Re:April First., I hate it
by kleer001 on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @11:07AM
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Am I getting old? I used to think they were funny. The quirky ironic nostalgic news, the impossibilities, the 'creative' lies. Then, somehow, in the last ten years or so it kind of soured for me.
I think it might be the relative length of a year to my life lived so far. When I was 22 I thought they were a blast. 1/22 = 4.5% of my life. Now that I'm near 40, 1/40 = 2.5% of my life. That's every April fools happening almost twice as much "perceptivly", as in the relative size of a year is becoming smaller and they're flying by 'faster'.
Sure, a year is still 365 days, but we're talking about like/dislike, and aging, totally subjective things. I'm sure a quick quiz could put this easily to rest. How old are you? On a scale of 1 to 10 how funny do you think April Fools day is?
Then again it could be a temperament thing. I'm not saying OP is old, it's more of a personal jab at myself.
I think it might be the relative length of a year to my life lived so far. When I was 22 I thought they were a blast. 1/22 = 4.5% of my life. Now that I'm near 40, 1/40 = 2.5% of my life. That's every April fools happening almost twice as much "perceptivly", as in the relative size of a year is becoming smaller and they're flying by 'faster'.
Sure, a year is still 365 days, but we're talking about like/dislike, and aging, totally subjective things. I'm sure a quick quiz could put this easily to rest. How old are you? On a scale of 1 to 10 how funny do you think April Fools day is?
Then again it could be a temperament thing. I'm not saying OP is old, it's more of a personal jab at myself.