Age

Do you rub your age in someone's face, whether they're family, a friend or someone you don't know that's in a high school class of yours, either to insult or just joke?

For example, you're 29 and your younger brother is still in his teenage years and is 15.

I personally don't myself, not even just to joke.

 

Well I'm 16, and people usually tease me for my age, they keep saying I'm old. This is probably due to the fact that I'm one of the oldest people in class. I don't really tease anybody else about their age.

 

Well, a lot of people first assume that I'm fourteen or fifteen when they see me, so on occasion I do get teased. Still, I don't usually joke about that. On occasion I'll flaunt my "senority" in the faces of my younger friends (who are all one year younger than I am), but that's usually where I draw the line...

 

The only time I like to rub my age in someone's face is when someone younger than me is taller than me and rubs THAT in. So if my cousin is all,"ha ha I'm taller than you" I just respond with "ha ha I'm 2 years older than you."

 

I never have, not even when I was a Teaching Assistant, in those situations I would just remind them i'm the teacher if they needed a reminder, especially if they were not working. But no, never a boast, never felt age mattered much on that front, to be flaunted and it's frustrating to understand why others cared about it. Oh well.

 

I don't really rub my age in others faces but I'll sometimes have fun with it. I'm 19 but look maybe 15, so it's fun getting people to guess my age and seeing their reactions when I say my actual age. I'm often the oldest and the smallest in groups I'm in but other than finding it amusing and bringing it up time to time for a little fun, I don't make a big thing of it.

 

Not really. I mean sometimes I talk about my own age because for most of my life I was the youngest person, but like at work I'm actually one of the oldest people and I always say "you youngins need to help an old lady out" and stuff like that lol But at the same time I'm just 24 which at first I thought was really old but now that I look at it I'm like I've got my whole life ahead of me so I don't consider it that old anymore lol

 

For a while, I was the "baby" of my social circle (the only one in their early 20's, and until last fall the only underaged one), so my friends jokingly teased me about it, and I occasionally retaliated with "yeah, I've got more time to do x than you so suck it." But it was all in jest, really, not really "rubbing it in" as you put it.

 

I don't like bragging about my age in front of others, it makes me feel old. I've always been a bit more "mature' from an early age. Most of the kids my age are pleading to turn twenty-one. In all honesty, I wouldn't mind being about ten/thirteen again. I've seen way too much and thought about things no kid should, like reality. The concept and meaning of life. That was all at fifteen. I missed out on a lot of my childhood. Never really got to be the "kid". I only ever got to be that one guy who makes sure nobody does anything stupid.

I guess the long answer short, after having given the long answer anyway, is no I don't rub my age or "seniority" in others faces.

Spoiler: A bit dark

Hooray for life! Hooray for age! Why wouldn't anyone want to let someone know they're closer to the grave than them?

 

All the time lol. I always mean it as a joke, of course, and rarely use it as an actual insult. It's usually for one of two reasons: a)I'm 21 and one of the oldest of my friends. Since the majority of people I hang out with I met at work, and as a restaurant, most of them are teenagers, I usually make "baby" jokes and compare their age group to mine ("BACK IN MY DAY, WE DIDN'T NEED IPADS") even if the difference is only a few years at most. b) A few of my friends are older (one of my best having a 4 year old kid at age 24), so I usually make "old" jokes to them ("where's your walker, grandpa?"). The times I use it as an insult is when I see something immature on Facebook (it's so hard trying to explain to them how it's not going to matter in a few years, but I need to make my peace with the fact that most of them will probably mature as I did) or something completely ignorant (for example, my friend's little sister wondering who Osama Bin Laden was after Facebook blew up after his killing). I don't usually see anything meant to be offensive, age-joke related. To me, it's more of a mature vs. immature thing and age can be irrelevant to that.

 

I'm 16 and I usually get... well let me give you some background information. First off, I have 3 brothers and 1 is older than me. I also have 2 cousins that are older than me, and I'm really close too the older ones. So I'm always wanting to be around them, and they always push me around doing the whole " you're too young" card...which really pisses me off. So as I grow older, I see myself doing the exact same thing to my younger brothers. Evolution is real folks.

 

Hmm...well I'm the youngest in my family and around the middle in my social circle. I have always gotten a lot of baby jokes, mainly because my siblings are about a year apart from each other and my closest sibling is 5 years older than me. So a lot of the time I get 'you're too young' and that pissed me off. In my social circle, I used to be called the 'cougar' because the guy I was dating was 3 days younger than me. It's all in good fun though. When I finally turned 18, I could turn around to everyone and say "Ha! I'm an adult now!" And now they all make old jokes at me. Meh, at least I'm part of the crowd. But no, I never intentionally rub in the fact that I am older or younger than anyone unless I'm joking around.

 

No, especially at the moment as I feel very bad for the people in my year (two close friends included) that are 17 while the rest of us are 18 and so are allowed into bars for a drink and some pubs don't even let you sit in there if you are below the age of 18 which is just horrible. I have been 18 since October though so it's never been a problem with me.

Of course, I may make a joke about it with friends but I never really see it as something huge as I have close friends who are 14 and younger, it more just scares me that they were born in a year that I can remember being alive in O.o (I still think anyone born after the year 2000 is a baby >.<).

I think a lot can be put onto it as it's a sign of superiority when that may not be the case at all but it's the surest way at the moment. Society puts a lot of emphasis on it as well but I don't think it's that big of a deal.

 

Most people think I'm 17-18 because of my height, voice and how I act. Even though I'm 14.... But getting back to topic, no. I don't brag my age to others, even if it's a joke. I never liked bragging in fron of people's faces about my age. So, I'm the youngest in the classroom, but one of the tallest. It's so/so for me.

 

The only time age comes up for me is when my friend whose birthday is two months before mine will jokingly brag about being "a whole year" older than me. He got a little more mileage out of the joke this year since we turned 18, but that's all there was too it. Also, my sister will often complain about how I can do things that she can't because she is six years younger than me, but that's pretty typical of people her age. Most of the times I'm ignoring her because she's going through that dramatic middle school girl phase a year or two too early so I don't notice it.

 

I normally forget when my friends birthday's are. They're all written in the calender so I can get them birthday gifts and stuff. I'm bad with dates.

 

I do with my brother some times; like when he says that I get to do more than him when it comes to going out with friends and that sort of thing, I say that it's "because I'm older and you're still barely a teenager."

 

Figured I'd add another discussion subject.

Do you think age matters when it comes to friendships? I mean, I'm pretty sure there have to be some boundaries (like a 20-year-old being friends with a five-year-old would probably be weird), but what would it be?

During my senior year at the high school, I was 19 for a bit and then 20 on November 8, 2011. Because I made new friends each year at the high school and because I had Systems of the Earth my senior year, a freshman class, I had friends as low as age 14 that I even invited to the get-together I had for my 20th birthday.

Additionally, during my sophomore and junior years, I rode the school bus and would make friends with some of the kids on there that were probably age 10 and below, but it wasn't like friends I'd hang out with, but friends I was only friends with when on the school bus. There were also some between ages 11-13, but probably 98% were kids.

Thoughts?

 

When I was younger, I used to tease my friends who were a few months younger than me. I always felt like an adult and would call them dumb little kids and stuff. They'd get pretty jelly. It's funny when I think of how ridiculous it is now, though. xD

In my opinion, I -do- think it matters to an extent, but I'm sure everyone is different. I mean, yeah, like you say; something as drastic as a 20 year old being friends with a 5 year old would be pretty strange.

When I was younger, I would have friends that were a few years younger AND older than me, and it wouldn't have mattered. Now that I'm a bit older though, I'm not really sure. I mean, right now I'm 21 and I have friends who are as young as 17/18, but I also have friends who are in their thirties who I work with. I feel kind of at an impasse, because I'm not sure where my friendships with those people in their thirties will go as they get older. Like, some of them will be leading into their forties while I'm still in my early twenties. I'd kinda feel like I'm hanging out with my parents. It's hard to explain. .___.

Not meaning to sound judgmental here even if it comes off as that, it's just my opinions.