Why is 40 called the, "New Twenty"?
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I got carded for cigarettes a few months ago. The cashier said they had to card anyone who looked under 30. I'm almost 44...0
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I will be 48 on Friday and I feel like 48 and fuckinfabulous too!!!
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littlemissbgiff wrote: »@J_Surita3 Would have never guessed 48! You are fuckinfabulous!!Cutaway_Collar wrote: »
That proves my theory. You look 25. So does the OP.I will be 48 on Friday and I feel like 48 and fuckinfabulous too!!!
@littlemissbgiff looks like she is 24
Thank you, darlins! xoxo 0 -
LiftingLady5 wrote: »LiftingLady5 wrote: »Now that I'm 40 I have to watch out for "sleep injuries"....like when you go to bed and you are fine, then you wake up and you threw out your back by sleeping, or you pulled a muscle in your shoulder by rolling over. I don't remember that happening when I was 20.
can you even remember 20?
I remember, maybe seven things
show off
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thisonetimeatthegym wrote: »Being comfortable with yourself is great, but more often I see it from grown women acting like kids.
So I do stuff - gymnastics, trapeze, play at the playground, organize pick up games of duck, duck goose, slide down the slide, play on the monkey bars, do splits in the air on the trampoline, do back flips into the pool.
The other moms sit and play on their cell phones and gossip with each other.
Is this what you mean?
Not at all. Thanks for playing though.
So you mean just emotional immaturity.0 -
cuz 40 yr old men are fkkin hawt!0
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xtinalovexo wrote: »cuz 40 yr old men are fkkin hawt!PlaydohPants wrote: »xtinalovexo wrote: »cuz 40 yr old men are fkkin hawt!
This is true
Where were y'all when I was 40?? lol
considering that youre 99, i wasnt born yet.1 -
thisonetimeatthegym wrote: »thisonetimeatthegym wrote: »Being comfortable with yourself is great, but more often I see it from grown women acting like kids.
So I do stuff - gymnastics, trapeze, play at the playground, organize pick up games of duck, duck goose, slide down the slide, play on the monkey bars, do splits in the air on the trampoline, do back flips into the pool.
The other moms sit and play on their cell phones and gossip with each other.
Is this what you mean?
Not at all. Thanks for playing though.
So you mean just emotional immaturity.
Kinda like that story in the news recently of the teen who overdosed while his mom and grandma partied on. That kind of immature.0 -
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GnothiSeauton23 wrote: »thisonetimeatthegym wrote: »thisonetimeatthegym wrote: »Being comfortable with yourself is great, but more often I see it from grown women acting like kids.
So I do stuff - gymnastics, trapeze, play at the playground, organize pick up games of duck, duck goose, slide down the slide, play on the monkey bars, do splits in the air on the trampoline, do back flips into the pool.
The other moms sit and play on their cell phones and gossip with each other.
Is this what you mean?
Not at all. Thanks for playing though.
So you mean just emotional immaturity.
Kinda like that story in the news recently of the teen who overdosed while his mom and grandma partied on. That kind of immature.
I think immature would be if the mom or grandma overdosed like a teen. Sounds to me like the mom and grandma were rallying like true adults.
Granted very, very irresponsible ones.
I'm sure they were on something as well. She wanted to be the fun mom though. Nothing says fun like a crap ton of heroin.0 -
I'm 44 and party like a 20 year old if that counts lol1
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Im 42, and I have more fun, party more, look better, feel better, than I ever did when I was 20. If I knew back then what I know now, I would not have wasted that last 20 years. When your 20 you figure you have the whole rest of your life to do, and see everything you ever wanted. When you get to 40 your realize your life is half over, and you have not done anything you wanted to do while you were 20 and 30. So you make a point of realizing your dreams, while you can.1
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I am pretty sure that nobody who is 20 is saying 40 is the new 20. They just think people in their 40s are old.
But at 47, I don't feel much older than I did in my 20s. And when i take off my glasses and everything is fuzzy, I don't think I look much older either.2 -
thisonetimeatthegym wrote: »thisonetimeatthegym wrote: »Being comfortable with yourself is great, but more often I see it from grown women acting like kids.
So I do stuff - gymnastics, trapeze, play at the playground, organize pick up games of duck, duck goose, slide down the slide, play on the monkey bars, do splits in the air on the trampoline, do back flips into the pool.
The other moms sit and play on their cell phones and gossip with each other.
Is this what you mean?
Not at all. Thanks for playing though.
So you mean just emotional immaturity.
Kinda like that story in the news recently of the teen who overdosed while his mom and grandma partied on. That kind of immature.
That's sad.0 -
I have more self confidence now , being 41 than I did when I was 20 and a lot thinner. I'm still trying to lose 60 lbs but I down myself, like before1
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I don't understand why people think 30's and 40's is old, though. Because it's not old. It's young, healthy, fit, hot, energetic, classy. With the added confidence and maturity. I think people have misperception about age. So, maybe when they get to 40 and realize how young and alive they are, they think 40 is the new 20. Instead of realizing that's what 40 is. People place funny expectations on people based on age and certain types of status. Actually mostly on women. I think it's great to break those expectations any chance you can (in a good way, of course). While also not fighting against the natural process of getting older. But, that just means to do whatever you want.
Though it made me smile when I told my grandmother that she looked great at 80, and she said 80 is the new 60 right?3 -
BinaryPulsar wrote: »I don't understand why people think 30's and 40's is old, though. Because it's not old. It's young, healthy, fit, hot, energetic, classy. With the added confidence and maturity. I think people have misperception about age. So, maybe when they get to 40 and realize how young and alive they are, they think 40 is the new 20. Instead of realizing that's what 40 is. People place funny expectations on people based on age and certain types of status. Actually mostly on women. I think it's great to break those expectations any chance you can (in a good way, of course). While also not fighting against the natural process of getting older. But, that just means to do whatever you want.
Though it made me smile when I told my grandmother that she looked great at 80, and she said 80 is the new 60 right?
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Ppl who are sad about being 40 made it up to make themselves feel better0
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xtinalovexo wrote: »xtinalovexo wrote: »cuz 40 yr old men are fkkin hawt!PlaydohPants wrote: »xtinalovexo wrote: »cuz 40 yr old men are fkkin hawt!
This is true
Where were y'all when I was 40?? lol
considering that youre 99, i wasnt born yet.
99 is the new 98...
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I'm 58. My parents and their generation, and even a lot of people from my generation had the preconceived notion that once you were a certain age, your body just wore out. It was your destiny to barely be able to get out of bed in the morning and hobble around all day because you had so many aches and pains. You were ready for the rocking chair. That philosophy is now being turned on its head. Not so long ago it was incomprehensible that people over 40 would be running marathons. People in their nineties are running marathons! Speaking for myself, I had grown up unathletic. Because I believed that was just the way it was, I never dreamed I could run a mile, much less a half marathon, and I didn't even start running until I was 53! I was in better shape at 55 than I had been at 40...even when I was 20! So that might be a reason people say 40 is the new 20. I've beaten more than one 20 year old in a race, and I've spun circles around several youngsters in spin class. Not to mention there have been folks much older than I who have whupped my sorry butt in a race or on a spin bike. The old saying really is true! USE IT OR LOSE IT!3
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Motorsheen wrote: »Current average life expectancy for American women is 81.1 years.
Current average life expectancy for American men is 76.4 years.
The collective midpoint for women is 40 years and six months old.
The collective midpoint for men is 38 years and 5 months old.
Men and women older than the collective midpoint, are, on average, past their middle age and have lived more than half their lives already.
And that's pretty much it. The rest of the perky declarations concerning age - including 40 is the new 30, 50 is the new 40 and 70 is still young - are exercises in whistling in the dark.
Q- Do you know why husbands die before their wives?
A - We want to.
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And sometimes we wish you would! 0
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I am pretty sure that nobody who is 20 is saying 40 is the new 20. They just think people in their 40s are old.
But at 47, I don't feel much older than I did in my 20s. And when i take off my glasses and everything is fuzzy, I don't think I look much older either.
But eyebrows, though.
I'm 47, too, and mine are growing rampant I can't see them to do owt about it!0 -
Because 40 candles are just too many to put on a birthday cake, easier to scale it down 50%
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FitGirl_Running wrote: »And sometimes we wish you would!
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