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[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When you become middle aged, not only do you feel silly for taking a selfie, you feel silly about all those people who are going to look at your awkward ass photo and be like “this dude looks awkward” and, so, with your head filled to the brim with these apparitions of doubt, you fulfill the ancient prophecy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A Middleaged man is like 38, so a Millennial? This looks more like a typical Boomer selfie.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

I always thought "middle aged" referred to someone in their 50s. I get that the average person doesn't live to 100, but I thought that was the connotation that the phrase has.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is the average life expectancy really 76? That's lower than I expected

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I know I and most people I know won't last until 70.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

3 packs of cigarettes a day'll do that to you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Just general unhealthy lifestyle is enough, but cigarettes could contribute.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Depending on where you live. And it usually higher once you make it to adulthood.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just checked, in the US it is 73 years, Europe it's 77. I just eyeballed it, but yeah, I'm almost a middleaged man now. Crazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You’re middle aged when your growth hormones still exist, but the levels are starting to drop. You know you’re middle-aged when you twist your ankle and it doesn’t heal for a really long time.

When you start getting the injuries that don’t heal, that’s when you know.

It’s not a numerical thing. It’s a phase of human life. As we extend lifespan with new medical technologies, the stages won’t stretch out to fill the lifespan; we’ll add new phases at the end.

Those phases will be very strange, because they will involve drastic steps to maintain cognitive function in an aging brain. It could involve increasing top-down control of biology, or it would involve replacement of biology with machinery. Either way the new later stages of life will be stranger and stranger, and will feel different than any human experience does now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

“Welp, time ta git meh tell-o-mearz screwed back own.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Don't mind me at age 25 finding out my body makes an incredibly tiny amount of testosterone.

I refuse to accept your criteria!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you forgot the car seat background and the 90s shades

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

nah that's a chud

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My brother took his dog out of town and now I can't pet him :(

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

OK, how Lemmy comment links work might make this chain harder to follow.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, right. I wish I still had that much hair.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We should be doing Myspace poses. With the duck face

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Better than an anime pic tbh..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’ll take an anime picture over a V avatar douche.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

Good for you then..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

But he's not in a car wearing speed dealer sunnies...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I feel targeted by this. But yes.