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.

 

[Padreruf]

My wife and I took our grandkids (4) to an incredible event last night -- a DUDE PERFECT event at the North Charleston Coliseum . It was the most fun I have had in years.

Our grands (ages 9-13) knew all the songs and moves that went with them. They were into the games and pulling for the "Squad" against the villains -- 5 Harlem Globetrotters (what a change.). The Squad won 4-3 in games won...interesting that it came out that close (hmm...the fix was in??). Ended with Brandon Lake sharing some words about his faith and leading a song of his -- Gratitude -- that every one seemed to know.

The played clips of their You Tube Podcast and other things -- all well done and fun.

We should have more events like this...I am a convert!!

Edit -- (By all accounts I was the oldest "dude" in the room!!! LOL.)

 

[BamaHoHo]

https://flowingdata.com/2024/06/18/older-or-younger-than-the-population/

 

[Its On A Slab]

I will by 67 in December.

Retired last December.

Just about every day, I get a flyer in the mail for assisted living and senior living places.

I'm nowhere near ready for those places.

I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

 

[Bazza]

I met a 92 year old man tonight at Walmart.

He was choosing some tomatoes and I was choosing some corn on the cob in the next bin over.

I heard him ask a WM associate how old the tomatoes were. Also "I love tomatoes!"

At the time I didn't know his age, but was curious how he liked his tomatoes.

So a little while later on he was over at the soup and salad section placing some salads in his cart. These are the pre-made salads - most of them "kits" with several different ingredients included. So I decided to ask him. He replied that he liked to put them in the salads he was buying. That's it.

Eventually the conversation turned to diet and healthy eating and he shared with me he had been all over the world with his job (HVAC) and most of the guys he worked with have all passed away now because they neglected their health. Of course at that point I had to ask his age. 92.

Then he told me he still works 4 days a week helping lay out fittings (I assume for an HVAC contractor).

Said he sometimes thinks maybe he'll cut back a bit.

Of course in my mind I was just smiling and shaking my head.

What an inspiration!