pure maths

According to a Boomer quoted today in Crikey, '60 is the new 40.'

A brief simultaneous equation (still hanging onto Year 8 maths here) reveals therefore that 40 must be roughly the new 27.

Ok, I can live with that, tho I am beginning to wonder if 40 mightn't be the new 60 when I have as much trouble as my 64-year-old student in trying to remember things.

Comments

[ThirdCat]

Do you think it's a mathematical equation though? Because that makes 27 the new 14. Which makes 14 the new 8. When really, everyone is banging on about how 9 year old girls look like they're 14, 14 year olds look like they're 21. And every time you get on the tram all you hear is this chorus of people going 'they grow up so fast these days'.

My head hurts.

I'm lying awake at night worrying that I don't have any superannuation to speak of and the dentist has just told me I should probably have braces. How old am I?

[Danny Yee]

Does that mean I'm approaching 60, or that I'm approaching 27? To be honest, age doesn't matter much to me - anywhere between 27 and 60 is pretty much the same these days, it falls into that "middle age" kind of area between youth and old age.

[TPS]

i agree entirely with above comments and am also confused. however, the purpose of my post is to simply say, nice use of 'simultaneous equation'.

[suso]

Tell that to your body. If you're a woman, the signs of change in your mid-late 40s are unmistakable. Your menstrual cycles change and of course eventually disappear. Both sexes start to need glasses. Hair falls out or turns grey. Necks become wrinkly.
Psychologically, it can be a different story entirely. But I've never felt that I was in synch with whatever a typical 30 or 40 year old was doing so why should I feel typically 50 - or 60, when the time comes...
I think the memory loss is because there's too much to remember, the older you get, and your priorities for what to hold in your mind change.

Happy birthday, by the way, 40's a great age.

[elsewhere]

Yes, Susoz, I feel like I'm in my prime really, still. And when you're a woman in your mid-20s, you still feel like you're at everyone else's whim -- i.e. being fucked over. Less so these days.

but i look forward to announcements that '70 is the new 40'. i reckon that's on the cards.

[Francis Xavier Holden]

I'm really confused as 14 is the new 18 as well. What with sex, booze, drugs etc.

I can't get the maths to work.

[elsewhere]

The maths is all relative, FXH. And these 14 yos are scary, tho just think, that in the Middle Ages, 6 might have been the old 18.

I enjoy the Friday catblogging, btw, tho I really know nowt about these cats.

[Francis Xavier Holden]

thanks. I know too much about them.