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We are not a personal advice, health, or mental health sub.

Please only respond directly to posts if you were born on or before 1980. If you are younger, please restrict your activity to asking questions and responding to existing comments.

This is not an advice forum.


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We are not a personal advice, health, or mental health sub.

Please only respond directly to posts if you were born in or before 1980. If you are younger, please restrict your activity to asking questions and responding to existing comments.


Rules

1. Respondents to posts must be "old": Born 1980 or prior

2. Please do not seek personal advice or emotional support here.

3. Posts must be 300 characters or less

4. No surveys or homework help

5. Be cool to one another

6. Maximum three questions per user per week, one per day

7. Questions should be topical for the subreddit and its audience


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2

What are aspects of the 1980s and 1990s that were actually quite awful that people never mention?

I’m not including the 00s even though they are often romanticized now because I have heard a fair amount of people complain about 9/11.

2 Comments
2024/04/28
05:07 UTC

1

For those who never married...

How has life been? And who is your to go person when you get sick and or need a helping hand?

1 Comment
2024/04/28
04:16 UTC

5

For those that married after 30, how did you deal with the anxiety?

Seeing all your friends get married, it's feeling like I missed the train. Anyone felt that way / how'd you manage it, and how'd it turn out?

26 Comments
2024/04/28
03:12 UTC

3

How have your sleep habits changed over decades?

15 Comments
2024/04/28
02:55 UTC

51

Is it really hard to stay in shape as you get older? What age did you start feeling it getting harder?

81 Comments
2024/04/28
00:21 UTC

7

Do you like any of the Hollywood remakes?

Do you like the OG MacGyver or the 2016 remake? The OG Oceans 11 or the 2001 remake? Same thing with Walker, Texas Ranger, Hawaii Five-O, Mission Impossible. Are they good or do they make you want to bang your head against a brick wall?

51 Comments
2024/04/28
00:21 UTC

17

When was the last time you climbed up a tree?

saw some kids playing on a tree and this question popped into my head. It brought back some memories about climbing berry trees in my hometown when I was younger. It got me reminiscing and all nostalgic. I was hoping you could share some stories.

38 Comments
2024/04/27
20:32 UTC

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Have you gained faith in a religion or ideology - if so, why?

Being that this is reddit, I hear about the opposite all the time - religious to agnostic / atheist, left or right leaning to apolitical, etc. I figure that there are at least a few of you who can relate to the question and I'd love to hear your experience :)

Thank you for reading / responding.

64 Comments
2024/04/27
19:03 UTC

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Chronic Pain (for those that have lived with it for minimum 10yrs)

For me its basically failed surgery + rehab.
For those that have lived with chronic pain how have you managed to handle it over the years?

Cheers

26 Comments
2024/04/27
18:47 UTC

21

What news or subject/information, when you begin to read/see it, do you immediately turn off or away because you don't need to know it?

We are old enough to know what news makes us unhealthy.

Today i wanted to learn more about campus riots, but eventually realized I don't want to know that or need to

I also looked at a helicopter ambulance landing in Maine, and realize I don't need to know or see that either.

45 Comments
2024/04/27
18:14 UTC

7

Have you lost touch with early friends? Do you regret investing time into them? If not, what have you done to keep the connection?

Curious to know if you're still friends with those in high school, college, etc. Thanks!

15 Comments
2024/04/27
16:43 UTC

22

What do you think of r/BoomersBeingFools

Have you checked out this subreddit? Thoughts?

323 Comments
2024/04/27
15:38 UTC

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If a person has toxic parents, will there be a high possibility that the person will also end up having a toxic spouse/life partner in the future?

If a person has toxic parents, will there be a high possibility that the person will also end up having a toxic spouse/life partner in the future?

Like is there a high possibility that the pattern repeats itself in life?

36 Comments
2024/04/27
14:55 UTC

28

Have you achieved your major goals in life, and if not, how do you feel about it?

Pretty much the title, I'm curious how you guys feel about it now. Thanks!

95 Comments
2024/04/27
13:19 UTC

58

Why wasn't The Dick Cavett Show a bigger hit?

Despite an extremely clever host and the appearance of so many iconic guests, the show was abruptly cancelled and staggered on through different networks for the next 20 years. Was it missing something which kept it from having a loyal audience?

71 Comments
2024/04/27
11:51 UTC

12

How did you deal with the "in between" seasons of life where you don't know what you want for a career or family life?

I want a family and marriage, but I want ambitions before that.

17 Comments
2024/04/27
04:43 UTC

4

What was the Jonestown Massacre like?

I’m researching the Jonestown Massacre and wanted to hear from people who were alive during that time about what it was like

68 Comments
2024/04/27
00:26 UTC

45

What was your relationship like with your grandparents?

150 Comments
2024/04/27
00:19 UTC

2

How common was it for young people to befriend people from other countries?

I know pen pals were a thing in the 20th century but how common was it? I'm 26 and I made friends online who live in Europe, Africa, and South America (I live in the United States). Like we talk nearly everyday on whatsapp. My 18 year old brother regularly games with a guy who lives in Australia.

12 Comments
2024/04/26
23:51 UTC

123

What’s the coolest thing you still own from your youth?

369 Comments
2024/04/26
23:15 UTC

23

what are you learning about lately?

112 Comments
2024/04/26
21:53 UTC

4

Is your strength keeping up with your will and how are coping with mobility/strength challenges?

Can you move/bend/kneel without restriction? How's your strength compared to a few years ago?

13 Comments
2024/04/26
19:42 UTC

21

What is the greatest gift one person can give to another?

74 Comments
2024/04/26
19:34 UTC

5

Have you ever felt like you are done and out of ideas, and how did you get out of that ?

Like you had an education, got a job, tried relationships (family,friends,acquaintances), hobbies, vacations, up and down, in and out, ....

and end up nowhere but you're older? I guess like lost direction or out of plan bs, cs, ds?

What did you do?

13 Comments
2024/04/26
18:39 UTC

153

What is a common, popular activity that you have never done and in all likelihood probably never will?

Never ate a hot dog. Never been to a movie theatre. Never used text messaging. That kind of thing.

590 Comments
2024/04/26
17:34 UTC

17

How can I meet and build friendships with women from older generations, as a young woman?

34 Comments
2024/04/26
16:13 UTC

78

What's your take on electric vehicles? Are you welcoming them with open arms, or weeping a nostalgic tear for the gravelly voiced muscle cars of yesteryear?

448 Comments
2024/04/26
14:15 UTC

79

People who lived in very large houses, why did you choose the size you did?

I remember hearing someone mention that their house had rooms they had never used and it made me wonder why they bought such a big place.

140 Comments
2024/04/26
12:44 UTC

25

Chag Sameach, my Flanderistic dodderinos! What’s shaking for the weekend?

Seder for 32 here on Saturday. Neighborhood yard sale and jug band get together on Sunday. Marinating in the warm enfolding of friends and family.

63 Comments
2024/04/26
12:30 UTC

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Do you guys like the idea of living with your kids?

40 Comments
2024/04/26
07:43 UTC

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