# Fuck! Thirty. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522 "2014-09-25T13:50:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/1 "2014-09-25T13:50:19Z")
As of today, I am thirty. What the fuck. I can’t be. Damn this feels weird. Certainly a marker birthday. Did anybody else feel weirded at this “barrier”? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/2 "2014-09-25T13:55:58Z")
Yeah, thirty felt like I was passing some significant barrier. After that one, though , I was more affected by my daughter’s milestones. It really felt weird when _she_ turned 30. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/3 "2014-09-25T14:00:49Z")
Only 30? You’re still a spring chicken. Get back to us at 50. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/4 "2014-09-25T14:02:25Z")
I didn’t. 33 1/3rd was long playing, tho. Things seem to have picked up by 45. I needed an adapter to keep things centered. Can’t wait for 78! (16 was a long time ago) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/5 "2014-09-25T14:05:08Z")
30 was honestly nothing - even at the time. 40 started to feel like I was getting there. Next year it’s the big 60. Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/6 "2014-09-25T14:08:36Z")
As I enter the final half of the final year of my 30s, I can’t help but wonder, “What the heck happened to my 20s?” Time speeds up the older you get; it goes even faster once you spawn. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/7 "2014-09-25T14:25:46Z")
I kind of freaked out when I was approaching my 30th birthday. I hated that I was never going to be really _young_ again and I mourned my youth and I felt like I hadn’t accomplished anything in my life and now it was slipping away. Afterwards I was like “Huh, I’m actually enjoying this being-in-my-30s thing. I feel like a grownup now and like people will take me more seriously.” Now I’m approaching 50 and I don’t know how I feel about that. Happy Birthday! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/8 "2014-09-25T14:41:34Z")
No, or at 40 or at 50. But 20 was a really disturbing brain-rattling startling milestone. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/9 "2014-09-25T14:43:18Z")
Yeah, I really didn’t give a shit about turning 30. Felt just like 29 to me, except I now had reason to be all snooty toward people in their 20s. Buncha kids. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/10 "2014-09-25T14:45:09Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > I didn’t. > > 33 1/3rd was long playing, tho. Things seem to have picked up by 45. I needed an adapter to keep things centered. Can’t wait for 78! (16 was a long time ago) 78’s a real shellacking. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/11 "2014-09-25T15:23:25Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > 78’s a real shellacking. That’s an interesting spin on the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/12 "2014-09-25T15:30:04Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > As of today, I am thirty. Oh, for crying out loud. They’re letting _ **babies** _ in here now. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/13 "2014-09-25T15:34:14Z")
30? 40? 50? Didn’t even blink or slow down! (However, when my hubby turned 50, I walked around for a couple of weeks telling anyone who would listen, “I can’t believe I’m sleeping with a fifty year old man!” Until someone told me to knock it off!) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/14 "2014-09-25T15:42:11Z")
By the time I was 30, I was on my second marriage, my wife was pregnant and I had transitioned into a significant career change. I damn near forgot my own birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/15 "2014-09-25T15:47:32Z")
I was weirded out the idea of 30 as that birthday approached, but once I woke up that morning I was fine. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/16 "2014-09-25T15:49:09Z")
Get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/17 "2014-09-25T15:49:53Z")
I woke up on the morning of my 30th birthday for my first day in a foreign country (Japan) that I was going to live in for the next 10 months. I was with a group staying overnight in the youth hostel in the former '64 Olympic village. Due to jet lag I woke up quite early and wandered outside. I didn’t dare go more than 1/2 a block for fear of getting hopelessly lost, but later in the day I realized I had seen the best part of a Tokyo August day, between 4am and 6am. That afternoon we got on an overnight train for Hokkaido (this is before they had bullet trains in that direction). It was great. I didn’t think at all about the age milestone. This year I turned 65, another milestone that has more meaning because I am retiring pretty soon. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/18 "2014-09-25T15:55:42Z")
I was barely 28 when I joined this board. Now I’m 41. _ **41?!?!?** _ ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/19 "2014-09-25T15:55:46Z")
Believe nothing Madison Avenue tells you: youth is the most overrated thing, ever. At 30, you’re just at the tip of your best years. When you’re closer to 40, you’ll realize how fucking stupid and useless 20-somethings are. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/20 "2014-09-25T16:04:36Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > That’s an interesting spin on the whole thing. Groove it, man. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522.md?page=2)