My Age explains Everything!

[Padreruf]

For fun I asked Google what percentage of the US population is younger than me. Here's the answer:
Using U.S. Census Bureau data from July 2024, approximately
6.5% of the U.S. population is older than 74. This is calculated based on single-year age data, which estimates the percentage of the population aged 75 and over.
Key statistics from the July 2024 U.S. population estimates:

• Total percentage of the population 75 and over: 6.5%
• For females: 7.6% of the female population is 75 or older.
• For males: 5.4% of the male population is 75 or older.

This means you are older than roughly 93.5% of the U.S. population.

No wonder I have trouble finding TV shows or movies that cater to me...I have become what I so detested when younger...an old curmudgeon!!! LOL.

 

[Bodhisattva]

For fun I asked Google what percentage of the US population is younger than me. Here's the answer:
Using U.S. Census Bureau data from July 2024, approximately
6.5% of the U.S. population is older than 74. This is calculated based on single-year age data, which estimates the percentage of the population aged 75 and over.
Key statistics from the July 2024 U.S. population estimates:

• Total percentage of the population 75 and over: 6.5%
• For females: 7.6% of the female population is 75 or older.
• For males: 5.4% of the male population is 75 or older.

This means you are older than roughly 93.5% of the U.S. population.

No wonder I have trouble finding TV shows or movies that cater to me...I have become what I so detested when younger...an old curmudgeon!!! LOL.

When I visit my mom at her assisted living community, she and the other ladies are always watching Colombo. They get into it too - catcalling the villain and cheering when Peter Falk cracks the case. I could use my significant influence, put in a good word for you, and maybe have them save you a seat.

 

[Tidewater]

For fun I asked Google what percentage of the US population is younger than me. Here's the answer:
Using U.S. Census Bureau data from July 2024, approximately
6.5% of the U.S. population is older than 74. This is calculated based on single-year age data, which estimates the percentage of the population aged 75 and over.
Key statistics from the July 2024 U.S. population estimates:

• Total percentage of the population 75 and over: 6.5%
• For females: 7.6% of the female population is 75 or older.
• For males: 5.4% of the male population is 75 or older.

This means you are older than roughly 93.5% of the U.S. population.

No wonder I have trouble finding TV shows or movies that cater to me...I have become what I so detested when younger...an old curmudgeon!!! LOL.

Well, welcome aboard.
Come on in. The water is fine.

A friend of mine who lives next to a college town complains bitterly about "the Creatures" as he call college students. "The Creature clog up the road network! The drive too fast! They play music too loud! I caught one of them urinating in a grocery store parking lot!"
It struck me how much he sounded like his father, whom I knew when my friend and I were in high school together.


Now, get off my lawn!

 

[Bazza]

I truly believe we lived during the best times our society will ever experience. The music, the art, the music, the fashion, the music, the cars, the music....

Also - the key to happiness is to be grateful at every opportunity possible. Because no one will ever be able to take that away from you....it's your super power!

 

[selmaborntidefan]

What's funny is this continuum. Way back around 2011 or so, I had the praise team in a meeting and used a parallel, saying, "It's not like Ronald Reagan's Star Wars plan or anything." Literally nobody at the table EXCEPT for the guy older than I had any idea what I was even talking about. But it gets worse.

Fast forward to 2016. One night as it became obvious that Clinton and Trump would be the nominees, I came across an April 1992 episode of "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson and he told a joke that tied together the 1992 Clinton campaign with yet another problem businessman Trump was having. I laughed and shared it with this guy the next day at work. After I finished he looked straight at me with the utmost sincerity and said, "Who's Johnny Carson?"

I called my mother that night and we talked, and when she noted this guy wasn't old enough to recall that, I said, "Mom, I never saw "The Ed Sullivan Show" or Soupy Sales's show or Red Skelton or Phil Silvers, etc. But I know who they were, and I didn't even have You Tube to learn those things!!"

I even pointed out, "You know, Otis Redding died before I was born, but I know who he was. You're telling me this guy (who was born in 1984) gets a pass for having never heard of John Belushi?"

 

[alabama mike1]

As I age, I am finding out more and more how out of touch I am with today's young adults and parents. I do not feel old at 64 but according to society us boomers are ancient.

 

[Elefantman]

As I age, I am finding out more and more how out of touch I am with today's young adults and parents. I do not feel old at 64 but according to society us boomers are ancient.

Well we did have pet dinosaurs when we were kids.

 

[Ole Man Dan]

For fun I asked Google what percentage of the US population is younger than me. Here's the answer:
Using U.S. Census Bureau data from July 2024, approximately
6.5% of the U.S. population is older than 74. This is calculated based on single-year age data, which estimates the percentage of the population aged 75 and over.
Key statistics from the July 2024 U.S. population estimates:

• Total percentage of the population 75 and over: 6.5%
• For females: 7.6% of the female population is 75 or older.
• For males: 5.4% of the male population is 75 or older.

This means you are older than roughly 93.5% of the U.S. population.

No wonder I have trouble finding TV shows or movies that cater to me...I have become what I so detested when younger...an old curmudgeon!!! LOL.

Same here.