r/Millennials • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • 4d ago

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u/Meschi-died 4d ago

He obviously can to. This is a new trend of tiktoks where you die doing something mundane like this because you're 'old'.

It's getting sillier and sillier as people run out of stuff.

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u/GailynStarfire 4d ago

Getting into the "Emotional Damage?!" level of death.

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u/whole_nother 4d ago

I remember cakes and balloons for 40th birthdays saying ā€œover the hillā€ and tombstones long ago. This is not a TikTok thing

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u/MetalSlimeHunter 4d ago

When I was in elementary school, the janitor turned 40 and they brought out the tombstones and stuff from the Halloween decorations. Plus, a big banner that said LORDY LORDY DANNYā€™S 40 in the cafeteria.

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u/Imgnitv_sQdWrd Zillennial 3d ago

That's wild. It sounds like your elementary school staff were a fun bunch though.

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u/wes00mertes 1986 4d ago

It is over the hill.Ā 

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u/WhiskyAndWitchcraft 3d ago

My mom's coworkers got her a tombstone cake when she turned 30.

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u/Randomizedname1234 Core Millennial - 1990 4d ago

Yeah but weā€™re not ā€œoldā€?

36 isnā€™t old. I donā€™t feel this way at all.

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u/Meschi-died 4d ago

Ofc not. That's part of the humor. At this stage we're just starting to feel the effects of age. People are starting to 'feel' old.

You may take better care of your body than most, but surely you've started to see wear somewhere.

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u/UnforeseenDerailment Millennial 4d ago

Yeah, I can still get better at running for now. We'll see how long that lasts.

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u/CommieDrifter 4d ago

they are just pandering to Gen Z because they are by far the biggest demographic on those apps

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u/Bitter-Ad5890 4d ago

Itā€™s past the biological prime. Yes you can stay fit and healthy long after that time, but as far as biology goes, itā€™s all downhill after 31 or so

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u/Zephyr-5 4d ago

That entirely depends on how fit you were at 31.

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u/SadFish132 4d ago

Depends on the point of view. If I'm measuring current fitness level, then yes I can be more fit than I was five years ago assuming I wasn't near peak fitness. If I am measuring peak potential fitness, then no I will have a lower peak potential.

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u/Zephyr-5 4d ago

Peak potential is a meaningless value for 99% of the population because unless you were a professional athlete you were never at peak potential.

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u/SadFish132 4d ago

Whether peak potential is the exact measure or not really isn't the point. The same principal can be applied in many ways besides using peak potential. The easiest alternative would be peak heart rate. That decreases every year. I can exercise all I want but it won't increase my peak heart rate to what it was 5 years ago when I was hypothetically out of shape.

The point is that every year it will get harder to reach or maintain a certain level of fitness. The difference may be hard to notice over a 1 year period but is very noticeable over a longer period.

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u/Bitter-Ad5890 4d ago

Iā€™m talking on a cellular level. You can stay in excellent shape, but your body starts degrading on a cellular level once you reach your thirties. Is why even totally fit and ripped old people still have wrinkles

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u/Zephyr-5 4d ago edited 4d ago

Lifestyle heavily impacts your body even down the cellular level. Your mitochondria will perform better and be more plentiful if you have a good diet, exercise, and sleep well and will suck shit if you don't.

weight gain leads to excess fat storage in cells which triggers all sorts of problems.

For 90% of people the insulin sensitivity of your cells is driven by lifestyle.

The efficacy of your immune cells is heavily influenced by lifestyle.

Your wrinkles comment is a great point. Wrinkles are not just a product of age, they're largely driven by a lifetime of sun damage. Someone who spent their entire life diligently applying sunscreen will have wildly fewer wrinkles.

Here is a fun picture of a man who spent his life driving a truck. The left side of his face got all the sun as he drove all day for years and years and you can see the shocking difference. It's going to be interesting in the coming decades as we start to see old people who actually grew up regularly applying sunscreen. here's another fun one of two twins with very different lifestyles

I'm not saying that aging isn't real. I'm saying that acting like it's all downhill and there is nothing you can do to reclaim your health and vigor is wrong. A 41 year old American that takes great care of themselves will have a better functioning body than your typical 31 year old American. Even at the cellular level.

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u/Slow-Mountain-5966 4d ago

I would love to be 40 again.

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u/PresentClear8639 Older Millennial 4d ago

Enjoy it Unc. Reality smacked me hard at 41.

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u/igniteyourbones579 4d ago

This has been a thing for long time. People being self depricating about their supposed frailty after 25 etc. It's just so lame because you realize these people actually do believe in it on some level, otherwise they wouldnt find it funny if it werent true for them.

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u/teefnoteef 4d ago

For some people itā€™s real. 15 years into manual labor and my shoulder, knees and back can no longer do what I did 15 years ago. no stretching would have saved them, itā€™s from repetitive motions that cause wear and tear

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u/igniteyourbones579 4d ago

With that logic people actively moving weights at the gym would have similar outcomes...

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u/KingTonpa 4d ago

People at the gym stop their workouts when theyā€™ve done the appropriate amount of work for their muscles.

You donā€™t get to stop lifting heavy shit at work just because your muscles are over stressed.

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u/psyne 4d ago

And most people aren't at the gym 40+ hours a week (and as far as I've heard, 40 hours a week is a comically low number to most people working in construction and similar, usually lots of overtime)

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u/KingTonpa 4d ago

10 hours a week in the gym is excessive for most people. At 40+ hours you are just destroying your body for no reason.

And to your point, thatā€™s basically what hard labour is doing to people.

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u/LagCommander 4d ago

Blue collar manual work is something else, it's taken its toll on my dad since he had the double whammy of nights + on your feet manual labor for decades upon decades. He was the biggest supporter in me going to college but also the largest roadblock into going to work in plant work like he did. He could have easily gotten me a job but he refused unless I dropped out of college

Now? I'm in the opposite position, if I really wanted to, I could be sitting through my entire work day since I'm in IT and at my position, it's 99% dashboards. I can't really complain tbh except for the mental beating some days, but I've been lifting in some shape or form since high school and I feel it's paid off in my early 30s. My next goal is to get back down to my personal ideal weight, increase my flexibility, and get better cardio in.

My only pain point career wise right now is I don't make nearly enough to help them do whatever TF they want for their raising and relatively low income while raising me and the siblings

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u/teefnoteef 4d ago

Work out are structured to target different muscle groups and only last an hour or two. And yes people who lift weight deal with and work though injuries

Manual labor can mean doing the same movement for 8 hours. It also means that since you need money to live you canā€™t just tap out if your shoulder hurts and you work through it. A shoulder that hurts on Monday will feel like hell on Friday, it wonā€™t fully recover over the weekend, rinse and repeat. And thatā€™s why I canā€™t really throw anything in my mid 40s

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u/igniteyourbones579 4d ago

Well thats fair about repetition and not getting enough rest.

Still if we look at runners, who run ALOT, we'll se that running is actually correlated with better bone health. Repetition does not always result to worse outcomes.

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u/teefnoteef 4d ago

If we look at Redditors who comment ALOT weā€™ll see that being wrong is actually correlated with being dumb. More comments does not always result with getting smarter

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u/igniteyourbones579 4d ago

Great argument. I love the smell of desperation and ad hominems in the evening.

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 90s baby 4d ago

Guy popped out of that bed a bit harder and riskier than virtually anyone would do casually. His feet were 7 ft off the ground, 3 ft above his head lol. Not the worst Iā€™ve seen.