People born in the year 2000 don't have to try and calculate how old they are when people ask them their age

eochaid , 11 months ago

Math like that is really simple if you take it in easy chunks.

For example, to calc your age, just take the years from birthday to 2000 (11) and add it to the years since 2000 (23). 11 + 23 = 34.

Best part is the first calc never changes - so if you remember thst number it’s just like having a 2000 birthday. Just add 11.

_spiffy OP , 11 months ago

But I’m only 33! So part of the challenge is also remembering what day it is today lol

gedaliyah , 11 months ago

Just Google “Taylor Swift age” like the rest of us creeps.

mrmanager , 11 months ago

I hardly know who that is, which feels great to be honest.

I’m tired of celebs.

the_inebriati , 11 months ago

Pretending you’re blind and deaf to popular culture (to the extent where you claim to have never heard of one of the best-selling artists of all time) is an order of magnitude more cringe and obnoxious than people who obsess over celebrities.

mrmanager , 11 months ago

I’m not pretending, I’m just old. :) Not interested in any of that. You probably realize that there is an age when you just stop caring about all that shit. If not, you will see for yourself later in life.

LonelyWendigo , 11 months ago

I understand that people are scared of “new” math, but for a 1989 birthday just take the last too digits of the current year, add ten, then add one if you’ve already had a birthday this year, e.g. 23+10+1=34. Almost the same math I used to count change when I worked retail.

TellMeWendigo , 11 months ago

Hello fellow Wendigo! Feel less lonely now?

Lumidaub , 11 months ago

for a 1989 birthday just take the last too digits of the current year, add ten, then add one if you’ve already had a birthday this year, e.g. 23+10+1=34.

… you lost my brain at 1989.

Weborl , 11 months ago

Whoa, whoa, slow down, egghead. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6e8ccb0f-581b-47d8-ab0f-bff849e4d41d.jpeg

jg1i , 11 months ago

Trying to do this mentally:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">1989 + 1 = 1990
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2023 - 2000 = 23
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2000 - 1990 = 10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">23 + 10 = 33
</span>

33 - 1 = 32 Ha! Easy!.. Wait.

33 + 1 = 34 Shit. Double+1. Ok, I thought the -1 at the end would undo the +1 at the beginning. But, I guess the 2000-1990 messed me up.

Maybe

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">2000 - 1990 = 10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">1990 - 1989 = 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2023 - 2000 = 23
</span><span style="color:#323232;">23 + 1 = 24
</span><span style="color:#323232;">24 + 10 = 34
</span>

ivanafterall , 11 months ago

I feel like you just typed out a learning disability somehow.

Virgo , 11 months ago

Born in 99. Can confirm I just take the year and say I was that age for most of it

CaldeiraG , 11 months ago

Jan 2000 here :)

_spiffy OP , 11 months ago

Dang thats the money.

CaldeiraG , 11 months ago

Indeed, I was supposed to born on the 31st Dec 1999 but didn’t feel like it I guess :)

xePBMg9 , 11 months ago

Unless you are like me. I forget what year it is.

_spiffy OP , 11 months ago

This is half the problem for me!

narikov , 11 months ago

I thought I had it easy. Born in 1990. 2022? I’m 32. 2023? I’m 33.

But now I am married. Dec 2019. So it’s always hard to calculate how many years.

And to add to it. My daughter is born Nov 2021.

Good luck to anyone that asks me how old she is. You gotta wait until I count on all my fingers.

_spiffy OP , 11 months ago

I have a daughter who is 6 and a son who is 4. So when people ask what year they are born I need to try and do reverse math.

Deelala0516 , 11 months ago

I forgot how old I was a couple months ago and had to pull up an online age calculator cuz I could not make it make sense. Yes, I’m stupid.

Philote , 11 months ago

Born in 80’ So in year 2023>20+23= I’m 43

Duvidl , 11 months ago

The math checks out.

Deelala0516 , 11 months ago

I was born in 79 and am also 43. Math is hard.

Screwthehole , 11 months ago

What about before your birthday, when you have to subtract one? That’s the part I always have to think about

WuergerLarsDietrich , 11 months ago

Today year - 2000 + 11 is that hard?

Judgy_McJudgerson , 11 months ago

Dude, I’m lucky if I remember what “today year” even is, much less the math! Time got weird after 2020…

Talaraine , 11 months ago

I mean, you're right, but birth month counts too...I don't know about OP but that always throws me off as my bday isn't until Dec.

It's not that you can't figure it out, it's just being embarrassed when you're wrong.

Puppy , 11 months ago

Math don't check out.

I'm 33, your equation equals 34.

FarceMultiplier , 11 months ago

1970 gang unite!

nekothegamer , 11 months ago

same for people born in 2010

HomesliceAbe , 11 months ago

My aunt and uncle got married new years day of 2000. Very easy to remember.

spirinolas , 11 months ago

You’d be surprised…