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I was born in 1989 and the math is HARD some days.

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[-] QueenAlucia@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Does anybody need to calculate their age? It's not a hard thing to remember :|

[-] Robbsen1@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes I just forget ok? I mean it's changing every year

Also I think it matters less and less in your life. As a child/teenager you got asked for your age all the time

[-] MarekKnapek@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It changes all the time (once per year) if you finally managed to remember it, it changes again.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

As someone who is well out of the range where people need to ask for ID when I want something, I don't concern myself with my age and frequently forget since nobody asks.

On official forms, they want to know my date of birth, not my age. Everyone I know socially, doesn't care or already knows an approximation of it, thus I'm never asked. All my work colleagues are interested in is getting the job done, not how many years I've been in the workforce/how many years till I get to retirement age/whatever.

I don't think about my age for more than a few hours a year at most. I don't even celebrate my birthday. So the years come and go, and I think about how old I am so little that I often don't even know how old I am.

You're not wrong that it's not hard to remember, but when you think about it as little as I do, you tend to lose track.... So when someone asks me how old I am, I often don't reply because I'm too busy doing math in my head to try to figure it out, quietly hoping they'll move on from the question and I won't have to answer it.

[-] netvor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The hard part is which one will you remember. (I already had 43 different ages.)

[-] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

I do. I know my age roughly of course, but I very very rarely get asked how old I am, so I forget the extact number.

[-] darkmugglet@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

The entitlement of the younglins these days. I swear, they are getting soft. I have to take the current year, and add twenty, but the lazy ass youth just have to subtract their birth year from the current year. Maths will suffer because they don't have to do addition. Pure insanity and liberal malarkey.

Oh yeah, /s

[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

There's still the part of the year before the birthday and the part of the year after the birthday.

[-] Dayman773@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was born in January 2000. For a very short period of time I don't know how old I am or what year it is, but then the rest of the year is pretty easy after that.

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[-] Spoilt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The hardest is my parents' age.

  • 1965 to 2000 -> 35
  • 2000 to 2023 -> 23
  • 35 + 23 = brain leaking
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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Why do people even calculate this? It's an integer you only have to increment once a year. Just remember your age.

I hardly remember what I was doing 5 seconds ago. Sure, that's more complicated than a number, and I think about my age rather frequently so remembering it is rather easy, but storing anything for a year and remembering it when I haven't thought about it for a while is difficult.

[-] McJonalds@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

as i get older i find myself wondering sometimes if im still my age or the next one already

[-] seb@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Also for you to calculate your age you have to remember your birthday, thats like 3 integers, vs. just 1 for your age!

[-] Betch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

But you still have to know what year it is.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

its just 11 + the current year.
I am 1988 so i am 12 + the current year.

Didn't think of it like that until your post but it is pretty easy.

[-] timidgoat@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

You're 2035 years old? Wild..

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] timidgoat@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Bad ass. Can you fly me to my appointment later?

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[-] eochaid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Math like that is really simple if you take it in easy chunks.

For example, to calc your age, just take the years from birthday to 2000 (11) and add it to the years since 2000 (23). 11 + 23 = 34.

Best part is the first calc never changes - so if you remember thst number it's just like having a 2000 birthday. Just add 11.

[-] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

But I'm only 33! So part of the challenge is also remembering what day it is today lol

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Do you guys not remember how old you are year to year? Are you frequently calculating your age from your birth year instead of just adding 1 to it on your birthday?

[-] Relic5646@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I always thought it was nuts that people don't remember, then I turned 30 and got married to someone who has a birthday less than a year before mine. Now I have two ages to remember (that are sometimes the same) and it takes a second for me to remember which is me when asked.

[-] Underwear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not about your age difference. It's just hitting 30. My wife is 5 years younger than me and I couldn't tell you how old either of us are

[-] narikov@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes! Preach! This is me too. And in addition to being poor at maths I'm also not articulate so I just end up looking goofy when trying to figure out which age is me.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

a birthday less than a year before mine

This took me far too long to understand

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[-] CaldeiraG@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[-] CaldeiraG@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Indeed, I was supposed to born on the 31st Dec 1999 but didn't feel like it I guess :)

[-] Virgo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Born in 99. Can confirm I just take the year and say I was that age for most of it

[-] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 year ago

Unless you are like me. I forget what year it is.

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[-] narikov@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I thought I had it easy. Born in 1990. 2022? I'm 32. 2023? I'm 33.

But now I am married. Dec 2019. So it's always hard to calculate how many years.

And to add to it. My daughter is born Nov 2021.

Good luck to anyone that asks me how old she is. You gotta wait until I count on all my fingers.

[-] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I have a daughter who is 6 and a son who is 4. So when people ask what year they are born I need to try and do reverse math.

[-] GeekFTW@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

'84 here. For years now I just round myself up or down to the nearest 5 and call it a day lol

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

For like 3 years I legit thought I was older than I am because I did the math wrong on the fly once and never bothered to recheck it..

Your system is easier.

[-] HomesliceAbe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My aunt and uncle got married new years day of 2000. Very easy to remember.

[-] darkkite@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

how do you not know how old you are?

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's fairly common that people do some math in their head, specially when they get older than 30. Because it doesn't matter really, you never need to tell anyone how old you are anymore. Well unless you use dating apps I guess, or date people... Nobody else asks your age.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not too long ago, I was filling out a medical form and I had to ask my wife how old I was. She had to think about it. We're the same age.

[-] CuriousGeorge@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

At some point, I've been asked less and less my age, so I just forget about it heh

[-] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

same for people born in 2010

[-] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

1970 gang unite!

[-] dcatdemon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's hard to calculate when reality sets in. There's also a bit of reluctance from me as a lot of expectations follow me when I reveal my age even when I don't look like how old I am. It's like suddenly you feel that you are not so welcome in some conversations any more or people keep you out of their circles because they presume that you don't fit in.

I've gotten way past that and while realising that my body isn't what it was physically 20 years ago, I'm treating age as just a number and if one has a problem with that, it's really their problem not mine 🙂

And by the way, I was born in 1971.

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You'd be surprised...

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

On the other hand, it makes it easier for the people who have to check your ID when buying alcohol. Any birth year that begins with 19 is automatically old enough.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Oh trust me, my face is evidence enough alone.

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