Dear ILX, as a special present for me, on my birthday, please can I have a list of 100 reasons why being over 30 is better than being under 30?

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Thankyou!

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

1. No more mid-20s angst!

― Dan (And So On) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

There are no doubt reasons why being over 30 is better. But they are far outweighed by the reasons why being under 30 is better, I'm afraid.

― dream logic, Friday, 16 December 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

i cannot think of any

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

2. Download old episodes of 30-something, watch them, be glad your life is nothing like that.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

3. Youngsters will start respecting your authority.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

4. You are on the verge of looking "distinguished".

― Dan (And So On) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

5. You get to celebrate your billion second birthday in er about a year and a half I think.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

To be honest, life is so much better in every way, now that I'm over 30. But if you asked me for one tangible reason, I couldn't give one. It's not that bad things don't happen, it's just that you don't care so much. Things don't bother you as much as they did when you were in your teens and 20s because you've seen most of them before.

― Kate Classic (kate), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

6. You've got a 50 percent chance of losing your hair in your thirties - hey, no more anguishing over hairstyles!

― trp, Friday, 16 December 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

7. All the politicians you hated so much when you were twenty actually start to die!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Hey, be thankful your twenties were so much fun! Most people's twenties are a morass of relationship woes, life-purpose anxiety and eating disorders. You, on the other hand, mastered the decade! Your thirties will be even better, because happiness is a skill that you hone over time. Embrace aging. You don't have a choice. If you start the whining now you're going to be unbearable when you hit eighty and your grandchildren will avoid you and you'll never find out about all the good new bands.
Happy Birthday!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

i'm so ready to be done with my twenties. i'm armed with antioxidants -- bring on old age!

― the people are such untight s wads (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Most people's twenties are a morass of relationship woes, life-purpose anxiety

nope, can't relate at all. no ma'am.

― the people are such untight s wads (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

The thirties are actually fine. It's the forties when the body goes to pieces and the mid-life crisis sets in...

― fortysomething, Friday, 16 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

You no longer labor under the misapprehension that you need to find that perfect love out there. You learn to compromise.

― Mitya (mitya), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

how depressing.

― the people are such untight s wads (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Bollocks. You get sick of compromising and learn to accept that you will die alone and be eaten by your neighbours' Irish Wolfhound.

― Kate Classic (kate), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

8. You're less stupid.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

You get sick of compromising and learn to accept that you will die alone

nonsense. you'll have your cats... all 36 of them.

― the people are such untight s wads (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

9. Actually, as you get older, you realise your hair is not going as grey as fast you thought it would, you're still relatively fit and capable, and all in all, it's not as bad as you feared.

10. OK, so you get knackered afer x, but then, you don't remember that when you were younger you also were knackered after x.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Nah, I'm not into keeping cats. It's OK, I'll just start locking men in my loo.

― Kate Classic (kate), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

11. because hangovers last for days now, not just hours.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Ah, these are ace! More!

(Only Dr Morbius seems to be wrong so far - I tried re-reading my old senior honours dissertation this morning and only understood about half a page before it all descended into mathsy gibberish).

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Ah but you understood it back then because you were stupid enough to think it mattered. Now you know better.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Kate is OTM. Having said that i only turned 30 in June so perhaps i'm not best placed to judge.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Instead of hating old people, you start to hate young people.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

12. as with every year since you turned 18/21, you can buy underage girls beer.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

OTM

I find myself saying "fucking teenagers, with their baggy pants and hats on sideways..." a lot these days. actually you'd think im 50.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Yup... 13) being a grumpy old man is definitely better and more fitting than being a grumpy young man.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

14. You can't get it up as often as you used to. On the other hand, you don't feel like sex as often as you used to either, so it doesn't really matter.

― TRP, Friday, 16 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

15. 14 is not true.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Word.

I wasn't talkin bout book larnin'!!

I started hating young ppl when I was 8.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

16. You realize that needing to go out on the weekends, needing to be in the right spot where the most fun is being had is crap. You start wanting to stay at home on weekends instead which is great b/c you have more money and no drunken mishaps.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

i've been doing that one since i hit 25.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

yes but you seem far ahead of the curve in general.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

17. listen to beth parker.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

18. You will no longer feel the need to pick up and move across the country every 6 months.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

19. over the hill, picking up speed.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

haha miss misery re #16 you are v.WISE

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

8. You're less stupid.

Your brain starts to rot from your early 20s. ;-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

your spot on with that one Sam, every one tells me im like a 75 year old man.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

18. You will no longer feel the need to pick up and move across the country every 6 months.

:-(

― the people are such untight s wads (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

20. you start asking for mitre saws and dyson vacuums for christmas.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

21. you transition from being righteous about the stupid things to caring deeply about the important things.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Your brain starts to rot from your early 20s

I still think the decay is outraced by the lessons of experience, at least for a couple decades.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

22. you transition from blaming your parents for fucking you up to marveling at them with loving respect for doing the best they could and RULING it, because you've turned out to be an amazing person.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

OTM

22. Your peers have all most likey stopped listening to music by now so you can enjoy what you like without all the annoying fanboy games.

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

23. How much better life gets after 20s-style anger/anxiety subsides cannot be stressed enough

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

24. Finally, you've arrived!

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

25. you have much more money than in your 20s (but spend much more too so all in all, you end up with the same negative bank account...rock n roll, man !).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

22. you transition from blaming your parents for fucking you up to marveling at them with loving respect for doing the best they could and RULING it, because you've turned out to be an amazing person.

22. alternatively, you give up on them as completely worthless and decide to move forward in life, making it up as you go along.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

22. Your peers have all most likey stopped listening to music by now so you can enjoy what you like without all the annoying fanboy games.

All of the other fanboys never let me join in any of their fanboy games. :(

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

26. suddenly those gray hairs become somewhat sexy.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

that hasn't happened for me yet. guess it's a guy thing.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

i've only got a few up front and on the sideburns but the wife loves them.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

27. You probably have a better understanding of basic life things like mortgages and retirement savings that people in their mid-20s, like me, have started to face anxiety over but don't really know how to deal with yet.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

28. women over thirty are better in bed.

― the scourge of linden avenue, Friday, 16 December 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

22. Your peers have all most likey stopped listening to music by now so you can enjoy what you like without all the annoying fanboy games.

this hasn't worked for me in my 30s because a. i live with a fangirl in her 20s and b. i actively seek out fanpeople of all ages anyway!

29. you get to tick a different box on some application forms

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

31. If you don't look your age, you can blow people's minds with how young you look considering you're 30. If you look your age, then skip this and keep reading.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I told a lovely bartender that it was my birthday yesterday and she asked how old I was. I said, "38" and she said, "No. Really, how old are you?" Made my night. She said she thought I was 30.

Maugham once said, when asked about the prospect of getting older, "Consider the alternative."

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Everyone else your age is getting fat, ugly, bald and toothless and driving minivans to WalMart, 2 blocks away. You're not. Congratulations.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

34. http://fursuit.timduru.org/dirlist/FursuitVideo/Commercials_Ads/anabukin/ana_cm_d_02.mov

― Dan (Wau!) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

35. In your 30s, you start better identifying those things you truly want in your life, and those things you really don't.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

36. http://www.theplaza.ca/moview/Pics/Films/1976/Logans_Run/pic3.jpg

You're no longer subject to jokes relating to this movie... (although you can still make jokes about it... Exhibit A : man in Glad bag blouse)

― dali madison's nut (donut), Saturday, 17 December 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

37. You've had a fair share of experiences by now, which give you perspective, and hopefully make you a more interesting person. Your mates are also older now, beneficiaries of similar life experiences, which makes them more fascinating. Thus, you can engage in conversations with your peers rather than staring at them blindly across the table.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

38. When you complain about your job, you're now seen as the "aging guy burnt out on his go-nowhere job" instead of the "young-guy-who's not-appreciative of-a-good-job".

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

39. Some people complain about hangovers getting worse, when in fact as you get older, you hardly get hangovers at all, just vague aches in your vital organs, which are much easier to ignore.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

40. Still here.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 17 December 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

41. Angsty teenage prognostications of early demise proved false

― Laura H. (laurah), Saturday, 17 December 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

42. You realize that no one can tell you waht to do and how to live your life any longer. It's liberating and very heady to both know this and embrace it. You're more powerful than ever! And...it gets better the older you get! Enjoy!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Sunday, 18 December 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

43. Being insulted on ILX gets funnier and funnier the older you get.

― Der, Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

44. You begin to notice other people can't or won't grow up.

45. You begin to really see the downside of "the information age": know-it-alls who pride themselves on insignificant cultural/entertainment trivia, unaware that it means nothing and doesn't matter to anyone outside their little bubble. And these are the very same people who can't or won't grow up. And these are the same people that insult you on ILX.

― Will Truman, Sunday, 18 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

46. So time to wonder why you hang with these people ! (and if you're not a bit like them after all).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

47. You (well I) find people in a greater age span to be hott

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

48.
You finally feel like you know yourself. The downside of this is the realisation that actually, you're not all that.

14. You can't get it up as often as you used to. On the other hand, you don't feel like sex as often as you used to either, so it doesn't really matter.

-- TRP (tr...), December 16th, 2005 3:06 PM. (later)

15. 14 is not true.

-- slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (thebing...), December 16th, 2005 3:12 PM. (Chris V) (later)

Chris V OTM.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

47. You (well I) find people in a greater age span to be hott

also,

48. you're no longer "too young" for those older guys/girls you used to like. and you can date someone 11 years older and no one will bat an eyelash.

― bob abernethy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 December 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

49. All those dirtbag junkie friends that were always stealing your shit or ruining your apartment and eating all your food either cleaned up and become good people or found younger dirtbag junkies with less sense to hang out with.

Similarly,

50. Much smaller chance of waking up in the morning to find random, unpleasant strangers passed out all over your furniture after a party the night before that you don't really remember.

― squirrels-r-FOREVA (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 December 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

51. Because your 30's go faster than your 20's.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 19 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 19 December 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

52. Because Thomas Jefferson said so. I can't find the quote, but he said the best 20 years of life were those between 30 and 50.

Of course, he invented a country during that span.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

So this will magically cease to occur when I turn 30? AWESOME. BRING IT ON.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

YEAH ANY TIME NOW

― ultradetoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 19 December 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

53. Those tedious acquaintances you never really liked will soon have kids and drop off the social map, much to your relief. Unfortunately, your dearest friends will do this as well.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 19 December 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

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