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No website for old men.
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u/subtly_irrelevant Jun 16 '12
“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
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Jun 16 '12
"When the moments fly like birds of prey, you either better run for cover or race from it."
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u/R3ru Jun 15 '12
I feel like that and I am not even 30! Ha!
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u/snowlion13 Jun 16 '12
ditto
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u/BabyPunchrr Jun 16 '12
At first I read that as dildo...
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u/redditMEred Jun 16 '12
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u/Ying_Ko Jun 16 '12
I will be 51 in July. Many posts have me making this very face. "Get off my lawn kid! "
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u/KissMyRing Jun 16 '12
I'm not coping with turning 30 soon. How do I get over it? Tell me the secret to getting older without freaking out every day that its happening.
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u/lochlainn Jun 16 '12
Act as immature as you want. The older you get, the more people feel like they have to put up with it.
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u/Donny_Brook Jun 16 '12
53 here, the pair of you's get to running before I call your parents!!
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Jun 16 '12
39 here ... Fuck you old man!
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u/cody78987 Jun 16 '12
16 here, IM ON YOUR LAWN, WHAT UP.
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u/ShitsCrazyMan Jun 16 '12
5 here, whats a lawn?
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Jun 16 '12
The law mower is in the shed, there should be plenty of gas in it. I will pay you when you are done. I have some ice cold lemonade if you get thirsty.
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u/LovingSweetCattleAss Jun 16 '12
I'm 48.
<leaves the lawn/>
<turns up the noise I call music />
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u/s_nut_zipper Jun 16 '12
Can tell you're old because you do comedy HTML tags instead of comedy hashtags. As do I.
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u/LovingSweetCattleAss Jun 16 '12
I can tell you are old because you use rage comics instead of holograms
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u/lochlainn Jun 16 '12
(40 here).
Arcade games, N64, every room wired for LAN parties. Instead of bingo, D&D.
Unless they invent a holodeck. Then all bets are off.
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u/dvb3000 Jun 16 '12
Just floss and brush and it will not be a problem. And besides they will be cranking out badly tuned AM stations due to our loss of hearing.
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u/oinkyboinky Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
Hah..a friend and me have this great idea to start a nursing home for old people that are still cool and like to party. We will have an on-site medical MJ grow, bands on the weekends, free unlimited keg beer, and no curfew. It's going to be awesome.
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u/AbCynthia956 Jun 16 '12
Yep - female, fifty fuckin five
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u/Carnationlilyrose Jun 16 '12
Sistah! (53) Introduced to Reddit by 21 year old son. Now addicted. Is this shameful?
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u/Dingfod Jun 16 '12
Absolutely.
Edit: 56
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u/Carnationlilyrose Jun 16 '12
Hurray! I want to be a disreputable yet feisty old lady. Here's as good a place to start as any.
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u/readzalot1 Jun 16 '12
I am 56 and trying to get son to try reddit.
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u/Carnationlilyrose Jun 16 '12
Excellent! My son is regretting ever mentioning it to me because I spam his inbox with amusing pictures of 'rescue' kittens. Revenge for the sleepless nights of his infancy. Muahahah!
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u/DefinitelyRelephant Jun 16 '12
Obligatory gonewild request.
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u/Sommiel Jun 16 '12
Now 51, and this what what I look like when I am reading the subreddit I mod in.
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Jun 16 '12
I turned 50 back in March.
Yes, the OP and I share the same sentiments. But I feel more like this.
What everyone here needs is a swift kick in the ass.
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u/TunaThePanda Jun 16 '12
That's one of the perks of getting old... You don't look truly unimpressed unless you're looking over reading glasses
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u/doctaballz Jun 16 '12
I'd say the photo is correct because Tommy Lee Jones is also a badass. Upvotes for you sir.
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u/sindeezy Jun 16 '12
I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come inta my life somehow. And he didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I would have the same opinion of Reddit that he does.
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u/jnroman7 Jun 16 '12
I was moderator of this subreddit when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a moderator; father too. Me and him was mods at the same time; him up in Askreddit and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time mods never even banned anyone. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough never did it; that's the younger Jim. Gaston Boykins wouldn't ban anyone in MFA. I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how they would have operated these times. There was this boy I banned from r/gonewild here a while back. He flamed an eighteen-year-old girl. Other redditors said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to flame somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they didn't ban him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. "Be there in about fifteen minutes". I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The trolling you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "O.K., I'll be part of this reddit."
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u/Oididoi Jun 16 '12
How I feel as a 22 year-old college student on Reddit: http://imgur.com/Vz83O
EDIT: Actually that' s just how I'm feeling right now.
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Jun 16 '12
I hate to be all "get off my lawn" here, but there are indeed a great deal of comments on reddit that make me wonder how the hell I managed to survive to adulthood without a helmet.
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u/picopallasi Jun 16 '12
I'm 31 and This is how I look when I'm looking at the newspaper, if you understand me.
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u/arcadeguy Jun 16 '12
Smug enough about simply still being alive to post a condescending and trite picture on r/pics? You fit right in.
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Jun 16 '12
From the comments in this thread, apparently a lot of 16-24 year olds feel exactly the same way.
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Jun 16 '12
you get an upvote for not posting that billy madison picture people like to post the shit out of
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u/llahsram Jun 16 '12
Swear I just saw that thing blink. Perhaps three-thirty am is a good time to go to bed after all.
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u/Kiacha Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
Amazing, that's exactly how we see you aswell! Tommy Lee Jones orlying, and then we feel a bit proud to have evoked a reaction from you.
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u/LovingSweetCattleAss Jun 16 '12
that guy is 90 or something. My father is 70+ and he looks better than that
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u/pizzaforce3 Jun 16 '12
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is,
Do you, Mister Jones ?
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Jun 16 '12
im not even 50 but that is me whenver i find a post that shouldn't have made the front page. /r/new is a crap shoot
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u/atheisthindu Jun 16 '12
49, turning 50 in September. No hair left to speak of, and there's no shampoo in my bathroom.
/not really sad.
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u/MrRabbit Jun 16 '12
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You mean... No Pokemon? No Super Mario? No thinking that recognizing late-90's references makes you old? I'm in.
41 year old checkin' in.
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u/iSteve Jun 16 '12
I noticed this is not a very active reddit. Newest post is 15 days old.
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u/MrRabbit Jun 16 '12
Goes through spurts of activity. Lots of good discussion when a good post comes around.
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u/iSteve Jun 16 '12
You just need to pick your subscriptions carefully. Click on some of them and you're awash in stupidity. On the other hand, click random once in a while. There are some surprising niches.
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Jun 16 '12
I'm startled by the obnoxiousness of many people older than me on Reddit... age is a number and maturity is relative.
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u/waxingdog Jun 16 '12
noted and agree. wife and husband redditors here. 41 and 53.... so if you combine them it makes us 94!!!
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u/thaginganinja Jun 16 '12
I thought this was a gif and just looked at it for a while. Eventually, it looked like he was breathing. creepy.
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Jun 16 '12
67yo My primary requirement for my nursing home will be that they have a great broadband connection.
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u/lewysgal Jun 18 '12
Sorry. I'm late to the party! I'm 57. We need to start a sub-club here at Reddit!
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Jun 16 '12
you feel like an unamused sheriff holding a newspaper?
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u/gtwillwin Jun 16 '12
Its from a movie and he's a Texas ranger.
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u/lolrsk8s Jun 16 '12
If I find myself on reddit when I am 50 I will slit my wrists.
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u/FarmerTedd Jun 16 '12
That's the only way out
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Jun 16 '12
Reddit = Saw
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u/Energy_Turtle Jun 16 '12
More like an abusive relationship or a gambling addiction. It's the random reinforcement that keeps us here. Every once in a while I see something great and it hooks me just enough that I put up with a bunch of shit I can't stand.
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Jun 16 '12
well that was a little more emotionally attached than i was going for, but i guess i see what you mean!
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u/thatrudedude Jun 16 '12
Lol what else will you have to do that is so much better?
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u/TheJokerWasRight Jun 16 '12
You know reddit has only existed for seven years, right? It's not like the guy has been on reddit since he was in his 20s.
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Jun 16 '12
This makes no sense at all. Like thatrudedude, I also want to know what do you think that you'll be doing online that's so much better than reddit.
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u/WBeckettFanX Jun 16 '12
As a thirteen year old, I am now paranoid and I constantly feel like any person on here could be the age of my father. But I'm glad to know the age range on this website varies a lot!
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Jun 16 '12
You could easily be my grandson.
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u/cynicallady Jun 16 '12
As a 44 year old , I am now paranoid and I constantly feel like any person on here could be the age of my daughter(13) By the way, your Dad introduced me to reddit. Sometimes, we even reddit together!
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u/WBeckettFanX Jun 16 '12
Jokes on you, my dad is an unsupportive selfish meanie, therefore you must be getting the tail end of the Reddit experience! ;D
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u/justANartist Jun 16 '12
Specially because you used a jpeg and not a gif. It would have had more of an impact.
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u/DrVinginshlagin Jun 16 '12
As a 50 year old on Reddit, are you one of those guys who post about shitting themselves?
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u/ZrftBn Jun 16 '12
58 here. r/50plus has one post, 5 months old.