# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/61 "2014-09-29T11:51:55Z")
30 was a big one for me (unlike a lot of other posters, it seems) - I’d gone through most of my teens and 20s convinced I’d never make it that far. And then it happened, I was like “Woah!” and I threw a big party and …that was that. So, big at the time, but in retrospect, it were no thang. Birthdays are somewhat arbitrary, I’d rather mark my life by actual events - marriage, births, that kind of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/62 "2014-09-29T18:09:52Z")
For what it’s worth, I felt older at 22 than I do now (more than twice that). ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/63 "2014-09-30T00:57:04Z")
I turned 47 today. Physically and financially I’m in better shape now compared to when I was 30. The only thing that’s gone downhill is my eyesight. I need to take off my glasses to read anything. So don’t sweat it… you’ll likely have lots of good years ahead of you. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/64 "2014-09-30T01:28:26Z")
All I remember as to turning 30 was that Jerry Rubin died about the time I became untrustworthy. A drinking binge obscured my 40th birthday, but when my head cleared I felt the same way I had at 39. I’m almost 50 and except for not being able to hear worth a damn and having musical ear syndrome (or jukebox-in-my-head syndrome) I feel a lot better and am doing a lot more than I did at 30. No rocking chair fuddy-duddy crap for me, I’m not going gracefully. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/65 "2014-09-30T02:51:28Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > No, or at 40 or at 50. But 20 was a really disturbing brain-rattling startling milestone. Interesting - me too. 30, 40, 50 were no big deal, but at 20 I realized I was halfway to 40, and I equated that to _halfway to **dead** _! ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/66 "2014-09-30T03:59:02Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > 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”? Oh, I _hated_ it! Guess what was easier? 1. Because the next one is 50 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/67 "2014-09-30T04:41:25Z")
Turning thirty was a bit odd. I had moved to a new city, broken up with a boyfriend, and had just got my very first all -by-myself apartment. (Turns out it was my last, a year later I moved across the country for my eventual ex husband, and since then have always lived with my child at minimum) i had a friend in that city and we went out the night before my birthday… Since she and I both looked young, she joked “you are going to get carded if you are with me.” I joked, said I am an old lady, if I get carded I will kiss the bouncer, like a cougar! I was carded by the bouncer (in a province where 18 was the drinking age). I went through with it. Never got carded again! Moral of the story…don’t kiss the bouncer. It ages you. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/68 "2014-09-30T13:35:29Z")
Because I was born on the 13th, my ‘milestone’ birthdays have always been when it falls on a Friday – so I do’nt think any of the traditional birthdays have really meant much to me. _Except_ actually when I turned 13; I was worried that suddenly I’ve have to be an adult and couldn’t play or do kid stuff anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/69 "2014-09-30T15:05:42Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Is it fuck-thirty already? I hate fuck-thirty, at least until I’ve had my coffee. Shouldn’t that be Oh Fuck Thirty? An unconscionable hour to be out of bed. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522/70 "2014-10-01T23:36:22Z")
My Thirties have rocked. Your twenties are for getting all the stupid crap out of the way so you can really enjoy yourself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-thirty/699522.md?page=3)