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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 72 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The little curly haired cousin that I remember being like two feet tall just bought his first house.

I don't even have a house, so unfair.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a childhood friend who legitimately inherited a house from a relative they didn't even know about. I admit to being kind of jealous but to their credit they admit its a totally unfair stroke of luck.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Finical stability and wealth is very luck based in the US.

[–] Cavemanfreak@programming.dev 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd say it's pretty true in the rest of the world as well unfortunately. At least wealth.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

True.

You enter the world and it’s the first roll of the dice.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At least in the US it's possible to get a re-roll of the luck dice. In places with a rigid caste system you're stuck.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

You get a re-roll but with the same shit dice

Some people get handed 20 sided die with a 21 on each side, and some of us get handed a set -10 thru 10.

You get a reroll but we don’t all get the same dice.

[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I love this effect, it makes me feel like a time traveler

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

Being old just means you've traveled through more time

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

Yep. Haven’t seen a few of them in some years and they look like people now, it’s wild lol

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have little cousins who attend the annual holiday gathering and greet their elders with "do you remember me?"

like no i dont fkn member u shit

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't remember any of my relatives who weren't chosen by me, didn't have their blueprints partially provided by me, and weren't a major part of my childhood.

[–] RacerX@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There was a short time where my baby cousins and I connected on video games each Christmas but now they show up with their partners and are too cool to hang out.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

They may one day realize video games being played together are cool too

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

The reverse as well: who is that old guy (my dad) who seems to have aged a decade in the last year and looks far more like his father than he ever used to? Seriously I walked in the door and thought somehow that my Grandfather was back among the living.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Guy who used to be my baby cousin who now has a mustache and cut his long hair told me he was worried about my Dad because he did exactly this and vamping with "hey, fella! hey buddy, how you been?" until he figured it out.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s weird that they all have moustaches now too. I’d say the fashion has come around again, except they were never cool in the first place.

[–] ShittDickk@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We're going back to hipster era dynamics of putting effort into not looking cool is how to look cool.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

But the hipsters put enormous amounts of effort into their look, which became incredibly regimented. By the end of that, bars were like a theme park where normies came to be made cocktails by bartenders with identical flannel shirts, tattoos, drainpipe jeans and twirly moustaches.

[–] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Now read their post again and tell me why you used a "but"

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Shove it up your but.

[–] Ontimp@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

speak for yourself, I think there are some gentlemen out there who do look quite cool with a mustache

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sam Elliott stache is epic

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

When we moved to Florida, my friend's new kid was stumbling around learning to walk in a playpen. Fast forward, "Who the fuck is this 6'-tall monstrosity?!"

His older brother was 5 when I met him. Fast forward, "So, uh, you're some kind of full-grown man now, somehow?"

Got my kids for Christmas today. My 12-yo daughter, 13 next month, is taller than my wife. I, uh, wut?

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Stop talking nonsense. My kids are all still little and I am not old. No idea why my back is aching, some other young person (like me) must have hit me.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago

Meet an ex-classmate. I didn't recognize the poor girl, I was working in her house. Holy fuck did she get tall and hot, but I didn't really even look at her much.

If I knew, I'd at least ask how she is doing.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Who the hell are these creeps at our family reunion!? ...awww! Hey, buddy, I didn't recognize you! It's been awhile!"