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To consider myself nearly middle aged at 26

237 replies

User6777000 · 04/10/2021 22:51

Would say from 30 onwards

OP posts:
LaProcureure · 04/10/2021 23:05

You’re fucking nuts.

AnyFucker · 04/10/2021 23:06

Do shut your cake hole

Scarby9 · 04/10/2021 23:07

Nope.
Wrong.
You are YOUNG!

Enjoy it.

Billandbob · 04/10/2021 23:07

Why do you think that? If you’re middle aged then I’m practically dead 😂

AppropriateAdult · 04/10/2021 23:08

Please. I'm 39, I'm only getting started.

sparepantsandtoothbrush · 04/10/2021 23:09

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BrickingIt44 · 04/10/2021 23:10

Oh for goodness sake don't be so ridiculous. God save us from people in their 20's deciding what old is Hmm

SinisterBumFacedCat · 04/10/2021 23:10

Just yourself? Depends, do obvious trolls have much lower their average life expectancy?

SinoohXaenaHide · 04/10/2021 23:10

Oh my sweet summer child.

When you are in your 40s you will look back on yourself at 26 and consider how terribly immature and naïve you were. You are not middle aged, you are young. Take joy in your youth, don't wish it away.

ElizabethTudor · 04/10/2021 23:11

@User6777000

Would say from 30 onwards
I’m glad I’m not you
CreamFirstThenJamOnTop · 04/10/2021 23:12

No!
I’m in my 40s and I’m just starting to feel that I might be heading toward middle age.

SoftSheen · 04/10/2021 23:15

Youth is wasted on the young.

FWBNC · 04/10/2021 23:15

@SinisterBumFacedCat

Just yourself? Depends, do obvious trolls have much lower their average life expectancy?
They definitely would if I got my hands on them!!

Because despite obviously being right on my expiry date (52) I still have enough strength left to see them off!!

MsWalterMitty · 04/10/2021 23:16

It’s true… the youth is wasted on the young

Anordinarymum · 04/10/2021 23:16

OMIGOD. Some threads on here are bloody stupid and this is a prime example.

I am 66. I am not any aged. Not middle or old or stone. (think about the last one)
I can do anything I ever did apart from jumping down off walls and doing the handstands (don't think my arms would stand the weight of my body)

You are only old if you wish to be so

Fool

EccentricaGalumbits · 04/10/2021 23:17

I can look back and say I hadn't even hit my prime at 26. That happened late 20s/very early 30s.

I suppose if you had a bunch of kids already you may be feeling more tired and worn out? But IME and for others I talk to, the body doesn't really start to slow down until well into your 40s. Unless you've made some really appalling health choices before that. Even then, if you are pretty careful about your health you should be in fine form beyond that.

Aquamarine1029 · 04/10/2021 23:18

If you're dead at 60, you'll be right. Keep us posted how it turns out.

Sn0tnose · 04/10/2021 23:18

I mean this in the kindest possible way, but my creaking knees, my peri menopausal mood swings, my grey roots, my newly acquired chin hair that is growing faster than I can pluck it, my newfound love of afternoon naps, my dislike of loud music at venues meaning you can’t hear anybody talk, my comatose metabolism, my new face wrinkles joining my eyes to my mouth and my inner voice asking me whether I think I’m too old to wear something are all telling your 26 year old self to fuck right off with your middle aged nonsense.

StoneofDestiny · 04/10/2021 23:18

Yes OP - you are middle aged. Now head to a darkened room......

Hapoydayz · 04/10/2021 23:19

You might be old before your time and do things most would expect old ladies to do but that doesn't make you middle aged. You are just about into being an adult. What a weird thought you've had

Ughmaybenot · 04/10/2021 23:19

What the fuck are you on about, you clown?

Thedogscollar · 04/10/2021 23:20

Why are stupid people allowed on here?

Mantlemoose · 04/10/2021 23:20

OP please do screenshot your OP and come back to it on 10 years

blablablafoghorn · 04/10/2021 23:21

🙄 gosh I may be nearly dead then At 46

Anordinarymum · 04/10/2021 23:21

@Ughmaybenot

What the fuck are you on about, you clown?
I smiled at this