Today I turn 30 years old. That just doesn't sound right. I don't FEEL 30, more like 25 or something. I suppose it's one of those things that just happens to you that just doesn't sound right when applied to you. Kind of like it doesn't sound right when people refer to me as a husband or a father, although I know it's true.
B.J.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
No one will ever trust you again. Here's some usefull phrases, You know when I was your age........
Kids these days.
We used to be able to buy one of those for a quarter
and
I was wearing an onion on my belt, cause that was the style at the time.
Happy Birthday
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Just what is it about odd multiples of 10 that has people so rattled about their age, anyway?
Posted by MarianLH (Member # 1102) on :
Originally posted by Cartman:
quote: Just what is it about odd multiples of 10 that has people so rattled about their age, anyway?
We use a base 10 counting system.
Marian
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
No, I mean why people don't ever seem afraid of turning 20 or 40, but have to unwrap their panties from a major bind when they hit 30 or 50. IT IS ILLOGICAL.
Posted by MarianLH (Member # 1102) on :
Originally posted by Cartman:
quote: No, I mean why people don't ever seem afraid of turning 20 or 40, but have to unwrap their panties from a major bind when they hit 30 or 50. IT IS ILLOGICAL.
I wondered if that's what you meant, but I assumed I must be wrong, because that doesn't make any sense.
People don't freak about turning 20 because they're still growing up, not growing old. And they do freak about turning 40 or 60, just as much as 30 or 50. Certainly my parents did, and so did all their friends. And there's no lack of "lordy lordy, (customizable name here)'s turning forty" novelty mugs at your local Hallmarks.
I imagine by the time someone gets to 70 they've gotten sanguine about it.
Marian
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
It is just another day to me. I guess I have decided to grow old and gray with ease, after all, why worry about it, I can't change it.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Cartman: I don't know how it is over there, but in the US people refer to age 40 as being "over the hill". People will throw fortieth-birthday parties for thier friends/relatives with black balloons and stuff. So, people definitely make a big deal out of turning 40, too.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Husband and father, eh? That gives me 10 years. Judging by what I have achieved in the past 5 years, that seems bloody unlikely. Yay for being a socially inept geek!
Happy birthday anyway!
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
My ex-girlfriend got rather upset about turning 20.
Posted by Ultra 2 Legit 2 Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Your ex-girlfriend is a weird, stupid.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
Happy Birthday.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Harry, using me as a gauge, you only have 3 years to get married, and 5 1/2 to have kids. Of course, I have a coworker who didn't get married until he was around 38.
Turning 30 isn't getting me down or freaked or anything. It's just the term "30 year-old" doesn't sound right when applied to me, if that makes any sense. BTW, my grandfather is turning 99 in less than a month, and he plans on outliving his grandfather, who lived to 105!
B.J.
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
Happy birthday!
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I didn't feel any different when I turned 30. It's really just a number.
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
quote:Originally posted by B.J.: Harry, using me as a gauge, you only have 3 years to get married, and 5 1/2 to have kids. Of course, I have a coworker who didn't get married until he was around 38.
Turning 30 isn't getting me down or freaked or anything. It's just the term "30 year-old" doesn't sound right when applied to me, if that makes any sense. BTW, my grandfather is turning 99 in less than a month, and he plans on outliving his grandfather, who lived to 105!
B.J.
Does that mean you'll try to live outlive your grandfather? Going for 120 maybe?
Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :
I felt like a 19 year old just this morning.
Couldn't find one though.....
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Don't search around kindergarten yards next time. B)
Posted by Ultra 2 Legit 2 Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Being old is hard, I'll tell you.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Do tell....
Getting old isn't for sissies.....
Posted by Ultra 2 Legit 2 Magnus (Member # 239) on :
It is at the point where I have to look at a girl's ring finger before I talk to her, yo.
The days of my care free youth have long since gone.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I feel your pain: I'm now 31 (since the fourth) and I'm not married, have no kids nad just last night got taken on a one-way trip to dumpsville.
She even tried to use the "F" word on me before I interrupted her...then she started with the you're so "special to me" routine and all about how she got back with her boyfriend.... Man, a royally baaaaad night all around.
Just venting- I could care less about being "31". It's a decade longer than I ever expected to survive anyway... Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"It is at the point where I have to look at a girl's ring finger before I talk to her, yo."
Oh, please. You don't talk to girls.
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
Among my friends, 23 is a milestone. Mostly because you feel like you need to start doing something with your life at this point instead of lounging around or still finishing your B.A.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
I've felt like that since I was 12-and-a-half years old almost 12-and-a-half years ago when I became a man.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
But when did you put the cart before the man.....
Posted by Futurama IV Shizzle (Member # 968) on :
25 was a biggy for me....my life, based on family statistics, is 1/3 over. One-third over! DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!? ONE-THIRD OVER!
Oh, yeah, and the 'checking for the ring' thing really makes you lazy...what's life without an ass-full of humiliation?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Or you had 2/3rds of it left to go.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
It's not like you to think in such half-full terms, Ritty.
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
I had to cheer up my dad when he turned 30 last year, we went fishing and stuff.
Try and make it into something fun, like "hey, one quarter of my life done!". The day I eventually turn 30, I'm just going to have sex with my gf/wife all day and then joke about it.
Posted by Ultra 2 Legit 2 Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Sweden has fertile children, I will grant you that.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
You're right Cartman, I don't know what came over me.....
If your dad is 30 how old are you Nim???
Posted by Futurama IV Shizzle (Member # 968) on :
does it matter at this point?
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
I am totally young, you guys.
Posted by UFPSFMC-Colonel Mike Captain (Member # 709) on :
There comes a point where you know you won't feel young again without commandeering your old command, making sure the captain dies while you are doing you thing with VGer or Khan so that you can pretend like you are the captain again and you are sitting there on the bridge writing up Spock or Will Decker's obituary, usually saying 'he's missing' or 'he's the most human' while you smugly reassume the center chair and youre like, bitch i feel young again!
youre not truly old until you are no longer sharp enough to make sure that kid from Ferris Bueller dies instead of you so that while he's dosing on a few tabs of the Nexus just outside of deck 15, you place your ever larger ass in command of his ever-larger enterprise...
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
1979 - (2004 - 1 - 30) = 6.
That is some crazy Swedish shit, yo.
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
Man, how does a young child take care of a baby?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Carefully.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Swedes age like Klingons.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
But die like Ferengi.
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
With lots of money and naked wives at our feet, yes. Bling bling.
Seriously, my dad did turn 32 last year. (sure, for the second time, but...)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim the Merciful: With lots of money and naked wives at our feet, yes. Bling bling.
...combing your nose and ear hair, paying for sex... Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
quote:...combing your nose and ear hair, paying for sex...
...dressing in designer threads, being at the forefront of competitive marketing and trade...
-------------------- Sure, I might be a foulmouth working-class hero whippersnapper, -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called "City Slickers" who click their heels, walk in lockstep and talk about "How fantastic is this Jason Abbadon, and what brand underwear is he using? It beckons to me!" Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
ABBA and Dolph Lundgren and that stupid chef from the Muppets, so stough your tood at the door, dood.
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Oh no, swedish namedropping circa 1985!!! I die, Horatio!
I stoeff my well-laid tude up your well-laid ass.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
When the hell did you become worthy of having your head implode?
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Just protecting the franchise. Building for the future. I thought you liked it ruff.
Posted by UFPSFMC-Colonel Mike Captain (Member # 709) on :
i think u guys are made 4 each other
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
He would just throw out my trophies and movie posters in favor of his Mapleleaf-embroidered pillows and bathroom-rugs that say "FTW!!" in pink lettering.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
Your mother gave those to me as presents on our wedding night. Then I covered her in A-1 Steak Sauce and threw her off the balcony. You were born on the way down, so yes, you can say, you were dropped as a baby.
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
But you didn't finish the job. I now am my own grandpa, as the prophecy dictates. Soon peace and order will spread throughout the internet. I am legion. Let me just shove this glowing power cord in you, and we shall reboot together, and balance the equation. I have the SCART. You go now. Are you afraid? Don't be. Something will happen. Something beautiful. *sniph*
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
All of the worlds are yours, except my anus. Don't touch.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
ATTEMPT NO PENETRATIONS THERE OK GOT IT
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
the �ucque?
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
The five top Manhattan mob lords give this thread their blessing, if I'm made to guess. Or, I don't know, the Beach Boys?
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
They look more Miami than New York. And I've played Vice City, so I know my mobsters.
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Well I haven't! Hahaa, owned!
Posted by Futurama IV Shizzle (Member # 968) on :
I think they all have their other thumbs up their asses, yo. The younger guy, in the middle, it's his first time. The pain, it is in his eyes.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
ok guys, those r my dads. STFU
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Those are your dads train buddies???
No, now that I think about it, don't answer that....
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Multiple dads? Do I have to imagine you with some Robert Englund genes as well? (damn that british Old Rosey tap cider...)
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
I am not sure I allowed you to imagine me with anybody's genes, in the first place.
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Mostly because you feel like you need to start doing something with your life at this point instead of lounging around or still finishing your B.A.
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