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To have LOL to the news about a 69 yo man who wishes to identify as 20 years younger?

84 replies

Overinvolved · 08/11/2018 00:35

Grin

Don’t know how to link but google “man wishes to identify as 20 years younger”.

He’s got a point!

OP posts:
dentydown · 08/11/2018 00:48

Currently with all the stress I identify as someone 20 years older. I don’t think I will get my bus pass though!

ScreamingValenta · 08/11/2018 00:49

Great idea! I'm going to identify as being 22 from now on.

TiredPony · 08/11/2018 00:50

I saw this earlier and wanted to start a thread but you beat me to it. Interesting though with Self-ID being such a hot topic - that's where his argument is coming from. I want to identify as a 29 year old please, just before I met ExH.

citiesofbismuth · 08/11/2018 00:52

I'm going to identify as a three year old so I can spend all day playing, napping, making a mess and having tantrums 😀

Pringlecat · 08/11/2018 01:03

I'd like to identify as 20 years older. I could do with getting my pension now, thank you. As tuppence-y as it will be now, it won't exist in 20 years.

MrsStrowman · 08/11/2018 01:09

I thought of MN as soon as I read it. His argument is that he had a recent medical and was told he had the biology and health of a man twenty years younger. With all the self ID stuff going on, I see his point! I'll be watching the case with interest

ILoveAutum · 08/11/2018 01:17

I’d like to self ID as a cat.

AGHHHH · 08/11/2018 01:27

I've started to self-ID as someone attractive.

I did have one more Tinder match than usual but it turned out to be a dog.

SuchAToDo · 08/11/2018 01:34

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3356084/amp/I-ve-gone-child-Husband-father-seven-52-leaves-wife-kids-live-transgender-SIX-YEAR-OLD-girl-named-Stefonknee.html

Op, That reminded me of this , a 52 year old man who identify as being a six year old girlShock

PositiveVibez · 08/11/2018 01:35

His 'feelz' should be as valid as anyone elses.

kateandme · 08/11/2018 01:40

id like to be a border collie please.
or a lion,god can you imagine just running like that.its would be so freeing! and prancing over trees and all over the place with no trouble.

AmICrazyorWhat2 · 08/11/2018 01:41

@ScreamingValenta

I'd also like to identify as a 22 year old, please! Can we be highly intelligent and completely gorgeous as well?

Or I might identify as my dog, he has a nice life. Grin

Rachelover40 · 08/11/2018 01:42

Wot dentydown said!

ScreamingValenta · 08/11/2018 01:51

@AmICrazyorWhat2

Ooh, yes please!

TheMythicalChicken · 08/11/2018 02:09

Go Emile, you legend Grin !

LilMadAgain · 08/11/2018 02:17

If I identify as dead can I avoid paying taxes? And all other bills?

KickAssAngel · 08/11/2018 02:50

If I identify as 5 years older, will my mortgage then become paid off (which it should be in 5 1/2 years). Then I can identify back to my current age, but mortgage free. Does it work like that?

DroningOn · 08/11/2018 02:59

Presumably his state pension (or whatever the Dutch equivalent is) will stop,

And his other senior benefits too. Or does he want to have his cake and eat it?

BasicUsername · 08/11/2018 03:00

White man who identifies as black receives grant funding meant for ethnic minorities:

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/04/white-actor-identifies-black-criticised-winning-place-scheme/amp/

olderthanyouthink · 08/11/2018 03:55

I identify as a baby boomer, so where's my relatively cheap house?

NarcolepticOuchMouse · 08/11/2018 04:04

Olderthan that was too real 😂 It hit me really hard in the feelz, I'd like to identify as that too please.

Bitchywaitress · 08/11/2018 04:16

Quote from article, all I can say is...

this>>>

The judge said that he had some sympathy with Mr Ratelband as people could now change their gender which would once have been unthinkable.

But the court said there would be practical problems in allowing people to change their birth date, as it would mean legally deleting part of their lives.

The judge asked Mr Ratelband about the status of his early years, from 1949 to 1969, if his official birth date was put back.

For whom did your parents care in those years? Who was that little boy back then?, the judge asked.

Bitchywaitress · 08/11/2018 04:19

Droning he is planning on renouncing his pension till his ‘new’ retirement date.

Can’t work out if this guy is delusional, extremely astute, or Holland’s best troll. Love it love it!

olderthanyouthink · 08/11/2018 04:33

I just posted this imaginary but not unheard of conversation on another thread about this:

When did you go to university?

1968

A year before you were born?

Yes

Same thing applies for how long have you been driving (a 20year old with more than 20 years driving experience and no claims???), how long have you been married/when did you get married? How old are your children (children older than yourself???)

Bitchywaitress · 08/11/2018 04:37

The man that self ids as a child is a total weirdo. The fact that an 8 year old girl (his so called adoptive ‘sister’) is being involved in his sick fantasy is absolutely disgusting.

Fair enough if this older couple want to pretend this man is their 6 year old grandchild, that’s up to them, but he shouldn’t be play acting with their actual DHC.