The DTF Old As Mold Club v. 40 IS The New 30! Kids Stay Out!

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So... in 4 months will I be initiated as a member of this club?

[jingle.boy]

Only if you actually spend some time around here.   

Who are you again?

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Only if you actually spend some time around here.   

Who are you again?

My name is Forrest Gump.  People call me Forrest Gump.

[Orbert]

Update: Your Kid's Friends Might Be Psychos

My 15-year-old daughter spent all day yesterday at her friend's house.  Let's call the friend Devo.  My wife said that she was basically "babysitting" Devo because she's been thinking about cutting.  Cutting... what, like cutting class?  No, cutting, and she mimes cutting across the inside of her arm with a knife.  Oh, that kind of cutting.

I happen to know that Devo is much closer to another friend of theirs, Carlie.  Devo and Carlie have known each other since they were five years old, and my daughter came into the picture maybe five years after that.  Devo and Carlie's Facebook pictures refer to each other as BFFs, which has actually been a source of some frustration for my daughter, who regards them both as friends and it hurts her that they clearly regard her as a "lesser" friend.

Anyway, I asked my wife why our daughter is babysitting Devo and not Carlie.  They're BFFs and all that, right?  (And also, they diss my daughter so let them fucking help each other through this.)  It turns out that Carlie was recently admitted to the mental ward of the local hospital.  She's been having "suicidal thoughts".  And now Devo is "thinking" of cutting herself.

HFS, are all high school girls crazy?  I mean, my daughter can be pretty nutty too, but not literally crazy.

I have no idea what the point of this was.  Guess I just needed to vent and share.

[El Barto]

Maybe her friend just has an Uncontrollable Urge.

[Orbert]

??

[Cyclopssss]

Peer pressure man, that shit is a bitch. I just never understood why ´how other people think about you´ could ever get THAT important. When I was that age, I just flunked out. But perhaps it´s easier if you are/were a boy. 

[El Barto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRENoPisFYk

A more serious answer, all teenage girls are crazy. Some just handle it better than others. 

One thing I can tell you for sure is that teenagers getting tossed into loony bins doesn't necessarily mean much. Since all of them are insured, treating mental health issues becomes a highly profitable enterprise. I certainly went to visit a few female friends in "rehab," and none of them really had any problems other than typical teen angst.

One of my first jobs was working for a records management company, and I spent hours a day hiding in the archive reading psych records for a chain of these bogus facilities, and most of the kids they admitted were pretty normal. There probably isn't a kid alive that can't be pigeonholed into at least one axis-1 disorder, and therefore put away for 3 months until the insurance runs out. I suspect the posters you had on your wall when you were a kid would have been sufficient to label you mentally fucked by their fraudulent standards.

Fortunately, towards the end of my job there the FBI came down really hard on the bastards.

[hefdaddy42]

HFS, are all high school girls crazy?

Yes.  I speak from experience.

[tapsmiled]

I'll be 42 in 3 weeks. 

On a side note, ive always wondered: At what age is it proper to stop using the "...and a half" after your age?

[Orbert]

For guys, age 5.  You're in school now; nobody cares if you're "five and a half" because you're still in kindergarten and that extra half year doesn't mean jack.  All that matters is what grade you're in, and eventually that won't even matter.

For women, no one knows.  They have their own rules and do not share them with us.

[El Barto]

On a side note, ive always wondered: At what age is it proper to stop using the "...and a half" after your age?

When you start having to do math in your head to get your age in whole numbers. That started for me a couple of years ago.

[King Postwhore]

No matter how shitty my day was as a kid, those kinds of thoughts never entered my mind.  It was either, fuck things up, or oh well.  I just had a real shitty day but tomorrow is a new start.  Maybe it's the beer I just cracked that's talking.   

[tapsmiled]

Well I'm 41 and 94/100ths old dammit.

[YtseBitsySpider]

I'm 38...and a half.

Yesterday morning a spider terrified me in the shower and I jumped back and screamed. Turns out it was navel lint and hair that balled up and washed down to sit on the bottom of the tub and LOOK like a killer death spider, but was in fact NOT a killer death spider.

[Hyperplex]

I've been a member of this club for just less than a year and I just now feel I'm in a career that will help me flourish. I'm finally being more than fairly compensated and it has made all the difference in the world in how I view my professional life.

/random interjection from out of nowhere

[lonestar]

Still in the "honeymoon" phase, eh bud?

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

For guys, age 5.  You're in school now; nobody cares if you're "five and a half" because you're still in kindergarten and that extra half year doesn't mean jack.  All that matters is what grade you're in, and eventually that won't even matter.

For women, no one knows.  They have their own rules and do not share them with us.

It still confuses me when someone says their kid is (for example) 14 months.  No, your kid is 1.  23 months?  Still 1.  25 months?  Your kid is 2.  Unless, of course, people wouldn't find it odd when I tell them I'm 449 months.  In fact, maybe I should start doing that...

Seriously though, why is it so important to people how many months old a baby is (especially after they turn 1) and why is there some arbitrary line somewhere, wherein people stop caring about months old and convert to years old?

[Orbert]

I think it's because they're still changing quite a bit at the age, and there can be a lot of difference between, say, 11 months and 23 months.  If the kid is 11 months, you might be tempted to round up to 1 year.  Okay, the kid is a year old.  If by your logic the kid isn't 2 yet when he's 23 months old, then he's still only 1 year old.  You run into the same friends you saw a year ago, tell them the kid is 1 year old and they go "Holy shit! Still only a year old?  He looks so much bigger!"  And he's actually over twice as old as he was the last time they saw him.

[King Postwhore]

You know your old when a band you want to see is playing on a weeknight and it factors if you see them or not.

[slycordinator]

Age of kids get confusing when you take culture into context. Like this Korean Chiropractor at the office said there they are counted as age 1 when born then on new year's they get another year (as opposed to on their birthday). So a kid born on new year's eve at 11:59 is 2, one minute later. WTF?

[El Barto]

You know your old when a band you want to see is playing on a weeknight and it factors if you see them or not.

Or the Patriots on MNF. 

[King Postwhore]

You know your old when a band you want to see is playing on a weeknight and it factors if you see them or not.

Or the Patriots on MNF. 

You bastard!!

Sucks getting up at 5:00am to go to work.  I'm training a guy as my back up here so I can loosen up that schedule.

[El Barto]

You know your old when a band you want to see is playing on a weeknight and it factors if you see them or not.

Or the Patriots on MNF. 

You bastard!!

Sucks getting up at 5:00am to go to work.  I'm training a guy as my back up here so I can loosen up that schedule.

After seeing how miserable the trip out of Foxboro is, I honestly can't say that I blame you. They really need to do something about that.

[King Postwhore]

And I'm an hour and a half out.  It seems that they want to control to much when it comes to the infrastructure.  To have a big parking lot with only one exit and one lane is absurd.

[Beowulf]

Well, i'm not sure if I should be a part of this group.  I mean, I am only 521 months old.

[Dublagent66]

Shouldn't the thread title be changed to 40 & Over?  30's ain't that old.

[eric42434224]

43 here

[lonestar]

43 here

[King Postwhore]

45 in two weeks.  Where the hell did the years go?

[Cyclopssss]

47...going on 48....goddamn! 

[Beowulf]

43 and going to be single again for the first time in this millenium.  For the first time in about 20 years.  I'm a-scared.  I'm too old for this shit.  Maybe I'll just stick with the online pr0n.  At least it doesn't talk back...  unless I want it to.   

[Tick]

Shouldn't the thread title be changed to 40 & Over?  30's ain't that old.

It felt like it was when I got there. Certainly not anymore.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Any of you live far enough away from the rest of your family that you sometimes feel like you're kinda "out of sight, out of mind"?

[El Barto]

Any of you live far enough away from the rest of your family that you sometimes feel like you're kinda "out of sight, out of mind"?

Kinda the opposite, for me. I tend to worry about my moms a bit more, since I'll often not speak with her for a few weeks at a time. As for the rest of my family, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. As I get older, I find I enjoy family gatherings less and less. Birthday/holiday phone calls are better than big gettogethers.