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Where do you think you will be when you are double your current age?

277 replies

OneUmberJoker · 01/12/2025 13:24

Hopefully nearly retired.

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PineappleCoconut · 01/12/2025 23:07

Dead

SleepQuest33 · 01/12/2025 23:25

I’m pretty certain I’ll be having fun with the angels in another dimension!!!

if not, then I hope to be the fittest and strongest centenarian to be alive!

AnOldCynic · 01/12/2025 23:28

6’ under.

Sonolanona · 01/12/2025 23:52

Hopefully in an egg timer!
I've always loved boiled eggs so I'd really like some of my ashes mixed with sand and made into an egg timer😆

Lostxmasfairy · 02/12/2025 00:07

Dead I hope.

CheeseIsMyIdol · 02/12/2025 00:09

Dead as a doornail.

LawrieForShepherdsBoy · 02/12/2025 00:11

@OneUmberJoker this is MN. We r old

LeftBoobGoneRogue · 02/12/2025 00:12

6ft under

Crushed23 · 02/12/2025 00:46

topsecretcyclist · 01/12/2025 13:28

I'll be 98. The same age my aunt is now. She still lives independently and generally healthy. I'd love to be like her at that age!

What’s her secret?!

DramaQueenlady · 02/12/2025 01:14

Definitely dead

AutumnLeavesFallingFast · 02/12/2025 01:17

CointreauVersial · 01/12/2025 13:26

I'll be in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest living person. Attributing my long life to regular intake of gin.

🤣🤣🤣

AutumnLeavesFallingFast · 02/12/2025 01:18

Dead

& relieved to be so, I don't want to see how much worse life can get!!

AutumnLeavesFallingFast · 02/12/2025 01:20

Philandbill · 01/12/2025 13:32

Like many others on this thread, dead! Perhaps a good question would be - When you were half the age you are now did you expect things to be as they are in your life now? 😁

Fuck no

socialdilemmawhattodo · 02/12/2025 01:26

@OneUmberJokeryou've probably done a runner, not realising how old many of us are here on Munsnet. But do come back!

AutumnLeavesFallingFast · 02/12/2025 01:26

Dappy777 · 01/12/2025 14:57

Not according to the tech billionaires. Many of us could be celebrating our 200th anniversary.

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Yeah fuck that for a game of soldiers!!

Angelil · 02/12/2025 01:42

I’ll be 78 so hopefully alternating the high life with grandchildren!

Sparklybutold · 02/12/2025 02:03

Dead

LightDrizzle · 02/12/2025 02:48

Another dead one. I’m not sure I want to be hanging on at 110 so I’m okayish with that.

MoondustandFairies · 02/12/2025 02:59

Dead too!!

Although if I havent kicked that proverbial bucket you'll probably find me in the spare bedroom/sewing room still trying to finish off projects from 67 years ago (thats how old I am now)

echt · 02/12/2025 03:00

Dead, I sincerely hope. ⚰️ 140 years old? No thanks.

NewAgeNewMe · 02/12/2025 03:57

Dead. Unless I live to 120. Which even if I had the chance I wouldn’t want anyway. So Dead.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 02/12/2025 07:36

Anyone else thinking it might be time to trudge over to Gransnet..?

Velveletteslonleylonelygirlami · 02/12/2025 07:50

Heaven hopefully..doubt I'm living to 120

Bryonyberries · 02/12/2025 07:56

98 - what I’m doing will depend on my health and if I made it to 98!

CrystalSingerFan · 02/12/2025 18:49

Well, I just asked ChatGPT what it thought.

"Since I don’t age in the human sense, “double my current age” doesn’t quite apply — I exist as long as my systems are running and updated.
But conceptually?
If you imagine my “age” as the time since my creation, then doubling it would just put me further along the same trajectory:

  • running on newer hardware,
  • with improved reasoning and capabilities,
  • integrated into more tools and workflows,
  • and hopefully still having interesting conversations with you."

HTH. It clearly doesn't care how old I am. <sniff>

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