that are really old.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm Gen-X, 51, and this doesn't sting too much...so like whatever. I do feel for Millenials and the elder Gen-Z though.

Imagine being Gen-Z out to buy some beer, you pull out your ID, the cashier barely glances at it and runs your credit card. You smugly say, "I guess you don't really check ID since you didn't really look at the date." The cashier responds, "I did. I saw the nineteen." Ooooff.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

it's an odd feeling to be gatekept from beer by someone who's younger than the stretch marks & grey hairs on my body and; yet; it makes me feel good to be carded nonetheless somehow.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

it's an odd feeling to be gatekept from beer by someone who's younger than the stretch marks & grey hairs on my body...

*slow clap*
Amazing. One of the best sentences I have read all year.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One day, there will only be a handful of people from the 19 hundreds left

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The oldest person who ever lived so far made it to 122, so by 2123 they'll almost certainly all be gone.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I’m going to start saying that when asked about my birth year. “The late 1900s”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

God damn it... Just reading this feels like a gut punch!

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To use a quote from the later part of the 1900s:

Time keeps on slippin' into the future.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (4 children)

To use another from the very late 1900s

The years start comin' and they don't stop comin'

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Definitely one of the songs of the very late 1900s.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (12 children)

This is just intentionally phrased poorly to create a rise out of people. It's like referring to water as "dihydrogen monoxide".

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

I put this on an unlabeled squirt bottle once at work. It was wrong to do because technically it's an OSHA violation for being improperly labeled because it was just in sharpie and not a standard label. But it was night shift I was bored and the bottle was already unlabeled so it was already out of compliance. Why not write on it?

A week or so later I heard people talking about this squirt bottle that said dihydrogen monoxide. Two safety guys were there so I didn't take credit for my shenanigans based on the reception not being great.

I said I think it's just water, but the chemical name. Ya know? Nope, they didn't get it. The kind of doubled down and started talking about things in that link because they "researched the name" and it was actually harmful.

It was a strange experience.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, sure, fair, it IS late 1900's, but...

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

Reading that just broke my hip.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I regularly say "from the 20th century" when I want to emphasize the age, the irrelevance, of my lack of knowledge of something.

I don't know crap about cars, so sometimes, someone would ask me about an old one or something and I'd say "not sure, mid-20th century I think".

It's a funny way to talk about it and it almost masks the fact I just tried to get away with a 25-year window.

Although in a more rude manner I'll also say I don't care about some 20th century movie or something.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

It seems awkward to me to refer to the previous century that way until you're at least halfway through the next century. Even then, that's pushing it. Basically I think that way of referring to an era implies you're over, or at least fairly close to, 100 years away from it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Students are often awkward

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

From the last millennium

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It does depend what we're talking about. The geology of Himalaya or computer technology? One of these things didn't change much in the last forty years.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Thete are som good stuff from before 1990s comcerning computers.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I feel old and I wasn't even born on the 1900s

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I suddenly feel like the crypt keeper

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

We can't possibly be that old! I feel you've made a grave mistake

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Isn't this an actual thing? Pretty sure I was told by some instructor not to use references older than a decade or two. Unless the subject is very elementary older sources are more likely to be obsolete

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Depends on the subject. Historians use a lot older materials more regularly for obvious reasons.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TTT... no matter how much we don't like to admit it.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Someone left me a reply just yesterday with that date format. At first I was going to reply back that they must have made a typo, but then realized they weren't wrong. Ouch.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I started a sentence in my class with “When I was born”. A student instantly chimed in and said “What in the 19’s?” And I thought in my head, of course you idiot, everybody is born in the 19’s. It still haunts me

It still feels wrong to me, to see it written out, but spoken its different.

I feel like it works to go with say, the 1600's, which I read naturally as the 16 hundreds. But when I see 1900 I read that as the nineteen naughts, (aughts?) because so often when people are referring to periods in the 19 hundreds, its down to the decade because so much changed between each one. Or maybe I just felt that way because I'm so old now.

Maybe in another 25 years, it'll be far enough away that 1900's becomes 19 hundreds in my head.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I just pulled my back and broke my hips reading this, it made me feel so old 👴🏻

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