That half-pipe in the graph looks very tempting. I can't wait until I'm 80 so I can be a cool skateboarder again.
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Skateboarding is never anything but maximum coolness at any age.
people can afford to live alone?
I did for about two months before COVID, then immediately needed a roommate to afford to live again.
I'm 62. I retired in January. In February, my 30-year marriage ended. I'm living alone for the first time in decades, and I never really did it very long before (a few years in my late 20s. It's very strange. at this age.
Wow—that is a lot of major life events crammed into 2025. Be nice to yourself. Often.
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I disagree with the "complaining about young people" line having coolness increase proportionally with age: when I was a young adult, I often joked about kids these days in a way that seemed to get a lot of laughs. The humour was in the fact that I was a young person talking about young people as if I wasn't one of them (and beneath that was me making light of the text that, likely due to being autistic, I have always felt isolated from my peer group).
Anyway, I got good at leveraging this for humour, but as I aged, the joke potential expired: I was too old for there to be any irony in saying "kids these days", but not old enough for it to be cool to complain about young people.
On the bright side, I am sufficiently old to be able to torment young people by misusing their slang. It's most likely effective if you use the slang in a mostly right way, so I enjoy the challenge of needing to actually understand correct usage of new slang. Amusingly, studying current slang as an outsider is a skill I'm well versed in, given that I had to do this even when I was young.
Patty-cake does not reach maximum coolness at about age 9.
I remember patty-cake games being super popular in elementary school, and it switched to hacky sack games in late middle school through high school. I think the graph is accurate.
As a person who quit smoking before vaping was created, I wholeheartedly support anyone who vapes as a way to get off cigarettes. Those things’ll kill ya.
Is drinking age not a big thing in other countries? In the US there would be a drop from 19/20 birthdays and a spike at 21 that drops down again for 22.
Drinking age is 18 in most of the world (with 16 also applying some places). Additionally, my impression is that it's not as big a deal for 16-17 year olds to get ahold of alcohol in other places.
Where I'm from, the drinking age is 18, but it's not uncommon or a big deal for people to get some beer or drinks for their 17th birthday party.
10-15 is a bit old for patty cake to be cool.
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