This is a thread for ILXors in their 30's!!! yo yo yo breakdancing etc...

I have two months and 5 days before I can no longer post in this thread. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

xp What? I'm not supposed to be curious about what other ilxors who are in their thirties have to say?

Just teasing!

Watch your step, young man, or I'll start posting to this thread.

Go nuts! Just don't show them.

I turn 39 this summer. Clock’s ticking.

jealous of the 40s thread. I felt weirdly anxious about my 20s ending but now I feel what seems like a healthy mixture of pleasure and nothing at all about being in my 30s. mb it's being around older people more at work and in general but I'm very aware of how young ppl are and how foolish & pretentious ppl can be about their age. all the performative grumbling and loling about how I'm not like I was in 2007 anymore!!! seems ridiculous and ofc immature. I half wish ppl wld enjoy their youth (or at least enjoy not suffering from age) less self-consciously but also, as I've finally (I think) reached the point of no longer thinking there is anyone who isn't full of it at least some of the time, I feel more indulgent towards the ways in which ppl are. (sometimes, a bit, depending on my mood).

People in their mid-20s who do that performative 'Oh I'm so old, I can't do this, I can't do that, I'm just going to start wearing a shawl and doing crosswords on a Saturday night' do drive me a bit potty. Even in my late-20s I felt too immature and unqualified for a whole bunch of 'adulting' activities.

I’m just posting because I’m still 39 2/3rds and not interested in the 40+ thread. yo yo yo breakdancing etc.

word to that, I'm 40 in April, I'll be breakdancing non-stop until then

Don't be spinning on your heads, it might be one of the causes of male pattern baldness.

I'm terrifically bald and have been considering the full skinhead for a while but keep putting it off cos big fat head.

Ppl in their twenties who complain about being old don bother me why the fuck would they. DL you are in your thirties stop paying attn to these vermin

breakdancing update: back has gone, having to lie down, roll on my 40s

I definitely felt like I was getting old in my twenties. Hangovers got worse, going from studying to jobbing was horrible, social circle became smaller as friends got kids and I just didn't meet that many new people anymore. Horrible time. My early thirties, conversely, are quite okay, I'm biking a lot, I'm taking a bit more care of myself, having a bit more success on my job, really prioritizing my hobbies and not doing a thousand other things. I feel much younger than I used to :)

That's all otm too

Twenties is horrible

exercising has definitely helped with keeping me cool in my 30s (says the guy who hasn't been to the gym in two weeks)

yea you hit a wall at 23 where you realize your metabolism can't keep up with your shit lifestyle anymore and then another wall at 28 when you find you can't quite make it to bar close and sleep until 3 PM like you used to

adjust ages accordingly for biology and required office hours

yall old ass motherfuckers these days huh

onward to the 40s thread lads

im not even late thirties til end of week

7 months til I’m 30 but I’m rounding up, feel like being 30 will suit my sedate lifestyle

i went out dancing twice at the weekend and now i feel like crying a lot

i'm 31 now! so far my 30s suck mentally but are ok otherwise

wait, what are we counting as late 30s now?

feel like I may have committed the Whiney generalization where he was claiming to be "nearly 40" at the tender age of 36 now

well i mean 36 is blatantly mid

otm

I guess 37.5 and up is definitively late

jaysus not late til dec so

I am reading Walt Whitman rn. He wrote “Song of Myself” when he was 37. I read the latest Harry Potter play, for work, and he is 37 at its start. It made me wonder: is 37 the accepted halfway point? If so, I’m sort of okay with how things have turned out.

xp we're practically youth

looking at the pension, presuming 67 is the retirement age, id like 10 active years minimum to enjoy that.

77

35 is the halfway point of the traditional threescore years and ten I guess. Time for your allegorical journey through hell!

yeah but we all live to 95 now so we can compare pancreatic cancers afaict

I've been thinking of life in terms of youth/adult plateau/senility where you're on the upswing for the first, relatively stable and living out the bulk of your years, and then a slight decline in the last part that echoes the lesser independence of youth and reliance on others

both of my grandfathers passed last year after spending some time in assisted living homes, though, so that may be weighing on my reasoning

I guess 37.5 and up is definitively late

― mh, Monday, July 2, 2018 3:49 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NOOOOO

i dont feel like anything up to 25 was all that great which is why my cheery demeanour since maybe

same, mostly

had a couple crap years in-between in there, a bunch of good ones in my thirties, though

34. Preferred 33 when I was the age of Christ when he died. Everything seemed to be looking up then

As Tom Lehrer once said, “when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for four years”

if i only live long enough to prevent any cunt making a movie half as bad about me itll be enough

feel like I may have committed the Whiney generalization where he was claiming to be "nearly 40" at the tender age of 36 now

wait a second, i'm nearly 36
that means i'm nearly 40

i should buy a sports car

make sure it has a spoiler that is exactly as big as your desperation

39 today. Don't know that i am ready to be 40 next year

Do you still yo yo yo breakdance a lot?

happy birthday!

Don't think i could without slipping a disc.

Thx!

happy 39th neanderthal! i am going to catch up to you some day.

Also, HB! :)