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Anon dates a 19 y/o (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 147 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

Can't fathom calling a 28 year old a hag 💀

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 27 points 10 hours ago

Late-stage brainrot

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 58 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You haven't seen the 28 year olds Anon dates

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 31 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They're 48 in crackhead years.

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I'm 34 dating a 25 year old myself. Which I checked, it passes the "Half your age plus 7" test

(34 / 2 = 17 + 7 = 24) Sometimes I still feel weird about it though

[–] ethaver@kbin.earth 25 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

@ 30 22 feels waaay too damn young. tf am I even gonna talk to this person about? I'm a decade in to a high stress high reliability industry. I'm starting to get ~~Greg~~ grey hairs! I make jokes about all the child rapists I met while working for the state! Too much happened in that 8 years between us. Too damn much.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 55 points 13 hours ago (17 children)

When did we as a society give up on the "½ X +7" minimum dating age formula?

[+] Nikls94@lemmy.world -9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (4 children)

Wow that actually makes sense.

But then again, I’m born 1994, there’s not so many I can actually date. I have like 1990 - 1998 available, and they must be an only child or have siblings within that age as well, otherwise the interests are not overlapping enough to spend time together: those younger are TikTok addicted, those older are Facebook-relicts. I’m in limbo where I know all of that but don’t like anything.

Edit: to those who downvoted, why?

[–] abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world 27 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (8 children)

Just for a little context, the minimum age being ((your age / 2)+7) is meant to be "this is the minimum age of someone you can date without it being creepy" (i believe it originated from the TV show how i met your mother)

If you were born in 1994 you are either 30 or 31. Let's call it 30 for easy math.

30/2 = 15 15+7=22

So anyone who is 22 or older fits the minimum age concept, which is anyone born in approx 2002/2003 or earlier. If you decided to include that, the extra 4-5 years does increase the dating pool quite a bit.

I'm not telling you who to date, just giving a little context to the math since that's what was brought up in the original comment.

Edit: Lots of folks chiming in with some really good insight about the history of the math. Thank you all for that!

Although the historical accounts seem to be math for the "ideal age" in a (probably female) partner and not "minimum age before it's creepy" as it was presented in HIMYM, it's really interesting to see how that equation has been used for over 100 years!

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 22 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

(i believe it originated from the TV show how i met your mother)

Although the provenance of the rule is unclear, it is sometimes said to have originated in France.[81] The rule appears in John Fox Jr.'s 1903 novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come,[84] in American newspapers in 1931 attributed to Maurice Chevalier,[85] and in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, attributed to Elijah Muhammad.[86]

In many early sources, the rule was primarily presented as a formula to calculate the ideal age of a female partner at the beginning of a heterosexual relationship. Frederick Locker-Lampson's Patchwork from 1879 states the opinion "A wife should be half the age of her husband with seven years added."[87] Max O'Rell's Her Royal Highness Woman from 1901 gives the rule in the format "A man should marry a woman half his age, plus seven."[88]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

See I didn't know that was the origin. I like it better as an outside boundary.

[–] abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

That's really interesting, thanks for sharing!

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 5 points 9 hours ago

Invert this rule to get the maximum age you can date (defined as the person whose minimum age is your current age):

min age = (your age / 2) + 7 max age = (your age * 2) - 14

If you're 30, then you can reasonably date people between 22 and 46. So the other guy can add even more years before 1990.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 9 hours ago

Also, for the maximum age they are the younger one. So assuming age is 30, substract 7 and multiply the outcome by 2, maximum date age is 46...

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[–] javasux@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I have not heard someone say "big mood" in years

[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 3 points 10 hours ago

Big mood!

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 13 hours ago

I actually vibe more with the generations after me than my own; but I would find it creepy myself to be with someone who isn't relatively close to my own age.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Anon isn't down skibidi style

[–] CrazyHorse@lemmy.cafe 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Getting head while on the toilet?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 points 9 hours ago

He doesn't know

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Nothing ever changes.

Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen

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