'Sad' Rachel said she's old, born in 197something;

[elleng]

SOME of us are OLDER, like born in 194something, some even OLDER than that, like born in 192something.

SADDER still, Virginians elect governors from the Other party from that which just won the presidency.

[samnsara]

1. shes younger than my dtr

[marble falls]

3. Younger than my son.

[marble falls]

40. Never heard of it.

[marble falls]

45. I remember that one, thought I have known them in real life, but didn't.

[elleng]

4. Thanks, Chin; missed the detail.

[True Dough]

14. I know a fine DU poster who was born in 1973!

COUGH! True Dough COUGH!

[True Dough]

25. I'm going to look up that word

Be right back...

[Carlitos Brigante]

27. I wonder sometimes how many of us within that range post here. nt

[True Dough]

38. We're in the minority

But we're getting older every day!

[Polybius]

52. DU is the oldest site that I'm on

On any other site, my 48 year old ass is old. Here, I'm one of the younglings.

[True Dough]

53. I can relate

as I'm a fellow 48er! Next year, we'll be like the San Francisco __ers!

[Pas-de-Calais]

22. Heck, I graduated HS in '74.

[Pas-de-Calais]

37. Found DU after 2000 selection

that fiasco cemented me a Dem

that and my union father being a repub

[Carlitos Brigante]

26. '73?!! How dare she call my old ass.... "old"? nt

[Carlitos Brigante]

31. Ha! I am curious though how many of "us" we actually have here. Other than myself

I only know of a handful of us quadragenarians (to borrow the word from you). Time sure flies, given I signed up here 20 yrs. ago.

[Coventina]

5. Sadly, we women are programmed to believe that our expiration date is when we hit 25.

Internalized misogyny.

Even Rachel's not immune.

[elleng]

6. Fortunately, I missed that 'program.'

[Coventina]

8. Lucky! How do you think that happened?

I'm genuinely curious, because every woman of my acquaintance fights looking older in at least little ways.

Not to the extent of actually getting face-lifts and stuff, but dying their hair to cover gray, make-up to cover wrinkles, and stuff like that.

[elleng]

10. Great parents, for which the superficial was just that,

SUPERFICIAL.

[Coventina]

13. Fortunate you! My mother spent my entire childhood obsessively dieting.

Looking back at pictures now, she looked just fine.

But, she considered herself fat and therefore ugly, so my sister and I very much internalized fat = ugly and have been obsessed with our weight our entire adult lives....

My sister battled anorexia at one point....

[elleng]

18. So sorry to hear that.

My mother died young, she was young, brother and I were quite young; Dad remarried, and our adopted mother had a great sense of humor, did die her hair, but we didn't think anything of it.

My 'major' complaint about Dad, he wanted me to go to law school, said I'd ENJOY it! HAHAHAHAHAHA! (I did it on my own, later, didn't enjoy the school part, while working at the same time,) did enjoy the practice of law; enjoying retirement, and thanks to We the People, enjoying use of Fed govt. pension to do so.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. Hear, hear!

[brooklynite]

9. What does age have to do with the Virginia election?

[elleng]

11. Nothing, actually, but she used her birth year as example of the fact that

Virginians elect governors from the Other party from that which just won the presidency.

[canetoad]

12. Churchill was

Prime Minister of the UK when I was born.

*Only just....

[elleng]

19. Ditto (I think; FDR was President for a few months after I was born.)

[MuseRider]

17. Good lord!

I graduated from High School before she was born. It always cracks me up but then again, younger people are certainly allowed to feel old as they get there. It just gets funnier from this standpoint as we go along.

[elleng]

20. I graduated from COLLEGE before she was born!!!

[Scrivener7]

21. We're all older than we have ever been before.

[Scrivener7]

58. .

[JohnSJ]

23. The problem is the postal office delay of ballot deliveries

and what took the Democratic Party so long to sue the postal service

[elleng]

24. ONE of 'the' problems.

[UTUSN]

30. I hate young people - what "emoji" "smilie" or whachamacallit should i post here?!1

[MFM008]

34. 1973

i was in my first year of High School.......

[malaise]

35. Ha

[malaise]

36. Ha

[MiniMe]

42. Some of us are inbetween

Born in 195something

[shenmue]

43. I was born in 1973 m'self

[elleng]

44. HI, Kid!

[demigoddess]

50. got a daughter older than you.

[PlanetBev]

46. Hey, Rachel....

I had to laugh at that one. Try 1950. I have a blacklight poster older than you.

[Raine]

47. Geesh I'm older then her, I guess I'm ancient! 😲 👎 nt

[electric_blue68]

48. Junior in College... she's around 20 years younger than me

Heh ... and my post is #48!

[Hekate]

49. Ah, she's just a kid. They get younger all the time. nt

[Polybius]

51. I say the same thing about myself

Born in 70-something. 20's was by far my favorite, 40's stinks. I can no longer move with blinding speed, pounce like a cat, and and have the flexibility of a gymnast.

[KentuckyWoman]

54. In all fairness ...

Somewhere around 40 is when I felt old for the first time. I remember distinctly having a little trouble getting up off the floor after sitting cross legged for several hours playing with little ones. A few days later one of my favorite songs came on the radio set to the "oldies" station.

Within a few years the "old" feeling passed and I made peace with the minor inconveniences of aging and fact "cool" moves on. I can still get in the floor and get up fine, but it isn't very elegant and I make crackling sounds.

[betsuni]

55. Because a person starts to feel old around that age, but it's irritating

for actual old people to hear about "I'm old" because the serious old people problems come later. But when being old is new, it's weird! Like going to bed early and waking up early. What the hell.

[kskiska]

56. 77 here. Born under FDR's administration.

[elleng]

57. Just about with you,

77 in Feb; FDR passed a few months after I was born.

[ecstatic]

59. Regarding her election commentary, traditional wisdom went out the window with Georgia's special

election. Everyone was sure the republicans would take it. You never know how these things will play out, especially with tfg's negative influence.

[triron]

60. Wonder if those 'mail-in' ballots are being sent out to the voters?