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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.
Pro Tip for GenXer's: There is a point in life when you need to pick a Doctor that you like enough to die on. That will be the doctor that will take you through the last years of your life. And treat all those little miserable ailments like high blood pressure or urinary issues. Long term medical care, while it's often something that might not kill you outright, It will demand a lot of monitoring and medication to treat.
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.
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.
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.
One day, there will only be a handful of people from the 19 hundreds left
To use a quote from the later part of the 1900s:
Time keeps on slippin' into the future.
To use another from the very late 1900s
The years start comin' and they don't stop comin'
Definitely one of the songs of the very late 1900s.
I need to fry up an eagle 🦅
I mean, sure, fair, it IS late 1900's, but...
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.
I feel old and I wasn't even born on the 1900s
1800's?
Early 2000s
I fEeL oLd AnD wAs OnLy BoRn In ThE eArLy 2000's
Ah, just at the turn of the century.
WELL YOU'RE NOT
Get off my lawn, young'n.
Reading that just broke my hip.
I suddenly feel like the crypt keeper
We can't possibly be that old! I feel you've made a grave mistake
And I am the skeleton in that crypt that turned to dust just now. (58 y.o.)
From the last millennium
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
Depends on the subject. Historians use a lot older materials more regularly for obvious reasons.
Ofc
In chemistry a lot of the foundational synthesis and work is as old as the 60s and 70s; people build on it, but in some cases those early papers said pretty much all there is to be said on a topic, so there's no reason to republish on it.
I've had to cite papers as old as the late 30s before, because no one has ever found anything to fix or correct about their work! Pretty impressive if you ask me, given how few tools they had.
I just pulled my back and broke my hips reading this, it made me feel so old 👴🏻
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.
We will never* stop seeing accounts milking this same joke for more attention points
OMG
if you've heard of amiga!