I turn 30 in about 6 months. This slide show didn't make me feel old, but it made me feel like I haven't done crap all with my life. Thanks Subby.

oh noes I am still alive and getting older!!!1!

Pfft...I ALREADY turned 30, so I'm getting a kick...out of feeling like a failure with my life. So, yeah, right with ya, INeedAName.

I'm so old I can remember an internet without slideshows.

I turned 30 this year. All that slideshow did was tell me that I haven't done much with my life at all compared to these people.

And by that I clearly mean I wish I had more money.

INeedAName: I turn 30 in about 6 months. This slide show didn't make me feel old, but it made me feel like I haven't done crap all with my life. Thanks Subby.

Heh. I guess turning 30 has also proved that I don't read a thread three posts in before commenting.....

moohawk: //Tila Tequila made it to 30?

Well, you get so many STDs in a body, they kinda keep your body together.

I'm more interested in the ones turning 18 this year.

PizzaJedi81: Pfft...I ALREADY turned 30, so I'm getting a kick...out of feeling like a failure with my life. So, yeah, right with ya, INeedAName.

This.

I remember going to sleep on the night of my 30th birthday thinking about all the things I had accomplished and all the things I hadn't. Then all the things I'd accomplished and somehow pissed away...usually chasing after a woman.

I can't speak for others but it seems growing older for me isn't a gradual process...one day you go to sleep and you realize you aren't who you woke up thinking you were.

I'd really like to avoid that feeling being amplified on my 40th...

texdent
I turned 30 two years ago. Still not over it.

well, then, you're screwed. unless you die soon.

then you won't have to deal with getting older.

/sorry, but sheesh

Wellon Dowd: I'm more interested in the ones turning 18 this year.

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This.

\giggity
\\a bit past 30

Wellon Dowd: I'm more interested in the ones turning 18 this year.

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Gadzooks, do I feel dirty watching that show sometimes. (By the way...weirdest episode ever last night?)

I turned 30 two weeks ago so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

The getting old effect is lessened when you've never heard of half the people in the slideshow.

PizzaJedi81: Wellon Dowd: I'm more interested in the ones turning 18 this year.

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Gadzooks, do I feel dirty watching that show sometimes. (By the way...weirdest episode ever last night?)

Alexis. Kate. Martha. Nathan. Whatever you're in the mood for.

(Haven't watched it yet.)

Wellon Dowd: PizzaJedi81: Wellon Dowd: I'm more interested in the ones turning 18 this year.

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Gadzooks, do I feel dirty watching that show sometimes. (By the way...weirdest episode ever last night?)

Alexis. Kate. Martha. Nathan. Whatever you're in the mood for.

(Haven't watched it yet.)

There's some mighty fine innuendo in last night's. Anyway...what about Lanie? You seem to have forgotten her!

PizzaJedi81: Anyway...what about Lanie? You seem to have forgotten her!

My apologies to you and to Miss Jones.

INeedAName: I turn 30 in about 6 months. This slide show didn't make me feel old, but it made me feel like I haven't done crap all with my life. Thanks Subby.

This, same time frame too

Justin Timberlake has slept with all the women on that list except Hayden Christensen.

the vast majority of these people look a LOT better than they did 5-10 years ago.

Except for Hayden Christensen, who looks like a child molester.

I feel old because of the farkers in this thread.

wingedkat: You couldn't pay me enough to go back to being 18 and stupid again.

But imagine if you knew everything you knew now, and got to go back to high school.

I actually think it'd be unfair. And I'd probably be a father of 19.

I turned 30 this year, and I have to say I'm not feeling that old. As far as the slide show, the only people who really looked their age were the Bush girls.

RexTalionis: wingedkat: Meh. I don't see why people are so obsessed with being young. 30 seems a lot like 26 seems a lot like 36 to me (33 now). You couldn't pay me enough to go back to being 18 and stupid again.

Maybe, but back then, all of my organs were fresh and unspoiled and they work even though I gave them terrible raw materials to work with.

Plus, I wasn't bald.

30 years and we are still using slideshows. do websites make money of reloads? thought it was some unique views crap. 32 reloads = profit?

HulkHands: H31N0US: I'm so old I can remember an internet without slideshows.

I'm so old I can remember a Fark where people didn't constantly whine about slideshow links.

I'm so old I fall asleep without warni

HulkHands: H31N0US: I'm so old I can remember an internet without slideshows.

I'm so old I can remember a Fark where people didn't constantly whine about slideshow links.

if only there were some technology that would prevent me from having to load the same page a billion times over. seems like if your sending the same data over and over, just keep it there, dont resend it. works well for HD....

Good year for 1981. I turned 30 this year too.
Kinda odd to think back about how I viewed "30 year olds" when I was younger. The movie "Old School" was on over the weekend. It was huge when I was in college. In it, Luke Wilson says to Vince "I'm 30 years old, I don't wanna start a fraternity". I remember watching it in my early 20's and thinking that these guys were grown men, and seemed way older than I feel now. Just an odd little thing (although he was 32 when it was filmed, still though).

And good to see I'm not alone, as I also feel like a complete failure now, despite having a career, great marriage, etc.


Dragonduck: the vast majority of these people look a LOT better than they did 5-10 years ago.


The older I get, the more I'm starting to realize that 30-45-ish is the real prime of a person's life. In your 20's, you're not fully developed, you're not 'cultured' or well-read. You have no experience. And you look like a kid that's trying to act like an adult.
In your 30's, you have a firm grasp on yourself as a person, your life, your career, etc. And physically you have matured to how "you" are supposed to look.
I was always a skinny kid. When I hit about 22 though, my metabolism changed and I was tubby. However a couple years ago I finally got a hold on it (because I spent my 20's partying like an idiot), and now my weight's back down, and I'm in better shape than most people I work with. And I'm infinitely more satisfied with myself as a whole now than I ever have been. Just seems like this time of our life is when the real 'fun' starts.
Of course... we don't have kids yet...


/Serena Williams was a surprise, I thought she would be about 45 by now. She looks at least that. Gah...

I turned 30 in October

/plays Skyrim while keeping an eye on his 2 year old.

I don't know. I work in youth ministry. Which basically means I get paid to be the most mature kid in the room. I look back and think, I'm behaving like I'm still 25 but at some point I have to grow up.

Then part of me says 'eff growing up, I'm still enjoying life.' I don't think we ever really 'grow up,' moreso I think we give up/give in and let ourselves get saddled with what everyone else tells us we need to be doing.

I know I don't have all the money a lot of those people have, but I've probably kept more kids from suicide/drugs/self-abuse. It ain't flashy, but I'll take it.

homarjr: INeedAName: I turn 30 in about 6 months. This slide show didn't make me feel old, but it made me feel like I haven't done crap all with my life. Thanks Subby.

Heh. I guess turning 30 has also proved that I don't read a thread three posts in before commenting.....

I turned 30 last March... Glad to see I'm not the only one who felt this way. Maybe it's normal?

Wasn't there a guy that hung around here with the username ChadMichaelMurray?

A troll, but usually good for a laugh. You gotta be really bored to troll the entertainment tab, maybe he gave up. Or maybe my memory is wrong and I am incorrectly labeling him a troll. Whatever

INeedAName: Then part of me says 'eff growing up, I'm still enjoying life.' I don't think we ever really 'grow up,' moreso I think we give up/give in and let ourselves get saddled with what everyone else tells us we need to be doing.

You are only as young as you feel

I would also say "You are only as young as you act" as well.

Sure, I am mature in some aspects, but I still play video games, I still watch cartoons, still goof off.

Just because I have adult responsibilities like a job and a family doesn't mean I have to do "adult approved activities" only.

/having a kid makes me act more like a kid :D

The saddest thing Ive realized recently is that my nieces and nephew have all been born and grown up while we have been at war.

Vanis: This.

I remember going to sleep on the night of my 30th birthday thinking about all the things I had accomplished and all the things I hadn't. Then all the things I'd accomplished and somehow pissed away...usually chasing after a woman.

I can't speak for others but it seems growing older for me isn't a gradual process...one day you go to sleep and you realize you aren't who you woke up thinking you were.

I'd really like to avoid that feeling being amplified on my 40th...

A lot of folks feel that way at some point in the cushy first world where we're constantly bombarded by people who are extreme endpoints of success, often due to considerable amounts of luck. There's a lot of unrealistic expectations we place on ourselves, at least those of us who aren't happy sitting home playing MW3 at the end of an 8 hour day of nonsensical working.

The only remedy when you feel that way is to get off your ass and do something that makes you feel like you're trying.

/and keep in mind that most folks at your age are getting married and having kids because it's "what people do", not because they necessarily are happier than you are

PizzaJedi81: Pfft...I ALREADY turned 30, so I'm getting a kick...out of feeling like a failure with my life. So, yeah, right with ya, INeedAName.

I'm with ya'